fireworks at hongkong disneyland
yay i finally uploaded the video that i took! quite blur at times because my hands were shaky and the camera was dying, but i still think it was quite well-taken! :) can hear me and my sis exclaiming "oh my god!" during the display. the whole thing lasted for 10 minutes but i only managed to capture so little of it.. i really wouldn't mind flying over just to watch the fireworks again!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
back from hongkong
im back from hongkong! and i miss disneyland so much so much. i took photos with minnie mouse, mulan dragon, cinderella, belle and winnie the pooh! belle was so anti-social though. she refused to let me get close to her, and she had this escort with her who didn't al
low me to even touch her dress, so it looks like im superimposed onto this shot! boo :( mulan dragon was so funny. there was no queue of people waiting to take photos with him! so somehow he looked quite sad despite his always-smiling costume. haha, maybe it was his body language then. so he was really ecstatic to see us approaching him! how cute.
we went around watching performances too! 'the golden mickeys' musical was superb. my sis even said that she was close to tears while watching the musical. so dramatic right, haha, but it was really awesome watching the acrobats, the smooth transition between the cartoons and the acting, and listening to them sing the disney songs. there's a little magic in all of us. now im really looking forward to watching the phantom of the opera with my sisters!next we watched a 3d film in mickey's magic theatre. the 3d effects were done so flawlessly. there was this scene where the little mermaid flicked jewels right in front of your eyes. and my mum was so cute to stretch out her hands to reach for these non-existent gems! haha so funny, and i followed suit. it must have been quite a sight for an onlooker to see the audience behaving so senselessly. there was another scene where it feels like you're being thrust from nowhere along with aladdin and his magic carpet, roaming the skies and dropping down, falling.. it was even more thrilling than being on a rollercoaster! then it feels as though you're the only person in the theatre at whom donald duck was sprinkling water, yet logic tells you that everyone's actually feeling the same way. it was an amazing experience, watching these characters come to life, it's just too bad this feeling was ephemeral.
we didn't bother to queue up for the theme park rides at disneyland; too lazy to queue and the rides were the common sit-in-a-cup-and-turn kind. instead we took a ride on the train and toured the different parts of disneyland on the railway. i really felt like i could stay there in the train forever and watch the place transform with the passing of time.
shopping around for souvenirs was much fun too! though i bet my bro was super bored while my dajie and i fiddled around with the stuffed toys. we bought quite a lot of stuff from disneyland!
the highlight of the entire day there had to be the fireworks! they dimmed the lights of the entire place, till we could only see the sleeping beauty castle with its colourful lighting and sparkles. and when the music started playing, the colours that lit up the night sky were enough to take one's breath away. it's a pity my camera died halfway (never charge long enough so no battery!) while i took a video of the fireworks. i think i'll never forget what a spectacular sight it was, as the four of us beheld the night sky at disneyland - certainly the happiest place in the world.
the rest of the days in hongkong were spent eating and shopping. im pretty sure my arithmetic skills have improved, with the mental divide-by-5 everytime my eyes register a price. im proud to say that i have walked up and down this particular street (which happens to be quite long) in tsim sha sui, at least 4 times! and all because im such a nice sister i accompanied first my dajie on her shopping, and next my bro to buy then exchange his soccer jersey! what an accomplishment. shopping at ladies' market and men's market was scary. there was this particular vendor who scolded me for trying her pens because i didn't buy them eventually, so i quickly dragged my mum and ran away from her, phew. i just am not as pro as my dajie or my mum when it comes to bargaining. saw this magnetic bookmark that i liked alot and the vendor offered me hk20 dollars. when i bargained for 15, she refused, and obviously i had to try the walk-away tactic and hope that she'll relent. but no! when i left she didn't even stop me! and i never did see that exact same bookmark at any other stalls again.
i think this trip's quite a success for a first overseas family trip! plus we didn't sign on a tour package. many thanks to my dajie who put in a lot of effort to plan our itinery! if only my dad and my erjie had joined us on this trip. we would have had so much more fun! i guess when you reach a certain age, work can really become more important than anything else.on our flight back, during the last few minutes of touching down, dajie was telling me that to her, landing is always the best moment. indeed, be it reaching a foreign destination or returning to home sweet home, the mixed feeling of excitement and perhaps relief is always the best.
my dad gave us the best surprise by picking us up from the airport even after my mum told him we would cab home! he had to rush from tuas to get to changi, and he even had to reach much earlier than the stipulated time to make sure he could receive us. imagine how touched we all were, especially my mum. i love my family :)
before this trip to hongkong, there was asean bridge competition at novotel hotel in clarke quay. congrats to GG for getting second for the youth team category! my team didn't win anything, but we all had fun, especially with random partnership towards the end.
on a random note, my 3 cousins are so cute. while we were halfway through playing poker, the youngest one suddenly exclaimed, "eh! what are we playing now? pokey?" oh my goodness. pokey. hahaha.
Monday, November 27, 2006
post A's
post A's rock!
these few days had been a whole lot of fun. i watched the best movie ever thanks to my nicest hi154 groupmates. everyone go watch tenacious d ok! it's a great movie. i'll never forget how ying2 covered my eyes during the most sickening parts of the movie. and till now i can still remember the well-crafted plot, the comical characters and the vivid scenes (of what i shall not elaborate. you'll only understand if you witness it yourself)! look how effective the show is with its long-lasting impact! even my thorough brain-cleansing couldn't erase my memories of it. get the movie poster from zongyi if you like! haha, unless he secretly wants to keep it..
kim, biondi and i joined grace and her church friends for overnight biking! we cycled for 8 hours plus i think. but i guess it must have been more tiring for them because i was on a double bike! haha but my body is still aching all over. it's really nice cycling, chatting with your friends, and embracing the feeling of the cool breeze against your face. somehow it felt as though we could just go on forever, on the quiet roads of singapore, watch the planes take off, and never stop cycling as darkness turns to light.. or maybe it's just me slacking at the back so i wasn't physically exhausted haha. anyway thanks alot grace! for inviting us :)
many a time i think.. it's really much easier to live for other people than for yourself. people always say one should be making his/her own decisions, and not just comply with what other people want you to do. but if one's happiness lies in the happiness of others, what's wrong with simply giving in to others? perhaps i'm still clueless about my own identity, that's why..
"It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found."
alright i better get going. already super late for kbox with bridge people.. tsk xuet i still haven't settled my applications yet argh!
these few days had been a whole lot of fun. i watched the best movie ever thanks to my nicest hi154 groupmates. everyone go watch tenacious d ok! it's a great movie. i'll never forget how ying2 covered my eyes during the most sickening parts of the movie. and till now i can still remember the well-crafted plot, the comical characters and the vivid scenes (of what i shall not elaborate. you'll only understand if you witness it yourself)! look how effective the show is with its long-lasting impact! even my thorough brain-cleansing couldn't erase my memories of it. get the movie poster from zongyi if you like! haha, unless he secretly wants to keep it..
kim, biondi and i joined grace and her church friends for overnight biking! we cycled for 8 hours plus i think. but i guess it must have been more tiring for them because i was on a double bike! haha but my body is still aching all over. it's really nice cycling, chatting with your friends, and embracing the feeling of the cool breeze against your face. somehow it felt as though we could just go on forever, on the quiet roads of singapore, watch the planes take off, and never stop cycling as darkness turns to light.. or maybe it's just me slacking at the back so i wasn't physically exhausted haha. anyway thanks alot grace! for inviting us :)
many a time i think.. it's really much easier to live for other people than for yourself. people always say one should be making his/her own decisions, and not just comply with what other people want you to do. but if one's happiness lies in the happiness of others, what's wrong with simply giving in to others? perhaps i'm still clueless about my own identity, that's why..
"It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found."
alright i better get going. already super late for kbox with bridge people.. tsk xuet i still haven't settled my applications yet argh!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
ai yah!
just when i was so happy to receive this surprise mail in my mailbox,
and just when i was excitedly opening up the envelope..
the cd-rom inside had to be broken.
mr postman! i always thank you when i send out my letters and cards lor! why do you have to spoil my birthday present? :(
and just when i was excitedly opening up the envelope..
the cd-rom inside had to be broken.
mr postman! i always thank you when i send out my letters and cards lor! why do you have to spoil my birthday present? :(
Saturday, October 28, 2006
negative ions
it's so funny. negative ions make one energized, refreshed, and happy. positive ions make one depressed, tired and stressed. shouldn't it be the other way round? negative things with positive effects. what an oxymoron.
here are some things that made up my source of negative ions:
- meeting up with cihan and yihan for dinner at pastamania. i had so much fun listening to yihan talk about university life, and laughing over random stuff that ranged from arcade games to tv shows.
- having lunch and watching deathnote with bridge people. it was an exciting movie with a super abrupt ending. i hope the sequel will be out soon!
- meeting zeying's dad and sis at pizza hut unwittingly!
- knowing that i can call twinnie anytime i'm bored and make her less bored too! hahaha.
- receiving countdown sms-es from lowly almost everyday to jia you for the A's. 5 more days!
- listening to rabbit talk about her silly golden pig
- watching the korean drama "love at harvard" with my dajie. the male lead is so shuai la!
- eating chocolates my erjie got from norway and fighting with my father over them haha!
i think i have more than enough negative ions to last me for the next month! good luck and jia you everyone! :)
here are some things that made up my source of negative ions:
- meeting up with cihan and yihan for dinner at pastamania. i had so much fun listening to yihan talk about university life, and laughing over random stuff that ranged from arcade games to tv shows.
- having lunch and watching deathnote with bridge people. it was an exciting movie with a super abrupt ending. i hope the sequel will be out soon!
- meeting zeying's dad and sis at pizza hut unwittingly!
- knowing that i can call twinnie anytime i'm bored and make her less bored too! hahaha.
- receiving countdown sms-es from lowly almost everyday to jia you for the A's. 5 more days!
- listening to rabbit talk about her silly golden pig
- watching the korean drama "love at harvard" with my dajie. the male lead is so shuai la!
- eating chocolates my erjie got from norway and fighting with my father over them haha!
i think i have more than enough negative ions to last me for the next month! good luck and jia you everyone! :)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
akeelah and the bee
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
nice quote right? watched the movie "akeelah and the bee" on vcd with my sis, and this was mentioned in the show. think coach carter quoted it too. anyway i loved the movie! it was adapted from a true story, about a girl's journey to become the top speller in her nation. so basically the show was about spelling bees! it's fascinating how many crazy bombastic words there are in the english language, and it's incredible how their spellings have totally no link with the pronounciation. and as the scenes keep changing and more and more difficult words are thrown at these kids, my sis and i were simply in awe. now we both know how limited our vocabulary is.
and i've managed to pick up this new word from the show: "pulchritude". it's of Latin origin, and it means beauty. simply the most apt word the movie could end with.
a few days back, my bro returned home, telling me that that day was the worst day in his life. i laughed at him, thinking that it was probably some joke he came up with again. and i never expected things to be so serious, and truthfully, even being 3 years older than him, i have never experienced the kind of stress he was subjected to that day. im so glad things are fine now, and im really really very proud of him.
