Kiongy

2010-02-11T21:40:00.012+08:00

Hi!! Haven't been blogging lately, too shagged from work these days esp last week! Last week was so hectic, it was like work, go out, sleep, work, go out, sleep. I hardly had the time to use the computer!! Now that I'm here already, I don't know what to blog too lol. Too many things have happened, maybe I shall just briefly blog about my birthday!!

This year was a rather cool birthday for me cos my lunar birthday happened to be a day before my actual birthday which meant that I had 2 consecutive birthdays this year!! :D

So on my lunar birthday, I went to Timbre with Xiaotian, Joanne, Gena and Wanqi!!

Our drinks!!

Roast duck pizza ftw

Eaten this before when you were young? For me, it's a no and they were shocked to hear it. Haha sorry no childhood lol.

Celebration!

Only group photo but xt and me blinked!

And Shaoyun happened to be the one who helped us take the pic! Gena didn't even know that she was from our sch when she approached her to help us take the grp pic haha.

They sang a birthday song for me! And also for the rest who celebrated their birthday there that day. But my name was called first! Hahahaha.

The next day, which was my actual birthday, I celebrated with my family first and we had dinner at Din Tai Fung.

Love the biscuit part of the cake!!

Afterwhich, I went to meet the trombonists for drinking session! First time gng to Clarke Quay so late at night, I was kinda uncomfortable with all the smoke in the air and walking around alone waiting for the rest to come. Thankfully, Jess came soon and we had a mini birthday celebration first with the rest before heading to Yellow Jello to finish up the half bottle of Jack Daniels they left the other time. The pub was rly noisy and the heavy downbeat of the music made my heart thump at the same time as the music goodness. I feel rly kuku hahahaha

And guess what, I met shaoyun AGAIN!! Such a coincidence, isn't it?

We finished the bottle rly fast, prob cos there were like 6 of us? After walking a few rounds, we finally settled for Clinic which has cool drinks like this!!

This is what they called Blood Tranfusion. Doesn't taste alcoholic, more like Ribena lol!

Shots

We were high on alcohol I suppose haha cos after Clinic, we were still not satisfied and went to Forbidden City for more!

Still have half a bottle left, which means we gotta go back to finish, the second time we are keeping a drink!

Char and Meixin went hyper after that, which was quite a hilarious sight. Throughout our walk to City Hall, Char was swaying and Meixin was laughing madly to herself lol. Luckily the 4 of us were still sober so we tried to watch out for them in case they walked too fast and got out of our sight. Later at Macs, they kept laughing at each other and talking crazily in their sub-conscious state haha. And I missed my night rider! Should have taken the bus straight from Clarke Quay :/

Rainbow bridge

Char was sober by then haha. Many things happen in between, like how I couldn't stop Char from leaving Macs to go to the ATM machine and she ended up walking drowsily across the road to ATM (!) Lucky Jess saw her and quickly attend to her omg. I thought el and xueli would be able to stop her since they were downstairs that time (Char and me were upstairs) We then stayed on to chat till about 6 plus before taking the first train home.

Then on Monday, 2 days after my actual birthday, I met Sinyi, Vaish and Desmond!

Haven't seen them for almost 2 months gosh! Chatted a lot over dinner at Soupalicious, we talked about almost everything under the sun, like about our jobs, driving etc. It was great meeting up with them. There were some hiccups during the meet-up like how Sinyi lost her way at Citylink and walked all the way to Suntec and Vaish being caught up at work. It was only later that I realised it was some sort of drama created by the 3 of them just to spare them time to get me donuts and candles for my birthday! Desmond even brought me to Esplanade to take a look at some exhibition! Haha, but I rly thank them for their thoughtfulness cos I rly thought they were caught up at work/ lost their way haha. Nice surprise, I must say. I only realised it when I asked Vaish how long she OT-ed haha. She thought I had alrdy figured that it was all a drama actually! Sorry Vaish, but I can be quite a blockhead at times lol.

Okay I'm tired. CNY is coming, I don't feel the festive season coming to me yet. Prob cos my hse is not deco-ed yet and this year, my cousin is gng to Malaysia with her hubby to spend the new year, which means our family gathering will be smaller, and even quieter. But that's for the paternal side, hopefully there will be more fun, laughter and joy at the maternal side!

Mum just saw on the newspaper that mahjong tiles and table are selling at $38.88! Dad doesn't want but we are persuading him to get it!! Hahahaha. Yay play mahjong! I want play mahjong during the new year!! :D But must play with relatives, cos if I were to play with my family, we will always be 三缺一! LOL.

2010-01-27T20:03:00.000+08:00

Aim : To finish packing my room before my birthday.

GOGOGO!!

2010-01-26T12:32:00.003+08:00

I passed my BTT! Woohoo~ Hahahha. A lot of questions were kinda repeated from the e-trial so all was good! I finished within 5 min! :D Like wah right, hahahaha. But I was afraid that a 'FAIL' would appear on the screen once I ended the test immediately so I went to double-check my ans again and yay I PASSED! But I realised I applied for my PDL too early :/ I forgot that the PDL can only last for 6 mths and I went to apply when my first practical lesson only starts in March! OMGOMG. I'm so gundu !!!!! Now I pray that I would have enough time to obtain my license before my PDL expires, if not I gotta pay another 25 bucks! T.T

2010-01-25T13:16:00.002+08:00

Just came back from the childcare centre and I miss the kids so much! :D Kids are rly adorable at their tender young age! Young, sweet, innocent and pure! And not forgetting their chubby cheeks and lovely smiles! :D Ahhh my heart melted when my fav boy hugged my leg and smiled before leaving!!! Like omg he's the cutest kid on Earth!!!! I will miss him dearly! I'm not allowed to post the pics I have taken but if you guys wanna see my fav boy and fav girl and of course the rest of the cutey kids haha, do ask me if we meet up! I will be glad to show you guys! :D

My parents should have given me more siblings!! Then I can play with them! :) But then again, when they grow up, it's a different thing.. They will not be as cute as last time. If only they could always stay as a 3 year old, I will be happy to take care of them! Okay, this is nonsense. I'm not gonna have another sibling, if I rly have one now thats insane! It will be almost a 20 year gap omg! I shall admire the pics I have with the kids and treasure the moments we once shared :) No more working at the childcare aww, I've got another job! :) *kaching kaching* hopefully all goes well for this new job!

2010-01-25T01:37:00.002+08:00

HAHAHA i'm very excited now. Was talking to Trish and Chan about where to go for my birthday celebration and we brought up so many drinking places! Hahaha. Timbre, Zirca, Forbidden, DXO... okay I think that's all actually lol. I was telling them about free flow of house pour spirits at DXO on Sat and they were so thrilled! Lol! I think we are between Zirca and DXO for now and I'm fine with both. Just that I feel like gng to Timbre too! Cos Timbre is like open air, feels kinda like a peaceful place with the live band playing... Someone pls ask me out to go Timbre? :) Hahaha omg am I that despo!

2010-01-22T11:57:00.008+08:00

Day 4!

We saw on Jetstar magazine a recommendation for breakfast at Australia Dairy Company, which is located at Jordan, near our hotel! We chanced upon the shop during one of our days in HK and decided to go have a try that very morning! It was very crowded and we had to share a table with someone else. And as usual, menu is in Chinese but at least I know what the food is now lol.

Our sumptuous breakfast!
The scramble eggs with cheese sandwich is the best! I love the toast too!
Very delicious! Must come back for more the next time I go to HK!
No wonder so many ppl patronise the shop!

After breakfast, we walked around before heading back to the hotel to prepare for check-out. We had to pay an extra 85 HKD for service charge every night! Damn, it was not mentioned in the website that there is an extra charge! I thought everything was alrdy included in the price we had originally paid. Ahhh. Should try other hotels next time. They must have thought we were nice to bully :( First, there's no king-sized bed then next it's the service charge thing sigh. But anyway, I also don't rly fancy a fixed shower hose for bathing so I don't mind trying another hotel next time. Maybe will try to go back to Eaton? Heard Mum said that Nathan also has a fixed shower hose, if not I would prefer to stay at Nathan next time haha.

We left our luggages at the hotel lobby before heading to Mongkok to look for Hang Heung Wife's Biscuits! Had to ask for directions a lot of times along the way before finding the shop finally. And in the midst of finding the shop, I bought this to try!

The cup is bigger than Chan's hand!
It was such a big cup and costs only 12 HKD. I see a lot of ppl buying drinks from the shop (Gong Cha) everywhere I go so I thought I should give it a try.
It tastes good but the expiry is within one hour so must finish quickly haha!

After buying our goodies, we went for dimsum!

This is ultimate joke LOL. We wanted pepper for our sharks fin soup which didn't come with the bowl served earlier so when the next waitress came with our carrot cake, I saw the pepper bottle on her tray so I asked for it. And you know what she did?
SHE POURED THE PEPPER ONTO THE CARROT CAKE!
We were stunned.
Then I had to explain to her again that we want the pepper bottle not pepper for our carrot cake LOLOLOLOL.
So we ended up with a peppery carrot cake to eat but luckily she didn't pour that much so can't rly taste the pepper hahahaha.
And just as I thought how weird that waitress was, I noticed that ppl DO ADD PEPPER ONTO THEIR CARROT CAKE.
This is rly weird custom.
Pepper on carrot cake?!
Hahaha.

After dimsum, we walked around and bought some more goodies from Wing Wah before gng back to the hotel to claim our luggage and make our way to the airport! We were a bit lost at first cos we couldn't find the free shuttle bus to bring us back to Kowloon where we could take the airport express again. I checked with the hotel crew and they said there is no free shuttle bus here to Kowloon, which is weird. If there is a free shuttle bus to Jordan, why is there no free shuttle bus back to Kowloon?

But anyway, we managed to find the shuttle bus bus-stop in the end (not the same place as where the bus alighted us during the first day but further ahead) and we took an airport express from Kowloon to the airport!

We were there early so we spent A LOT OF TIME at the disneyland shop in the airport. We spent hours there omg and it was only ONE SHOP. Imagine if we had gone to disneyland, we probably need the whole day to shop, can't even play! Hahaha but we won't lose out in any way cos Disneyland's rides are too kiddy. But still, I don't mind gng to Disneyland the next time I visit HK though. Can buy a lot of cute stuffs! Hahahaha.

We had dinner at the airport before gng to immigration counter. It was quite a hassle getting to our plane cos we had to take a train and then a bus before we could get onto our plane.

We did a lot of self-entertainment on the plane back like this!

Japanese got ninja warrior, we got our french fries warrior!
Muahahahahha.

We even did a video with this french fries warrior which turned out to be quite funny! Hahahaha.
The plane back home was very stuffy, think the plane turned on the warmer or sth. It was not as cold as when we were gng to HK, I took off my sweater and still feel very hot, like suffocating omg. Luckily it turned cooler later on.

Can you see some twinkling things in this picture? It's the stars in the nightsky! Doesn't look very nice taken in picture but looks beautiful if you can see it in person cos the sky is just full of these stars!

Okay that marks the end of my first getaway with friends woohoo! A wonderful and memorable experience! And as you can see, day 4 was nth much cos we were practically looking for things to do. Check out the photo album title for day 4 on facebook HAHAHAHA. We still had a lot of fun and hopefully there would be more of such trips coming up? Hehe. But that means I also need to start saving a lot and hopefully the next time Kaii can join us!

2010-01-21T14:24:00.029+08:00

Day 3!

We went to Ocean Park! Hehe it was my first time gng and I was so excited cos there are thrilling rides to be taken!

Our tickets! So cute right! We get to keep our tickets!

The dolphins that greeted us at the entrance!

Ocean Park!

There were many attractions to be seen too! It's like a zoo cum underwater world cum theme park!

And the first animal we saw was...

PANDA!!
I didn't expect to see a real panda there! Panda so cute! And rly can eat a lot! It just keeps eating non-stop haha.

Our first ride was the carousel! Have not taken it for ages! Felt like I was reliving my childhood over again riding the carousel :D

For a trial turbo drop, we took this!

HAHAHAHA KIDDY TURBO DROP!

It was so kiddy that Chan and me couldn't take tgr cos there is only one adult seat. Lol. And Chan was so scared that she made me to take it first! I was quite scared at first but later I found it quite okay, my heart didn't feel like it was gng to drop haha so it's alright!

Haha!

We then took a train to the other side of the ocean park where all the thrilling rides were!

Started off with a mild game - flying swing!
We are flyingggg~
Such a breezer flying up there! A pity Trish didn't join us but well at least she helped us take a lot of pics!! In fact, Trish didn't take any rides with us except the carousel and the ferris wheel!

We went for pirate ship next, thinking it was peanuts just like how my mum thought so when she came here for her honeymoon haha. She went up to the highest end and regretted immediately when it started. She was screaming for the crew to stop but obviously, it didn't HAHA.

Chan and me were not like my mum lah, I wanted to sit higher but Chan insisted on the second lowest. And it was still quite scary despite on the second lowest row HAHA. Well, if you think it in another way, the second lowest row turn out to be the third highest row HAHAHAHA so it's still quite scary k! I lifted up one hand at the one point (the other hand holding onto Chan lol) and Chan said my butt lifted up too at that point! Haha.

And it was a very contradictory sight I see at the opposite side of the pirate ship. One woman sitting at the highest level was raising both her arms high up in the sky, enjoying the game thoroughly while another sitting at the second highest was having some sort of asthma attack throughout the ride. She seemed like gasping for breath the entire ride and I pity the man sitting behind her (her husband I assume) cos he had to keep comforting her and couldn't enjoy the ride fully lol.

Zoom in to see the expression on the lady in front of us. HAHAHAHA

Went to take The Dragon afterwards
I had to take off my spects for this ride so couldn't feel much but when it was gng up the tracks my face, being sandwiched between the protective gear (?) HAHA okay its the you know when you sit for a ride, you have to pull this safety thing down? er.. okay the main thing is my head was sandwiched between it and when it was gng up, my head kept jerking between left and right, and my ear stud kept poking me!! Omg, damn painful! But overall, the ride is not say very scary so it's okay!

We then took eagle which was a big mistake cos it made Chan and me so giddy that we thought we need to rest before taking the actual turbo drop in case we vomit halfway haha! Chan didn't want to take the ride at first, thank god I managed to persaude her! Hahaha, cos I know if I don't take it now, I don't know when is the next time I will ever enter Ocean Park lol. My parents are most likely not gng to come to Ocean Park with me and I won't want to take all the rides alone :(

TURBO DROP!!

The frightening part is the way up cos it moves up very slowly and when you think it's alrdy very high, IT IS STILL MOVING UP. And then the hanging in the air for 10 seconds, gosh. You don't know when to be prepared to plunge down and before you do anything, you are on your way down lol. The worst part is the moment you drop down, it goes up again. WAH I WAS STARTING TO MAKE VERY FUNNY SOUNDS THEN HAHAHA. That's according to Chan lol. I thought I was screaming hahaha but the ride ended quite soon so perhaps no time to actually scream yet? Lol!

