LIE WEN'S BLOG

2011-10-03T21:05:00.004+08:00

Hello I'm back!

Today is the day, The Day - The start of the O's. Honestly I'm very nervous right now, but I shall remain cool as it is said that if you freak out, you will start having Writer's Block for compos and not knowing how to do questions you could do before in Sciences and Maths.

Today's paper is English paper 1 and 2, and it's in the afternoon.

Before I continue, I shall share the past events since my last post.

First, there was my Mum's 50th Birthday celebration at Langkawi, Malaysia from 16 September to 18 September, which was a Friday to a Sunday on the first week of school. The timing wasn't the best since I couldn't use my weekend to study, but I had fun.

The place was a beach resort and I played many activites such as kayaking, beach soccer and etc with my cousins. I also took a cable car to the top of the mountain which was above the clouds. I don't take Geog, so I think that is the stratosphere or something. Sadly, it was raining before we went to the cable car, so the view was so foggy, you couldn't see any of the specticular view that you are supposed to see. But we waited, and soon enough, the sun shone for a brief moment and we had about 1 minute to see a wonderful view of the seas and mountains.

Also they closed the suspension bridge which is also at the top of the mountain due to bad weather conditions hence it was a bit saddening.

Overall, I enjoyed this trip and even though I was badly sunburnt, I would want to go back again.

Next, I went through Grad Night. I have officially completed my secondary school life. On Grad Night I did not recieve any prizes, but I still have fun at the dinner and taking photos with my friends. Uh... Nothing else to say already.

So with that, it was the study break for us. It's funny because I felt that I was more hardworking during school than during the study break. It's probably because I could stay back in school until NSP started, whereas I'm at home during the study break so I wake up late.

Well I'm mostly prepared, so wish me luck and may I do myself, my class and the school proud!

Btw, the actualy date of this post is 24 October, I just edited a previous post that I had not completed writing.

2011-07-28T21:30:00.005+08:00

Hello!

Well again it's been a while.

Starting off with the highlight of the month - Victoria Challenge (VC)!!!

VC is definitely an enjoyable experience for me. If you don't know what VC is, it is a challenge a class chooses for itself and this task has to be completed within 24 hours.

My class decided to conduct a 1-day camp for the children of the Spastic Childrens' Association of Singapore (SCAS). Noble act indeed.

Basically we split into groups and plan out fun activities for the children. These children are physically or mentally disable, so it affects their pace of learning. That's why they learn in the SCAS until they are capable enough to go into the normal schools. Now, I wouldn't say the children are less intelligent than us. In fact, to me, they seem like just normal children, perhaps just a little more hyperactive.

What my group did was to conduct a treasure hunt at the playground of SCAS. We hid soft toys and the children are supposed to find them. We even put pictures and the names of the animal soft toys so that the children can learn about the animals. Honestly, it didn't go too well. Once the children entered the playground, they immediately starting running around, sliding down the slides, climbing here and there... However, seeing that they had fun, I am already satisfied. After all, that was our purpose of conducting the camp, isn't it?

In the afternoon, the groups shifted roles. This time my group had to bring the children around. I brought my group around to play water activities, soccer, cookie baking and then sand art. In case you are wondering how old the children are, they are about 4 years old.

In conclusion, I had fun conducting the camp for the children. It definitely was an enriching experience and maybe we should not take our "normal" learning abilities for granted. Because if it's something I learned, the children of SCAS are able to focus and concentrate on doing things. It is something we should adopt.

After our activity at SCAS finished, it was roughly 4 p.m. I headed back to VS to slack in my classroom. In the evening, we watched X-Men First Class until at night when the rest of the class played Fifa on the PS3. I wandered around to see other classes finishing up their projects. For example 4E was painting the wall outside their class, some Sec 1 class was creating a "V1CTOR1an5" using small candles, etc. The classe

s that had already finished were either sleeping or watching movies.

Summing up my VC experience, it was fun. Too bad it's only a once in four years event. Also, it's a shame my class project did not physically leave a mark on the school, but I'm sure we left an impression on the childrens' minds. Even if they forget, at least we know we did something meaningful.

Moving on to Mock Tests...

The Mock Tests are crazy. 4 Tests in 3 consecutive

days? There were SS and the three sciences. I did my best to study for SS and Chemistry, but Biology was just too much to learn in a short period of time.

Why must they arrange it such that the tests are in the same week? I think it will be less stressful if it was one test per week. Anyway, the tests are over, I'm so glad, but whether I do well or not, that's beside the point. I guess there's no use crying over spilled milk, the tests are over.

Lastly, Speech Day was on Saturday.

I saw many of my seniors going on stage and receiving an award. This definitely has spurred me to do well, as I want an award! :3

I tried motivating myself. "On the results day, do I want to cry tears of joy or sadness?"

Lol jk I won't cry because I'm a man (wah), but I definitely do not want to cry tears of sadness.

Science O Level SPA skill 3 is over. I'm upset.

I hope I get full marks for Chem and bio, unless some discrepancy such as careless mistakes (which I inevitably make) arise. But for physics, I should really slap myself >:(

"To investigate how the temperature of water affects the bending of light" I directly copied off that line for my approach, when clearly, you are supposed to change "bending of light" to "refraction". Stupid me. I missed a chance to get

1.25 easy marks for my O levels. I really hope I can still get an A1 for physics. Other than that, the rest of the physics should be OK. Should.

MT O level results are out soon. I do not take HCL as my Chinese is terrible. I really hope for an A1 or A2 (fingers crossed)

This is an interesting comic, but I realised it's too small to see the words, so here's a transcript.

Panel 1: Being a mad scientist doesn't leave me with much time for friends.

Panel 2: I don't want to be one of those lame sad scientists.

Panel 3: So I discovered that when life gives you lemons...

Panel 4: You give those lemons life!

Panel 5: Lemonstein!

2011-06-25T22:07:00.005+08:00

It's been a while; my blog is mouldy, not to mention infected with CBox Bots; I seemed to have lost in interest in updating :(

Still, I have to motivate myself to keep this blog updated :P

A lot has happened over the last few months, I really don't know where to start.

Firstly, there was the X-country run. My timing improved by 6 minutes, from 29 to 23. This isn't remarkable to most people, but to me, a record is a record. After all, the run is about fun and a lot of running.

