it's all beeyooteefool -

August 30, 2006

@11:04 PM

& the sun has made a thousand nights for you to hold;

tea rocks :) its lime, lychee & passionfruit flavour which might sound odd but somehow lipton always manages to mix like all kinds of random flavours and make it taste dreamworthy.

teacher's day tomorrow! i've gotten pnah's & rkhoo's presents ready, we're giving them as a class basically & if there ever is an award for most creative gift-giving we'd totally claim it! but meanwhile im really hyper because today when i went to peps to tutor yiqun, ros and xiyun as usual, guess what?

THEY GAVE ME A CARD AND A PRESENT!
FOR TEACHER'S DAY!

its like so darn sweet can. & they said although i just peer-tutor them im still considered their teacher so they should give me stuff too. whee hope they jiayou for their psle's!

then i went home and practised piano for an hour or so, showered, decided to hop over to west mall quickly to get mr nah's stuff. (details will be revealed tomorrow after the gifts have been given!) so after i got the _____, saw that there was a terrible downpour & considering i just showered i didnt want to get wet again so i roamed the basement of west mall for a while, & bengawan solo's starting to sell their like flavoured snow-skin TINY mooncakes at obscene prices but it looks so nice - drools -. but, guess what i found?

BANANA MUFFINS!
yes all the while i've been obsessing over them i never knew they were available so near my house, because i used to go to like je library & mrs fields and all kinds of random places to eat them. so MUAHAHAHA i bought 4 muffins, the last ones they had left, $1 each and will be eating them for breakfast tomorrow! :) cant wait. (not all of them by myself, one each for my family larh!)

then i had to call auntie to come and give me an umbrella so i could go home! rush rush rush, ate dinner & then pa came home & sent me off to piano! theory first, 45 mins, then piano which gah i felt horrible about because i couldn't play anything properly & i tuo-ed so much time ybb couldn't finish the stuff she wanted to go through with me like more sight-reading & e duet thing she wanted to try. ybb is nice though, but i think she's really disappointed with me.

ALENA WAN JIAYOU PIANO EXAMS ARE NEXT FEBRUARY! gah i feel darn shibai up to now i still can't play one entire piece properly, how the heck am i going to survive 35 mins of repertoire! whee will take opportune of the holidays from today to next sunday to try to practice 2 hours a day.

then pa told me he had a conference call so i had to go home on my own, t which i wouldnt have minded at all if not for the fact that i had been carrying a carton of fruit juice, like those boxes which have like 24 250ml packets? was so bulky and inconvenient and quite heavy so yeah. oh well! at least we'll all have slighter healthier drinks tomorrow :) reached home at 9.40.

the glorifying exam timetables came out today. quite annoying that all our exams except the third lang, hmp, aep, music, art are in the hall which is NOT a conducive environment for er, calculating or writing or anything of the sort.

oh well, not too fluttered about that, rather, am more worried about music exam because i dont anything about what's going to be tested for practical! i mean technically we SHOULD be tested on our 2nd instrument, but the time allocation given isn't enough for testing both 1st and 2nd. GAH so i dont know what to practice.

and we wont be seeing mr matthewlim until, term 4.

oh well no point getting stressed over it now! tonight is clear-backlog-completely night, & i have herstory, math stats poster, math worksheets to complete. should get started now :)

i am convinced that the world is a beautiful place full of good people.
taking some info from the newspapers as an example,

the woman who looked after her neighbour who had a terrible accident. even the neighbour's own family had abandoned her, but the woman took her in as if she was her daughter and has been looking after her since then.

more touchingly, how some guy managed to raise funds for a blind child from Nepal or something to fly to Singapore to operate on his eye. in the newspapers it says "an anonymous eye specialist did the operation for free". i think its really gratifying to know that s'pore has people like that who're willing to do really amazing things and remain anonymous. <3, as opposed to certain individuals who announce to the world that they're UN ambassadors. rolls eyes.

& i embraced the world;

August 29, 2006

@11:39 PM

& the shadows followed by the stars have turned to gold;

hahaha nothing can beat my mood right now, because ...

bsp exam is OVER!
&
chinese sia is COMPLETED!

ladidums. :) i'm not going to think too much about bsp exam until the results are out because i was like uber stressing myself out during school today im just so glad its over i could hug everyone i meet! whee.

