I am currently at Kevin's place. HEH. Some distant cousin of mine, but his mum was my nanny, so we are quite close. xD YAY. INTERNET. I WILL DIE WITHOUT IT. Maybe not. I survived 5 days of OBS without a single item that holds a semblance to technology in the mainland. HEH.
LALALALA. I'm waiting to go to vanessa's place. She's my cousin from my dad's side. We're having a gathering with all my other paternal cousins. (Is that what you call it? HECK) Steamboat. The same old thang but still fun.
Suddenly I feel so reflective. So many things on my mind. Rarrr. Can't life be simple? I want it to be clear-cut. But with all the order and no chaos, life will not be life anymore right. xD haha. Logic. HEH. Okay I have to go now. To VANESSA'S PLACE. =) YAY.
adios
quote of the day
"breathe"
kevin. haha. to relax lah.
6:10 PM
I am bored stiff. Finished my physics worksheet AND my chem diffusion worksheet. Okay, correction: I was halfway through my chem diffusion worksheet but I gave up on it because it was too difficult to comprehend. xD HEH.
I am going to my cousin's house later for a sushi party, which is kind of weird, since this is supposed to be CHINESE new year and not JAPANESE new year. Okay heck, I am crapping. What should I do now? -twiddles thumbs and stares at the laptop-
Hmmm. I can:
1. Watch tv (but my parents would get annoyed since they are now sleeping in their room)
2. Try my chem ws again (and fail to finish it, AGAIN)
3. Read chinese stuff (and die of boredom)
4. Listen to music (that I have listened to a trillion times)
5. Re-write my math assignment 2, which is a mess of ink and paper (but it would end up like that ANYWAY. xD)
6. Be a guai mugger and start mugging social studies (community, resources, authority, systems and what-was-that oh exchange... okay finish. HEH)
7. Go swimming (bahh cannot I have nose-block and I would probably suffocate like a fish without gills)
8. Go cycling (i would start wheezing and my sore throat would only get worse)
9. Make a new blogskin (not like I want to change my current one)
10. Stone and do nothing (heh, good idea)
Okay. Conclusion. Stone.
adios
quote of the day
"ennui"
another word for boredom. told to me by steffanie kuan. =)
3:00 PM
It's currently 11:50pm. And I am awake. Amazing. LOL. Wanted to sleep but bah, I had too many short naps at my relatives AND my mum's friends' houses because of my stupid flu. HEH. Went to 4 different places today. xD So I had plenty of rest.
The gathering at my grand-aunt's place was eventful. We played zombie-cum-freeze-and-melt at the playground with all that sand around us, so you can imagine us, each coated with a layer of sand (and for the guys who ran so much, sweat). It was quite fun anyway, reminds me of the times when I was still a primary school kid running around playing catching games at the playground. And then upstairs, we played heartattack and another hand assault game, something about ABCD. HEH. Very hard to explain but the thing is if the person who is calling the shots says A and you put the sign for A then he will smack you one and a half times. LOL. This is not getting anywhere so I shall stop. It sounds confusing. Rarr. (hmmm. some idiot just sms-ed to my home phone. NUTS. =.-''' irritating.) Anyway, it was super fun and my hands kind of hurt right now. LOL. Mathias smacked me the hardest and I kept losing the ABCD game. RARR. I have slow reaction, due to my flu. HEH. xD
Yay. I like such gatherings. xD HAHA.
adios
quotes of the day
"EXTRA lah you! people put scissors and paper you put stone! now we have to heart attack again!"
manlun to faye. HEH. we were playing heart attack.
"the conversion rate from us dollar to sing dollar is 1.67...to the highest denomination...OH SHIT I MISSED THE TURN. /&%*@"
dad. he was so busy talking about us dollars that he missed his turn. hmm. his swearing sounds kind of like triyono's. xD AHHA.
12:08 AM
It's really hard to put all my messed up thoughts into words so I am really going to try.
I was treading on thin ice when I said all that. It's over now and I've not sunk. But you have. I am sorry. Sorry for breaking it to you just now, when everyone's supposed to be happy and all that. The thing is, I hate pretense. I don't want to pretend to be happy when in actual fact I am not. I cannot pretend to be happy. Every day I go to school, I remind myself to be cheerful and all smiles. It was worth it; but it also paid a price to be happy all the time. I made a truckload of friends; but I have lost myself so much amidst all that laughter and all that senseless banter that I began to ask myself who I was.
Most importantly, I am tired of pretending that nothing is wrong between us. It's been bugging me ever since school ended, because it started right after school ended. We talked lesser and yeah, we seemed to be in two different worlds. That's when I thought we both might be better off if we just let go. I banished that thought but now it has come back. I'm not saying you aren't a good friend; it's just that we are different people. I once thought we could actually get along, which we did, but I have kind of realised that two best friends without too many similarities might not work out. So yeah. This is it.