Then, there was prelims. Honestly, I could have done better, and there is no way to sugarcoat the truth that if I don't work harder, there is no way I can enter any JC of my choice. It's true that everyone says in the O level, your L1R5 will be half of your L1R5 in Prelims. I'll be overjoyed if that were the case for me. 15 / 2 = 7.5

Still, I shall not be too stressed out about this, because there is always Prelim 2 to strive harder.

Next, there was my brother's 21st birthday. It was held in Changi Cottage, which is a chalet by the beach. The place was more of a relaxing place, rather than many-facilities-to-enjoy kind-of place. The only bad thing was that it was held in the middle of my Prelims, and bring my studying materials there to study was a failure. I only read one page of my SS notes :P

Ultimately, I enjoyed myself, as it was a fun party with many friends and family there. The cake was a grand 2-tier cake :D

Also, I stepped down from the Prefectorial Board, as well as from Choir. First, I'll talk about PB. I was a Prefect for 1 year and 1 school term. Truth be told, I can't say I thoroughly enjoy it, but I absolutely do not dislike being a prefect as well. So being a prefect is more or less a bittersweet experience.

In Sec 3, my class had a balcony outside. My classmates would often play soccer there. Being new to PB then, I really did not know how to stop them. I guess if I decided to stop them, I would be a hated person in the class. However, my teacher told me to do the right thing. So I did. My teacher then told me to be a prefect, there must be moral courage involved. I guess being a prefect is a thankless job, but someone has to do it, and to do it right. Being a prefect did make me get dissed by a few people, but at the same time, I guess it taught me how to be a better Victorian and leader.

Moving on to choir. Unlike PB, I have more experience in choir. Choir has brought bittersweet moments as well. There were times where I got pumped by SLs and the Comm, and there were times when we all cheered and celebrated after a great performance or that we received the Gold with Honours award in the SYF. And then I became the Treasurer. Being a Treasurer does not mean I just settle monetary things in the choir, for that makes me a Committee member as well, and that means I have to set an example for my juniors, and help them out.

Choir was a new experience to me. I was a Scout in Primary School, and it was my 2nd choice in the CCA list, choir being the first. I did not know what to expect in the choir, neither did I bother about the stereotypical comments about choir people. To be honest, I was more looking forward to getting an A1 for my CCA, I guess that thought changed after I entered the choir and when I became a senior.

In Sec 1, I could not differentiate between my parts and other sections parts. I guessed I was singing Soprano countless times. Good thing my SLs did not know. :D

In Sec 2, there was SYF. I guess the seriousness of it kicked in, and I learned my parts.

In Sec 3, I became a Comm member. I tried to set an example to everyone, and motivate the juniors in my section to work harder.

In Sec 4, there was SYF again. I guess since then I was a Comm member, maybe that's why I didn't learn my parts so seriously. It was a good thing I managed to perfect my singing of the songs. I mean, in Sec 2, I would replay Kucinta (that year's choice of song) over and over again until I could at least sing the song such that it met the requirements of my SLs. But in Sec 4 I guessed I slacked a bit. Hopefully I learned from this.

Anyway, over the course of preparing for the SYF, there were many setbacks. First, the lyrics to Ronde (a French song, and one of our song choices) were insanely difficult to memorise. Even I had some mistakes. Mr Kwei said that difficulty-wise, 10% is the tune, 90% is the lyrics. And I agree. There was also the time we decided to practise in the auditorium, to get ourselves used to various venues, since we do not know how we'll sound like in the School of the Arts hall. For some freakishly scary reason, our sound and quality tremendously dropped when we sang in the auditorium. Mr Kwei would frequently cut us in the middle of the song to tell just we are off-pitch, sharp, flat, etc. It was frustrating and demoralising, which made me wonder if we had already sounded like that initially, or was it the venue which affected us this way.

Fortunately, after a few practices, we did improve, and sounded better than we did in the music room. It was definitely a great achievement, and from then on, we "improved exponentially" as how Mr Kwei put it.

During the actual SYF day, we all had butterflies in our stomachs. We knew we could get GWH, but will we screw up? Entering the hall and standing on the stage, I tried to put on a smile like we are supposed to. I scanned the area - there were a few choirs sitting in front of us because they had already finished performing, and in the floor above was the judges. I was nervous, but I focused on Mr Kwei and sang out. I keep telling myself that it would be my last performance (but actually it wasn't), thus I have to give it my all.

We rush and went sharp for the second and third song, but overall it was OK. We did better in our usual practices, though. Kenneth Tay, who was watching the performance, said we were in the Gold-Gold with Honours range, so it will be difficult to determine our award. Many said we would get gold, while others kept high hopes and prayed for a Gold with Honours. We headed back to VS with heavy hearts.

After we got back to school, we headed back to SOTA for lunch. I felt that it was quite silly that they made it compulsory for everyone to go back to school. This was not the case 2 years ago after our performance. So Jason treated some people to a Sushi Tei buffet, which was awesome. :D

Then we slowly enjoyed our ice cream and headed to SOTA, waiting patiently for our results. Unlike 2 years ago, there was no TV outside that is showing the results announcing that was going on inside. However, I had a ticket to go in and listen to the results. Sitting in the chair, I got more nervous as the announcer says each choir and their award. At last, she reached choir number 21, which is VS Choir. I sprang from my seat and cheered loudy when she announced we got the GWH award. The judges who were sitting in front had to turn around and "Shh-ed" us. I sent the good news to Jason, who was outside, and he told the good news to every who was with him.

SYF has been a tiring but fruitful experience, and we did not let VS down and continued the Gold streak, and adding another award to the school. Also, 4 years in Alto FTW :D

Another significant event would be the ISG (Inter-Section Games). I played soccer for Alto. Even though I could also play Captain's Ball and Badminton, I decided to let the juniors get themselves involved instead. After all, the two sports above is not something I'm good at. :/

Anyway, I played as a defender, and enjoyed myself.

Our scores:

vs Soprano: 2-0 (win)

vs Bass: 0-2 (lose)

vs Tenor: 6-5 (win)

The Tenor match was the most exciting. I persuaded Hendrik to join our side. He was about to play on the Tenor-side, with Rifdi, Jun Yew, Benjamin, Cheng Kan and etc. If he had not joined, we might not have won. We were intially leading 4-0, but the Tenors put up a good fight and fought back.

Altos got 2nd place in soccer, 3rd place in Captain's Ball and 1st in Badminton. Overall, we were the winning section of ISG!! We actually beat Basses by a mere 1 point overall.