(but this doesn't mean that i will enjoy waking up at 6AM every morning to help him train his maple character just because he bought the double exp thing for the WRONG timing..)
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
nice quote right? watched the movie "akeelah and the bee" on vcd with my sis, and this was mentioned in the show. think coach carter quoted it too. anyway i loved the movie! it was adapted from a true story, about a girl's journey to become the top speller in her nation. so basically the show was about spelling bees! it's fascinating how many crazy bombastic words there are in the english language, and it's incredible how their spellings have totally no link with the pronounciation. and as the scenes keep changing and more and more difficult words are thrown at these kids, my sis and i were simply in awe. now we both know how limited our vocabulary is.
and i've managed to pick up this new word from the show: "pulchritude". it's of Latin origin, and it means beauty. simply the most apt word the movie could end with.
a few days back, my bro returned home, telling me that that day was the worst day in his life. i laughed at him, thinking that it was probably some joke he came up with again. and i never expected things to be so serious, and truthfully, even being 3 years older than him, i have never experienced the kind of stress he was subjected to that day. im so glad things are fine now, and im really really very proud of him.
(but this doesn't mean that i will enjoy waking up at 6AM every morning to help him train his maple character just because he bought the double exp thing for the WRONG timing..)
Thursday, September 07, 2006
lame conversation
in a lame conversation with my bro..
bro: your english is really getting better and better!
me: yeah! of course! thanks ar! :D
bro: erm. i mean bad-er and bad-er..
-.-!...
bro: your english is really getting better and better!
me: yeah! of course! thanks ar! :D
bro: erm. i mean bad-er and bad-er..
-.-!...
Monday, September 04, 2006
kwon sang woo at imm/ teachers' day at zps
oh my goodness. yesterday was the most traumatizing day in my entire life!
seriously. imagine squeezing amongst hundreds of hostile people, who were all so engrossed in catching a glimpse of the korean guy that they simply pushed and elbowed you like they wouldn't even be bothered if they caused a stampede. just as long as they could get as close as they could to kwon sang woo. total madness! and these people were all sweating, screaming, some even fighting. in those crowds i really had difficulty breathing.
accompanied my sis to imm yesterday because she wanted to, like the rest, take a look at this korean star in person. and it was purely a "just for fun" decision (which turned out to be not fun at all) because she could never match up to those fans who received him from the airport and followed him all the way from the hotel. we didn't think that he would be so popular too, but the crazy crowds at imm did convince us otherwise.
amidst all the jostling, an auntie made a funny comment. "what are all the men doing here?!" hahaha. there were so many uncles (in their 40s or 50s maybe?) blocking the way, and they had either a digital camera or video cam in their hands, standing by to take shots of the korean star. it's unbelievable, but the place wasn't dominated by females, and even guys chase after their idols like that too. hrmm, or maybe they were just helping their girlfriends/wives take photos? haha, i have no idea man.
and i finally realized that darwin's theory of evolution makes a lot of sense indeed. haha, ok duh, but only the fittest will survive. let's say, in order to survive, we need to catch a glimpse of the korean actor. in this case the tallest people will definitely survive! and they go on to reproduce and pass their favourable traits to the next generation. but people like me and my sis, who tiptoed all the way and jumped and jumped but still couldn't see anything more than kwon sang woo's hair, would definitely be eliminated in this competitive world. if only our bro came along. he's tall enough to take photos for us!
nearing the end, just when kwon sang woo was leaving, my sis managed to catch a glimpse of him! and with that she thought all the hard work was worth it. -.- i didn't get to see his face at all. haha, can see on tv enough liao lor, thank goodness im not crazy over him like huiwen is over hyun bin, or i'll be so disappointed! at least my sis is happy at the end of it all, or it'll really be a wasted trip. :)
oh yar, a bunch of us went back to zhenghua primary for teachers' day celebrations! haha it was really fun catching up with mrs ong. can't believe 6 years just zoomed past like that. the ceiling of the school appeared to be very low, and we were all like giants compared to the puny dwarf-like primary school kids. with time, perspectives change, mindsets change, and people change. if only this change were for the better for every single one of us.
seriously. imagine squeezing amongst hundreds of hostile people, who were all so engrossed in catching a glimpse of the korean guy that they simply pushed and elbowed you like they wouldn't even be bothered if they caused a stampede. just as long as they could get as close as they could to kwon sang woo. total madness! and these people were all sweating, screaming, some even fighting. in those crowds i really had difficulty breathing.
accompanied my sis to imm yesterday because she wanted to, like the rest, take a look at this korean star in person. and it was purely a "just for fun" decision (which turned out to be not fun at all) because she could never match up to those fans who received him from the airport and followed him all the way from the hotel. we didn't think that he would be so popular too, but the crazy crowds at imm did convince us otherwise.
amidst all the jostling, an auntie made a funny comment. "what are all the men doing here?!" hahaha. there were so many uncles (in their 40s or 50s maybe?) blocking the way, and they had either a digital camera or video cam in their hands, standing by to take shots of the korean star. it's unbelievable, but the place wasn't dominated by females, and even guys chase after their idols like that too. hrmm, or maybe they were just helping their girlfriends/wives take photos? haha, i have no idea man.
and i finally realized that darwin's theory of evolution makes a lot of sense indeed. haha, ok duh, but only the fittest will survive. let's say, in order to survive, we need to catch a glimpse of the korean actor. in this case the tallest people will definitely survive! and they go on to reproduce and pass their favourable traits to the next generation. but people like me and my sis, who tiptoed all the way and jumped and jumped but still couldn't see anything more than kwon sang woo's hair, would definitely be eliminated in this competitive world. if only our bro came along. he's tall enough to take photos for us!
nearing the end, just when kwon sang woo was leaving, my sis managed to catch a glimpse of him! and with that she thought all the hard work was worth it. -.- i didn't get to see his face at all. haha, can see on tv enough liao lor, thank goodness im not crazy over him like huiwen is over hyun bin, or i'll be so disappointed! at least my sis is happy at the end of it all, or it'll really be a wasted trip. :)
oh yar, a bunch of us went back to zhenghua primary for teachers' day celebrations! haha it was really fun catching up with mrs ong. can't believe 6 years just zoomed past like that. the ceiling of the school appeared to be very low, and we were all like giants compared to the puny dwarf-like primary school kids. with time, perspectives change, mindsets change, and people change. if only this change were for the better for every single one of us.
mrs ong! :)
our favourite reading corneri miss my primary school! i want to go back to those days when we were still dwarfs and didn't have to bother about those problems that giants face..
Friday, August 25, 2006
last day of school
what do you feel on the last official day of school?
nothing.
nothing?
maybe even a sense of relief.
perhaps it's just because there's still prelims, revision lectures, and A's, and it's not like we'll not be going back to school ever again. but i guess when i leave jc, i won't miss the school, but just the people. i don't think i'll ever feel that melancholy i felt 2 years ago, ever again.
ct session today was cool. we are so fortunate to have mrs koh as our civics tutor :) and we continued with the odd-year 78 class' tradition of taking our special same-place-same-people-same-pose photos! hope all the waiting for the sun paid off!
rushed to nanyang after school to help ms ong with the guides' outdoor cooking session. it's been quite a long time since i last went back to help with their trainings, so i felt a little guilty when i saw how the sec 1s and 2s did their turfing and firelighting. but im glad the guides are having fun. i was so glad to see anthea taking charge and making sure that the outdoor cooking training was carried out safely and smoothly. im so proud of this junior of mine. :) and thanks, kingfisher and swallow patrols, for being the first to offer me their fried noodles! haha, couldn't finish it but they forced me to anyway.
saw this teachers' day board with envelopes for students to write notes to teachers and spotted mrs chua and ms yeo's envelopes side by side! so i decided to drop them messages on my "unique" dsta foolscap paper! hahaha. i really wonder if they still remember me. they are the 2 nanyang teachers i respect the most, and i wont ever forget mrs chua's lesson on integrity, nor ms yeo's warning calls for us to step out of our twilight zones - which reminds me that i have to work really hard and not disappoint them!
on my way back i met huiying! it felt so nice to meet someone you havent seen in a long time. somehow the words just kept coming. after all the exams i must make it a point to meet up with her and xiangying!
chuang sing is tomorrow! yay!
nothing.
nothing?
maybe even a sense of relief.
perhaps it's just because there's still prelims, revision lectures, and A's, and it's not like we'll not be going back to school ever again. but i guess when i leave jc, i won't miss the school, but just the people. i don't think i'll ever feel that melancholy i felt 2 years ago, ever again.
ct session today was cool. we are so fortunate to have mrs koh as our civics tutor :) and we continued with the odd-year 78 class' tradition of taking our special same-place-same-people-same-pose photos! hope all the waiting for the sun paid off!
rushed to nanyang after school to help ms ong with the guides' outdoor cooking session. it's been quite a long time since i last went back to help with their trainings, so i felt a little guilty when i saw how the sec 1s and 2s did their turfing and firelighting. but im glad the guides are having fun. i was so glad to see anthea taking charge and making sure that the outdoor cooking training was carried out safely and smoothly. im so proud of this junior of mine. :) and thanks, kingfisher and swallow patrols, for being the first to offer me their fried noodles! haha, couldn't finish it but they forced me to anyway.
saw this teachers' day board with envelopes for students to write notes to teachers and spotted mrs chua and ms yeo's envelopes side by side! so i decided to drop them messages on my "unique" dsta foolscap paper! hahaha. i really wonder if they still remember me. they are the 2 nanyang teachers i respect the most, and i wont ever forget mrs chua's lesson on integrity, nor ms yeo's warning calls for us to step out of our twilight zones - which reminds me that i have to work really hard and not disappoint them!
on my way back i met huiying! it felt so nice to meet someone you havent seen in a long time. somehow the words just kept coming. after all the exams i must make it a point to meet up with her and xiangying!
chuang sing is tomorrow! yay!
Thursday, August 10, 2006
8 august
heh, i just came back from swimming! got dragged down by my parents to swim again. alright, so swimming is good for my back.. anyway i was having fun swimming in the freezing cold waters when i accidentally bumped into this girl. then she and her friend started shrieking like i was some pervert. and their reaction was so dramatic and exaggerated somemore! totally -.-!
hrmm shall update about 8 august, my mother's birthday! went to clarke quay and had dinner at this indian restaurant which my erjie recommended. shan't really comment on the food. hahaha, but the strawberry birthday cake that my erjie's bf bought was super yummy! :) was supposed to watch the fireworks, but didn't in the end because my cousins were coming over to our house. so wasted, the last time i've seen fireworks live was when i was in primary 5! oh well, there's always next year i guess..
when we reached home my mum realized she left something behind in the car. so my dad passed her the keys and said "哎呀, 自己去拿啦!" my mum just obediently took the keys and went ahead, without realizing that my dad was already walking behind her. "我陪你去.." haha, it was just something very trivial, but somehow i was very touched by the sweetness of it all.
that day i asked my mother whether she was happy, and her reply was "开心" :) yay!
prelims are nearing! and a levels too! i still have no idea what i'm going to study next time. i know my parents want me to study medicine, but i know i don't have what it takes to be a good doctor. why is it that some people can just go all the way to fulfil their dreams, while some just drift along, without even an inkling of what they really want in life? others think they know what is best for them, but end up regretting. i just hope i'll never regret. eventually, i will find my answers to all these. so whatever la, i should just stop slacking and start mugging!
