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Friday, January 28, 2005


Yay! Huang cheng dao ju zu rocks! I think I'm in a much better mood today than compared th the previous week or so. Anyway we did banner painting today, which was quite fun, if not for the fact that the black paint is mouldy and extremely stinky! Plus the rest of the paint colours seemed to be extremely attracted to my hands and fingers instead of to the cloth... By the end of the day, my hand was mostly white, some parts silver, others blue, red and black. The silver paint was enamel, so I can either soak my hand in turpentine(which is very stupid) or waited for it to harden and fall off (which I did in the end). Well actually I scratched it off. Then till now, we've painted the same books at least 4 times, each time trying to make it look more realistic, but not really quite succeeding, at least not with the titles anyway. And people have been trying to perfect the clock, which still looks unbalanced somehow, but it's getting better. Plus the saloon chairs! Completely black, with a base that was made and painted with the stinky black paint. The annoying thing is moving it to huan chang. The chairs are actually normal computer chairs, with wheels and all. But the thing is that when you lift it, the seat will raise itself, then when you put it down, it deflates! The base also very extra, not only does it make the chair particularly difficult to carry, you have to make sure that you don't squish the cardboard, or else another one would have to be made, and you're sure to get scolded by a lot of people...

Speaking of which, we were lianning huan chang today, and although we were supposed to make it under 20 seconds, we managed to clock less than 20 everytime! Ok lahz, it's 18.6? Cutting it quite close, but nevermind. =) I hope they have markings or something on VT stage, or else I'm going to die really badly... And I don't want to get scolded by SM, or the seniors, very bu hao shou de.


Wednesday, January 26, 2005


Oh my, I haven't tagged for... A few days. But anyway, it's been a while since I dragged myself to this window to blog. I've been busy. Really. Huang cheng takes up most of the evening, so I finish at about 8, reach home by 830, bathe and do stuff. Then I sleep. No time for blogging at all. -shakes head- But here I am blogging now, since I have not much to do tomorrow, and all I'm planning to do is read carbo notes in advance. Anyway, I'm feeling quite happy now, since I've finally rediscovered the joys of being a junior. =) Although I was feeling quite down after huang cheng xie mu rehearsal, don't think it's cos of the rehearsal itself, but I was just feeling sad lahz. Then I think I stoned through fenzu, till dazu then I felt a bit better. =)

Anyway, I love being a junior. I think I'm going to sob my heart out when I become a senior again. It's just so much better having someone older take care of you, like an umbrella in the rain or something. Okay, I'm very sheltered, pampered and spoilt, so there. My ct seniors are nice, huang cheng seniors are nice and co seniors are nice. They're all very easy to get along with, lame around with and just be around essentially. I don't think I want to be a senior again, I like being a junior, and I adore my seniors... (Love my seniors!) Although they shouldn't get too ego reading this, because as much as I appreciate, adore and like them to bits, I'll still niao people and retaliate when I'm niaoed/poked/have my hair tie removed.

And we're having STJ soon! At some dim sum buffet place, and my angel's in charge of it. (welfare rep) I'm still guessing who he is. At least I know it's a he. Lardidaz, I'm feeling happy. Well, maybe I should read chem instead. Oh yar, dizi now has 2 gals left, including me, which makes it quite sad, since j1 batch of guanyue ppl is guy dominated... And shiki left co, ruowei is kind of half gone and kang yu is thinking of leaving... =( Meaning left wei xiong, qinghua, ziping, zhen rong and me. Then they were saying that tentatively choose 7/6 people. Oh well. Wo bu xiang zai qu xiang le, ying gai xiang shou xian zai suo yong you de. =)


Friday, January 21, 2005


Oh yeah, today's outing was fun! =) Went there slightly late, past 1030, but still earlier than some people. Essentially we played lots of captain's ball, went cycling (kailing zai wo =) ), played cards and ate. But like most or all events, it doesn't depend on what you do, but rather who you do it with. Captain's ball was quite lame, we started with guys vs girls, then it slowly progressed lahz. I think I got whacked by the ball at least two or three times today. Even when I'm not playing and just sitting down playing cards, I can get hit. Anyway, I'm too stoned to blog the rest properly, so I think I shall go sleep first and continue another time...

Okay, I'm back and significantly more awake. Got quite a lot of lame events, since it was quack's birthday, we got her a small cake, which we were trying to coat her face with, but most of it landed on the floor. And quack got dumped! Into the sea of course, courtesy of the class guys... But she was very sporting about it, so they started randomly throwing other people into the water, but in the end I think all the class guys got dunked anyway, since they were trying to push each other in and got soaked in the process as well. Then we went cycling, or rather kailing was cycling with me behind, then we stopped by the hawker centre to buy sugar cane and had gan zhe breaks on the way. But being in the back of the double seater, the handle bars are fei, so essentially I was only peddling, so I occasionally drank my sugar cane juice in the back, only for kailing to turn around once and comment on what I was doing for me to choke! Especially since she was complaining she kept knocking her juice out of the packet while peddling, and I was happily drinking behind. XD But I was peddling too k, especially at the uphill parts which are very annoying... I love the downhill parts though, with the very shuang wind and shade. I'm now browner, and I have like a patch on my hand which isn't brown 'cos I was wearing a watch, and two spots by the sides of my nose 'cos of my glasses... Oh well. And quite a lot of other classes were at ECP too, from the different JCs, ge was having chalet there too, 15ers were there to send off jill too. Which proves how small Singapore is, since there are only a few places to go and stuff. But it's still quite fun lahz, can't wait for the next outing.