Lastly, there is the June Holidays. The time now is past 12, the 26th of June. School starts tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about going back to school, but overall I do not want my holiadays to end. It sped by really quickly, one reason was that the first week was used for extra lessons.

Anyway, I managed to complete my holiday homework (most of it), even all 4 E-Math and 4 A-Math Papers. However, I think I should also have spent more time studying, especially my weaker subjects such as my Humanities and Languages.

It's back to school, which means back to a whole term of intense revision, and with Prelim 2 and Mock Tests coming up, I guess I cannot afford to slack. Of course, I do not want to have a burn-out as well.

New term, new targets, new expectations.

Yay you have reached the end.

This has been a very mature and long post.

2011-04-12T23:42:00.002+08:00

Today is a special day.

Today is my birthday! =)

Initially, there were supposed to be 4 tests today, which is a total killjoy. However, in the end there was only the History one.

Anyway this birthday of mine is quite special. It is one day before SYF. That means there is tons of pressure. However, it would be a perfect present should we attain a GwH.

Hundreds of hours of practice has been put in for a mere 10 mins+ on stage. Is it worth it? Definitely.

Anyway, for my birthday, it was an ice cream-like cake. Anyway the cake was not placed in the freezer, but in the fridge instead. Thus when I cut the cake, the cake was bleeding ice cream =P

Back to talking about SYF. This is my last SYF and last performance in VSChoir. Time to give my best :)

2011-04-02T00:27:00.003+08:00

Wow, I have not been posting for nearly a whole month :O

Anyway, nothing that eventful has been happening. I enjoyed my school holidays, although I must admit there was more play than work. :(

SYF is in 11 days, and with that little amount of time left, hopefully we can practise well enough and attain Gold with Honours. Honestly, I must say that we have improved tremendously, having only switched back to SATB in January. However, did we improve well enough for a GWH? I really hope we attain a GWH to carry on the Gold-streak tradition.

We also must avoid being complacent, because we are not the best of Mr Kwei's choirs, nor should we even be proud. Somehow I think if one gets complacent after overcoming an easy obstacle, his next obstacle will be impossible to overcome. So if all goes well, I'm certain we can get a GWH and also FULL DAY!!! :D

On another note, my birthday is before SYF :O

2011-03-06T00:35:00.003+08:00

Hihi,

So I'm on the computer again, but I'm still not allowed to use it unless for work purposes. :(

A lot has happened since the last time.

First, there is the Student Leader Investiture (SLI) , where the student leaders of the school are recognised. I received my Prefect badge :)

I have almost been a prefect for a whole year, time really flies. Hopefully the badge will serve as a reminder when it comes to my duties not only as a Prefect, but in choir and in other situations.

Next, there is the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF). No, the choir's SYF has not yet begun, but the intensive practice has. In my opinion, I think that we did a really great job switching from TTBB back to SATB, and our progress is fine, although we really need to maximise our remaining time till 12 April, which is the start of SYF, as well as my birthday. :) And if you don't know anything about what TTBB or SATB is, never mind. =P

I'm sure there are more things to talk about, but I'll just use the CA1s as my last point because it is late and I want to sleep.

So the CA1s...

I did surprisingly well, although I did make a few careless mistakes here and there. I have not reached my dream MSG or L1R5 or Percentage, but I think I did better than expected. I'm sure I can improve much much much further.

But anyway, I am feeling the stress of Sec 4 life. In my Chinese 议论文, the topic was "Do you think stress can enable a person to improve?". I briefly stated that a piece of carbon is able to become a diamond under pressure, but an egg will simply crack and break under pressure. So what about humans, what about me? :O

In the conclusion, I wrote that a bit of pressure will help one to succeed, but that is a small quantity of pressure. The O levels are indeed giving tons of pressure. Well, there is only one way to attain good results, and that is through studying, consistent school work, and working hard. No matter how tough it will be on the road to the O levels, I won't break down and instead, propel forward. =]

2011-02-11T19:27:00.002+08:00

Herro

Basically, I'm banned from the computer D:

I only using now because I asked for permission. other than that, I don't think I'll be able to use very frequently now :(

But on a brighter note, CNY was great, I lost a lot of money playing Blackjack but I had fun =)

I'm a little upset that I messed up my maths test on coordinate geometry, and I made a few mistakes in my bio and physics SPA, but I'll be alright. My friend said it is better to make the mistake now, then in the O levels. I couldn't agree more, although the best would be to not make any mistakes at all.

Enjoy the remaining days of CNY and good luck to all in the CAs.

2011-01-30T23:20:00.002+08:00

It's been a busy week. There was a test every day. I'm very sure this is only a taste of what Sec 4 life is. Only much worse can be expected as the O levels draw closer.

On a brighter note, Chinese New Year is just round the corner. This is certainly a good time to unwind and collect money :)

I shall not post anymore, since there is an A-maths test tomorrow and I need as much sleep as I can get. Be posting again soon, most probably after CNY.

Till then, 新年快乐!

2011-01-18T23:57:00.003+08:00

Hello,

It's been over 1 week since the O level results were out. I couldn't help myself but to watch my seniors receive their results on that dreaded day. Looking from the gallery on the 3rd floor, I felt a sense of nervousness not only from the previous Sec 4s, but from myself as well. I do not take HCL, so there was no point in being nervous, but still with all the teachers sitting down in front of their class and Mr. Low presenting a speech, I felt slightly intimidated. :O

Before you knew it, the results were given out. Some cheered, some cried. The previous orderly manner of the students was soon destroyed as everyone stood up from their places to walk around and see what their friends got. Soon enough, all the results had been given out.

This has really motivated me to work harder for my O levels. I'm aiming for 7 points, since my English is not too good. Of course, I would really love to attain a 6 points, but until I see improvement from my English, a 7 seems quite safe for now.

I woke up one day with a dream that I managed to attain 11 A1s (true story). Yes it was a really unforgettable dream. I was elated with 11A1s. However, I only take 9 subjects. Where did the other 2 A1s come from? I don't know, it's a dream after all.

"I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't have a dream, I have a plan." - Anonymous

If I want to aim for my target, I guess I have to work extra hard this year. There is no use in dreaming, if you do not plan to do anything to achieve your goal.

Sec 4 life is tough. However, we must hang in there :)

2011-01-04T19:00:00.002+08:00

First day of school as a Sec 4 :O

It is my final year in VS and today marked the start of it.

Although it was the first day of school, lessons were not that relaxed. No more introductions were needed as everyone knew one another and the teachers were more or less the same.