You know - one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply.
hrmm shall update about 8 august, my mother's birthday! went to clarke quay and had dinner at this indian restaurant which my erjie recommended. shan't really comment on the food. hahaha, but the strawberry birthday cake that my erjie's bf bought was super yummy! :) was supposed to watch the fireworks, but didn't in the end because my cousins were coming over to our house. so wasted, the last time i've seen fireworks live was when i was in primary 5! oh well, there's always next year i guess..
when we reached home my mum realized she left something behind in the car. so my dad passed her the keys and said "哎呀, 自己去拿啦!" my mum just obediently took the keys and went ahead, without realizing that my dad was already walking behind her. "我陪你去.." haha, it was just something very trivial, but somehow i was very touched by the sweetness of it all.
that day i asked my mother whether she was happy, and her reply was "开心" :) yay!
prelims are nearing! and a levels too! i still have no idea what i'm going to study next time. i know my parents want me to study medicine, but i know i don't have what it takes to be a good doctor. why is it that some people can just go all the way to fulfil their dreams, while some just drift along, without even an inkling of what they really want in life? others think they know what is best for them, but end up regretting. i just hope i'll never regret. eventually, i will find my answers to all these. so whatever la, i should just stop slacking and start mugging!
You know - one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
?
each of us is an angel with one wing. the only way to fly is to hold on to each other and share our wings. when i have trouble flying, will you share your wing with me?
when Heaven breaks, who fixes it?
when will i ever get to see fireflies, shooting stars, and snowflakes?
will you please hate me? please.
when Heaven breaks, who fixes it?
when will i ever get to see fireflies, shooting stars, and snowflakes?
will you please hate me? please.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
how happy am i?
| You Are 80% Happy |
 You are a very happy person. Generally, you feel content and that all is right with the world. Occasionally, you have a down day - but you have the ability to pick yourself right back up. |
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
back pain
i don't know why my back is aching and hurting like this. it's supposed to be fine already. i really don't know what's wrong.
didn't want to tell my parents yesterday, but finally told them when i couldn't take the pain anymore. i didn't want them to worry again! and when i started crying, i knew it wasn't because of the pain, but because i was scared. scared of what, im not sure. it's just scary when you can't even sit down normally at the dining table to eat dinner with your parents.
and when my father told me, 有爸爸在, 有什么好怕的? i think he only made me cry even more. and so we went to see his chinese physician friend, since it was too late to make appointment to check my back at the hospital. and when i held on to my parents' hands tightly while the physician was pressing hard on my nerves (it's super painful ok!), i was reminded of how i bit on my father's arm when some doctor was stitching up my forehead at least some 10 years back. and it suddenly struck me, that they've been there for me all along. and i felt so xing fu. 幸福就在我的左右! :)
im much better now! i hope the pain goes away soon. pain, pain, go away, and never ever come again another day. mind over pain, and i'll be fine. so sian, never go to school today. haha, not that i love going to school la, but who will want such a cranky back just to miss school?
oh and canoeing nationals are starting tomorrow! jiayou hcanoe! huiwen2qi, all the way!
didn't want to tell my parents yesterday, but finally told them when i couldn't take the pain anymore. i didn't want them to worry again! and when i started crying, i knew it wasn't because of the pain, but because i was scared. scared of what, im not sure. it's just scary when you can't even sit down normally at the dining table to eat dinner with your parents.
and when my father told me, 有爸爸在, 有什么好怕的? i think he only made me cry even more. and so we went to see his chinese physician friend, since it was too late to make appointment to check my back at the hospital. and when i held on to my parents' hands tightly while the physician was pressing hard on my nerves (it's super painful ok!), i was reminded of how i bit on my father's arm when some doctor was stitching up my forehead at least some 10 years back. and it suddenly struck me, that they've been there for me all along. and i felt so xing fu. 幸福就在我的左右! :)
im much better now! i hope the pain goes away soon. pain, pain, go away, and never ever come again another day. mind over pain, and i'll be fine. so sian, never go to school today. haha, not that i love going to school la, but who will want such a cranky back just to miss school?
oh and canoeing nationals are starting tomorrow! jiayou hcanoe! huiwen2qi, all the way!
Sunday, July 09, 2006
cars
i watched cars with hong zhen on friday! i love the movie, despite the fact that i was dozing off halfway through the show haha. the ending made up for it though. so sweet and touching. mater's line, i don't know where im going, only know where i've been, struck me in particular. maybe it's because im like him, backtracking and living in the past.
i love this song from the movie. when they played it at the end i really didn't want to leave the cinema. it's so soothing, so peaceful, so nice. thanks kim mei mei for helping me find it! wo ai ni!
Brad Paisley - Find Yourself
When you find yourself
In some far off place
And it causes you to rethink some things
You start to sense that slowly
You're becoming someone else
And then you find yourself
When you make new friends in a brand new town
And you start to think about settlin' down
The things the would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell
And you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
Where you go through life
So sure of where you’re headin'
And you wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that’s when you find yourself
When you meet the one
That you've been waitin' for
And she's everything that you want and more
You look at her and you finally start to live for some one else
And then you find yourself
That’s when you find yourself
When we go through life
So sure of where we're headin'
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
played against siglap cc for league match and i learnt another invaluable lesson - aunties can be really irritating! thankfully i managed to remind myself to respect the elderly today.. or else i don't know what i would do to them. heh heh. and thanks xuet for coming down to support us! aiyah, really should have, erm, won them by a little bit more! (i didn't say thrash them ok.)
i love this song from the movie. when they played it at the end i really didn't want to leave the cinema. it's so soothing, so peaceful, so nice. thanks kim mei mei for helping me find it! wo ai ni!
Brad Paisley - Find Yourself
When you find yourself
In some far off place
And it causes you to rethink some things
You start to sense that slowly
You're becoming someone else
And then you find yourself
When you make new friends in a brand new town
And you start to think about settlin' down
The things the would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell
And you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
Where you go through life
So sure of where you’re headin'
And you wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that’s when you find yourself
When you meet the one
That you've been waitin' for
And she's everything that you want and more
You look at her and you finally start to live for some one else
And then you find yourself
That’s when you find yourself
When we go through life
So sure of where we're headin'
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
played against siglap cc for league match and i learnt another invaluable lesson - aunties can be really irritating! thankfully i managed to remind myself to respect the elderly today.. or else i don't know what i would do to them. heh heh. and thanks xuet for coming down to support us! aiyah, really should have, erm, won them by a little bit more! (i didn't say thrash them ok.)
Thursday, July 06, 2006
sad over physics
my father's birthday coming soon. he's been looking very troubled lately, and he refuses to tell any of us the reason. sigh, that makes me troubled as well. i hope we make him happy!
E(X) value too large, Var(X) value too large as well. and that's when there's disappointment. never mind, shant let it happen again.
everyone smile!
E(X) value too large, Var(X) value too large as well. and that's when there's disappointment. never mind, shant let it happen again.
everyone smile!
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Saturday, July 01, 2006
happening days
yesterday was really the ultimate day.hahaha went with zhuxuan to watch "the king and the clown" at cine! what else can i expect from zhuxuan la. that's why at the end of the day my cheeks still hurt from laughing so much.
when the movie started, i really thought it was an M18 movie. shan't really elaborate more on why, but somehow i got immune to the M18-ish stuff and the show turned out to be impressive. and it was really amusing and entertaining as well! oh well, clowns never fail to make people laugh. the show's so different from a normal movie that i can't even pinpoint its genre, but it's a nice deep movie to ponder over. the relationship between the two clowns is touching, and the beautiful background music can really tug at one's heartstrings. it's ironic how a man realizes that he had been blind all along only after he really literally lost his eyesight, and he only found his true self when he became blind. and not to forget, the movie also revolved around this poor king whom i don't even know whether to empathize with or to loathe.
life's a stage. and we're all actors on this stage. i love the last scene of the show, the freedom and happiness depicted within, and how it inspires us to put up an amazing play on this grand stage of life. even if it is the last moment, we should always laugh heartily :D
oh yes, and after the great movie, we went to take neoprints! it was the most ultimate neoprint-taking experience i ever had. first of all, zhuxuan (okay, actually i also had a part to play) happened to choose this machine which was super slow and laggy! and the thing is, the shopowners had actually left a note to advice people against using that machine. we only saw that note after we slotted in the very first coin! oh man! so naturally we were trying to get the coin out. and that was when we saw a second note.
which stated that once the coins are inserted, there'll be no refund! alright! and so we were left with no choice. we spent at least 5 to 10 minutes SLOTTING IN THE COINS. because the machine was really really lagging! it took several minutes to process the coin, and to decide whether the coin should be accepted or rejected. and this just marked the beginning.
the worst part was when we actually came down to taking the pictures. the machine would go 3! 2! 1! and then while the two of us were happily smiling away, it just went -FREEZE- and nothing happened. no flash, no funny retro music in the background. so naturally, we would fidget. and as and when the machine felt like it, it would just snap randomly. and so.. we had to smile for like 20 seconds before the machine would respond. really ku1 xiao4 bu4 de2!
after the horrible face-cramping experience, it was time to decorate the neoprints.. needless to say, we had such an enjoyable time scribbling around and laughing at how the machine screen would hang every 5 seconds! don't you think it's amazing that we actually managed to write those words in that neoprint? see, we were so sian diao that we don't even care about the piles and piles of money around us!
hahaha, excruciating but fun. zhuxuan, you're really the ultimate one la.
at night zeying and i went to cihan's house to stay over! watched argentina vs germany. and it was super exciting! draw, extra time, then penalty shootout! how often does that happen lor! but the match ended on a sad note. or at least, for me. cihan and ze were cheering away :( i don't like germany! why did they win! why was argentina so unlucky? if only they just maintained their 1-0 lead! i don't care, brazil must win tonight! it's extremely depressing when the teams you like just get kicked out like that. if brazil loses im really not going to watch world cup anymore.
we slept at 5am! and woke up at 8 plus. after eating breakfast at macs with cihan's cute sister too, i left for nanyang food fair! juniors are so lucky. why don't we ever get to take part in such large-scale events when we were in nanyang? so i roamed around with yifang and kailing after ziying left, and we took so many lame photos! then met up with the rest of the foureleveners! and now for the highlight!
hongzhen and i went for this revolver ride. you know those amusement park rides? there was this meteorite revolver set up outside the canteen, and the two of us went for it, while timid huixuan watched us from ground level heheh! air pressure immobilized the two of us as we were pressed against the back cushions. it was hard to laugh or talk properly while the wheel just turned round and round. and i can't believe i was actually thinking about circular motion and its physics at some point in time. haha! and it was exhilarating in some sense. i never dreamt that i would ever see nanyang in that way, from that angle, at that speed. cool :)
after that the three of us went to eat icecream! i miss the nanyang days when the three of us just crapped around all the time, like we did just now! must go huixuan's house to play at the end of the year!
and so i only slept for around 3 hours this morning. tired! but happy! haha, i'll be even happier if brazil wins later! please please please. ronaldo please bring brazil to the next stage!