Went for lunch and took the flume ride. we didn't want to get ourselves wet so we bought a poncho there and it costs us 25 HKD, which is about 5 SGD! Very expensive! But at least, it kept us dry! And the seal performance is rly nice! Must watch it when you're there! A pity we couldn't watch/ feed the dolphins cos this period is their rest time. So don't go to Ocean Park between 4th and 29th Jan yea? Cos it's winter and the dolphins must keep themselves warm and not catch a cold! (I'm guessing it's because of this that's why they are not performing)

Visited the Atoll Reef and Sea Jelly Spectacular later. Shall let the pics do the talking.

Nemo!

It's smiling at the camera!

I love all my jellyfish pics!

We took a cable car back to the entrance of the Ocean Park so that we could leave for our next destination - Victoria Harbour!

We were there early for the Symphony of Lights at 8pm so we walked along the Avenue of Stars first.

My hands fitted the handprints of this particular artiste!

The Symphony of Lights was rly pretty but standing out in the cold for 15min watching the performance is a bit unbearable because my hands were very cold after that. Think it's because the whole time I was video-recording the laser beam display that's why.

We then went back to the shop we patronised on the first day for dinner!

Sharks fin!

And then it was shopping at temple street before home sweet home!

2010-01-19T13:51:00.006+08:00

Day 2!

Chan and Trish wanted to get some branded goods for their family so we went to the more expensive areas such as Tsim Tsa Tsui and had breakfast there. Thankfully, the breakfast was quite affordable and I like their prawn chee cheong fun!

Our porridge

Continued walking in search of branded shops and on our way to 1881 heritage, we saw the space museum and took a pic with it!

Can you spot what we are doing?

There was nth at 1881 heritage so we took some pics there and left for Causeway Bay in search of more shops.

Cow-loon. Moo~

Before coming to hongkong, I saw online that there's a Hello Kitty Cafe at Causeway Bay so I thought I could use the opportunity to look for it too. I forgot to take down the address though, only rmb parts of it, because I thought I could ask around for directions. To my dismay, the MTR staff I asked at Causeway Bay MTR had no idea of where Hello Kitty Cafe was! Tried to ask at a customer svc counter at Sogo later on, only to find out that it has closed! And closed for a few years alrdy OMG.

AHHHH internet cheat me can! I saw reviews about the cafe but no one mentioned that the cafe has since closed! I was so upset upon hearing that! Thought I need not wait till I go to Taiwan next time before I can see it :( Anyway, we walked around see see look look before taking the 'ding ding' to Central!

The 'ding ding' runs in the middle of the road and has cables connected to the bus above it. When we checked the bus directory, we saw that we could only take a few buses to get us to Central but we realised nobody was waiting for any bus at the bus-stop except for us. Everyone seemed to hop onto any bus that came. We got curious so we asked a stranger and he said we could take any bus to get to Central. We did as he said and guess what, we were lost!

Hahaha we ended up at Tai Shue Wan (the home place of one of the acid attack suspects!) and we didn't know what to do! It seemed like an interchange along the side of the road since there were many 'ding ding' buses there. We checked the bus directory again and realised the place we were at was very far from Central! And there doesn't seem to be a MTR in sight so we took another 'ding ding' back and with the help of another stranger, we took the 'ding ding' back to Wan Chai and then took an MTR to Central haha.

The stranger recognised that we were Singaporeans! So easily identifiable huh. And Trish thought it was very fun to get lost haha. Hmm, an experience I think. How often do you get lost right? Lol.

The inside of 'ding ding'

It costs only 2 HKD no matter which bus-stop you alight from!

We then walked to all the branded shops like Gucci, Miu Miu, Coach etc etc...... without buying anything HAHA! Cos it was either more ex or there was no stock of what Chan's sis wanted. I hardly walked to all these branded shops cos for now, I'm still not keen in spending hundreds or even thousands for a bag/pouch. It just doesn't seem very worth it for me now. Maybe next time when I start working and earning $$, I may pamper myself once in a while? Haha. I like Miu Miu's colours for their bags/pouches though. Think their shades of pink and gray are rly very pretty!

And I must say, the promoters there are very polite! They will always greet you and even if you leave the shop without buying anything, they won't blackface you and some of them even thought we were koreans! One even said 'Anyo Haseyo' to us! HAHAHAHA.

We went to H&M too!
The clothes were a little bit ex so I got 1 top only. They sell a lot of hello kitty products too like shower gel and pouches haha.

We then had a very delicious roast duck noodles for lunch at Stanley Rd before continuing our route to go to The Peak.

Yum!

Some street market along Stanley

The Peak tram

We took a combo package for The Peak and Madame Tussauds so it was a bit cheaper and the wind was so chilly up there! I wore like only 1 layer of stockings? Chan had 2 and Trish had 3! It was rly quite cold up there. My hands were icy cold when I used the camera for too long. The scenery was not too bad, just that it was a bit cloudy like the last time when I went so couldn't see that far ahead. Nevertheless, it was still nice being up there seeing all the landscape :)

It was supposed to be a freezing look but Chan looks frustrated lol.

2nd attempt - more successful than the previous one haha.

Sunset

We went into Madame Tussauds after that and it was photo spamming lol. There were some new figures there like Obama and Brangelina. I just retook with everyone haha cos I also don't rly know where were my previous photos at Madame Tussauds too. So here comes the picture overload!

Nice one! LOL.

I'm the king! Hahahaha.

Chan seems to blend in with the rest la! Haha!

I look like I got no legs here! Hahahaha.

Put in collages faster haha.

After Madame Tussauds, we went for hotpot and it was good! Except that the oil keeps splattering on my hand when we do our teppan lol.

They still use those olden days glass bottles for coke!

Okay day 2 is a very long post. I will leave day 3 to another day. Having flu and cough now, need ample rest. Will blog again perhaps tmr? :)

2010-01-18T23:05:00.009+08:00

I'm back from hongkong! In fact, since last fri at 0000! Hahaha. I survived the acid scare! Lol. Given the many police vans seen along the streets esp those tourist attractions like the night markets, I felt safer than usual but still can't help moving to the side of the building whenever I can haha. And the hongkong trip was rather an impulsive trip for the 3 of us. Although we discussed about gng overseas since a long time ago, the actual booking of flights and hotel happened just one week before we went for our holiday! Cool huh, wanna go then just go lol.

But this last min booking also cost us a lot. We took jetstar and it still cost us $478 for to and fro, which is very expensive according to my parents. I think so too because if we were to top up around 50-60 bucks more, we could have taken CX which would have given us more leg space, food and in-flight entertainment! And if you wanna buy food on the plane, its also very ex! One small bottle of pure ocean costs $3 and instant noodles are at $5!!!!

Look how narrow the spacing is!

Fluffy white clouds :)

Took the airport express later from the airport to kowloon, followed by a free shuttle bus to the hotel. It costs only 190 HKD for the 3 of us, which is cheaper than taxi fare i think. And the leg space on the train is sooooooo much better than on the plane!

See,we can even put our legs on top of the luggage in front of us!

And best part is it was very empty so we had the whole cabin to ourselves! :D

Amitabha

It was early for check-in that time so we went for our first meal in hong kong!

The menu is all in chinese. Though I know how to read most of the words, I still can't figure what the food is despite knowing how to read. Lol. It's equivalent to nth can. So I ended up ordering those that I don't know to see what is it hahaha.

After checking in at the hotel (We got scammed! D: We ordered for king-sized bed online but they gave us 2 single beds and a sofa so we took turns to sleep on the sofa for the next 3 nights), we went to Argyle Centre to shop. The things there are rly cheap and I regretted not buying a pair of boots there! T.T I miscalculated the price at first so thought it was a bit pricey but later when I got the price right, I worry my mum will scold me and thought it would be a bit crazy to wear boots in sunny Singapore haha.

But guess what, when I came back to tell my mum, she actually didn't mind me buying the pair of boots and said it's a kind of fashion and won't make you feel hot. She even brought up an example of a girl whom she met along the streets wearing thick sweaters and fur boots in Singapore! Seriously, that girl a bit... ding dong huh. Lol. And now I'm regretting sigh. Next time I'm just gonna buy and not think so much. As long as I like it will do :)

We shopped till late evening and went for dinner afterwards which was not that fantastic. We had noodles again (chan and me) and we were just sick of the ultra large serving of noodles we have. The noodles are like free lah, no matter how much we eat, the noodles don't seem to deplete in the bowl. We didn't finish in the end and went to the ladies market thereafter. I need to pick up good bargaining skills and speak fluent cantonese!

And this marks the end of day 1. Will continue the rest of the days in the next post!

2010-01-10T23:08:00.015+08:00

Hello! It's 10 days into the new year and I have not blogged! Haha, have been too busy lately! I'm leaving for hk in another 7 hours time and news just reported an acid attack ytd omg. They have caught a suspect though, so hopefully this puts an end to the acid saga.

Anyway, there was gena's bday celebration recently. I had 2 celebrations with her haha. First one was with xiaotian and joanne! We went to the icing room to make a birthday cake for her! :D

From this.....

To this! lol.

And if you think the top is alrdy ugly, wait till you see the sides HAHAHA.

We wanted some curvy lines around the side but our lack of control became this form of 'art', as claimed by xiaotian hahaha.

And this is joanne's masterpiece. She wanted to make vampire teeth and instead of that, it looked like gena is drooling!!

Haha anyway, we met up with her at soup spoon over dinner and celebrated her birthday there.

Wish upon a star

The next celebration was with the trombonists!!

We had sakae dinner buffet and then celebrated Gena's birthday out in the open space at the CBD area, with the birthday girl having to borrow a lighter from a stranger. Gena has changed so much the past 2 years! She has become more spontaneous! I just casually asked her to borrow a lighter from a man and she rly did! Wonder woman~

All of them except me and gena went for drinking later!! So sad I missed it but they still have half a bottle of jack daniels left and ee loong has reserved it at the pub there for one month, which means I still have an opportunity to go! Lol.

Okay thats it for now, I need to sleep. Goodnight!

2009-12-31T18:51:00.000+08:00

Yay I finally finish watching "You're beautiful" !!!! :D

The drama is really nice, thanks to chan's recommendations!! Initially, I thought it was just some hana kimi storyline with the girl impersonating as a guy but as I continued to watch, the plot gets more interesting and I love the main characters even more! No personal favourite though, I like all of them haha! Just thought that 16 episodes for the drama is a bit too short; they should have added more parts for jeremy and shinwoo! Esp jeremy haha cos he's so funny!

And oh, I love the pig-rabbit a lot! Everytime I enter comics connection, I always yearn to see a pig-rabbit on the display shelf hahaha and I cannot find any pics of tae kyung and shinwoo :( Only managed to see jeremy's pics as part of the FT island group.. Haha I think I'm a bit gaga over the show now but I guess this craze will only last for a while. No more late night chasing shows anymore.. :( so sad, but at least my parents won't nag and scold anymore hahahaha. A new year is approaching too, so time for a change! No more sleeping in the wee hours! :)

Anyway, haven't been updating in a while. For this week, I have been watching movies!
Monday was Avatar and the movie is rly nice!! Even without 3d, the visual effects are cool enough for me alrdy! Before watching the movie, I always thought the na'vi state (the blue humans) is very scary but while watching it, it didn't feel that scary except the part when the guy transformed into the na'vi state and suddenly got up, towering over the humans.

Tuesday was Bodyguards and Assassins. I personally don't like the movie cos there is too much bloodshed and fighting scenes. I cried throughout the movie omg, so heartbreaking to see all the heroes die for the uprising of China. I can't stand the curved hooks that the baddies use to hook the flesh of other people, it's very gross eeyur. After the movie, I so wanted to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 to calm my nerves hahaha. I think I made a lot of noise in the cinema lo hahaha. And my mum even went like "Aiyo they all (the good ones) so stupid to use swords, might as well use explosives to blow them up (which the baddies use), don't need to die ma, act hero only" -.-

Last week had a few outings. First up is the meet-up with Steph and May. We went to ice-cream chefs!! Yay! Have been wanting to go since very long ago! They have very unique flavours there like creme brulee and horlicks haha. And every tues is free toppings (first one only) day! :D

I love the creme brulee one! Next time when I go there again, I shall have that!

It rained so we seek shelter at steph's house downstairs before travelling to the airport to continue to chat lol and take peekchurs hahaha.

Steph's puffed up face! Haha.

We followed suit haha.

Next day was meet-up with jt classmates!! Wah, haven't seen all of them, except gena haha, for 2 years ever since we got our 'O's back!! Long time no see!! Haha, but thankfully we didn't feel any awkwardness chatting with each other. Guess we were just busy playing all the games lol!

Meet up soon next year yea? :D

And xmas day was spent with trombone section!!

Xmas gift exchange between 3 ppl only lol but nvm lah, at least still got present! :) My idea to go to klp was quite disastrous cos we had nth to do there and being a public holiday, kbox actually charged us $30 each to sing from 2 to 5 omg super ex! Luckily teo heng was nearby so we went there instead. $20 for the room to sing from 3 to 5 leh!! $20 for the 4 of us!!! That means each of us only need to pay $5!! So cheap, I like! :D HAHA must go there often next time! Teo heng is better lo, the facilities are almost the same as ksuite: cordless mikes and touchscreen monitor, better and also cheaper than kbox!

Okay, today is the last day of 2009, which means is the last day of student fare

T.T

Ahh it's just a sooner or later thing only. Hope you guys out there have fun counting down to 2010 and have a happy 2010 ahead!! :D

2009-12-30T12:02:00.001+08:00

Omg omg Chung Cheng's new conductor is Ms Sia!!!

I'm in shock!!

2009-12-23T01:09:00.016+08:00

As promised, I shall blog about trombones chalet!! Yay! Our annual trombones chalet is back, although a bit too late and too short, we still had a lot of fun high-ing tgr and catching up with one another. It's great that we continued to keep in contact with one another, so let's continue this trend of annual trombones chalet, although the cost is pretty steep now haha.

The different types of rubiks cubes Jessica and me brought. 4 out of 5 are Jess's though lol.

We can even build a tower with our rubiks cubes!

Shhhhhh!

Dinnertime!

We had too much fun at the arcade later on, hence the lack of pictures haha. The 'go go ball' game was exhilarating. I laughed till my stomach ache throwing the balls and the part when we didn't know how to select the game was very funny too!

Our high score at the basketball game! Jacie got a higher score of 409 but it was reset due to some problems in the machine aww.

And we bought this on our way back to chalet!

Haha before we even drink it, we alrdy got high and started pillow-fighting!!

From pillow-fighting, it gradually went to dancing and subsequently taking pics again lol. Then finally, it was drinking time!! Hahaha omg I sound like some alcoholic. We didn't finish all in the end, which was such a waste haha. Some tasted good while some tasted like medicine ewww. And naughty g was not as scary as we thought hahaha.