SECOND SON! you know who you are, cheer up okay! because you're a wonderful person & haha im so proud of you as my erzi because you're darn cute!

hahaha i feel spastic, using so many exclamation marks. meanwhile im very proud of myself because i managed to practice 1.5 hours of piano yesterday and today! if i keep this up it means 10+ hours of piano a week (more for weekends) which means i'll improve woot. gah exam's in march or something, and i MUST DO WELL, because apparently it costs a heck of a lot. always feel guilty when i ask pa to write a cheque or give me cash for piano, piano books, guzheng, theory, theory books and whatnot.

plus i think its very ignorant for people to think that ' oh, you practice piano and guzheng for more than 15 hours a week must be very free right. ' because that's like saying, " you go to school 35+ hours and cca 9+ hours a week, must be very free right! " it's about the PRIORITIES, honey. which is why i cant stand it when people complain about how busy they are & how many commitments ( or how frantically time-consuming these are ) they have. everything you are busy with, you obviously made a choice to do it, & therefore you don't have any right to complain!

whee, so pluto's being taken off the solar system. quite sad, i think i'll miss the cute little planet with a dog's name! will probably ask my sister to keep her science book and tell her descendants about how once pluto was a planet and not a random flying rock :) ahahaha. being hyper makes me lame. the effect of eating mooncakes! i went down to the kitchen and my dad had like a nice bowl of korean instant noodles in front of him and guess what he said to me when i saw him?

" NOT FOR YOU! "

evilpok! because i cant resist im going down to cook a bowl of instant noodles. nevermind that it's 11+ pm.

im certain debussy would turn in his grave if he heard the way i play his la cathedrale engloutie, and really, i cant blame him. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. and now i go off to do work, MUST stay up all the way today because tomorrow's the technical last day of term. overdue work still in piles on my desk, gargh.

progress reports, they're quite alright but a lot could be better. no matter though. whee my mums uber stressed with work she's still up doing work! when she's normally in bed by 10.30, so yep, pray for her kay!

& i embraced the world;

August 26, 2006

@11:46 PM

my internet is up again!
well twas only down for a day, but it feels like so much longer :)

just a quick post, i'll do a proper one tomorrow.

sarah, (i used orange for your name) yep you're spinached too, lol! i'll consider you as my very special cip partner from now on! but you're seriously good at it as in with oldfolks and children as well, i guess actually loving to do it helps.

got pretty pissed when some people want to join ldp because of reasons like " does it replace any sias ", " to add to my portfolio and make it pretty ", all the crap people don't say but we know actually mean. so yep community service rocks my life kuz it makes me feel useful & because im such a darned spoilt brat i need to help the community a bit more. =)

so i know syf's coming next year, and with ldp i'll miss about every friday's cca before syf. but judging by my current (dis) abilities with the bass clarinet i probably won't be involved so it won't be that bad. and even if by some miracle i AM involved, i'll still put ldp first, because the community is way more important than gold with honours right!

sure, i'd love a gold with honours for band whether or not im playing, but what can that measly award do as compared to community service? in a couple years, the old folks at a home might remember and thank me for raising funds for say a television set whereas who the heck would care or remember that nycb got gold with honours '07? getting GWH will bring all nycb-ers to cloud nine but it wont make a difference in their lives the way that i could make to the old folks or physically disabled or children.

because we have so much more than them. (physically speaking, as in we have material wordly goods. but they probably have much more in calibre than we do. )

i dont think any band people read my blog, but if you do, i love nycb and that's truth, but i love community service more. so i guess i'll go ahead with applying for ldp whether or not mr matthewlim & shimin & exco will approve. since im already causing so many problems with my attendance already, according to jialun. and i probably won't get into ldp anyways. plus if i do, i'll cancel my wednesday's cip - peer tutoring at peps! - to prac personally, whether or not im in syf.

right, i've rambled on too much, but my point is ,
YES SARAH, COMMUNITY SERVICE ROCKS ALL!

i dont even care if you call me a pretentious do-gooder. at least i bother to pretend.

