life's fragile.

my p4-p6 cl tcher passed away this morning. while i wuz happily receiving birthday wishes frm ppl in sch. life's so fragile, isnt it? she wuz diagnosed wif sum funni kind of pneumonia a few years bac, during the sars period, n has nvr been well since. she was my bro's cl tcher, as in till 2dae, n due to her illness, she kept missing lessons. she died in the hospital, i guess, after being admitted there a few weeks ago.

this is the 2nd death of a person i knew this year, 1st jk then her. on my bdae sumore. n she told my mum, during national day celebrations, tt she still kept the tchers' day card i made her when i wuz p6. n she saed i wuz clever.

well, i guess now, all i can do is to live up to the reputation she has given me, n study hard so as to not make her death meaningless.

ok, on a happy note, i received 35 birthday wishes, excluding the one i gave myself on 0520hrs. when i woke up. lol.

thank you to all these lovely people, in order of the time they wished me: aaron, aloysius, derniese, dad, daichao, ivy, yuhui, mdm yong, jasmine lynn, adelaine, liwen, josie, wanting, kityeng, junjie, clarissa, wendy, emily, ellisse, amber, honglin, genevieve, jeslyn, melissa, jiabin, felice, yanglu, wang laoshi, ziwei, andrea, weicong n minghui's mum.

n thankyou Angels Of Lust + honglin n gen for singing my 1st bdae song in the canteen, and jeslyn, mel, felice, jiabin n yanglu for the 2nd one in class. thank you jeslyn n mel for the heart-shaped bdae card done in half n hour. thank you all of u, esp jiabin. i nvr expected to haf u as part of my bdae celebration in sch.

now, im officially 15, old enough to take the death of an important person in my stride, respecting and accepting God's decision.

the Lord's ways and plans aren't ours, though we may not be able to see or comprehend, we have to bear in mind His ever goodness and faithfulness.

recycling day

well, since it seems like everyone else who went for recycling day's blogging bout it, i shall too!!

reached the promenade at 7.20, went to the booths (nh had 3) n found tt many (most of the) paintings had dropped. in the green effort, sum1 decided to use minimal amounts of masking tape, resulting in the fall of paintings. lol. so i found a roll of masking tape n used more to paste them back on.
den foo laoshi came. den darren (aka mr tay) n mrs tan came. den the rest of 311 came. (the other 11) then 3 sec 2 gals came. they asked if i wuz yayi. lol. apparently our green chairman was absent.

darren n me went to the kindergarten behind the event place to get water for the fishing game. i suggested going to the police post a distance away initially, because i didnt know the kindergarten was open. yep so the 2 of us went dere, they lent us two pails which we filled up with sprays. darren's spray's hose was leaking at the tap, then water wuz like pen4-ing everywhere. farni. so we filled a pail each n since mine wuz smaller, i finished filling it up 1st so i went out 1st. jessie wanted to help, but there wuz nthn she cud do, so yar. she stayed there while i went bac to fill a 2nd pail. darren oreadi left, but i din c him on the way bac. funni. then after filling the 2nd pail, i went to the booth then darren sae actually dunnid liao. gahh. but they used it anw, the fishing pail thingy wuznt even half-full in the end.

must conserve water mahh!

we split up into groups to mend the 3 booths, then in the end i wuz the onli 311er left for the third booth, so they gave me the 3 sec 2s. amber n ruth n peifang did the puzzle thingy, honglin, yanbing, qingyun, yanglu, jessie did the fishing thing, which me n darren got water for. then the sec 2s n i did the aiming thing.

rules of the game: there are 3 recyclable items and 4 non-recyclable items given. recyclable ones are aluminum can, drink packet n drink bottle. non-recyclable ones are 2 bao3 xian1 zhi3 balls, whatever u call them in english, they're the plastic wrappers thingy used to wrap food, 1 cellophane paper ball n 1 styrofoam block. the player's supposed to stand behind a chair n aim the recyclable items into the recycling bin, and the rest into the rubbish bin. differen prizes are awarded according to the number of correct aims.