It is only the first day of school and yet I'm quite exhausted when it ended at 4. Maybe it's because of the tough syllabus, or even climbing up the 7th floor, but I must get used to it. :P

Science tests are all coming out on the same day, I dislike my timetable :(

2011-01-01T01:25:00.004+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR! =)

It is now 1.1.11

10 days later and it would be 11.1.11

10 months later it would be 11.11.11

2010 has been a really great year for me, although there were ups and downs, it is still a really eventful year for me.

With stepping into Sec 3, YOG, etc, the events and lessons learnt will certainly be remembered.

Now that 2010 is the past, I hope 2011 will be a more blissful year. Sadly, that would not be the case, since I'll have to face O levels. :(

I've already planned out my resolutions for 2011 and should really work towards my goals. This includes doing well for the O levels, attaining GWH for SYF, and the list goes on.

Before it struck 12 on the final day of 2010, my family had a small countdown party. I played Monopoly with my cousins. I bought all the MRT stations and made everyone bankrupt :P

So good luck to everyone, may 2011 bring happiness to you all =)

Also don't be too frustrated if you repeatedly write 2010 on the date of your foolscap paper and cannot find correction tape :P

2010-12-27T19:11:00.002+08:00

Where was I? :o

I was in Taiwan for my holiday :P

But before the day I left for Taiwan, there was bass outing! =D

During bass outing, we met at Kallang Leisure Park (copy alto outing de). After lunch, we went to play bowling. My score was surprising good for the first game, but the same could not be said for the second. There were about 20 people bowling, so we occupied 4 lanes, and the bowling system was quite messy. Still, it was really fun bowling together as a large group, and one hour went by really quickly.

There was one and a half hours before our movie started, so we went to the arcade. I probably spent a lot of money here as the games, such as Bishi-Bashi and Mario Kart were very "money-consuming".

Then we headed to the movie theater where we watched Rapunzel the movie. I really liked the movie, although it was quite short. After the movie ended, I used up all my money at the arcade and then went back.

The bass outing was quite similar to the alto outing, but still going for another outing is just as enjoyable. But I doubt there will be another outing soon, as school is starting again in 1 week :O

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And now for Taiwan~

My trip in Taiwan lasted for 9 days. Although I had already been to Taiwan for the choir trip in June, this time we visited different places. This meant we did not go to Yilan, but went to GaoXiong, Taipei, AliShan, etc.

The temperature in Taiwan was changes very quickly. It is now winter, but the temperature did not drop below freezing point. At Taipei, the temperature was about 15 degrees. The place also experienced 寒流, which meant it was drizzling and windy all day, 24 hours. Whereas in AliShan(阿里山), the temperature was about 6 degrees. As we moved closer to the south of Taiwan, the temperature went into 20+.

But enough of the temperature, the food in Taiwan is great, especially the street food.

One of my most memorable experience would be going to the theme park - E-Da World Theme Park. The place just recently opened and therefore there were very few people there. The good thing about that would be that there is no one waiting in line for the rides, but at the same time very few people would equal to not much of a theme park-ambiance, with less people screaming and stuff.

For once, I was brave enough to take most of the rides, except the roller coasters. :p I really like this ride where your [box you sit in] ( sorry I don't know what it's called D: ) goes all the way up and then slides down a steep slope into the water, where it makes a large splash. I took that twice, although it meant I got drenched twice, even with the raincoat on.

Another "ride" was the Haunted House. Usually when someone is scared, it's either of something that is overwhelmingly scary, or jumps out and gives a nasty surprise. In the Haunted House, it consists of both elements. With sudden loud noises and people dressed up in scary outfits, I would have been really scared if I weren't moving with my cousins. Nonetheless, I was still very scared. There was this guy, with a mask on him, and he wielded an axe. He came out of no where in front of us, and we were too afraid to move past him. After a long while, we waved his handed, a gesture to let us past. But he doesn't stop there. As soon as we scampered past him, we started waving his axe and chased us. There was a "no-running" rule in the house, but obviously we ignored it and ran past the revolving heads, skeleton corpses, moving statues and moving wall portraits. My heart was still racing after we got out, and I'm not sure whether it was because of the scare, or the running, and maybe even both.

The theme park is really fun to spend the entire day. Although we could not stay at night to watch the shows, it has already been a great experience.

My time in Taiwan was just as enjoyable, and I would say again that it is a great way to spend my holidays.

2010-11-30T23:21:00.003+08:00

There was an alto outing on Saturday. =P

This is the first alto outing I've went because I was overseas during the previous year. :(

But anyway, I am glad that I was able to attend this one and I did not regret it at all.

First, we took the bus, followed by the MRT to Kallang Leisure Park. A few comm members went to crash the outing, but that was fine. The comm members went to Burger King while the altos including Jonloh and I went to the food court. I actually wanted to eat with the other comm members, but then it would be quite contradictive the real purpose of the outing.

After finishing our meal, we decided to split up. Some went to the arcade while the others went bowling. Some of us couldn't go to the arcade as they were in uniform. I went with the bowling group. there were 10 people, therefore one full game was quite time-consuming. I didn't bowl too well, but I enjoyed bowling with friends. Elliot got the highest score. Ö

Then Li Keen came and we went to watch the movie - Harry Potter. The only Harry Potter book I read was the Prisoner of Azkaban, which was the third one. Still, I barely understood most of the series. In addition to that, I did not watch the 6th movie, so I hardly knew anything about the whole search revolving around the Horcruxes. Of course, I managed to catch the 6th movie during the weekends, so all the "puzzle pieces" have been found. However like I said, I still do not 100% know what's happening.

The outing ended after the movie. Some of us went to Subway to have dinner. I followed but didn't eat anything as my family was coming to KLP to bowl again. ^^

So I joined my family later for more bowling and dinner.

I enjoyed the outing a lot and hope there will be another one next year =P

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There was choir 1 on 1s yesterday. After discovering that I couldn't sing Tenor 1 anymore, I was moved to Bass :O :O :O

It is still not known if I am Bass 1 or 2, as I "just started using bass voice". This is a new experience to me. I managed to learn one song, and the notes are obviously different from Tenor. Well, there are mix feelings about this, but I'm sure I'll do my best in my new section =]

Another good thing is that there might be a bass outing soon, so I get to go again =)

2010-11-21T13:46:00.004+08:00

Choir camp has come to an end.