& i embraced the world;

August 23, 2006

@4:14 AM

everyday, it's You i live for
everyday, i'll follow after You
everyday, i walk with You, my Lord

it's You i live for everyday (x 3)

- Everyday (i think it's by hillsong. not sure though)

:) seriously, God makes my day, week, month, whatever. maybe that's why i don't mind being alone & antisocial sometimes, when i remember how i used to HATE being alone and always stuck around with people, because i can feel His presence & i know He's with me all the way now!

-

MY CONCOCTION FOR STAYING AWAKE UNTIL UNEARTHLY HOURS!
(like right now)

- 2 tsps of STRONG coffee powder like arabica
- 4 - 5 tsps of milo powder!
- milk, or condensed milk (if you have a sweet tooth)
- hot water

mix in relative proportions, & you get a nice bittersweet coffee with tinge of chocolate. don't add too much milo because although it gives energy, experiments have proven that it also makes you sleepier and lethargic! of course, the best ingredient to add would be that you had plenty of sleep the night before, which i did :) & which is also why my overdue pile has stacked up to a few metres. but yeah, im serious, it WORKS! because it takes merely one cup to keep you to the highest of your energy levels! hahaha im convinced i won't make it in the advertising industry, just listen to me talk.

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guzheng got changed to tomorrow (or today, rather, but i tend to treat "before sleep" as the day before and "when i wake up" as the next day) which means, busy busy day! after school go to peps and tutor until 4+, guzheng lesson from 5 - 5.45, go home shower change eat dinner, piano & theory lesson from 7.15 - 9. which means must finish my work by today, sigh.

JAYNE! I SPINACH YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE LDP-ING TOO!

regional cip meeting yesterday was good, except i seriously need to learn how to cook. YES, I CANT COOK, stop staring! i can hardly bake properly, i cant fry without burning myself. the only things i can do is cut & chop, decorate, wash dishes, and make sushi. hahahaha how very useful. but i cant wait til november 4th! especially because regional cip vietnam is like, swarmed with geppers, i counted, out of 24 of us, 10 or more are tenners/eleveners/twelvers, & i know tianyuan & shimin which means the group should be fun :) and cip rocks my life. makes me feel like im of some use to the general public instead of just being the selfish person i normally am.

nyahaha i love staying up the whole night because i feel very productive. was filling up my huodong about bsp camp & realise i miss it, ronnie let's go ask ymz if we can be facils next year kay!

should i start on my ih essays which are respectively 6 days and 3 weeks late? nope, shant bother. i will do other things with my time, like slack. & apparently eoys are coming REALLY soon so i need to pull up my socks and BUCK UP! :) ahh well enough for today, off i go to listen to random old songs on my mp3.

the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair -
i agree.

& i embraced the world;

August 21, 2006

@3:23 AM

(fine, jayne, you were right about me not being able to stay away from blogging)
thus, i am glad to announce the

END OF MY HIATUS!

nope, i haven't completed ALL my overdue work, since that is well impossible, but i have completed the most overdue piece of work, so im quite alright. my BSD essay is complete! done! finished! ready to be handed in and it's probably terribly written, but the most important thing is that it's FINISHED! albeit eight weeks late, nyahahaha.

shockingly, it was quite fun writing the essay. lit essays aren't too bad i guess, come to think about it, analysing is decidedly entertaining except i cant really analyse so i end up recounting the entire book. and i dont mind amy tan that much now, although she does write about the same themes all the time & whatnot, i must admit she's rather good @ capturing the mother-daughter essence, although it tends to be way exaggerated & rather erm. whiny.

DARN I MISSED NATIONAL DAY RALLY;
because i was helping my sister with her social studies assignment :) it was quite fun actually! going back to my primary school days of sticking information on coloured paper then mount onto vanguard.

guess what,
ldp is ready for applications early september!
i was practically announcing it to everyone who was online just now, probably much to their annoyance, but im so excited whee! found out just now when i was slacking online checking out the moe gep website for special programmes and am in a state of absolutely hyperness, although im quite worried i won't be accepted because it needs a TEACHER'S RECOMMENDATION. (which translates to me needing to hand up all my overdue work by the end of august, gulp)

-

quote one -
me: allow me to jump up and down for a while, ldp is ready for application in sept!
liza: gravity will not allow you to do so.

quote two -
liza: idiotic indices, sucky surds, lousy logarithms!

quote three (from long ago) -
mr lee: can someone grab the lights, so i can flash this on the screen
msng: LIZA, GRAB THE LIGHTS!
liza: (jumps up and flails arms in general directions of lights in it resource room) can't reach!

haha liza rocks man. thanks for being such great company on the days i have cca and having to listen to me play the same stuff over and over again :) i'll buy you one pack of speculoos, two packs of chicken in a biskit & two packets of the fish thingums plus lots of mamee for your birthday next year! yeah im very cheapo.