i think i repeated the rules in english and chinese at least a hundred times. oh, n a smile and thank you while presenting the prizes to the ppl.

hey, it's the code of conduct k? not official but widely known.

usual stuff when there r gifts, people keep coming n some bargain for more gifts than they deserve. singapore mah, c until dun want to c liao, dun wanna talk bout it too. i guess everyone can imagine anw.

but it isnt that bad. just treat them like anyone else. repeat the rules if they want me too, give them the smile n thank you when giving them the prizes. what do i have to lose anw? just make sure they get the prizes fair n square.

don't think it's just our sg aunties. prc families n indian families too. ranging from age 2-80, i tell u.
there wuz this grandma whom i realli admire. her aim wuz to get a water bottle, for her grandchild. just with tt thought in mind, she lined up n played around 10 times. she failed every single time, getting only a maximum of 5 aims each time. to get a bottle, she'll need 6 correct aims. so i like, let her cheat abit at the end. after the 7 throws she onli got 5 in, so i gave her another 2 items to throw in. she got one in, so i gave her the bottle. she wuz realli happi.

it's nt tt hard to bring happiness to a person, you know. i don't have any grandparents left, n the grandma who wuz the closest to me left when i wuz 2 or 3 yrs old. nthn can beat a grandma's love for her grandchildren. Sometime's it's even better than a mum's love, tho we say a mum's love is the greatest of all.

then there wuz this lady wuz wuz looking at the photos we put up, displaying the green events nh has participated in in the past. so i went up to her n asked if she needed help, cuz no1 ever even gave those photos a damn, while she wuz making notes. she saed she's frm sum hospice centre, n wuz wondering if nh cud collaborate wif her to educate elderly on being environmentally friendly, esp when many elderly have large piles of flammable stuff stacked in their hse. then i asked if she wanted to talk to a tcher. she saed fine. mr chia wuznt ard at tt time, so mrs tan told mi to get her namecard. so i did. den i spent more time explaining the photos to her. when i knew absolutle nthn. but photos sae a thousand words, so i ended up telling her bout the events rather ok-ly.

then mrs lim came, put her hand round my shoulder, n asked 4 my name n class. stunned. so i answered "stephanie, 311." i wuz sorta expectling sum warning or stuff, but in the end she saed im doing my job well n asked me to keep it up. lol.

i continued with more rules repeating, prize giving n thank you saying. If i din stop to go round playing games i think i wud have lost my voice.

people, the correction fluid canisters arent recyclable cuz the fluid's toxic n stuck to the plastic, so stop using them as they ll deplete our environment. use correction tape!!!
used tissue paper cannot be recycled too, so dun try to be a good soul n throw them into recycling bins.
also, the polystyrene wrappers we use for food arent recyclable too, cuz sg's tech level ain't that high yet. but plastic bottles are fine. continue recycling them yar?

had sum seafood baked rice for lunch. lucky they use mozerella cheese. i carn take cheddar.which means i can onli eat the normal pizza at pizza hut, carn take the new cheesy bites thingy. havent tried it anw. ok. back to the lunch. had mussels, prawns, n fish. quite okay lar. but i think it wuz realli bad for amber, cuz she threw up smthn, rite in front of the ppl at her booth. i wuz like, "no amber, nt in front of them..." while pushing her behind me n continue smiling at the ppl in front.

come on ppl, mus uphold nan hua's image k?

left at 1, peifang, amber n ruth were forced to stay on till 2 cuz the rest went back n they needed at least 3 to stay. the 2nd batch of ppl, hu were suppsed to be there frm 12-4, never arrived. irresponsible ppl.

wanted to get more of the pens but onli managed to get 2. shall ask them if they koped. n kope frm them. lol.

