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Thursday, September 17, 2009; 7:20 AM

Whee~ BISH.

Finally. All the drafts of the drama scripts are uploaded. All 6 drafts. Whew.
Its now 10.21 pm, Thurs night, Sept 17.
Tmr is the option form deadline. I am going to try for HP and if I don't get in, Double Science. :D Heheh.

There are lots of things to look forward to tomorrow actually:
1. CL SIA Presentation: which I didn't really prep for, unlike LA.
2. Option Form Deadline: decisions, decisions
3. HSSRP confirmation: I really hope to get in. The programme is super fun ^^
4. Training: Not in the least bit fun due to my sprained wrist. Hmph. I will spend the whole training doing situps again. Hope it rains tmr!!!! So I can occupy myself with PT.

LA SIA Presentation wasn't all bad today and Shichun looked like Patrick from Spongebob today, with a certain expression she had on her face. During LA, when I was presenting, if you had seen me laugh a little when I looked at the back of the class, it was because of Klara miming killing herself. Yeah.

TOODLES.

Friday, September 4, 2009; 7:17 AM

IVP Show

IVP Show caused Shumin to leave sch early at 9.45 am to go to NTU to setup the poster. The event started at 1 in the afternoon. So i was partnerless in the bus. Hah! I managed to skip wearing the blue blazer :D You know why?

I was supposed to get it frm Mr Chan + The fact that he didn't have it and Ms Chen Lin did + Ms Chen Lin got on a separate bus from the one I was in + The 90% possibility that she didn't bring the blazer to NTU + Fate played an impt part in this by making this sequence of events happen just right before we set off to NTU = No blue blazer to wear (gringrin)

The bus had a NO FOOD sign but Shichun and the rest were gobbling down potato chips. Munch and munch until the packet was like 1% full and Shichun piped up "OH NO! We have to leave some for Xinyi, rmb? She wants right? " Shichun was all the while munching with Ellen and Jiale, and trying to avoid the bus driver seeing them eat. Heheh. So funny seeing Shichun 鬼鬼祟祟-ing around.

Facts about the IVP Show:
1. There are tiny compartments beneath the poster stalls to put your bags in
2. Just stand in front of the poster and wait for people to ask questions and don't disturb them when they are reading the contents on your poster.
3. Point 2 doesn't really work, cos you will feel bored, so you're better off talking. To do this will be to ask every single person who is staring at your poster in you sweetest voice: "Hi, would you like me to explain this to you?"
4. There are people who actually come to view the exhibition very early. Shumin talked to a lot of people in the morning.
5. There is a cute cafe selling coffee and tea and snacks on the floor above the audi.
6. This cafe is very very popular with students.
7. The lunch that you would get at NTU would be and is highly likely to be [rice + malay egg (actually egg covered with chilli)] again.
8. People can use your poster as a meeting place. I overheard 2 primary schools boys arranging to meet at my poster as they wanted to wander around by themselves first. =.=''
9. My juniors from NYPS are a very resourceful group of people. They had specific people to help them advertise to draw more viewers to their stalls. There was a NYPS boy who dragged a teacher to see his poster.
10. Snacks were a fish burger like thingum with a packet drink. I ate the fish halfway and realized that I was swallowing bones (which are safely edible, btw) and I didn't feel comfortable so i threw the fish and ate the bun.

Haha, yeah. Things to look forward to in this Sept hols will be:

1)Oprah Winfrey's Primetime Special on ch17 this Sunday, 8pm. This episode shows us behind the scenes of American Idol, the designer Valentino at work and inside the British Royal Palace.
2) Sept SPEX Comps
3) More level ups in Pet Society, Crazy Planet
4) More revision for EOYs
5) More hmwk due after hols
6) More piano practice
7) More song lyrics memorization
8) More fun and joy
9) Full utilization of time
10) A updated new blogskin

You know, I just realised that points 4 to 6 aren't really considered "looking forward to" material and point 9 is a definite thing. Heh. BOO.

IFFY~:D

Tuesday, August 25, 2009; 2:15 AM

Random post. Random post.