Thursday, January 20, 2005


Oh dear, today was a very tiring day... Or maybe it was because I was looking forward to the outing tomorrow, so the day in comparison was long draggy and slow... I nearly fell asleep during bio lecture, which was very bad, especially since the lecturer was the fierce one, and she was going through spa. And we had chem lecture today with John Ng I think, complete with Mashi Maro toy, first course of chinese dinner like entry, and a LAME powerpoint with pictures of Nancy Sit, Cindy Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Phua Chu Kang because he was teaching Mole Concept... Diao lahz. GP was less awful than I thought, perhaps since I couldn't really be bothered about it, and because I didn't really think through my points, I went up there and rambled. Never mind, it was utter and complete rubbish, but better than doing essay, especially since I was stoned! Then had daoju in the evening, ok lahz, my hands are more colourful, I ascertained my opinion of some people and left some others alone. Dunno, not everyone in NY is nice, some people are still needy, others superficial, and I know I'm not perfect, but I try not to be someone I don't like. Then it utterly defeats the point of me not liking whatever characteristic it is. Anyway I have an early morning outing tomorrow, should be quite fun, senior + junior class at ECP. =) I like my class, but there will be people leaving, and probably by choice of subjs... Never mind, must zhen xi whatever shi jian we have left together.

Oh yes, there was co yesterday, and we played new year songs + damo. Got to know one more person, and talked to kang yu more, essentially cos I was blurring and getting lost in the pu because I didn't count paizis. Then shiki said she was going to join canoeing and ruowei was going to go to wushu... Dunno what to say also. Got two sides to the coin lahz. =) Will go and sleep now, tomorrow go out, come back and do tutorials ba. -yawn-


Tuesday, January 18, 2005


Okay, I've been (mildly/very) depressed the past two days, thinking a lot about things that I'm doing now, situations I put myself in and what on earth I'm doing with my life.

Things that I'm doing now:

- trying to be guai -> I do my tutorials before hand, read notes before lectures, do extra reading, highlight my notes and not sleep during lectures or tutorials
- trying to find my place in class -> what do I actually do there? If I disappear will anyone notice?
- trying to balance cca + school + rest of my life -> finish school at nearly 7-8 everyday, with tutorials to do and stuff to revise, how?

Situations I put myself in:

- I sign up for PA/AVA, Interact, huang cheng and CO -> PA/AVA is so far quite slack, Interact is going to be bloody time consuming, huang cheng drags all the way till 7 or 8 every night, CO has syf, 10+ dizis competing for a single digit space.

What on earth I'm doing with my life:

- I don't know.

I've filled up more personal information forms these 2 weeks than I've ever done for the past years of my life. They ask about your strengths, your weaknesses, your expectations and what you want to make of your life. I've decided on a few things that sound interesting for the moment but might not dictate what I do next time. Food chemistry and Biochem sound interesting for now, but I've always wondered what it would be like to manage a hotel or restaurant or something like that. =) Especially with all the reality shows, it makes it look really nice.

Anyway, I feel better now, really. Thanks to all the people who helped/tried to help me cheer up. Love you guys lots. =) -hugs-

Oh yes, first day of work at huang cheng props was quite slack, but I don't think it'll continue that way, especially since daoju zu is severely lacking in people. We made little "books" out of cardboard, which were essentially cardboard cuboids held together with lots of tape. Plus I met lots of new people today, one of whom is called zi xian. So if the other zi xuan was in dao ju, there would be 3 zx-es, and 3 different names, all of which sound vaguely alike, and one of which is made up of the other two. Hehe, very amusing.

And my dad picked me up today, so I didn't reach home really late and stuff or eat dinner outside. Managed to come home early to read notes. =)


Sunday, January 16, 2005


I'm sad, grumpy and maybe stressed too. And being the open readable book that I am, my mum asked me what was wrong, as did other people, online or otherwise, but I told them all nothing. Nothing is wrong. Everything is fine. Mmhmm. Don't worry.


Saturday, January 15, 2005


Yesterday I was supposed to go meet my mum for dinner after school, so I followed her directions and crossed the road to take 157, hoping somehow it would bring me to Queensway. I met Cheryl on the other side, and she told me it didn't go Queensway, but I didn't really believe her and took it anyway. Called my mum halfway to ascertain the fact that I was on the right bus, but she said it wasn't supposed to go the way it did. Then she told me to get off the bus and take a cab. Never mind, the bloody bus stop was quite ulu, somewhere behind SPH near some Toa Payoh JTC building. So I called for cab services, first one I called told me they had no cabs around the area, nvm. Second one I called told me the number was no longer a taxi company's, third one I called had bloody bad service. And I was lost! So naturally I felt hopeless and worried, then I had no proper address to give the woman, so she was like, "You have to help me here, I don't know where you are..." (in this very exasperated tone <- which I got pissed at) Then I told her, "I don't know either." And gua diaoed the dian hua. Thankfully, I remotely knew the area from working there during the hols, so I crossed the road, went under the flyover and to the back of SPH, where thankfully after a while I managed to get a cab.