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whee im starting to suspect im antisocial. today in church, imagine scenario: im reading a book, a friend says hi, i smile and say hi back, friend sits down beside me and asks me what book im reading, i tell friend, friend makes a random comment, i reply and continue reading, friend fishes out a book to read, AND WE LOOK SPASTIC THERE READING. most normal human beings would be asking questions like "how's school! having exams?" or be chatting, but nope, there i am reading my "history of musical styles" book in all earnest.

i will start talking to people of my own accord, i promise.

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went to music essentials yesterday to get well-tempered clavier and klaviersonaten (beethoven) I, got a membership card because i spent above $110! so kool right, but i look ridiculous in the photo because the guy caught me just when i was sniffing, so i look constipated and my neckbones are like ... out of place. it's very amusing & if you want to see the photo you'll have to pay me $110 so i can destroy it and get a new card!

WILBER PAN CAME TO WEST MALL YESTERDAY AND I DIDN'T KNOW.

also yesterday, was the seminar @ hci (jc) which i completely forgot about and wasn't reminded of so when jasmine smsed and called me i was like AHHHHHHH and rushed over there when i could, except i was already two hours late. interestingly, ny was the only sec school there, the talk was quite kool, but i didnt understand part of the Q&A because i wasnt there for the earlier talks about bordellos aka brothels & fieldwork in researching chinese history, so i chose to study jc uniforms when the audience were asking unfathomable questions. i like ajc's blue & grey. gah i seem terribly shallow right!

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enough talk for today, i've chittered on like a magpie. TELL ME WE DONT HAVE A BSP TEST THIS TUESDAY, i havent read through any of the material on the taiwan-china relationship & the three times they shook hands thing. nor the lit stuff like gui-sui-shou & all that, so im officially deaded for bsp. sigh.

haven't done music homework either, composing melody for a poem. AND the worst is, i reckon i flunked the physics test on friday which is horrible because physics is (meant to be) my best subject and i HAVE to a1 it, or die, and i've already lost i dont know, 7/8 marks out of 4o. muttermuttermutter.

read in the papers about the genius who plays like 7 instruments and speaks 12 languages & aces all his subjects and i cant help but jawdrop. SEVEN INSTRUMENTS, what i would do to be as capable as that :)

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to end off with a completely out-of-point quote,

avoid alliteration and irony.

& off i go to do music homework! which is quite fun, & mr matthew lim is funkeh.

& i embraced the world;

August 14, 2006

@12:24 PM

im going on

hiatus;

until all my overdue work has been handed up, which is probably the ends of time.
i'll still reply to tags though, and if you're that bored, which i doubt, read my former posts :)

meanwhile, caffeine makes my day & so does the spiritual journal done by our youth!

& i embraced the world;

August 13, 2006

@1:56 AM

you can choose to ignore this post entirely.

pictures at an exhibition is entirely about vision - you see the images clearly in front of you. promenade - grand & breathtaking, majestic; an unpredictable gnome; an ancient castle in its ruins standing alone on top of a low hill; children lightfooted and carefree; oxen dragging a heavy cart leaving its imprints on the road; the innocence of chicks unborn, dancing and prancing on hay; the contrast between the rich and poor - you can see them, one in rags, the other in jewels; you can imagine the excitement as the big news is spread in a smalltown market, one seller gossiping and whispering to another; you see weeping people, coffins and mourners in black as the chords become heavy and dissonant; and finally the great gate of kiev - the manifestation of splendor, glory, beauty, and magnificence. untouchable, victorious, unworldly in its grandeur.

these images appear to the listener probably in the exact manner the pictures at the exhibition presented themselves to mussorgsky.

and that is genius.

& i embraced the world;

August 12, 2006

@11:43 PM

i want to watch world trade centre starring nicholas cage, directed by oliver stone, so badly! cant believe its only showing in s'pore in OCTOBER.