Training yesterday left me all sore and unable to walk properly and feel muscle aches everytime I walk down stairs and causes my left leg to shake involuntarily when my heel is lifted a bit above the ground. This is what you get when you have not ran or worked out in a long time and you are wearing new tennis shoes to run 6 rounds of quadrangle in a time limit of 35 mins. Oh, and Coach plans to bring us gradually to run 10 rounds. like 0.0 sounds impossible, but if our seniors can do it, I think we should have no problem. They took like 1 hour plus, most of them. Imagine PT for one hour, and that's only one type of PT.
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I managed to find the Indian Bollywood movie that we watched last year, the one with Shava Shava in it. Its on Youtube, called Khabi Kushi Khabi Gham. Yeah. Its the best bollywood movie that I have ever watched to date.
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Shall post some random things I took notice of in today's bus ride home.
ON 171:
1) There was a lady in a black dress with a cute velvet pink tote bag.
2) Next to her, there was an Indian lady with just a few strands of white hair, with the rest of the hair mostly graying.
3) Behind the Indian lady was a RGPS girl with an orange nametag reading something on a notepad with words scrawled in pink and red.
4) The girl standing next to me is a fellow pupil from NY.
5) The woman sitting next to the RGPS girl had a cute black and white handbag pendant on her necklace. She was wearing a singlet with red lining.

On 184:
1) There was a boy who looked a lot like my junior Ban Xiang in primary school.
2) There were two men talking about stock exchange, selling stocks etc.
3) There was a primary school girl decked top to toe in pink, yes pink. Pink long track pants that were loose with light pink lining on the side, pink hoodie shirt, pink slippers and she was carrying a pinkish-red yoyo.

Yep. And lunch today was Mixed rice- Chicken with mushrooms in sauce, curry gravy, tofu with peas and carrots, and egg with tomatoes.
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Watched the show Vitamin on KBS World. Shall list, out of boredom, the must-eats and the must-not eats. ^^

I don't touch the local delights stall in school due to the fact that the food there looks oily. Didnt try Asian Delights before because I heard that someone found a cockroach in their soup before. Shichun calls me "anti-Mac", quite so cos my family doesn't have like the habit of going to fast food areas like the golden arches, or the shop run by a guy named Kentucky. In fact, we can don't go to these places for one whole year. Not saying that you shouldn't go but eat in moderation. Damn. Home ec. =.='''

Things you should eat are urm....brown rice. Berries contain lots of anti-oxidants and they brighten up your skin or something? Walnuts prevent white hair, tomatoes, mackerel, garlic and beans provide loads of vitamins. Did you know that garlic shouldn't be cooked for more than, I think, 10mins, if not all the vitamins in it are lost? Vegetables should be steamed, not fried or stir-fried to retain their vitamins. Yeah. Beef and red meat are good too for people who work out as much as me, or more.

Stay away from canned drinks or canned and processed foods. There are small metal pieces that might get stuck in your brain or something. Fizzy drinks have sodium benzoate and aspartame which are chemicals that are unhealthy. Uh....what else? And stuff that have trans-fat too. Yep.
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Let's get crabby!

Shall blog about crab flower club outing on sat. Haha.
Woke up at 8 plus in the morning, ate a slice of bread and went with Hilary to ION Orchard to meet Regine, who presumably has to show Hilary some shop. So we went and on bus 700 saw a guy wearing a super big earring that was as big as a...20 cent coin, at least, and his earhole was stretched to that size too. o.o

Reached ION and met outside Rubi. It was Hilary's first time in ION :D and we went to Uniqlo to buy her some shorts. One amazing thing about Uniqlo is that the sales people chirp nearly everytime they see someone "Welcome to Uniqlo!" and when someone goes out, they would say "Come again!" Only bought a pair of brown plain shorts for Hilary which cost about 40 bucks.

I think that most of the stuff there are like super ex or something, cos I can find stuff in the market near my house which are like that but at cheaper prices. Well, maybe its the good quality of the cloth that they use to make the clothes. There are 2 levels of Uniqlo, with the upper level being the one for women. The fitting room was original-you have to take off your shoes to step into the carpeted cubicle. The clothes and shirts there were in every imaginable pastel colors. They even had artist's hats. I tried one on my head and it looked funny.

Went to show Hilary the directory of the mall which is touch-screen :D Yayy. Another unique feature of the mall. Visited Artbox after that, a quaint, filled with pinkish colors shop that stocks Korean products, mainly stationery. The designs were oh-so-cute and you can't find them anywhere else.

Also visited a store selling Jap goods and Regine bought a pack of milk candies there as a present for a friend. I spied lots of like red bean buns and mochis of different flavours, [I hope you're drooling now], lemon drinks in little plastic holders that resembled oranges, fruit wine and Jap crackers.