When I went to my mum's office, she told me she mixed up 157 and 153... DOINK! And she was so sure about it too... Or at least that's what she said. I was very miffed, irritated and on quite a short temper le. =( But being lost is damn kong bu! I got so freaked out I nearly started to tear lohz. Although Singapore is relatively small and all, but if you don't know where you are, it's quite scary? It was like this weird bus stop, then behind had a small park or something, and a construction site nearby. -shudder- Then there was no one there to help, since my dad was working and can't pick me up, and everyone else can't do much anyway. Bleh oh well, then after that went to Expo with my mum for dinner, and went shopping at the Robinsons sale. Didn't buy much, got clothes for my brother instead.

Today had LEP orientation! Okay lahz, everyone was sianning in the morning, and our class was split into different groups. Our group had about 8 or 9 people, and about 4 from our class. We had two group leaders whom were quite cute lahz, very enthu. Played some bonding games, but everyone was still very stone, and I think my slow reaction hai4 dao bu shao ren, bad karma... Played station games, like had a quiz at the Zen garden, then went to the banner painting place and got more questions asked. Then erm... to the top level of dunno which block to do some obstacle course which we were supposed to do blindfolded, but because no one brought blindfolds, they changed it to see how many rounds of the course you could complete in 5 minutes. Then they splashed (very little) water and used the big balls (that council let loose on campfirenight) to whack people. They used so little water, like small droplets and little trickles?? Then to LEP room to play musical chairs I think, which had no purpose but to pick suay people to do mass dance later.

I think the most fun game was the "war game" sort of, since we were chao pro defenders, or at least I think we were, in my opinion. Plus the groups were of ok size, so we all had stuff to do. And we were mostly standing off at various points quite far away from the Zen garden, so quite pro lahz. Managed to catch 2 people, or rather take their ribbons, but kenna scratched in the process... Didn't know that guys kept such long nails anyway. Oh well.

THen we had a song session consisting of one song (yu te de yi fen zi...) and hong qing ting later, but not before a very lame session of skits presented by the 6 groups incorporating phrases (from texts and all) which were picked before hand. Very lame lahz essentially, with everything from cross dressers to santa claus and wu dang shan etc... LEP rocks! Fun lohz... But I'm quite tired now, and there's bio and math tutorial to do! Sian diao.


Wednesday, January 12, 2005


For some weird reason unbeknownst to me, the class was on a somewhat high as compared to the rest of the week. We had a lot of time, so we spent some of it playing captain's ball and some of it in the library watching shows. I have come to the conclusion that if you have two tall people and veron in the team, you're probably going to win. Especially if your captain is kind of short or of average height, and the defender is bloody tall. Anyway, after captain's ball and the very wu liao library tour (okay, not so wuliao since I finally found out where the red spot section is), we plonked into the video room and started watching long mao, then we changed to adam's family, and got bored! So we trudged off to the class bench to stone before running off for lunch and all. The class went kap, and 'cos weiquan was leaving for some international st john's comp, the guys (or rather the two tchs de) mixed up all the condiments + ice and milo and managed to trick weiquan into putting his face close enough to the mixture to push it down. Quite bad lahz actually, but at least he didn't mind or fuss about it too much. Then whilst we crossed the bridge to get back to school, the guys + some girls walked back to hc. But before doing that, they attempted to do the kebaba cheer across the roads. Thing is that we couldn't hear them very well, so it was quite failure lahz. But nvm, it felt quite nice to be randomly cheering for no reason at all again, like during orientation. =)

CCA exhibition was quite sad, since once the co got out, it started raining, and my dimo for both dizis got wet. Plus I felt really not-confident about the song and my yin zhun as well, so I didn't really play. =( The rest of the cca fair was quite dull too, signed up for a lot of random things, like pa/ava, interact, air rifle and co too of course. Kind of forgot about Sensorium Vale, but I couldn't find them anyway. <- Well maybe 'cos I didn't really look hard enough, but whatever. It isn't the official choice thingy yet anyway. The MandD people look really cool, and ecila and other people are joining, so should be fun to watch. =) Went to stare at the co list later, and found out that there were 9/10 applicants for dizi alone. Whoa. Plus seniors it makes for a lot of dizi people. Whee. How extremely competitive and fun. -stabs self in the gut-

Aha. Ha. Ha. Don't know why I'm thinking so much about it now either, but this feeling sucks. =(


Tuesday, January 11, 2005


I'm not even in j2 yet and I'm missing orientation, how bad is that? The video that Sensorium Vale did for orientation was so nice!! I feel like joining that as second cca, but don't know if it will be too heavy not... Plus I'm not even sure if they'll accept people with like near zilch programming background or adobe fiddling stuff. I thought today was going to be a very slack day, with no lessons at all, but with the amount of enrichment stuff they made us go for, it was brain numbingly dull.

