Daydream

on tumblr

2011-04-22T18:08:00.003+08:00

ahaha looks like i'm trying everything at once, then abandoning it again.

http://builtbyboringbricks.tumblr.com/

took so long to find a nice name that i liked for the url, and of course its paramore inspired <3 i've posted a few things i really liked on the page, and i have to admit its nice and easy to use! i'll probably post more pictures there. i'm not sure about the fate of this page, but no one ever drops by, so i won't delete it but just keep it here in case i have random urge to post here again :) i haven't told anyone about my tumblr page yet so i'll see who is the first to find out :)

finished!

2011-03-03T22:37:00.000+08:00

lol finally finished edited the sidebar.

alive!

2011-02-20T23:37:00.001+08:00

Haha suddenly decided to revisit this blog after revamping the section blog.

sleepy-------

thus going to sleep now

random

2010-06-12T22:01:00.002+08:00

i suddenly got an urge to update my profile on facebook, and i saw this link to this blog waaay at the bottom of the page. so i decided to post something here, but i nearly forgot my password.

this goes to show,

nothing!

2009-07-05T13:15:00.002+08:00

SHASHA!!: FOA is cancelled WTH! sorry :X H1N1 :(
.......

2009-07-01T15:25:00.003+08:00

shasha: YAY! but its not a band concert its a FOA(Festival of arts). Our band concert got CANCELLED!! :( the sch made up a rule that ccas can't have concerts in SYF years, so :( www.nygh.moe.edu.sg/foa/ is the webstie, time place date etc. i'm not sure whether i can get tickets for you?? the shows are almost completely sold out but i'll try? XD i saw your limelight concert advertisement in the esplanade diary!! XD

Joy: ARGH yes!!! its addictive!!! so much more fun than blogging tweet tweet! sorry about the present confusion :X hope you like purple?

I've being tweeting so much lately that i haven't being bloggin :X http://www.twitter.com/msonatina if you want to see my updates? hehe.

monday was band punishments :X illegal gathering! although mr lim intervened too late and by that time i already had to run 3 rounds :( and the result?? back pain, breathlessness, tiredness, 酸痛 till today...oh man....imagine 2.4 km retest!!!!

speaking of that, the pe department pinned up the list of people who failed 2.4 km run not only on their own noticeboard but also outside the general office! now any visitor even the principal will know i failed!!! by 16 seconds! that is horrible. at least give some face ba! also, they should send the height and weight machine for fixing, because obviourly its not accurate. at least the weighing scale isn't. i've grown another cm (YAY! another step to be the next top model) but I've grown 2 kg!!! I've slightly stepped over the 50 kg mark!!!!! i'll not eat anymore mcdonalds, never again!!!! diet!!!! this is horrifying news :X what if i can't fit into the graces dresss i already bought :X hmmm must exercise more. (don't actually believe that i'll follow what i just typed. its not going to happen. i still love icecream)

random!

2009-06-24T11:52:00.001+08:00

look! generations of dreams barbie by robert best!

2009-06-24T11:35:00.002+08:00

Hw:

LA: Comprehension, montage article, SIA
CLC: zuowen, SIA
IM: SIA
CHEM: WS16, class WS, quiz, SIA
PHY: SIA
IH: Ass. 4, SIA
ALIT: class exhibition, extended readingsx10000, SIA

:X

2009-06-24T11:34:00.002+08:00

reverted back to percussion theme. i've realised the enchanted theme is for enlarged laptop screen only( which i work on) so its not really good.

2009-06-23T15:16:00.001+08:00

I'M BACK FROM SHANGHAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XD

right now, i have to catch up on everything, like reading through 132 emails and finsihing up homework so i can take a break and blog a longlong post

visit this! http://www.barbieshanghai.com/
details later!

BSP camp XD

2009-06-05T16:25:00.003+08:00

I"M BACK FROM BSP CAMP!!!!!! YAY!

Pictures talk a thousand words! so more photos! unfortunately, i have a bad habit of not bringing my phone around with me so i only have photos of my room which i took at night XD anyone have more crazy shots at camp? send to me ok please. i heard someone slept in Tao Li's room & Bed so cool! who have that photo?? Simone i know you have send to me!!!! I'm dying to see it.

the "model" space(my roomates'.) hers more tidy so i took a pic of hers

this is mine. so untidy.

see above comment

artistically arranged shelves

huge wardrobe

cool pink bedsheets!

no aircon, only ceiling fan :(

windows

the arh 5-star hotel view from 3 rd floor. yes its a highway

2009-06-01T17:36:00.002+08:00

Hehe XD long time no post

all i'm saying is, ITS THE JUNE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!

my summary skills have improved.

2009-05-17T19:17:00.002+08:00

people, this is serious. stop switching to livejournal! you guys are like forcing me to edit HTML and it makes me go crazy working with codes. even though i think i become smarter after that XD.

as the saying goes, if you can't beat it, join it. now i've invented a newer saying: if you can't beat them, go faster than them! smart move=start tweetering

AHjoy: yesyes crazy right!!! i think sec 1s win the competition. us sec threes more lazy XD or at least ppl like me lazy but ppl like pei wei are super neat!!! thats why i learn from her and force myself to tidy up now and then

Junqi: COOL!!!! veryvery good. haha peeps must learn from you! then us volunteers can stop shaking legs

i will and must pass my 2.4 in july

2009-05-16T10:47:00.001+08:00

http://twitter.com/msonatina

i'm on TWITTER

ENCHANTED!

2009-05-11T12:34:00.002+08:00

Today i decided to give myself a little break and have some fun! i decided it would be fun to switch to a "Enchanted" layout! since we are playing the piece for band. its concluded that i'm really bad at html after all since i couldn't make the layout scroll as i wanted so i went blogskins.com and searched for the perfect layout! but i edited the picture myself with alittle help from that genius of computer graphics, Adobe photoshop. hmm i think this will only be temporary and i still like the percussion one but looks like its going to stay for a little while.

2009-05-11T10:31:00.002+08:00

I finally finished watching the peony pavilion last night.

very outstanding performance--the ending was awesome! yay happy ever after endings are good. 只是杜丽娘的老爸杜宝一直不肯承认女儿的复活，差点害死他们。

感谢演员们把这部戏带到新加坡，让我有机会欣赏美丽的昆曲牡丹亭。

Definitely worth the time and money spent!!!

2009-05-09T12:45:00.004+08:00

OMG.

I can't believe i really did what i did this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue--math block test, Chemistry pratical lab assesment, Language arts summary test
Wednesday--Piano lesson
Thursday--got back physics AND passed with a record high of B3, BAND, farewell party at BS(sob), mr m.lim's daughter born on august 18 08(mine's aug 12)

Fri--NPCC parade-->PCCG-->la lecture-->alit @library-->SIL @audi-->PSL GM@ LT--> got back math AND passed with a record low of B3--> Chinese compo-->print physics @lab-->BAND-->chiong and carrying a 5 tonne suitecase down 4 storeys and moved out of BS-->chiong back home--〉chiong to esplanad in 45mins(ran the whole length of city link mall and everyone stare at me like crazy--> watched the PEONY PAVILION for 4 hours-->got home 1 am--> sleep till 11am today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think i might have set a all time new record for concert going! the peony pavilion@esplanade theatre started at 8 pm and the intermission is at 10 pm! and ended at 12 midnight! and it continues for the same duration for FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and SUNDAY! luckily monday is a holiday just for people like me who didn't know peony pavilion runs for a freaking(i mean, really) full length of 20 hours?? luckily its cut short to only 12. i need to check out the time span before i ask my mum to buy tickets for 3 consecutive nights. also, the reason why there is only 1 performance. i nearly fell asleep(see the amount of running i did) if not thank goodness for the intermission.

but the performance is really very wonderful. highly recommended if you are able to fork out 50 dollars a night. lcukily theres such thing as concession tickets XD i like the ending. its very beautiful and striking.

anyway i'm still determinedly going for tonights performance as well.

http://www.esplanade.com/whats_on/programme_info/the_peony_pavilion_part2/index.jsp

more random photos

2009-05-06T08:20:00.002+08:00

more random photos.

we're not supposed to play with chemicals...i wasn't playing...copper() sulpahte is a nice colour...it just so happened that i made a beautiful mistake of not shaking the precipitate carefully and tada! the bottom layer is the clear original solution, the light blue chalky thing is light blue ppt after you add something, then the dark blue solution on top is when the ppt dissolves in the reagent. see? this is a demo of how the different steps should give you. marks really shouldn't be deducted...

haha this is random! tis' hui ci and jianing helping out dear cao lao shi at SMBO! we were packing the goodie bags then we cary everything to audi and everyone take like 30 bags...and ended up like this. looks like orchard road has a big discount going on.

no, i didn't buy this. LIBRARY DUTY---
i went for the book exchange coupon thingy you know when you exchange your old books for coupons? well this lady came with this box of books!!!!! like OMG!!!!!! she just gave away the entire harry potter series AND the book written by mugglenet that predicts what will happen!and whats more she have 2 copies of halfblood prince! the same! and all the books are super new! i was so shocked i couldn't help but take a picture.

the girl doing duty with me is another Felicia from NYMS XD not felican/felicai. we both read the afternoon away(ie) free reading of books other people give us

yesterday, some people quite eager to overhear my convo with mr tan because it concerns their future(i.e. today) panel discussion. this is the photo i secretly took when they weren't careful! actually still got 1 more person not in the photo. i was nice not to expose you, HUI CI

extremely random shot, of an artwork at SAM. mordenisation of the ancient times...by the way the small dot on the laptop is an APPLE logo

Bio people having their blocks now. so kind of them to give us 1 hour free time. i'm supposed to do work but cannot get down to it hehe. i quite relieved from now on i won't revolve my life around cells now. gotta go chiong hw now...i think i've updated enough to man zu you'll already right....

Boarding school life

2009-05-06T08:04:00.005+08:00

More photos!!! so visual. pictures tell a thousand words ma. haha...all the vertical pics are like horizontal now so turn your head to get full view!

our glorious school at night looks so glorious because shot by me

pw

my spot

cute qq the penguin

desk

my desk. the newspaper cutting is the one on elite school stereotypes

barbie's 50!and still as young as ever

my cushion and box and bag and chair

jingying drinking water. gulp!

wardrobe.

BS grand piano in the music room 4. actually the best piano is in room 1, but that day someone chope already. so i got this one. actually its not that great, because something wrong with the keys.

Peiwei talking by the window into the glorious sunset

school view from room. looks like a luxury hotel

my spot. note the mess

barbie an disney princess posters!

more random shots coming

Badminton pictures! from BS

2009-05-06T07:58:00.002+08:00

after dinner yesterday went to play badminton! photos i took from the fourth floor balcony

wq and jy and pw and the badminton court full view

wq serves

return by jy

pw by the pole

jy standing while wq shows the cam her butt

Photos of bs next

mould in coffee

2009-05-04T15:54:00.002+08:00

this week so terrible...math blocks, chem spa and summary tmr...

anyways, on the brighter side, boarding school is quite fun!!! detailed account this time. the food is ok and its very fun living with 3 other people on a long tem basis XD and you learn more about each other and have fun taking vids of wang qing's dancing..."dancing" on e day when i have my phone cord iwht me i'll expose her on youtube. that is if i ever get past creating an account

Yesterday, i had a memorable experience at the macdonalds at west coast park...