Regine had to go to Mini Toons to buy a present for the same friend mentioned but there wasn't any in Orchard so we trained down to City Hall to get one. By the time we reached City Hall, it was like 12pm. And the restaurant booking was at 12.30 to 1 so we had to hurry. We walked hurriedly all the way to Suntec, hurriedly more for Hilary and Regine as they couldn't keep up with my walking speed. ^^ Noted that the ice cream shop that was usually crowded was like empty, maybe its because it wasn't peak hour or lunch time rush yet.

We were like starving, i mean, hello? One slice of bread in the stomach for like 4 hours plus with nothing else in between? Walked up staircases instead of escalators, level by level, and came to Suntec Mini Toons only to find that.....the present that Regine wanted, which is the giant milk bottle, by the way, was not in stock.

We were like *SHOCK* as we rushed for like nothing in particular, so Regine bought a stuffed penguin toy and squeezed it into a cow handphone pouch, or something like that. Who knew the pouch was so expandable and we managed to accommodate the milk candies as well ^^ Joy.

Cabbed to Bras Basah to reach Jack's Place on time.
Regine: Bras Basah
Taxi Driver: Where in Bras Basah?
*pause*
Me: "书城"
Taxi Driver: Ok.
I could swear I saw Regine give me an how-the-hell-did-you-do-that look.

Reached Jack's Place at about 12.20pm. Waited in hunger for 20mins before Klara arrived and we waited another 15 mins for Jiale to come before ordering our food. We booked a table for like what 10 people, only 7 were coming and the manager must obviously not been happy that we hogged up the seats. I noticed that the table behind us had a guy who ordered baked potato with steak and his meal came, prompting Hilary and I to gaze on with envy at the waitress pouring different sauces on his scrumptious baked potato. In the end, that table saw two parties of people coming and leaving and we still haven't finished our food yet.

I had a set meal- Asparagus soup, coke, fish with pasta,lemongrass sauce and carrots and corn.
Hilary and Ellen had the same as mine. Regine and Jiale had NZ steak with pasta and carrots and corn too, with Jiale wanting the steak "well cooked". Klara and Shumin had lobster spaghetti. Desert was agar-agar. I thought that it was so cheapskate at first I was so dubious on the desert. But when it came all pink and had peach slices in it, I quickly dismissed that thought. Hilary was using her spoon to tap on the surface of the jelly to see how hard it was and Jiale dropped a chunk of jelly with peach onto the floor and Hilary stepped on it. WE ALL FELT SORRY FOR THE WASTED JELLY AND THE PEACH.

Pictures shall be posted on fb, I have one unglam pic of Shumin eating the spaghetti. Now I think of Gaoge's voice ringing in my ears "Ah, unglam! UNGLAM~" Haha. Rushed to seat in the theater for the play and the moment I sat down, the lights dimmed. The audience was mainly made up of like what, NYGH students and there had to be people "shushing" for at least half a minute before the whole audience was silent. ._. And like nearly everyone laughed at the...ahem....funny parts in the play.

Went to Bugis afterwards for ice-cream. And I totally regretted my decision of buying the ice-cream, double scoop some more, as it spoiled my appetite for dinner that night and felt very uncomfortable that night, I couldn't really sleep. :(

In conclusion: I can't touch stuff that has like cream or what in it. Cake can, but not a lot of cream on it. Cream puffs, ice cream, doughnuts with cream filling in it, no. Sad right? I used to be able to eat these stuff. Not that I ate them often anyway. But the cake should be eaten not right before my meal or any time that might spoil my appetite. Yeah.

Saturday, August 22, 2009; 3:37 AM

Chinese Heritage Center.

Just came back from Crab Flower Club. Shall blog abt yesterday first, although, there really isn't anything interesting from yesterday.

FRIDAY:
Went to the Heritage Center at NTU. The tour guide was really boring, but I could tell that he was trying real hard to get us interested. I was reading mostly the pictures and stuff. Just realised so many ppl actually helped to raise funds for the university, and i felt really amused that the cabaret dancers raised like what, $11,000 plus, compared to trishaw drivers... Haha.

Felt amazed also at the pictures of not-so-impt people that looked important. There was this lady that you felt might look like a taitai or something and turns out she was a jail warden. like wow. The movie they screened was boring too. I thought I could like at least learn something to help in history here but there didn't seem to be any.