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CONVERSATION BETWEEN MY MUM & ME
mum: look at these president scholars! (jabs finger at picture of president's scholars in newspaper) see, all of them have like leadership positions! see, if you want to get scholarship, you need to know how to be a leader.
me: you also need to be singaporean to be a president's scholar, & like get good grades & have three thousand cca points, while being student council president AND representing the school in something.
mum: that's not the point! you need to try to take a leadership position, even though you're obviously nowhere close to being qualified for a scholarship!
me: oh, i'm thinking of taking up LDP next year.
mum: national day parade?
me: no, leadership development programme, its only from january to april.
mum: (smiling) oh, good, good!
me: it's this programme, open to geppers, & basically we do community service stuff like raising funds and stuff.
mum: (smile widens) oh, good, good! go and join!
me: we work with people from other schools they randomly pick, so its ri, rg, hc, ac, etc and oh yeah nj-ip also.
mum: MEANS GOT GUYS? (eyes sparkle, and beams from ear-to-ear) GOOD, GOOD!

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haha i love my mummy :)

so i went to the library book sale @ expo today, reached there at 9.30 am! not bad right, but it was so darn crowded already. and being neither thin nor flexible, i had quite a workout trying to squeeze through tons of people while being jostled around and hitting people with my plastic bag of books. managed to get 4 wuxiaxiaoshuos, 2 by gulong and 2 by liangyusheng, so im a very happy person.

chuling was uber funny today, hahahaha she bought a SALSA BASICS dvd & then called me to say she has "two left feet & neither can dance!" so im going to her place in the sept hols & we'll work it out because i have two right feet. so spastic! i remember the perc people wanting to learn salsa and liangzhen asked me if i wanted to (i do suspect they were being polite because i was sitting there just watching them) and im like HAHAHAHA NO WAYS i mean i cant even touch my toes, expect me to dance harh? maybe after i lose some weight.

and i just realised that im idealistic.

my sister's going to get an electric drumpad for her birthday! which is in like october. cheers! we're such spoilt brats seriously, me especially. heh.

what are the seven wonders of the world?

to see

to hear

to touch

to taste

to feel

to laugh

and to love.

heh very cute right! i got it in a forwarded email from charvi.

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church tomorrow. i think i really need the sanctuary, to calm down & think & just pray, especially for the world, for Britain, for all the people who are living in doubt now (which is pretty much all of us, Christian or not).

i dont care what they say about me
it's alright, it's alright
i dont care what they think about me
it's alright, they'll get it one day

'cos i love You, i'll follow You
You are my, my life
& i will read my Bible and pray
i will follow You all day

i dont care what it costs anymore
'cos You gave it all and im following You
i dont care what it takes anymore
no matter what happens, im going Your way

anyone around can see
just how good You've been to me
for all my friends that dont know You
i pray that You would save them too -

please make me a pillar of Your strength, Lord. :)

& i embraced the world;

August 10, 2006

@6:50 PM

"you should really use your money wisely you know, save it for a rainy day?"
" the only thing i would need on a rainy day is an umbrella."

- quote from a random book i can't remember now.

on a sidenote, I GOT MY SCORES TODAY! YES THE ONES I ORDERED FROM SHEETMUSICPLUS.COM! :) life is gorgeous, everything's better than i imagined. except i've only done about 25% of the work i was meant to complete the past three days, so eep. no sleeping tonight at all or i'll get zero for at least four assignments, which are about two months overdue i think. heh.

so, kristin, i went to the post office and checked out prices for shipping stuff to norway and they're like WE DONT KNOW THE CHARGES FOR THAT so apparently i'll need to wait for a while more before i can mail you the random things i got for you haha. they're gradually collecting dust or rusting away in my wardrobe i think.

dont you just harth the urtext edition of piano scores? wonderful collections :) they're the dull blue ones that can be found in any piano school or music bookstore. quite expensive, but if one is going to get the classics, of course one'd buy those. went to musicessentials.com to check pricings, basically the prices are as follows:

