summer's showers

morning!

2010-08-07T10:15:00.005+08:00

there's something about going to school that makes me wake up earlier than i should every morning:D And this repeats itself despite a broken momentum.

Awesome days.Bubbly kids.Caring hearts. Most importantly, a SHINEy testimony of God.

He

2010-02-20T04:06:00.004+08:00

it's only been a month plus past 2010 and i guess alot's happened just within this one month or so into the new year.

Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."
...
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."

part of what brought me back from surreality a few weeks back. the fear that gripped our hearts then and still does though in a more subtle manner, it's not been pleasant at all. truth be told, i don't think i've actually handled it very well. away from that, it's been one refining experience and witness of God's exceeding providence, unfailing love, grace and mercy. for every prayer made He not only answered but far superseded them. i'm deeply touched by the people He sent, the ears and hearts they gave. it gave me an opportunity to learn more about myself and how amazing He is.

and since it's chinese new year, 新年快乐，阖家安康:)

five minutes more

2010-01-08T13:35:00.014+08:00

wahaha it feels good to finally have some FREE TIME and wind down abit this week.

sometimes it's good to have free time because you get to do things you've been wanting to do (not all, but hopefully most) like....

- packing and tidying up the messy room, big accomplishment!

- spending time at home so that you get to smell the homely smell HAHA

- meet up with friends.

- having time for yourself to work your think tank and heart bank.

- being able to read read read (story)books wheeee!

wed was totally good enjoyable time well spent. grands place first in the morning, much cherished time talking and just spending time with her:)) surprise visit to wl's workplace next, shar and i nearly gave up after some long hunting but i'm glad we didn't cos we found the place woohoo! time really fluttered and breezed by, spent the afternoon entertaining each other and customers there. nice, pretty, artisitc decors and we can't help feeling artsy futsy haha. wl's got such talents!:D last but definitely not least, claud cum mini 4A1 meet-up! It was one good night spent dinning, talking and laughing with you girls though it was so very short. do look forward to more more of these!

nice triangles!

before we depart home:)

(thanks amanda for uploading the photos!)

completed 'five minutes more' last night, a different genre from my usual. pretty litty book, somewhat like 'red sky in the morning', reflective of life situations and solutions people may resort to and of course makes you think about life issues.

school's starting real soon, in ways more than one, do hope it'll be better than last sem. and on a side note, tsk tsk's gonna be back today!:D

2010!

2010-01-02T09:10:00.003+08:00

新的一年又降临了。没想到一年就这样一转眼又过去，真是太快了！每当到了新年，都会使自己反思过去一年的经历，与立下新年愿望，今年也不例外。有太多太多回忆与感想了，将让日记好伙伴把它收集下来。总的来说，也许今年圣诞戏剧主题曲“似乎在天堂”可当我2009年的完结曲吧。去年所经历的宗宗感受，不管喜怒哀乐，得却是有史以来较深切的一些了。新的友情，更坚固的感情，路途中的考验，有时固然失望、疲惫，但也使我一次又一次见证微妙的奇迹，使我充满了感激。

不知为何这次的假期感觉上比以往忙，也比以往短，但很高兴假期过的很充实。参加了好一些活动，也（终于）遇见了好久不见的朋友与亲戚，最可笑的是，我在这假期都还没真正的购物，哈哈哈！已踏入新年，也代表农历新年又要来了，我可不要像去年一样喔！无论如何，HAPPY 2010!:D

why

2009-11-27T02:37:00.003+08:00

i've been asking why, but many a times can't seem to find an answer. i'm flustered, why all these, why now? it's like history repeating itself again, and, again, in a different form each time, but yet, of the same deep root.

those incidences, feeling of emptiness, repeated knowledge of myself drifting away-very much feared, and those moments of realisation. how selfish, how irresponsible, how unkind, how insensitive, how puny and how very flawed i am. it seems more like a realisation of deterioration. metamophosis should have been occuring, i think i've lost track of it halfway, only to find myself reminded of it in blurred flashes now and then. i know it's not an easy process, it was never meant to be easy to begin with. the gem which i have supposedly selected, polished and kept close in this process wasn't found. Maybe it's not time, maybe it's not there or maybe it's there, but i've been blind to it, or maybe it's always been there. but i know i'm not walking through the process alone, maybe this is part of the morphing process.

i've come to discover, each of us have special gifts from God. Some things may not be God's gift to you, but He doesn't take it away entirely from you. instead, He allows you, with His help, to work your way to it, through a process of amazing discovery and to allow you to draw closer to Him. the shell i thought i've broken through, i realised, with disappointment, it's still there. but this time it seems, the way i've been brought to manouver around it, with His help, it's different. and yet i know there're still much for me to morph. the fear is undeniable, but within it, a sense of reassurance. it's a comfort for me, in the midst of the wonderous drift.

there're many things i still can't fully comprehend, many a times i wouldn't have the ability to deal with them alone. i'm glad to be strongly reminded of His Mighty abilities, the amazing ways He puts things in place. ''if the problem still exist, leave it to Him, for He created it in the first place, surely He'd have a way to resolve it.'' Indeed, and how amazing it is. Just as i have shared with tsk tsk - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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24 hours ago i was dreading the coming of today. 24 hours later i feel so filled with thanksgiving. not that dreaded food, or for that matter the previous two as well, had turned out well, but more for all that happened after that. despite the weariness, i'm thankful for the company, thankful for lil girl's good news and most thankful for a well spent evening of sharing The Joy with others. blessed to bless.

random

2009-10-17T04:26:00.003+08:00

haha okies i know i shouldn't even be here but oh wells just a quick one. guess this is the mega peak period whereby most of us are rushing to work on and complete projects, assignments, tests and turning us into mad hags. and too many things been happening recently both in school and outta school and i just wanna sleeeeep them away. what a pig haha. it's taking a toll on health and tt's bad. soooo dear friends out there, pls take good care of health cos once it's lost, it's not easy to regain it back！

and check this out from the mouth of a 9 year old lil girl: "笑也过一天，哭也过一天，何不快快乐乐笑着过每一天！" then she burst out laughing after saying it. so cuteeee and sometimes soo true! oh wells, kids, many times you just can't help having them do :DD to you:DD

school's back!

2009-08-10T10:23:00.003+08:00

woohooo 明天校门即将阵式打开。。。开学咯！不禁感到有些兴奋，又能回到校园，感受求学道路上的点点滴滴。走进走出讲堂与课室，蹦蹦跳跳地在餐厅，走路，图书馆与朋友说笑、讨论话题，不时在预想不到的地方碰见朋友，当然也忘不了学业上带来的‘有趣物品’- 参考书、作业、专题作业、测验、考试，生活必然将会忙碌，但也真是多姿多彩！上学期过得非常充实，这假期相当丰富有趣，希望将来临的学期也如此。

昨天在看国庆典礼，不禁又为家里的那只小猪感到自豪。今年虽然没什么特别庆祝，但这是一生难得的机会，几个月的苦练已有成果，生日应该有别一番意义吧。

事情的发生、事件的领悟、不管小事大事，它们都是成长与变化中的一部分。高兴做了决定，而这些决定也是一种鉴定。阵与刚学的合成一片。*大雨下的阵是时候* 哈哈！

回到正题，明天开学咯！=D

act justly.love mercy.walk humbly.

metamorphosis

2009-07-05T12:55:00.007+08:00

Woohooooo! Back from a series of camps and possibly more to come:D Good fun, fellowship and most importantly experiences and learning of new things each day! Oh mans, i miss doodling and drawing and going into lele's lalaland. *totally random* Anyways, check out the photo below, even birds SMILE:)

" Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."