Friday, June 30, 2006
Laughing Yoga
Laughing Yoga
hahaha this is super funny, my sis just showed it to me yesterday. very good for relieving stress! somehow you'll just want to laugh along with him! :D
hahaha this is super funny, my sis just showed it to me yesterday. very good for relieving stress! somehow you'll just want to laugh along with him! :D
Monday, June 26, 2006
after gp before chem
oh my goodness i can't believe i just watched shutter again. it's the fourth time im watching it. and im still not immune to it! even when i know when exactly something scary will pop out and from which corner of the television it will appear, i'll still find these horror scenes shocking. i want to be as brave as my maid!
brazil vs ghana at 3am! how to watch how to watch?!!
and how can i forget! i finally found someone who supports brazil's ronaldo too! yay zeying's another one who's got good taste!
i can't believe i almost dozed off during the gp papers. i mustn't be sleepy for chem tomorrow! all the more i can't allow myself to entertain the thought of staying up to 5am. really will die. okay it's time to continue with my last minute cramming. chem rocks! and this time i will definitely not fall asleep, thanks to shutter!
...
just realized brazil vs ghana match is tomorrow at 11pm. what's the difference? still cannot watch! :(
brazil vs ghana at 3am! how to watch how to watch?!!
and how can i forget! i finally found someone who supports brazil's ronaldo too! yay zeying's another one who's got good taste!
i can't believe i almost dozed off during the gp papers. i mustn't be sleepy for chem tomorrow! all the more i can't allow myself to entertain the thought of staying up to 5am. really will die. okay it's time to continue with my last minute cramming. chem rocks! and this time i will definitely not fall asleep, thanks to shutter!
...
just realized brazil vs ghana match is tomorrow at 11pm. what's the difference? still cannot watch! :(
Sunday, June 25, 2006
quiz
10 favourites:
colour - blue!
food - instant noodles hahaha.
song - this is tough, hard to choose only one song, but i guess my all-time favourite is love, me by collin raye
movie - a beautiful mind
sport - swimming
season - winter
day of the week - used to like mondays when i was in primary school, because i love going to school and playing with my friends all the time! now i like fridays, because that means the weekends are here..
ice-cream flavour - vanilla
book - the little prince by antoine de saint exupery
cartoon - mian bao chao ren!
9 currents:
mood - sleepy
song - realise by raymond lam (haha bong bong bong are you reading this?)
book - postcards from wits end
subject studying - chemistry
thought - thinking of my current thought. okay very lame. was just thinking why does time fly!
time - 12.01pm
toenail colour - i don't use nail polish
boyfriend - NIL -.-
wish - to survive blocks
7 firsts:
best friends - primary school, elma
crush - some primary school guy haha
movie - i think the first movie i watched in the cinema was titanic, with my erjie! :)
piercing - none
handphone - my sis gave me her phone when i was in sec 1
sport - this has to be running!
pet - hamster! that's the only pet i've ever had too.
lasts:
cigarrete - i don't smoke..
drink - milo
car ride - my dad sent me back from scba last night
crush - ehh..
movie - watched xmen3 with huiwen2qi, my sis, her bf, and my bro! (haha, super weird combination -.-!)
phone call - from biondi
sms - from my sixth aunt
song - mayday's lian ai-i EN g
have you ever:
dated one of your best friends - no!
broken the law - no too! at most school rules haha. why don't they allow us to play bridge in school!
been arrested - yar yar i killed someone!
skinny-dipped - no..
been on TV - probably. pga!
kissed someone u didn't know - that's quite horrifying
4 things ive done today: brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, mugged some chem, talked on the phone
3 things I can hear right now: mayday's ren sheng hai hai, my mum cleaning some bag, and the sound of the keyboard
things you do when you're bored: i'll come online and do stuff like this, or i'll just sleep
5 people to do this quiz: guess everyone's probably busy mugging anyway. shall get bored people to do this another time!
oh yes! yesterday was a happy day! yiwen and i got third for youth pairs! can you believe it? (hear yourself saying no?) haha, i can't believe it too! luck was on our side! hope this good luck never ever leaves us!
colour - blue!
food - instant noodles hahaha.
song - this is tough, hard to choose only one song, but i guess my all-time favourite is love, me by collin raye
movie - a beautiful mind
sport - swimming
season - winter
day of the week - used to like mondays when i was in primary school, because i love going to school and playing with my friends all the time! now i like fridays, because that means the weekends are here..
ice-cream flavour - vanilla
book - the little prince by antoine de saint exupery
cartoon - mian bao chao ren!
9 currents:
mood - sleepy
song - realise by raymond lam (haha bong bong bong are you reading this?)
book - postcards from wits end
subject studying - chemistry
thought - thinking of my current thought. okay very lame. was just thinking why does time fly!
time - 12.01pm
toenail colour - i don't use nail polish
boyfriend - NIL -.-
wish - to survive blocks
7 firsts:
best friends - primary school, elma
crush - some primary school guy haha
movie - i think the first movie i watched in the cinema was titanic, with my erjie! :)
piercing - none
handphone - my sis gave me her phone when i was in sec 1
sport - this has to be running!
pet - hamster! that's the only pet i've ever had too.
lasts:
cigarrete - i don't smoke..
drink - milo
car ride - my dad sent me back from scba last night
crush - ehh..
movie - watched xmen3 with huiwen2qi, my sis, her bf, and my bro! (haha, super weird combination -.-!)
phone call - from biondi
sms - from my sixth aunt
song - mayday's lian ai-i EN g
have you ever:
dated one of your best friends - no!
broken the law - no too! at most school rules haha. why don't they allow us to play bridge in school!
been arrested - yar yar i killed someone!
skinny-dipped - no..
been on TV - probably. pga!
kissed someone u didn't know - that's quite horrifying
4 things ive done today: brushed my teeth, ate breakfast, mugged some chem, talked on the phone
3 things I can hear right now: mayday's ren sheng hai hai, my mum cleaning some bag, and the sound of the keyboard
things you do when you're bored: i'll come online and do stuff like this, or i'll just sleep
5 people to do this quiz: guess everyone's probably busy mugging anyway. shall get bored people to do this another time!
oh yes! yesterday was a happy day! yiwen and i got third for youth pairs! can you believe it? (hear yourself saying no?) haha, i can't believe it too! luck was on our side! hope this good luck never ever leaves us!
Friday, June 23, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Childhood of a Voice
Childhood of a Voice
The light oppresses and the darkness frees
a man like me, who never cared at all:
Imagine it, the childhood of a voice
and voice of childhood telling me my name.
But if only the rain would fall,
and the sky we have not seen so long
come blue again.
The familiar white street
is tired of always running east.
The sky, of always arching over.
The tree, of always reaching up.
Even the round earth is tired of being round
and spinning round the sun.
- Martin Carter
found this poem when i was reading through poems deep and dangerous. the book brought back so many memories of nanyang!
im tired of slacking cum mugging. slacking makes me guilty, mugging is miserable. don't want to regret not trying my best, yet it's just so hard to get down to really putting in my best effort. shall just keep in mind that it's just blocks! no kick! heheh :) everyone jia you!
im glad im not the earth. imagine spinning around the sun forever! phew, at least there's an end to studying.
The light oppresses and the darkness frees
a man like me, who never cared at all:
Imagine it, the childhood of a voice
and voice of childhood telling me my name.
But if only the rain would fall,
and the sky we have not seen so long
come blue again.
The familiar white street
is tired of always running east.
The sky, of always arching over.
The tree, of always reaching up.
Even the round earth is tired of being round
and spinning round the sun.
- Martin Carter
found this poem when i was reading through poems deep and dangerous. the book brought back so many memories of nanyang!
im tired of slacking cum mugging. slacking makes me guilty, mugging is miserable. don't want to regret not trying my best, yet it's just so hard to get down to really putting in my best effort. shall just keep in mind that it's just blocks! no kick! heheh :) everyone jia you!
im glad im not the earth. imagine spinning around the sun forever! phew, at least there's an end to studying.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
disappointing
i stayed up to 3am last night just to watch brazil's match!
it was simply.. an incredible achievement for me! thank goodness for solitaire showdown and the spurts of adrenaline rush that o2jam gave me, otherwise i would really have missed ronaldo in action!
but the match was disappointing. didn't expect the croatians to be that good, and ronaldo was seriously missing in action. i was such an ardent fan of his, starting from the last world cup! yet yesterday he wasn't even seen running, not to mention that he kept losing the ball. and people keep attributing the cause of his lackluster performance to his weight! even the brazilian president posted him a fat question. i was really looking forward to his confident strikes and goals, and his smile and funny finger action whenever he scores! too bad he only got close to making one off-target shot, and got substituted in the second half of the match.
champions can never be champions forever. standards are hard to maintain. this kind of reminds me of our dream-like cjc competition, which preceded the horrible scba nationals.
nevertheless, im still going to catch all the brazil matches! at least their match against croatia was exciting, and kaka the shuai ge scored! oh and i feel really sad for my sis, for losing both her bets on brazil. why didn't they win by at least 2 goals. those irritating checkered shirts.
haha! something funny from the scv scope on croatia: when croatians are not distracting their opponents with their play, they dazzle them with their team jersey. it is a shirt of red and white checkers, which, when shining in the sun, can have quite a mesmerizing effect.
anyway, i also learnt a lesson. never ever attempt to study bio notes the day after staying up to watch world cup! i woke up at around 10am (not bad right, so early!) today, but tried reading through the respiration notes in the afternoon, and that brought me away to dreamland instantly! ended up spending quite a few hours slacking around in dreamland.
dajie's going off to bangkok tomorrow, erjie's leaving for germany to watch world cup soon. all of a sudden my holidays seem so empty.
it was simply.. an incredible achievement for me! thank goodness for solitaire showdown and the spurts of adrenaline rush that o2jam gave me, otherwise i would really have missed ronaldo in action!
but the match was disappointing. didn't expect the croatians to be that good, and ronaldo was seriously missing in action. i was such an ardent fan of his, starting from the last world cup! yet yesterday he wasn't even seen running, not to mention that he kept losing the ball. and people keep attributing the cause of his lackluster performance to his weight! even the brazilian president posted him a fat question. i was really looking forward to his confident strikes and goals, and his smile and funny finger action whenever he scores! too bad he only got close to making one off-target shot, and got substituted in the second half of the match.
champions can never be champions forever. standards are hard to maintain. this kind of reminds me of our dream-like cjc competition, which preceded the horrible scba nationals.
nevertheless, im still going to catch all the brazil matches! at least their match against croatia was exciting, and kaka the shuai ge scored! oh and i feel really sad for my sis, for losing both her bets on brazil. why didn't they win by at least 2 goals. those irritating checkered shirts.
haha! something funny from the scv scope on croatia: when croatians are not distracting their opponents with their play, they dazzle them with their team jersey. it is a shirt of red and white checkers, which, when shining in the sun, can have quite a mesmerizing effect.
anyway, i also learnt a lesson. never ever attempt to study bio notes the day after staying up to watch world cup! i woke up at around 10am (not bad right, so early!) today, but tried reading through the respiration notes in the afternoon, and that brought me away to dreamland instantly! ended up spending quite a few hours slacking around in dreamland.
dajie's going off to bangkok tomorrow, erjie's leaving for germany to watch world cup soon. all of a sudden my holidays seem so empty.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
another week of bridge
another week spent bridging! (and eating! hahaha)
don't know what to type, so shall just post pictures!
chess and bridge jts at seoul garden!
hrmm, got 6th for junior student pairs yesterday. mixed feelings - happy because we really thought we had so many bottom boards that we would end up as one of the last pairs, but sad because we didn't improve from last year! (last year we were third!) lost another chance to win a trophy again.
no more bridge competitions until 24th of june. two more weeks of holidays and tons of stuff to do! i have to finish packing my stuff, train up my o2jam character, revamp bidding system with yiwen, watch world cup, slack around, and most importantly.. mug! cannot and must not die for blocks!
don't know what to type, so shall just post pictures!
chess and bridge jts at seoul garden!
hrmm, got 6th for junior student pairs yesterday. mixed feelings - happy because we really thought we had so many bottom boards that we would end up as one of the last pairs, but sad because we didn't improve from last year! (last year we were third!) lost another chance to win a trophy again.
no more bridge competitions until 24th of june. two more weeks of holidays and tons of stuff to do! i have to finish packing my stuff, train up my o2jam character, revamp bidding system with yiwen, watch world cup, slack around, and most importantly.. mug! cannot and must not die for blocks!