To me, it wasn't just about the 3 days spent in school. A lot of planning was involved as well. It is an entirely different experience being among the group to execute the activities, than being the one who takes part in them.

I had 2 roles in the camp. I was both the food and money IC. Being a money IC is self-explanatory =P. However, being a food IC seemed alien to me, as I had never ordered food for a large group of 60 people. It was also frustrating when the food caterer mixes up your orders. However, this is inevitable.

During the amazing race, I was placed at 3 different stations. First was the sky bridge. I had them count the number of holes in the railings. =P Although this may seem very torturous, I tried to be more generous by expanding the range of answers, and told them that they did not need to half-squat while doing their punishment. :)

Next, I moved to the Eco-pond. I had to put the clues in bottles, and throw them into the water. The members could go into the pond only after 5 minutes, which means they had to improvise a way to take the bottles. More importantly, they had to work together. I was astonished to an extent when Ms Sharma came out halfway and questioned me o.o Thankfully, I wasn't in any trouble.

Finally, we had to go to East Coast Park. I was supposed to be stationed beside a lake, but there was miscommunication and I ended up turning the wrong turn after exiting the underpass. I managed to walk to my station after a long while. I hid the clues under the stone bench I was sitting on, but apparently everyone is smart enough to find it. >:(

Aside from the fun and games, there was also practice, which is important as well.

During the camp, I managed to understand my peers more in the way they act outside of the music room as well. I also learnt to be more responsible. For instance, I accidentally left the keys with the mountain of foam boxes of food. The keys are to unlock the room where everyone's bags were in at first. Imagine if someone took the keys :O

Other than that, I also learnt that sometimes, we should not let other people to tell us before we do something. It's like a rock rolling down a hill. This has been seen on many cartoons where a gigantic rock lies stationary on the hill, but it started moving because a much smaller rock managed to roll down the top of the hill and push it. Why be the larger rock when the smaller rock obviously acted first? This is good in times when there is no smaller rock, and the larger rock has to take action on its own. Woah...

Even though the camp was supposed to benefit mostly the other members, I felt I have also benefited significantly. Besides that, I also enjoyed myself. I even enjoyed sleeping on canteen tables. There are swarms of mosquitoes to accompany you and the temperature is relatively cool. It's better than sleeping in the hall/Indoor Sports Hall.

Now that the camp is over, I'll start preparing for next year. :o

2010-11-02T00:26:00.003+08:00

School has ended =]

I have enjoyed my Secondary 3 year, as it was filled with achievements, exciting moments, and ups and downs.

I wouldn't say my exam results were very satisfying, but I'm a little happy for myself, although I could have done much better.

VS Choir is changing from an Soprano-Alto-Tenor-Bass Choir to a Tenor-Tenor-Bass-Bass choir. I have moved to Tenor 1. Most of the Comm members are in bass, I feel so left out :( But it's okay, because being in a section other than alto is already an experience. So I might as well do my best.

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Saturday was VS Open House. I did not see or perform with the choir as I was manning the Choir Booth, along with Jason and Mikial. Preparing for the booth took a lot of planning. We had too plan and type out information of our choir as well as talk about other things which might attract the potential Victorians to join choir.

Our location was outside the staff room, far away from the other booths. The problem is not many people noticed our booth which was on the staff room tables, so we decided to move closer to the auditorium. This was still a problem as not everyone goes to the auditorium, and some of the crowd were downstairs, so I don't think there was a lot of chance to promote choir. In addition, we have a projector, as well as a screen, but it was too bright for the slideshows to be seen.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. We just had to make do with our location, and try to talk to as many people as possible.

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So it's only been one day since the holidays have started. I hope to complete my homework and revise for Sec 4 during this stretch of 2 months, but enjoy myself at the same time.

Good luck to the Sec 4s in your O levels =)

2010-10-19T00:27:00.002+08:00

The exams are over! :)

I can finally take a temporary rest during the holidays, although I think this November/December holidays should also be used to study.

Now, I don't have my results yet, and I can't say I'm confident of scoring well for everything. I'm more confident for my Maths and Sciences.

Well, I did my best, but surely I know I still can do much better.

It's just 12 days before school closes. This years is really an incredibly fast year. I still remember performing in YOG and going to Taiwan. It all seemed to just pass by in a blink of an eye.

I hope it will not be this fast next year, because next year is an important year. =P

Well there's nothing much to post about since nothing but the exams have occurred over the last week, nothing eventful.

So be posting again shortly! =]

2010-10-02T23:31:00.002+08:00

Like previously said in a previous post,

a year in VS is like running the 4km run for X-country. With each km completed, you complete your CA/SA.

Now, SA2 is just round the corner, that means the end is not far away, it's just a few meters more.

And I can see the finishing point. It's time to sprint! Ö

Õ.õ

Well, the exams start in 4 days.

It all comes down to this. The SA2 consist of a huge percentage of my grades. Whatever studying should have already been completed, what's left is last-minute preparation.

The first topics we learnt for every subject seemed to have been only taught yesterday, like in Maths where we started learning surds, or in Physics where we studied the awesome vernier calipers :)

Before I conclude this post, I would just like to post about my SPA practicals. :|

Physics

It was that experiment where we had to put one end of a meter rule (which had a hole in it) through a nail, and the other end will go through a string loop, attached to a Newton's meter, then record the force exerted.

My readings should be fine, although I got a really great gradient of 60 for my graph. The teacher said your gradient should be between 40 to 60, hopefully inclusive of which. However, I did get penalised because the meter rule touched the cork of which had the nail in it :(

Chemistry

I have to admit chemistry was, in my opinion, the most successful practical out of all 3 SPAs. I tried to minimise the mistakes I made, and my titration fortunately turned out well. However, I'm not sure if my experimental skills are good enough, to the extent I did not make any mistakes. So I do hope the teacher did not see my mistakes :P

Biology

T.T

Potato in different concentrations of sugar solution. When I actually had a mass-loss, I ended up forgetting to put the negative sign of it in my table, thus my graph is vertically opposite of what it actually had to be. Also, theoretically, there was supposed to be a mass-gain, but I had to mass-gain at all, so I couldn't calculate the approximate glucose concentration of the potato :( Yes it was quite a fail, but what's done is done, let that be a learning lesson for me.

So I guess with the SPAs becoming what is now gone, I have to focus for SA2.

My mum was making agar-agar just now. You have to stir the agar-agar for 2.5 hours (when it is in liquid state), before you leave it to cool and then put it in the fridge. After that, you can enjoy the fruits (or jelly xD) of your labour.