I hope we still can remain friends. Yes? I hope so.
***
Right. Chinese New Year. Nothing was of much interest. My mother's friends just came. Rarr. Never seen them before. So yeah. I am just going to be anti-social and stay in my room. I don't feel like going out there. >< Haiish. I cannot wait to go to my grandaunt's place. So many people will be there. We will have a whale of a time there. I can predict. HEH. We always have. =) Yeah man. I'll just put the past behind me.
And ohyeah. I have one person to thank here. Nik. Thanks woman for being there. I really do appreciate it. A lot. You made it seem so easy to talk to her and I did it. Now it's a load off me. And if you got into trouble with your mum for staying up so late, sorry. >< But still. Thank God for you, nik. =)
Okay, I shall go back to the boring routine of saying gong xi fa cai.
adios
quote of the day
"seize the opportunity, make a friend for life."
nik. i hope she's okay. her mum and all. rarr.
11:01 AM
it's chinese new year. =) yeah. kinda happy. HAHA. lol. and my cousins are listening to fort minor on my com. a little irritating. RAHH. hahaha. okay i have nothing else to say but that i am going to sign off. lol. okay my cousins wanna intro themselves. they are manlun and mathias. xD
adios
quote of the day
"tits are good for health. you can show them the firming tits action."
matthias. tsk tsk. notty notty.
8:53 PM
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
--
Elizabeth BishopI like this poem. It reminds me of something I used to have in my life; but now, it's gone. I don't know how to put it. It's been part of me for a short while, but it seems like I've had it for such a long time. Maybe it's because that period of time when it still existed, I was happy beyond words could describe. Now that you're out (nearly) of my life, that part is almost negligible to me; and I am feeling uneasy about it. There's nothing I can do, except let time take its course. Yeah, I'll let time take its course, even if the outcome is far from a fairytale ending.
Alright. I must say that I am grateful for all the new friends I've met so far in 301. I thank my stars and obs (as quoted from nik) that I met a whole bunch of ONE-derful people. Thank God for them. yays.
Bahh. I am tired. I shall go check out the teeeeee-vehh. HEH. I like dragging my words. xD
adios
quote of the day
"contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realisation of how much you already have."
natasha's email. yeah. i've realised what i have now. so i am contented. i will just have to wait for the right person...
9:49 PM
Just came home from a movie, In Her Shoes. Oh my GAWWD. It was so freaking nice, although the director like cut off some interesting parts, like when Maggie was supposed to be a "student" at Princeton. LOL. And when Maggie and Rose are in bed together talking about the wedding gown. >< But it's nice nonetheless. =)
I love the poem at the end. HAHA. =) YAYNESS. heh. I am kind of tired now so yeah, short post for today. HEH. I am feeling bloody lazy. Still have homework to do. So rubbishy. GARRHX. Okay CYA.
adios
quotes of the day
"she sounds like a manipulated little nincompoop."
"there's a thing called privacy."
"ms huttsy tuttsy pants."
IN HER SHOES. OMG. =)
5:40 PM
I'm in some kind of crisis right now. COMMONWEALTH ESSAY is positively KILLING me. RARRR. I am pissed. piss piss piss. >< Okay I gotta go like soon. But anyway, an update on today.
Today was rather slack. First lesson was geography and all we had to do was stare at some photographs and pick out the details to write down. It passed rather quickly anyway, although it was super boring, with Ms Foo being out of the class for extended periods of time. ><>< omg. I cannot understand why impure substances freeze at a lower temperature and melt at a lower temperature. RARR. But eventually, I WILL UNDERSTAND IT. YEAH MAN. After recess was english. I was like hmmm, what to write for commonwealth essay?? LOL. And now I am still stuck. OO. THE HORROR. Math was okay basically. I like MS NEO. HAHA. She's very nice. =) Math seems so much easier now. xD
Then it was CLE. Class elections!! ((= Andrea was actually supposed to be chair but she did not want to. >< But still charlene's going to do a splendid job. YAY. And I successfully made WENDAWOMAN a treasurer, although after that I got some real spanking from the WENDAWOMAN. xD HAHA. OKAY. I GTG NOW.
CYA!
adios
quotes of the day
"OH MAN!"
jasmine.
"acrobatic dog"
amanda. kinda sadistic. >< haha. if the soft toy was a real dog, it would have died.
7:34 PM
OBS!
It's been like a dream. Really. I cannot believe that I have already lived those miraculous, marvelous, magical and undoubtedly memorable five days of my life. During OBS, every day seemed like a few days but now the five days of OBS are merely just five days. I'm kind of overwhelmed by that feeling but OBS days are definitely unforgettable.