Apparently, its exam season for everyone, because i went into the macdonalds to eat dinner and i almost couldn't find a table, because the whole place was hogged by students. one very serious mugger propped up an extra large and fitted -with-protector "THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS" on her laptop. another student was reading a stack of notes so thick that he would probably graduate before finishing. i estimate 5 inches thick. the guy sitting opposite my family's table was holding a highlighter and busily highlighting everything he read, (once i saw in a chicken soup for the soul book--"brad couldn't find a highlighter so he found a magic black marker and cancelled everything he didn't want to read again")

one thing that all the students had in common was, they were all nursing cups of coffee(or coke). one student i saw was nursing a coffee cup in his hands when i came in and when i left, he was still nursing the same cup. i bet if i come back five hours later he would still be nursing that same cup, just with a bit more mould....

2009-05-04T15:40:00.001+08:00

Hymn to the Infinite Sky - Nanyang Girls High School

2009-04-28T12:50:00.001+08:00

Physics tmr...no...

haha i finally found the score for Sunflower!!!!! yes!!! and piano teacher suggested i go trawl in the Japan Yamaha store...Shanghia music stalls...when she didn't know that you can find in on the net...

2009-04-23T14:35:00.001+08:00

Joy: LOL! haha but everyone have livejourenal now! XD but i still like blogger can personalise much more la. i aestheic ma.

Lorraine: Upload what?? haha. next time i'll score higher for aural.

anyone want to go to the joanna macgregor concert in june??

i'll post photos of bnoarding school life, next time. XD

2009-04-22T15:32:00.000+08:00

i'm back temporarily from boarding school XD

boarding school is FUN!

NYAA at library

2009-04-13T15:59:00.002+08:00

XD went to do NYAA at the library last Saturday.

My job was to basically give out book coupons to the generous peeps who came and supported the book exchange...its like you bring your old books and give to the library then you recieve coupons which you can exchange for other books at the exchange on the 25th.

I think the advertising wasn't done very well because in my whole shift only4 people came to give books! so i clocked 4 hours while shaking leg. XD i hope next saturday more people!!!

I wanted duty on the 25th so i can go and exchange books but the only duty avaliable to FOLs is dressing up as mascots!!!!!! like put on a dino and frog costume. that will look weird. so i don't think you will be seeing me in a frog costume anytime soon...sorry! XD

2009-04-06T17:31:00.004+08:00

ok, so i lied. i'm back. just to upload stuff.

this is a recording of the announcement of pm results for syf on NYCB's day. now you have proof how sad it was. and how i was dumbly clapping because i didn't realise the full meaning of we got silver yet.

shouldn't upload to imeem where everyone can hear but i don't know any other way...

syf results -

and LORRAINE! upload the video of overture soon!

RESULTS! AND MORE RESULTS!

2009-04-06T17:27:00.002+08:00

i seem to have gottn back A LOT of results.

first, SYF.

then chinese block test.

then now, MY GRADE 7 ABRSM PIANO.

how fair is that to my emotions?? my Emotional Quota(EQ), literally, is going to BURST!

but ok, i passed with merit for piano for those of you dying to know. not too low to be called dumb and not too high to be jealous of. fine? XD and not too low merit to call me a cheat and not too high merit to cry that i missed that few marks.

125/150.

its a pretty good score considering i haven't taken exams since grade 4. and that is like 6 years ago or something.

but i'm going to push myself all the way for grade 8!!!!! i'm going to score for this one!!!!!!i promise!!!!!!!

thats why i am going to stop blogging and go prac now!

Blog Layout messy!

2009-04-06T17:25:00.002+08:00

hey guys. sorry i'm too lazy to reply tags...

and i just realized my blog layout is super messy. i still haven't gotten rid of the unnessecery double scrollbar but at least the text is not hidden by it.

is there anything else wrong? if yes tell me on the tagboard.

SYF, what else to title this post?

2009-04-04T19:36:00.007+08:00

Well. I guess I better post before my phone/tagboard gets flooded by THAT QUESTION EVERYONE IS DYING TO ASK.

Yesterday was the big day. THE BIG DAY.

Despite that being it, we, the niceniceniceNYCB, still woke up before the sun rise to play national anthem for the school. that shows how hardworking we are...

our section wandered around the school in the morning with nothing better do. we walked across the quadrangle so it would be nicely conspicious. then after mrs teo gave us funny looks we backed off and wandered to valentia's class so she could get scissors and masking tape(as well as good lucks from all her classmates). then walked to joy's class and told her to come after pccg. then walked back to check if popular was open. it wasn't open so went back to band room to do protocol. our section's new motto. protocol.

after that during recess we moved stuff down to the audi, making an awful lot of noise as we wanted as much attention as possible(XD mission accompolised!!!!!!!) then set up. audi prac-ed for 2 hours, but seemed really short! i was dying for more...i couldn't believe this is the last shot we get at practice.

then like in no time at all we reached the end of our last prac and we were told to go and have lunch and change into our uniform. then my dear lao gong accompanied me to get lunch. the rest of the band ate supposedly carbo-high noodles. then we changed into our really hot uniform and i just chionged intot he band room for the aircon. really veryveryvery hot!!!!!!!!! looooong sleeves are bad for the climate in singapore can. since we collided with lunch with the rest of the school more people were staring at us than ever.

then, it was time to board the buses already. not before i had to run back to band room to fix my hair though. then boarded the bus and i sat with charlotte the spider! i had to stabalise the glock and the bow so that it won't fall over. though the triangle stand fell over just as we almost reach SCH. luckily, no big damage was done. the top fell off but it only unscrewed. also another piece of luck, i managed to fix the thing back. luckily miss ng taugh me how.

then we arrived at SCH! the place was packed with other bands. we met up with miss ng and gave her our nice card, to show our gratitude! it is a very nice card with a cloth cut picture in front. it says, "greatest guru ever!". well she is! i never knew anyone so cool that she can fix a chime that fell out of the stand.

then suddenly seniors popped up! yay lorraine and janabel and patricia and hui juan and liang zhen were all there to show their undying support for us! and quite interesting because after us was dunmand high and sec. people were saying: "Thats Dunman High" (heads all towards Dunman High), and "Thats Dunman Sec" (heads towards Dunmand Sec).

then suddenly everyone started moving so i picked up the glock and we moved towards the tuning room. which is still exactly as i remember it way back. 3 years back in fact. well than we spent our last minute there cheering. yes, cheering. bet we are the only band that waste precioud time on cheering! but it boosts your morale by a lot you know people? thats why council exists....so i guess everyone was quite uplifted when it was finally time...

to step on stage! after waiting for some time backstage and watching zhong hua on tv, it was finally our turn to step into the spotlight. the hall wasn't as crowded as i dreaded it would be. not only that, besides our seniors in the crowd, the hall was light! like not concert style everything all darkdark except for the stage. i felt much more safer.

then ms chong watched for the signal and we started overture 2. for 2 bars before B and 3 bars into C i felt i played really well! accents and dynamics were great! then at H, the pickup was one of my best. so it was ok. only i feel the four semiquavers at the end not so good. then, i think my wonderful section really aced the percussion solo at the end. i bet the judges were blown away!

then Hymn. this was it. i was relaly really nervous. i could feel the tension as ms chong started...then i counted carefully and bowed really loud and nicely! yay! i didn't mess up my bow thing! then one interesting thing, i think the birds woke everyone who were falling asleep. they are very attention catching. chrip! then the 106 bar me and joy very together! perfect! then the last part where my chimes supposed to imitate church bells were good! at least i didnt miss half the notes. even though it was a different chime.

then...it was over. just like that. and i went into the lift and agrees with mian jun: we played our best ever.

all the trumpets were crying and everybody including ms chong teared. and all our seniors were sniffing. and i bet the audience were touched too.

but sometimes, life is just not fair and judges can be blind.

we got silver.

then the whole hall fell silent. nobody knew what to do or say. nobody started crying or anything because we were just too shocked. me, i was still blindly clapping. the realisation didn't sink in on me till much later. i still went on clapping, oblivious to the fact. all the time, my hands were like moving and clapping, the thought just raced through my mind: that the announcer said wrong. we couldn't possibly have gotten silver. silver?? no way! everybody said it was a confirmed gold, perhaps even the honours that we have been hoping for so long. everybody played their hearts out with no regrets. aren't the judges the most pro people in the band circle? how can they not pick up this??

then as we walked out of the hall, the dreadful realisation just washed over me like a wave. everyone just hugged and only then, the tears started to fall. really fast and thick. because i realised, for my only syf in secondary school, we achieved a silver. the same as what i got 3 years ago. the same. all the hours and sweat we put into, this. i just got more and more upset, and the amount of tears proportionate. i think it was wrong but i felt it must all being my fault, hitting one note wrong in overture and stuff like that. and hui juan tried to comfort me, by telling me to be strong for my juniors. and i knew she was right but i couldn't stop myself.

i asked myself, why couldn't the judges see no difference between a neighbourhood primary and a top school's band. everyone played their hearts out, and hours and hours we put into this.

then i realised what kay yun said was right. the tears come, the tears go. the difference is that everyone gained more love, more friendship, more happiness. we left SCH with no regrets to the performance we put up. and its not only us that siad we are good. look at the discussion from bandfusion. i counted, 8 pages. all wondering why the judges thought like that.

NYCB

Yup, you people had done very well! Seriously well! Anw, we
love the bird. Hope you people can put up a good show in the next
concert!

yeah. i was in the centre block, and i think the drums were too
loud, even though i think the impact was really good. i agree that if nygh had
played that in esplanade or sth, it'll be perfect. i
tihnk your band's sound is a little too loud for what the hall can take. anyway,
i really enjoyed your band alot! (and i still haven figured out why your band got a silver. sobs)

To NYGHS : you gals played really well ... i was
personally touched by your v. musical playing (got goosebumps while
listening) ... perharps SCH is too small to contain your band's nice big
warm tone but if you gals play the same piece in Esplanade, it'll be perfect ...
so stay positive ! i personally think you gals sounded better than some honours
band .... WAY to GO !

Yup drums(belong to percussion family) its very
loud even on the side block, wonder how loud will it be in the center block. You
girls should go for soundcheck before SYF. ^^

Well you girls improved alot compared to SYF 2007.. I did feel your music
but only 2 points is the Percussion is way too loud, OVERPOWERED the band. and
the band sound is too loud. Other than this 2 major mistakes, im sure ur band
can get GWH for sure! =)To all bands: Don't care about results, care about
whether you enjoyed performing up there on stage. Then yeah you are Platinum! =D

i was there for the entire day. i thought that nygh
did really good, maybe too loud at times, but they could at least manage a gold
(with honours).other schools, some did pretty well. i thought some
sounded better den those from the morning session, so im actually quite curious
as to why they didnt get gold.