We first had the red cross first aid thing, which was in my opinion wuliao, since I wasn't paying attention, and the speaker was apparently very fascinated with gory details. For example the plonking out of a brain on the backseat of someone's car, or missing the opportunity of viewing a gunshot wound because of whatever reason she mentioned. The ct left earlier to go for the music thing which was quite fun actually, but I guess I was just very sian, for dunno what reason. Basically after stoning for both sessions, we had this semi long lunch break, then off to the auditorium for CCA talk. The system is quite odd and relatively screwed, which makes me think that I'll probably not be able to get an A for CCA le. Then had the AC meeting where I stoned even further and felt extremely like sleeping.

Basically the entire day can be summed up in one word - stone. So boring! And with all the academic stuff and CCA stuff, quite stressful yeah? Or maybe I'm just thinking too much. Whatever lahz, this feeling sucks.


Monday, January 10, 2005


Sian, first day of lectures and we had two diagnostic tests. The lectures were quite dull, since everything is just an introduction to the syllabus and all. But our biology department head is very strict, managed to condemn one person in the first lecture, and make two other guys write lines(words). It's probably to prove a point, that she means it and all, but the poor sacrificial lambs quite ke lian. The diagnostic test was rubbish, since I could barely remember my facts, and some of the stuff I've never seen before in my entire life. So essentially my test was answered the old way, eeny meeny miny mo. And we had so little time to do the chemistry diagnostic test, but then I realised how much I relied on my lovely calculator, and decided that I should bring it tomorrow onwards.

But before that we were playing captain's ball in the ct with a mouldy ball from don't know where. The guys are damn tall lahz, especially weiquan. You jump up in an attempt to catch the ball, then end up it sails nicely into his hands, and he doesn't even need to do anything besides stand... A little way into the game they decided to split guys vs girls, which is quite dumb since there are only 5 guys, and with one on the chair, it makes 4 left to run around the court. Oh well, rather interesting game, that was quite bonding? I mean compared to the other games we played during orientation, where I obtained lots of blue blacks and sandfly bites from.

Oh yes, there's lep orientation on Saturday and there's supposedly going to be a lot of water. =) I'm quite happy with water, as long as no starch or mud or weird sauces are involved. Plain water is fine and dandy. =D

Went to crash practice after school today, and ended up practising with the orchestra, which is bloody weird, since I barely saw the pu an hour before dazu. And I sort of just picked up dadi, which also feels weird on my fingers, such that I have to keep adjusting because I'm not used to it. Felt kind of bad too, since sq and rw learnt the song before in sec 1, and there I was being all weird about paizi and stuff. Doesn't do anything for my self confidence either, when I lian chang yin on chang di and it sounds -very- short. =( But from crashing practice a short while, it became joining the co for the entire practice till 7, where cg and I tagged along with the rest of the seniors for dinner at KAP. Reached home at about 9 plus, and got questioned by my mum about my whereabouts, plus my dad was subtly telling me not to spend too much time on co instead of my studies. Whatever. XP I'm feeling kind of sleepy and kind of annoyed right now, so I shall sleep. =)


Saturday, January 08, 2005


Shall squish two days of orientation narrations in one post, since both nights I was very tired and gave up trying to blog after unpacking + washing (starched/painted) clothes + bathing.

Orientation Day 4

Actually I can't remember the sequence of events, so shall just anyhow narrate. We had amazing race from the hall in the morning, and successfully finished it as the 18th ct. We got stuck halfway at the "Eye to eye with HC and Singapore clue", but once we located the councillor, we finished the task in record time and quickly sped off to the other locations. Essentially we've been running around a lot for the past two days of orientation, so by the time we got back to the hall, we were terribly worn out, and thankfully they brought lunch forward, since apparently a lot of group members were starved. The tchs guys brought the ct to SMU where the food is quite cheap and in huge portions, but the service is damn slow... So we were late to return to school after that, and even then, two people didn't get to eat lunch, since they took away the food, but had to time to eat it at school anyway till dinner.

I think we were erm late for about 15 minutes plus, but thankfully we didn't miss much of the faculty session outside the audi (lesser distance to run from smu). And our faculty rocks!!! APOLLO ROCKS! Our fac dance is very cool, and it's to Destiny Child's Lose My Breath. The guy dances very well!!! Haha, and due to a certain lack of guys in the class (not like anyone was doing guy girl pairings in class except for...), I learnt the guy's part and partnered bern. And thankfully there was not much turning to do, so I sort of got it... Just that I occasionally mix up my left and right feet etc. Then we had another song session, where thankfully we knew at least two of the songs (xi shui chang liu and dang ni gu dan), so just sing along lohz. And I finally knew why ger smsed me last year during song session too, a lot of memories attached to the songs, especially because of the juniors, and you start missing your secondary school, co and a lot of things all over again. =( I should be going back next week since next week's lessons are quite slack. (2 days with 40 min lessons, 2 days with 1hr 20 min lessons and 1 day with no lessons (but I have to come back for first aid talk anyway).