***
on the first day, i was kind of in doubt about myself and the stuff i was going to do with this class, whom i wasn't feeling exactly attached to. we were at the jetty waiting for the boat to come when i had this feeling. i suddenly did not want to go for obs. but now i'm feeling relieved that i went anyway. =)
upon reaching the obs place we gathered at the parade square thingum that they have there. we waited for some time to have our watches sorted and i was in MARSHALL. marshall itself sounded rather cool and never had i figured the people in marshall were way beyond just cool. marshall had suchin, serene, serena, hiu tung, nikhita, suvitha, jiayue, zijun, arina, shihui, andrea, wenda, chunque, triyono, weifen and ME. =) and we have the most interesting, most fun, most caring, most fantastic, most wonderful etc. ... -takes breath after long rant- INSTRUCTOR - BOON WEE AKA DUDE alias UNCLE DUDE.
so we had the introduction yada yada and bunked in. we left our bags there and proceeded to do some really fun stuff like trust activities and belaying. honestly i was damn nervous when it was my turn for the trust fall thingy. i was like OMGAWDDDD. i just took a deep breath and fell on the sheet. it was so fast and so....DARN COOL. HEH. the belaying was quite funny lah. we started nicknaming each other at that time. xD HAHA. wenda actually wanted to call me cheryl but decided to follow the convention and call me by my more preferred name, gabrielle. =) andrea called me gabby and she is currently calling me gabby. it's a new one but i'm getting used to it. HAHA. =)
dinner was okay and i ate a whole lot. xD HAHAHA. i am the exact opposite of andrea, who eats so little. i was like eating twice as much as she was eating. >< no wonder i am a bit fatter now. rawrrr. we had this weird but nice code during meals. we MUST have everyone at the table before we can dig in. XD HAHA. we were like ONE TWO THREE... *MUNCHHHH*. HAHAHA. =) we had to wash all our stuff and dry them before putting them in the marshall utensils locker. hehehe.
the second day was much more fun than the first day. we woke up very early in the morning for physical training - 5 am in the morning. it consisted only of the 5 BX and some warm up activites - and i thought it meant we had to run like 10 rounds around the obs campus. =.-''' it lasted for approximately 1 hour max. it was rather fun. xD HAHA. and i kind of realised i can DO PUMPS! wheeeee. =) i got arm muscles!! xD hahaha.
breakfast was delicious man. =) ooo i am missing obs MILO. =) HAHAHAHA. we had beehoon and hot dogs. yayy. but we could do with more hot dogs. xD HAHA. hmph! they are so stingy with the food. they should have more food for each of the obs people, because we need the carbs and energy for the day's activities. xD
anyway, we went KAYAKING! oh my GAWD. since we were like land ex, i didn't expect we get to kayak at all. xD hahaha. i paired with andrea at first but we were split up and i ended up pairing with weifen, who is a robotician (okay, i invented this term. lol. sounds quite fancy. xD) like me. but we still have loads of fun despite the jumping silverfish, nearly-dead-but-not-quite-able-to-accept-the-fact fish, mangrove-tree-that-has-hermit-crabs accident and mudskippers. =) and i think kayaking rocks like siao. OMGGGGG!! i think i am falling in love with it. xD no correction. I HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN LOVE WITH KAYAKING! XD
all of us were soaking wet after the kayaking out at sea and returned to our bunk to rinse off the seawater before going for lunch. lunch was kind of okay lah. but after lunch, WE GOT TO CLIMB THE ULTRA COOL INVERSE TOWER. we set like $430 as our target and started climbing. i climbed with nikhita but when she finished i was still like halfway through. >< but i managed to get the $50. xD HAHA. then i belayed jiayue, who also got to the top and earned marshall $50. =) ohman SUVITHA ROCKED. =) she climbed for one whole hour and she did not give up. i am ultra proud of her. xD me and andrea were cheering like siao for her. we came up with super funny things like "HUG YOUR MOTHER!!! THE LOG IS YOUR MOTHER! NONO. HUG YOUR BOLSTER!!". HAHA. and dude was laughing at our weird beyond words comparisons. xD but still. SUVITHA DID IT!! YAYYY. and there's triyono and her proficient swearing. she can climb and swear at the same time. talk about an expert swearer. xD she was like "SHIT MAN. HOW AM I GOING TO CLIMB UP MAN? THIS IS STUPID SHIT MAN." and "SHUT UP LA. HOW TO GET THE SHIT OVER?" BUT, after all the coaxing and the cheering, she DID IT! OMG! we had like SEVEN $50. ohyeah, and i wanna tell everyone who comes to read my blog: MARSHALL ROCKS. you know what? WE EXCEEDED OUR TARGET AND GOT $660 instead of $430! DO WE ROCK? YEAH WE DO AND DUHHH, WE ROCK EVERYBODY'S SOCKS! xD HAHA.
