one minute to tomorrow!

hello people i bet you missed me. cuz i was away for one day. nearly two. haha.

wendy
why you miss jj? miss me better. lol.
calvin
people i hire never get paid. heh. you won't have this job once we separate into classes anyway.
wendy
sort of. the last race i went was 5k. the training for this next one sort of scares me.
annette
hello babe! i'm sorry i didn't go find you on thurs yea! anyway i went back at like, three plus nearly four. were you still in school then?
sebas
omg if you're joining that thing too i'm going to...i dunno. haha.
wendy
whoa people rock only i still got plural one leh! haha. yea at least my fever's gone.

i could have blogged yesterday, but with a temperature of 38.9 degrees, it just doesn't seem right to. but i'm fine now, sore throat's coming back though. i think it loves me too much. never really left me ever since i entered jj.

liwen complained said that kengyang reads my blog really often. mr neo, it's now your cue to click on my link to liwen's blog. and leave a comment to tell her you've been there.

after a horrible day at jj's l32 yesterday(despite the fact that i made $233 450 in praxis, up from $74 000+ the previous day), i met with yangping, then sacha, then we waited for aaron, ade and liwen to go back to nan hua. all different coloured. except yp and sacha who were in the lime green leaders' shirt. yangping you're super bad.

so yes, decked in all different uniforms, namely nj(liwen), cj(ade and aaron, but his majesty was in his dark blue pe shirt), sa(josie), jj(me, yangping and half of sacha since she was there for pae), and sp(the other half of sacha), we hoarded the staffroom like nobody's business. at ms jesse lim's workspace. the older people and aaron weren't there though. aaron was bridging.

left at somewhere after 5.30, after taking many many photos, none of which i've got my hands on. oh yea i'm supposed to email mr foo. i'll do it at some sane-ier time. it's like, 12.16am now.

bus-ed back to jj with yp and sacha for jj night. was supposed to have dinner with wendy and people but it rained super heavily so we made do with vending machine junk food. when my temp was 38.9. measured in school cuz i felt damn sucky. razaak was giving me than funny look like when he first saw me wear jj's uniform, which was earlier that day, but when i turned the thermometer to his direction to show him my temp, he went pretty solemn.

i definitely wasn't as high (like, jumping and dancing) for the 2nd intake's jj night as i was for mine. firstly cuz i was ill, then because i was wearing uniform, which sort of restricts movement, and thirdly because i had three phones in my pocket which seemed like they would fall out anytime. but it was still fun. left early cuz i promised to be home by ten. stepped into the house at nine fifty seven and my brother was like, stand there for three more minutes! lol. it's BY ten, not AT ten.

calvin brought huge heavy black stuff (for me to know for you to find out. he says he'll blog about it anyway) to school. then realised he actually didn't need to. super funny. attracted so many weird stares and even mr koh came over to talk to him. pe teachers came over too, when we were near the trophy cabinets.

1st intakers were dismissed at nine fifty am. whoo. reached home, watched tv while reading newspapers, ate lunch, read some more papers, then went to sleep. and woke up to see a pretty weird message on my phone.

i'm tasked to make a new friend. by my godparents. but that girl sounds pretty nice thru that few sms. i so want to see her on mon. really. and to make sure i do that, my godmum was sms-ing me from australia and my godfather called me from jakarta.

went out in my uniform again at five plus for the study in eu german class outing. only three people from our h1 german class turned up la. may had training, engwei was in some noisy place when i called him, he said sweejin not coming, hiren didn't pick up his phone, blah blah. so the three of us, grace, nicole and i, stuck pretty much together. we were of different coloured uniforms again. cj, nj and jj respectively. i seem to know people from limited jcs. nic was in her st nicks uniform though.

and we discovered something about herr spindler. he's really singaporean. x years in singapore has really instilled our culture into him. and that's pretty fun actually.

so the three of us hung out at suntec till donut fac actually closed. but that place doesn't stay open till really late we realised. we had one dollar gelato after dinner.

and i didn't know D was so smart till nic told me.

my time mag has arrived once again, this time with two magazines cuz one's a complimentary style and design issue. i wonder how the people at the time hq work so fast to churn out so many reports faster than i can finish reading them. i'm still lagging behind by one issue.

the new version of msn messenger's really ugly. i don't know why my dear brother says it's super nice.

saucony 100plus PAssion run'08!

i just registered for a 10km race(:

mdm yong
i'll go back tomorrow to talk to you yea!(:
sebas
you know who he is already. lol.

jj night's tomorrow night! i've got no idea if i want to go back. hopefully wendy stays on late, then we'll go together. since kaihui and calvin're both going with their s25.

had my jra interview after school. i've officially hired a personal secretary to take care of my appointments. calvin had to remind me of the interview la. because i only remembered that i had to pass the letter to jiacheng. thanks loads.

the interview was, fun la. like having a chat with teachers. but i probably flunked my current affairs knowledge. mr ho and ms mariyanna asked if i knew anything about the budget. i said read before but forgot. which is true. i read one of the sunday times, where they analysed how the budget'll affect people from different employment sectors.

then they asked me to choose which govt policy i thought was good and which was bad. good was the compulsory primary education, but can be improved till a higher level because a psle cert won't get anyone anywhere. bad was the many many fines because it's got a boomerang effect.

i hope i do get this thing, because great opportunities don't come easy.

yay wendy says she'll go jj night with me(:

my new facewash contains papaya enzymes. i can totally feel it eating up my eyeballs.

erm. it's getting late, considering i've got to leave for guitar soon. bye bye people. nhrians, see you in school tomorrow afternoon. jjcians, see you at jj night. and in school tomorrow.