Yes, constantly stirring is certainly a chore, but to enjoy what you made after all that hard work, it is worth it. The same goes for exams- if we want to enjoy ourselves after the exams, we would have to work hard first, then we can spend the holidays to have fun, of course before realising that we are taking the O levels next year =)

2010-09-22T23:00:00.002+08:00

Hello! :P

I just came back from an extremely long day in school. I stayed in school for about 14 hours today. After lessons was over, I dragged myself to the Prefect room to prepare for later. Before lessons ended, we were very much demoralised by a difficult maths test.

I have never been really good at trigo, because it takes a lot of practice.

So during the test, we faced mind-boggling questions. The infuriating thing was that for 2 questions, I was on the right track, then when I derived at a complicated answer, I stopped and moved on. The answer wasn't the final answer, just a step needed to proceed on. So my "answer" seemed very complicated, so I thought I might have made a mistake somewhere.

When I completed the questions I was able to do, I went back to those questions, with only 15 minutes to spare.

Out of all the trigo formulas, one of them I dislike would be cos2A, because you just don't know which one to use. Therefore, after much confusion and scribbling here and there, I still did not derived at a final answer, which left me very disappointed.

Both maths should be my best subjects and pull my grades up. I understand I should have equal focus on all my subjects, but I want to ensure an A1 for Maths. So what does this tell me? I just need to revise more trigo and practice more :/

Before I move on to what I had to help out with after school, I shall first talk about my English Oral. My English Oral was supposed to be conducted during the June holidays. Yes, that's long gone. It's been more than a school term! I did try to confront my teacher and agree on a suitable date, but due to discrepancies here and there, it was finally dragged to last Monday.

So during my reading, he said I read too strongly, especially for the dialouges. Haha, if only I could put that into my singing :)

Line from the passage:

"What a good role model you are." -> Too strongly :P

I did not discuss much for picture discussing, and all my sentences were quite impromptu. He also said I need to improve on my vocabulary. Lastly came the conversation. I really was not prepare for this. This part of the oral require quick thinking, like spinning your pen, accidentally dropping it, then quickly try to grasp it while it is still in the air.

Weird analogies *.*

So he asked me when I felt guilty, then I told a grandmother-like story.

Hopefully I will score well. Oh by the way, my examiner was Mr Raphael Ong.

Okay, now I shall talk about why I stayed back.

I had to help out with the Sec 4 NSP. NSP = Night Study Programme

Basically, I had to make Milo for the Sec 4s to drink during their break. I had to collect 3 kettles from the GO, start boiling water, and then quickly tear open 18 small 3-in-1 Milo sachets into each kettle.

The Milo tasted sweet, but what was sweeter is finishing the whole process. -> :)

The other prefect wasn't able to help me, but I managed to accomplish the whole task. It's challenges that make us stronger.

So anyway, it has been meaningful helping out for NSP. Although I would not enjoy doing everything again, it was nonetheless, fun :)

Oh, and...

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

The night sky was beautifully lit by the moon =]

2010-09-15T21:59:00.005+08:00

Back to school Ö

Well, after 1 week of holidays, I ask myself:

Did I spend my holidays properly?

Sadly, the answer was an obvious "no". Mr Khoo taught us an "opportunity graph". Basically the 2 axises were "fun" and "work satisfaction", or something like that. The graph had a negative gradient, which meant that the more fun we have, the less work we do, thus not completing our work.

If you ask me to plot an X on the graph based on my holidays, I think I had more fun than work satisfaction, mainly because I did not work hard enough. I did complete *most* of my homework, and was especially elated that I completed my Social Studies notes. However, that is not enough.

Today on my way to my Third Language room, I walked past the gallery on the third floor above the hall. Mr Low was giving a presentation to the Secondary 4s. From what I saw, it was just a "nondescript" slide. On it wrote "40 days to O levels". Now, I'm not a Secondary 4 yet, I take SA2. So if it was 40 days to the O's, then the number of days left to SA2 is much shorter than 40 days.

This was a wake-up call for me. What I want to do now is to focus on completing all of my homework and spend fruitful time studying.

3 weeks of happiness or 2 months of happiness?

If I completely "heck care"about studying now, I would be happy for 3 weeks because I would not need to study. But receiving terrible results will cause me to feel utterly disappointed. If I study from now to SA2 and do well, all the studying will be difficult, but I would feel great provided my results are good and I would feel happy for the rest of the year. So, obviously I would want the latter.

I'm sure you all have ran in the Cross-Country 4km run in our school. It doesn't matter if you took part in the competitive category, or the mass run. I feel that a year in our schooling life is similar to running the 4km. For every CA and SA, we successfully complete 1km. Since CA2 is over, that means we are down to our last few 100 meters or so.

What do we do? No more walking and chit-chatting...

It's time to sprint to the end!

Stagnant... NOT

2010-09-05T22:32:00.007+08:00

Hello!!!!

Sorry for not posting for sooooo long.... I forgot I had a blog! Nah, just kidding!

There was just so many events and happenings over the past (month?)

This post will be en epic-ly long post :D

Let's start of with YOG. The choir performed in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. We were actually supposed to sing 6 songs:

Majulah Singapura (National Anthem) Woah~~~

Semogia Bahagia (Sama sama, maju kehadapan... Pandai cari, pelajaran...)

Welcome Song - Selamat Datang

客人来

Enjoy Yourself

Bum bum bole

Unfortunately, they decided that we only sang our first song, the national anthem. It was very disappointing, but being able to perform in the YOGOC is already an honour, and something that might possibly only happen once in a lifetime.

So, there were many vigorous practices. We got to skip school on Wednesdays, and also had to come on Saturdays to rehearse, mainly our coming-in where we had to walk, in 2 seperate groups, ahead for a few steps, turn, walk to each other, and then turn and walk forward. As simple as it sounds, it acutally isn't. We had to memorise the steps needed to walk, ensure we are always aligned in our rows and columns.

2 weeks sped by very quickly, and only after about 6 rehearsals, we were "ready" for the actual thing. We came up and the rows seemed distorted, and it started breaking up like a cookie in milk. Sorry for that fail analogy, but that was exactly what happened. We did not turn as one and the other group turned and walked to the audience first. We thought we messed up big time.

One mistake = 2 billion mistakes, so how many mistakes did we make?