third day was d-day. we had to trek through rubble, mud and rock to get to our desinations, with hefty heavy backpacks on our backs. we left quite early in the morning and oh man was it difficult. i was panting when we were only like 10 minutes into the trek. >< rarrr. but we had fun walking along at the back. xD hahaha. and we got to the alpine rescue thingy and we were like arhhhh how to get the casualty over?? lol. anyway, we would have done it better if we had more planning. but still. GOOD JOB EVERYONE. =)
then we had lunch. somehow i was pissed off with something that i do not want to reveal here, and i started venting my anger using one of the camping sticks, causing arina to call me annie the anteater. i was like whaddahell and BLOODYHELL. that just made me more sick of myself and a whole lot angrier. i swear i could have just broken that stick with my bare hands. ><><><
anyway, i must say ANDREA and SUVITHA were GREAT land expedition leaders. =) they led us through the entire thing and we did not even get lost, unlike munshi, who took a wrong turn. xD HAHA. our leaders are SMART man! =) we reached our destination earlier than munshi! YAY. then we went somewhere near the sea to pitch our basha's and cook dinner. =) but first we had to go get water from the jetty. nikhita, me, wenda, suvitha, jiayue, suchin and few others from marshall went to get water. xD we sat around slacking and talking while waiting for the water to arrive. we realised that some people have trademark phrases. for example, suvitha likes to say, "uhhh. i think we kind of realised that" and "apparently"; wenda's favourite phrase is "ohmygaawwwd." while mine is "DUMBASS." xD AHHA. =)
the water finally arrived and we staggered like drunkards while carrying the jerry cans. xD somehow chiu ling got us lost in the tropical rainforest. =.-''' and some of us freaked out. donovan (sorry, i just couldn't resist: NIKHITA) was like a bit scared. i was somewhat freaked too by the weird sounds of the forest. rarrr. >< but luckily we got out. PHEWWW.
dinner was instant noodles with baby sausages. YAY. so nice. andrea's a great cook. OMGG. HAHAHA. ohyeah i almost forgot. i was so bloody blur i got food from munshi's pot instead of marshall's pot. ><>< haha and turns out triyono had actually placed her shoes there to "chop" the sleeping place and when she came, like you know, she's our proficient swearer, she had a barrage of vulgarities at hand and oh, she said them so frigging fast. things like shit man, you idiots, get lost lah, what the f*** man came out of her mouth at record speed. XD AHAHAHAHA. it was RA (really amusing). xD HAHAHA.
when we woke up the next morning, we awoke to a swarming army of ants in a feeding frenzy. from the moment i awoke it was ants and more ants. it was a real miracle my bag wasn't infested when donovan's bag was so close to mine and was super infested by the ants. i helped her to clear out her bag and many others to exterminate the ants. we bustled around for hours straight to get rid of the ants. me and a few others went to fetch the instructors and initially they did not want to come down to our campsite. i was rather pissed wtih chiu ling then because she said they did not have to come, when we were like practically dying just fighting off the stupid ants. i went a second time and boon wee calmly told me to get the non-infested bags out of the way. i went back to the campsite and informed the people about the plan and they got ready. but somehow i wasn't sure if i would lead them the right way and quickly ran back to boon wee to make sure. he showed me where to bring the bags to and i got the people to put their bags there. that's why i trust boon wee more. he's the DUDE man. =) then we got the entire area cleaned up. arina had to like take a soiled pad out of the bushes. OMGOSH. that's ultra disgusting. ><>< but anyway, we learnt that we should work together to overcome obstacles that come at us. together we stand, divided we fall. one for all and all for one. YEAH MARSHALL and MUNSHI!
we trooped back to the alpine rescue but on the way, we had loads of fun talking about arina's invisible owls, britney, pulau, ubin and many other inside jokes. xD HAHAHA. that was like a bonding session going on at the back. so fun!! haha. and i found out that boon wee is a younger bro. HAHA. =) he looks like one anyway. xD HAHA. =) he's got that look. on the way we stopped by the quarry and we set about building a functional raft but sadly, we did not complete it. =( again i believe marshall could have fared better if we put more planning and action into it. bahh. anyway, lesson learnt again. we have to work together. but we got to go for a dip in the crystal clear quarry. omg i LOVE the water! it was so cleansing. i felt uber clean after the little water dip. we sang my bonny in the water. so funny! hahaha.