Thursday, June 08, 2006
glhf
it's raining..
can't believe we really missed getting third for scba nationals by just that 4 vps. :( quite sad that we lost to rjc1 and innova, when it shouldn't be so. not at all.
it's okay, it's alright! glhf fight fight fight! there's nothing to be sad about anyway. because our other team got 1st! so at least there's something to be happy about! and we just got our fabulous sakura treat for dinner yesterday! besides, there's still nuss intercollege teams coming up! tough competition, but we'll do it!
good luck to us, and we'll have fun :)
can't believe we really missed getting third for scba nationals by just that 4 vps. :( quite sad that we lost to rjc1 and innova, when it shouldn't be so. not at all.
it's okay, it's alright! glhf fight fight fight! there's nothing to be sad about anyway. because our other team got 1st! so at least there's something to be happy about! and we just got our fabulous sakura treat for dinner yesterday! besides, there's still nuss intercollege teams coming up! tough competition, but we'll do it!
good luck to us, and we'll have fun :)
Thursday, June 01, 2006
lowly dory chieh
went to school for psychometric assessment exercise today! was really sleepy and blur in the morning, so can only recall one thing about it - i was totally frozen while doing the test! grrr, and i bet the aircon was on full blast! now im really certain ice is much more powerful than fire.
anyway, met up with lowly and dory for lunch at pastamania! finally finally! they're still as spastic as ever. haha! and lowly was self-entertaining as usual, talking and laughing to herself, pretending that both of us were listening to her, when we obviously weren't interested at all. =P and dory, even worse, was totally engrossed in compressing the cheese bits in the bottle, to the extent that everything was compressed and hardened into one block! i can't believe i actually have such friends. but oh well, what to do, these are exactly the reasons why i love them so much too.
met lowly's risky rizki and went to dory's house to play mahjong! fun fun, though i bet lowly totally hated the game because she didn't win at all! so much for beginner's luck! then we went on to play one round of daidee. and here's why we only played one round:
so it was my turn and i happily dumped my straight flush. then lowly (who's left with only ONE card) dumped her last card triumphantly!
all of us: -stunned- then we burst out laughing! especially when we saw what her last card was.
to think it's not bad enough that she threw ONE card after my five-carder.. guess what her last card was?
2 of spades..
-faints- now it should be quite clear why we stopped playing that game after lowly's dramatic "win".
im really happy today :) happy to meet up with these two great great friends of mine! even happier meeting lowly's dangerous rizki! and knowing that chicken and fish are happy, that made me happiest :D
anyway, met up with lowly and dory for lunch at pastamania! finally finally! they're still as spastic as ever. haha! and lowly was self-entertaining as usual, talking and laughing to herself, pretending that both of us were listening to her, when we obviously weren't interested at all. =P and dory, even worse, was totally engrossed in compressing the cheese bits in the bottle, to the extent that everything was compressed and hardened into one block! i can't believe i actually have such friends. but oh well, what to do, these are exactly the reasons why i love them so much too.
met lowly's risky rizki and went to dory's house to play mahjong! fun fun, though i bet lowly totally hated the game because she didn't win at all! so much for beginner's luck! then we went on to play one round of daidee. and here's why we only played one round:
so it was my turn and i happily dumped my straight flush. then lowly (who's left with only ONE card) dumped her last card triumphantly!
all of us: -stunned- then we burst out laughing! especially when we saw what her last card was.
to think it's not bad enough that she threw ONE card after my five-carder.. guess what her last card was?
2 of spades..
-faints- now it should be quite clear why we stopped playing that game after lowly's dramatic "win".
im really happy today :) happy to meet up with these two great great friends of mine! even happier meeting lowly's dangerous rizki! and knowing that chicken and fish are happy, that made me happiest :D
Monday, May 29, 2006
moving over to maysprings
| People Envy Your Compassion |
 You have a kind heart and an unusual empathy for all living creatures. You tend to absorb others' happiness and pain. People envy your compassion, and more importantly, the connections it helps you build. And compassionate as you are, you feel for them. |
| Your Life Path Number is 11 |
 Your purpose in life is to inspire others Your amazing energy draws people to you, and you give them great insight in return. You hold a great amount of power over others, without even trying. You have the makings of an inventor, artist, religious leader, or prophet. In love, you are sensitive and passionate. You connect with your partner on a very deep level. You have great abilities, but you are often way too critical of yourself. You don't fit in - and instead of celebrating your differences, you dwell on them. You have high expectations of yourself. But sometimes you set them too high and don't achieve anything. |
i'm lazy to move house. don't feel like moving. so tired of packing! why do i have so much rubbish in my room.. i always don't like throwing stuff away, so i end up keeping everything! haha, and now it's time to suffer retribution for not filing up my notes at all. and it seems like im the only one in the family with so many things to bring over. i still don't really like the condo, even with all the facilities and how convenient it is for me to go home from school. because i've stayed here for all my life! next time cannot come back and reminisce too, since we've already sold this house to a new family. sigh, can still remember how i could really feel my heart sink when my dad signed the documents with them to sell our house. never mind, on a brighter note, next time i can swim all i want! and there'll be wireless for all our computers. and we can finally all stay together with my erjie! the list is never-ending..
but still, i'll really really miss this apartment. :(
Sunday, May 28, 2006
cjc inter-jc bridge tournament
we won we won we won!
hwachong bagged all first 3 prizes for cjc inter-jc bridge tournament! and guess whose team got first? guess who guess who! heh heh :D
okay i must not be complacent! yesterday it was mostly (but not totally!) luck that gave us the winning streak :)
drew lots and the first team we played against was vjc's team 3! really lucky to have played against them for the first round; our other seniors' team had to play sajc's team 1 and they drew with them for that first round which caused them to have difficulty catching up though they still got 3rd ultimately. in the end our team won 25-0 and earned our place at table 1! we were playing swiss, and table 1's where the highest ranking teams play against one another. :)
and from the second round onwards we managed to hog our seats at table 1 all the way to the end of the competition!
yay! thanks to my partner yiwen, zhibang and weiche! and kenneth who supported us all the way! oh, and not to forget, liangzhen and the immense motivation he gave us - now we get a treat at sakura!
now i seriously think the future's really optimistic for our bridge club! weili and jiawei's j1 team got 2nd! that was a nice surprise for everyone. still remember how i got thrashed by rjc (the defending champions) last year. so they're really really good considering they've only played for less than half a year!
and to xuet: we made history!
yesterday was a really happy and lucky day! everything felt like a dream. haha. and i don't want to wake up from it. :D
hwachong bagged all first 3 prizes for cjc inter-jc bridge tournament! and guess whose team got first? guess who guess who! heh heh :D
okay i must not be complacent! yesterday it was mostly (but not totally!) luck that gave us the winning streak :)
drew lots and the first team we played against was vjc's team 3! really lucky to have played against them for the first round; our other seniors' team had to play sajc's team 1 and they drew with them for that first round which caused them to have difficulty catching up though they still got 3rd ultimately. in the end our team won 25-0 and earned our place at table 1! we were playing swiss, and table 1's where the highest ranking teams play against one another. :)
and from the second round onwards we managed to hog our seats at table 1 all the way to the end of the competition!
yay! thanks to my partner yiwen, zhibang and weiche! and kenneth who supported us all the way! oh, and not to forget, liangzhen and the immense motivation he gave us - now we get a treat at sakura!
now i seriously think the future's really optimistic for our bridge club! weili and jiawei's j1 team got 2nd! that was a nice surprise for everyone. still remember how i got thrashed by rjc (the defending champions) last year. so they're really really good considering they've only played for less than half a year!
and to xuet: we made history!
yesterday was a really happy and lucky day! everything felt like a dream. haha. and i don't want to wake up from it. :D
Saturday, May 06, 2006
SAT
sat for sat on sat.
haha, okay that's lame. torturous 3 hours! and we stayed in njc's hall from 7.45 to 1.30. english maths english maths english maths. my mind was supersaturated with language and numbers. and the guy next to me was so cool; he managed to finish all the sections before i did, and he always refused to check once he finished! so irritating. and he just sat there, with his back slumped against the chair, sleeping! i tried competing with him at first, but he was always the one to turn the page first. :( english was quite hard, with the vocab and critical reading questions. there were so many long passages to read in the entire booklet! so sian and sickening. but complaints aside, it's finally over! had a nice long sleep when i reached home, the paper had left me totally drained.. really hope i hadn't wasted my parents' money!
haha, okay that's lame. torturous 3 hours! and we stayed in njc's hall from 7.45 to 1.30. english maths english maths english maths. my mind was supersaturated with language and numbers. and the guy next to me was so cool; he managed to finish all the sections before i did, and he always refused to check once he finished! so irritating. and he just sat there, with his back slumped against the chair, sleeping! i tried competing with him at first, but he was always the one to turn the page first. :( english was quite hard, with the vocab and critical reading questions. there were so many long passages to read in the entire booklet! so sian and sickening. but complaints aside, it's finally over! had a nice long sleep when i reached home, the paper had left me totally drained.. really hope i hadn't wasted my parents' money!
Saturday, April 29, 2006
test the speed of your eyes
http://www.unf-unf.de/show.php?did=559
i think im very boliao. was very bored, so dug out this game from an old email. but this flash game is seriously quite entertaining! go get yourself cross-eyed if you're bored. sometimes life passes by so quickly that we lose sight of the little things we really want..
i think im very boliao. was very bored, so dug out this game from an old email. but this flash game is seriously quite entertaining! go get yourself cross-eyed if you're bored. sometimes life passes by so quickly that we lose sight of the little things we really want..