And what's chalet without mahjong? Haha now I sound like a compulsive gambler.

Learnt a lot about mahjong playing and for the first time I actually 'zha hu'. Well at least, I learnt more about the rules and I know how to count the 'tai' now! :)

Cool effect huh.

Jessica and I managed to sustain through the night afterwards, with the rest in lala land lol.
Jessica was the last one standing in the end cos I gave up around 9+am and slept for about 2 hours before waking up again.

Went to pool and ksuite after that and I didn't get to jump on my bed!! :(:(
Turns out that if you want the bed in the room, you have to pay $40 an hour!
Our room was so small yet each of us alrdy have to pay $20 per person, very ex!
I personally think its not very worth it, we just went for the experience only and concluded at the end that ksuite is just the higher end of kbox.
And I got cheated by 8days!
The magazine mentioned that it only cost $8 per hour but the rates are more than that!

Okay anyhow, here are some pics to share

One thing cool about ksuite is it has the touchscreen monitor for you to select your songs and you can even do your own recording in the room and bluetooth it to your phone!
Very high-tech right!
Oh yeah, another good thing is they had cordless mikes :D

Thats all for trombones chalet, tata!

2009-12-22T01:21:00.004+08:00

HAHAHA I've got no time to blog about trombones chalet yet so I shall blog about today's happenings first!

I was supposed to have a job interview today but the managers were not free to interview us so we actually made a wasted trip. Oh well, at least the next time I can get chan over too then we will have the interview at the same time. And Xueli recited a very funny poem while we were waiting for our interview hahahaha

It goes like this:

人生自古谁无屎~
有谁大便不用纸~
莫非你是用手指~

Hahahaha omg I was laughing like mad when I heard Xueli recite this!! She said until so pro, as if it was every other normal poem like that!! Very hilarious!!

Anyway, after the interview we had brunch and went to Xueli's friend's house to play! Wah, the house is rly beautiful and the playroom is what everyone would wanna have man! Got pool table, wii and mahjong!! Hahaha, if that was my home, I would just stay in everyday and play, so fun!!

I played wii for the first time and my guitar skills are very lousy! Cannot coordinate!! Very ashamed to be in band for so long, rhythm still so lousy sigh. It got better after a while, which is a comforting fact. Lol. I think I still prefer to play the drums, more exciting! Haha. And my pool skills improve a bit too! Hehe. Learnt a few techniques today such as hitting the balls from behind and letting the balls rebound so that it will drop into the hole haha.

We took a few cool pics too which I rly love!!

The drums!!!!

I look like some rockstar hahahaha

I will blog about the chalet the next time, I promise!

2009-12-17T01:57:00.003+08:00

Lower brass picnic!!

It was fun overall, only spoiler was the rain which caused us to pack up and run frantically in search for shelter. Hahaha but at least we need not fly our eagle kite anymore since it couldnt stay in the sky for more than 10 seconds. Lol. A kite with a picture of the whale was flying so much higher than our eagle kite and we were like " omg the whale can fly better than an eagle! " HAHAHAHA.

Playing the pig game with section was very fun too!! Love to play that game with them again and compete to see who is the ultimate pig! Lol. And food was not bad too! A couple of bakers in the section, most of the food prepared for the picnic were baked by them! We had cookies, brownies, cornflake marshmallow, biscuits with marshmallow and onigiri!
ALL MADE BY THEM, SO PRO RIGHT!!!

Attempting to fly the kite

Most of the time our kite is like this....

And we spent most of our time untangling the knots lol.

One of the rarest times you get to see our kite flying hahahah.

Our kite is flyingggg!!!!

So many kites flying in the sky! Yet none of those kites belong to us hahahha. And the sky looks so ominous.

Doraemonnnn!!!

Juniors

Shall end off with the famous usain bolt pose hahahha

Next post will be on trombones chalet!!

2009-12-16T03:30:00.000+08:00

Omg it's 3+ am and I'm still not asleep!

It has been like this since last week, and it's rly a veryyy bad habit!!

I used to wake up early in the morning and go for a morning jog but now I feel so lazy each time I wake up at like 10+ am!

Oh no, better change this bad habit of mine!!

Anyway, today was picnic + kite flying with trombone section at Marina Barrage!

I was so excited cos that's what I have been wanting to do since the start of hols!!

First time kite-flying and it was quite a failure hahahaha

But I had loads of fun so it's okay!!

Will blog about it in the next post :D

In the meantime, I shall go zzz now!

Goodnight! (or rather good morning?) lol.

2009-12-12T04:04:00.001+08:00

Pictures from cousin's wedding!

Hehe it was my first time attending a wedding and also becoming a bridesmaid, there were so many things to learn from and experience!

Shall start off with the morning first. Usually, the tradition is that before the groom gets to meet his bride, there will be some obstacles faced for him and the best men and these are usually planned by the sisters. The guys rly had it tough haha. Some of the obstacles included dancing to the song 'nobody' and plucking their hair off their legs to fill a paper heart hahahaha. Quite gross but the guys were sporting so it was pretty cool!

The next obstacle was the eating part. Haha there was 'suan tian ku la' (sour sweet bitter spicy) cos when a couple is married, they have to go through everything tgr, be it the good times or bad? yeah, so 'suan tian ku la' is describing sth like that.. So for that, the guys had to try all 4 flavour types of food hahahaha. Sour was for them to pop 5 sour sweets at one go. Sweet was some indian delicacy, bitter was to swallow one teaspoon of coffee powder lol and the spicy one...

is this! Crackers with wasabi!

The expression on their faces is a proof of how spicy that wasabi was hahahha

Anyway, after this obstacle, the groom sang a song and wrote a love declaration which was rejected a few times hahaha before he got to receive his bride! so many obstacles to go through huh. haha but i guess it was all worth it to get the bride!

Pictures galore ahead!

Exchange of rings

The sisters

Change of clothes in preparation for tea ceremony!

Ahma looked so happy haha!

A beaming mother receiving her kisses from the bridal couple.

Candid shot- caught eating at the same time!

At night

I look....very stiff hahahaha

Yum.............Seng!

Not a lot of photos for this night, but its okay cos there was a second wedding dinner held in Penang a few days later! Took budget flight for the first time and its not too bad actually. Can consider taking it for short haul flights, save $$! Hahaha.

We were flying above the clouds!

As soon as we touched down, we went to the hotel to check in first since it was quite late alrdy. Went into my room and...

I actually got frightened by this

Hahahaha cos I was pretty excited when I entered the room (it's a suite, very big!) and I wanted to see the scenery outside since our room was at a high level (28th storey) but once I drew the curtain, the first thing I saw was my own reflection and I got a shock of my life!

And the best part is, my mum also had the same experience in her room! Lol, great minds think alike?

But anyway, the pic above is just for pose, to show you all the reflection only lol.

The bathtub has the jacuzzi function too! And I tried for the first time, foam bath! Hehe, it was so pampering, soaking yourself in the bathtub full of foam, like those ppl on TV, playing with the foam and everything haha!

Sea view from my mum's room!

I can see only part of the sea like this from my room but at least I can see sunrise every morning! :)

We went for food hunt the next day and the food there is good, esp the char kway teow! Haha, we ate a lot of that during our trip there!

Some coffee shops there still use this traditional stove to boil their coffee, cool huh. You won't see this in Singapore man.

Next day was the wedding!

There was a church ceremony in the morning, and being the bridesmaid, I had to walk down the aisle first.

I was so nervous during the walk cos we only had 1 rehearsal and during that rehearsal, I was using my slippers to practice! So scary to walk on heels and with everybody's gaze on you. I was 'ahh'-ing to myself as I walked lol! I still rmb the first time when I practiced the walk down the aisle, I was teased for walking too fast and shaking my hands too much, as if I was marching! Hahaha. And I will also never forget how my cheek muscles tremble as I struggle to smile when practicing the walk down the aisle haha, a truly memorable experience!

Ballroom dinner at night.

The venue was bigger and grander compared to Singapore's

and there was also a string quartet present to entertain us when we are eating!

I used to think that these multiple layers of cake are real. It's only now that I realised that the top layers are all fake except for the bottom layer. But it looks very real on the whole yea?

Spotlight and flashes

Pouring the champagne.

It's apple juice actually, guess you can tell from the colour haha. But in Singapore, we had champagne..its either the hotel ran out of champagne or we were under budget HAHAHA.

And this marks the end of the wedding dinner. We had a day's rest after that and used the opportunity to explore Penang further, visiting some tourist attractions etc.

We went to Penang hill and took a few pics there. Scenery shots there are not too bad.

The trail up the penang hill

scenery shots

The clouds are so pretty!

Last pic of the day: roadside stalls.

You wont find this in Singapore anymore too!

2009-12-03T19:13:00.011+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINYI AND DESMOND!!

You guys are finally legal!

It was a double birthday surprise for them haha. Vaish and me planned that when we opened the door of Desmond's house (I was with Des in his hse and Vaish and Sinyi were outside), they will wish each other happy birthday and get a surprise! Hahaha. It was quite tough planning cos I kept leaking the cat out of the bag a few times, such a spoiler haha. Luckily, they always didn't catch what I say so the surprise remains a surprise! :D

But Des is not a fun person to trick haha. He alrdy guessed that we would celebrate for him too when Vaish and me lied to him initially that we are only celebrating for Sinyi, so thick-skinned hor? No wonder the last time when we met up to buy the cake for Sinyi, he kept saying "Oh, I don't like coffee.. I also don't like fruits..." Tsk. Only Sinyi was truly surprised haha.

But the surprise was not entirely over yet! Heehee. Vaish and me alrdy foreseen that by the time Sinyi and Desmond wished each other happy birthday with the flame still burning in the candles, the candles would have melted so we bought RELIGHTABLE CANDLES to trick them! Hahaha.

We thought we could trick them but the candles gave itself away when sparks starting flying out from the candles as we light them. So spoiler can. I don't rmb seeing such sparks too when the trombone section surprised me with that the last time I celebrated my birthday. And then Sinyi said "these candles are those that cannot blow off is it?" Aiyo, our secret exposed! Haha but we continued to cover up, and divert their attention away from the candles.

They eventually knew though, when they realised the flame rekindled after blowing. I must say, the candles are rly lasting lol. The flame continued to flicker even when the candle was at its shortest. At one point, Vaish had to use the knife to out off the flame! Haha. And there was a lot of smoke! Which explains the smoky effect on the pictures haha. Oh yeah, and Sinyi's happy birthday sign caught fire as they attempt to blow off the candles hahahaha.

Blow candles blow

Sinyi suspecting...

The flame won't extinguish! hahaha

Desmond resorts to fanning away the flame hahahaha

Desmond still very enthusiastic in blowing away the candles hehe

Eventually the flames did extinguish, after much effort in blowing haha.
(digress) anyway, I just want to add on that Vaish and me got cheated of our relightable candles!!! We bought at a price of $2.20 per packet, only to realise that west plaza sells it at a cheaper price!! And it's MUCH MUCH CHEAPER CAN?!
they are selling at $1 per packet!!!

$1!!!

We paid more than 120% of the price can?! Hahaha sorry for being such an auntie, but I just can't stand it when I realised I could have saved $1.20 per packet grr.

Cake-cutting!

We avoided eating the first layer for both cakes cos it must have contained too much of saliva! hahaha.

Exchange of gifts.

Their gifts :)
They made a card for each other lol!

Meet up in January!!
In the meantime, Bon voyage and have a safe trip Sinyi and Vaish! :D

2009-06-10T15:37:00.005+08:00

Haha, the twitter post was supposed to be like below but it's not as nice as the above one right. Haha! I went to Atiqah's blog and saw that hers was nicer so I did the same thing too! This is quite fun! And you can post your entries on facebook too! The best thing is, you don't have to use the internet! Good for me to stay away from the ever-so-tempting laptop. Haha, but who knows, I may still be online checking ivle (lol), my mail or watching videos (NOOOOOO!)

2009-06-10T15:31:00.002+08:00

follow me on Twitter

2009-06-05T17:57:00.002+08:00

If I were some rich tai tai in America, I would just go to Warner Bros Studio everyday to watch the Ellen DeGeneres show cos the prizes to be won (if you're selected) is simply tooooooo attractive!!!

And I'm sorry to Vaish, Sinyi and those who tried to watch the non-kiss video below cos somehow it got copyrighted but if you have SCV, go watch the telecast on MTV channel. Think it's gonna be telecast today! (according to vaish) Haha.

2009-06-03T19:15:00.004+08:00

NEW MOON TRAILER!! MUST WATCH!! :D

And this is the HOTTEST NON-KISS I've ever seen hahahahaha

2009-06-01T19:08:00.005+08:00

My mum and I bought these, all at a price of $2.50!!

Unbelievable right?! But you have to believe it cos its true!!! Hahahaha

Okay, not like I got some treat from anybody but it was family day last Saturday and my mum got a lot of free coupons which included many many $3 food coupons, adding up to about $60? Haha! So we splurge it all for our lunch and dinner, with the remaining $2.50 to be paid ourselves! The picture above shows our dinner for that day! Very sumptuous right. But of course we didn't finish all the cookies. Still got a lot in the kitchen haha.

My dad didn't join us cos of work commitments so we went there on our own and it was super crowded! Took part in some lucky draw and I'm always not lucky at all. I always get all the cheapskate stuffs while my mum would always get what she wanted. Got to play cup-stacking game and it was very fun!!

I WANT TO BUY THOSE CUPS AND PRACTISE AT HOME!! :D and hopefully become a pro at it! Yay!

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Watched Camp Rock yesterday! I thought it was pretty mundane at first with all that bimbo sessions until Mitchie and Shane started singing! The songs are always the nicest part of all these disney shows! I think Shane (Joe Jonas) is good-looking while the rest of the Jonas Brothers were pretty amusing, with their non-stop bickering during their short air-time in the show. Demi Lovata looks very sweet too! Better than Tes omg. Why must there be always some bimbo blondes in every dsiney show? Lol.

2009-05-29T21:36:00.003+08:00

Starstruck!

Haha lately I have been very obsessed with stars! I was not very interested in AI at first until the top 3 performance where Kris Allen's rendition of 'Heartless' captured me. Woah his rendition of that song is rly great though I have not heard the original one yet lol! But i heard many said that the 2 versions are very different so yeap. And Randy prefered Kris's version! Yay. And then came the finals where his 'Aint No Sunshine' sounded so pitch perfect! Spectacular!

I wiki-ed him and realised that he has got so much more talent, knowing how to play the viola as well as the ukelele. He's also a business major, a church worship leader who goes to many countries for missionary work and also married! His life of 23 years so far seem so fufilling! He even self-released an album in 2007! So pro right. That's why I admire him a lot, but maybe not the married part haha cos he's like so young only.