JJ UNIFORM! on thursday.

calvin
emcee emcee! LOL. dude please read your sms.

>stupid rain woke up me at two plus am this morning. and apparently calvin suffered from the same thing. which explains his middle of the night tag.

>saw yewei after german! i was telling sebas and he asked who yewei was. my immediate answer: the rj horny guy. LAWL. but it worked because he immediately knew who it was.

>walked to mrt station after school with kaihui and train-ed with her till raffles. talked alot, found out alot, learnt alot.

>jj's ties are out of stock till somewhere march.

>german day's coming soon! i want my german day shirt!

>pre-deutschunterricht today was fun because we talked alot. grace was like, "no wonder the teacher next door is so pissed. we start fifteen minutes later and end fifteen minutes earlier, and make ALOT of noise." which is true.

>and yay i'm going back to nan hua on thurs. who wants to come along, just be there. we're one big nan hua family!

>hey friend. trying not to be reminded of THAT is really not easy okay.

>and mr koh says guys and girls must keep one elbow's distance apart. what about mass dance, mr principal. lol.

>i'm just not ready. sorry.

first day anew.

-spent 30mins walking home today.

-got the nyaa form.

-attended chinese and wu laoshi still remembers me.

-tie pin wasn't the one with the jj logo. bikila shirt was humongous.

-the day was pretty awkward seeing certain people around.

-made a new friend, razaak, thru yoga. four of us, bowen, weien him and me, pretended we were having lessons tomorrow instead and sat at the side. we were pretty freaked out at the first sight of the others in the hall.

-don't know if i should go for emcee idp because it clashes with german. i refuse to join calvin in weiqi.

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-drank atas water out of a purple glass-like bottle. it says "dew drinking water".

-some fairfield guy said bye to me when i left school. absolutely no idea who he is.

-God bless kristyn and family.

-dad says he'll only allow me to donate blood after i'm twenty, and only once annually.

-liwen said she's at rj. scammer like bowen. annabel's in her class.

-i'm on the heartware website. with the rest of the gang. in the sic/exco photo that we crashed. super funny.
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hello people please join us chingay'08 volunteers in the cssp challenge, a camp for youths this june, 2nd to 6th. we're going to be facillitators. more at http://www.heartware.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=425. sms/msn/call/email me if you're joining.
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accomplishment.

kengyang
yea sure. thanks!(:
bernard
HELLOHELLO
jonathan
hey. yes of course, since we're all in it. haha. (:
ena
go back on the 7th also okay! it's not really limited to all nhrians who went to jc. miss you much much!

hello people! i've done up two events' worth of photo posts on my photo blog, so please go see yea! http://snapsnapsnap.blogspot.com/. otherwise just click on "my photo blog", the purple words on the left column.

you'll see photos of an old house in tiong bahru and of course, chingay, both preview and parade.

sneak peek!

read lihuan's blog.

ena
i doubt it's really her. but nevermind. i think my yoga lesson's at most one week. haha. we shall see what we can do together when we meet up one day okay? (:
siewkiang
i don't exactly remember the sperm's name from the book. but i think it's larry too. where did you get the idea from, lol.
kengyang
it's pretty weird for pc lessons. haha guys have to do it also.

thanks to nuffnang, i discovered something about myself i never knew. and i'm glad i did, because it would aid me in becoming a better person.

i'm sorry to everybody i've offended, esp during the pae period in jj. thanks for letting me know.

thanks calvin for making it all seem better.

08s22. what's left are the memories. thanks everyone.

two sets of uniforms.

calvin
why do i have this feeling you didn't score well in your primary school spelling tests. haha.

today was err. talks and more talks. and cheers and more cheers.

yog leaders had kfc+macs+pizza lunch while we had to settle for canteen food.

got my two sets of uniform. had to go to the tailor with my mum to get my blouses because i'm too small. i was staring at myself in the mirror. stephanie in jj uniform...OK LA. my mum refused to have my skirt altered, but didn't object to what i did with my blouse.

my dad has this fengshui prediction thing, which says i shouldn't wear brown. but my uniform is brown. so the information says that if compulsory have to wear the colour, then i'll have to wear something over. gag. i hope i get lectures on monday, so i'll have an excuse to consistently have my pullover/jacket on.

but then again, i don't exactly believe it. but better safe than sorry huh.

there was an awful long queue in kbox. i promised calvin i'll queue with him on monday. and when he whipped out his ipod saying he's got my photo inside, i was friggin shocked. i thought he was such a stalker that he downloaded my photo off the net and uploaded it into his little gadget. which is, mind you, rather scary. until he showed it to me and i identified it as our og photo.

oh yea calling out to all nhhs'07 grads, if you're still bonded to nan hua, we're having an unofficial gathering on 7 mar. it's actually just another opportunity for you to go back to talk to teachers/play with juniors/eat canteen food, but this time we're wearing our FULL UNIFORM from the school we're going to spend our arduous journey to the horrifying a's in. for fun. we shall show the nan hua spirit despite donning our new school u. together.