alpine rescue was much much better than the seaside campsite we had for the previous night. xD AHHAA. we finished everything faster and within time limit, since we already have EXPERIENCE. xD HAHAHA. =) after dinner we went for night walk, which was uber fun. i was walking with andrea and she was like squeezing my hand. hahaha. there were loads of strange sounds everywhere but yeah, i'm proud of andrea and myself for not freaking out in the dark dark forest. we reached somewhere along the coast.
then came the shock. we had to do solo night walk. i felt my stomach turn into a bottomless pit and my heart and lungs fell way into it. i composed myself and decided to go first. i had to do it, i kind of told myself. i set off quickly into the dark forest. it seemed to swallow me whole and my heart started to pound so hard in my chest that i thought it would leave a tattoo there. i turned around to see if nikhita was behind me and oh my gawd, i was alone. with my trembling fingers, i switched on my torch. it flickered and came on, lighting up the path. i heard a weird noise to my left and some branches breaking and striking the ground. i whispered through my batted breath, "the Lord will watch over me" and continued on my way. when i was halfway through, i heard footsteps. i whipped around and saw nikhita. i was relieved. i waited for her to catch up and we went together. we reached the green light sooner than i expected. i think we were like 3/4 through the walk when we met.
i was sort of relieved we got there, but i had no sense of accomplishment, because i had waited and thus thrown away the challenge of a solo night walk. that was eating away at my confidence and it was burning a gaping hole in my beliefs. i was empty. my mind was blank. reaching there was not a moment of intense victory. it was merely just a small memory that i desperately want to chuck away into the back of my mind. now i am digging it up to show it to the world, just to let everybody know that no matter what solo challenges that come to you, do it on your own, otherwise you'll regret it like i am right now. i just hope that if i could like turn back time, i would just trudge on, soldier on on my own. and i am really sorry if nik felt doubtful of herself after that supposedly solo night walk. it's just me and nobody's fault. and nik, you are definitely brave and you are uber strong. i have always known that. =)
now, i just have to make myself know that in things that require oneself and only oneself to complete, i have to do it. all by myself. i shan't accept help unnecessarily when i know the only obstacle is my imagination. oh my gawd. now i am feeling like a total dumbass of a loser. RARRR. -takes deep breath- i will do it. i'm sure i can. i mean. I SHALL.
i went to bed that night, thinking about the night walk, dreaming the night walk and having a nightmare about the night walk. >< but i managed to sleep throughout the night. i awoke to suvitha's calls. she wanted to go to the toilet. haha. but anyway i had to wake up anyway. i shoved the night walk out of my mind and yeah, i went to brush my teeth and stuff. the digestive biscuits were kind of good and man, i felt okay. we had a really funny talk about our classic obs quotes and our cheer and our song. okay here are some of them.
wenda
"oh my gaaawd."
yingjie from 302
"if there's no peanut butter, the bread can go to hell and die for all i care."
arina
"invisible owl"
"enchanted forest"
"agony! agony!"
"oh my gawd britney"
"britney did it"
triyono
"shit man"
"what the f*** man"
"you better shut up or else i will kick your ass"
"how do i get the shit up there?"
"this sux man"
"gana sai la!"
etc. expletives xD
serena
"i'm very scared of the bear-bear!"
nikhita
"RA. really amusing."
suvitha
"ohyeah. i want to thank my scissors! i killed so many ants with it."
"uhh, i think we kind of realised that."
me
"DUMBASS. i'm smacking your butt so that your dumb ass cells can like turn into smart ass cells."
improvised cheer:
marshall rocks
marshall rocks
marshall marshall
ROCKS MY SOCKS!! XD <3
song sang in the tune my bonny:
my mummy lies over the boundary
my daddy lies over the sea
my family lies over at singapore
so bring back my family to me
bring back o bring back
o bring back my family to me!!
ohman, all these quotes bring back so many funny memories... I LOVE MARSHALL! but definitely, I LOVE THE PEOPLE MORE. so here are some dedications to every marshal.
andrea aka andy (can i call you that?? hahahaha)!
oh girl, you rock my socks. you are such a great land expedition leader! rock on man! and no no, you are not an insect, because i cannot have an insect for a wife. i need a human being. HAHHA. some more must be cool, fun, smart and chio. HAHAHAHA. high expections so must keep up okay? but anyway, you are already there. HAHAHAHA. i hope i am not inflating your ego. FWAHAHAHA. but still. <3 ya wifeee. and you better <3 me back. HAHA! xD
nikhita aka donovan!
yoyo donovan. i had fun laughing with you! you can be my laughing partner! i still remember our funny times..lol. the RA thingum and the laughing-at-triyono's swears times. xD you rock man. and rock on. oh and thank you for the insect repellant and the talcum powder and the haha times. =) <3 yaaa!
wenda lewis aka WENDA THE WONDERWOMAN / WENDAWOMAN!