Boys over flowers is also a very nice show to watch!! Thank god there's still this show for me to look forward to every sat since AI has ended. Pretty entertaining with many good-looking stars! I like both the violinist and the potterist(?) Haha, the one who does all the pottery la! It never fails to make me laugh every episode, for now. Haha, I dont know if it will become draggy later cos all korean shows seem to be like that but for now, it's still the beginning so it's nice to watch! If you haven't watch, you should try watching it. I'm sure you will like it!

2009-05-15T16:00:00.002+08:00

I have got 3 friends who are turning legal/ legal just recently!!

Yesterday was MAY's birthday!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAY!
I'm sorry I can't produce your card on time! Hopefully you will receive it by next week! And why why, you haven't invited me to go watch your very last concert with tj! Haha. Playing machu picchu somemore. Hahaha.

And today is CHAN's birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAN!
8 years of friendship and still counting! :D Think you should have received your present from Tricia and me by now. Hope you like it! We spent some time roaming round shopping malls to get the most ideal present for you, you know. Hahahaha. Have a great day ahead!

Finally, tmr it's VAISH's birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAISH!!
Wasn't our surprise great today? Haha. At least you didn't manage to suspect anything out of sinyi "shitting", me trying to delay time while sinyi and xingying were preparing to surprise you. Haha. One of the best birthday surprise! And you must use the pencilcase we give you on monday okay. Your old pencilbox is so old alrdy haha. Sinyi shall be the odd one out again with no billabong pencilcase!! Hahahahaha. Enjoy your brithday with the econs lecturer tmr! Lol.

Yeap thats all and see you!

2009-05-11T13:08:00.011+08:00

SYF 2009 -GOLD!

So SYF happened on the 6th may and we managed to clinch a gold! It was a remarkable feat for it marks the third consecutive gold in mjcsb history and I think we can get a sustained achievement award!

I rmb us having all the jitters, worrying about our performance and how we would have sounded to the adjudicators, discussing about what weird sound had been produced in the midst of our song. So much tension that we didnt even had the appetite to eat during lunch! Nonetheless, we are glad and relieved that we upholded the reputation of the band so hooray! :D

Despite of the tension, we still took a lot of photos lol!

This was when we were still worried sick. but soon later, we tried to forget about it and started taking more photos!

Trombones section 09!

all mesmerised by adzizul alrdy lol.

Norwin's signature pose!

And this is brasses'09!

Fake brown eyes vs. naturally brown ones

Lower brasses juniors

HAHAHAHAHA!

I sort of like this photo a lot!

It feels executive, like we are some businesswomen! and i like the way we lean against each other haha.

MAY!

Haven't seen her in such a long while! I was so glad she could spot me when she was all the way in front and I was at the back! So happy! Feels like we got chemistry haha! We chatted a bit and I met jin hong and gina and rachel yang too! It was pretty much a sad scene after that and it was awkward because having not seen her for so long and suddenly when we met, things have to happen.. but may you know you did your best! don't worry about the rest!

Trombones section with joel (brenda left)

We went back to school after that and I gave out my syf presents to them!

Nice right! Hahahaha! Although I feel I should have written From Amanda or ♥ Amanda haha.

Change out and lower brass went for a celebration dinner!!! We took such a long time figuring where to eat, all because of us laughing at malique's laughter hahahaha! It's so... how should i say it... unique and feels like a lot of air is needed to create that laugh! hahaha. I still can't master it until now! But never mind, I got a recording of his laughter, can always play and listen at anytime! :D

Yet another signature pose-- this time it's Malique's!

And Malique forgot how to use the chopsticks all of a sudden and hahaha he had some trouble picking up food esp his ever slippery udon!

YES FINALLY! he got some food into his mouth! hahahah!

HAHAHAHAHA at geraldine! look at the before when there was not much food and after where all the food came piling up at her! lol! her way of ordering was very simple, whatever we order, she will just go '' 1 more 1 more!" hahaha then the 1 more 1 more became A LOT MORE! hahahahaha

Look at the amount of food!

We ate till we were rly bloated!

In the end, geraldine came up with this cheaterbug way of placing all her udon and cha soba into the container for putting cha soba sauce! hahaha. next time the waiter should take away the container to prevent ppl like geraldine cheating to avoid the wastage fee! hahahah

but oh well, I've got to admit i'm no way better. Haha. Cos I couldn't finish my food either so I resort to my old trick of stuffing sushi rice in between the stack of plates which we have piled up. Hahaha, my usual 'trick' lol.

But hey, the second trick of mashing all the food into the bowl as seen above was not done by me! Haha, I think it was done by geraldine? We are so gng to be blacklisted by hei sushi lol.

Nonetheless, we still managed to finish all the food okay. Hahaha good job to us!

And this was how we reacted before and after the meal. I guess I can only put the "I love food" in the 'before' picture. haha!

In conclusion, it was a great experience to be with them for the dinner. And I'm so glad to have met all my juniors and lower brass batchmates esp malique who brought so much laughter to us with his weird laughter that kitmeng even thought that came from some streetfighter game! HAHA!

2009-05-05T01:58:00.002+08:00

CRAP. i spent so much time doing the online chem quiz and end up only with 8/20. damn. and its gonna constitute 5% of our next lecture test mark. great.

but i think i can only blame myself cos half the time i dont know what i was e-learning about. i felt so tired since the weekend. it feels like i'm not in earth, but at some lala land.

oh gosh. this is crap. i still cant accept the fact that i spent so much time flipping the lecture notes here and there only to get a pathetic 8. thanks ah.

i'm shagged. and i still have 1 more case study and 1 more essay plus chem tut. HOW TO FINISH?!

2009-04-19T00:15:00.001+08:00

kudos to me.

i actually managed to survive a day without talking and this is so horrible.

there's the urge to talk but nth comes out of my mouth and the max i could do was to whisper and thats all :(

the doctor even gave me a 5day MC from cca/pe!

gosh. this is serious matter.

he said if i try talking too much, i might rly lose my voice / my voice becomes hoarse!

i even have trouble eating/drinking now:(

it hurts whenever i drink/eat or even when i just want to swallow my saliva!

I WANT TO RECOVER SOON!!!!

2009-04-15T23:36:00.002+08:00

today was such a long day!

i spent 11 hours today at band, from 7am to 6pm.

out of which 7 hours was combined

shagged!

couldn't take it when i was having combined in school

i kept dozing off at parts where i need not play

and even coming in late for my parts

but sigh who ask me to sleep at 2 the day earlier

so it's my fault.

but now i dont feel that tired anymore

and i need to do my physics

oh! and we had a part2 bday celebration for jannah today

part1 was ytd which was her actual bday too

but it was quite a failure and all

cos we wanted to celebrate in the afternoon but she got to sit in for exco09 interview until 7 plus!!!

and the balloon for her BURST!

melchia was so nice to buy back the exact balloon

and we gave it to her today plus the cake.

we gave her flowers ytd.

okay, this post is getting boring.

i will take photos from jannah and peiqi and post up next time

next time. haha i hope i will post!

till then i shall do my physics.

and tmr is gng to be another looong day.

school,remedial,band,tuition. how nice.

2009-04-04T01:01:00.002+08:00

I think the uncle in my sch's chinese rice stall is pretty good in judging people!

I went to the stall for lunch today (theoretically ytd based on the time now lol) after school ended and we had a mini conversation.

Uncle: Girl, so late still have lessons?

Me: Yeah, I still got CCA.

Uncle: Ooh. What CCA? band ar?

Me: OMG! how you know?!

Uncle: Haha cos you got the band face

LOL! oh wow, I actually have a 'band' face! no wonder all my lookalikes (ms peck and ms tan) are all band ppl and to be more specific, trombonists too!

And it turns out that the uncle was a band member during his pri sch days too! Amazing huh, he can still rmb about his band days in pri sch where he had to drill under the scorching sun etc.

He was a frenchhornist!

But it seems that all my friends to him are band ppl haha cos hoon and peiqi were with me when I approached him again after my lunch to talk more about band stuff and he said both got the 'band face'. Haha hoon's not in band! But at least uncle's still quite accurate cos he said peiqi got more of the 'band face' compared to hoon haha!

I never knew band ppl actually had a 'band face' lol!

I still find it very amusing even now!

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Now for random stuffs

1. Soccer match today between mj and jj. 3-0 WE WON!

2. Peiqi forgot when's my birthday when I rmb when's hers! :(

3. Came back from dinner with band ppl quite a while ago and in less than 12 hours I will be meeting them in school again!

2009-03-16T19:00:00.002+08:00

Hey!

Haven't been blogging in a loooong while!!

But yet now I'm here, I realise I have nth to blog about!

My life has been pretty mundane lately..

Guess it's just the weather problem?

Oh well, today is the start of hols

But it's definitely not gonna be a break for me

Cos there are mbts to study for

And i just had my gp exam today

So jiayou jiayou!!

Even though I had no mood to study today

Which I can't fathom why

I feel like blogging about my flyer experience I had early last month

But it's getting late and I shan't use the laptop too much

I'm trying to curb myself

And hopefully it will work

So till then!

Byebye!

2009-02-23T18:16:00.002+08:00

I guess it is just not very auspicious to welcome readers to the "TODAY IS FRIDAY THE 13TH" post and what more with a song, titled 'I hate this part'.

All these negative connotation must have cost me all the downfall these few days.

The past few days have been bad ever since I have typed this entry goodness. And I was still so happy that nth happen to me on that day! Grr. I had better watch my words the next time round and not blabber nonsense.

So lets see.. the start of this bad luck thing happened on total defence day. It was a sunday, and early in the morning, I started having this flu non-stop for nearly half a day! It was so horrible! Once you start sneezing, you can never stop! I used packets after packets of tissue and kept blowing my nose! It did stop for a while, but after that it went on again and continued until late at night. I had a slight fever later at night but still went to sch the next day.

Because of this flu and slight fever, plus me being out the entire day on valentines day and total defence day, I was unable to find time to study for my chem test, which resulted in a disastrous mark of 20%!!!! I still rmb myself sneezing away in the freezing lt doing the chem test! Nothing good happens when you are down and out. My mind was in a blank when I did the paper. Nothing came across my mind! Even a simple mechanism can also make me stare at the paper for such a long time!

I managed to recover by Wednesday sort of. Okay, maybe the rest of the days were still okay except for Saturday! It was a bad bad day. Mainly because:

1. I didn't get my medal. Oh well. I was still far from the top 20. My position was 41. The run was not my best I know cos during trial runs in sch, I came in 3rd yet eventually, the 1st,2nd and even the 4th runner for that trial got their medals except for me. The main reason I felt for this lacklustre run was mainly due to demoralisation because I kept thinking that the end was nearing. It was so near yet so far. Many slopes to run up and down, and many hopes were dashed too when reality dawned on me that the end was just not anywhere near after I had finished each slope. Fatigue overcame me too because I tried so hard at the beginning to outrun groups of runners into empty spaces for me to run freely. And for don't know what reason, pussycat doll's 'I hate this part' keep playing in my mind!

I can't take it any longer
Thought that we were stronger
All we do is linger
Slipping through my fingers

I don't want to try now
All that's lefts goodbye to
Find a way that I can tell you

I hate this part right here
I hate this part right here
I just can't take your tears
I hate this part right here

It was so different from the trials in school but oh well. It's over so I shall not dwell on it.

But hey, I was supposed to be position 40 if not for someone who tucked my sleeve towards the very end of the race, and grabbed the number tag from the student helper first even though the teacher had alrdy said 'green before blue'. I'm the green and she was the blue. Yet she had to be so thick-skinned to quickly grab the position number from me. How very kiasu of her. And look, we are now talking about 40/41 position and not 20/21 okay. If it was for the latter, we might just end up in some catfights but 40/41?!

For those who do not know the story, it actually goes like this.

I was nearing the finish line, and when I passed by the first student helper at the end of the race, I stopped, just like any other runners, cos I thought you don't have to run anymore. But the teacher told us that we still have to run further in to take our position number from one of the student helpers ahead. So I ran, but this callisto girl, perhaps miffed by me overtaking her because she had reached the so called 'finish' line earlier than me, started pulling my sleeve and actually tried to stop me from advancing!

How unethical! Yes she may have reached the 'finish' line earlier but all is not over until you get your position number! The teacher clearly said that it was green before blue yet this stupid green girl, being so thick-skinned, stretched out her arm first to take the position number. And the student helper gave her too!

Don't ask me why I never ask her for my position number back. I just felt that all this was not very necessary since it does not guarantee me a medal anyway, and I was too shagged then to fight with her. Hope she feels guilty about this. But I bet she won't since she is so thick-skinned. She probably felt that it was just to pull my sleeve and take the position tag first.

The most idiotic thing was she even got a medal for her cca, under the non-sports category and I feel that it's very unfair cos her cca is not considered non-sports to me at all. So what if you have a 'club' there at the end? The regimes that you all carry out during curriculum time are comparable to the sports cca. It just gives you all the advantage during road race esp for the cca category. I think the 1st and 3rd went to this particular cca I shall not name but yeah you get it.

All this is based on my assumption of who the girl is. Because there were 2 blue girls in front of me taking their position number so I forgot who was the girl who tucked my sleeve actually. But I know it was number 40 who took my place away. So no. 40, just your luck to pull my sleeve. You should be thankful that you had not met some AL or else....

AND MY MISFORTUNE DOES NOT END HERE

Went with the class to pastamania for lunch later on, and this waiter accidentally tilted the plate of pasta he was serving to karynL and the pasta sauce spilled all over my phone!!

I thought it was okay at first. Like just some spills, wipe it off and it will be okay. But later when my mum called, I couldn't hear clearly what she was saying to me. It was as if she was very far away from the receiver. I thought it was the home phone problem cos she was the one who called me. So I decided to call her back and yet the sound still seemed so far away.

So I took the phone away from my ear, intending to increase the volume of my phone to see if I could hear my mum clearer when suddenly I realised there was still pasta sauce and some of it had alrdy entered into the small lil holes of the speaker!!!!!

Frantic, and actually praying hard that it was not the pasta sauce that caused all the distant sounds etc, I used sinyi's phone to call my mum and it turned out to be very clear. Which means... AHHHHH! The apologetic worker kept asking me how was the phone but I was alrdy very frustrated, like why is this happening to my phone etc. It's not the first time my phone had encountered such problems. The previous time, my phone had been bugged by a virus contracted from a photoshop outside when I connected the shop's usb cable to my phone.

Just my luck seriously. And of all times, my phone had to keep ringing at the time when i can't hear what my callers are trying to say. My dad and mum both called and asked about my position for road race which is very frustrating then because 1. i didn't get a medal, 2. i got pulled on the sleeve from a competitor and 3. pasta sauce is spilled all over my phone. I was not in the mood to answer their questions.

Thankfully, the waiter offered to pay for my servicing so it's not so bad. I'm glad he took the initiative because I felt he is obliged to do so.