oh yar, saw mdm long in the beginning. took photo with her son n her. wuz nice to c her again, tho we just met like b4 tchers' day? haas.

i don't know why, but i jus enjoy doing this kinda green stuff. like, there wuz this green thingy when i wuz p6, n despite the psle, i volunteered to go, n ended up being the onli em1 person there together with the em3 ppl. lol. im nt discriminating them lar, but, realli. then i volunteered for the hike thingy on 1st nov. jk's bdae. it's with the green reps of the sch. lol. n im a geog rep.

i want more recycling days!!!((: tiring, but definitely fun!!

stupid hols.

it's the holidays!!!

oh man, are those cheers i hear?

cuz im not cheering. seriously, holidays are evil. mrs tan told us the meaning of hols is "lessons outside normal curriculum time". wth?

i'd rather have no holidays, then.

tomorrow's wednesday, which supposedly means i should have done half my homework and half of revision for yr end. what have i done? nothing.

thanks to the german school immersion proramme.

it's super boring, with their snail-paced lessons n everything. class starts at 8, they haf the homeroom thingy so u go to the teacher instead of they coming to ur class. my buddy's supposed to b alessa, but somehow she always goes missing wif her friends, so us sg studets are left alone, together.

wait. tt doesnt sound rite. alone n together. but yea, we jus roam ard the sch as a whole bunch of sg students.

they talk during lessons. in art 2dae, we were given a pic of a building printed on a piece of paper, n were supposd to continue the picture onto the rest of the paper, such tt it looks like a photo. when i wuz done n irene n derniese almost finished, some german students havent even started. they were talking all the way lar.

then the guy infront of the 3 of us turn back.
"you guys are not allowed to talk in the local school classes?"
"yea."
"what happens if u talk?"
"you get thrown out of class."
then the teacher says"tt's a good idea."
back to student.
"wow. but now u're in our school, you can talk."
"erm, we prefer not to."
"why? because u don't like to talk?"
"no, but we're just not used to it."

lol. their textbooks are in HARDCOVER. but nt very heavy lar. their chem tb's thinner than ours by 0.5 cm, in glossy paper, n still lighter than our a maths tb.

they have a cool hall. it's air-con-ed, well, almost everywhere is, xcept the canteen. the bb hoops, badminton nets etc. are all suspended on the roof, so u're supposed to use a remote to get them down when u nid them. we had soccer for pe in there for the 1st day. 1 n a half hr pe. nicee. but soccer's not.
they separate gals n guys during pe. the guys did swimming. the pool's in the sch.

im attached, or whatever u call it, to an 8th grade class. 13 yr olds. nice people, they are, but childish. mayb putting us with older ones ll b a better choice. at least they noe more n can teach us.

history. sum peasant war thingy.

had french 2dae. they're learning it for the third yr, like we are for german. lol.

i've been leaving the sch at lunch everyday, since ytd. but i think i'll stay till the end 2moro. to c their religion class. dey've got protestant n catholic. dunno how they managed to put the 2 2gether.

n i conclude tt the students are rich. cuz the canteen food is super ex n they eat like it's free flow. i got fried noodles n a piece of chicken n an apple for $4.70. ok. ex as in when compared to our school canteen. yar.

the school provides education frm nursery to ard jc i think. got little kids to tall, big-sized guys who bully little boys. n they wear the same uniform. dark green polo tee with black collar n sleeve lining, with own black bottoms or sch berms. their logo's a palm tree. i c if i can get a sch jacket or smthn.

the hols ll b much much better wo the immersion. cuz of the slow pace, i end up super bored n unable to slp in class cuz i hafta uphold the image of sg students, i wait till i reach hm late afternoon n sleep all the way till dinner. lazy, i noe, but i can't help it. our schools are definitely for suitable for me.

and they say the german school's giving them alot of pressure compared to in germany. they shld let them haf a sg school immersion, i tell u.