You know, I actually was being very attentive and looking at the info for once instead of like slacking around. :D Heh. And i realise that the topic of what does it mean to be chinese is shown like throughout the whole thing.

Stood in the rain and drizzled while taking class photo, napped a little on the way back to school as the bus ride was like so long and it was raining.
Long Bus ride + Presence of Rain + a trip to a boring place= total qualification to nap.

Reached school and saw, to my horror, that the tennis players were doing PT, skipping, actually. Rushed up to change and saw Ellen's doodles on the board and was surprised at the still ongoing announcement system in school. "Attention. All teachers who signed up for the physical test, please report ot the track now."

I was like "Teacher NAPFA"? Came down and saw teachers running, one of them the LD, as well as Mr Tan. The next half hour passed in a blur with me doing 1 1/4 sets of skipping, running and 330 lunches. yes. -_- There was a running segment and a walking segment for the teachers test thing.

The walking segment had teachers like Mr Mac, Ms Sandra Teng, Ms Sarah Birchwood, Wong Tan Poh Yee, as well as the librarians participating. Rallied for and hour after that and rushed home for tuition. I had a bit of flu on the way so I got freaked out and took a hot water bath before gobbling some dinner before heading off to TLL.

Had a guy teacher who dislikes handphones, people talking but yet humorous. the class was nice, in Paris 4! But didnt know anyone there. I saw Ellen outside earlier but she went into Berlin. :( Slept early that night for fear of flu worsening.

It's healthy to ditch class now and then- Edward Cullen

Wednesday, August 19, 2009; 8:53 PM

Today is officially the Claire Soon Holiday!

Yes. It is. The Claire Soon Holiday. You can see it in Fb too, with so many people screaming out "thank you Claire" or "Its Claire Soon Day" that you can't help but join it. :D *grin grin*

Just finished the LA poem stack. Still have written task, CME booklet, prep for CL SIA presentation, mugging for Chem SPA, culture test and art hmwk to go. BOO. Changed my blogskin and found the class blogskin while doing so. Good things to look forward to are:
1) No piano lessons for the next 3 wks
2) Trip to the Chinese Heritage Corner [no, that's boring]
3) Training tmr
4) Crab Flower Club Lunch! :D

Here's some random convos that i heard in the bus on the way home.

Convo 1: between 2 NYGH seniors (we shall call them G1 and G2)
G1: This is the place where Ling Han lives *points at The Sterling as the bus passes it* You know, Ling Han?
G2: Who's Ling Han?
G1: You know...the squash B Div Captain? No? Nvm. You used to live where, 6th Avenue, right?
G2: Yeah.
G1: Wah, rich kid.
-.-''' LOL.

Convo 2: Between 2 ACS guys who were on bus 75 with me and they alighted at the same stop as me too. I was trying hard not to laugh. (shall call them B1 and B2)

B1: Hey, what are you doing now?
B2: Huh?
B1: I mean, i haven't really talked to you in a long time. Asking you, what are you doing now?
B2: Homework.
B1: You finish your IAs already?
B2: Yeah.
B1: So good. That means no stress lorh?
B2: No lah, teacher still give worksheets.
B1: Hah? Really? So now what do you do, study whole day? Stop studying lah, you mugger closet!
B2: No, have to study lah. Prelims are coming up soon, then final year exams.
B1: Prelims is in when? 3 wks right?
B2: Yeah. 3 wks.
B1: Oh man. 3 wks. I haven't started studying yet, you know. I always study like right before the exams, if not, no motivation. Last exam, i studied two weeks before the exam.
B2: I am even worse, I studied half a week before.
B1: Really? How much you get?
B2: 31. How much you get?
B1: Harh? Haha. 32. Haha. Very lousy, i dropped 3 points. So screwed.
B2: There's 50 more days to final exam.
B1: One and a half months more. Still early.
B2: No. Where have? Just one month plus, not early lah.

*pause*

B1: Why do they teach stats anyway? Its not going to help us.
B2: Yeah. Stats are only for those who take Ad Math. And most of us are not going to take Ad Math. So what's the point.
B1: Yeah lor. What's the point?