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier $35 times 2.
Beethoven's Klaviersonaten $50 times 2.
Debussy's Preludes $35 times 2.
Tchaikovsky's The Seasons $30

how the heck am i going to be able to save enough to get all of them! - commences whining - oh well. i guess i could ask my dad to sponsor but then i'd feel really bad because my piano and stuff costs him so much already :( so i'll have to jiayou & SCRIMP AND SAVE! technically speaking i could just borrow the originals to use for the exam, but those are like must-have-scores for people who HAVE pianos, pretty much. so yeah. which means, no movie-watching (lake house! sniff), no eating-out, no buying unnecessary stuff like the cute lime green beanie star i saw at popular's today. cries.

gah im feeling sick. all jasmine's fault for luring me out today to help her with math when in fact she understood everything without me even talking can! and she succeeded in making me overeat so badly as in, i met her for three hours and i ate more in those three hours than my regular intake in a DAY probably is. jeesh i feel like puking. glare. but jiayou for working on the nygh blog kay! hahahahaha GET YOUR 3G PHONE! :)

im going to name my instruments after trees. like cedar, birch, sandal. isn't very creative but WHAT TO DO! i cant think of anything better and all my instruments have some element of wood in them, so start suggesting nice kool interesting memorable fun names people, before the terribly boring names start to stick.

im a little teapot short and stout!

& i embraced the world;

August 9, 2006

@10:34 PM

imagine sitting at a desk, perhaps with a piano at one's side, and yellowed pages upon pages of manuscript paper in front of you. as time goes on, you fill up each empty stave with notes, chords, and cadences, then ornamentating it with expression, tempo and dynamics. singing each measure out to yourself, then trying it on the piano. and after countless scribblings, erasings and rewritings, to result in something that touches everyone who hears it? that brings tears and laughter and deep thought to the audience. rousing emotions and vivid images to all within earshot, and leaving such an impression that none forgets it?

to be able to do that is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed onto mankind.

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sorry, im in one of my ridiculous moods again. aftereffects of hearing pictures at an exhibition again :) i finally managed to borrow the entire thing, all 35 minutes of splendour whee! tis absolutely wonderful.

& i embraced the world;

August 7, 2006

@12:18 AM

a very long, rambly entry that only kristin or li-en would understand.

today i went to visit my jia1 zu2, its this yahoo forum-community that josephine, judy, annie & i set up before i left shanghai to come to singapore. basically we post stuff about what's happening in our lives, and reply on each other's posts, while discussing the most ridiculous of things :)

that's when the nostalgia really started to hit me. year 9. year 8. year 7. grade 5. all the people that whirred past like hurricanes. all the things that happened so quickly i can't keep track. and yesterday, while shopping in orchard & chatting with li-en, to be eating dinner together at subway when in shanghai we'd be chilling out at the starbucks opposite school. today, eating lunch after church with fish, when i used to hide from alan at the stone bench thingums on the grassy areas outside the church building, with fish and thomas and we'd be chatting about all the random things.

josephine's going to america. for good. as feesh phrases it, " we'll never be there together again, all of us, at the same time ". li-en and i are in singapore, kristin's in norway, carol and debbie are in sas which isnt so bad, jose's in america, jackson's in canada, and i could list this on forever. take another year, and everybody's going to go back to their countries, or to different schools.

lol remember our "how to flirt" list we compiled? i still have it. & the mafia rules, which consisted of stuff like:

- you must constantly mention the amazement of being able to play one string.

- you must praise other boys' hairstyles, sporting skills, guitar skills, coolness, good-lookingness, brains good complexion in front of him loudly. etc.

we were horrible people werent we, about as mean and bitchy and bimbo as we could get, and i regret all the things we did back then, but year 9 was seriously the best year in my life i've had so far. and i still have the joshua-li-en story! the one about her getting knocked down by a car. :) & my LETTER OF APOLOGY AND COMPLAINT. haha probably the most sarcastic letter given to mr fielding ever.

so here are some photos! They make me laugh and want to cry at the same time.

and i absolutely harth the THISTHATS!

the very intelligent us.

kristin jenni, li-en, jose, during drama, looking good! :)

on my birthday, dressed up very glamorously! i have the make-upd pictures but decided not to post them due to self respect hahahaha.

a whole bunch of us, oustide the art room. hahaha we used to be there almost every lunch just to like sit and chat and watch the guys play basketball for no reason at all, as in we weren't checking them out or anything (we werent that bimbo) we just had nothing better to do, so we'd sort of stone there.