the people in the unit opposite mine's singing again. i think they're from some church and having their cell group meeting, but it's sorta weird to hear them thrice a week. and sometimes they get rather noisy.

oh! i've got YOGA lessons next monday. so. exciting. mans. i'm going to school on monday just for gp lecture (which is probably a repetition of what we've learnt, i'm guessing it's the burger model.) and pc/yoga. which is most probably a conspiracy to get us all interested and join the yoga club. maybe i'll join in gsc/physics lecture for the fun of it.

i need to go for all the lectures on tuesday. but please please i do not want to/cannot stay back after school on tues. just give me my class in the morning la.

i hope wenjing and bowen's appeal for subject combi gets through. and i hope kaihui and weien are able to get uniforms of their sizes. and i wish that everybody who left jj for a better school enjoy themselves there. and i wish...ah nevermind.


i guess i'm just too afraid to.

hello!

menghei
you had to tell the whole world i made you tag. lol. i saw you today! and will see you for the rest of my life in jj too, haha.
kengyang
yea. you're like seven eleven. 24/7 one. the tag's nice, not you. haha kidding la. i thought SOMEBODY was shy.
kaiwen
i definitely will. enjoy your last year in np too(:
mdm yong
HELLO! I MISS YOU! i know i didn't get into like, cj or smthn, but jj's still nice. when my timetable allows i'll go back talk to you okay!(:

tailor of jj's uniform came today. i'm fated to wear puny-sized stuff. need to change my skirt to a smaller size tomorrow. and my blouse has to be bought at the factory itself. kaihui's suffering the same fate as me.

brought german e-learning homework to school today, intending to do it during boring moments. i read through the passage (it was compre), and was appalled to realise it was about neurons. so i put it aside. there wasn't another boring moment in the day because we did mass dance and cheered and watched a frog hop.

mass dance was...let's just put it this way. if they made me do it seven weeks ago, i would have done it. but now, after seven weeks of lessons, i'm sorry i'm not the camper stephanie anymore. i don't do yipa andeneh cheers like nobody's business, though i still get pretty high listening to superstar, heya, pump it, the geeks get the girls. cheri was evann number two with damien as her dance partner, and they were wonderful. dance partner was calvin this time, but i just didn't feel like dancing.

we were dismissed after rounds and rounds of cheers, none of it i screamed out. clocks read eleven plus, so we were still stranded in the campus. sean, lucas, kaihui, calvin and i ate and killed time till be could loan gym equipments, i.e. balls. but lucas went missing soon after. DON'T KNOW WHY.

started off with a basketball. we were lazy to walk all the way back to the bb court, so we played at the netball court. then some netballer requested for us to use the proper equipment so we went to change it to a netball. after awhile a teacher walked past and said all equipment on loan should be returned by one forty five. which meant we only played for forty five minutes, before we shifted to the balancing board at the physical fitness corner.

we did balance the board a few times okay. though i think it was more fun when we tried making the person at the other end jump up by jumping on the other end.

sean was at one end. kaihui, calvin and i were supposed to jump onto the other end so that we'll make him jump up. but being the slow person i am, there was a lag time between their counting down to the jump and my final action of jumping. so my feet were squashed under the board with nearly a hundred kilo of weight on top. if you count the exact pressure exerted, since pressure=force/area and force=weight=mass times acceleration due to gravity and area=the corner of the board, well...i think it has pretty many digits.

i think i sorta squealed. now my right big toe looks like a penknife was stuck through it but didn't come out the other side. cuz there's this line where the blood clot and it looks like it's of the dimensions of a penknife.

calvin kept apologising. lol. i told him it's a test for my pain endurance. and i plan to ace it.

being a rather hardcore jjcian already, i was glued to the tv from six thirty onwards awaiting news of the yog. spotted, in chronological order, yangping, xinjie, mr leow, evann, pearlyn, cheri. when the chairman person announced "the city of..." i thought it was a goner. then he went all smiley and continued, "SINGAPORE!" and my mum and i were cheering at home. brother thought we were nuts. dad thanked God and everybody who worked hard to achieve this. and that includes you, JJCIANS IN GREEN!!(:

i'm in...pj. lol.

kaihui
yes schoolmates. (:
ena
thanks. enjoy your days in poly too yea. don't miss me!

i saw many familiar faces in school this morning. but apparently only half of 1stintakers stayed.

ogls were doing the usual "welcome to jj this way please" cheer, lining from the walkway all the way up to the hall. and i was grinning at them the whole time while sms-ing and returning their "good morning!"s, cuz they looked plain stupid. really. esp the ones at the gate. because they were, like what i told yuenfong, super stone. like they were forced to do it and they haven't woke up from their overnight stay in jj. please la ogls. i know we're of the same bathc, but you could definitely do better.

og28 with kaihui. and with half of og23'o1. kaihui could have sworn i was high-er than my ogl.

ogls were holding up group labels like we did during chingay, so i told exactly that to kok kun. then he asked where i was posted to. apparently he's not a frequent visitor to this blog.