The station games were quite sian actually, since we had to wait and wait for very long before we got to play at any station, and there was starchy twister, in the middle of the field. It's quite icky, since not only was there starch, but little bits of leaves, bark and small insects that had some how or another gotten stuck in the starch. The insects were erm very much alive and every now and then smothered with starch... Quite gross lahz, but we managed to wash off some of it with the tap behind the council room. Then we walked to the bball courts to wait to play some game with water bombs and stuff. I volunteered to be a tree, so that I would hopefully be whacked with water (the weather was bloody hot lahz) but all I got was water on my legs. Plus the ct that we played with was damn niao lahz... Whatever lohz, plus there was this very annoying guy standing right in front of me as well. If there wasn't a limited number of water bombs, I would have liked to hit him.

We stayed back to do flag and campfire item, so I helped do stuff like taping, white washing etc, but after a while like there were a lot of people and not enough things to do, so some of the flag/banner people went over to help/watch the campfire programme people. I must say that out of all the plays we saw, our ct's was the most lame. Really really cannot stand it lohz, sooooo qian bian! But very funny at the same time too. Plus most of the people were chao ji sporting, especially the main characters like the couple (zai zai + chang e), sianzilla (also the person who provided most of the lame ideas), the reporter, the tree and the narrators. Basically by about 10 plus minutes after I reached there I was laughing so hard I had tears... It was seriously lame, slapstick and whatever. XD

By the time we got back, the banner was more or less done, so I helped pull out the tape and stoned a while, since htere was nothing to do. Then the seniors very nicely helped us buy dinner and glitter to stick on the flag, and so we finished it within a night, with time to rehearse a bit more for the campfire item. I reached home at about 10 plus and slept at about 12 plus with this nagging feeling that I hadn't done something yet. <-student registration form

Orientation day 5

Today is supposedly the most fun day of all the orientation days because of the war games, went for fac meeting to strategise and stuff but I left with other people to ban water bombs. Apparently weiwen, our fac head was very amusing... (copied from

Weiwen: Okay... I heard that Athena and Artemis are forming an alliance to attack Ares then us. Do you want to form an alliance with Ares?
Someone in audience: No!
Weiwen: No? You want to rape everybody? ALRIGHT, that's the spirit! Let's just go and rape rape rape!

Oh my... So that was how the "Rape red" chant came about right before the games. So the three facs ganged up on Ares in the end. Ares is just too big lahz, and they went into Athena territory pre-game and squished most of their water bombs, resulting in the rest of the faculties having to contribute to Athena's store of water bombs. =( I managed to remain very clean, which I guess was why I didn't find it very fun, since I was trying to replenish the depleting supply of water bombs in the toilet. And when you get starched for being clean by the councillors, it's not as fun as getting it when you're trying to attack someone or something like that. And in the end everyone had 0 bombs in their bags lahz, so it was quite rubbish, and Artemis won in the end because of fairness, which is quite sad, since Artemis people were ganging up 6 on 1 Ares guy, and essentially I think they chose the fac that got scolded the least. 'Cos apparently all the other faculties were scolded by the teacher/s or something like that. And I got lots of sandfly bites or some weird insect bites from that too.

Then we thought we had a lot of time to prepare for item, bathe and eat. But we didn't since after eating, we only had like 10 minutes left to prepare for item and present it to the rest of the fac. I now officially dislike the audio system thingy in the lt. It responds bloody slowly, and halfway the screen disappeared, so I couldn't see the timings of the tracks at all! Then when you pressed stop, it took a while for it to respond and all. The guy who was teaching me how to use it commented that he hated the machine and I agreed with him after it screwed up. But never mind, the skit went on as planned, more or less, and jk was talent spotted for huang cheng. He pro lohz, other people zhu dong go and audition, he got jioed by seniors to go. We didn't get chosen to represent the fac, which was okay, since I think the other ct was funny too, especially the bimbo! She sounded so natural, and the jokes were quite lame too.

Nerd (to girl): You must be a Beta particle... Because you're BETA(Better) than all the rest...

Poser (to girl): Your dad must be a terrorist, 'cos you're the bomb!

And the one about the date and raisin... Sooooo lame, but funny at the same time, especially because of the bimbo.

The campfire was quite nice, well the skits and performances were, but the flag presentations were sian. And it drizzled halfway, so they made us go to the hall, where Apollo's skit had further technical problems, but we were entertained by the councillor's impromptu game of making each fac send up representatives to act as a jealous wife, psycho butcher, bimbo milkmaid and mad cow. But anyway, Apollo rocks! We were like the guaiest fac? Haha, or at least that's what one councillor said.

Then erm the campfire was damn chio lahz, all the fac heads dressed up in their god like gear, then lit the balls of paper or something, and sent them flying down to light up the main fire. But that wasn't the nicest part of the fire. When they lit up the names of each of the four facs and the supernova in the middle, that was the chioest. And Apollo burned the brightest! It was the nicest looking one lohz, then we did songs and dances. At first we were in one circle at the front, then molly came looking for us and brought us to find our senior class somewhere at the back, where we sang with them and attempted to follow the dance movements. I utterly screwed up the dance again, since I was trying to do the guy's part, without having even gotten the girl's part proper yet. But never mind, we had fun I guess.