May I ask you a question? What do you
think of results. Not flaming anyone but I feel that there should be at least
some golds awarded...

I'm surprised that Nanyang did
not get gold. :/

yeah. you should have been
there to feel the silence in the hall. it was like so intense. nobody moved. and
some were just in too much shock to start crying.

The whole hall
was filled with sadness. I could literally feel it
even though I am just an audience member.It was exceptionally quiet today. The
ushers had to "chase" us out of the hall; no one moved when we were told we can
exit the hall already.

i went. and im very shocked with the
results!i enjoyed nygh alot. good job guys!dun be
disheartened with the results as long as you did your best!

to bander:
hahas you all were awesome! (i'm from kranji lol) just a bit too overwhelming at
the climax parts..hahas

but seriously shoudlnt nygh
and dunman high get more than a silver???

I think Nanyang Girls was really good. I don't know why they got
silver. What about Dunman High? I didn't get to hear them. Did they deserve that
silver? I thought they would get gold but oh well. They could get back their
gold band status. But I think they did their best. Congrats to bands who got
GWH. Oh yeah, any comments about Dunman High's performance?
I thought they
played really well and didn't deserve that silver?

haha. awesome! thanks
for all the great comments. but i still think that NY should
have gotten so much more than a silver. they are good. really good.

I was shocked wif cedar gals n nyg..my frens n i HUH-ED vv
loudly.i expect a gold n gwh respectively.

I watched the entire
afternoon session...I'm really shocked that nygh didn't even manage to get a
gold. i was really expecting at the very least, a gold. their choice piece was
excellent, and the solos (especially the two flute solos - excellent!) were
really good. im really surprised that they only got silver. its a
you-have-to-be-there moment - the hall was really quiet and filled with nothing
but disbelief when it was announced that they got silver instead. a pity,
really. perhaps they were a little too loud at certain portions of the choice
piece and the set piece? that was the comment i overheard from people sitting
ard me. i do agree they were a little too loud and intense at certain portions,
but imho, they managed to handle the dynamics of the two songs pretty well.
maybe the loudness was a bit over the top, but there was evident volume control.
the quieter parts were done nicely, and the "sfpp---sffz" at the end of hymn to
the infinite sky was really well-executed.WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!!??!and.. i
thought cedar girls' played rather well too. hmm.. but i dun really get
zhonghua's choice piece - i would have thought that they would have chose
something that showcases the band somewhat. the whole song felt a little flat to
me. but the fundamentals of the band are clearly there - the articulation and
the likes.yeah. erm. pls dun flame me. just my humble opinion. =)NYGH deserves
better! but nonetheless, i respect the judges' decision(s).

i'm
seriously really really shocked at today's PM results. like omg?what ARE the
judges looking out for? i have no clue anymore.

Does anyone know how did nanyang girls and dunman high get silver???Both
bands are of high standards and i expected at least a gold from them if not a
gold with honours..
our school had an exchange with nanyang and they were fantastic! But they should have done their best, and
if the judges gave them a silver, so be it. After all, the colour of the medal
does not mark the quality of the band.

Yea. Anything can happen. Look at
AMK. Look at RGS. That's life, unpredictable as always...
Yeah, I always
thought they would get at least a gold. Hmm, lets wait and hear what they say
._.
I'm shocked too... Wow. What happened huh? Yeah and I didn't hear them
play so I don't really know. But yup, I'm sure those are their best performances
that they have put up!
I'm really shocked. nanyang girls? What happened? ):

I'm kinda shocked too. But well. Anything can happen during SYF. Drama
rmb?

None of the bands in the PM sessions got a gold or anything above
that eh? Heh. Anyone heard their playing? O:

Wow!! Gd job to the schs
tat took part in syf todae! Somehow i still cant believe nan
yang got silver?

Today's results are a shocker for me,
seriously...But then again I wasn't there, so all i can say is, i'm sure
everyone did their best...=]

so there you are, copied word for word every comment that was made about us. the general public applauded us!!!! YAY! it shows we really touched their hearts with our music! i think that is really worth much more than a GWH to us. so, thankyou everyone for their support! somehow i'm still quite pleasantly surprised that people were wowed enough by us to publicly announce that we were good and should have been awarded much higher. but i am seriously touched by their comments. so really, really, thankyou. i'm linking bandfusion when i have the time.

tmr, we are announcing our result to the school. i'm going to cheer and clap like crazy. we are going to show everyone what NYCB is capable of. see you(judges) again, 2011! sign...by then i'll be competeing for HCJC....still. i'm sure NYCB can bounce back to greater heights next year! because....the passion lives on!

2009-03-29T19:39:00.005+08:00

Pictures! 2008 Holiday Barbie!

Barbie logo

2008 holiday barbie

celebrating 20 years of holidays

Back of the box

nice snowflakes packaging!

the lovely little tag on her wrist

her beautiful face and hairdo

wintry sophiscation

2009-03-21T18:56:00.000+08:00

OH NO i've got 2 red marks!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

2009-03-21T18:53:00.001+08:00

OMG i havent checked my progress report yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CIP in town!!!

2009-03-21T18:48:00.002+08:00

CIP on Wednesday!!!!

We gathered at Outram to take our tin cans, then with our cans and stickers i went to City Hall with Jingyi and Wanting to start our collection! i were like the first there. i smartly took up a post near the city hall mrt exit and there is quite a lot of people walking up so i got quite a lot of donations from very kind people! the newspaper aunties are quite friendly as well. but Wanting's can is the heaviest can.

i don't know why but everytime i go for CIP i get booklets advertising Christianity to me. this time the booklets went too far. How far? i'll tell you. According to the booklet, Qin Shi Huang was afriad of death (ok still true). If he had heard of the bible, the makers of the booklet are sure that QSH will convert to Christianity and believe in Jesus and rejoice in God, blahblahblah etcetc.

Maybe a better picked example will be better??

Piano Exam!

2009-03-20T09:36:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was my piano exam. No explicit comments till the results are out, but i would my aural seems to be quite screwed.

Holiday Barbie

2009-03-20T09:08:00.002+08:00

I really like the holiday barbies Mattel comes up with. I wish they would upgrade them to silver or gold label so they have more collective value!!! but then, if the production is limited the price will rise and maybe won't have enough quantities for everyone...haha. nono better keep it at pink label!

pink label-quality keepsake dolls with no production limit

silver label-classic dolls with production limit of 50,000 worldwide

gold label-distinct dolls with production limit of 25,000 worldwide

platinum label-extremely rare dolls, even one-of-a-kind, at most 1,000 worldwide

2008 Holiday Barbie Pink Label

2009 Holiday Barbie Pink Label (not out yet!!! hurry up!)

2009-03-13T21:11:00.002+08:00

people with a heated and obsessed mind.

Oh why don't you have more common sense???!!!

2009-03-13T21:09:00.001+08:00

Pizza Hut's new advertisement's soundtrack is the same as our school's go-down-and-assemble-at-the-quadrangle-for-assembly music

OBS Day 2! and 3! and 4 and 5!

2009-03-09T10:30:00.006+08:00

hehe updated my look and feel! more colourful! and black on white instead of white on black so its much easier to read!

ok, move on to....

OBS DAY 2! CLIMBING EXPEDITION！
DAY 2!!!! wake up nice and early at 5 am! very happy that tent did not collapse half way through the night...no shoes stolen by wild boar either.then we keep the tents and went for morning PT! (physical training). we combined with magallen for pt. yay see my lao gongggggggg! morning hug and kiss. at first i thought for pt we were going to do push ups, sit ups, running...and all those horrible stuff but our instructors so nice! we just played a lot of games! like this cute dance thing, where you hop left-left-left, right-right-right, forward, backward, forward, forward, forward! then you scissors paper stone. so fun!

after that we ate some breakfast and we packed for our expedition! like all our clothes and shoes, into the bigbigbig haversack they provided. me and fangyu shared backpack! no problem fitting everything in, the only problem was that it was too heavy to be carried! i couldn't even lift it. it was just torture lifting onto my shoulders! then poor us had to climb 101 steps then walk for 2km to camp 1!!!!!!!! we only stopped for a bit when we passed the obs resevior to rest.
finally, we reached camp 1 (yay!) and we get to dump the bags near a wall and rest for a bit. then we got our climbing gear ready, but just then it started to rain! so we put them back down again and we went for some activites like writing in our camp journals obs gave us. some people came to flim us for the obs corporate video. hehe. we also sang theresa a early birthday song. then more games with magallen! very fun but challenging. just as we were in the midst of a game our teachers came! miss yap was walking in front and she asked us how we were. duh. also saw mr.tan wearing a hawaiian tee with bermudas, so funny! we normally only see him in office attire since he is our la teacher and LD and everything.

after lunch, the weather looked more hopeful so we put on our gear and went for the climb despite the rain! our mission is to clim the replica of the indiana, which is the ship raffles sailed on when he founded singapore. the magallen instructor did a demo. looked freaky high!!!!! after he completed 1 round for us to see he climbed up again, this time to demo what to do if we get stuck for too frightened and needs to be lowered down. theresa was like, "now for the fall demo" and the instructor replied "don't worry, i have a very natural fall". !!!!!!!!!!!

when it was my turn i was quite excited. i choose the higher course as it actually looked easier and i did a course similar to the lower one already. at first when i climbed up i was quite confident but then i started shaking all over! i couldn't climb up to the first platform because there was nothing to hold on to and i was freakingly high and someone was on the platform(ahem) saying sacarstic comments to "encourage" me. luckily slyvia came to my rescue and she step by step shouted out how to climb to the platform. so in the end i made it! i sat on the platform for a really long time to calm down my shaking legs and i went on! climb climb climb. that was the hardest part as i was really scared i would fall! then i walked across a log at the top. i thought that would be hard but it was ok. then finally i reached the end of the log and i could quickly clamber down to good old solid ground!!!!!!!!

my lao goooonnnnngggg did very well too!! she didn't give up despite being very scared and shaky!!! many people including me thought you looked very pro. XD

we then pitched out tents in the forest outside camp one. ugh! sleeping on a compost heap!!!!! and in danger of being trampled by wild boars!

then its dinner! and lucky us! we got to eat in the cookhouse! yay! dun need to cook our own food! wow it was so good for a change. ok, we could only tae as much as we want of the rice and the vege and soup was rationed out but still it is hot cooked nicely food!
then we had night activity. we went to the scary forest and we had to climb into a scary tunnel! bravo for kai yun who lead the way. it was totally dark inside and creepy!!!!!! but finally we got through.

after that we got to shower(yay) but the water pipes at camp 1 burst and theres like only 1 toilet with water, so had to wait for a long time.

then....sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
wake up to....