heyhey duck-walk woman! hahahhaa. sorry for smacking your butt so much. hahaha. and all that dumbass thingy. >< hahaha i was just kind of high. rarrr. sorry yeah? hahaha but i think you are a very fun person and uber cute. and i like your husky voice, which is really cool. hahaha. and your laugh is so unique!! =) hahaha <3 ya and rock on womann.
suvitha aka suvi!
yo fellow beatles junkie! never knew you liked beatles too! i shall educate you about beatles! they totally rock man! ohyeah, i think your elvis impersonation is totally cool! and even without the elvis impersonation, you are COOL! you really have determination and i must applaud you on completing the inverse tower! you rock mannn. <3 yaaa! and see ya on monday with more beatles stuff!
hiu tung aka xiao tong!
hey table partner! HAHAHHA thanks for the shampoo yeah? hahaha and the offers to spray insect repellant on me, despite the fact that my O+ blood is way too sweet for my buddy mozzies to resist. xD HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. you rock mann. and your funny antics will be missed, like duhh. hahaha see ya on monday tooo!!
jiayue!
yo BIG SISTA!! you have like everything. omg! you are the arm that pops out of nowhere to stop a fall. you are like doraemon with all the insect repellant, scissors, plasters, etc. for all of us. you are like a big SISTER caring for all of us. you are like a guardian angel watching over and watching out for us. oh man, in short, you seriously rock dudette! =)
arina!
thank you for entertaining all of us with your funny comments and complaints, like the britney thing and the invisible owl story. xD HAHAHA. and yeah, you rock too! =) (sorry for the short dedicaiton because i am like going out really soon. ><)
serene, serena and suchin the MODEL!
YO you three s's!! hahahaha you all have been really fun too! serena, a boar is a PIG, not a bear. hahahahaha. xD suchin, it's "stylo", not "stah-lo". HAHAHA. you three are like super funny. haha rock on dudettes! <3
shihui!
haha you are so super calm and quiet. and when you make a remark, it sometimes kind of funny too! hahaha. =) yeah rock on dudette!!!
chunyue!
omg all that neatness. all that carefulness! you make me feel like a disorganised little kid. >< hahahaha. but i'm glad to be able to learn from your NEATNESS. hahaha i am kind of more organised right now. rock on yeah? =))
zijun!
ohman sorry for confusing you with jiayue! hahahha! but still, you rock because you are in marshall, the watch that rocks the MOST! like duhhhhh. hahah and you are one nice person too!
triyono aka yono!
OMGAWD triyono! cut down on the vulgarities and the expletives. but i would like to hear them sometime when i am kind of like pissed or down. it really makes me laugh like siao. HAHAHAHAHA. just thinking of you saying all that stuff makes me break in guffaws. xD HAHHA. rock on yono!
weifen!
you are the most hardworking person on the team can? hahaha. you say you are sorry for not putting effort in but that makes me feel sorry for myself too because it's like i've ben slacking more than i've been like helping out. xD HAHAHAHA. compared to you of course. you rock. and duh, you're the woman! you rock!
and last but not least....
UNCLE DUDE!!
although he doesn't have my blog url or any internet access, i shall just say that he's the most wonderful instructor in the entire OBS campus! i shan't elaborate on how but yeahh, he is a fun person and yes, HE ROCKS MY SOCKS...LIKE TOTALLY!
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now i am feeling fit, tanned and strong. i have gone the distance and i have achieved my goals. i have held on, held fast and held on. i have made it through all the obstacles with my watchmates. i have made a mega load of new friends. i have discovered myself in this obs course. and yeah, i have made changes to my life goals and myself.
i feel charged up and ready to go out there and meet, confront and conquer every obstacle and challenge that stands in my way to my goals. i am here; i am here at an all new beginning of life with a confidence that has been washed afresh. i am ready. come on man life. give me your best shot. i will take it. i will challenge it. i will overcome it. YEAH MAN. power to LIFE!
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okay that's all for obs and i ahve finally completed my post-writing marathon! yayyyyy!! anyone who has managed to like read through everything, tell me! =) okay YOU ROCK DUDETTES! and cya people!
and here's a poem that mother teresa wrote. sorry if i plucked it off andrea's blog but i am kind of in a rush and lazy. hahahaha. so here it is.
LIFE IS....
by Mother Teresa
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
adios
quote of the day
"life is life, FIGHT FOR IT."
mother teresa!
6:23 PM
Today is great yeps.
10 reasons why:
#1 NO HOMEWORK
#2 I went to popular and bought Harry Potter Book 6 (finally!)
#3 I settled decor comm stuff with the members and we are ORGANISED.
#4 I played my piano for 1 and a half hours, which is a miracle.