But the worst is still not over.

I went to Simei to fix my phone only to hear from the worker that there is only 50-50 chance of my phone being repaired. Because spills are rather fatal to a phone and if the pasta sauce had spread to my motherboard, the entire phone will spoil and it will be cased as BEYOND REPAIR. damn it!

For now, I can only pray that my phone will be alright if not I don't know how is that waiter gng to compensate me. Even if he is willling to get me a new phone, it will definitely cost a bomb cos my plan is not up and I can tell he is pretty hard-up cos he actually wanted me to wait till next month then go with him to repair my phone -.-

Imagine what will happen if I had waited till March to repair my phone? confirm beyond repair!

I pray for my sake and the waiter's sake so he need not get me a new phone that my W850i will be alright!

Please do, will you? Stay strong, my phone!

(To keep my blog auspicious, I shall go change my song too and avoid all song titles with negative connotations.)

2009-02-13T14:53:00.002+08:00

TODAY IS FRIDAY THE 13TH!

Thank goodness nth bad has happened to me yet hahahaha but the day is still not over so I had better watch my words haha!

We had an early valentines day gifts exchange today! Pretty fun but i feel very guilty esp to those that i didnt manage to give cos i have not enough goodie bags for them!!!!

But a BIG THANK YOU to those who have given presents to me! They are all very nice and I love them very much!

Took pictures of them but I realised the digicam cable is not at home so I can't post -.-

I will post soon!

And in fact I still owe my blog my birthday celebration part II and I didn't blog about cny too. Oh no. Too many things to blog but I will do that another time. No mood to upload photos now lol.

Okay I shall end my post here.

HAPPY (early) VALENTINES DAY TO ALL!

2009-02-06T15:29:00.004+08:00

*NOTE: MY BIRTHDAY POST HAS ALREADY BEEN EDITED. ACTUALLY THAT IS PART I. WILL BLOG ABOUT PART II SOON!*

School has been pretty okay recently!

Just like ytd we had a talk about the budget by mr donald lo from the MOF. then later in the day, we had a MBTI talk about our personality type so cool!

And then today, xingying brought her polaroid camera to school!

And we tried taking a photo with it!

omg. the camera is so cool! I want to own one too one day!

she bought it for $30+ somemore!

i'm sososososo jealous! HAHAHAHA.

okay, i should go do some work now before leaving for band later, byebye!

2009-02-01T19:56:00.002+08:00

Today is 初七 which means its everyone's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!!

i will post up cny and my birthday photos soon!

STAY TUNED!

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2009-01-30T15:04:00.013+08:00

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!

HAHA i just came back from lunch with my parents and it was great! sinful though hahaha. we had A LOT of ice-cream! the set lunch that we ate came with an ice-cream. I had a firehouse and my parents ordered 2 gold rush. The tables were full with ice-cream! HAHAHAHA.

Vaish and sinyi celebrated my birthday in school today too!

Yay! I got a new yellow levis wallet!

Pictures are with Vaish cos I didn't bring my digicam for fear of having too much hope that my birthday will be celebrated. I don't like to see my high hopes dashed you see lol. They bought me a cake and a card too! And thank you desmond for sharing my birthday present too! Somehow I also felt a little awkward about the birthday cake cos the class celebrated for me but I didnt give them any cake which did make me feel guilty cos for janice and karyn birthday everyone had a slice of cake. But my cake was a tad too small for the entire class so yeah didn't give and I hope they wont mind about it.

haiyo. see. qianqian so hungry until want to eat my hair lol.

So yeap and daddy came straight away after school to fetch me for the lunch which made me feel like sinyi who is so pampered, always have her chauffeur daddy around hahahaha.

Later there will be dinner with my family and my paternal relatives which means we are gng to eat a lot and there will be another birthday cake!

The dinner

My paternal relatives. Quite small right. But one of my uncles and cousin not inside. Okay it doesnt make much difference anyway lol.

Meiyi jie jie and me. She is actually muchh older than me. But don't look like right? Haha!

Dishes we took that day

My ahma eating. So cute!

My birthday cake! :D

HAHAHAHA now you see all the candles lighted up. After this photo, a lot of things will be happening to my cake hahahaha

See my shocked face? As I was singing my birthday song, I notice some of my candles have been extinguished. See, the candles on the right no more flame alrdy.

THEN..
just as i was about to blow off the candles after making my wish (my family told me to blow off the candles asap), the door opened (we were seating near the entrance), and whoosh! a strong wind passed by and
THE WIND EXTINGUISHED ALL THE FLAME ON

MY CANDLES!!!

AHHHHH!

then okay never mind, my parents decided to relight the candles while i make my wish for THE SECOND TIME

and then just as i was about to blow off my candles again, the door opened and my candles GOT EXTINGUISHED AGAIN!!!!!

AGAIN!!!! OMG. WHY ARE ALL THE CUSTOMERS LEAVING/ENTERING JUST WHEN I WANT TO BLOW OFF MY CANDLES?!! IS IT THAT DIFFICULT TO JUST WAIT FOR A FEW SECONDS!!!

see, my heart got crushed again. second time still cannot blow leh!!!

(i know i'm putting my image at risk here cos the 2 photos above are super ugly but i just want to show you guys how sad i was okay. lol. and i thought my expression was funny anyway HAHAHAHA can bring some entertainment value to my readers lol!)

and then finally at the 3rd attempt, after the relighting and making of wish,

I MANAGED TO BLOW OFF THE CANDLES!

HIPHIPHOORAY!! AT LONG LAST!

Happy me posing for the camera(:

All the exercising in the past week have all gone to waste lol. After my birthday celebration gotta start running and burn off all the fats hahahaha!Speaking of which, I told evonne today that I wanna take part in the team road race for band. haha. there's evonne, azrul, wengsiong and nizam in the team too. hopefully we can win!

Today is not only my birthday but also my mei mei (haha!) Abigail's birthday! I also rmb during primary school, I have friends like Ashwhinie and Er Shi Hui who also have the same birthday as me. I managed to keep in contact with Ashwhinie through facebook haha but I have lost contact with shihui which is quite a pity. But i do know that she joins the same ballet class as my junior before. And then in secondary school, fahjin also has the same birthday as me! So many people i know have the same birthday as me hor? Even the mediacorp artiste Bryan Wong's birthday also the same day as mine! but i dont know him of course lol!

And today is also a very significant day!

1. it's sec 4 posting results today! i hope my juniors will get into the school of their first choice!

2. there's chingay today!

3. today is the last day where the entire mjc will belong to my batch. no more having the entire canteen to us. no more short queues for canteen food(doesnt affect me much since i hardly buy anyway lol) no more having the homeroom to us and no more leaving our bags in class alrdy!!! plus! no more peace in school!

Today is such an important day HAHAHAHAHA!

2009-01-26T03:04:00.003+08:00

HAPPY 牛 YEAR!

Had a reunion dinner at my aunty's place just now. it was a cosy affair, the 10 of us sitting round the table, having steamboat. No pictures with me yet cos i forgot to bring the camera!! :(

BUT! I will try to get it from my cousin asap. And this teaches me a lesson that I should ensure my camera is always with me each time I go on my visiting spree for the next two days lol.

There was also a piece of good news being announced today over the reunion dinner!!

MY COUSIN IS GETTING MARRIED AT THE END OF THIS YEAR!!!

Hooray! I'm gonna get an additional angpao next year! HAHAHAHAHA. that's such a greedy thought of mine. But I'm truly happy for her cos there has never been a wedding held ever since I was born! Which meant that the last wedding that we had in the family was in fact MY PARENTS one?! So I'm extremely happy that I get to attend a wedding dinner at last, at the age of 18 oh my goodness hahaha.

I bet it's gonna be a pretty great one cos my cousin's husband (do i address him as uncle once he is part of the family?) promised to give my cousin a grand wedding! So sweet right~ And they planned to have the wedding at the end of this year so that I can finish my exams first :D Can't wait for the wedding! It's gonna be held in Singapore and Penang which means 2 wedding dinners at one go! Yay!

I'm not sure if I'm gonna be the flower girl/ bridesmaid hahaha. I might be doing both in the end hahaha and I'm supposed to help my cousin with all the preparation like picking up the end of her gown( if it's a very looooong type of gown), make-up(which i don't know haha!) etc. I think I will be very tired at the end of the wedding if I had to do so many things! But I guess it will be all worth it. anyway, wedding is only once in a lifetime(:

Yay happy happy! Tmr my uncle is going to make my favourite agar agar with brown sugar!! YAY!!!!

2009-01-23T13:16:00.015+08:00

CNY CELEBRATION!

The God of Fortune came to visit us!

Mini pink lion dance performance!

In class~

Sinyi's photos not bad hor. Hahahaha.
We celebrated birthdays for Karyn and Janice!

Birthday girls(:

Orh-ce kia should be tam-jia-kia alrdy lol!

Check out our notice board! Though we may not have won, at least there was some effort put in. Credit goes to the girls in class only hahahaha, and mostly credit to Sinyi and Vaish for helping!

Some upclose pictures on the board
Welcome to the year of the ox!

Piggy sleeping on the fence lol.

Haha I purposely put the flower in front of the sheep. Looks like the sheep is looking at the flower right? Haha!

Monkey climbing up the tree

And we pasted cows and milk bottles like this on the walls all around the classroom! Even the clock has a cow in the middle too!

First attempt at class photo, camera 'sang-act' lol.

2nd attempt! better but forgot karyn and ethel not inside the photo!

3rd attempt, multi-shot! but I'm gonna post 2 photos only haha!
desmond says i look like i'm gng to slap him hahahaha!

New Year Performance~

Mr Lye playing the sop sax! I prefer the one chung cheng has cos it has the exact shape of the saxophone but in a smaller size. it's so cute!!! nevertheless, mr lye is a great player!! he's very pro and has a lot of air!!

Vaish performing for cny! no coconut trees, only got cloth going round the girls' waists lol.

Mr Wong sang 说好的幸福呢. very nice! i didn't expect him to sing so well initially!

As usual, we have the chemistry brothers! This time no chem concept in the lyrics, only motivational words in between the lyrics. Penned by Mr Lau, the singer for this rendition!

Arm wrestling. Lin pei damn hiong lol

Haha but too hiong doesnt mean will win lol. maybe use too much strength alrdy then towards the end punctured alrdy lol.

Haha these 2 teachers are so funny! An Arm wrestling game turned out to be some kiddish thumbs game for them lol! But they still wrestled in the end and the teacher in red won!

Look at their sizes, sure know who win right? BUT! it was Mrs Pang who had won in the end! my sixth sense tells me that they must have cheated! HAHAHAHAHA.

ROUND 2 !

It's the woman vs woman

and the man vs man.

FINAL ROUND!

Winner is the male teacher!

Challenge between the winner and meridians. Shiva won him! POWER~

That's all for cny celebrations! There seems to be a lot of pictures lol.

And please help me click on my ads thanks a lot!!

2009-01-15T18:44:00.003+08:00

just 2 days and my resolution had been broken. i have been late twice this week!

omg. mrs lim said if we were to be late for more than 3 times in each term, we will have to be sent for counselling!

and this is only the first week -.-

i'm so dead. but its my fault. who ask me to sleep somemore when i'm supposed to change into my uniform. i ended up rushing through everything and had to pay $2 for the sch badge when i obviously have one but forgot to put on. ahhhh.

STOP BEING SO TARDY AMANDA KIONG YEN HUA!

on a sidenote, i've grown taller! not. ahh. i really hope i did grew okay.

today's pe lesson had height and weight measurement where there's this new equipment in sch which measures your height and weight at the same time. so like any other student, i stepped on the machine, and didnt actually hope so much for myself to grow since i have not been growing in quite a while (does fluctuating heights consider growing for the past few years?)

suddenly, i saw a 1.60 cm flashing on the small screen in front of me! i was so elated! but sinyi and vaish kept saying its because of my currypok hair -.-

and after that i realised many ppl were complaining about the machine not accurate, that they shrank 1 or 2 cm etc. AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS SO HAPPY ABOUT MY HEIGHT. ahhhhhh!!! AND THEY KEPT SAYING MY CURRYPOK HAIR HELP ME GROW 1,2 CM TALLER! NOOOOOOOO!!!

let me be in self-denial. all this can't be true right? i'm rly 160 cm, just that the rest did shrunk right? you never know! when i was in chung cheng, my height kept fluctutating and it was so depressing. well yes, i did blame the machine for being inaccurate, but I KNOW THE MACHINE THAT I TOOK TODAY MUST HAVE BEEN ACCURATE. hahahahaha.

its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate its accurate

IT'S ACCURATE!! hahahahaha

some other events; dr william tan came down to sch and gave us a pretty inspiring talk! it had been his 3rd time visiting our college. and we finally got our annual album today too but i dont look nice in the class photo yucks.

2009-01-12T19:17:00.003+08:00

So today was the first day of school. didnt kick off a great start for me cos i was late on the first day of school! omg. what a start to the first day of school. i thought my card wont be scanned since he said that he will give us a chance -.-

but overall its pretty fine for the entire day even though we ended at 415. good thing is that i only have to reach sch at 915 on wednesdays!!! great! but i can't be late again!

my new year resolution: not to be late for school anymore. hahahaha.

i know its a bit late but i just want to set resolutions along the way and see if it will be fulfilled haha. hopefully it does!

and today is the release of 'O' level results! i hope my juniors did well! didn't dare to ask them cos i want to respect their privacy(: but i do hope they can get into the college/poly of their choice(:

somehow i was also very afraid for them. for no reason why. i started counting down for them, imagining them in the sch hall, the anxiety and tension filling up the grand audi.. it's rly scary. i wonder how did i survive last year when i was waiting for my results.

so yeap thats all i've got to post for today. and pet society on facebook is pretty fun to play! hahahahaha.

2009-01-01T23:46:00.002+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hope everyone had an awesome countdown!

Well the year 2009 didn't start off with a big blast for me though.

I was supposed to go Marina Barrage you see for the countdown but my parents were very hesitant due to many factors like no where to park the car, how to walk to Marina Barrage, got so many ppl how etc etc. So in the end we decided to head down to Vivo instead which thankfully we did because my aunt went to Marina Barrage but got chased by the guards as the entire place is FULL!

However, the fireworks at Vivo were not good at all! :( They were small and faraway. You can only see a few sparks and that was so sad! Because we made an effort to go there (We parked our car at Farrer Park and took an MRT down to Harbourfront) and all we ended up with was that few sparks -.-

And it was so difficult to go to the rooftop! There were guards at each escalator level and they will only allow a small group of people to go up to the next level at each time so as to prevent crowding. We took so long to the reach the rooftop because there were SO MANY PEOPLE AND THE QUEUE TO GO UP TO EACH LEVEL IS TREMENDOUSLY LONG. ohmygoodness. It was so difficult to go up and it is so squeezy that you have to breathe into other people and it's not very pleasant all the time..