- 1 Cor 13:4-7

salad of thoughts

2009-06-08T21:43:00.009+08:00

life's been a salad. exactly one whole month since the start of hols, thinking back about what i've been doing for the past 4 weeks, can't help but feel that i could have spent the time i've been blessed with more productively.

returned in the evening from a peek of this year's june camp. so good to be back again. enjoyed it right from the start of the journey to tj. haven't been on the route for a long time, about a year i think. i could actually reach school within about an hour, so unappreciative of me when i had to take that route two years back. and i can walk to school! nice to be in school, though there's this partial not-A feeling cos i ain't wearing the greeeeen uniform anymore. nice to see the seniors, though we didn't have much chance to interact with them. nice good company, though i wish more could come. though there's a repetition of thoughs, overall it's still very very good. missed those crazy trainings and company we had, i wish we could go back to them again. looking forward to our turn next year:)

come to think about camps, june is such a camping month. one camp per week, nicely spread, wooohoooo exciting!

and i can't resist the temptation of marvelling at the cake py made for kg's bday ytd. so very pretty and it tasted as good as it looks. it's a lychee no-bake cheesecake! fruity and cheesy and bakeless, good for a fuity cheesy ovenless soul like me to try out heee.

py's lovely pretty lychee cheesecake:)

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was pleasantly surprised by the belated gift ytd. it's been entirely unexpected cos remembering and sharing my joy tgt with the rest had been so pleasing already. thank you so much sy & hh for the invaluable gift. the best of books which i know will never fail to bring me through the best and worst of times, the in betweens. wise words of advice, of comfort, of affirmation, of care, of love, of insight. specially guided with tracks to aid as i learn to take baby steps in my walk of faith each day. a book which takes 3 years to finish at a reading rate of 1 chapter a day, yet it takes eternity to comprehend and put into action - because we are all imperfect beings. so open the eyes of my heart and teach me, for i am still learning.

the uncertainties in life may be overwhelming, but yet amidst the uncertainties, you will find assurance when you know, you walk by faith.

华语cool！

2009-05-17T21:20:00.002+08:00

哇哇哇！你们看，这是什么？难以致信吧！哈哈，好好好，其实也没什么大惊小怪的。但当我发现能这么轻易在电脑以华文打字时，简直让我兴奋得有些睡不觉觉。也许这新玩意儿（事实上一点也不新，只是对我而言的确是个新发现）让我发现得有点迟，但迟发现好过没发现嘛，谢了，佩芝！=D 正好是个让我练习（已身修的）华文的好良机，所以若有错字、用词不当、句子不通、等，请多多包涵:P

上星期四终于考完试，期待已久的假期也就降临了，也该让联系跑了差不多三个礼拜的引擎歇一歇了。这整个星期固然忙，但忙的东西跟上两三个月的“忙”截然不同。哈哈，偶尔忙着不关学业的 “忙”, 做些自己平常在学期时无法做的事也不错嘛！这星期忙得开心，但愿接下来的假期也如此吧。

光阴似箭，岁月如梭（知道这非常经典，但我真找不到更恰当的形容词了）我们就这样在不知不觉中走过了第一年的大学生涯。非常珍惜这一年，特别是这学期，因为这短短的几个月让我再次大开眼界，深深感触到求取知识的奥妙与无穷乐趣，较了相当深切稀有的友亲，走过山谷并从中学习。相信这一切并非偶然，而是精心策划。可见生活的每个阶段都有让各自留恋忘返的美好回忆，美好也不单单代表完全都是快乐时光，阶段参杂着苦与乐，但又也许不一定只单单是个普通的阶段，在莫个地方，莫个时间，精练也许是截然不同，又也许是有些模糊的相似... 人的社会生活竟复杂，又有着神奇的奥秘。课堂上学的，传遍一下，也便成了自己的生活了。有些事，非笔墨能形容(:

just for laughs

2009-04-17T00:28:00.006+08:00

hahaha this's totally the wrong time to get active on all these virtual spaces but thought i'd share something super funny that sent me laughing rounds. had been having alot of problems with hotmail cos the mails just don't show up at the right folders and when the page is refreshed the mails in the folder changes. what's happening?? anyways i chanced upon the following "letter" from adel's forwarded mail some time ago(see below). found it while trying to clear my mails (in hope that it'll debug whatever problems tt's in my mail, but seemed sadly to be of no use). shan't include the title of the mail but yehh it's the content that's simply hilarious, all characters totally fictional and any resemblance are pure coincidences. Here it goes, come laugh with me!:D

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My dear Jelly,

I am in a well here and hoping you are also in a well there. I'm writing this letter slowly, because I know you cannot read fast.

We are not living where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20 miles. I am not able to send the address, as the last Sardar who stayed here took the house numbers with them for their new house so they would not have to change their address. Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address plate here, and that our address will remain same too.

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine, situated right above the toilet. But I'm not sure it works too well.Last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled the chain, and haven't seen them since.
The weather here isn't too bad.. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days.

The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the metal buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket.

Your father has another job. He has 500 men under him. He is cutting the grass at the cemetery.

By the way, I took Tauhoo to our club's poolside. The manager is Batman. He told her that two piece swimming suit is not allowed in his club. We were confused as to which piece we should remove?

Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it is a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle.Your uncle, Judebox fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off bravely and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days.
Your best friend, Bigbelly is no more.He died trying to fulfill his father's last wishes. His father had wished to be buried in the sea after he died. And your friend died while in the process of digging a grave for his father.

There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.

Love,
Mom.

P.S : Jelly, I was going to send you some money but by the time I realized, I had already sealed off this letter.