Thursday, April 27, 2006
mrt match!
shall blog about the super fun and exciting mrt match pam chuanyuan guangfeng and i went for yesterday! :D
dover chinese gardens bukit batok woodlands admiralty sembawang tiong bahru raffles place paya lebar changi airport
haha! the four of us travelled around singapore on bus, mrt, taxi and our sprinting footsteps within those three and a half hours! definitely the most exciting race i've ever joined in my entire life! imagine chuan yuan with his super anxious and serious face (he woke up at 4am in the morning to mug all the mrt lines, landmarks.. x_x) and guangfeng with his "we must win! we must win! we must win the 600 bucks!".. in the end pam and i got infected with their winning obsession and just went all out to reach these 10 stations in the shortest time possible. all out! including spending 10 dollars per person to take cab =P
we ran IN the mrt, ran past the weird looks people shot at us, then quickly jumped out of the right cabin when the doors slid open, posed at the woodlands statue, chuan yuan took the photo, and ZOOM! we rushed back into the train before the doors closed on us! phew! haha at bukit batok it was even worse. 3 hwachong groups squeezing at the same door, with the same plan in mind.. and that totally stunned an innocent passer-by standing at the mrt platform! lol, poor thing!
though we got 4th in the end (disappointing - far from our expectations of getting the 600 bucks), it was still a really nice experience! watching guangfeng run, cursing that other groups will get disqualified oops, meeting a really nice taxi uncle who helped us overtake the other group, us getting all worried that we can't win, and telling each other not to give up hope! (lol, that sounds so drama) and besides that, we managed to win a cool kiddy umbrella :) happy happy. pam, chuanyuan, guangfeng, yay! :D
today on my way back from school, i met this really cute baby girl in the bus! she's so adorable! her maid was carrying her and they were sitting next to me. and the baby kept smiling at me, despite sucking her thumb at the same time.. then she called me "jie jie!" so sweet! if only i had a camera with me. but then they might just freak out, haha.
dover chinese gardens bukit batok woodlands admiralty sembawang tiong bahru raffles place paya lebar changi airport
haha! the four of us travelled around singapore on bus, mrt, taxi and our sprinting footsteps within those three and a half hours! definitely the most exciting race i've ever joined in my entire life! imagine chuan yuan with his super anxious and serious face (he woke up at 4am in the morning to mug all the mrt lines, landmarks.. x_x) and guangfeng with his "we must win! we must win! we must win the 600 bucks!".. in the end pam and i got infected with their winning obsession and just went all out to reach these 10 stations in the shortest time possible. all out! including spending 10 dollars per person to take cab =P
we ran IN the mrt, ran past the weird looks people shot at us, then quickly jumped out of the right cabin when the doors slid open, posed at the woodlands statue, chuan yuan took the photo, and ZOOM! we rushed back into the train before the doors closed on us! phew! haha at bukit batok it was even worse. 3 hwachong groups squeezing at the same door, with the same plan in mind.. and that totally stunned an innocent passer-by standing at the mrt platform! lol, poor thing!
though we got 4th in the end (disappointing - far from our expectations of getting the 600 bucks), it was still a really nice experience! watching guangfeng run, cursing that other groups will get disqualified oops, meeting a really nice taxi uncle who helped us overtake the other group, us getting all worried that we can't win, and telling each other not to give up hope! (lol, that sounds so drama) and besides that, we managed to win a cool kiddy umbrella :) happy happy. pam, chuanyuan, guangfeng, yay! :D
today on my way back from school, i met this really cute baby girl in the bus! she's so adorable! her maid was carrying her and they were sitting next to me. and the baby kept smiling at me, despite sucking her thumb at the same time.. then she called me "jie jie!" so sweet! if only i had a camera with me. but then they might just freak out, haha.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
zhuxuan's joke
haha thanks man. zhuxuan i really really miss you!
:( thanks for making me laugh like an idiot at the computer monitor. such a cold joke, so lame, don't even know why i laughed, but you made my day :)
Saturday, April 08, 2006
friday bridge game
wah, played bridge at scba from 7.30 till 11pm yesterday. was almost falling asleep while playing the last few boards - ended up discarding winners -.- haha but partnership with chengyen was not bad! first time we played together, plus i made so many mistakes (as usual). it was surprising that we managed to get cool results for yesterday's game! a nice pleasant surprise :)
maybe luck does matter in bridge after all. seems like i was really lucky yesterday. haha, sometimes opponents just make mistakes, sometimes you just do stupid things at the spur of the moment, sometimes the tournament director gets involved. perhaps good card play depends largely on skill, but personally i think i need luck to ensure that i don't make mistakes, and tons of good luck to meet unlucky opponents.
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
don't like playing bridge at night. because after that i just can't bring myself to sleep; no matter how tired i am, the brain just refuses to rest. can't imagine myself playing bridge 3 days in a row next week. -zombie-fied- :O
anw! this week has been rather slack and nice! playing snap, speed and bridge at class bench has been a good source of entertainment. watching delin and guang feng play bridge ar.. it's really a one-in-a-lifetime experience man. then you see chuan yuan almost about to vomit blood, huiwen with her crazy hysterical laughter, and kim with her cheeks to the brink of cramping.. can really die laughing!
云和天, 蝶和花, 从来不需要说话
断不了依然日夜牵挂
写一首简单的歌, 让你的心情快乐!
i love this song! simplicity rocks. complexities (boo you, complex numbers!) bring in too many grey areas. but if feelings weren't complex, we'll all be either happy or sad robots, which is super lame. this is so contradictory. maybe if the human brain and heart weren't this complicated, i wouldn't even come to this conclusion. ok im not making sense hahaha.
这世界很复杂, 混淆我想说的话. guess it's just as simple as this.
风温柔得清晰也许飘来好消息...
alright i'm off to watch 恶作剧! have a nice weekend!
maybe luck does matter in bridge after all. seems like i was really lucky yesterday. haha, sometimes opponents just make mistakes, sometimes you just do stupid things at the spur of the moment, sometimes the tournament director gets involved. perhaps good card play depends largely on skill, but personally i think i need luck to ensure that i don't make mistakes, and tons of good luck to meet unlucky opponents.
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
don't like playing bridge at night. because after that i just can't bring myself to sleep; no matter how tired i am, the brain just refuses to rest. can't imagine myself playing bridge 3 days in a row next week. -zombie-fied- :O
anw! this week has been rather slack and nice! playing snap, speed and bridge at class bench has been a good source of entertainment. watching delin and guang feng play bridge ar.. it's really a one-in-a-lifetime experience man. then you see chuan yuan almost about to vomit blood, huiwen with her crazy hysterical laughter, and kim with her cheeks to the brink of cramping.. can really die laughing!
云和天, 蝶和花, 从来不需要说话
断不了依然日夜牵挂
写一首简单的歌, 让你的心情快乐!
i love this song! simplicity rocks. complexities (boo you, complex numbers!) bring in too many grey areas. but if feelings weren't complex, we'll all be either happy or sad robots, which is super lame. this is so contradictory. maybe if the human brain and heart weren't this complicated, i wouldn't even come to this conclusion. ok im not making sense hahaha.
这世界很复杂, 混淆我想说的话. guess it's just as simple as this.
风温柔得清晰也许飘来好消息...
alright i'm off to watch 恶作剧! have a nice weekend!
Friday, March 31, 2006
the rain, the soil, the mud
went back to nanyang to help out with guides today. felt so loved when the principal patted me on my head haha! it felt like i just returned home :) i don't know whether mdm mak recognizes me, the girl who so eagerly shook her hand on her first council investiture, the girl who makes weird announcements during morning assembly, the girl who enthusiastically (or maybe desperately) wanted to take a photo with her at the president guides' ceremony. lol, i sure hope she doesn't remember me as a joker.
really disappointed when it rained, since they planned to do outdoor cooking today. ended up listening to the guides' asean presentation for testwork.
the rain, the soil, the mud. i miss outdoor cooking so much so much, and i especially remember how hard we trained for it during the pga days. despite the rain, we turfed so much at the school lawn that it literally turned into a graveyard - with the pits laid neatly side by side, and perfectly rectangular. in the rain, we tried to set the chunk of wet twigs and leaves on fire with simply one matchstick. tough. i still remember lowly's words. sometimes, the going gets so tough that during outdoor cooking, you are no longer able to differentiate between smoke-tears and real tears. yet the sense of satisfaction you get when the leaves and twigs start crackling under the heat and catch fire, and especially when the water starts boiling.. it's indescribable. the smoke, the dirty muddy shoes, the smell of sweat, the people.
today i walked past the lawn again. it was a nice spread of green, no graveyard pits, nobody, it was just the rain showering the lawn. im so glad memories are alive.
oh! and im so proud of my bro! full marks for his marksman test! and he came back exclaiming, "there's a reason why people call me king". so ego! haha but im proud of him all the same!
inter-club bridge league. im playing against congenital optimists tomorrow. hope i wake up tomorrow feeling even more optimistic than them! jia you jia you jia you. cannot screw up. no mistakes no mistakes!
hey hey hey, it's thinking day! LOL.
really disappointed when it rained, since they planned to do outdoor cooking today. ended up listening to the guides' asean presentation for testwork.
the rain, the soil, the mud. i miss outdoor cooking so much so much, and i especially remember how hard we trained for it during the pga days. despite the rain, we turfed so much at the school lawn that it literally turned into a graveyard - with the pits laid neatly side by side, and perfectly rectangular. in the rain, we tried to set the chunk of wet twigs and leaves on fire with simply one matchstick. tough. i still remember lowly's words. sometimes, the going gets so tough that during outdoor cooking, you are no longer able to differentiate between smoke-tears and real tears. yet the sense of satisfaction you get when the leaves and twigs start crackling under the heat and catch fire, and especially when the water starts boiling.. it's indescribable. the smoke, the dirty muddy shoes, the smell of sweat, the people.
today i walked past the lawn again. it was a nice spread of green, no graveyard pits, nobody, it was just the rain showering the lawn. im so glad memories are alive.
oh! and im so proud of my bro! full marks for his marksman test! and he came back exclaiming, "there's a reason why people call me king". so ego! haha but im proud of him all the same!
inter-club bridge league. im playing against congenital optimists tomorrow. hope i wake up tomorrow feeling even more optimistic than them! jia you jia you jia you. cannot screw up. no mistakes no mistakes!
hey hey hey, it's thinking day! LOL.
Monday, March 27, 2006
the helper
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=12721960859055255705
the Helper
you chose CX - your Enneagram type is TWO.
"I must help others"
Helpers are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.
How to Get Along with Me
Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.
Share fun times with me.
Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.
Let me know that I am important and special to you.
Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.
In Intimate Relationships
Reassure me that I am intersting to you.
Reassure me often that you love me.
Tell me I'm attractive and that you're glad to be seen with me.