so i play play and replied, "pj. i thought i saw you just now. haha." it was meant to be those "really? no." sorta joke. but he didn't get it, because the next moment i knew, my phone rang and the screen displayed his name big big. and for two minutes, he really thought i was in the same campus with him at that moment. until i released the news and he was..uhm..taken aback. super funny. then we talked till the jj spirit song began playing.

yesterday was spent like, sms-ing bowen. you'd never imagine him talk that much.

german e-learning tomorrow, therefore no need to mrt to bishan. i'm beginning to hate that e-learning portal because it shows how many pieces of homework you have left, and how many things there are in your workbin. but then again. just clicking on the stuff (not doing), the numbers decrease. haha. i've successfully made them all zero.

but in moelc record i'm still in nan hua, sec four. well. maybe i could retake my o's and really mug for it so i won't feel so stranded now.

anyway. must have positive attitude!

seanshawn's going to contribute to the society. i know he hopes i'll miss him since we shared a pizza on monday. but he's another one living in self-denial. haha.

if you think i'm one big ego person and you're hating me for that, please don't. because i'm not ego, i'm just more enthu. i'm not really self-confident. not enough to make me egoistic. thank you.

漩涡-孫燕姿(逆光 against the Light)

总装着很有把握
不准爱渗入生活
才发现闯了祸
让你当真以为我的心上了锁
让你绝望地走
成全独立的我

好想捂住耳朵
不想不看不想听谁说
好想蹲在角落
把谴责的眼光都躲过

像个黑色漩涡
将我吞没
悔恨已逃不脱

我承认这都是我
感情事处理得不妥
从不说
我爱你
那么多

原来人可能脆弱
爱让我很难振作
我坐在最前座
人生第一次面对什么叫落寞
经历你这一走
最大傻瓜是我

好想捂住耳朵
不想不看不想听谁说
好想蹲在角落
把谴责的眼光都躲过

我承认这都是我
感情事处理得不妥
从不说
我爱你

我不要谁好心帮我
每个人像在隔岸观火
看我犯错
提醒我说
都是我的错
提醒我说
逼你离开我

就算同情是条绳索
我也没办法伸出双手
拯救自己(除了你)
除非是你(拯救我)
肯回头(为了我)
扭转这个结果

sorry kengyang, i'm giving you another emo post. you can try making me feel better by tagging.

back to jj.

dinner last night wasn't exactly the most perfect dinner ever, but it was with a really great bunch of people.

original plan was to meet at eight pm, yet we only stepped into pizza hut at nine plus after the everybody who was supposed to come came. they close at ten. we all knew that, but there was this other group of people at another table who were chatting too, so we were like, if they don't go, we won't go too.

until justin realised they were pizza hut crew.

yea banliang went. with our long-awaited-for papers. he took the trouble to print "og23" on the papers themself and stickers with our names and quotes from famous people. really sweet la. so he only reached at a wee bit after ten. didn't eat with us.

we finally decided to get our butts off pizza hut's chairs, and went outside to take pictures. kenny and zhishen brought a friend along, so he became our photographer.
then we talked alot. justin actually stays near me. was from the same primary school and was a head prefect. omg.

oh yea posting. which idiot sms-es at six thirty in the morning?! esp on a non-school day (for me), like today. that six thirty message was from moe. shortly after was aaron's message. that was the one which woke me up. only after i read his message, which asked where i was posted to, that i went back into my inbox to check the first message. it said:

MOE: Congrats YEO XIN YING STEPHANIE, you are posted to JURONG JC, SCIENCE (25S) under 2008 JAE. Pl report to JC/MI on 20 Feb 08 and 7.30am.

note the shortform.

haha. yangping asked if i was going to appeal. if he asked me that question two weeks ago, i'll definitely say i will. but after thinking about it for so long, i've decided to trust the kind soul who made the decision, whoever he/she/it is, and make the best out of my time in jj. and trust mdm yong and ms jesse lim.

mdm yong said, "there must be some reason you are given this choice. so, make the best out of it." and ms j lim said, "if you get into jj by choice, you will do well."

i did get into jj by choice. it was my eighth choice. haha.

wanted to get back to sleep after receiving the message, eating breakfast and sending my brother to school, but i was sms-ing bowen instead. fished out alot of juicy stuff. heh.

ruth could do with more prayers. i hope her appeal gets through.



TO SUHYEE DARLING:if you're here,og photos are at some post somewhere below. that's the cue for you to scroll down. if you can't find those you want, then they're probably in my photo blog, link's at the profile section on your left now. if you still can't find what you want, that means those photos weren't taken with my camera. look for kristyn.(:

no school tomorrow!

there's og dinner later. whoo! that's like, our first official outing. other than the other time a small fraction of us went for lunch together.