OBS DAY 3! ＳＥＡＥＸＰＥＤＴＩＴＩＯＮ！
bright and early and COLD! so quickly unpitched so we could run down to a hot breakfast! mee fen and hotdogs and hot milo!!!!! yum.

then we took out our sea gear and went down to the expedition court for our breifing on sea expedition! our very first expedition! we were tolf all about our rowboats, and how to manage stuff on the sea. yes we didn't get to kayak, we row-boated. then theresa showed us where we would be rowing to. our mission that day would be to row all the way to an island called Ketam Island, which means Crab Island. we would then hopefully circle the island 1 time and row back to camp 1. aye captain!

then very enthu-ly we put on our life vests and put oranges in them in case of sea sickness. then we formed into 8-8-8-7 groups and went to test our life vest! means you get to walk into the sea and lie down to check if you will float!!!!! ugh! wet!

then at last with our sunblock and hats we went onto a platoon and a speed boat took us out to out rowboats. my boat---yumo, jing wen, fangyu, wanting, amanda and slyvia. yay!
we started off very energetically.....but then after rowing for 10 minutes and still staying at the same spot, of course we sensed something was wrong. we were stuck to a yellow buoy! so theresa came over in the speed boat and whoa! she dived off into the sea so beautifully and entangled us! so coooool!!!! so yeah we FINALlY started moving a bit. we were supposed to go in a diamond formation but somehow that didn't quite work out so we just rowed.

then i had to keep applying sunblock and got really hungry and tired. the weather was so irritating. first sun, then cloud, then rain, then cloud, then rain, then sun........... until you want to scream. we rowed and rowed till ketam, then theresa declared a general rest and asked us whether we want to continue or row on, because if we want to complete the expedition we might have to night trek to our next camp. we decided to row on since if we turn back then we still might have to night trek is we are slow. so yay! we carried on. our boat suddenly became really fast for don't know what reason and we lead really far ahead! passed camp 3. then rowed to the tip of the island and started our return journey. i got to be captain and control the rudder and rest for a while :D then my energy came back i continued rowing! slyvia me and jingwen had a lot of syncronization so very good!

then yumo was quite pissed at yvonne because she kept slacking! everytime we saw their boat she is always the person resting! yumo was like if she was in their boat we would have thrown her overboard.

then as we were reaching camp 1, it started to rain a mighty thunderstorm! were soaked through!!! luckily we reached camp 1 and the speed boat took us back, yay!!!! victory to us!!!!! to conquers of the sea!

then back to camp1 for a quick debreif and poor us! no shower that day! just wet wipes and a change of clothes, then quickly packed all our stuff into the stupid backpacks again and we set off on our trek to camp site! 4 km in the dark! so terrible! it was one of the worst times in my life. but luckily before anyone died we reached the campe site, which is just a piece of flat ground in the forest. too tired to care...... just threw down our stuff and pitched as fast as possible then cooked maggie noodles for dinner. quickly washed up and jsut went to sleep! then must wake up at 3:30 in the morning for patrol duty. heard some really weird things in the night that you wouldnt really want to know about. then did stargazing with kaiyun!!!!!! haha slack during our duty. we picked out orion and jupiter and stuff like that. the stars were so beautiful! worth it.

then quickly zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz for a while more, then........
OBS DAY 4! LANDEXPEDITION！
INVASION OF THE ANTS!

being slacky has its price to pay!!!! poor us! we accidentaly, in our tiredness, pitched out tents on a ant hole! the whole place got invaded by ants! ants ants ants everywhere!!!!! we spent 4 hours clearing them out. i felt like crying. we had to sleep in so ulu place then somemore got invaded by ant! UGH!

somemore after the place was less anty we had to start on our land expedition! we hoisted the backpacks onto our backs again(child abuse) then walked and walked into the depths of the jungle! mosquitos everywhere, striped ones! we are all going to get dengue fever!

but we managed to complete our tasks and trekked on! but a good piece of news came!!!!!! we walked out of the forest and came to our second stop, and guess what! i recognised the place. years before i came here on a biking expedition and i biked to this place for bonus points! the yellow house is actually a german girl's shrine! so i voluneered to take over kai yun as navigatorand encouraged people! i had a feeling we were going to come onto main road soon, and we are already in a public camping place! so we were more encouraged, i think. then we met some very rude bikers who stared and gaped at us like we were exhibits or something. ooo! look! hikers!!! come take pictures!!! .... etc.....

then we trekked all the way to a cross road near babut hut(who can pronouce?) then theresa received intelligence on her walkie talkie~our final destination, a quarry, is in chaos! construcion work going on made it impossible to go there! so we decided to go back to camp 2, but have lunch first. finally can a a good long rest and lunch! enjoyable. we had a lovely view and talked with theresa. she told us about why she want to be instrucot rna ddo this for every week of her life. but personally i don't think i would be considering obs as a permanent career.

the we walked all the way back to camp 2 and finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!! we threw down our backpacks and just lied down on the floor, and so qing song! yay! rested for a bit. then we went to do the jetty jump! but i didn;t jump. i hate to admit it, but i have a phobia of jumping into water. i looked up wikipedia as gong yuan suggested by i can't find my phobia! i can jump on land but i cannot jump into water. i think it is because i fear not landing on something that is firm and solid. but some interesting phobias i found:

Gephyrophobia — fear of bridges.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the number 666.
Phobophobia — fear of having a phobia

so funny!!! theres a phobia of having a phobia?????
yep then we showered!!!!!! yay! washed off all the ants. then we cooked a celebration dinner! wha got to taste egg again. so delicious!

but then at night is started to rain badly, and CAT1 weather(high chance of thunder and lightning) forbade us to go camp anywhere. so we ran to the big shelter and poor us had to sleep on the cold hard anty floor for the night. i kept hallucinating that i was hearing people talk. in all, a terrible night. but at least we didn't have to pitch the tents.

ok, i'm tired of typing but i want to finish obs!!! so on to

OBS DAY 5!!!! FINAL DAY ON ULU ISLAND!
YAY! we survived! :DDDDDDDDDDDD the last day was just bascially getting all our equipment back. everyone was helping to steal stuff so we won't have to pay. we worked really hard the whole morning in reutrning our store to its original crispness and tidyness. me and kaiyun became temporary blacksmiths and pounded all the pegs to their original shape. then at last all the ponchos and tents and groundsheets and backpacks and life vests and everything was hanged up nicely and we all blocked the door and prevented people from going in so that they can't steal our things. yay! we only lost a bottle had to pay only 60 cents!

then debriefed and ride the boat back to singapore!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! as mentioned eariler very tired now so shal end up the whole thing! rewarding nice readers of my blog for reading through my whole long and suffering post with.......PICTURES!!!!!! as you will note they are of the last day...as our handphones were only returned to us at the last day. hehe :Dto top off my 2, 349 word long essay.

the letter!

camp 1 as seen from the boat!

camp 2 jetty!

camp 2 jetty!

boat that rescued us to go back to singapore!

camp 2!

NILA UTAMAs!

OBS day 1

2009-03-07T18:42:00.005+08:00

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!! FROM OBS!!!!!!!!!!!! I SURVIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUPER DUPER HAPPY!

Day 1

arrived at school quite early to compare luggage with fellow robinson-crusoe-to-bes. the were sorted into our watch, something like a grouping. the we board the bus to outward bound singapore's recpetion centre at punggol there.

my watch was like the last to leave i don't know why...but we met our instructor! she's.....theresa! she's super nice. we played some games while waiting. the we boarded the boat and everyone all stared at the mainland for a log time throughout the boat ride for a last taste of civilisation before we embark on the 5 day obs journey!

then we reached Camp 2 and theresa showed us around. our group is NILA UTAMA, named after the malay prince that found singapore. the other half of the class is called magallen. i don't know who it is, but very difficult to remember the pronounciation! variations included magnolia, mangla, macdonalds, ... then our handphones and money were all confiscated so we can return to basic communal living. but then a huge spider turned up and made us all scream. only theresa remained super cool and kept on counting the $$ we handed to her.

after that we went to check out our watch's store. its a small room that contained a lot stuff like tents, ponchos, haversacks....you know, camp stuff. then we sorted out our food supply for the entire camp. that was quite a chore! we had to seperate all 3 big big big cartons of food into seperate bags for each meals. then we had lunch. it was actually quite unfilling because it was just buns and biscuits. i.e. snacks! which made us even hungier. lol. not the purpose of lunch!

the afternoon was spent of nice team building(or watch building) games, which are fun! like trust fall, where you climb onto a platform and fall down and let for watchmates catch you which a big piece of canvas. scary but when i hit the canvas it was ok! very fun.

after that we started sorting out our store. that was when we realised our group was so slow. all the other groups sorted and packed finish already! we took out all the things like tents. etc. theresa showed us around the store. theres 2 litre bottles and jerry cans which are really big cans that fill about 20 litres of water. also lots of mess tins, small metal containers to cook and eat in. also got pots and woks and stirrer, brushes for clearing up and ahem, the entrenching tool. lined up neatly agained the metal netting are the backpacks, hanging on the cloth racks are the lifevests. so quite cosy.

after this and that, which are small things that i can't remember, we had our dinner. we cooked our own rice in the pots, which turned out quite funny! some of the rice is not cooked at all while some got burned. and some canned food as well. better than lunch, though there wasn't really enough for everyone as the rice had to be rationed among 15 people...

then we took our tents and went to sunrise valley. or rather, a patch of grass. we had to pitch tents in the dark, and first time i pitched tents! we got the nicer more modern kind of easy to pitch tents lucky us. it was done, though not very professionally. then we finally got to shower very very fast-lish, then just we finish there was a ringing of the big bell and we had to go for fire-drill. because we are surrounded by jungles so necessary to do. then we did some more de-breif and washing up and packing, and finally we went back to our tents and we got to lie down and sleep! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. were afriad that wild boars will come and steal our shoes but too tired to be too scared le.

day 2 coming up! as pictures as well! though not very fast so don't expect speed from me....i'm typing really slowly. need to warm up after 5 days of not touching a computer keypad.

announcing...my sticks retirement

2009-02-11T19:22:00.003+08:00

...

MY STICKS BROKE!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, this is a piece of extremely distressing and painful piece of news.