So anyway, this afternoon I met up with my another aunty's family and we had lunch. Afterwhich we went to her house where I spent the entire afternoon playing mahjong hahaha.
My ahma is fantastic! She kept winning and thank goodness we didn't play with money. But in any case, I don't even know how to count the $$. And we were playing those very basic mahjong with no tai and all that haha.

Then it was dinner and chat and then home sweet home(:

Hope everyone had a fantastic day today and may there be a great year ahead for all of us out here!

2008-12-31T16:31:00.003+08:00

EDITED!

I've decided to edit this post cos I thought I should be more specific to show how important/great/fun 2008 had been for me. I think 2008 was simply one of the best years I've ever had! There were so many firsts that happened in my life and it was great!

1. First time I entered jc with no fixed classroom where all of us had to move around the school after each lecture/tutorial.

2. First time having a large scale orientation like MMM where we had to run round Singapore to play games!

3. First time I joined band where I had one whole part to myself and no shifting of seats after playing each song.

4. First time I ever used a cup mute/plunger (HAHAHAHA!) for trombone playing.

5. First time I performed as an alumni for Variants IV.

6. First time performing at the Botanic Gardens for band performance.

7. First time having an exchange with Japanese musicians.

8. First time joining a Sudoku competition.

9. First time going to Japan and whatmore for an exchange!

10. First time playing golf for pe elective.

11. First time doing a massive whole year project work on fish therapy.

12. First time studying economics.

13. First time sadly to say that I've flopped so many subjects :(

There were so many firsts in my life in 2008. There were time of fun and times of sadness. But 2009 has come and it's time to move on and I hope it will be a much better year ahead(:

It's the last day of 2008! And most probably I should be down to Marina Barrage for countdown this year!

Looking back at 2008, it has certainly brought back numerous memories. From the time when I entered junior college, so many things have happened and I've had a lot of fun. From orientations to camps to band performances and even the recent Japan trip! There was so much fun in jc, well except for the fact that I really really have to pull up my socks for the upcoming year as I predict it will be a tough ride ahead. But all will be good when it's over(:

And of course not forgetting the first ever Sudoku competition I've joined this year. It was extremely memorable as I had never expected myself to go that far. Hopefully, I can go even further next year when the competition is on again! Get a trophy and win more moneyyyy!!!

A lot of new friends have been made despite the fact that there were many chung cheng-ians around in mj. But believe it or not, I actually do make new chung cheng friends in mj. How weird is that! Lol. Maybe chung cheng is rly that big. And I like mjband a lot. Because most of my new friends are made from there and they are a bunch of hilarious people! Our favourite hobby? CAMWHORING!! haha! Well pictures are good actually as they provide you with memories of the past and I'm sure they are all happy ones(:

Which is why I feel I must do well for my MBT next year because I wanna participate in the last major event we will have next year. The SYF.

Another believe it or not. I actually watched a record of 14 movies this year, which is quite a feat. My highest record I believe. Okay the number may not be very outstanding for movie-goers but to me it does! Because fyi, I only watched a pathetic 2 movies last year. Oh, and this 14 movies is not inclusive of the 2 I've watched on the plane gng and coming back from Japan! o.O

2008-12-29T14:29:00.005+08:00

I went to DHS band concert ytd !

Well the concert was not too bad. They played pieces like phantom and and DEEP PURPLE MEDLEY!!! I was so excited when they played this song! But it was not the entire band playing, only a few sections. I personally preferred the Meiden's version though heh.

The people playing deep purple medley

The harpist. I never know you have to tilt the harp to play it! I thought all you had to do is to just reach out your hands for it and pluck the strings lol. You can't blame me okay haha cos I hardly get to see a harpist during a band concert idk why.

The bass trombonist was very loud during the concert! Can hear him so clearly!

But he puff a lot hahahahaha.(the one on the right and it was the best i could take of him)

And one funny thing! There was one time during a song I heard the drumset but I couldn't locate where the drumset was! So kaiyi and me kept searching the stage for the drumset and kaiyi finally saw it!

Can see?

Is this clearer? HAHAHAHAHA!

So poor thing right! Got hidden by the trumpeter in front. Cannot recognise her talent leh hahahahahha.

Then it was intermission. And Tricia, Kaiyi and me went to meet up with the performer whom we have gone down to support!!

Candice!

Group shot(:

You know usually after a concert, people will always say 'encore!' that kind of thing? And usually there will always be a suspense before the conductor comes out right? For this concert, we only said encore like 2, 3 times then the conductor came out alrdy! Haha!

They self-played 'Stand by me' and a Hokkien song which i don't know what is it without the conductor after the encore before the concert officially ended.

And then it was supper time where I bought my ice-cream and tricia 'da-pao' back and kaiyi bought her pancake. Guess we are gna meet up again sometime next year(:

2008-12-25T01:48:00.004+08:00

Hey I'm back again!

Hahaha I was just thinking Christmas is here, how could I leave this blog without any pictures of christmas trees? So tada!

Many many christmas trees, out of which about half are from Japan, half from Singapore. And there are 2 exact same trees there just that it looks different during daytime and nighttime (hint is quite obvious right) Haha!

And oh, I love this picture a lot!

It looks nice, ain't it? The background looks so fake like it was some wallpaper for us to take pictures with hahaha. But it's so pretty!!!!

2008-12-25T00:55:00.003+08:00

HOHOHO!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry christmas everybody! This year was spent with my family, which I thought was special. It was nothing much though, just a simple dinner, watching the lightings at Orchard road and then home sweet home. Nonetheless, it was still great because afterall, it's my first time celebrating with only my family for christmas!

As far as I can rmb, I've been gng to my aunty's place every christmas except for the last 2 years where I've been celebrating with the trombonists. And everytime when I'm at my aunty's place, it's pretty er.. boring? yeah like it's the festive season I should be hyped up and all that.. but the place is full of adults as in those ppl there are like at least 12 years my senior. or if not there will be kids who are too small for me to talk to. So everytime I go there, it's just not very fun actually except the unwrapping gifts session(:

This year's celebrations made me feel torn a little though. My aunt didnt celebrate xmas this year for the second time so i was free to choose who i wanna celebrate with. As usual, there was the trombonist xmas gathering. but my class also wanted a celebration and my parents want a mini celebration too since we are not gng down to my aunty's place. it was rly tough for me but of course i opted to celebrate with my parents in the end(:

And hooray, I've done some shopping at cotton on too! So happy!

2008-12-21T14:47:00.006+08:00

Hello people! Christmas is coming and I have not finished blogging about Japan trip! And so I have decided to put pictures of my daily events into collages so that it will be faster! I will leave pictures to do the talking yea?

Meiden.Meridian.Moichido Part III Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Overall, Japan trip was indeed fun and I enjoyed myself a lot! Food is great, people are nice and the scenery is beautiful! I do wish to go down to Disneyland again. There were too many people that time! And with time constraint, I could not venture to all the shops and play all the rides. Oh, and I want to go Disneysea too if I'm gng to Japan the next time! :D

2008-12-18T13:11:00.010+08:00

Meiden. Meridian. Moichido Part III! Day 3

Breakfast in the morning! (donuts inside haha)

Shopping in the morning!

we look like twins here!

Afterwhich, put down our stuffs, picked up our present for Meiden which we spent a whole night doing the day before, and off we go to Meiden!

The present for Meiden trombonists!

Meiden trombonists brought us for a walk at a park near their school

Kawaii Aki!

Aki playing with all the maple leaves!

Airi and Michi playing at the playground

Meiden Meridian trombonists!

We passed them their present too!

Cute japanese child we saw at the park

In return, they bought each of us snacks too!

Went back and we played games like king kong kang kong and the 'seh no' game. And we introduced them the chop chilli chop game hahaha

Jannah picked up this :O maple leaf!

Our first dinner provided by Meiden.

The Japanese can really eat! Within minutes, all the guys, even the girls swept the entire bowl clean! Not a single grain of rice is left! I felt so stressed eating, and I even had to swallow all the onions which I don't like so as to keep the bowl clean and empty at the end. Lol.

Played a few more rounds of games and we went back to Ryokan.

Vanilla ice-cream! It's yummy!

Pardon the messy room haha. We were trying to pack our luggage since we had to leave for Tokyo soon then haha.

And tada, that marks the end of day 3 !

2008-12-16T11:56:00.013+08:00

Hello! I'm here to continue on the Japan trip!

Meiden.Meridian.Moichido Part III Day 2

We went to this mall (I think it's called Osu?) for shopping in the morning.

The hats match with our clothings yea? Lol.

This milk tea is nice(:

We went to a temple after that and took some nice pictures

Peiqi and me continued walking after that and we saw an entire flock of birds on the ground!

But! the birds were scary! I wanted to get closer to the birds but just as I stepped forward the entire flock flew over me and Peiqi! Ohmygosh. Our very first instinct was to squat down and scream! So embarassing! Everyone was looking at us and it happened to us TWICE!

See. The lady in red is also very scared. That lady in red is not me okay lol.

Enough of the birds. So I think we walked to another temple so more pictures of the temple! :D

Went back to Ryokan to put down our stuffs and we left for Meiden. This time on our own, taking the subway there. So it was like from Kamimaezu to Sakae then transfer at Sakae to go to Ikeshita.

On the subway (:

From Ikeshita, it was a 1km walk from the station to the school

Some photos while walking~A lot of cables....

Cute car!

Jap taxis. Fyi all taxi drivers in Japan have to wear a uniform. Cool huh.

Reached Meiden and we had sectionals. Afterwhich, ito sensei conducted us for a while before we went back into our self-practise. Had a mini combined too. Without a conductor LOL.
Mine and Peiqi's cute socks!

And we left in the evening for our dinner! Dinner was near Ikeshita station, at this pasta restaurant.

Jiayun and me

Jolyn and He bei

Jiayun, peiqi and me shared this 2 pastas. Can't rmb what was the first one but the second one is curry pasta and it's not bad!

After dinner, we shopped at some store before buying our breakfast at Mister Donut!

Before I end this post, I shall post up another collage for events of day2 !

Will continue about day 3 in the next post!

2008-12-15T09:21:00.015+08:00

HELLO FRIENDS!

I'M BACK FROM JAPAN!

Actually, I came back on Wednesday the 10th. Heh. I was just too lazy to blog for the past few days. Have been too preoccupied with looking and commenting photos on facebook though. lol. But i decided i had better blog now if not it will be like in july when Iwas too busy and hardly ever blog about meiden stuffs haha. so for today, i shall talk about day 0 and day 1 !

Meiden.Meridian.Moichido Part III! Day 0

Daddy and Mummy came with me to the airport to send me off! Had dinner there and when I reached the meeting place, I realised my luggage was ultra big compared to the others! Peiqi said I was going to bring my entire house there -.- Haha and Jannah said I can be contorted to fit into my luggage! OMG.

Is it really that outrageously big? Not really right? Okay maybe I'm in self-denial haha but at least it was easy for me when I came back! HAHA!

The excos were pretty busy in settling the instruments stuff so in the meanwhile I took pictures with my papa and mama!

Finally it was time to check-in! And once we got through the check-in (i felt so suaku using the new check-in machine LOL), we started taking pictures!

T3 has the disney feel~ Reminds me of disneyland which I will blog at a later part. Pictures from Sharyn and Kin Hang and many others will also be blogged at a later time too!

Before boarding the plane, Vaish called to wish me well! So sweet of her! It was alrdy quite late like 12 plus in the morning but she rmb I was leaving on that day so she called! :D:D

The J.A.P, that is Jannah,Me and Peiqi in case readers here dont know haha. We happened to sit side by side! So cool right! But because our seat letters were B,C and D, Jannah and Peiqi were seperated by the aisle. So it was me and Jannah, then the aisle, then Peiqi lol. Jiayi was sitting next to me though.

We were off to Japan next and it was so nice taking a night flight! I could see the stars at night and catch sunrise in the morning! Too bad the sun didn't rise at my side but there are some nice pictures taken from the window view at my area:)

Can see mountains too! (those are mountains right?)

Meiden.Meridian.Moichido Part III! Day 1

After a 7 hours ride on the plane, we reached Japan!

Mr Kajiyama and another lady came to welcome us and they even hired a bus for us so that we can bring all our stuffs to Ryokan, the place we will stay for the next 6 days.

Can you see the ETC above? That is like the ERP in Singapore but it's waaaaaay more expensive! Each time you pass the gantry, you will have to pay SGD $10! Even hiring a bus can also be very expensive in Japan! It costs about SGD $500 to hire a bus! Meiden is so generous and we are so fortunate!

This is the J.A.P room (got pun here lol!)

First meal in Japan!

Afterwhich, we went to Meiden! Took a coach there since we have all the instruments with us and tada! After 5 months, we met up with each other again! And the new Meiden building look so gorgeous!

The japs brought us round their school and I love the classroom and the people inside. The guys are rather good-looking and the way they sit is very cool! Must get the picture from Sharyn and show you guys. HAHAHAHAHA. sorry. being a little flower idiot here lol.

Yeah. So it was see see look look. Pretty nice scenery esp at the rooftop where you can see this dome-shaped stadium where there are baseball matches held there etc.

We left in the late afternoon for our dinner. Fyi, shops in Japan close at 8pm since day breaks pretty early in Japan. It's like around 4 plus in Japan and 3 plus Singapore time you will see the sunset?

Yeap, so we got our concession cards and off we went to Ikeshita station where it's the closest to Meiden. It's a 1km walk from the school to the station and that is what we have to do for the subssequent days when we are gng to visit the school.

The control station

The tracks

From Ikeshita station, we went to Sakae where we had our first dinner. We somehow got into this pretty ex restaurant which costs me 1400 yen for my ebi tempura set.

The expensive dinner on the first day but I like the tempura haha.

Jiayun and Peiqi ordered this

Peiqi playing with my mufflers haha. Lightings are rather dim in the restaurant but i sort of like this picture. Like its so dark at one corner and the other corner has some light. Like some yin yang effect LOL.

After dinner, we took the train back. This time from Sakae,we travelled to Kamimaezu. For the first time in my life, I actually bathed together with other people! The clarinetists seem pretty open but I was a little uneasy haha. So we the J.A.P came up with the idea of putting towels on the mirror in front of us so as to prevent from seeing reflections of each other while bathing. This first time for me was pretty memorable I guess. I kept screaming while bathing LOL! Cos I keep dropping my stuffs and then when I start screaming Peiqi will also scream then there will be a lot of noise and chaos inside. Hahahahaha. And then I rmb when I havent finish changing, Jannah opened the door and left alrdy! And I screamed again cos there were ppl outside and the showerheads are like facing them so that means they can see me! lololololol. Just a lot of stuffs happening hahaha.

Excos were busy again after that preparing presents for the senseis etc etc. So Peiqi and I were left to ourselves in the room and we created this upstairs game which made Jannah so curious about it for the next few days HAHA.