*pause*

B1: Eh, you know Damien (this person is someone they know, a friend perhaps)?
B2: Yeah?
B1: He lives in Thomson.
B2: How you know?
B1: Oh, cos my cousin lives in Thomson and you know when I visited him, we went to drink at Liquid Kitchen and on the way back we saw him.
B2: Really?
B1: Yeah. At first, I thought "Eh, i think i know this person" but i didn't go and call him until i got up for a closer look. If call wrong person, I will be so screwed.
B2: Haha. Yeah.
B1: You know, I think he drinks every week?
B2: huh? really?
B1: Yeah.

*pause*

B1: Oh, and did you know he lost his faith?
B2: Seriously?
B1: Yeah. He was a Christian but then he lost his faith so he was so screwed. Haha. And you know he had the 3rd largest band of followers.
B2: Haha. Uh huh.
B1: You know what he did? He converted to Jewism and managed to persuade all of his followers to convert with him too!
B2: Really? Oh my god...
B1: Yeah, and he studies theology (religious studies) and is very good in it. The other day he corrected my friend on a religious fact. So screwed.
B2: .....
B1: And that day, in the lesson....he was saying "JC washed his hands.." Remember?
B2: Yeah.
B1: He lost his faith remember? So he calls him JC.
B2: Oh. And I thought that JC was someone, his friend or something?

So you can imagine me trying to swallow my laughter in the bus. I tell you, if it was Ling An, she would have burst into laughter right there and then. Heheh.

Inference on these 2 people:
B1 loves to say the word screwed and he is a do everything at the last-minute person.
B2 is more of a mugger and is less talkative.

Friday, August 14, 2009; 8:01 AM

fun fair. cookies. jellies!

Today was YDF. Finally! After so long.....Sadly, there was only 1 haunted house which got loads of ppl queuing outside and that classrm had ppl screaming inside and i heard lots of banging sounds as i passed by after my shift. No sooner had i walked past the exit door, which is the back door, btw, my junior and her friends barrelled out into the corridor, screaming at the top of their lungs adn laughing too. -_- No point going in anyway, i bet you wouldn't even manage to sneak a peek without fighting among the throngs of people crowded round the entrance.

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PE Dept set up a Wii station in the air-conditioned heritage rm! Such a strategic place and they termed it the air-conditioned bistro. Quote Ms Yeo "Air-condition need to pay $3!" when we snuck in to escape the hot air.

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Got chased out and ran into the stacking machine, and i was thinking How did they get this amusing thing? haha. Didn't really know that there were stalls near the audi or on the 2nd floor and hall. :l I only realised that after exploring and roaming around. Felt really excited when i heard Wondergirls "Nobody" and spied a 2NE1 CD at the song dedication booth at the atrium. I sang along to Nobody and didn't really care if anyone was looking at me. :D

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I think 202 did a really good job! We sold everything until we had to shout "Buy one cup of Pepsi, iced water free~" Mashed potatoes were gone too. Although we didn't get any prize or what, it was really fun, minus the ice-throwing that we did last yr. :D

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Gaoge came over to help make konnyaku jelly and cookies for the tennis gathering tmr. It was supposed to be a potluck bbq but everyone ended up baking, there's someone doing muffins, another doing cupcakes, and some other group doing cookies too~ I think Crystal's house is gonna be a bakery!

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We broke our baking record by finishing everything in 3 hrs! Yayy!

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Legs hurt now from probably standing too much.

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Realised that the problem of cliques has been circulating around for sometime. Maybe we could like spend more time with other people that we don't usually work or spend time with?

Its like the LA Lit Circle where the teachers assign us group members. I had real fun with mine, although we may seem to come from different cliques. I remember laughing together with all of them at Xinyi's excellent digression and elaboration of HK dramas in relation to R&J. ^^

Also, initially, during the selection for the Math SIA groupings and stuff, I had to join another group because the group my clique was in was full. But actually, it was really fun to work with Cheryl, Hilary and Sandra. Might be out of my ordinary routine but we had loads of fun hand painting the Math SIA poster, Cheryl- "our marbled paper" and "the flowers...the mountains.....the bamboos..." :D :D Haha. Guess this shows that funny group combos can be interesting! Heh.

I don't really know which clique i am in anyway. =.= I realise that i don't really hang out with specific ppl all the time. Maybe i am a drifter.....*floats away dream-like into the air* *piaos past* I am going to create a tribute to everyone in 202 by the end of this year and post it here :D . This will be my ambition *clenches fist with a determined look*