08s22 had our first (and last) class bonding session during half of civics and breaktime today. took class photos while attracting the whole canteen's worth of people's attraction. nevermind that i look super fat in the photos.

ms heng sent over the photo the five of us took with her on vday. that was total attendance for gp lesson.

yes there's no school for j1s tomorrow cuz of the posting results. apparently i slept through the announcement. skipped chinese to sleep in the canteen because i was walking around the school and having lessons like a zombie. aftermath of tonning.

mr ho hopes i get my first choice. well, i definitely hope so too. (:

yangping requested to be the first one to know my posting. but sorry, the first place's reserved for my family. friends come after that. bodyguards are somewhere in between.

i've decided to post at least one picture at the end of each of my posts.

post chingay!

wenjie
the time you tagged i was like, at lau pa sat eating supper with another sixteen people. lol.

good morning. really. i woke up one and a half hours ago.

ten of us, amanda, june, michelle, weixiang, kokkun, ivan, bernard, sebastian, yewei and me spent the night at merlion park playing games after supper with cc8 at lau pa sat. weixiang left earliest, then june and ivan, then the seven of us stayed up till six plus to catch the first train home after breakfast at macs. ber and kk cabbed though. and yewei went back to school.

lay/sat/jumped/squatted on anderson(i think) bridge to take photos, only to run away when cars come.

i think post-chingay's more fun than chingay itself. i still owe weixiang money for supper. cuz he paid first and i conveniently forgot to return.

yesterday brought many challenges.

jon had to go home after a while from his arrival, so i was the only ic for cc10. wearing two tags, though glam, seemed like an extra ton on my shoulders. but i'm realy glad cc10 went through the whole parade as one.

dinner was meant to be at three plus, but eight people went to raffles city. probably really for the toilet, but i wanted it to be a team thing so i got the rest of the group to wait for them to return before we began eating. felt abit mean, but wells.

cc10 and 11 pretty much merged for our duties, and i think if it wasn't for kokkun and lijuan, i wouldn't have been able to get stuff done. from the time we were deployed, which was like, five thiry, we cheered "welcome to chingay!" so many times this pa person betted that we'll lose our voices in one hour and asked rowena to drink more water. i've still got my voice though.

we had fun talking about kk's good friend though. "good friend". ushers had weird cheers totally unsuitable for chingay. and they couldn't recognise tan swie hian when they saw him.

talked to performers, gave them sweets and gave them my toshiba fan from the jap performace. cuz they were really perspiring la.

all volunteers were supposed to sweep, as in comb, the entire parade route, but somehow a couple of groups, including mine, got pulled over to line crossings for the public. police weren't of much help there. but we had fun cuz there was a rather long period of time we got to slack and take photos with the f1 track marks on the road. there were other groups who suddenly came over not knowing what we were there for and they weren't involved, so i sorta screamed at them. it was really disturbing can. like we're going our duties to clear the road and you're right on the road having fun not knowing what we're doing.


sms-ing jonathan then made me feel like sleeping, cuz that down-with-fever guy was in bed using the comp and sms-ing at the same time.

oh yea we saw leungyan in the kowloon club's performance. and dawn yang and vincent ng. and loads of nan hua people. and spent like, half an hour saying bye to people.

we've got ALOT of photos in bernard's camera, so i'll post more up when i get my hands on them.

cc10 is love!

chingay preview

manzxz look at the time. i just finished bathing, right after i reached home from preview. cabbed with naaman, seb and another guy whose name i've conveniently forgot to ask. we went for supper at macs before geting a cab also.

preview was rather fun, though there were some hiccups here and there from sector two (my sector). i didn't realise they were so significant until our leaders' debrief where everybody voiced out stuff.

i had an interesting time biting on my whistle, clapping, waving, talking, secretly (or not actually so) taking pictures, watching the parade and drinking red bull. with cc10 and 11.

it was nice talking to the two ladies after our duties were over. and it was nice to see many nhds people still smiling to me. even though i think i-forgot-his-name (another one) was rather pissed at me for waving to the whole bunch of them like some idiot while he was giving instructions.

i'm going to sleep. before i wake up like, a few hours later to report back at the volunteers' tentage at twelve noon. nights people. if you're reading this like right after i post it up, you should be in bed too.

earplugs.

kaiwen
happy valentine's too!(:

happy vday everybody!

thank you to the following people (in as close chronological order as my memory permits) for vday presents:

yangping! that love letter had a spelling error if you noticed..haha.
huimin
yanru
yingsheng
peifang
ms heng only for the five who went for class!
calvin if you didn't catch me at the concourse then...
michelle who made roses too but not for me..
nicole

and team jj for the chupachups which personalised messages. mine said, "there's hope for you in life."

calvin's present came as a surprise. haha.

i thought i needn't go to school tomorrow, but jon suddenly sent an sms out of nowhere to say that i'll be dismissed at twelve. rahh so i'll have to do chem after all.

and earplugs galore tomorrow. i'll be bringing an extra of fifteen pairs so the rest can be protected against the ear-splitting noise of the f1 car engines.

preVday

weien and wenjing were happily gloating over my misfortune during bio today. with good reason.

i was watching this movie on channel five one day with my bro, i think it's xxx. there was this guard guy who got shot to death by a spy hiding behind a car. i thought it'll be rather cool to die like that, like, being an4 sha1-ed. that means one's important enough to have somebody wanting to remove him rather desperately.

emcee briefing was really brief. didn't go for debate because room 205 was empty and i had nobody to contact since ms heng's out.

i think i have homework. but i was too engrossed in my phone to note it down.

gp lesson, we talked about olympics. i think gp's much more interesting than english. no offence to my previous english teachers.

tomorrow's valentines. i thought i'd have some tricks up my sleeve. but i've run out of brain juice.

there was a big class of beginners for guitar today. june's here too! increasing interest in nanhuarians for musical instruments huh.

i'm still in cny mood. today's ren2 ri4, which means i'll have yusheng later.