See the dough above? Haha okay, its actually our blanket. All you had to do is to make into a dough. Make it as big and as high as possible. And sink your head into the dough!!! The feeling is so shiok! Can choose whichever position you like also. Face down, face up. Jump into the dough etc etc. The 2 of us got high over this game hahaha and apparently we made a lot of noise according to Jannah. Hahahaha. We stayed on the 4th floor somemore you know. LOL. But no lah, the noise didnt travel all the way down. Just that when she kept asking ppl to help her do errands, they heard a lot of noise from our room. Haha. We did had a lot of fun and my dough on the right is so much bigger than Peiqi's !

I think we were quite high when we took this picture lol!

Okay, to end off this post I shall post up a collage of the pictures for day 0 and day 1!

I'm off to meet Kaiyi now! She has been back for a week and I have not met up with her yet! :D

And later at night, I'm gng to catch my season finale of Survivor!

Can't wait can't wait!

2008-12-01T18:14:00.001+08:00

BYE BYE SINGAPORE!

JAPAN HERE I COME!

in the meanwhile, pls rmb to click on my ad! thanks a million!

will fill in with more pictures when i come back! :D

2008-11-29T23:35:00.005+08:00

Jannah. Amanda. Peiqi.

Together we form JAP! and we're gng to Japan in 2 days time! :D

Today's band prac was oh-so-tiring. I felt giddy during combined for the first time lol.

Anyway, I realise a lot of money has been spent for this trip. Like buying SD card, battery, daybag and some winter clothing. And not forgetting that I gotta pay more for a specific amount of yen since the yen now is stronger (edited: but thanks to Trish's mum, i gotta pay a bit lesser than usual! heh:D)

I thought the empty oval on the note make it look fake LOL.

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Pretty saddened about the death of the Singaporean in Mumbai. She's young, beautiful and her future seems so promising with her career as a lawyer. It's like you study so hard to be a lawyer and now you're gone. Such a waste. And she was there just for a one-day seminar. ONE DAY!! oh dear. I also found out that her mother-in-law turns out to be my primary school teacher! Such a coincidence. Haven't seen Mrs Puhaindran in a long time and never did I expect that the next time I were to see her again would be through the newspaper and of such tragic news. I guess she doesn't rmb me though since the last time she taught me was exactly a decade ago. I don't even know if she's still teaching at KCP. Perhaps not I guess. I just hope that her family would be able to pull through the ordeal at this point.

2008-11-23T14:05:00.003+08:00

I went jogging at last !

Haha, if not for my dad, I guess I will still be sleeping like a pig at home. LOL!

Today seems like an auspicious day too! for i saw 2 wedding couples having their photos taken at Bedok Reservoir Park. I thought the Singapore Botanic Gardens would be a better idea actually. Like er, more greenery? But isn't it very hot in the first place to have yr wedding photos taken in the garden? Wearing such a long gown and posing under the scorching sun.. wow!

And speaking of Botanic Gardens, chan, trish and I wanted to have a small lil picnic there today. Haha but chan woke up late so we're gng to have tea later instead at Parkway! Gna check the exchange rate as well.

It had better be lower! Hopefully.

2008-11-21T14:02:00.013+08:00

こんにちは KONNICHIWA!

haha i'm learning some simple japanese online so that i can communicate with the jap ppl when i'm gng there like in a week's time? thats like... so fast?

the yen is still gng up and i haven't change my money!!!! *cries*

isn't japan in recession now? argh.

when a country is in recession, will the country's currency be stronger/weaker? anybody knows??

sigh.

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went to chan's house ytd! we played hotel626! but we're cheater bugs! before 6, we actually alter the timing of the laptop to after 6 so that we can play HAHA. and even though we played before 6 (around 5 plus), i was still frightened by the sound effects! it feels so real watching the video and playing it, scary! we missed out some personal stuffs though, like having our polariod photo up cos we dont have a webcam and not giving our hp numbers lol.

we watched some videos regarding 萧敬腾 and it was so funny!

小猪's impersonation of 萧敬腾 ! HAHAHAHA

found some ktv videos and we started singing too! then talked about those chim technical terms that i dont understand, like using head voice etc etc. and i cant differentiate if i'm using 假音 or not when singing. never knew that singing can be so tough!

played karaokeparty just now! its fun(: but difficult to score! if only they have chinese songs available too!

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TODAY'S EPISODE ON SURVIVOR IS CLASSIC!

I can't believe Bob actually came out with this idea of crafting a fake idol! Hahahaha, totally didnt expect that from him! I gotta say, he's just good in Arts&Crafts.

And he managed to fool Randy with that. He must have been so pissed and embarrassed at tribal council then! Really, like all the contestants couldn't stop laughing when Probst said that was not an immunity idol and threw it into the fire! Marcus and Charlie were amazed and laughed too! But i feel he deserved it. He thinks too highly of himself, and he is childish too. Like the chocolate biscuit incident. ohmygosh. Today's episode is the funniest of all.

"Tonight is going to be the funkiest night of your life" lol! seriously, it does!

And I'm guarantee plus chop certain he is indeed childish.

"I hope Bob has a heart attack and they carry him back to that island that he talks about 24/7. Most of the others, with the exception of Matty, I hope they get bitten by hurrinmamba(?)" Randy's final words.

Like wth? Does he know that Matty was the one who voted him out? Bob, though evil to have passed him the fake Idol, didn't vote him out! Probably because of their close bonds, he didn't wanna vote for him since he knows how the results will turn out to be.

Next week's episode is gng to be very exciting too!!!!

"Do you remember the day when the bottle was thrown into the ocean? Marcus was the one who threw it right? Did you know that he had the Idol in his pocket when he came back, hid it somewhere in this place and told me about it" Bob to Corrine.

Desperate calls for desperate measures. If that is true, I hope Corrine doesn't get her hands on it.

And yes, I forgot to mention Chrystal is absolutely hilarious today!

HAHAHAHAHA! The more I think about it, the more I can't stop laughing. You know usually during voting at the tribal council, you will always make a short speech, giving the reason why you vote that particular person? She actually SAID IT OUT LOUD, so loud that those sitting at the benches waiting to vote could hear her super duper loud and clear!

"You made my life HELL and I can't wait for you to go"

LOLOLOLOLOLOL. so bitchy~ hahahahaha! Sugar couldn't stop laughing hahahahaaha

to those who have not caught the show, don't miss your second chance!

catch the encore telecast on channel5 at 11pm today!!!

2008-11-19T21:39:00.013+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOON AND KARYN!

the 2 birthday girls!

went to mind cafe @ boat quay ytd with the 2 girls, yeeling, shuhui, xinyi and yunjie! we had so much fun playing the boardgames there! there are so many quirky and interesting games. luckily the people there helped us and introduced us to many cool games!

i esp love 2 games that we played! first one was JURASSIC JUMBLE!

this game is so exciting. it's sth similar to heart attack though. each person is supposed to have 9 cards each in their hands and they have to keep swopping cards until all their 9 cards are in the same colour. you can swop with anybody but the number of cards you swop must be the same as the other person swopping with you and you must swap the same colour cards each time. super exciting cos there were 7 of us and only 6 bones available!!!!! which means one person will lose and there will be forfeits!!!!

but we are kind ppl(: didnt come out with any forfeits in the end (actually we cant think of any. we just wanted to play! LOL) the game got more and more exciting as we went on to have many rounds. haha cos we got the hang of it and our speed got faster! and we became very mean too. hahaha. whoever wins will take the bone secretly and not let anybody know! so we can see who is the not observant one.

it was super funny. cos the first game we played after coming out with this rule, i was the winner. i took the bone away and nobody noticed!!! they were all busy swopping cards, ignoring me as though i was transparent even when i kept waving that stupid bone in front of them!!! REALLY FUNNY I TELL YOU. you can see how serious they were in the swopping. "2 cards! 2 cards! 3cards! 1 card!" lol!

then karyn the tamjiakia finally saw me waving the bone and she took one too! but she didnt wave her bone with me. instead she went on to continue the game! after that shuhui sort of noticed like how come there were so few bones on the table and she at last saw me frantically waving the bone too! and then she screamed "AMANDA GOT THE BONE!!!" and everyone started yelling and grabbing the remaining bones from the table! HAHAHAHA

the second game that i liked most is SNORTA!

for this game, we are supposed to choose an animal and then make a sound of it. our pets will be given a house each as seen above so that ppl cannot see which animal we have. we will be given 5 cards each and each of us has to take turn to turn over the card. when any 2 similar cards appear, the person who calls the sound of the other person first wins! loser will have to take all the cards from the winner and starts the game again. the game gets more complicated when we had the swop card. cos we have to shfit our houses to the left and we will adopt a new animal and a new house! pretty confusing esp when you just rmb everybody's sound! and the swop card came out twice! (all from me oops!)

this is karyn gng hysterical when she cant imitate the sound properly esp for my 'cuckookookoo'! HAHAHAHA!

karyn getting more and more dejected and resigned to fate alrdy. hahahaha!

i guess its pretty worthwhile to go there esp for ladies on tuesdays! because after happy hours where you only pay $5 for free-flow of drinks and boardgaming (you can add another $6 for main course), there is ladies night from 6 to 9pm where there is free boardgaming again! how cool is that! when the person told us, we were so happy! but i had to leave early:( cos i alrdy arranged to meet my mum for the sg food expo.. so sad! if not could have stayed longer and play somemore!

so to all ladies out there, be sure to visit the cafe on tuesdays! HAHA. free advertising for mind cafe. lol.

we actually had our lunch there. food is not too bad, quite a large serving. but the chicken cutlet got a lot of fats! and salad sauce too much. but otherwise, its reasonably good!

cake-cutting at mind cafe as well! we are seriously not good at planning surprises. cannot hide anything from them. we are too honest alrdy. hahaha.

the yummy birthday cake! (oh-so-chocolatety! love the biscuit layer!)

wish upon a star..

may your wishes come true!

of course, what is an outing w/o photos of us!!!

all in all, it was fun! don't mind gng there again for another round of fun, joy and laughter! be sure to ask me on a tuesday! haha!:D

one more thing!
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2008-11-17T23:51:00.003+08:00

i feel bloody screwed today. i rly feel f***** up. sorry for being vulgar.

firstly it was the class outing. i thought all was fine when i sms everyone cos no one told me they cant go cept for shawn. then only this evening shuhui told me some ppl either dont know cos change hp no or they not gng but never tell me at all. and because of all this checking who gng/ not gng, deciding on place to meet up early to buy stuffs and finding ppl to accompany me to buy stuffs/ go for the celebration, i ended up sms-ing from 5 plus until now. my hand is aching now esp when i also took flu jab today. so now my left arm is quite sore? yea, just feel uncomfortable on my left arm. and i'm super scared of my handphone vibrating again. zzz. means i gotta sms again.

then when i came back home, my mum start nagging at my dad for forgetting to close the window. and she went on and on and on. the incessant nagging. and then my dad will start... bloody irritating. then jessica called and talked about chalet. i had been actually looking forward to it, thinking about how we can go arcade play, go kbox sing and go nebo cafe play! but the only available date is next weekend amd its far too rush for me cos i need that weekend to pack my luggage for japan trip. so in the end? cancelled. and i think the next one will only be held at the end of next year. that's like another 365 days. zzz. no choice. so continued with my mum and dad. my dad overheard my conversation with jessica then start complaining about me grad from cch alrdy still wanna meet up with them.. studies no good still go out, out, out. and then he talked about band. like shit can. from gng out talk until band. then my mum came in and said why must be so kp go organise some stuffs when ppl also cant go. and then her 'rock concert' starts. it's like some slippery slope. from one thing go on to the other thing.

i feel so vexed ! life is just so screwed for today. and i also forgot to say i got cheated by this cobbler today. just sealing one side of my shoe's sole costs me $2 ! and only need to seal a bit lo ! my mum said it only cost $0.50 in the market. which means i got cheated ! he is charging me 400% the price can. and he nailed a nail into my shoe which is protruding out and i didnt realise. so tmr i gotta go back to him again. and he only opens at 12 when i'm meeting yj they all at city hall at the same time. zzz.

tell me, dont i feel screwed today. i'm feeling so frustrated. need some anger management games now.

2008-11-15T01:40:00.003+08:00

yucks. chrystal is such a biatch. urgh. i rly cant stand her. why is she still in Survivor?! and kenny. he is always influencing ppl's opinion of others. i just don understand why is it that when Sugar doesnt trust Chrystal at all, she doesnt vote for her. and why is it that when Sugar does not trust Kenny too, she listens to him and votes Charlie out? this is so ridiculous.

and i found it so gay when charlie said about chrystal being so bad as to vote his marcus out. HAHA. okay i'm rly sad that he was eliminated cos what is left of the merged tribe now are mostly losers. ugh. they are just so irritating. not only chrystal and kenny. randy is getting too arrogant for his own good and corrine is so bitchy. argh.

but at least charlie and marcus are having a lot of fun at ponderosa ! i watched videos of them at ponderosa just now. charlie looks so much better-looking after removing that beard ! he's quite good-looking actually. very boyish haha. and i cant believe they actually spent hours thinking what outfit they should wear for their tribal council as members of the jury. hahaha.

i rmb telling peiqi just now that i dont eaat after 9 or 10pm but i have to eat my own words now. lol. my mum, being worried that i will be hungry cos i only ate bread and biscuits for dinner, told my dad to buy tang yuan for me. but he ended up with not only the tang yuan, but chicken wings and otah! omg. and i only finished all these by midnight. which explains why i'm still awake now. cos i need to digest all these unhealthy food. i'm so gng to gain those pounds that i've lost. arghhh!

andand!

1. azrul told the band today we gotta pay extra $98 for airport tax. BOO.
2. yen is getting stronger and currently i need $865 to change for 55000 yen DOUBLE BOO
3. i can't get a job TRIPLE BOO

i forgot to mention, BIG BAND SHOWCASE is an extremely challenging piece to play. it requires a range of pedal B flat to high B flat. ohmygosh. and with the plunger plus the woo wa thing, it is so tiring mentally and physically.

Edited: heh. pls rmb to click on my ad ! thanks(:

2008-11-13T16:34:00.002+08:00

MINI CLASS OUTING AT K-BOX !

YAY ! finally got all the pictures from peiqi ! after pw last week, we went kbox to celebrate our victory :D i usually go kbox with cch trombone section only. this was my first time gng with other friends but it's still fun nevertheless !

and becauase we had around 10 ppl, we were given a super big room !