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haha just for laughs amidst all the tension out there(:

and thanks amanda and grace for the good laugh at myself yet again over wed's lunch HAHAHA

so much

2009-04-10T00:58:00.005+08:00

this place's gone so dusty and all my cookies gone mouldy. suddenly felt like filling up these space with so much that's happened since i last served cookie to cookie monster so here i am again with freshly baked cookies.

yehh so much has happened in the past 3-4 months and the term's coming to an end again. been reflecting quite abit these days about so many things. guess with all the work and assignments pouring down and almost drowning me it's been quite a struggle and i can't thank God enough for putting the right people at the right time and right place to cheer me on and just being there to see me through the chompy sea (its still chomping but alot better than the last 2 weeks) and it makes me wonder why im so tied up. worn down and blinded by school work when others around me are struggling with other issues i fail to see and comprehend. many times i wish i could be there to help just as how they'd been there for me but many times again i failed to do so.

the past weeks had been one of my happiest yet maybe a wheee bit traumatizing time in my uni schooling life thus far, with the most interesting and enjoyable lessons, BEST of the company i'd ever had for project work, 'strong and steady'(haha!) talks on my way home on nights almost every week and reviving my joy for event organising. i've never laughed so much (many a times till i stiched and teared from the incessant laughter) yet also never felt so loaded and torn like i was living the darkest moments in a faraway cave in dodo land. one manifestation of having the best and worst time all rolled in one.

people - they make such a difference. this is so applicable to part of today's message of being strengthen in a community of faith. i guess this is most evident in my mtds mod. not the most enjoyable mod in terms of content and skills (because we need to use some computer system and if you've already not known i'm quite IT illiterate and added onto my super slow actions, i usually take almost double the time to understand the pract and complete it) but with the so gee-ingly helpful prof and with fate and affinity i found the most fantastic, optimistic groupmates who never fail to brighten my days and make me so excited, always looking forward to project meetings, it made such a BIG difference! and social lifing and mapping out our critical thoughts(my favouritest content mod this sem which has sadly ended today!), and discovering about the very taken grantedness of family construction, and reading between lines, all so exciting and interesting! (notice the repetition of 'and's) besides that getting a lil busy with event planning's good fun too, plus going rounds around the small park has become i must do every week. oh wells i've kinda summarised my past sem and i can't help but feel i am so abundantly blessed.

wowww okies, this is such a loaded post. but hey, unlike gatz i didn't puff off the loadedness hahaha. funny, of all things i suddenly rmb thurs night hot dinner date few weeks back(:

school just takes my breath away (pun fully intended)

enter 2009!

2009-01-02T14:15:00.002+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

been too lazy to put up any posts so it's been hanging there for some time. exams were over long ago, hols are almost over too. this hols was super good time for fun and sleep and slacking! cos there's no holiday homework HAHA. btw i'm currently hooked onto forensic heroes, just a pity i can't really catch canton. yeh thriller/adventure/mystery stories are simply good both in books and on screen(most of them at least)

anyways, 2008's behind us now and we've entered into another new year. countdown to 2009 was awesomely fantastic! totally knocked out when i got home. r&r all penned down but just a glimpse and recollection of them - 2008's been a pretty happening year and i would say one of the best things in life happened when i was still a teen in 2008:D wonder what 2009 would be like. haha and i hope i'll have the discipline to work towards my new year's resolutions. alrightos 2009, i'm embracing you with open arms and a hearty smile so embrace me back in the same way ya!

she doesn't want eng tut to end

2008-11-02T13:35:00.004+08:00

it's just 2 weeks of proper school left before reading week and exams will come trashing down onto us. and i'm still caught in the cycle of neverendingness of work, and uncompleted projects(pun intended) and assignments. realised i didn't mention readings or catching up on studies. rahhhh. breaks and more sleep and more time to catch up on my studies and more personal time would be goooooood. i've just attended the last tutorial for 2 of my modules this week(hah, and we brought home another assignment at the end of the tutorial-.-")

ok enough of rants. ironically, i don't want english tutorials to end! oh wells, i guess it's the most enjoyable tutorial out of all if i'd to rank them and less to say i had fantastic group members and a very interesting tutor! :D yess. english and linguistics can get so interesting(despite not grasping the full concept yet, but the learning of it is real fun)

in the midst of all that school and work, last week'd been a meetup week and thurs and fri noon had been great cos i met so many many friends in school! Hung around with Sher, sy and hang and met janice aft that for lunch. yummy donuts from amanda and saw grace and sup too. all in one at sci fac. hahaha. lunched with monkeys on fri n went to cherlyn's room with yy n tric to see them dress up for halloween(most unfortunately i didn't see them in their full attire cos i'd to leave) ohlala and i realised wh stays just beside cher! yahh so as you can see i met loads of friends within these 2 days=))

alrights i'm looking forward to a more acadamically and spiritually productive week!(:

a promised post :)

2008-09-26T12:46:00.002+08:00

after a long hiatus......

YEAHHH!!!! i'm so happy i finally completed that essay! :DD wow thank God for brining me through this struggle and although it wasn't completed on time, half a day late in fact, i'm still super elated to bring it to an end. woolala. ok before i go on, special thanks to amanda and adeline for your great great help and encouragement, much appreciated:)

just a quick one today cos i'm real tired. as all would know school's started and we would have realised how true this statement "uni is a bed of roses" was. it's hols this week and mine mine, i think it's much worse than normal school days. spending tons of time day and night on projects and assignments, some hols ya. and i thought i could use it to catch up on my laggy readings and prepare for mid-terms. seems like it for the rest of my friends too. soo, JIA YOU!! maybe it's just tt i've not adapted to the change yet, discipline is key! Meet up with friends are less frequent, but i'm glad i managed to catch up with quite a few despite how short the meet up was.

alrights, off for a short rest before zooming off again! tmr's geog field trip to s'pore river and the start of F1 race!:D zoooooom.

durians!

2008-07-18T22:55:00.004+08:00

i'm soo happy now cos i just ate DURIANS!!! wahaha dad bought durians today and i finally got to eat them after so long! yummmy.

attended pre-camp on mon and tue, it was good fun haha, pity i'd to miss the sentosa part though. have been out every day this week. and next week's gonna be a pretty busy week too. haaa and i thought i'd be slacking and enjoying the peacefulness during the last of our 8months hols.

ok this's a random post. oh wells, durians!

5days 4night

2008-07-04T23:02:00.018+08:00

i'm peeling like yang cong cos of overtanning by the sun at camp. but still it was funn, most of it at least :) we camwhore so much during the camp.loll. and so here're some photos!

helloooo!

haw par villa!

ohhh so scary

Teeeeee!

HAHA this's one funny photo!

war games!

clubbing night

i like this og photo:)

house photo, say greeeeeen!

like a river

2008-06-16T21:04:00.003+08:00

i'm still feeling a lil overwhelmed, 2 days ago felt so far away

the event we've all been working so hard for in the past 2 months, those long meetings, sleepless nights and days spent working on it - is over. funny that i've been looking forward so much to after 14june. but yet when it's all finally over amidst the joy of our achievement, i've this queer unexpected sense of emptiness. it's been a fantastic experience i must say. learning more about myself and others and seeing more of the real world out there. despite the tremendous amount of time i've spent on it and sadly neglecting my work and cutting down so much on leisure time and meet ups with friends, i must say i've no regrets joining it. thank God for these people, especially my comm members, who've crossed my life and taught me valuable lessons and helped me out so much throughout the 2 months. lots of interesting things i've been exposed to through this, and it made me feel like my life's so colourful and exciting:) i'm so glad i went through it!

check this out! http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=19673

now it's back to my normal life, interesting but yet in a different way compared to the last 2 mths. i've been missing out a large part on shopping, playing and meet ups with friends, and now it's time for them again! :D

it's been grrreat :)

this special day:)

2008-05-06T22:33:00.013+08:00

haha i decided i gotta make a post today cos it's an ultimate

HAPPY HAPPY DAY! :)

despite being a normal work day it's been sprinkled with lots of little surprises. so many good things happening all in a day, i'm sure it's more than just pure coincidence.