What I Like About Being a Two
being able to relate easily to people and to make friends
knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better
being generous, caring, and warm
being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings
being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor
What's Hard About Being a Two
not being able to say no
having low self-esteem
feeling drained from overdoing for others
not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish
criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should
being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tume in to them
working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings
Twos as Children Often
are very sensitive to disapproval and criticism
try hard to please their parents by being helpful and understanding
are outwardly compliant
are popular or try to be popular with other children
act coy, precocious, or dramatic in order to get attention
are clowns and jokers (the more extroverted Twos), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Twos)
Twos as Parents
are good listeners, love their children unconditionally, and are warm and encouraging (or suffer guilt if they aren't)
are often playful with their children
wonder: "Am I doing it right?" "Am I giving enough?" "Have I caused irreparable damage?"
can become fiercely protective
the Helper
you chose CX - your Enneagram type is TWO.
"I must help others"
Helpers are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.
How to Get Along with Me
Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.
Share fun times with me.
Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.
Let me know that I am important and special to you.
Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.
In Intimate Relationships
Reassure me that I am intersting to you.
Reassure me often that you love me.
Tell me I'm attractive and that you're glad to be seen with me.
What I Like About Being a Two
being able to relate easily to people and to make friends
knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better
being generous, caring, and warm
being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings
being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor
What's Hard About Being a Two
not being able to say no
having low self-esteem
feeling drained from overdoing for others
not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish
criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should
being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tume in to them
working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings
Twos as Children Often
are very sensitive to disapproval and criticism
try hard to please their parents by being helpful and understanding
are outwardly compliant
are popular or try to be popular with other children
act coy, precocious, or dramatic in order to get attention
are clowns and jokers (the more extroverted Twos), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Twos)
Twos as Parents
are good listeners, love their children unconditionally, and are warm and encouraging (or suffer guilt if they aren't)
are often playful with their children
wonder: "Am I doing it right?" "Am I giving enough?" "Have I caused irreparable damage?"
can become fiercely protective
Friday, March 17, 2006
how well do you know me?
how well do you know me? hahaha ok i was bored la, inspired by my dearest friend lowly! no prizes for getting full marks! but! you better pass the quiz, or else..
http://www.friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=chiehchiehchieh
people are telling me weird stuff nowadays.
yesterday, on our way back home from pasar malam..
sis: i can't imagine you being my child's aunt next time.
me: ?!?!?! -after a while- yar i'll abuse the baby! hahaha.
then today, my father (who has barely mastered the skill of sms-ing) sent me some weird warning message!
dad: where are you?
me: haha at home la.
dad: U Better watch out!
HUH? and it's not like he sent the message to the wrong person! didn't know that staying at home was such a heinous crime..
wah! and it's friday already! which means.. holidays are ending! :( but it also means that.. blocks are gonna be over soon! :) think i slept most of my hols away again this time, hopefully all the math bio phy chem stuff diffused into my brain while i slept on them! high concentration to low concentration, don't even need active transport or any enzymes. so i should be all geared up for next week! hahaha, if only things work this way la. too bad la, if the stuff could diffuse in this way, they would have diffused back out already. boo.
http://www.friendtest.com/viewquiz.php?account=chiehchiehchieh
people are telling me weird stuff nowadays.
yesterday, on our way back home from pasar malam..
sis: i can't imagine you being my child's aunt next time.
me: ?!?!?! -after a while- yar i'll abuse the baby! hahaha.
then today, my father (who has barely mastered the skill of sms-ing) sent me some weird warning message!
dad: where are you?
me: haha at home la.
dad: U Better watch out!
HUH? and it's not like he sent the message to the wrong person! didn't know that staying at home was such a heinous crime..
wah! and it's friday already! which means.. holidays are ending! :( but it also means that.. blocks are gonna be over soon! :) think i slept most of my hols away again this time, hopefully all the math bio phy chem stuff diffused into my brain while i slept on them! high concentration to low concentration, don't even need active transport or any enzymes. so i should be all geared up for next week! hahaha, if only things work this way la. too bad la, if the stuff could diffuse in this way, they would have diffused back out already. boo.
Monday, March 13, 2006
:( to :)
倒立客喜欢倒着看世界, 看到彩虹以微笑的姿势出现. - 几米 <<失乐园>>
such a cute and happy view of life! change your perspectives, and you can turn :( to :).
well! yesterday was huangcheng night. before that went for nus open house with cihan, ying2 and kim. super sian and listless! talks were boring, exhibitions were boring, and we were all really bored. so we just bore our way through the campus for a while before leaving for bugis!
haha so we had a lot of fun taking neoprints and walking around! :D much much happier than when we were in nus. =X
huangcheng was better than last year's, i think. but couldn't understand the first play. the funny parts werent exactly hilarious, and the touching parts turned out quite funny. i had mixed emotions about the plot as well. i liked the second play though! in particular the background music was good, think they got the soundtrack from the vampire show! hahaha took me quite a while to figure that out. then third play, quite cool how they likened company rivalry to a game of chess. but other than that i really didnt feel anything in particular for the plot. in any case, great job to all the huangcheng people! :) i might not understand all the cheem chinese drama, but at least we could all sense their deep passion and commitment!
here's a page from ji mi's "love in the cards". don't you think it's really really sad? hope all the happy faces i see now are genuine, because if they aren't, then i don't know what's real anymore. and i hope happy clowns do exist. haha, by right, people who give joy to others are the happiest. but if things work by left, then perhaps happiness becomes surreal. everyone be happyists! ;)
i really love ji mi's works. a picture speaks a thousand words. yeah! if my life were to be summarized in such a book, i hope it would be filled with rainbows! to be read upside-down of course haha!
oh! and this is huiwen's house for me! hahahaha -.-!
block tests next week! yay at least gp's over, nevermind how horrible it was. everyone jia you! haha be it mugging or playing, enjoy the hols!
such a cute and happy view of life! change your perspectives, and you can turn :( to :).
well! yesterday was huangcheng night. before that went for nus open house with cihan, ying2 and kim. super sian and listless! talks were boring, exhibitions were boring, and we were all really bored. so we just bore our way through the campus for a while before leaving for bugis!
haha so we had a lot of fun taking neoprints and walking around! :D much much happier than when we were in nus. =X
huangcheng was better than last year's, i think. but couldn't understand the first play. the funny parts werent exactly hilarious, and the touching parts turned out quite funny. i had mixed emotions about the plot as well. i liked the second play though! in particular the background music was good, think they got the soundtrack from the vampire show! hahaha took me quite a while to figure that out. then third play, quite cool how they likened company rivalry to a game of chess. but other than that i really didnt feel anything in particular for the plot. in any case, great job to all the huangcheng people! :) i might not understand all the cheem chinese drama, but at least we could all sense their deep passion and commitment!
here's a page from ji mi's "love in the cards". don't you think it's really really sad? hope all the happy faces i see now are genuine, because if they aren't, then i don't know what's real anymore. and i hope happy clowns do exist. haha, by right, people who give joy to others are the happiest. but if things work by left, then perhaps happiness becomes surreal. everyone be happyists! ;)
i really love ji mi's works. a picture speaks a thousand words. yeah! if my life were to be summarized in such a book, i hope it would be filled with rainbows! to be read upside-down of course haha!
oh! and this is huiwen's house for me! hahahaha -.-!
block tests next week! yay at least gp's over, nevermind how horrible it was. everyone jia you! haha be it mugging or playing, enjoy the hols!
Friday, February 24, 2006
on death and time
yesterday read an article on Mr Rajaratnam. the last part of the article was on his epitaph - "Here lies a man. We are sorry that he has left the earth." and he added that "So, somebody feels sorry that i have left - and that's good enough."
i wonder if anybody will feel sorry when i die. but i agree, as long as one has touched at least another person's life within the short time spent on earth, it's really a life worth living. haha, so morbid to speak of death at this age. but then again, life's so unpredictable you never know what will happen the next moment. i hope there's an afterlife beyond death. at least i can then watch over my loved ones, since it is really the living who continue to suffer. at least i can also know the answers to my questions on death.
when i was in p6, my grandma passed away. perhaps it was she who made me believe in the existence of souls. somehow i believe she's always here with us. i don't know, but the sad thing is that memories do fade. maybe someday i'll forget her totally, but like what they say in that vampire show, the heart does have a memory too. when the brain fails, there's still the heart. memories can be erased, but certain feelings will always stay.
lol enough rambling. not that i make any sense anyway. ok today has been a normal schoolday, meaning sian. haha, but i wasnt sleepy at all during bio lecture! first time i actually listened and understood stuff. must be because i've been sleeping so much these few days! sleeping rocks. :D oh and huiwen got me totally addicted to this taiwan drama! the male lead is so shuai! and the girl is so cute! cant wait to finish it!
i wonder, if Time were a living thing and has feelings, wouldn't it feel so miserable? during lectures, time really crawls. everyone (or maybe only me) keeps looking at the clock, willing for time to go faster. when people look back on the past and yearn for the days in primary school and sec school, they complain that time flies. wah, it'll be such a torturous job to accomodate to our changing demands! maybe if we all treat time as another human being and be more considerate towards it, we won't be complaining so much and we'll all be much happier! win-win situation. :)
i wonder if anybody will feel sorry when i die. but i agree, as long as one has touched at least another person's life within the short time spent on earth, it's really a life worth living. haha, so morbid to speak of death at this age. but then again, life's so unpredictable you never know what will happen the next moment. i hope there's an afterlife beyond death. at least i can then watch over my loved ones, since it is really the living who continue to suffer. at least i can also know the answers to my questions on death.
when i was in p6, my grandma passed away. perhaps it was she who made me believe in the existence of souls. somehow i believe she's always here with us. i don't know, but the sad thing is that memories do fade. maybe someday i'll forget her totally, but like what they say in that vampire show, the heart does have a memory too. when the brain fails, there's still the heart. memories can be erased, but certain feelings will always stay.
lol enough rambling. not that i make any sense anyway. ok today has been a normal schoolday, meaning sian. haha, but i wasnt sleepy at all during bio lecture! first time i actually listened and understood stuff. must be because i've been sleeping so much these few days! sleeping rocks. :D oh and huiwen got me totally addicted to this taiwan drama! the male lead is so shuai! and the girl is so cute! cant wait to finish it!
i wonder, if Time were a living thing and has feelings, wouldn't it feel so miserable? during lectures, time really crawls. everyone (or maybe only me) keeps looking at the clock, willing for time to go faster. when people look back on the past and yearn for the days in primary school and sec school, they complain that time flies. wah, it'll be such a torturous job to accomodate to our changing demands! maybe if we all treat time as another human being and be more considerate towards it, we won't be complaining so much and we'll all be much happier! win-win situation. :)
Sunday, February 19, 2006
eventful week
this has been an eventful week!
events events!
vday crosscountry dramafeste moe seminar (-.-)!
warm and cosy feeling to give out and to receive gifts! hope my angel and mortal like their presents. and hope the class likes the notebook from me and wenqi too! lame fun at kap after maths s. whose line is it anyway?
realized how tiring stoning/slacking can be when i was stuck at the announcer's table during crosscountry. haha but at least better than weixuan la, kept getting ordered around to do stuff. =P oh yar and hcanoe girls rock!
other than ares' item, thought the others were quite boring. the third one (forgot whether it's athena or artemis) had a good concept, but i didnt find it engaging enough.