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what happened was after our mini performance for the gefang thingthing( which i secretly think was actually quite ok, because i think i quite expertly masked and repaired all the no good parts so unless you study the score you probably won't know theres a mistake.) i think i banged the toms too hard for the performance....with the result that the toms did not break but my sticks did. result?? --> sad me!

i really love this pair of sticks and i've been with them ever since the day we were bonded together through the help of patricia and liang zhen in choosing our sticks! i've hoped to use them through all the way to sec 4 and maybe even jc but now its impossible le!:(

but then also feel quite happy as it shows i've practised a lot :D muahahaha i'm the first in my batch to break stick :D but joy is using thick sticks so maybe if she use thin stick can break also :D eh but juniors ah! doesn't mean you break as many pairs of sticks as possible you're good ok! the point is not to break sticks but to like mark a milestone of your achievements in percussion :D or else nobody would practise and just saw off the tip of the stick! haha. that would be funny though.

last week i went valentines day shopping! somehow i ended up spending most of my money on myself though. ! i couldn't resist the soundtrack album for the disney movie "enchanted". i've uploaded the songs to my laptop and phone and have being grooving along to the tuness all week! i really recommend this soundtrack as it includes all the original disney songs from the movie which are really nice and catchy! and yet still retain the true disney flavour. like the song "true loves kiss" you can discern a bit of borrowed elements from snow white etc but still has its special features. which is a difficult thing to do and the producers did a wonderful job.

then there is the song song "ever ever after" by carrie underwood as well, with a lot of high and long notes which are difficult to sing!!! she has a really really really powerful voice. i like the music video too :D

but i like the original orchestral music best, which the movie only inculde little snippets, so its very worthwhile to buy and listen. i like enchanted suite the best as it is short but captures all the 5 most prominent tunes of the movie! if our band got strings then we can also perform le :D or even better ask choir to sing for us as well! haha then that will be so nice.

speaking of band, SYF IS NEAR!!!! only 1 1/2 months left!!! band i think is the first one to go for syf (pardon if wrong) so i hope that we can open nanyang's syf season with a gold with honours! that would be lovely.

as for me i want to close the abrsm febuary-march exam season with a distinction for my teacher and family and myself. with some brushing up on the pieces and practice on singing and sight reading, it should do the trick. i really want to prove my hypothesis that its not impossible to get distinction for grade 7...so solution is more hard work!!! but i find that i play better after a round of warm up with sticks :D as it exercises all parts of the hands and arm, probably. as i played better today after the concert. so i recomment all percussion-piano people to try this method.

siew rong has piano exam on wed too!! :D and we can take 74 together! so nice :D

ok quite long post. i will try not to inflict such a merciless one on you guys again.

2009-02-05T21:00:00.001+08:00

wikipedia.org, on fallacies.

Nothing is better than eternal happiness.
Eating a hamburger is better than nothing.
Therefore, eating a hamburger is better than eternal happiness.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-02-04T15:10:00.002+08:00

OUCH! my teeth hurts! (quote felicia, who is also undergoing the same pains i.e. braces)

yesterday went to jurong medical centre for my six-monthly checkup. i noticed something funny there, which is quite surprising because normally i would have been clogged up with mental preparations for the dental visit. maybe i'm getting used to the pain?

anyway, this time instead of taking the lift i walked to the second level and when i reached almost the top of the flight of stairs i noticed this little sign pasted on the step, which reads as follows: "Give your heart a lift! use the stairs. congratulations! you have just burned 10 calories! if you keep walking 2 flights of stairs everyday, you could lose 2.7 kg in a year!"

this is a statement that evokes quite a lot of reflection...
1. i should use the lift more since i'm almost underweight,
2. sec 3s must go for more weight checks since we are on the first floor and don't really walk any stairs,
3. sec 1s are the slimmest in the school because they are on the top floor and have to walk an average of about 25 flights of stairs each day,
4, and joy listen carefully to this. YOU can lose weight if you use stairs more!!!! so keep climbing and next year you'll be only 48 kg!!!:D

today school started with a temparature taking exercise. this is to practise for any future national pandemic and stuff like that. about half the school forgot to bring thermometer, including slyvia who i sms-ed the night before to remind her!!! then those who did not bring have to buy a thermometer, at 5 dollars each from the school. so after morning assembly a long queue started at the office and everyone was buying thermometers!!! then i accompanied pei wei to buy, but the office was so crowded that i could not sqeeze in, so i waited outside.

just nice my principal walked into the office and saw me! then she asked, did you forget to bring your thermometer too? then i replied very honestly that i did bring my thermometer, its jsut that i'm accompaning my friend to buy one. so she smiled and said ok.

in the end many people did not buy their thermos cause the office ran out of stock. i think they made a lot of $$$!

note to shasha if you come back:

i can't attend your limelight after all, sorry dear!!! i have band on that day too... do you have any other concerts in the year?? email me xichen_shen@yahoo.com.sg to tell me ok??!!! sorry ah. i ask sherlyn whether she wants to go ok? :)

2009-02-01T19:15:00.002+08:00

31 Jan 09, 22:28jingyi: hello! (:
Hello! :) hows the chem sia going?? have we chosen anything yet?? going to be week 5 le!

31 Jan 09, 12:10joyjoy!: LOL HELLO SIEWRONG.
Haha. you say hello to each other although you are so far apart. haha. how's your alit sia going?

30 Jan 09, 20:32siewrong: um hello xichen! tagged:D
WHEE yay :D YOU FINALLY TAG! hehe. don't forget to tag percussion blog as well! nycbpercussion.blogspot.com

28 Jan 09, 20:09shasha: PLEASE COMEEE.. email me okay (: and invite other ppl to come too. THANKS LOADS! (:
28 Jan 09, 20:09shasha: CGSSB LIMELIGHT @ Esplanade 24FEB09, 7.30pm, $16-student/ $21-adult.
28 Jan 09, 20:07shasha: HELLO! still remember me?? haha anw, Crescent GIrls' School Symphonic Band is having a concert!
OK i see if i can come with xue ling ok? support you :D cause our band performed at limelight last year :D i try asking my section also :D email you ok?

23 Jan 09, 19:54joyjoy!: EH WTH MY TWIN IS CALLED SHERLYN. D:
EH no sherlyn is my primary sch friend:D another sherlyn :DDD not the band one!

23 Jan 09, 14:17sherlyn: lol i see i got myself a twin....anyway ..HAPPY NEW YEAR!ps i might be a bit late in replying ur letter.....sry!
17 Jan 09, 13:10sherlyn: hahax now i see i got a twin...lol.btw i might be late in replying ur letter lehx psps.Happy New Year !
TWIN TWIN!OK. Happy cny too! lets watch another movie together again sometime! like during the march holidays?? if got nice movie la. write and tell me ok? XD

15 Jan 09, 23:53Lorraine: HALLO!!! Did you name your laptop? (: and you still have linked me!!!
NOPE not yet...can't think of a suitable name. what about Pinky?? since its so pink. yep okok i'll relink. right now very lazy to do html!

14 Jan 09, 23:14sheena: hey xichen! remember me? haha all the best for syf! (:
YOU CAN BACK!!!:D during CNY celebrations! to the band room yup i saw you! haha. Thanks :D we'll get Gold w/honours don't worry!! and all the best to you too in NUS high!

13 Jan 09, 23:43May: www.mtvmay.blogspot.com LINK ME!!!
K :D Linked

its feb!

2009-02-01T16:55:00.003+08:00

Its FEBUARY NOW!!! :D

Hehe last Maths lesson our teacher Ms Kang introduced us to this game, since our class is far ahead of all the other classes in math. she says this game is only for the SMART people! this game is called Bloxorz. You can find it on miniclip.com or this other site http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-bloxorz/index.html ! At first i thought it should be a pretty boring math game, with a lot of mental calculations, but now i'm quite addicted to it!! thankyou ms kang. the objective is to roll the block into a hole. its quite fun actually. give it a try. i'm now currently at level 15! ms kang say she played till 11.

This is a screenshot of level 15.

our class is also very addicted to this game now. during the first day she introduced us to the game our class people played it through out recess and lunch. i think they went all the way to level 19 before chemistry.

Our SCH rehearsal was last thursday. all i have to say is two things: 1) i'm very tired due to carrying heavy stuff and its my own fault to volunteer to carry the glock and 2) we must work harder. the concert hall is very very very biggggg and the sound is kind of dispersed, even with all the mikes and everything. Our tutor ms Ng says i must play louder, so i played louder but she still cannot hear. so i hit the chimes till i think it almost broke and ms ng still say must be louder.

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we also took section photos. there is a vending machine outside the concert hall and on the side was written: xxx brand, the POPULAR CHOICE! so valentia went to cover up the xxx brand words and made a hand sign that pointed to herself and joy took a photo of it, so it is now: valentia, the POPULAR choice!!!!! MUAHAHAHA.

oh and thankyou rae for taking disney princess on ice leaflet for me! hehe i want to cut out the pictures. i think we should take a picture of rae doing a little mermaid pose since her name is ARIELLE but she refuse. so sad. the show looks awesome though. is anyone going to watch?? i think we should go as a section outing but valentia says NO.

2009-01-27T12:59:00.002+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR PEOPLE :DDDD

WHA this thusday is the SCH rehearsal i'm so excited about it! I can't wait already. we get early release~whee!

Oh something really funny happened during the holidays!! last week when my mum took my aunt and cousin to Pulau Ubin, my mum's shoe bottom fell out during the bicycle ride. then when i took my aunt and cousin to sentosa, we went went to Images of Singapore(the wax museum) and there was an old man pretending to be made of wax. Bella(my cousin's english name) said the fake man looked so real, and then he suddenly turned around and said hello! then we all screamed and ran away!!! then while we were retreating something caught my sandals and the soles of my shoes fell out!! haha. just in time too! right before CNY so i can get new shoes :D

Took bella to take neoprints as well. the first time either of us take...due to unfortunate circumstances e.g. cough preventing me from taking neoprints with my section.lorraine says take penicillin(?)

Hehe then also watched 春晚。有看周杰伦和宋祖英和唱的“本草纲目”吗？？？很绕口令！！！你敢不敢试一试宋祖英挑战--

辣妹子从小不怕辣
辣妹子长大辣不怕
辣妹子嫁人怕不辣
辣椒。。。辣辣辣！

和Bella在睡觉前唱了30多次才唱对。

2009-01-11T13:54:00.003+08:00

Our band's SYF rehearsal at Singapore Concert hall is on the 29th of Jan...so early...

Apparently all the times were picked by a ballot a.k.a lucky draw. our sch got the 29th, so no choice.... its just another example how Fate decides quite a lot of our, well, fate.

WHA i sound so learned :o pardon. its just that i've being studying macbeth the whole morning and drawing study charts and analysing equivocals. macbeht is a nice play really. i like the rhymes the witches say. they are fun to say!! really. like when they prophesised(wrong spelling??) the future of Banquo they say: "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater./Not so happy, yet much happier./ Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none."

hmm later going to botanic gardens. going to try out the wireless internet access function which is offered there :D

yesterday played chess titans on my new laptop! just remembered. to keep my skills from rusting you know. hehe i won against the computer in the end, clap clap! thanks to the installation of the Ctrl-Z and Level Selection function. i'm going to try the second level today. i dunno why but the computer always starts like this: (i play white)
1. e4 c6

the standard opening is
1. e4 e5

but even though it is only beginner level and i pressed Ctrl-Z several times still learnt quite a lot, like pawn promotion tactics and checkmate tactics.

erm ok must shut down now to save battery. :).

6 more days to go until my aunt comes to singapore!!! can't wait le.