much thanks and appreciation to all who made my day with your birthday blessings: family, vicki, victor, sher, amanda, pq, ruth, uncle matthew, ade bear, keng yee, betsy, michelle, sharon, kyna, zx, marianne,szeyin, claudyne, evava, jian wei, grace

more xie xies to: hh, charmaine, sara, john, esther

thanks ky for the great lunch ytd! and of course not forgetting the early birthday surprise with sher by bears:)) looking forward to monkeys night on sunday!

heaps of smiles :D

swift like the wind

2008-04-30T21:10:00.003+08:00

i can't believe today's the last day of april and we're stepping into the month of may tmr. april felt like such a fast moving month but yet there's this lil pinch of feeling of emptiness in me. i wonder if this's the effect of having a tad more events and activities to handle which has kinda void me of more social life and leisure time. but anyhow, today had really been a great end to the month of april and i'm really thankful for that.

for one, work had been really on the way down for the past 2 weeks, but low and behold, i felt that i'd been 2 times more productive today than any other day for the past 2 weeks! it wasn't the best performance ever(or maybe not even reaching average standard), but it's good enough to make me happy and satisfied for the day. and i guess the fact that tmr is a holiday lightened everybody's mood today and we chatted and joked quite a bit. what's more! mama bakery was still open when we went there after work today(it was closed when we visited it at 6plus last sat), and, and they were having an offer!:) i finally got a chance to try out the much 'advertised' yummy bread from mama bakery, wahaha, at offer price too.

for two, after mia-ing for tkd trainings for about half a year, i FINALLY went back for training last sunday - and ended up bruising both legs again. haha, it's been half a year since tt happened. i've lost almost everything and it'd be building up from scratch for me again. but ain't i glad to be back with charmaine and the rest:)

for three, uni letters of acceptance are coming in and i'm so glad most of my fellow friends have been accepted into the course of their choice. thank God for that!

i'm curious: i don't know if it's me increasing my awaeness about environmental issues and actions taken, or is it really that more actions are taken to curb environmental issues and raising public environmental awareness - it's Shutdown Day Singapore 2008 (or more simply known as 'switch off your computer day') this sat.

oh nose stop running.

majestic may days ahead!

TGIF!

2008-04-11T23:50:00.004+08:00

TGIF!
wellll it feels more like a monday than a friday today though, cos work and activities seem to be pouring in more today. i'm starting to feel the heat. things are just starting to hype up a lil more this week, especially towards the end of the week. ah, like an exponential curve(wow i'm applying maths! lol-.-)

last week's been pretty relaxing and fun though. a series of meet ups from thurs. wheee! haha ok, maybe this's kinda out-dated info. but anw, parkwaying with sara, jan on thurs, food glorious food with betsy and ky on fri and monkeys stayover were enjoyable=)) haa gotta enjoy all these to the max cos i don't think we'll have the luxury of time once school starts again. and speaking of that,
sidenote for self: i've yet to accomplish a number of things i'd like to do on my 'things to do after A levels' list. take actions to accomplish them before this long hols end.

life's getting more exciting and interesting. the heat is on, and no complaints! :)

a breeze of nostalgia

2008-03-29T14:03:00.004+08:00

woohooo weekend! a much anticipated weekend because this's been a pretty hectic(and not-so-enjoyable) week >.< went back to tj on tues to get some documents certified with pq. met a number of juniors and teachers. it's kinda unexpected, but i actually felt good to be back. and my trip there brought back lots memories and reflections of my 2 years of happening, activity-filled, humpy bumpy ride in tj. from the long ride (pun not intended) on 854, walking that same old route from bedok interchange to tj, to sleepy afternoon lessons due mainly to after-lunch-syndrome, and of course not forgetting tkd trainings. i'm quite amazed, after all the ups and downs, trainings and late nights endured throughout the 2 years, i actually managed to walk through them and emerge in one piece - stronger. i guess most who went through jc life would agree tt those 2 years were definitely not a breeze, but it'd been a most satisfactory learning and growing process, for me at least.

on a lighter note, something exciting is coming up - Singapore's building an Earth Observatory Centre at NTU! that means studies on volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and climate changes can be conducted right here in singapore=) though it'd be fully up in 10 years' time, which sounds like a long time from now, but anyhow, it's a good start.

and... Earth Hour 2008 starts at 8pm tonight. it might be just for an hour and such once-in-a-year event may not be much compared to continual actions to conserve nature, but every little action counts, so do just cut off electricity supply for that one hour and do our little part to save Mother Earth ya? :)

when busier is better

2008-03-17T13:30:00.004+08:00

the past week or two had been a mega roller coaster ride and i'm glad to be riding on more even grounds now. glad that i'd the IFFS to busy myself with for a start. a good learning experience for me though it only lasted a short 4days. took lots of photos on the last day and here are some to share:

in the midst of our 1-10 shots

this's my very helpful partner-michelle!

amanda(:

last but not least, my favouritest out-from-the fairytales cupboard!

attended the ntu ans nus open houses
side note: open houses are such a good way to meet lots of long-lost(and short-lost too)friends! every now and then you'd be hello-ing to people you know.

ringing:
"...but i know who holds tomorrow
and i know who holds my hand."

a leap of faith

2008-03-03T21:51:00.004+08:00

i had a fun fun leap year last friday with tkd pals! long time since i've seen them-holy, desire, michelle, yuyang, yannning, jianwei, kyna, wanting:D and i've got this sudden urge to go back for trainings. i wish i could, if time and events didn't forbid me to. there're so much i've lost(other than weight)having missed tkd for nearly half a year.
i felt glad and thankful on sat:)

lalala

2008-02-24T12:26:00.003+08:00

another week over. pretty ok week at work i guess though i'm usually kinda worn out by the end of each day when i get back(or rather during the last hour i was kinda tired out alr). nevertheless friday night marks a remarkably fun night to the end of this week's work week. kboxed the night away with betsy and kengyee. wheee! haha like talking on the phone during the days and nights throughout the week wasn't enough,we blast our throats in our singing marathon on friday night. lol. voice went kind of hoarse after kboxing. but luckily it went back to normal(it felt so) on sat, so phew, i still got my voice for next week's calls.

the weekend that came was good and is gonna be(it's not ended yet!) went for the mindchamps event with amanda. we had this trial session on remebering difficult words and a quick one on memorising words in sequence(i missed part of this). well, i must say they do have effective methods and techniques which proved to be useful and pretty effective for studying. lots of little kiddy wings(as mr elwin'd put it)there. hee.

The Leap Years, not a movie many others talk about, but yeh, would like to catch it if possible probably in march (:

heartfelt thanks

2008-02-16T10:45:00.005+08:00

i shall dedicate this post specially for all my seniors whom i've worked with in the past 1 month. a big thank you to you all. for the much help and guidance constantly provided. and tolerating my ever so often 'bugging' cos i don't know so many things. yesterday was my last day there ): it's a pity cos i really thoroughly enjoyed working there. much i've learnt from the short one month and most valuable experiences. really hope that i've contributed to the branch's operations. hen duo dong xi fei bi mo neng xing rong, so i shall sum them all up to a simple and most heartfelt

THANK YOU

i'm so glad i took up this job which i once thought had deprived me of other better opportunities. thank God for giving me this chance to work there and meeting you seniors. enjoy the little gift and 'love note'(haha as described by sandra) specially prepared for each of you. capturing some memorable moments:

- jane(that's what ah bang calls the sa) whom i work most closely with, chatting during free time(opps!), trying to understand what i was saying most of the time cos my words are always so jay-chou-styled(muffled and mumbly) and saving me from that especially difficult customer, continue gaining your fu qi!