SO BIG RIGHT??

we went high when we saw the room cos it was our first time getting such a big room for kbox ! instead of a normal tv which you sing to, you got a BIG PROJECTOR ! and whats more, the 4 mikes in the room are CORDLESS ! how great can that be? :) there was also a POOL TABLE ! but i figure you gotta pay extra cos there were no pool balls and sticks available. haha ! and we got FOOD too ! usually when i go for kbox from 2 to 7 pm with trombone section, we were only served drinks and snacks. but this time round, we had NUGGETS and FRENCH FRIES ! service not bad. goodgood. haha.

shuhui caught in action !

yunjie and li an

somehow yunjie is always laughing a lot/ have funny poses

LOL !

aiyo. why yeeling separated from us? haha

冒牌 S.H.E! hahahaha

it was so hard trying to get karyn to take photo but she eventually gave in after peiqi's numerous attempts to take picture of her !

friends :D

haha. i shall end this post with a very unglam photo of peiqi!

HAHAHAHAHA!

meanwhile, rmb to click on my ad before you leave ! :D haha thanks a lot !!
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2008-11-12T14:44:00.003+08:00

YAY ! just finished watching Madagascar ! haha. the first one. watched it before but i forgot the story so went to watch it again for a recap !

Hahaha. Just in time. Few mins later i will be leaving home for band. Briefing at 4 about japan trip. Heard that there are a couple of changes. I want to go imperial palace and disneyland and take bullet train ! Hopefully we will still have all these. That will be so great ! And i pray that the yen will not be so strong so i can change my $$ quick. LOL.

i think today is the last day of 'O's so CONGRATS SEC4s ! :D

2008-11-11T19:00:00.008+08:00

REVELATION OF THE 4 KIAS IN MY PW GROUP

SHALL BE MADE TODAY !!

for those who are wondering, TANJIAKIA is none other than

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KARYN HENG !!

haha we decided to give her this name cos she is always complaining of hunger ! she never feels full ! her stomach is like some 无底洞 can. lol. as you can see, she's so hungry now that she even wants to eat the file ! HAHAHAHAHAHA

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SHAWN !

this name was chosen cos everytime we talk to him, he will pause and go errr.... then continue with what he is gng to talk about. lol. and we cant think of a better name for him, so tada ERR-KIA ~ !

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YUNJIE !

this name is so obvious. we named her orh-ce kia cos she's always falling down ! just like this pic of her ice-skating for pe elective. hahahahaha. she came back with a BIG ORH-CE ! very big and obvious, not like those small little bruise that we have. very disgusting lo. and the thing is she always gets that type of BIG BIG ORH-CE. recently she had another fall from her farming and it's that type of big big patch again. so prone to falling down~ thats why we call her ORH-CE KIA ! and it's also very nice to call !! :D

last but not least, its yours truly,

the SIAOW-KIA !

which explains why i'm hitting myself with the file LOL

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just now in school was sooooo funny ! i was chatting the whole time in the library with vaish then around 12 she had to leave so i just went off with her. we went to the toilet and i happened to meet jannah there. there was supposed to be sectionals at 1230 so i asked for the band room keys from her so that i can go in first. she told me it was in her front pocket of her bag outside the library. so vaish accompanied me to the library outside to look for her bag.

tried searching for the key but cant find it. later we found a bunch of keys at the side pocket so we just took it. in the midst of walking, vaish was asking if this was jannah's own keys or sth. i guessed she asked that cos there was a mickey chain attached to it. so i was like "yea her own keys. president and vice-president have"

went to the band room and realised that the horn section was there alrdy but the back door was locked. so i used the band room keys i got from jannah to open the door. jiayi offered to help me open the door but i signalled to her that i got the key so no need to help me. lol. then i continued to try every single key onto the door but to no avail ! there were somemore 2 key holes on the door so i keep trying and trying until i gave up in the end and decided to just enter by the front door.

and guess what, when jannah came and i asked her,

it turns out that I TOOK HER HOUSE KEYS BY MISTAKE!

so embarassing ! ARGHH !

2008-11-10T16:35:00.007+08:00

MJ142 !

Haha that day was the submission of our gpf. FINAL FINAL DAY OF PW. see that green file? it contains all the work we have done for the entire year. VERY PRECIOUS YOU KNOW. hahahaha.

andand i got the link from hoon and gave it to karyn too ! so we make cartoon chracters of our group !

karyn's version of us, the 4 kias !!

haha and this is mine !!

mine is better right?? HAHAHAHA. aiya. shit i got not time to reveal the 3 kias and the kbox outing !! argh. my mum wants me to go out to meet her at orchard cos she wants to see the subaru challenge thing. omgomg. i'm supposed to leave at 530 but its 534 now and i havent change !!! ahhh ! sorry tanjiakia ! looks like you have to wait till tmr before you will be revealed in my blog. sorry to make you wait so long.

i had a hard time trying to find the thing to make the collage in the picasa3. lol.

I WILL REVEAL TMR !! sorry to keep you all waiting. that is if you are interested to know. haha !

2008-11-09T01:26:00.005+08:00

QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Went to watch @ suntec just now. Action flick. Very exciting. But i don't rly understand the story omg. i was just simply admiring all the fighting scenes, thinking to myself how much time and effort that must have been put in to film the scene. haha and admiring daniel craig too ! heard that he even went for a minor plastic surgery cos he hurt himself during filming. so poor thing right?

anyway, after the movie, there was this ogawa fair thing at the ground level. my mum & i went to try the massage chair and i saw this speaker-like thing on the chair handle. the sales assistant said it's for aromatherapy. and omg, the first thing that came to my mind was PW !

i know it's not the topic that my grp did but i just suddenly rmb majority of the grps in my class are doing projects relating to therapy -- fish therapy, aromatherapy and colour therapy ! so i was reminising about PW stuffs and all then the sales assistant went on to say there are beads inside to provide aromathic smell etc. and the first thing that came to my mind again was shuhui's proposal better than penadol ! haha i dont know why ! i just rmb about some capsules thing that she was saying !

cos the sales assistant said we can put essential oils instead of beads since it's quite ex, my mum said she wants to put lavender. the sales assistant also agreed, saying that it's chosen by most consumers. then again, i thought of PW ! this time, it was my grp's survey results on the most popular scent for the fish therapy room for my proposal. and lavender was ALSO the most popular choice by majority of the survey respondents !

ohmy ohmy. i'm so missing PW lol. am i suffering from post-pw syndrome?

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anyway, i went to visit survivor cbs website and found out that marcus actually graduated from harvard ! like ohmygosh, he is dashing and smart and tall !!! but it's a pity he was eliminated in the recent episode of survivor. i didn't think that he would be the one ! i thought it would be susie since she is one of the weakest player in the kota tribe despite the changing of tribes once again. so when my mum off the tv, i thought it would be susie for sure so i didnt bother about it. until i chanced upon louis's blog did i realise that it was marcus and not susie !

I WAS SHOCKED, LITERALLY SHOCKED ! like how is this game going on now, seriously? the stronger players are getting ousted, leaving the weaker players to fight among themselves. as sugar says, "welcome to the game". that is so not fun. susie and chrystal are just some backstabbers in the game. argh. they had better not win this game, please.

and charlie is rly gay. he is not that bad-looking what, why doesnt he like girls? haha okay, i shan't be nosey. i wont know the reason anyway. but aiyah, usually the good-looking ones are gay. so yea. face up to reality. luckily marcus is not ! HAHA.

Edited: If you see the nuffnang advertisement above, would you mind to help me click on the ad please? :D i think it may help me earn some $$. haha if it does, it will be extra income for me and i can save even more for my japan trip ! YAY ! so please help me can? heh. THANKS A LOT PPL !!

2008-11-07T23:20:00.006+08:00

This was supposed to be a lengthy post. Unfortunately i cant get all the photos from yunjie and karyn today. and pei qi is not online. oh well.

but in any case, it's time to celebrate for PW IS OVER !

FEET THE FISH !

i guess i will miss my group a lot. times we have spent tgr. t3 was our fav hangout and we were thankful that our picture didnt come out in stomp HAHA. had a lot of fun with them, esp teasing each other etc. hope we will still remain that close when it's just back to lectures and tutorials :D

i think i will reveal the 3 kias and talk about the mini class outing in the next post when i have all the pics. till then !

tmr watching quantum of solace ! YAY ~ but mum is sick so she better quickly recover then we can watch our movie tgr ! :D

2008-11-05T23:26:00.008+08:00

OP IS OVER ! :D

just one more hurdle. ONE MORE HURDLE !
and everything will be over !
can't wait to party and take a victory photo !!

i was rly worried before the OP you know. like i can't sit still and my hands were really cold. i don't know why. everytime when i'm nervous, my hands would always turn cold, esp after visiting the toilet where i wash my hands !

so i tried calming myself down since one of the sentences in my script was

'music helps ward off depression and calms patients'

so i make use of the word 'calm' to tell myself to calm down and not be nervous. i'm so glad i was not rly soft during the presentation but i kinda regret that i stumbled towards the end of the presentaion which was quite a pity. Q&A was okay. i do hope it is relevant !

and i like my group's video a lot even though aromatherapy's one is also very nice ! haha. need to get the link from hoon and i shall make my own character playing the trombone ! lol.

our very own MJ142 video !

anyway, obama has been selected to be the next president ! historic moment.

will white house be known as black house from now on?

and will the white house be painted black? LOL.

2008-11-04T17:21:00.003+08:00

new spects ! teehee. new look !

TMR IS D-DAY !!!!

good luck to S413 !

let's watch our health and diet for today and tmr we can party !! (even though i still got band -.-)

2008-10-31T23:43:00.004+08:00

OH. MY. GOD.

I can't believe Ace is out! Like #%&$^#*%&#%$@#@&$ I think Chrystal should be the one eliminated. She is so whiny, bitchy and irritating. She may be an Olympic champion, but I don't see in any way that she is indeed one. SO hard to believe. I don't see her doing that great during all the challenges. Ace is a better player though I do hate his arrogance. He shouldn't leave that's what I thought. Even though I don't want him to leave, I'm glad that Sugar didn't give him the Idol. I'm so thankful. Like I think it's not worth it to give someone such a precious thing which you have earned it by yourself?

Sugar does know how to play this game though. I can't believe she voted for Ace. I thought they were always so close. That's how unpredictable people may be and how cruel reality is. It was quite sad to hear Ace saying "Thanks Sugar" in a no-gratitude way. As for Chrystal, I just pray that she stop being so whiny and having all the emotional outbreaks. It kinda of look fake. Like she is acting tough but she keeps crying. And it's not like she is crying to herself. She cries like openly, even in front of the Kota tribe once. I could tell that Matt was so sad to see Ace go and that Chrystal is staying on.

It's Kota's tribal council now. Think it's gng to be either Dan or Susie. Most likely Susie since the rest of the Kota thinks that he has the Idol. Thinks.

Edited: Aiyah. Guess wrongly. It's Dan who's out in the end. Oh wells. I bet Ace and Dan must have left with a heavy heart, full of question marks. Like 'why did they vote me out', 'what have i done wrong' etc. The truth can be so hurting at times.

2008-10-31T22:31:00.012+08:00

IT'S HALLOWEEN !!

Trick or treat? HAHA !

Anyway, I didn't celebrate halloween at all today haha. It was just plain pw in the morning but tan jia kia and me ended up playing diner dash, cake mania and watching high school musical 1 and 3 even though I had watched the latter ytd with Chan!

I loved the movie ! Even though it was so lame in the beginning haha. Like why would a person sing when he is in the middle of playing the last crucial 16 minutes of the game to gain victory? It was quite weird for me I thought. They were also singing when strategising their game LOL. The funniest part was when Gabriella suddenly stand up in the middle of the audience and sing a duet with Troy. Super random ! And she just sat down again after finishing the duet. LOLOLOL. Really weird but I still enjoyed the show cos of all the sleek dance moves and catchy songs and ZAC EFRON !

He is just so good. Can sing, dance, act and play basketball ! Best of all, he is also good-looking ! MY HEARTTHROB! Hahahahahaha.

HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB HEARTTHROB

I think I'm crazy ! HAHAHAHA

Survivor is starting soon ! And I need to go find some videos on fish therapy ! Byebye !

2008-10-28T18:18:00.004+08:00

OP presentation was bad today :(

I was soft today ! This is queer. The first time when I presented I thought I would be soft, but yet turned out to be louder than expected. Then the next time when I thought I can maintain the same volume since I have done it previously or perhaps do it even better, I turned out to be softer. Sigh. Mrs Lim said she wanted to sleep after listening to me lo.

I think my voice got 催眠 effect >.<

Even during my group's own dry-run, er-kia, orh ce-kia and tan jia kia also said that I'm soft. Oh no ! I really need to train to be louder ! That's why my mum shall be my audience tonight ! And Q&A was shit. Didn't know how to elaborate on my answer. Today is so crappy~

My group left early, like around 2 plus cos er-kia got choir. Had lunch @ kopitiam. I realised I eat a lot whenever tan jia kia is around. I would take a full meal like a main course with dessert sth like that. Lol. Today we the 3 kia ate chee cheong fun plus main course. So filling ! Really cannot go eat with tan jia kia. Sure become damn fat and damn broke. Haha ! But that is why tan jia kia live up to her name ma lol.

Went to the library with the 2 kia but didnt borrow any books cos i still have many books at home not read yet. And orh ce-kia is so greedy to go borrow 6 books at one go ! So many! But she read quite fast heh. So instead of pw-ing, we ended up in the library reading books. LOL. I wonder how she looked like carrying all the books back to school haha.

And this marks the end of my day today. Shall go and download diner dash now. I'm addicted to the game !

Edited : Those from S413 should know the 3 different kias refer to who right? Haha!

2008-10-27T23:45:00.009+08:00

HAPPY DEEPAVALI TO ALL !

better quickly type this before the clock strikes 12 ! haha.

anyway, the weekend has been pretty slack. i have been pretty idling around, very lazy to do OP. in fact, i'm not sure if i had memorised my script at this moment. gosh. perhaps i should write in cue cards in case i forget.

and my body clock seems to go haywire this weekend. for the past weekend, i've been sleeping at 3. 4 am and that is bad. the first day was spent on watching wang zi bian qing wa. I'm so glad that i have finished re-watching the entire series ! kudos to me ! i'm starting on lan qiu huo now though. but there are so many accounts for this show and i dont know which account gives me the best quality and the least parts of each episode. each account has at least 4 parts for each episode and that is irritating. till now, i still cant find one video which shows the entire episode 1. grr.

just wached the news and realised that if teenagers do not get at least 8 hours of sleep, they are likely to be fat.

ohmygosh. FAT !

I NEED TO SLEEP EARLY !!!

okok, other than that, i have been gng out pretty much during the weekend and i went to make my new spects just now ! YAY ! got new spects at last ! i'm changing to plastic but colour is still purple. just that this time round, it's dark purple. haha. and i'm surprised my degree didnt increase that much despite not checking for more than a year lol. only increased by 25 on the left eye and the rest remained ! should be collecting it by the end of this week :)

shit, my edusave only left 50 over bucks. which means i have to pay the 300 bucks in cash for japan by friday.

i think i need to get a job to finance my japan trip. got any lobang? haha.

Kiongy

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