dictionary in c2.

just after i thought i was free, jonathan had to break that dreaded piece of news to me. lol. the world is friggin small. such that there are a lack of people.

zhiyi
don't cry la!! so many people have said it, but i'm still going to repeat it to TRY to make you feel better. she lived a life well-lived, so there are no regrets with her passing. ren2 you3 sheng1 lao2 bing4 si3 what. she's not a human being, but still, yea. that's life. cheer up okay!

i saw ye wei before i had dinner today. i only realised who he was after i walked past him. so funny.

my german dictionary must be crying in c2 now. cuz i left it under my table and only realised after my dinner. my mum asks me to call up thomas tomorrow to ask him to keep it for me till valentine's. haha.

i forgot what i wanted to blog about. but nevermind it'll come back to me soon.

tomorrow's school+emcee/host+debates+guitar+chingay very important walkabout. i cannot do fen1 shen1 shu4 one okay.

the whole class ponned chinese today! that's what i call class spirit. (:

on the papers with ah meng.

zhongming
i replied on your blog and thru msn! don't overstress yourself yea. your school's already doing alot. (:
yanru
hey!(: you should be here more often too. haha.
wenjie
i know i tagged at your blog my dear. but what's with the lao ren chi dai zhen. it's alzheimer's disease! =D

3/4 OF MY FAMILY APPEARED IN THE PAPERS. WITH AH MENG ('S COFFIN).

there's chingay walkabout at city hall tonight. which just means one thing: CHINGAY'S COMING SOON!

heh.
countdown to chingay: 4 days to preview, 5 to parade.

ah meng's memorial

Passing of AH MENG (1960 - 2008)

Singapore, February 8, 2008 - Ah Meng, Singapore Zoo’s most famous and well-loved orang utan, passed away today due to old age. She was 48 years old.

Born in Sumatra, Indonesia around 1960, Ah Meng came to the Zoo at the approximate age of seven in 1971 when she was confiscated from the Chinese family who had kept her as an illegal pet. In 1982, the Zoo introduced ‘Breakfast with an Orang Utan’ programme and Ah Meng was the star. She shot to fame instantly and became a celebrity both at home an overseas. By 1986, she had featured in almost 30 travel films and had appeared in more than 270 articles in newspapers and travel magazines.

For her outstanding contributions in promoting the Zoo as a tourist attraction, Ah Meng is the first and only non-human recipient of the ‘Special Tourism Ambassador’ award conferred by the then Singapore Tourism Promotion Board in 1992.

As an icon for the Zoo, Ah Meng has met numerous foreign dignitaries and world renowned celebrities including Prince Philip, David Copperfield, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor.

"We mourn the passing of Ah Meng. She has touched the hearts of everyone who has met her and contributed immensely in helping promote awareness of how each and every one of us can play a role in anti-poaching, anti-deforestation and conservation matters. We will miss her dearly," said Ms Fanny Lai, Group CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

Added Alagappasamy s/o Chellaiyah (also known as Sam), Curator, Singapore Zoo, "I have taken care of Ah Meng since she first came to the Zoo. Her departure makes me extremely sad and it will take a long while for me to adjust to not having her around. On the other hand, I am very happy that I have had the opportunity to take care of Ah Meng and her family all these years."

A devoted mother, Ah Meng leaves behind two sons Hsing Hsing, Satria, and two daughters, Medan and Sayang and six grandchildren. As a tribute to Ah Meng, the next newborn orang utan to be born at the Zoo will be named Ah Meng Junior.

To commemorate Ah Meng’s efforts towards generating a greater awareness on the plight of orang utans in the wild, the Singapore Zoo will intensify its conservation work for orang utans.

Ah Meng will be reposed at Garden With A View from 9-11am on 10 February (Sunday) for members of the public wishing to visit her for the last time.

There will also be a memorial service held in tribute of Ah Meng. Details of the service are as follows:

Venue : Garden with a View

Day/ Date : Sunday, 10 February 2008

Time : 11am

Programme :
-Eulogy and tribute by:
Ms Fanny Lai, Group CEO, Wildlife Reserves Singapore
Mr Alagappasamy s/o Chellaiyah (Sam), Curator, Zoology, Singapore Zoo

-Burial

--from http://www.zoo.com.sg/ABOUT/NEWS/news08022008a.htm

that's where i'm going today. my whole family's going to send ah meng off. jia meng asks me to say goodbye to his best friend on his behalf.

cny visit to mr foo's house.

arghh it's the ninth already. today's the last day you'll see that nike ad <--there. then, gone is my first ad in my life in the blogosphere. well, hope it's first of many to come! today was visit to mr foo's place with, let me see, liwen, melissa, ena, amelia, jeslyn, aaron, cheri, sheena, siian, ruth, ellisse, emily, clarissa, cheryl yeo, adelaine, andrea, josie, wei jie, kerong and theodore.

not forgetting the whole bus of prc scholars. they took up the whole living room, while we were condemn to other rooms. but we had air-con, though. HAHA.

and yes fangyu's a nice girl if you always thought she was the snobbish kind. mrs foo was nice too. and so was the maid and mr foo's mum. and even the security guards at the guardhouse. i walked in and out like, three times. till they recognised me.

scholars stared at me like i was some alien. i'm just more high okay! not heightwise. DUH.