- chipmunk! chipmunk! ren xiao li liang da! haha yes, chipmunk loves acorn :)

- ah bang(the security guard who calls me 'england meh meh' -.-")doing some exercises, ballet-ing, advertising like patricia mok($688) and helping you to run errands to buy your prata and charger!

- finding the shortest way from home to the branch! i successfully found a 30min brisk-walking journey there!

the creative name invented for the xiao mei who wears the red apron with mighty simon attached (i like the alliteration!)

thank you for the unexpected token. something to add to my collection of mei hao de hui yi

my best wishes to you all!

ahoy to the year of rat!

2008-02-08T22:16:00.000+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! :D

i like this year's CNY's mood. i can feel the festivities(well, compared to the last few years, jin nian xin nian de qi fen te bie nong) in the air and it feels gooood! had reunion dinner with my relatives earlier this year. feels good to have everybody gathering tgt =) went to singapore river ang pow last night with my family. not that it was unexpected. but really, there were tons and tons of people there, zhen shi ren ji ren. it was pretty difficult to get around cos we seriously have to squeeze our way through the sea of people. we were lucky to catch a lion dance and dragon dance up close. and of course not forgetting the event not to be missed-fierworks! most pretty!

that's the main entrance

god of fortune

rats oh rats

lion dance

brilliant fireworks!

visited my aunt and watched kungfu dunk with my family today. not bad i guess. i'll rate it 3 and 1/2 stars. jay chou's fans would like it. haha i think his sha sha de yang zi hai man cool de >.<

okies tata for now! enjoy your cny everyone!

work with blueless mondays

2008-01-28T21:06:00.000+08:00

wahaha. it's been one week plus into work and i'm rotting no more. and no monday blues today, in fact, last monday was blueless too! today's been a pretty happy work day. have kind of settled down and i'm glad i'm enjoying it pretty much :D there's much to learn from the seniors(shall collectively call them seniors cos there're several different positions)there though cos i'm still unsure of so many things. i feel like i'm such an irritating bug to them(haha bet they'll agree on this)cos i've to clarify and seek their help for the simplest things in the midst of their business(busy-ness). nonetheless, they were very willing to help and i'm really thankful for that. when i started out about two weeks ago, i thought it was going to be difficult because i was so unfamiliar with everything. well at least that was how i felt/thought for the first 3 days and i was praying hard that the new week, which was last week, would be a better week ahead. viola! it was better!

some thoughts after experiencing one week plus as customer service asst(haha i find naming it this more professional):
1. it's pretty fun working as a customer service asst cos i get to meet different kinds of people and some can be so amusing!
2. meeting difficult customers allow me to think on my feet and try to pacify them and please them to the best of my ability, i think it's through them which help to shape and sharpen communication and people-skills - i still am very horrid at this and working to improve myself on it. half the time the seniors will end up handling the more difficult customers. really admire them for this because they handle situations professionally. not only are they able to meet the customers' needs, they are able to allow the customers to leave the place smiling
3. it brings much joy and satisfaction to be able to help the customers and see them smile and thank you for the help. it's one of the main motivation to continue to improve service to the customers
4. courtesy, proactivity, confidence, being willing to help, attentiveness, patience are some important qualities to possess. of course, knowledge of the working environment and good interpersonal relationship skills are of utmost importance too
5. a mixture of experiences with diffferent people makes worklife interesting! rude and random suan-ing/reprimanding from customers, helpful seniors, friendly security guard(aka ah bang haha), appreciative customers and useful advice are some of the ingredients to my rojak of expereiences
6. don't see work as mundane daily work which you do just to earn money(learnt this at sat's crossroads), enjoy it and allow it to enrich your life. i'm glad to say that i do enjoy this current job pretty much and surprisingly, the thought of 'how-many-hours-i've-worked-so-far-and-how-much-i'll-be-earning' didn't cross my mind a bit at work!
7. although this is just a part-time job i'm glad to be learning so much, esp people skills from it. for what i've gained, i hope i'm contributing and helping in the company's operations too

been trying to find new and shorter routes to get home from work. a new found form of exercise(brisk-walking?)and at the same time save transport fees haha. it's actually kinda exciting considering the fact that i'm unfamiliar with some places(like walking through the private houses and flats)and therefore just keep going using gut feelings and instincts. lol >,<

p.s chinese new year is coming! =)

the irony of time

2008-01-09T21:04:00.000+08:00

groans. i'm a rotten banana, been rotting for some time. when you get a tit too much time to spare it can get borrring. trying to find constructive things to keep myself occupied and be productive at the same = using time qualitatively, is getting kind of difficult. it's so ironic, i used to yearn so much for a breather during the hectic school life and now i'm getting fidgety because of free time. maybe a balance would be better? on the brighter side, i should be thankful for the free time. m0re time to learn some cooking skills, reading, watching tv(lol) and all the leisure activities.

double groans. travel fare is so very expensive! it's jumped so high, like high jump as adeline has described. we're on no man's land, no concession nor student rate. and so we ended up using adult rate. oh manss time to get use to topping up your ez link card in denominations of ten(at least) every few days.

triple groans. i need to learn how to be rational and decisive and make to right decision. i learnt it the hard way this time. let it be the first and the last. time's not for wasting.

ehhhh. enough complains. check out this new set of new year clothes for my blog. cookie monster cum elmo. heh. tuesday tuesday come quickly!

2008-01-02T22:00:00.000+08:00

hana kimi jap my new craze! just finished watching the whole series and ohlala i think it's goooood! think the acting is pretty good and the personalities of the characters were portrayed well. Ashiya Mizuki(horikita maki) is such a pretty boy(girl), i like her cheerful, determined, happy-go-lucky personality. oh oh and sano!sano!(oguri shun) so cool yet so hot! haha he maintains the rather cold and cool personality throughout the drama and yet somehow's slowly able to reveal his feelings towards mizuki. started quite slow at the beginning and i got a little, just a little pissed with sano for his coldness towards everybody esp mizuki. haha but when things started heating up he becomes more and more likable. and nakatsu(ikuta toma) is a cute guy la. mizuki and him would make a cute pair. of course for this drama when romance slowly unfolds, sano and mizuki make a sweet pair. personally i find the story plot for the jap version better than the taiwan one. haha but the taiwan version's good too. i can watch them over again mans. ehh but i won't for now. would like to try catch other dramas. maybe gong zhu xiao mei or ka fei wang zi. haa i know i'm a tid behind others but blehh nevermind that.

anyway,

HELLO 2008!

hohoho yes a brand new year's arrived. looking forward to a year of surprises, continuous learning, good health, enjoyment, joy and happiness. work hard towards the new year's resolution and fulfill them with a smile:) may this new year be a great year for all of us!