#5 I bought a birthday present for a primary school friend from jurong point.
#6 I can sleep early.
#7 I am more or less packed for OBS.
#8 OBS is in like 2 days' time
#9 I have sorted out my goals and re-written them
#10 I am FEELING HIGH.
WHEE. okay I shall go to bed. CYA WORLD and miss me. xD haha. I am ego, which is characteristic of a nut like me.
adios
quote of the day
"NUT THEORY = GREAT NUTS THINK ALIKE."
yingjing and gabrielle. cashew nut and hazel nut. we are ze nuts. lol. because we are nuts that's why we have huge ego's. okay doesn't make much sense but anyhow we know it is true. xD
12:15 AM
first week of school's officially done and over! =) and yeah, it's been great fun knowing new people and stuff, having lessons together in class. and i've been blur enough to walk into the wrong class after going to the toilet. ooo. x__X
i guess every friday's going to be a slacker day. geog was spent surfing the net looking at pretty pictures of nature and the earth, taken by this really cool photographer from france. he took pictures from helicopters and from different angles, which is totally awesome. i have already chosen five pictures that i like. =) chinese was rather confusing and i was trying really hard to speak in mandarin throughout the one hour block. >.< thankfully, the timely arrival of the recess bell saved me from further embarrassment of speaking mandarin in stutters and pauses.
upper sec assembly was a powerpoint on a journey of courage and what's-it. mrs michelle ng gave this talk in the ks chee. the analogy of the king kong movie as a parallel of our rgs life is kind of funny. she got most of it right but the i totally disagree with the part where she hinted we might just fall in love with our performance tasks and tests just like ann darrell fell in love with the huge hairy primate. what an inconceivable thought.
her talk knocked some sense into my head that i should work hard. haha. fwahaha. whatever. i shall just do my best in everything i do, and not give up when i still got something to give. =) yeah man. nothing is impossible to he who tries, so says alexander the great. hmm. maybe in this case it is she. nothing is impossible to SHE who tries. sorry alex, it ain't your say anymore in this modern world where girls have just about as much say as you guys.
the talk ended like 15 minutes ahead of schedule and we sec 3s crowded outside the hall, waiting for rs block to arrive. i caught up with lijie, sijia, ling and jessie at the stairwell. i think i really miss secondary 2 life. i love secondary 2. it's like i am not too old and i am not too young. somewhere in the middle. secondary 2 rocks because those people in your class are from the previous year and you have just started to learn more about them and understand them better. that makes the 2nd year more meaningful than the first. i really miss 205'05. and 205'05 rocks my socks forever.
rs was so dry that i was bored to pieces. ms tan put us through the 45 minutes of pure excruciating torture of a lecture on rs before letting us go and do our rs stuff. i was like, come on man. 15 minutes. what can we do? anyway, the streetlights thingy we are going to do is really weird. lol. xD
math class came after rs and we got to watch a VIDEO! =) this charles guy solved the crime using probability, plotting on a map and also logic deductions. that's way cooler that i thought it would be. xD heh.
that's about it for today.
haha. i am typing a whole load of mundane everyday-life kind of stuff. xD lol. okay cyaa.
adios
quote of the day
"and king kong represents your pt's and tests...and you know ann finally falls in love with king kong."
mrs ng. this will never happen. not on my street. haha. pt's and tests are my all-time nemesis.
10:26 PM
first day of lessons wasn't too bad.
we had a game called "listen-to-the-teacher-talk" for pe and went for a warm-up run of 1 and a half rounds. stretches came next. there were some weird stretches like the push-up-position-with-your-butt- in-the-air stretch. the entire pe lesson was spent doing the warm-ups and yeah, we missed out on playing the tan hai nee game, which is a good thing. it must have been dumb to play something else on a BASKETBALL court.
social studies was fun. colman chua is really nice and cute. suvitha thought of colouring his social studies blocks purple. xD his lessons are going to be rather engaging, i predict. since he believes in being jovial in class. homework was to research on some philosophers and political thinkers.
recess came. i went downstairs with suvitha and had pizza with her. =9 and i thought i saw teo walking to the dustbin to throw something away. but when i tried to take a closer look, i saw nobody. sigh. missing my irritating tablemate. ><
geog and hmt were slacker classes. quite stupid in fact. chemistry was rather okay. we had to write down our aspirations and all that for a self-introduction to the class. math was a big fat catastrophe. i failed my diagnostic test and i know it. ARGHHH. what the. my algebra is waaaaaaay too rusty. to think i am in advanced strand math class and i cannot even finish the fricking diagnostic test. never mind. i will work extra ultra hard. YEAH MAN. gotta stay positive. =) HOPE. the word aragon and arwen from lord of the rings had hanging at the corner of their mouths.