After I watched the recording, I found out the mistakes we made were not obvious at all, and it seemed more of a "formation". During our walk in, the camera was actually filming the flag party, so I guess we were almost perfect. Then, we sang.

It was awesome. I thank this person for recording it: =]

So overall, I think it was a success. As for the mistakes, let that be part of a lesson, so we would continue to improve as a choir :D

Good thing we did not performance for the closing ceremony, it would have been too hectic. And if you compare the National Anthem at the OC and CC, I think our performance is better, and will always be awesome =]

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Moving to...... Exams!!!

So because of us performing for YOGOC, we get VR for the exams. Well, most of it. I got VR for my Physics, Chemistry, Biology, A-Maths and E-Maths, and Chinese. MY BETTER SUBJECTS

So my non-VR subjects were English, Bahasa Indonesia and Humanities.

English was summary :( and other components, but overall my English has never been good.

Bahasa Indonesia is OK, my test didn't do so well, but thankfully the projects and homework pulled me up.

Humanities? My link CMI :( I have most of the points, but because of the link which I fail at writing, it's impossible to score high. Oh, 80% of the level failed :P

So my MSG is 5.0, which is quite bad, although it would have been better if I did not get a VR. Still, no use crying over spilled milk, I might as well spend my holidays fruitfully and STUDY. I'm still trying to obtain a single L1R5 MSG. ö

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Moving on to Teacher's Day!

In VS there was a teacher's day performance, which was mostly band performances. Not concert band, but music bands formed within classes. I think it is a very useful way to bring out the musicality of students =]

Then after school, I went back to Primary School- TAO NAN SCHOOL!!!!

Tao Nan was my first tiny step into education. So, I went with Dennis, Clarence, Wen-Yu, Ashley, Tavis, and Elliot. TNS-VSchoir gang!

In Tao Nan, I also saw many familiar and many "unfamiliar" faces, of people who were actually my classmates. Unfamiliar because I completely forgot who they are :( It was a good opportunity to catch up with my ex-classmates and visit our teachers. Some of my teachers still teach in TNS, while some are not there anymore. =[

The performance in the hall was very entertaining. There was a "Don't Forget the Lyrics" game, class videos and dances and song. It was a custom to sing the Teacher's Day song of Tao Nan. I completely do not remember the song, but it lingered in my head after I listened it. The memories... I'm so going back again next year, and it will probably be my last time visiting. T.T

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Is this the end of my post? I probably have more to write, but had forgot what they are. I'll continue writing when I have remembered.

So, till then, I'll start studying for SA2.

"What that doesn't kill us only makes up stronger." Even though my CA2 results weren't so great, it sure thought me a lesson to improve my grades and hit a 6-points, or at least a single-digit. That's all I want. =)

2010-08-06T21:31:00.002+08:00

I managed to sort of complete all my homework from Taiwan :)

CA is next week, and so is YOG.

Even though I got a VR for my sciences and maths, I still should try to study as much as I can while commiting to the YOG rehearsals. Why did I get VR for my better subjects? T.T

But anyway, for YOG, we are singing the National Anthem. I wouldn't call our anthem a song, but it's more of our identity, so obviously we must perfect every compnent of our performance, from walking into the stage, leaving the stage, singing "with emotion", etc.

Yesterday, I was the announcer on stage as part of my prefect duty... again. This was my third attempt in the parade square, where I lead the school in saying "please put away your reading materials and look up"and etc etc. When I recalled my first try, it was a failure, and the second try wasn't much of a success either. So yesterday before I went on stage, I was nervous again.

As I stepped on stage, I felt my legs wobble from the inside, but I tried to fight back my nervousness. then, when I took over the mike, I felt speechless. I tried to begin my first line, but with thousans of eyes staring at me, it only seems this time that "eyepower" was strong. So then I looked up at the sky bridge. The intense sense of nervousness seemed to have calmed down inside of me, then I began speaking.

It went smoothly, except that they were a few minor discrepancies here and there, some people saying my voice was squeaking, but overall it was alright.

Now, hopefully every time I go on stage it will run smoothly ._.

Moving on to today, National Day celebrations!

The mood was quite jolly and relaxed, for there were no lessons to be taught on that day, although there was the Cross Country Run. :O

Even though this run was optional for the YOG choir boys, I still ran, because it was fun. I missed running on sand and listening to the cheers and screams of everyone.

When I started, I managed to overtake 75% of the crowd, because I don't think many people take this run seriously. I mean, groups like the "Mass Walking Group" was formed, as they were obviously too lazy to run. And it was also infuriating when on the way back, you see people taking a short U-turn and heading baack to the start, when they should have ran to the 2km mark first before turning back.

However, I still tried to concentrate on the run. I managed to clinch a timing on 26 minutes+, which is a 3 minute improvement since the run last year.

My 2.4 timing improved as well. I improved by 2 minutes, from 16.48 minutes to 14.43 minutes. Though this isn't such a timing to brag about, I find it an achievement, as this is my first time passing my NAFFA test in Secondary school =) I mean, looking back to Primary school, I pass the test without breaking a sweat, but then everything changed.

I guess this goes to show we not only need to accept changes, but work on them and try to adapt as well =)

YOG is in a few days, try not to miss the opening ceremony ;D

ï Ï ö Ö ë Ë ä Ä ü Ü -> I just learnt how to do that on my computer :)

Back from Taiwan!!!

2010-07-20T16:33:00.003+08:00

123rd post! If you ask me I think 123 is a nice number :)

So anyway I'm back from Taiwan after the choir trip and I was just flooded with homework :( However, I never regretted going on the trip because it is fun to compete overseas and see where we stand among other choirs from around the world.

So for our results, we got a gold c and a silver a. There's room for improvement if you ask me. Another 0.61 points for the silver and it would have became a gold ^^

This reminds me of the story that always appear in our primary school chinese textbooks. A very young boy writes a poem. His mum thinks it's great work but his dad suans him and says it's nothing commendable. So the story goes on, but the moral of the story is that with failure and success both together, we will become stronger. So I hope that for SYF, we can attain a gold with honours :)

every day this week has a test :( and because I missed a lot of school, I need to read up :/

Moving on to YOG practice, we had our first rehearsal at Marina Bay floating platform. We were supposed to combine with other choirs, but due to some screw up, we did not do any singing, excluding our "practise" run we did at the F1 pit where we walked to and from the floating platform from there. Anyway, all we did was sitting on some metal ground with holes in it. Below it is the sea :o We called these metal grids "cheese graters" =]

Anywa, what we did get to see was the fireworks. They played our soundtrack while releasing fireworks. I saw a lot of new fireworks which I never have seen before. Of course I expected that we would a least be able to sing on the stage, but then again, such situations cannot be avoided. Hopefully this will not happen again :)

Before going, I just though I would post a bit more about taiwan

I'll start at Day 2
Had some sort of "exchange programme" with other schools including greendale chorale from singapore and luo dong school from taiwan. Had practise back at the hotel in preperation from the next day's competition.