2007-12-30T00:39:00.000+08:00

here i am again! lots been happening this week but i've been feeling rather lazy to update. haha call me a PIG. *everybody shouts "PIGGG!* this is lame, pls ignore. i'm bored, am merely entertaining myself. anw i hear abt another of my exciting activity filled week! :D wahaha i had a great time so here're some highlights:

met up with amanda last friday after work at ps. it was kinda crowded there and we sure had trouble looking for a place for dinner. we settled at rocky masters in the end. had a great time chatting with her. felt that i learnt quite a bit from her li zhi xiao pin:))

housewarming at my aunt's place on sunday! hehe. got to meet all my cute little cousins tgt there. running abt playing and all, they're as cute as ever! sometimes i wished i was like them. back into those childhood days when we were so innocent, playful and carefree.

then came christmas! well, the christmassy feeling i was hoping for didn't quite built up so it was just left hanging there with the tinny winny bit of festivity in the air(for me at least). went out with betsy and kengyee.had a little christmas gift exchange session, talk, walk, shop- usual girls' thing, haha but i like!

thursday was sakae appointment with eva and winne! hahaha. the lunch-turned-tea appointment was funny. thanks to eva and her clever ideas ;) had to turn away to stiffle the laughter.

met up with sara, jan, cathleen and winne on fri! long long time since i've seen them, esp cat! think we're all still the same as what i'd remembered ourselves to be in sec sch days which is good. maybe it's bcos we'd not seen each other for really long and perhaps sometimes just don't know what to say, there were some awkard moments of silence here and then. yeh, it's been tt long. nonetheless, i really had fun with them =))

enjoyed myself thoroughly catching up with family, friends and relatives. maybe it's abit of an overflow of meetups in a short time but, hey! i don't get this often k!

2007-12-20T18:16:00.000+08:00

wowww. i finally got a chance to use the com again. HAHA. it's miraculously gone on a disappearing act abt a week ago, a result of addiction to maplestory. not me though, i'm never good at such games. feels like quite a long time has passed since As and i've still got alist of activities on my after As action plan list. prom's over. pretty good i guess,i'll let the photos do the talking. anyway, to those whom i've had a snap with, do send me more prom photos yeh?:)

yeah!tkd pals! =)

one of my favouritest bunch of people-2306!

we went to yunnan tgt:)

part of 0806 with ms thangam!

qianhui-our bus rides home aft tkd

wan ting and cheezy!

yeh. tt was prom night. am listening to 95.8 now and i'm kinda surprise. it just played si ben dao yue qiu(by ah xing and chen qizhen) and a few songs later, it played zhen me ban(by s.h.e). thought such songs are usually played on 93.3. haha. nevertheless i like these 2 songs so do play more of them and other favourites too. lol. this is so random. christmas's coming.

i'm starting to feel a tinny winny bit of christmassy mood. heh. i'm looking forward to this festive season cos lots of things are happening. excitied to meet up with more friends and relatives in the coming week:) plunge into the cheers and festivities!

p.s. am having problems with this whole post so don't mind the change in font clr and whatever weird things on this post

2007-11-30T16:02:00.000+08:00

been out out out the past few days and i come home with aching legs everyday. arh. went out on monday with the bears to bugis and met so many people! met janice (doc chen) on my way to meet the bears. and while walking around we walked into 23 peeps (heh. this was half expected cos keng yee told me they'd be there and so i wished i'd meet them and i did!) then later i met amanda! haha was so happy cos i really didn't expect to meet people at bugis, usually you meet tons of people at orchard. winne's early bday lunch on tue, hope you enjoyed it! Happy 18th birthday winne! went for 23's gathering and tkd chalet on wed. badminton plus bbq plus cards plus talk talk talk! quite a long time since i've seen all of them, throughly enjoyed myself, it was great fun!=D

i seriously need a to find a job soon. my pocket's been burnt with a big hole alr with all the shopping for grad night and stuff. and i take such a long time to churn out a resume and write a cover letter. the worst part is after sending it you might not be employed. blehh. it feels quite pathetic to be unemployed.

2007-11-23T22:48:00.000+08:00

wheee! it's over over over :D been waiting for the end of the much dreaded As for ages and yesterday finally came. well, it's nothing too BIG i guess but what a relief that we'll not be under a huge pile of notes for sometime and going through the exams. of all things, they washed me most strongly ashore with chemophobia. hahh. it's all over and i shall just submit everything to God. anw, my legs are aching. went shopping with winne at vivo today and we barely walked for 2hrs and our legs were aching alr. lol. but seriously 2hrs was really short time to start your legs aching and we only covered the first level. haha. i wonder if that's the product of not exercising for some time. i feel so absolutely unfit! all the adipocytes deposited from all that snacking while studying and no exercising! it's high time to get back to my exercise regime. no more using studies as an excuse(it's a bad excuse anyway) and that's only one of the many things i wanna do. there're so many many things i've been thinking abt and wanting to do but have been holding them back until "after As". lots of ppl i'ld like to meet and catch up with. more shopping of course, but i'd need to work to get some cash though. reading exciting detective and mystery stories, a past-time i've sort of lost. and i wanna learn how to cook and bake! foodies, fruities, cakes and cookies!:) haha. i really have a weakness for food. the next week would be quite activity filled so hopefully i'll not get bored of being too 'free'. time for some enjoyment and relaxation. and to slow down and appreciate the nitty gritty beauty of life which have somehow lost it's way in the midst of the hectic school days.

2007-09-30T09:28:00.000+08:00

oh wells, it's been one week since the prelims ended and most of the results are back. been quite a disappointment especially for geog, my most favourite subject. whatever it is, i shan't emo abt all these studying and results thing. had quite enough of it and i should really look on the BRIGHT side of things and be thankful for the things God have given us because i'm really blessed. it's better to be happy than be sad ya?:) everybody's mugging real hard now. kinda scary and i've got to produce shit and spread them on wall (fa fen tu qiang) (lol!)to reach my goal. i really got to spend my time productively and not waste them away dilly dallying and doing all sorts of rubbish other than studying.

ok, hear about my happy events of the week! this week's been quite an exciting week, quite a number of little surprises and happenings. haha. well, to start with, i was so very pleasantly surprise to see monkeys at my door on mon late afternoon with cookies to wish me and my family happy mid-autumn festival! that was so so sweet and i can't thank you monkeys enough. the cookies tasted really GREAAT! sweet and chocolaty and extra nice because they were from you monkeys! =)) i can't wait for our stay over and honeymoon after the As! and i wanna learn how to bake those delicious cookies (and apple pie too!)
then on tue our class went over to ms teo's place to visit her(she gave birth to a bay girl a month ago) wow! we were all so fascinated by the many toys at her house and her cute little daughter who's rather shy. didn't really get to see baby enya though cos she's asleep. it was fun anyhow and a good destressing time after prelims. it sort of revived our memories of our childhood days and we chatted abt the tv programmes, toys, etc when we watched and play with when we were kids. haa. i guess the childhood times things was still in us cos we spent an hour plus talking abt them while waiting for post mortem for maths on fri. neopets was the in-thing for us when we were young! it's so funny hearing abt all the games and features they had and our excitement talking abt them. these chats were done at the expense of work to be done, but it's real fun to see us getting excitied at the little things mentioned and rambling abt them!
and yesterday was pl's funfair. went back with amanda, winne, tan chun and claudyne. guess we weren't exactly in the funfair mood. but it was good to be back though. met lots of old girls. it's goood to see them. really. though weren't that close to them but just the feeling of being back. those days in pl are seriously the best times i've had in my life. *oh gosh, i'm gonna start it again.*
yehh. so this's my exciting week=)