2009-01-10T13:24:00.002+08:00

Just remembered something funny that happened yesterday!

when me and charlotte was walking to the bus stop after band prac, charlotte suddenly spied a bird that was perched on the top of a tree near the overhead bridge. we were so absorbed in the bird that we stood there until it flew away. it kind of have a face like a dodo bird. hehe. maybe we found the last remaining creature of the spiecies that somehow ended up in singapore??

then just as the bird flew away, i noticed something bad that happened. all 3 buses that i take home just drove away from the bus stop!!!! charlotte was like hahaha while i fumed at her for using a bird to distract me from going home!!!

but all wells that ends well! guess what happened! after we finally reach the bus stop one of my buses came!!! really quickly! so it was charlotte's turn to fume at me while i hahaha-ed at her.

oh for joy (and charlotte as well since you also want to do the same thing) i sms-ed ms ng our instructor yesterday to see whether she'll sign our logbooks but she haven't replyed yet. yep.

and lorraine i'll link you later.

2009-01-09T21:45:00.001+08:00

OK finally…long awaited…ANSWERS TO TAGS!

5 Jan 09, 21:44
zzy: see you tmr lah
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: not bad right
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: how s ur new class ah
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: and an early chinese new yr lah
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: heyhey
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: happy new yr
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: nevertheless
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: though quite late already
5 Jan 09, 21:43
zzy: happy new yr
WHA zzy! Can you type more things in 1 tag?? So you don’t take up SPACE. OK. Nvr mind. My new class ok! Quite guai. Our new Chinese teacher sits beside our dear cao lao shi. So whenever I go and see her I still get to see cao lao shi!!! Yay. I hope cao lao shi teach me next year!!!

1 Jan 09, 00:17
TKY: HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ( :
TKY!!!!!!!!!! Happy new year too! Hehe. we are still in same class YAY! HAH you are class cleaniness coordinator for 2 years in a row!!! SY sabotage you :D

31 Dec 08, 17:37
Kate: I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting thi
Hehe thankyou. Haha. Not like anyone will publish my blog into a book or anything, but thankyou! :D. Happy new year.

31 Dec 08, 15:35
sherlyn's twin!: ikans!:D hahah anw hope you're feeling better. (:
31 Dec 08, 13:22
Lorraine: sadded you couldn't come ): anyways. have a happy new year (:
THANKYOU! Yay eat antibiotics. Hopefully will recover soon?? Or else I go to the clinic and demand refund as well as take away the doctor’s degree! Heh what kind of doctor is he?? If he can’t cure people

27 Dec 08, 11:00
sherlyn's twin!: hahah idk why i'm still using this name:D hahah i cant keep track of how many i told my lj alr.
OK…hehe. I don’t mind sherlyn’s twin since I know who u are…IKANS!(bilis)

27 Dec 08, 00:57
Lorraine: you can relink me. technically you're the 3rd person I've told. but you might be the 5th person?
OH no wonder…eh why everyone use live journal now??? Heh you make me relink and relink!! When I’m so untalented at HTML somemore…

27 Dec 08, 00:56
Lorraine: yes yes.vaio laptops are nice. >Dwheee I have one. it's called "lappie" hahah.
Whawhawha you give your laptop a NAME!!! that is so cute!!

26 Dec 08, 08:42
sherlyn's twin!:
Hello ? :DD.

25 Dec 08, 15:25
sherlyn: hi xi chen sry for not tagging you earlier on...btw nice blogskin!Merry christmas ohXD
Thankyou :D took long time to find one. Hehe I think the picture is so cute!

25 Dec 08, 15:16
joyjoy!: hahah i see valesha's tags:D anw merry christmas!
Haha. Of course can see mah. You blind person :DD MERRY CHRISTMAS too:D even though it is like over already ;D

24 Dec 08, 10:18valesha: if you love percussion, i love erhu too!:D I'VE BEGUN TO ACTUALLY LOVE IT HAHAHAHA:D:D
Good for you :DDD Its important to love what you do!!! Good luck for SYF ok! Hope you guys get gold with honours!

WHEW! Finish!

OK so Thursday was the sec 1 selection for band! Proud to announce over 70 people signed up for band auditions! This shows we are POPULAR and people want to join us! Percussion also gained a Direct admission girl. She’s Siew Rong. She is so much like me that its scary! I mean, we both:
-are/were in the same secondary 1 class
-plays the piano and mallet percussion
-are NICE!

I mean its like FATE!

Today’s school was really tiring. Because today I had wake up extra early to for our band’s national anthem and school song performance…and our dear section-mate Charlotte has officially gone DEAF. She came to school at 6 am, sat in her classroom and went down to assembly, apparently completely forgotten about the national anthem. Even though I called her 2 times and our band was as noisy as about a hundred cars honking at the same time. I can’t believe she didn’t hear a thing!!! So she should have gone deaf.

Then we had a Language Arts lecture, which introduced our coursework for the year. Then we watched part of the 1994 movie, Frankenstein! I think the movie was far more interesting then I had previously thought. In fact now I’m so interested to know what happened in the end that earlier I went to Wikipedia and researched Frankenstein! I;m surprised to know that the original novel was written by a 19 year old girl…not a 40-year-old cranky man! Its also the first proper sci-fi book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein if you are curious.

OH and i must learn to shut down the laptop properly...because the button which is supposed to be the shut down button isn't the shut down button! its a standby kind of button...which means i stand by-ed my laptop for a whole day!!!! no wonder low battery. Heh...technology so difficult to use...

Laptops and cakes.

2009-01-04T21:10:00.000+08:00

I’m typing this post using my new laptop!!!! :D HEH
E.
I didn’t expect to get a laptop until I’m in university! Hehe. Thanks to my resourcefulness I now own a sony vaio CS13G pinkpinkpink laptop!! Here’s what happened.

Yesterday went to IMM to see if they sell this laptop there. First went to sony style the official vaio place, and while I was admiring the model the sales person came flying over and said, that model is out of stock!! Out of stock!! So me and my dad went up to best denki, but the person say also out of stock. Sold out completely! So I couldn’t buy that day quite sad.

Then today I went onto the sony vaio website and got a lost of all their authorised dealers. Then I went to call the funan digilife mall retailers but both were out of stock! Then called about 5 retailers(all out of stock) until my mum suggested I call best denki stores instead because she has a discount card that can be used there(and can collect best points for redemption of gifts!) so I called the imm store and junction 8 store but both were out of stock too! CS is too popular!) then the junction 8 person suggested I try the ngee ann department cause they are very big! So I called them and BINGO! The person say have!!! I was OVERJOYED :D x100. Then I called them a second time and reconfirmed the happy fact. Because I’m scared someone will buy it before I did, I asked the man to keep one for me. Then rushed down with my mum all the way downtown to buy it.

The only downside is that best denki is having its annual end of year lucky draw, so by purchasing the laptop we got about hundreds of draw tickets. Which we all have to fill in! I filled in about 20 at the store. The rest was given in a small booket as thick as a dictionary! Looks like till next year I’ll still be filling in the raffle tickets.

Rewind back to this morning, because I just remembered something very funny today. Please bother to read: My Extremely Failed Cakes.

My extremely failed cakes
As a gesture of appreciation to my chinese teacher last year whose excellent teaching enabled me to get the scholarship, I decided to bake some cakes for her.

So this morning I started. My mum told me to warm the eggs in hot water, while I sifted the flour. It was fun but tiring sifting the flour because it looks like snow is falling on the bowl!! Then I couldn’t resist the temptation so I touched the flour and it felt as smooth as silk! Then my mum came in to the kitchen to see how I was doing and said severely, “you touched the flour didn’t you?? You’re not supposed to touch the flour after you sift it!!! The air pockets are colllapsing again!!!” so I had to resift the whole thing as punishment for my crime.

Then I cracked the eggs, but accidently left in the yolk. So my mum had to take it out in a spoon. Then beat the egg whites till bubbles cover the surface. At first the beating was fun but it is not fun when you do it with a tired arm!! I soon got tired after about 2 minutes then my mum took over. So we both took turns till my mum decided it will do, we are not a bakery. While she poured in the egg whites I implored her to invest in a machine to beat the eggs if she every sets up a cake shop with her colleage.

Then after the mixture was done we poured it into the paper cups, nested within a metal cup cause the paper is flimsy. Then wait wait wait….

It turned out that all the cakes baked in paper cups in metal cups were bad failures, I think because the heat couldn’t get through?? The mixture stuck to the paper so the cake is difficult to extract. So I had to take the slightly better baked in metal cup cupcake for my chinese teacher cao lao shi. Then I melted the white chocolate and spread it over the cupcake, then sprinkled it with rainbow drops the overall effect was lovely when I tied it up with ribbon in a disco paper bag. For the others I cunningly concealed the cracks and burns with chocolate drops, and since they are unfit for anyone else to eat except for me, no need to wrap up nice nice :DDDDD but they taste wonderful ok. Never judge cakes by its appearance :DDDD

Wha 848 words. Almost a essay!The new microsoft on my new laptop can count words as you go along!!! So cool.

Tommorow official school starts. I still have to get invovled in the sec 1 orientation, so looks like I’ll be skipping some lessons. But I still need to wake up early so I’ll stop here for now.

2009-01-03T21:06:00.002+08:00

Haha. a short post, i'm so sorry! i know, soon, very soon, i'll reply your tags. thankyou for tagging kate! haha. reply in more detail later!

I just want to announce the happy news that i got the scholarship!!! yay!! yesterday while the festive mood was still in the air i striked while the iron was hot and asked my parents to get me a new laptop!! in preparation of the 3-months overseas thing, etc.

and yesterday was the first day of school. a new year, a new beginning. saying goodbye to all those wonderful people who i had seen constantly for two years (i still love you 208!) and meeting a great new group of people! i'm really excited about my new class. i know sooner or later i might find this not true, but every single one of my new classmates are adorable! I think for once i might be in a class where hopeful no too much clique-ing will occur. still, i have tky(still without braces, still scared), felican(pink braces, like me), sy, yangyangyang jie, and PEI WEI! as my new form teacher puts it so nicely, treasure all the friendships and times you all have with friends in this class, as we will be together for two years and many many many lifelong friendship bonds will emerge from these times. i hope so. i hope when we graduate in that far off day we will remember each other forever and have class renuions.

talking of braces, i need to recount of my date with the dentist last monday. or was it tuesday?? can't remember. anyway, here's what happened. dr.vivien installed the lower brace and it hurt. a lot!!! but she tried to be nice and joked about and asked me whether i wanted to put "chinese new year colours" in my brace, i.e. red and orange, festive colours etc. said a firm no.

Christmas!! DING DONG BELL

2008-12-28T20:44:00.002+08:00

This week was Christmas week.

Christmas eve went to botanic gardens! Though it was raining almost the whole time I was there. And no one brought umbrella! So take shelther in a little pavilion. Saw a lot lot lot of IKANs in the lake though. And the ducks eating bread people throw to them.

Then after dinner sat at the food court and blew bubbles at the visitor centre near the food court. The staff decorated the statue there! There’s a giraffe statue there, and all the giraffe are wearing christmas santa hats! That’s very cute. But the statues are really tall, wonder how they put the hats on the giraffe? I think maybe use a long bamboo stick and hook it onto the heads of the giraffes.