After campfire we were herded out of the school and went to Bukit Timah Plaza with the seniors for bonding session or something. But because there weren't enough chairs/tables at the same place, we were segregated again, and the guys and girls sat at different tables, except for a certain couple... That resulted in the guys table having the lone girl there.

But I guess everyone got rather high after campfire, and by the time I went home, even though I wanted to blog, I couldn't. I fell asleep in front of the computer and woke up a while later to a lot of blue blinking on my screen, filled with people telling me not to dao...

Next week's lessons are slack, but I think I'll miss orientation anyway, and after now I'm even more worried because I want to stay in at HC, I like it here. =)


Wednesday, January 05, 2005


Oooh! Orientation day 3 rocked! No more boring academic stuff, all games and hc spirit stuff... We got split up into our cts (civics tutorial groups aka classes) today, and I realised that I had kind of no one to stick to... GEP really shelters and protects, but yet everyone inside is still a minority, so weird. I'm kind of glad that I had no one there in some ways, and obviously not in others. Firstly 'cos then I'm forced to talk to other people, and henceforth find new friends. But on the other hand when you see everyone else have someone to talk to (people are lonely creatures) and you're kind of the only one alone, it's a bit sad, and hard whilst other friends in other classes have each other and stuff. Oh well, get used to it I guess.

We met our senior class today, and molly rocks! Or rather he's damn cute lahz, so gay! XD It's very funny watching him with yiwen(?) where they niao each other, cos he's in lep and she's in physics. Dunno lahz, but our senior class is very nice, ordered pizza for our lunch... We had to pay in the end lahz, but it's kind of nice anyway, rather than having to queue up for canteen food and everyone stone to death while waiting.

My class is quite cool, in fact it's SUPER ZAI! And rocks!!!! There are like 21 girls and erm 5 guys? Haha, and we have 3 councillors, so it's quite easy to coordinate and be enthusiastic about things when people are so passionate about it. There's the sort of loud and cute one, an artistic (jappy anime) person, the quiet/maybe mugger group and the henceforth famous class couple. =) SoooOOOOOOOOooOOOOOooo obvious to spot, and michelle (dunmanian) even pointed them out to our senior class when she was asked (in truth or dare) to predict if there were going to be any class couples. (Which is kind of near impossible since there are like -mumblemumbledots-)

But anyway, sans the dance session, where I once again saboed my partner with my awful sense of direction and turning, we settled the banner/flag stuff, got a new ct rep, whom shall henceforth be known as jenny! Then we met seniors, did self intro, found my new mortal and erm shall write probably next week or something. =X Then we played truth or dare, or rather the seniors gave questions and the junior that was pointed out by the bottle would answer it. We had them asking who was the chioest councillor, shuaiest councillor, most eligable bachelor (senior), most chio senior, most san ba senior, cutest guy in class, possibility of class couples, most bu shuang school etc. I think that's about all, but I could be wrong...

From this orientation, I have confirmed that I am not cut out for dancing, because I have this strange tendency to turn in the wrong direction, or use the wrong limb, or go too slowly...

ANyway, we had telematch today, and it was quite an injury filled one, but the class sort of bonded ba... Never had such an enthusiastic orientation before. It's really a choice of your own to make it fun or not... But then again, it was like maf all over again, on a much grander scale.

We first got lost trying to find out first station which was actually in the field... The objective was to try and get as many people as possible under the benches or tables into the ring (formed by benches/tables) and stay there, without getting your balloon burst. But we erm lost that, since our ct kind of si wen (5 guys only lehz...). So I conclude that having more (bigger sized or otherwise) guys in your groups probably means you stand a higher chance of winning, since they play rough. Our cheers at this time were quite lan, but never mind, we kind of heck cared 70 and went on to the next game. But by then we were already starched and so we trudged off to the next station of obstacle course.

Obstacle course was where we sustained most of our injuries. The game started with the entire ct in a row, where everyone had to roll over everyone else, then pairs would wheelbarrow each other to the end, going around a point on the ground, then blowing a ping pong ball out of a bowl of flour. After that, we were supposed to play scissors paper stone with someone of the opposing team, whereby two benches were placed lengthwise, end to end, and each one would attempt to go through the entire bench, and exit through the opponent's end after winning the scissors paper stone match. Actually quite hard to explain like that. But anyway, I got two bruises, and my toenail got ripped off, and I didn't even go to the starch pool! XP THankfully there was no blood, not like mingtse's and jenny's (jen yi's).

Then we erm went to play the volleyball sort of game, resembling the one we played at lifeskills camp 04, except with balloons instead of proper balls and garbage bags in place of towels. Quite failure I think, and we lost the official match, but got sympathy points cos we very sportingly wrote out CHERIE'S name with our butts.