2007-09-13T12:19:00.000+08:00

yess. first week of the prelims are over. another week to go. don't want to think how it'll be cos i've got this horrid hunch that i'll be expereincing the same thing as how i felt for jcts.

gosh.gosh. i felt this little thrill in the midst of trying to stuff tons of bio into your head. i felt this once in a bluemoon earthquake from indonesia at 7 plus last night! woww! it's my first time ever experiencing this minor shaky feeling which lasted 1-2 min! can't help feeling excited though i know it's so horrible when the magnitude of the earthquake is obviously high that's why i can feel it. imagine the destruction. was on my bed when i thought i felt the bed shaking and mildly and i had this dizzy feeling. even tried changing position to make sure it wasn't my mind playing tricks. only managed to confirm it when i heard the news at 10 and found out my brothers felt it too. magnitude 8.4. goodness. and there were aftershocks which shoke some parts of singapore (but i didn't feel them) i know it's a bad sign that singapore's experiencing it but i still can't help feeling the slight excitement of being able to experience that mini earthquake. and it just happens that the geog pp ended less than 3 hrs ago. see, geog's so around us.

anw the peak of the last 2 weeks was going back to pl on fri. it made me really happy the whole day :))) saw our dear teachers and even when back to primary school to see mrs khoo and mrs tan in particular. then went to study after that. was really a happy happy day. maybe it's because i've not been to pl for ages and going back really brings back the homely wonderful times i had then, plus amanda, eva and claudyne's company too :))

alright. one more week to go. shall take my much needed beauty sleep before hitting the books again.

2007-08-22T19:02:00.000+08:00

it's only 2 and a half weeks away from prelims and i feel very unprepared for it. in addition to this which is quite enough of a bother for me, some things turned sour recently. it's not the first time being torn in such a situation. it's like seeing history repeat itself and i'm feeling the least bit at ease abt it. it's like a temporal summation of stress built up at the plate boundaries and the sudden release of it led to a devastating earthquake. it's aftershocks are just as disastrous. all's happening at the wrong time, just like the last time it occured. the least we can ask for is for the victims to be strong and to rebuild their lives fast. it's not easy to be a pH7 zwitterion. and it makes me wonder if i've really learnt from my past expereinces. it's life, face it, learn from it, grow through it. sounds so very familiar doesn't it?

2007-08-08T22:31:00.000+08:00

had national day celebrations in school today. wasn't exactly keen on going cos it's such a short celebration and the total time i spend in school equals to my travel time to and from school. -.-" was in a dilemma abt it, but decided to go support junjie and weien who're marching in the parade. a simple parade which makes me reminisce the national day parades i've taken part in. *no comments abt the celebrations in the hall* it's funny how i NEVER thought abt not going for any events in pl. it's so unlike now when i just don't feel like going. some sense of guilt and i wonder why i thought this way too. the long weekend ahead is piled with tons of work and a truckload of tests to study for. on a brighter note, i'm looking forward to the national day parade at marina bay tmr, fireworks especially!

anw, shall take this opportunity to wish several birthday babies happy birthday:
7th aug - happy 18th birthday to eva!:)
9th aug - happy 12th birthday to my big fat pig at home!
- happy 18th birthday to my ex cg rep and current 2306 cg rep...keith!
- and of course not forgetting Singapore! happy happy 42nd birthday!

2007-08-04T00:00:00.000+08:00

you raise me up

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.
- josh groban

much has happened this week. assignments. return of yet another RE. napfa test. jogging 4k with callista for her make up pe. but the most heartwarming, reassuring lessons were learnt today. ms teo played this song during our last bio lesson with her today. the point? raise someone up because it'll not only make someone's day, but you'll benefit too. how true. there're so many things we're bothered abt in life every day and sometimes we're so bogged down by our own problems that we hardly care abt the people and situation around us. yes, it's human's nature to be self centred, but sometimes why not try breaking away from this selfish nature and go the extra mile for someone and try to help someone? the satisfaction and pleasure that you're able to make someone's day can really make your own day too. seems like a long time since i've this feeling ya?
it's been reassuring to hear the great amount of confidence she had in us. and her personalised msg on the clip. the struggle i've been going through, the multiple failures, my lack of confidence and faith. regain it. grow through it and emerge stronger than ever.
"have faith, all things are possible"

2007-07-27T19:22:00.000+08:00

goodness!! ytd's punches were such an embarrassment!!! i so wanted to be swallowed into the ground immediately! little kids and those less expereienced can do it and i can't! so so embarrassing! and now there're bruises on my knuckles. super lousy pok!

anyway, wednesday's hydrology talk at njc was good. the speaker pretty much summarised what we've been studying and even did live demo on helicoidal flow. haha. something really laughable is that we spent 1 hr at the hub searching for the shortest way back, the nearest mrt station from njc and what buses goes there. loll. we all found our way back in the end. oh ya. i think the sbstransit website's not bad for bus and train directions. previously only knew abt the streetdirectory website, i shall usesbstransit next time when i need to find my way around. hah.

now it's abt studies again. with no more trainings in school, my life seems to be hovering around studies. oh well, it should be because prelims and a levels are coming. somehow it seems that no improvements have been made despite studying, especially for bio. all's well reflected by my bio RE results. most pathetic. performed way below class average. it's so discouraging because i really did put in effort. other than doing tutorials, most of my time have been spent preparing for the REs and little time have been spent on the other subjects. i've got to start proper on maths, chem, geog and gp. please let productive studying reap decent results. i know some of my friends are putting in a lot of effort studying and practising but have yet to see desirable resluts. must not not give up. jiayou jinshun! jia you ying le! jia you my friends!

2007-07-21T00:03:00.000+08:00

after the past few emotional havoc weeks everything's finally getting back on track again. this week had been sprinkled with happiness trigger activites=) thanks janice for bringing me to your church last sunday, it was enriching :) met up with some of my 4a1 mates on wednesday. been a long time since i last saw most of you and i'm so glad to see you all again! and today i caught up with cheryl and claudyne during lunch. talktalktalk. haha. plus productive time spent studying. and jts is tmr! what a hecticly leisure(or should it be leisurely hectic?) week!

2007-07-12T23:35:00.000+08:00

gruss
it's not as easy as i thought it would be. so it'd all been superficial? not as pathetic as i'd ever imagined. whammed me straight in the face and brought me to the verge. a whole wired mess inside. i'm tired. my head is trobbing. sleep and dream everything away. temporal escape.