Then I watched my christmas eve movie, Enchanted! Yes I bought the dvd! Hehe I think it’s a raelly funny and nice movie. I just can’t get enough of it. Even though I already watched about 3 times on the plane trips to and fro from japan. The dvd I bought also comes with a lot of bonus material like behind the scenes, the making of, a music video of the song Enchanted by carrie underwood(is that what she’s called?) and a lot of deleted scenes.

On christmas day I didn’t do anything much. In the morning I intened to give my neighbours presents but they poofed, I think to church. acutally till now i still haven't given them their presents as i haven't seen them!So I did my homework. Then in the afternoon, I watched my christmas day movie, Barbie in a Christmas Carol.

It was very very very good!!!! They came out with a collectors edition of Barbie in this movie, I saw it at Toys r Us during christmas shopping. She looks really beautiful in that gown. But it costs over 60 dollars!!!!

Wha.

also lighted up the tree. it looks great with the enhanced new baubles.

Tomorrow going to be BEEEZY. First psl gm in the morning, then run home and prepare lorraine’s present. MUSN"T BE LATE !!! for her party. My mum suggest I buy flowers for lorraine instead, but flowers will get crushed on the train. Like the roses I gave zzy and tky during their concert.

I’ll answer all your tags later ok. I want to go do more sudoku!! Its so fun. Addicted!. But yes I relinked you valesha and joy :D

2008-12-23T11:14:00.002+08:00

oh yes forget to add. haha!!! my inspiration for my commonwealth essay came yesterday!!!

i was doing maths, you know, trigo graphs for sin x degrees when i stared at my piano pencil and it hit me!!!! muses work at a strange time.

ok no more blogging now ive to work at top speed to get in done before term starts!

2008-12-23T10:32:00.002+08:00

yay! my aunt and counsin is coming to singapore for a visit during chinese new year!!! :DDDD

and christmas is this week! so fast. must get well soon or i'll the snowing fun at tanglin mall(its just non-poisonous foam, but hey, its the closest thing to real snow hear on a tropical island)

Events and schedule
24th dec-Christmas eve!
25th dec-Christmas! snow at tanglin mall, light up christmas tree
26th dec-Boxing day! digest turkey
27th dec-christmas party at cck
29th dec-PSL gm, probably to discuss orientiation next year. if you are a psl please come!!! 8-10.30 am i think. probably at the LT. Lorraine's birthday party. get present for her!!!
30th dec-date with dentist vivien
31st dec-new years eve! countdown
1st jan 09- new years day
2nd jan-back to school! sit with pei wei in new 308 classroom :DDD sec1 orientation. watch fondly as the sec 1s we raised this year become sec 2S!!!

yesterday, i was reading the paper and it syas this person plans to cut down as much as 70% of expenses for christmas! my mum say no wonder i give out a whole sack of presents to people but so far i've only received 1 in return.

i love vaio laptops like i love sony ericson phones. they're so pretty!

oh no. i think its going to rain!

2008-12-22T10:08:00.001+08:00

! I'm really sick now!

i dunno whether i can help move the instruments on tue--see first?

2008-12-19T17:48:00.002+08:00

whee! i'm blogging again!

last sunday went to string ensemble concert. they were very good!!! haha saw zhi yuan and kai yun wearing long black gowns!!!!!! they looked so funny but nice in the evening dresses and makeup.

after the concert something quite weird happened. while me and moz were eating this person came up to us and gave us chocolate! at first we thought it was a salesperson giving out samples of new variety, but then a closer look revealed that he was one of the hwa chong guys who performed...??!! zhi yuan was quite shocked. i dunno whether she ate the chocolate in the end...she told me she left chocolated her friend gave her backstage in the esplanade dressing room!

then monday i went to watch winx club movie with xue ling. it was actually quite nice. i love the way the characters were animates, they look so pretty in 3-d!

more about band camp next time. just a quick post.

reply to tags! at last!

2008-12-09T20:45:00.001+08:00

ok i feel more accomodating now, not so down already :D so shall answer my taggers in a happy and light mood :D
9 Dec 08, 18:36joyjoy!: hahah i lazy to tell everyone my new blog URL, since you keep pestering about my old blog i shall tell you.:D
relinked!!! :D wha like your duck duck picture! can you have a tagboard soon? why you cahnge to live journal anyway? blogger ok what...
6 Dec 08, 17:57joyjoy!: O: I AM NOT SUPERSTITIOUS. i am zai:D
haha. no you are not. you create y our own superstitions :D
3 Dec 08, 21:01Donas: Update your links plz!
erm? no time to update la. did you type your name wrong? is it supposed to be jonas? cause i only know 1 jonas and no donas...
1 Dec 08, 20:58jacelyn: heys! linked! TAKECARES! xD
hey! :D linked you!
29 Nov 08, 10:48joyjoy!: hm i think i emailed the user and pwd to one of your emails /: hahah your interview went well rights AND YAY MOE IS COOL LAH (L) i like they have cool things i shall go and play there someday
ok thanks!!! haha lets have section outing at moe? we can eat in the cafe! cheapcheap! innovative ba.
25 Nov 08, 18:31joyjoy!: UGH I AM SO WORRIED NOT LIKE YOU 100% WILL GET ): i suck mannn . anw dont post in black! D: HAHAH .:D
haha i also dunno whether i'll get la!

:-l

2008-12-09T20:39:00.002+08:00

Today was one of those quite depressing days, where just about everything has gone wrong.
I think I’ll place today together with the day janabel complained I was practicing persis in the list of depressing days.

For starters, today was very empty, the only sec 1 went off after lunch. Then for sectionals, it started off quite well, and we moved some instruments from the small prac room back. However, I dunno why but everyone came back before they are supposed to and main band started early, so I had no time to prac album leaf, which I’ve always wanted to spent 2 hours prac-ing because it’s quite a challenging thing to play on the xylo. Always, in the end, we are left to fend the best we can, alone.

Then lunch was at pizza hut, because some people wants it. I don’t know why the hawaiian pizza was the thin crust type, but it was so tough and slightly cold that it was not that good. But it was better compared to the other pizza, which had a lot of things I don’t really like. Then I gave up the last piece of hawaiian to people who needs to eat it as they have not tasted the hawaiian yet, but kindness is never appreciated nowadays anyway.

After that we went to hwa chong where we have to take back 4 very rusty old snares with disgusting yellow straps. And the guy didn’t even offer to help carry the bag of straps for as far as we are walking with us, despite joy visibly struggling with the load.

Then we played very boring songs, like october. Why do we play october anyway? Its December!!!! The 12th month! Not the 10th!

Then there are people who actually think that what they like is actually better than other people’s. they proclaim other people’s tastes’ as freakish. Even more disgustable is that they actually think the things they like, for example lame pop songs and stupid movies should be shown to everyone, while it is all clearly just a lot of banging and screaming and act-cool people who are afraid to lose out on popularity in the increasingly lowering-of-standard music industry(which any sensible person will not support).

Things perked up after I got home, as I got to do things that is actually sensible and profitable, like practising for next year’s g7 exams and studying advanced trigo, for which people have not even bought the books yet. Also writing the plot for my commonwealth essay in my bright pink zig pen.

Note to self: add these thingsto plans for the future- get a pink vaio laptop (new), 3 ½ octave glockenspiel, concert grand piano, a bigger cupboard to store travel souvenirs. add these things to things to do: Christmas themed blogskin, set up christmas tree, get new christmas baubles, find something to do with all the left over bits and pieces from present wrapping

Noel!!! christmas concert

2008-12-05T18:22:00.002+08:00

yesterday was the noel concert at hwa chong jc!

arrived in band room about 12.50. then just after i arrived i got the distressing news that our claves were missing in action! so sad...our dear king klave! it was new somemore. then suddenly a very big fat cockroach crawled out of the stack of chairs at the back of the band room! then everyone screamed and Sandy bravely capped it with a cardboard box cover. then tabbie quickly went to close the store cupboards in case the cockroach escape and crawl into an instrument..ewww

then after charlotte the late arrived, we got all the instruments we need and took the bus to hwa chong jc. then it started to rain so we had to shelter the instruments with the umbrella.

we had concert rehearsals the whole afternoon, and after prac-ing our own concert pieces us sec 2s also had to prac Gelato.

but in between the songs we were not pracing we sat backstage in a circle and had a very good time fooling around. like charlotte took off a shoe and told us we had all shrank down to the size of a pin and we were stuck inside and how to get out? some of the suggested answers: fill shoe with water(sheryl), grow moths to eat the canvas(charlotte), call police(me). then valentia was challenged to do the percussion challenge, the one we invented during limelight. you know, you have to say "this envelop contains the top secret recipe of la-la-la-laksa and mi-fa-so soup" to everyone in the section without bursting out into uncontainable laughter. we noticed that sheryl and valentia was wearing a black shirt so they couldn't focus as well as the white shirt people. so black colour can suck out your focus...

then charlotte also suggested we make a leg-xylophone using everyone's legs. because each leg has a different pitch so if you arrange everyone's legs jacob's ladder style you get a xylophone!! ha very ha.

dinner was quite fast. then joy insisteed on finding a clean and isolated toilet to change. after everyone changed(my blouse hold the record for most number of buttons to button) we tried to take a section photo in the toilet. at first we arranged ourselved on a seat and tried to take using joy's nice cam, but her phone died and my phone was in my bag, so we used yu han's phone but it was unable to stand on its own so we took a mirror shot. charlotte commented that with joy holding the cam, we looked like her gang in black :D

on the way back to audi something joy considered quite unlucky happened. we found a dead bird lying in the bushes! with bright blue feathers. yu han wanted to take a photo but was prevented but superstitious joy.

the concert was okay. although the hwa chong drumset guy forgot to turn the snare on during the piece!! i think our pieces were generally ok.

hmm. if valentia joins snyo maybe i'll consider auditioning?

2008-12-03T21:09:00.004+08:00

valentia's auditioning for NYSO!!!!!!

that's really cool! it sounds like a really good opportunity to expand beyond the walls of the nanyang band room...i fnext year have time maybe i can try out for it too...i asked valentia if i can get in by piano but she says theres no piano section...thats totally unfair! i checked the webstie and they have like 20 something violinists and 4 harpists! why not a piano section???

but they have like really loooong prac hours...thurs and fri...and on thurs i already have band! so you won't be able to get home till ten ++. on thurs! i mean theres still school on friday! i guess its only for people who are serious about music and have decided on it as a profession...i mean i already told the SAP scholarship people that i want to study law...

oh well. you can't get everything you want in life.

SAP interview! and hol. hw

2008-11-27T16:56:00.004+08:00

Just had my SAP scholarship interview! It was at MOE headquaters at Buona Vista. Its that very nice looking glass building you see when you step out of the MRT station.