the scholars got loads of kfc, but we had a small portion of kfc plus PIZZA. HAHA.

i don't know. the HAHA thing makes me feel better, especially after how weijie described the relationship between them and my ex-principal.

i hope my angpao money's the same as theirs. if they got more....

ahh nevermind la. cny must forgive and forget!

aaron brought a watermelon to mr foo's house. no joke.

and weijie couldn't get enough of describing to mr foo my boyfriend. not that i have one.

we were the latest to leave, then weijie, kerong and i cabbed to westmall. liwen josie and theodore took another cab, got in later than us, but reached earlier and saved more than two bucks.

met letts and we went to watch the ah long movie.

it was dammit funny. there were several times the whole theatre roared in laughter.

and weijie finished the whole cup of coke. and the popcorn too.

then we went to the library. and read a dumb book. THIS IS NOT A BOX!!!
and did stupid searches with the catalog thingo at the children's section. we're already like, taller than the shelves there la. but wells. need to get in touch with our more youthful side.

before we succumb to the fateful fate of econs essays. or ki essays.

one last thing: i survived one day of heels. though they're only an inch high i suppose. but it's my first pair okay!(:

oh yes, mr foo says to watch monday night news or get tuesday's newspapers. there will be something big.

i'm armed.

armed with mandarins and yusheng and killer heels and pineapple hair, i'm out to collect angbaos visit my relatives. bye people. have a fabulous chinese new year.

cny.

erm yea. you'll probably see this on all the other blogs you visit, but still.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!
may you get lots of angbaos (on the assumption that my readers are unmarried like me), and be able to eat alot alot but not get fat.

note to foureleveners going to mr foo's house on saturday: timing's changed to 10am. still yishun mrt station. sms me to confirm your attendance if you haven't.

lost photos of uncle justin's house.

i just lost one whole batch of photos taken at the old estate of tiong bahru. they were freaking nice la. nevermind at least there are still some in the other camera. but that one only has photos of people. the houses(inside and out) photos are poof! lost. argh.





school dismissal was at eight thirty today. after lao-ing yusheng, mass dances, performaces and yipa andeneh cheers. changed into class jersey and went back to nan hua.

i realise hor, whenever i go back to nan hua, i never fail to talk to ms jesse lim. or rather, she never fails to strike up a convo with me. and the contents are pretty much the same. but still, they mean alot to me. she was a great source of motivation the time i was under her for chem in nan hua.

now i believe i'm mr jt's favourite foureleven girl. it's an honour.


concert was nice. they had alot of dance items and NONE of them wore the banana costume. which is really great for a change, since i wore that same costume the four times i performed for cny. today was my first time being an audience of nh's cny concert.

i didn't expect that guy to win nh idol.

i was sms-ing people within the hall la! zhiyi and kaiwen. so weird.

and even after looking at my dear friends play endless rounds of bridge and dai di, i have yet to figure those games out. i'm fated to be a really good girl who has nothing to do with poker cards.

i've finished my reunion dinner! i bet aaron has finished his too, since it began at three plus pm.

it's going to be pretty boring having steamboat meals for the next few days.

my nails are long again. but my mum says cannot cut nails when the sky is dark.

pre cny rants, river

wenjie
HAHA YES I CAN SEE THAT!(:

i told yanru that i feel uneasy whenever i don't post up a few sentences (at least) on my blog when i come online, so yea.

mr tommy cheng came for math relief today. he insists on the "mr".

"you all can call me mr tommy, mr cheng or mr tommy cheng, but not tommy cheng."

yes. and he stands at 160.5cm tall. he insists on the 0.5 cm as well. so due to his height, or rather the lack of it, he had to stand on a chair to write on the upper portion of the whiteboard. super funny la he. i like it that he's comfortably in acceptance of his (lack of) height. like me.

i still think it's pretty weird for him to score all as in his h2 chem math physics but ds for gp and econs.

and his pay's a freaking 65 bucks an hour okay! i shall go apply for a teaching job after my a's. really. maybe i'll go back my primary school to teach pe/english/chinese/science/social studies/health ed. anything but math. i don't understand how lecturers can solve math problems while talking.

gp test was..well. i'm sure i gave a weird response. cuz the question itself was weird. i remember this archie comic i read when i was way back in primary school, and there was this little square in which the computer screen read, "key in a dumb question and you'll get a dumb answer." so i guess that's pretty much what happened.

math test was okay la. i had to re-re-re-redo question two till i got it right. thankfully there was enough time for me to complete the questions, though i did the last bit in pencil.

there was no chinese today! and i got ten early leave forms for the whole class for fun.

and mr ho and the rest of the class (which amounts to only nine more darlings) were gossiping about me when i went out to the general office. goodness.

yea only ten people came for class today. twelve actually, but derek disappeared (like he always does) and noella went home early.

chinese new year's eve tomorrow! this year's cny's like super rush. even my house is in total chaos. absolutely not in chinese new year mood la. though i've got new bedsheets. but the catch is, the whole family has the same design in the same colour.

i'm doing to do something to my hair tomorrow. i don't care what. i'm just going to pile gel/wax on my head like nobody's business. I WANT TO GO BACK TO NAN HUA.

couldn't find fortune cookies when i searched jp after german...):

and why do we pronounce "runescape" as "rune-scape" and not "run-escape"?

it's pretty satisfying to be able to play out my guitar scores using my keyboard/sync.