teaching scholarship? still dont think i'll make a good teacher. haha. but good to keep more options open! and i might have a hidden talent for teaching! yeah right. moe edutorium has a really nice ceiling. got pretty stars glittering here and there, very conducive for sleeping! way back from buona vista had early dinner with cihan at westmall's mos burger! piggish gluttons la. :D
oh ya. did you know that on average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year? weird.
events events!
vday crosscountry dramafeste moe seminar (-.-)!
warm and cosy feeling to give out and to receive gifts! hope my angel and mortal like their presents. and hope the class likes the notebook from me and wenqi too! lame fun at kap after maths s. whose line is it anyway?
realized how tiring stoning/slacking can be when i was stuck at the announcer's table during crosscountry. haha but at least better than weixuan la, kept getting ordered around to do stuff. =P oh yar and hcanoe girls rock!
other than ares' item, thought the others were quite boring. the third one (forgot whether it's athena or artemis) had a good concept, but i didnt find it engaging enough.
teaching scholarship? still dont think i'll make a good teacher. haha. but good to keep more options open! and i might have a hidden talent for teaching! yeah right. moe edutorium has a really nice ceiling. got pretty stars glittering here and there, very conducive for sleeping! way back from buona vista had early dinner with cihan at westmall's mos burger! piggish gluttons la. :D
oh ya. did you know that on average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year? weird.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006
chieh's happy house
haha! took this test from huiwen's blog. so cute, still can draw your own house.
http://www.drawahouse.com/takethetest/index.asp?street=2c0805556ca4b6e0b6791334c5350f81 take the test to add houses to my street at http://www.drawahouse.com/streets/happy-chieh-street/ :D lol.
http://www.drawahouse.com/takethetest/index.asp?street=2c0805556ca4b6e0b6791334c5350f81 take the test to add houses to my street at http://www.drawahouse.com/streets/happy-chieh-street/ :D lol.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
happy chinese new year!
happy chinese new year, everyone! my angel says i should update my blog more often, so here i am being a good obedient mortal!
my favourite time of the year :) especially new year's eve! i love reunion dinners - the 6 of us crowding around this big feast, when what really matters most isnt the food, but the kinship that we all share! lol so mushy.
大姐: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃
二姐: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃, 大姐吃
我: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃,大姐吃, 二姐吃
小弟: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃, 大姐吃, 二姐吃, 三姐吃
then everyone goes "小弟吃!" simultaneously. haha wont forget how my bro gives his silly grin whenever we do that! not fair la, the youngest always gets pampered!
hrmm was at my grandma's hse (maternal side) in malaysia celebrating cny. everything's pretty much the same as past years. gambled with cousins on the "big small" dice game. haha my auntie actually bought this dice game together with the piece of paper to place bets! and guess what - my small p3 cousin was the banker! hilarious sight to see so many grown ups (and children older than him too) crowding around this little kid and placing bets, eagerly waiting for him to shake the dice, reveal the outcome, then give out winnings/claim losses. must say he was a really lucky banker! i ended up losing 2 ringgit to him la! he really win liao lor..
apart from gambling, the rest of the time was spent on visiting other relatives in malaysia, entertaining this really adorable cousin whom i really like, and playing with the rest of the kids. since i dont belong in the grown up clique where they pester my sisters about their boyfriends and marriage (well actually i can't wait for my sisters to get married too!), i found myself relegated to join the kids' gang! okay not so bad la, it was time well spent on bonding with my bunch of cousins :D seriously, it's much much easier to be a kid. gone were the days when we could all jump around to the oblivion of everything and everyone else! plus it's so hard to keep up with the adults' conversations. i guess someday i'll have to learn.
the past few days had been nice and fun-filled for me! if only we can enjoy 9 days of cny holidays, like the lucky malaysians! time really flies when you're having fun!
my favourite time of the year :) especially new year's eve! i love reunion dinners - the 6 of us crowding around this big feast, when what really matters most isnt the food, but the kinship that we all share! lol so mushy.
大姐: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃
二姐: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃, 大姐吃
我: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃,大姐吃, 二姐吃
小弟: 爸爸吃, 妈妈吃, 大姐吃, 二姐吃, 三姐吃
then everyone goes "小弟吃!" simultaneously. haha wont forget how my bro gives his silly grin whenever we do that! not fair la, the youngest always gets pampered!
hrmm was at my grandma's hse (maternal side) in malaysia celebrating cny. everything's pretty much the same as past years. gambled with cousins on the "big small" dice game. haha my auntie actually bought this dice game together with the piece of paper to place bets! and guess what - my small p3 cousin was the banker! hilarious sight to see so many grown ups (and children older than him too) crowding around this little kid and placing bets, eagerly waiting for him to shake the dice, reveal the outcome, then give out winnings/claim losses. must say he was a really lucky banker! i ended up losing 2 ringgit to him la! he really win liao lor..
apart from gambling, the rest of the time was spent on visiting other relatives in malaysia, entertaining this really adorable cousin whom i really like, and playing with the rest of the kids. since i dont belong in the grown up clique where they pester my sisters about their boyfriends and marriage (well actually i can't wait for my sisters to get married too!), i found myself relegated to join the kids' gang! okay not so bad la, it was time well spent on bonding with my bunch of cousins :D seriously, it's much much easier to be a kid. gone were the days when we could all jump around to the oblivion of everything and everyone else! plus it's so hard to keep up with the adults' conversations. i guess someday i'll have to learn.
the past few days had been nice and fun-filled for me! if only we can enjoy 9 days of cny holidays, like the lucky malaysians! time really flies when you're having fun!
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
memoirs of a geisha
watched memoirs of a geisha yesterday with cihan, huiwen, ying2 and kim! young chiyo is so pretty! was really sad when she grew up. would say that i enjoyed the show thoroughly (despite the fact that my stomach was growling incessantly throughout the show..) but perhaps the show ended too abruptly, too perfectly. can't say that i was deeply affected by the show, maybe more affected by how beautiful zhang ziyi's eyes were!
i wanna have eyes the colour of rain too!
somehow this line was stuck in my head after the show: "she paints her face to hide her face". hrmm, even without paint, people do hide their faces too. behind the red lips and white mask, traces of young chiyo disappeared. behind those masks that people wear, has their innocence vanished too?
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
the 7 test
milomel lowly this is for you! since you asked me to do this long draggy test.. oh well i shall be nice :D
7 things that scare me:
1. death
2. losing my loved ones :(
3. supernatural stuff
4. insomnia
5. the ugly side of people
6. entrapment
7. extremely negative, depressing views of life
7 things that I like:
1. i love my family! and friends of course
2. hobbies - tv, swimming, bridging, piano, reading
3. camping
4. drawing cartoony stuff. haha huiwen my version of mayday rocks right!
5. putting down the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle
6. playing with kids!
7. sleeping haha actually this was the first thing that came to my mind
7 most important things in my room:
1. my diaries!
2. my bed! no bed how to sleep
3. my boxes of cards and letters
4. the lightbulb (realized the importance of light when the bulb fused and left me with darkness)
5. photo albums! precious memories
6. window. can see how the sky changes colour when im stoning
7. silver trophy for 4X100 relay. probably the only trophy i'll get in my life for not doing anything at all since i was the reserve haha! bu lao er huo :D
7 random facts about me:
1. i like the number 7! though trying to think up these lists of 7 is quite torturous..
2. went home with kityeng today and realized how much i miss hcanoe :(
3. i think it's hard to smile immediately when you are asked to
4. i've never had long hair before
5. i have a funny right shoulder bone which can kinda dislocate itself
6. i like reading sad stories
7. i like listening to happy music
7 things I plan to do before I die:
1. travel all around the world
2. save lives!
3. live every day without regrets
4. go for a family holiday to somewhere beyond malaysia
5. watch the sun rise and set all in one day in a foreign country
6. see a shooting star!
7. see snow
7 things that I can do:
ai yoh so lame! see hear talk feel smell sit walk
7 things that I can't do:
1. cartwheels?
2. roll my tongue
3. whistle
4. cry tears of joy
5. stand straight
6. murder someone! haha not that i can't, but i won't!
7. stop the clock or go back in time. but if this were possible then life wouldnt be as precious
7 words I say the most:
1. huh?
2. eh!
3. hahahahaahah! laughter's the best medicine
4. whatever lor
5. oh!
6. erm..
7. ... most of the time im just speechless i think
7 favourite celebrities:
1. ang junyang!
2. thomas ong
3. sylvester hahaha
4. chen hong yu
5. joanne peh
6. vivian lai
7. orlando bloom
7 people I would like to do this: (haha up to you la don't do oso nvm. this test is quite boliao)
1. huiwen
2. ying2
3. kim
4. pam
5. grace
6. xuet
7. hrmm no one else comes to this blog anyway.. hahaha.
7 things that scare me:
1. death
2. losing my loved ones :(
3. supernatural stuff
4. insomnia
5. the ugly side of people
6. entrapment
7. extremely negative, depressing views of life
7 things that I like:
1. i love my family! and friends of course
2. hobbies - tv, swimming, bridging, piano, reading
3. camping
4. drawing cartoony stuff. haha huiwen my version of mayday rocks right!
5. putting down the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle
6. playing with kids!
7. sleeping haha actually this was the first thing that came to my mind
7 most important things in my room:
1. my diaries!
2. my bed! no bed how to sleep
3. my boxes of cards and letters
4. the lightbulb (realized the importance of light when the bulb fused and left me with darkness)
5. photo albums! precious memories
6. window. can see how the sky changes colour when im stoning
7. silver trophy for 4X100 relay. probably the only trophy i'll get in my life for not doing anything at all since i was the reserve haha! bu lao er huo :D
7 random facts about me:
1. i like the number 7! though trying to think up these lists of 7 is quite torturous..
2. went home with kityeng today and realized how much i miss hcanoe :(
3. i think it's hard to smile immediately when you are asked to
4. i've never had long hair before
5. i have a funny right shoulder bone which can kinda dislocate itself
6. i like reading sad stories
7. i like listening to happy music
7 things I plan to do before I die:
1. travel all around the world
2. save lives!
3. live every day without regrets
4. go for a family holiday to somewhere beyond malaysia
5. watch the sun rise and set all in one day in a foreign country
6. see a shooting star!
7. see snow
7 things that I can do:
ai yoh so lame! see hear talk feel smell sit walk
7 things that I can't do:
1. cartwheels?
2. roll my tongue
3. whistle
4. cry tears of joy
5. stand straight
6. murder someone! haha not that i can't, but i won't!
7. stop the clock or go back in time. but if this were possible then life wouldnt be as precious
7 words I say the most:
1. huh?
2. eh!
3. hahahahaahah! laughter's the best medicine
4. whatever lor
5. oh!
6. erm..
7. ... most of the time im just speechless i think
7 favourite celebrities:
1. ang junyang!
2. thomas ong
3. sylvester hahaha
4. chen hong yu
5. joanne peh
6. vivian lai
7. orlando bloom
7 people I would like to do this: (haha up to you la don't do oso nvm. this test is quite boliao)
1. huiwen
2. ying2
3. kim
4. pam
5. grace
6. xuet
7. hrmm no one else comes to this blog anyway.. hahaha.
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