robotics after school was a blast. we made a structure out of lego such that it would not shatter into a pieces when dropped from various heights. we were separated into groups anyway. it was great. i was supposed to be group leader in our little group which consists of a newcomer, a senior and the chairwoman. kind of weird to be the group leader because the chair should have been the leader. we completed our little lego structure and tested it. we used rods to secure the structure and not just the lego bricks themselves. so it was rather sturdy.
michelle yeo cheated. fumes. she insisted that she was merely bending the rules. whatever. do you call a stick with some lego bricks in the middle dangling like keys and two wheels at each end a structure? =.-'''
our competition went very well. our team's lego structure was secure and we were one of the two finalists. and no prizes for guessing who the other team was. we took the competition a step further and decided to drop the lego structures off from the second floor onto the first floor. michelle was downstairs to look out for anybody passing by when mrs deborah tan stopped outside the G.O., where michelle was, to talk to some old girls. michelle tried to warn us but we dropped both lego structures and duh they broke. it's like so high up. lol. but we got away with it. xD HAHA.
the catapult competition was even more interesting. we had two pairs of wooden chopsticks, a piece of rafia string, a plastic cup, straws and some cardboard. i thought it was rather easy. just get a rubber band and slot it onto the chopsticks and tadahhh, a makeshift catapult. =) and we won.
yay! robotics was a blast and haha, so was the first day of lessons. =) cya people, gotta do some work.
adios
10:10 PM
I am feeling great now. I have sorted out what steps to take to finish the class decor plan, sent out emails that I can send for FRS, caught up with some people online and managed to get down my goals on paper physically. =) I am set for this NEW YEAR. =) TOMORROW'S LESSON TIME! Tomorrow is PE, SS, Recess, Geog, HMT, Lunch, Chem and Math. LONG day tomorrow but nevermind. First day of actual lessons! =)
I am going to send the theme choices along with their description around the class to check for the favourites among the people, and announce the final decision. I will send it tomorrow right after school at night. =) Then decor plans can be finalised and then sent around the class for approval before reprinting for submission.
Hmm, that's so much for class stuff.
Came back after school and slacked around a bit, decided not to play on the piano and went to work on the class decor plan descriptions. I think it's a bit too late to send out the descriptions now. >.< So I will send tomorrow. Talked to yingjing for a long while and yep, OUR RECESSES ARE THE SAME, which rocks. We can meet each other during recess every day of the entire rocking year. YAY. She's temporary secretary and lol she's the only one in her class to have a post. I was the first and she's the one and only. xD
Okay I better go and pack my bag for tomorrow. =) Cya!
adios.
9:08 PM
I am in decor com now. The class decor is up to the whole decor com. Got together to discuss today. Some of the themes are listed down but nobody seems to be supportive of any particular one, which is really sad. But some want the cosy idea which I am for too. So I guess it's cosy.
The problem now is what colour scheme would it be. I am thinking warm colours like yellow. We would have this cosy corner in this large empty space at the right hand side of the class. Blackboard is supposed to be used to reflect the theme of the class decor which is...cosy? Right. That could be sorted out during recess or lunch with the com members. The whiteboard at the back beside the blackboard is used for the event calendar 205'05 used to have. It would record all the big tests and stuff. The pinboard is going to be used for duty roster and all that miscellaneous notices. We are supposedly going to hang something on the wall that is characteristic of everyone in class, which is currently undecided still. ><
I am feeling kind of strung up right now. One minute I am excited about the decor thingum then the next I think it is frustrating. =.-''' Okay I shall stay postive and get the job done. It is a one-time job and that's it. And after that. YAY YAY. HAHA. =)
I better go think about it. CYA
adios
4:56 PM
I finally sorted out all the stuff I need to do. Robotics stuff will all be safely done by Thursday if I keep track of my schedule and my plan, which I will for this brand new year. I started on my third technical piano piece today even though I was daunted by it. A good start means a job half done. =)
I am looking forward to school, although I don't like my class too much. Well, there are some people I like or know. Shuna's in my class and she's totally funny. What do you expect? She's one of the two twins from 206'05. HEH. Bet everyone knows them. Arina's from 205'05, my old classmate and she's in my class. Not exactly excited to learn that she's in the same class as me but ohwell, at least she's someone I know. Triyono from robotics is in my class and she's a kind of weirdo who hates cca's and rather study than do anything else. Weifen's robotics vice-chair and she's in my class. She's a turbonater. She's got a whole load of commitments and she can juggle them all. And Xiaofei from 210 too. We three are in SMP so yay yay. LUCKY. We are in the same class! Makes it all the more easier.
Okay it's getting late. I better go to bed. School, HERE I COME.
adios
9:14 PM