2007-07-07T21:27:00.000+08:00

070707! live earth! go green! wanted to support it by wearing green today. BUT i realised i had no green tee (other than my school u and the go green day shirt). -.-" and i suddenly had a strong urge to go get a nice green top. loll. anyway, the point is, save the earth. every little action helps :) and.... geography rocks! =))
*this's so random, but there's still meaning in it if you know what i mean*

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2007-07-07T14:11:00.000+08:00

the return of results was a most disheartening expereince for me and i guess some others too. and the first thing that came to my mind was - what have i been doing during the whole of june hols? studying for this jct? RIGHT. btw, i was kinda irritated by the way some ppl react(and obviously showed it out and openly). going high for a moment and low to the extent of not muttering a word the next moment. i tried not to let this affect me and i'm glad it was pretty successful.
and i'm also glad i recovered from this hovering low feeling from all the results thing pretty fast. just kept telling myself to get over it and quickly restart again. and yeh! it worked! i cleared those low feelings on wed night itself. what's the use of brooding over it right?
guess the recovery was partly due to my friends, esp my tkd pals whom i saw at trg for a while on wed. being with them just makes me smile :) special thanks to adeline bear for your encouragement, adriano for mugging with me on thurs and the whole bunch whom i went dining with last night.
and after all this, it's grading tomorrow. gosh. i've not trained for like 3 weeks. i'm crossing my fingers really hard that i can pass it.

2007-07-02T20:33:00.000+08:00

and it's movies today! watched fantastic 4 today with 4/6 of the bears today. fantastic 4 was FANTASTIC!! silver surfer's cool( with his surfer of course :D) and sue and robert finally got married(lol!) thought the effects were good. thumbs up to the movie!! =) did a lil bit of shopping too. hees. and it's harry potter on tv at night.

these four days had been shopping, online-ing, movies and just relaxing for me. wonderful, stress free days. it'll be back to school and everything will start again in less than 24hours. not much of what i like, but that's reality. i've enjoyed myself and it's gonna be back to serious work from tomorrow. face it.

2007-06-30T22:02:00.000+08:00

shopping makes me happy! shop. shop. shop. shop. and more shop. wahaha.very obviously i went shopping today :D shopping today was awesome! it's always been! =))

i guess everybody(or at least most people) are just letting our hair down and enjoying ourselves for a little while after jcts before going back to the books, starting our engines again and of course face the horrible results(ok, for me i know it's gonna be horrible). but oh well, i think we should relax a lil bit after spending most of our hoidays mugging for jcts. it's a form of recharging for me i guess. so for those who've finished your jcts, enjoy this long weekend while you can and for the others who're still in the midst of the tests, continue to jia you yeh! your turn to enjoy will come really soon:)

yeahhh! more more shopping! more more happy! *smiles widely*

2007-06-28T20:52:00.000+08:00

all's finally over. and what a terrible week this has been. mild coughing started on monday. got worst on tuesday. was feeling terrible that night. went to sleep early and woke up coughing madly, feeling like vomiting and fever. just great. felt totally horrible, terrible. went to the doctor. he gave me 2 days mc. my mind was burning in a whirl and i felt so bedridden. took me some time to rationalise and finally decide not to go for the maths paper that day. slept and rested most of the day and got up in the evening to try revise chem. wasn't very effective but my mind really wasn't functioning. and here comes today. paper was terrible. my mind was floating when doing the paper. oh wells, it's over. and great, my fever is coming back. fever please cool down. i'm warm enough. i don't need you. cough please get away too. you've hugged me for 3 weeks. it's long enough. go find somebody else. i want to get well soon. i want to go shop. i want to go for trainings. i want to get back to working out. i feel so unfit. and verry shoppingly deprived. get me back to my normal self. expressway please.

2007-06-20T22:41:00.000+08:00

just thought of coming online to relax for a while before going back to practise some maths. had been feeling real lethargic the past 3 days and i can hardly concentrate mugging. keep falling asleep while reading the notes. i'm not joking. i seriously don't know why this is happening especially when it's the last week before jct. what's more. whatever i've studied the weeks or days before seem to hardly register in my brain. can hardly recall what i've previously studied. i'm not joking again. it's making me pissed and really worried for jct. makes me wonder how i managed to study two years back when i was still in PL. maybe the content was lesser. maybe at that time i could concentate and understand the concepts taught during most of the lessons. and i had time to practise. now, i could hardly concentrate during lectures and even some tutorials cos i was feeling sleepy most of the time. thinking about all this is making me miss those days in PL again. and our theme verse for 2005, my last year in PL, just came flowing into my mind: philippians 3:13-14"... forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, i press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus."
there's still a long way ahead. don't burn out. press on press on press on.

2007-06-18T22:46:00.000+08:00

yeahh! blogskin's been changed! thank you very much desiree! and of course adeline too :))

doctor shop

2007-06-16T22:56:00.000+08:00

after one whole week of the stupid cough that wouldn't stop even after taking cough syrup, i went to see the doctor. gosh, it was quite an unexpected experience. first, there was nobody in the clinic which kind of surprises me cos it's weekend. next, the lady who was suppose to be attending the counter (the pharmarcist?) was mopping the floor when i walked in. lol. i thought she was the cleaner at first until she put down the mop and attended to me. hahaha. it was my first time at the clinic i went to and so i had to fill in my name and particulars. ok. this is not the point. part of the point is, after the lady keyed in my particulars, know what she told me? -> "the doctor is not here now, he's upstairs( ntuc's just upstairs you see, she didn't say this) he'll be coming soon." wow. i'm awed. was business that bad that he had time to go walking around instead of staying in the clinic? so i walked around and waited. ok. this is the point. about 10 min later( that was A while) the doctor walked in. hahaha. i so wanted to laugh. he was carrying 2 full ntuc bags!!(didn't catch what was in the bags) goodness! doctor went shopping! i really wasn't expecting him to come down with anything in his hand, what more to say 2 full bags of stuff. the worst thing is i went in for less than 5 min and it cost 40 bucks! that was VERY EXPENSIVE. another thing, one of the medicine the doctor gave me needed to be dissolved in water. i tried it just now. it fizzes in water. efferverscence was clearly observed. haha. so chemistry. my first time eating such medicine. loll. this really is one unique visit to the doctor. dear me, pls get well soon.

my brother was so nice! he bought pau for me(and mum) when he went out for supper! it's really rare of him to do this. hee. thanks bro:)

my first

2007-06-14T00:33:00.000+08:00

hohoho. so this is my newly set up blog :)

i've been thinking of setting up one since some time ago but the 'push' factors were not strong enough until last thursday after hustings. haha. the feeling was just so overwhelming and i so wanted to pour it all out. and so here it is. it's kind of late now and i'm feeling tired so i won't blog about my overwhelming feelings now. (it's going to take some time cos i've lots to say)

oh well. i'm quite satisfied with my rate of mugging today. wasn't quite sure i was able to finish what i planned to study cos there were a rather huge chunk of content to memorise. but hey! i managed it. =) hopefully i can continue this way. not much of happenings these few days. just that i don't quite like this blog skin and i've trouble changing it. and i want to add more features ( like a tag board?) to this otherwise plain blog. i'll be changing it. soon, i hope.