Then we ran off to find the next game councillor in charge to realise that we were for once, early. By now our cheer started to sound better, and we were more enthu! Well, maybe it was because the councillor was so nice in giving us mineral water to drink and letting us walk over without doing anything too humiliating. We cheered for him of course, since he let us walk over and stuff. But the game itself was the maf one if I'm not wrong, try and fill up/not fill up your team's bottles.

So since we were fantastically early, we went over to play the captain's ball thing at the bball courts, and the other group wasn't around yet! We had sufficient time for toilet + water breaks, and came back to entertain the councillors with songs, cheers, random bum movements from the dance and being targets for water bomb practice. Once again, we walked over, and got points for being enthu and relatively entertaining I guess.

I kept trying to pick out the dried starch from my shirt, which was much better than some other people with starch in their hair. And we finally finished the planning for campfire item and banner, which will be painted tomorrow! Meaning tomorrow will be a very very late day, but oh well. It should be fun. =)


Tuesday, January 04, 2005


Well, we had a long speech in the morning by the principal, so I was writing on the little tables attached to the chairs with my finger, and smsing people across the auditorium out of boredom.

After that we got organised into our ogs and did games and stuff. Basically to tuo yan shi jian, we did a lot of self introduction stuff, where everyone was extremely soft anyway, so a lot of people were called out for whacko without even realising it. Then we did quite a lot of supposedly og bonding games, which I guess it was, in such a way that we knew more names? And we were even yakking during lunch and on the college tour.

Oh yes, hc is quite messy, like someone planned the middle, and everyone just added on to the sides, so it's in all kinds of shapes and of different sides. Then erm we did cheers and songs, where I was under the impression that coming to a mixed school, the songs would not reach such high notes, but the hc school song goes quite high. And the tchs chinese school song sounds better than the hc el version. WHich reminds me, tmr is wednesday, school song day. And we have to go for morning assembly. WHee.

The college songs were also damn nice, made me think about ny though, and everyone was enthu for cheers! Which is good, except that the cheers were odd and different versions of ours... And whenever you were supposed to shout hua chu for the shan ge, it was enormously tempting to shout nan yang instead. X) doink. Oh well, got split into cts already, and I'm in erm 05s73, which is bio chem math lep. My ideal combi, but supposedly quite tough too. Must jia you. =)

Looking forward to orientation tomorrow, because there are no more academic talks!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA No more stoning in the auditorium and trying desperately to pay attention so you won't seem rude. And there are actually supposed to be fun games tomorrow, so I hope it doesn't rain.


Monday, January 03, 2005


Okay, seriously, the academic talks were bloody boring. (muststopsayingbloody) The academic talks were dull, sleep inducing and overall a bore. We were stuck there from 810 to 1030, then break for 45 min and then stuck there till 115 all the way till 340 for more admin stuff on subject combinations and mini talks by various departments trying to get you into their department using reverse psychology or otherwise... But anyway, about a third ++ of the auditorium was filled with tchs guys,so the rest of the other minority schools filled in the other two thirds of the audi, which is kind of odd. And they had the band in the morning playing some theme song for the teachers to walk on stage to, extremely lame, then the principal made his address, introduced the staff, of whom no one remembered anyway. Then we had talks from NTU and NUS representatives and did lots of academic related stuff... X( sian.

But anyway, we had mass dance after that, and they look kind of cute, despite the fact that I was directionally challenged, and I couldn't see the councillors' hands or feet, but I managed to erm continually stare at the councillor behind me and thus sort of follow. It reminded me of mass dance at ny, where I don't see the in between process, and I just get the final pose thing. But more fun. More fun cos there are enthusiastic councillors and it's not the nan zhong quan... XP Oh well, tomorrow there will be less academic stuff and more fun games thingys. =) Looking forward to it, and I'm feeling surprisingly enthusiastic about school, wow.


Sunday, January 02, 2005


I was trying to pack my bag today, and realised I couldn't find my pencil case! Well, I have a blue one, which I don't want to use for various reasons, and a grey one, which I was trying to locate this morning. After digging through various cupboards, boxes and shelves, I finally found it on my bed, next to my pillow, doink.

Oh yes and I went to my grandma's house today for the first time in a long while, went there without any money, came back with 3 or 4 dollars plus... Beginner's luck for mahjong obviously. =)



baking with ger

First and foremost, I must mention that my kitchen is perfectly fine, save for a few egg white stains on the table, the microwave oven is not spoilt and the house did not short circuit. (leaves time for applause) And...we didn't need the fire extinguisher! (Well, with the sort of rain we're getting now, fire extinguisher also a bit extra... Okay nvm.)

Anyway, ger came over yesterday to bake! =) Somehow or another, in the conversation we had prior to that, ger supposedly mentioned baking something that both of us knew how to do. Unfortunately, I must have missed that phrase, because I picked something we both never did before, cupcakes.