When i reached bouna vista stn, and checked my handphone and found that i made a horrible mistake. i was 1 and a half hours early!(The letter said 30 mins before will do) but i had no choice but to walk to the building and wait. so walked there and on my way i saw a lot of groups of people walking and they all wore name cards with the moe symbol thing on it, so they must be moe people. and they must have being going to lunch since they were all carrying coin purses.

then i went to register. thanks to joy's helpful hint about the cafe, i went to the cafeteria and spent some time drinking watermelon juice:D but very weird because everyone else all ministry people.

so i went up and found the interview centre. so went in and sat down and looked at all the good luck messages everyone sent me. then another nanyang person the council elect person who once booked me for eating on the 4th level came in also and she had this weird expression on her face. then i just took out my portfolio and started final checking everything. it was then i realised my profile page was not done yet so i started writing a rushed intro.

then just revised all the things i think i need to know properly for the interview until the interview started. the nice lady at the registration desk called my name and i went into the room.

the interviewers are quite nice :D 2 ladies and 1 guy. they are actually quite human and talked to me in a very friendly way, and they show interest in what i said. which was good because that helped me relax a little bit. but i was still shaking considerably when they talked to me can...i don't know why but all the questions i feel i didn't answer well came from the lady on my right. but overall i still did ok. apparently i talked a lot. i mean i knew i talked a lot because my mouth was dry when i came out. but the council person told me i talked for half an hour! i cut into her interview time by 10 mins!!!!!!!!!!

ok no more about the interview. move on to another topic. thankyou joy for letting me photocopy your math ws we need to do next year ok:D big hug for you! though i don't see why we have to do 50 questions. i mean not everyone's math is that bad! i notice though only the maths department gives out end-of-year holiday homework. maybe that's the reason maths is so unpopular? science and math and humanities no hw at all...then have to do a commonwealth essay for mrs heng. but 50 questions for maths? i mean not everyone failed maths eoy!

oh and can someone from perc please email me the user and pass to our blog so i can post and keep it alive?

Band!

2008-11-26T11:20:00.002+08:00

BAND YESTERDAY!

Valentia came back from Shanghai! And gave us very nice and cute little keychains of bears dressed in weird weird costumes. Thankyou! They're so nice. And along with Clarice they got us 5 birds! Hahaha. The percussion table is being renovated into a Birdpark!!! Clarice's birds are the same, 3 brown clay birds, exactly the same as one of the birds we used for concert. She bought the 3 for 5RMB. On the other hand, valentia bought 2 birds, and they are made of china with colour pain. She bought the 2 for 20 RMB. Right...colour is a bit expensive nowadays right...

oh thankyou kang ning i got the band skirt! TY. hope the small size didn't sqeeze you to death. haha.

oh we had marching as well, after lunch after main band. Ms chong's commands aren't as clear as Tabbie's. I keep turning in the wrong direction! ahhh malay is still very unfamiliar with me...that reminds me, don't feel sad ZZY about the malay oral proficiency test. If i had taken it i would had failed also la! all i know is kiri=left and kanan=right and jalan=walk and ikan=fish.

anyway we prac-ed with a bit of drum accompaniment. one comment. the quadrangle is echo-y. and i bet we scared the chinese orchestra and guzheng people to death, because all of a sudden there's a loud boom and they probably didn't know we were marching!hope no one dropped their instrument or anything. ms chong says we are ready to start marching with instruments now. i'm very nervous about this announcement. i'm really awkward at the traditional grip. i can't roll properly...and i'm very scared i will forget the score when we start playing or i'll walk too fast/slow since i'm at the front. i know i memorised the anchors aweigh score already but i'm scared i will get it wrong!

we played the set piece in main band as well. it sounds VERY weird. we're playing overture 2. its written by a kelly tang person, which everyone assumed is a female(hello, kelly) until valentia borrowed the score to conduct us and we found out he(right, he) is a MALE! Kelly tang is a guy!(if kelly tang is reading this, sorry if it sounds rude to say that) most of my part i'm ok. i mean, i've seen worse. take persis overture for example. except for the last chime thingy at the end, during the 2 bar percussion solo. I mean that part is going to be quite important, since everyone else is playing a rhythmn so my chimes have to bring out the melody in that part. its cool to have a perc solo in syf! good one, mr.kelly tang!

only thing is chimes is hard to play. i'm already having a hard time during hymn where there is a lot of complicated chimes things in my part. why? you have to:
1) look at the score
2) look at the chimes
3) play the chimes with the hammers
4) control the pedal
5) look at ms chong
6) do all of above at the same time

Oh. today's the 26th. FELICAN is having the interview today omg. i wonder how it turned out? maybe should go sms her and ask her the questions...since pei wei asked me to tell her what they ask maybe i should go and ask someone before me also...dunno whether joy will tell me or not! my interview is tmr. quite nervous.

2008-11-24T15:14:00.002+08:00

1AMANDA LAM WYE KEIS2-08BSP(T1)CBALIT3L309
2ANTHEA ROSE CHONG HUS2-08CC3CBALIT311
3BELLE LOW WENGYIS2-08CC3CBGEO310
4CHARMAINE KOHS2-08BSP(T1)3S303
5CHENG YI TENGS2-08CC2CBALIT311
6CHEW SHI YUN JOLYNS2-08CC3CPGEO312
7CHIA WAN YUS2-08CC3CBALIT309
8FELICIA SOONG WANYIS2-08BSP( C )3S308
9HO WEI JUAN ELAINES2-08CC43S307
10HOON LING MAYBELLE JS2-08CC23S307
11KWA MEE LINGS2-08CC4CBALIT3L309
12KWOK SHI ANN SHERANS2-08CC3CPGEO3L312
13LAU WEI SI ABIGAILS2-08CC3CPGEO312
14LEE HSIAO FONGS2-08CC33SART304
15LEE PUAY LINGS2-08CC3YY301
16LIM JIN RUS2-08CC2CBALIT311
17NG JIA YANS2-08CLEPCBALIT3L309
18NG NING SING GRACES2-08BSP( C )CBALITART309
19ONG JUNYI JOYS2-08BSP( C )CBALIT309
20 ONG YAN CHUN S2-08 CC2 YY 301
21PEE HAI ROUS2-08CC3CPART312
22PHUA LER WOONS2-08CC3CBHIS311
23RACHEL LIM WEI SHANS2-08BSP(T1)3S3L306
24SHAIAN LIM JIA MINS2-08CC3CBGEO310
25SHEN XICHENS2-08BSP( C )CPALIT308
27TAN KANG NINGS2-08CC2CPGEO312
28TANG XI-EN CHARLENES2-08CC33S307
29TAY KAI YUNS2-08BSP( C )3S308
30VALESHA SOON WEIXUANS2-08CC3CBALIT311
31YANG JIES2-08BSP( C )3S308
32YEO HUI MIN VALERIES2-08BSP( C )CBHIS309
33YIP YOU MINGS2-08CC23S305
34ZHANG ZHIYUANS2-08BSP(T1)3S305

Argh...we're all going to different classes next year!!! :( Fortunately Felican, TKY and Yang Jie is with me!!! :D At least I'm not alone...oh and Pei Wei too! 308! hope we are orientating the same sec 1 class! :D and let's sit together :D yes, and a second time reminder: COME TO BAND TUESDAY!!! I WANT TO SHOW YOU THE PICTURE OF LENA!

Madagascar 2--Escape to Africa!

2008-11-24T14:34:00.005+08:00

Watched Madagascar 2--Escape to Africa at West Mall yesterday!!!!!!!!!

It was very funny! I like the penguins best, they are so cute and funny:D Skipper, the lead, is especially adorable! He says a lot of funny stuff, like when the penguins discover that the engines have died, he reach out for the microphone on board and says to the passengers, "I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, we're landing immediately. (the paasengers hi-5 and jump around excitely) The bad news is, its a crash landing."

Then after the movie went to watsons with Lou Shan. We walked around looking for things to buy because we both wanted to SPENT $$$! She knocked the head off a Hello Kitty shaped container twice :D Then we went to May Fashions and we bought matching hair bands! After that we went to wander around Tom and Stephanie's. They sell a lot of stuff there! We both got face towels for our sisters with matching designs for Christmas. Then I got a Mariposa pillowcase! It was very pretty :D The problem is I only have the pillowcase so have to try and match it with another bedsheet.

Oh and I have braces now! They're pink, same as yours, Felicia! Yay. PINK! I think i'm the only one in the setion with braces though...ah...so depressed at the thought. Joy and Rae finish their brace treatment already...Charlotte and Yu Han have NATURALLY PERFECT TEETH...And Sheryl doesn't have them...Neither does Valentia...right... Ah well, at least Felicia and TKY_DevilMaster9441 has them/going to have braces. Teehee. And they are my next year classmates, so can swap tales of oral torture with them!

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24 Nov 08, 14:18joyjoy(:: I NEED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT INTERVIEW ON TUESDAY OKAY ZOMG.
OK ikanfish :D If you want we can go to the interview together if we have similar date and time? But I'm not going to band that day since I won't have enough time to travel if I go to band...I need to set off at 12.oopm++, and band is starting at around 9++and I need to eat lunch before I go so I'm not going for band.

HOLIDAYS! :D

2008-11-22T13:17:00.002+08:00

ITS THE HOLIDAYS! YAY!

Holiday band pracs are just much more fun than normal pracs, because
1. We can wear band tee!
2. Section lunch!
3. Band the whole day!
4. Lots of time to talk and bond!
5. Time to prac lots of extra things you don't have time to prac normally!

And the SYF song has being released at last, thank goodness, it is rather easy. Not much of a challenge. I was worried that my part will be too difficult, but my parts are quite easy! YAY! :D And they are both on the mallets :D I really hope we get Gold with Honours this time, because this is my last SYF, and I hope we get it!

NYCB is performing in the upcoming Hwa Chong JC Band performance! :D We, meaning the Sec 2s and 1s this year, are performing 2 songs, "Crest of Nobility" and "Pacabel's Canon". "Pacabel's Canon" is Charlotte's favourite song, apparently. It sounds quite nice. Very Christmassy feeling. Appropriate since it is a Noel concert I think, so must be Christmassy. I'm trying to persuade Jane to come, since she refused to support our Esplanade concert reason being 1. too expensive 2. she's not in ny anymore. So she have to come anyway since she's in HCJC now and HCJC band is performing!

Valentia came back yesterday! Just remembered. Must go send her welcome-back-to-singapore-the-sunny-island-you-missed-so-much sms. Yay now she can resume the leadership of the section and we won't have to stand around for 15 mins trying to decide where to go for lunch!!! But hope you enjoyed your stay in Shanghai dear.

Oh yes. This morning went to scout out the place where the scholarship interview is. So I won't get lost this thursday. MOE HQ is actually very very very big, to my surprise. And very hip and modern! Theres a lot of glass in the building, which makes it look really pretty too, with the morning sunlight filtering in and stuff. But must be quite tiring to clean all the windows, especially when there's a lot of construstion work near the building. buona vista mrt is building a new minishopping area.

OH ya PEI WEI! you left your waterbottle in the band room! must go and claim ok. and you must go to band on tuesday because i want to show you the picture of lena i took at sec 4 grad night!