River
Chris Tomlin
Not to Us
When I was held up in chains
The river was free
When I was covered in stains
The river was clean
When I was losing my way
The river found me

I can see the river
I can feel the river
I'm letting go of all I hold on to
Let it wash away

When we were broken inside
The river was love
When we were thirsty and dry
You were more than enough
When we were drowning in lies
The river saved us

I'm dancing in the river
And I'll be here forever
I'm letting go of everything but You
Carry me away

And I can see the river
It's washing me away
My life in the river
And I'll be here forever
I'm letting go of all I hold on to

And can you see the river
He's standing in the river
Letting go of everything
Everything but you

跟我走吧
潘玮柏
高手
这支手机跟你说过话
这杯子你喝过茶
这个月亮你也在看着吗
还有温度留在我肩膀
幸福像一个磁场
我有了你
这世界都变得不一样

请你跟我走吧
陪我度过天黑天亮
让我保护你一辈子
带你去好多地方

亲爱的你跟我走吧
医好我心里的疯狂
只要能够握著你的手
再也没有渴望

请你跟我走吧
陪我度过天黑天亮
永远听起来那么远
但你不会失望

请你跟我走吧
爱你就是我的信仰
只要你能陪在我身旁
都是最美好的时光

anything.

yuhui
it's third day, correct. cuz alot of us second day got other plans mah, and also then his house will be flooded with all his ex-students we don't know. so change day lor. go okay!(:

my mum lugged a 24-can carton of anything home because she say the drink's interesting. cuz i told her you won't know what's inside until you open it up.

and she spent like half an hour this morning figuring out of there was any code thing on the can. apparently they had some numbers stamped on the underside of the cans, so she took that as a sign and now the cans are arranged in numerical order. i drank one can which was labelled number four and orange flavoured so now my mum thinks all number fours are orange.

skipped chinese today. hid in the library doing math and econs.

going to sleep after blogging i think. then out for more chinese new year shopping. i've pretty much got my clothes already though.

countdown to chingay: 11 days to preview, 12 days to parade.

oh yea oh yea! JJCIANS ARE ALLOWED TO WEAR HOME CLOTHES TO SCHOOL ON WED!! i don't know about you, it just sounded pretty fascinating to me.

chingay tee!

why are so many organisations sending me advertisements for valentine's stuff when i'm perfectly single?

haha anyway,
yuhui
but still. scared la.
sk
i read your blog. haha. i saw the "my mother murdered my dad" thing and i thought it was real. like omg.
kok kun
removed. editted, rather. friday friday come quick!!

notice to foureleveners who (still) read my blog:
we're going to our second form teacher's house on the third day of chinese new year, which is next saturday. meet at nine at yishun mrt station. we'll bus over to his condo. please dress decently and bring oranges so you can get your angbaos. and spread this message around OUR CLASS ONLY because the relay system never works.

chingay was fun today because we got our shirts and had gic lunch.

haosheng did a magic trick at subway which made all of us super freaked out. he stuck a subway straw through a poker card. michelle saw through the trick, BUT STILL! it's super cool la. that's why we kidnapped his deck and held it hostage while i-forgot-his-name ivan demanded for disclosure of the trick.

and the girls did something really naughty.

these people are super fun la. we took thirty minutes to travel like, fifty metres. and we alighted from the train at city hall just to sit on their benches to play (pretty retarded) games.

photos photos!

what i wore today. chingay'06 shirt. you bet it's (tons) nicer than this year's.

my view of lt1. i was at the really really back of the theatre la. look downwards and its, whoa. super steep slope. i took notes from the presentation okay!





i was looking at the back view of ivan with ye wei's hat on and suddenly i thought he looked like eugene.

judging by the behaviour of ye wei, nobody would ever be able to guess which school he comes from.

we got bored after playing numerous rounds of lame games, so we got ourselves facinated with reflections.





err. not on purpose that weixiang's head got cut off.


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I LOVE 08S22.

maybe i need to start compiling a list of what i'll miss upon leaving jj. it's getting overwhelming. and bowen freakingly got six points but told me he got twelve. walau.

thank you.

yuhui
no la. but it's lame alright. haha.
kaiwen
another one. lol. thanks for that sms, though it woke me up at a pretty ungodly hour.
sacha
hi!(:

i feel so deprived after not being able to use the comp for like, more than thirty six hours. die.

school was better than expected today. got a pretty disturbed sleep with weird dreams and sms-es and an alarm that rang at four twenty am. but i set that myself, so i've got nobody else to blame. math lesson we paka-ed and greeted "mr suBASH" instead of "mr suBAASH". well math tutorials are always interesting. and we had a crasher.

thank you wenjing and wenjie and weien for chocolates yesterday! and thank you noella and jamie for the hearts for the whole class!

first i dread stepping into jj, then i dread being part of 08s22, and now i'm dreading the jae results. what if i end up in like, mi. which is possible because it was my last two choices. ahh freak.

on a brighter side, it's chingay tomorrow! not the actual procession la, but just being able to see the volunteers is enough to make me high. though it's a whole series of talks. but we'll get our shirts!

i can't believe it's still so early. last year this time i'll still be in class/at fourone.