Okay, so we weighed the ingredients, stared intently at the recipe and figured out most of it for ourselves. We used the erm electronic mixer thingy, and ger was quite erm intrigued by it. Especially since it only required us to turn the dial for it to increase or decrease it's speed, and the bowl was fixed onto it, so no fear of anything spilling either. The only thing that happened was whilst ger was attempting to pour the eggs in while the beater was turned on, she managed to get egg yolk onto the top of the captain hook hand like apparatus, and it started spurting egg yolk onto the table and stuff... So we had to stop operations for a while, to clean up the egg yolk and fix the spare hand like thing back. (Incidentally, the thing seemed to be fixed on quite loosely, and I was quite afraid it would fall off halfway and go SPLAT into the mixture) Oh yes, before we added in the flour, the mixture looked extremely icky, and no matter how long we mixed it, it still looked icky, since there were little butter and sugar blobs floating around in egg white + yolk. But after we added in the flour, it looked much more decent, albeit lumpy.

Then it came to the baking! The oven was set on preheat, so we threw in an experimental tray of 8(?) each (8 raisin/sultana ones and 8 chocolate ones) and quite predictably, mine overflowed and ger's was...short. But after learning from the mistakes of the first tray, and being more and more numbed subconciously, the size of the chocolate chip cupcakes became smaller, whilst those of the raisin/sultana ones grew bigger. We erm quality controlled for the first tray, and finished it at about 5.40pm, which meant that we were late for chuida outing... But never mind, we still had to fen jia chan (cupcakes) and pack them off, putting them in a Marks&Spencer bag.[The irony... (",)] They taste good though, my mum said it was a little sweet, but they weren't squishy or burnt or anything like that. So I consider it quite a success. =)

chuida outing

So we set off for the chuida outing at Marina Bay, and on the way listened to songs from ger's mp3 player. When we finally reached Marina Bay, (and although we were slightly late) we saw keesheng, mx, shiqi and enoch there. <- All dizi people Then more dizi seniors came (which proves that dizi people are more punctual ;) ) until eugene came and ruined the erm all dizi thing. Waited for a while longer, sat and lamed whilst more people came then we went to the bus stop. Where we waited once again for the bus, which was immensely crowded. In fact, half the people got cut off, and eugene (aka organiser with the rest of them) got lost for a while before finally reaching the steamboat place.

I sat between ger and enoch, somewhere next to one of the poles where it got harder and harder to get out/in because there were more people coming. And the chair legs kept getting entangled, so ger and I either went to get food together, or we had to wait for either one of us to get back before we could sit down again, since if not, it would have been impossible to climb over and sit.

The food was quite...interesting? Ger put in crab into the soup and chinese herbs to erm enhance the flavour, and we took lots of vegetables too. Then for the crabsticks we dutifully took out the plastic first, and deshelled the prawns <-ger did most of the deshelling, before cooking. And eugene wants an honourable mention here to proclaim that he can crack eggs better than ger, which is entirely true, since whilst we were baking, ger volunteered to crack the eggs and had to remove shells from the inside of the bowl afterwards. But then again, another senior (melvin issit?) did most of the cooking, so I basically sat there and ate and occasionally peeled prawns and cook chicken and stuff on the grill. Enoch and keesheng were deep frying food, like mussels, mushrooms, tofu etc, then making other people eat... Poor melvin was actually planning to eat the deep friend mussel until we told him the way in which it had been cooked, then he promptly dropped it into the soup to de-oil it I guess, before eating. I don't know how effective it was, but the way they cooked it was damn gross. They first slathered a lot of butter on the cooking surface, then allowed it to melt, forming a pool of oil, then wait for the temperature to rise before frying it. ("-_-) Then there was dessert too, and I drank erm green bean soup and ate red bean ice cream too. It's quite interesting, since we went there and was supposed to have this ticket to show that we were eating at the restaurant and not just there for free ice cream, but we didn't have any. But when we mentioned that we knew wanqing(?), the lady immediately allowed us to take as much ice cream as we wanted... Hehe, the wonders of having connections.

Kind of took an incomplete group photo of the people that were still left at the table, then everyone ran off to either go home or play pool. Since I wanted ger to pei wo hui jia, I tagged along to watch them play pool and was more or less irritated/blinded by the flash of cameras and sneaky evil seniors that were wielding them. But I guess it was kind of fun in a way, since I now know/can recognise people, and sort of know what (horror(s)) lie in front of me. Plus, I now know how delightful my life in hcco is going to be. And how certain seniors are exceedingly amiable and friendly, others LAME(!) and LOUD! and then there are some that are genuinely nice and of the brotherly sort <-age difference... =)

Okay lahz, not say I had a hell lot of fun there, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be either, especially since the zhi-xuan/zhixuan thing died off once we got away from the mrt station, and I met my batchmate(s) already. =)

And I was also dutifully warned that being in lep meant that I would be "strongly encouraged" to join the chinese society and take part in huang chen, which although at first sounds kind of bad, but sounds very fun after a while. All the backstage stuff, to be part of a production? Where on earth would I get another chance to do something like that? Then again, it's kind of scary too, since I don't think I'll have much time left at all. Oh well, take things one at a time I guess. First things first, orientation! =D



Mmm, new year, new layout. Much thanks to cg for helping with this! -hugs- (I finally used it okay, not that I didn't want to...) And since I'm kind of tired right now, I shall blog about chuida outing later + baking with ger later. -yawn-


Saturday, January 01, 2005


Oh yes, Happy New Year everyone. =)