fish! you get the honour of being the first guy picture! & i'll call on you next time they're looking for someone to cruelladeville in a 101 dalmations remix.

leo, albert and gabriel being rude. the chinese basketballer gang :) they were really nice people but well. i cant say the relationship between the thisthats and them were very smooth. lol kristin i think nearly all of them have either liked or like crystal. sigh. but they're wonderful people and great friends.

rasmus & jackson. havent managed to find a gokarting track in s'pore yet! and even if i do, i've nobody to go with. as in i dont know anybody who gokarts, i think.

cody, looking er. feminine for drama!

i think this was at frankie's. we were celebrating something, after gokarting. or was it some farewell party for someone. sigh. darren, wayne, josh k, jz, rasmus.

social one - hahaha the social where a lot of things happened. coughscandalcough.

social two - when our 'band' performed and ended up horrible. but the guys were really nice about it :)

9A '04-'05 take one!

9A '04-'05 take two

so many things and we can't ever have them back.

TO EVERYBODY WHO WAS IN YEAR 9, YEW CHUNG INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SHANGHAI, 2004-2005:

i love you all.

& i embraced the world;

August 4, 2006

@11:41 PM

i think i love my bass clarinet :)
okay so technically it isn't mine at all, (tis the SCHOOLS!) & i can hardly play it, considering nobody's really taught me yet. mr lee asked me to practice on the mouthpiece & stuff, that's pretty much all the guidance i've gotten so far, but i've had lots of fun trying out notes and although i can only play like a few random notes here and there, its so kool. went to ebay for fun just now and saw GREEN and BLUE clarinets which looked really interesting. shall consider getting a red or white one if it's reasonable ... hm. but then i cant play anything! whee im just a money squanderer.

practiced quite a bit today. band was having national day prac which im not involved in at all, so i didn't go for band, but stayed in class to chill out with teh bass clarinet! liza was great company and i think by now she's probably sick of hearing the same tunes and scale over and over again, im sorry but thats all i know how to play haha! i actually managed to prac from 3 - 6, with about half an hour in between which involved looking for teachers and running around trying to avoid the band people (i dont know why i wanted to avoid them but i guess it'd be awkward). but we ended up strutting right in front of them when they were practicing on the third floor overlooking the hall, because we thought they'd be in the hall and stuff. twas really amusing.

my attendance for band is like going to become 0% soon. but the thing is i spend the band time practising my bass clarinet, i just dont go into the band room for national day pracs, and forget the time to go back to the band room when its time for announcements and stuff. quite stupid, really. met cynthia on 171 today when i was on my way to newton mrt station to get to city hall mrt station to get to vch to watch rgs dance concert! she's our drum major (and i have no idea what a drum major does, but its one of the exco positions) who plays the saxophone. she knew my name! which is strange yet kool, and she seemed really nice :) well actually everyone i've talked to in band so far is nice, lol.

meanwhile i absolutely cant wait for my ordered stuff from sheetmusicplus to come! SQUEE.

sorry this entry is so painfully boring, but im not very alive right now. dont like having to write a zuowen, do lang arts time trial and chem spa on the same day! sigh. have a nice day anyways! will try to be more engaging tomorrow :)

im trading my sorrows
im trading my shame
im laying them down
for the joy of the Lord

im trading my sickness
im trading my pain
im laying them down
for the joy of the Lord

:) i love You, Lord.

& i embraced the world;

August 1, 2006

@9:44 PM

i love love love blackmore's night again.

ritchie blackmore's (of deep purple) officially a guitar virtuoso, candice night's voice is the best i've ever heard. & the instrumentation -squeals- the instrumentation is just SO MUCH LOVE. they manage to sound medieval yet rather modern, but are so soothing and they sing like english traditional folk stuff & celtic tunes. hahahaha very few people like this kind of stuff but if you're bored i really suggest you go and listen to ( or find me to send to you )

- ghost of a rose
- shadow of the moon
- ocean gypsy

by them. or listen to their 'scarborough fair' which involves no singing, purely instrumental and its just gorgeous! now i trudge off to complete my staggering workload. and argh i dont know how to read the fingering chart for the bass clarinet!

oh, and allow me to extend my love to the person who's uploading the entire anne of green gables movies, the 1st and 2nd, onto youtube! YAY :)

& i embraced the world;