Day 3- COMPETITION DAY :O
woke up very early and had to exercise with Mr Foong (our conductor) to wake ourselves up. Then we had breakfast and immediately practise after that. By 11 oclock, we already departed for our competition venue and sang for category A2. We first sang Fair Phyllis, Ave Maria and Pasigin. We though we rushed A LOT. It's okay to rush for the first and last song, but rushing on Ave Maria makes it difficult to bring out the emotions of the song.

Then we returned to the hotel, had lunch and went back again to compete for the second catergory - A1. It's funny how A1 comes after A2. We sang O occhi, Resonemus and Orde-E We sang quite well, support was very good. And we thought that performance owned our previous attempt.

On the same day, we learnt that we were to perform in the grand finals later in the evening. The feeling was awesome. Still, we did not know our results, but at least we were the catergory winners.

Perhaps we were tired, but our performance did not run smoothly. Everyone was emo

Everyone's mood changed as 2.30 am drew closer. We were allowed to watch the world cup! :D However, we were told to sleep from 12 to 2. So it ended up that mostly everyone slept through the whole match.

The match was quite unexciting, because it was just a 1-0, and the goal was only scored at 117th minute. When I looked out the window, the sun had already risen! It was only 5.30 here, Singapore would have still been pitch-black.

Day 4

Recieve our results. BIG IRONY

For category A1, we got the silver A. It's funny how the performance which we thought we did better, in the end gave us much lower. We got 69.39. It was saddening to realise that we were only 0.61 points away from a gold. The comments said we seemed to lack technique.

For the other category we got a gold c. This was our "less-good" performance, but we got a gold. One judge even gave us 90+ points, that was a gold a. Still, the other judges aren't such nice people. Thinking about it, if we had improved more oon the category, we might have recieved a gold a like we did in olomouc, czech republic 2 years ago.

And like we had expected, we did not win the grand finals, and we did not know our placing either.

Nexxt few days

The next few days was all about relaxing. We went to night markets, visited scenic and historical places. What a great way to end the trip, eh?

Flying off!

2010-07-09T07:25:00.002+08:00

After weeks of training, we are finally setting off for Taiwan! :)

With our current standard, hopefully we can attain 2 Golds + Category winners.

Going to Taiwan means that I skip a week of school. If you look it from a slacker's point of view, that is a good thing. If you look it from someone who is hardworking, it is a bad thing. Overall, I feel that going to Taiwan is awesome! :D But no, I'm not a slacker :O obviously the "slackers" mentioned above are those who dislike learning in school. So if I go to Taiwan, I should try to catch up with lessons by asking for remedial lessons or just self-study :P

So I'm really looking forward to the trip, and will try to remember to buy everyone stuff xP

So, we will be flying off in 2 hours. Wish us luck!

Back to School!

2010-07-02T00:30:00.000+08:00

Hello!

It's been 4 days since school has reopened, but school life has also been hectic. Because I was busy and had very little motivation during the June holidays, I was unable to complete some of my holiday homework. Thus I have to do homework on top of homework. Yeah, serves me right :(

Anyway, it's one week from now to the choir Taiwan trip. I'm in a mixture of feelings, mostly nervous but excited. Our standard is quite on-off - sometimes we sing well, sometimes we don't. However, I'm sure by the end of the 7 days, hopefully we'll be in the gold-standard.

Being back to school has been fine. However, with all the homework being spammed at you by the teachers, sometimes it gets tough. However, if my classmates can do it, why can't I?

Besides school, there have been other events going on as well. On tuesday, we had to do a recording for our YOG performance. We got to skip most of the lessons in the day, but it was more of a sacrifice. Skipping lessons means that the teacher taught something while you were not there, so I guess the only way to learn is to self-study.

Our recording went smoothly, with the help of the Sec 4s and Tenors and Basses while helped us. :)

I was supposed to have English Oral today, but it was re-rescheduled. The initial examination was during the June holidays, but was unable to go then, so I changed the date. However, the teacher was busy today and therefore, chances are my oral has been postponed to next week. =)

Tomorrow is Sports Day. Sports day this year is held in Simei ITE, not VJC. I really do not know why there is a change of location :( But anyway, it's not the location that matters, it's the support from the various houses. Unfortuantely, I can't cheer as it will harm my throat :)

It's a busy week, and it'll be a busier year. And good luck to the Sec 3s and 4s taking their Chinese oral :P 加油！

Back

2010-06-20T02:58:00.002+08:00

Hello!

If you were wondering where I was, I was in South Korea for a holiday! :D

There are many differences between Korea and Singapore which makes us unique in our own ways, but there are also dozens of similarities which bind us together.

A few memorable places I visited?

First there is Lotte World, which is an amusement park. It has indoor and outdoor rides, so you can just imagine how large the place is. There are many rides, and I tried to attempt all of them, except those roller coasters and rides with the word "gyro" in it. Sorry, I have tachophobia. :) However, I managed to pluck enough courage to sit for the other rides which were equally exhilarating.

There were many sightseeing places as well, most of it formed by Mother Nature. For example, there was a cave which was formed by a volcano, which left behind the world's tallest column. I guess being outdoors and admiring the beauty of nature is certainly the best way to spend your holidays.

Well, the whole trip would have been perfect if I hadn't fall ill. :( I'm not sure if it had something to do with the cool temperature which I'm not adapted to, but I had a mild fever.

Another exciting moment of the trip was the World Cup. South Korea is in the World Cup too. The atmosphere of the night was very intense and high. Everyone was in a rush to watch the big game. During the match, the streets were deserted and silent. Only when a magnificent shot was made, or the goalkeeper saved a seemingly unstoppable ball, that is when everyone would cheer and shout.

Even though the support of the whole population was there, South Korea still lost to Argentina 4-1. However, I believe they will be able to make it into the second rounds of the World Cup. It's too bad that Singapore is not in the world cup. I wonder if the whole Singapore would be as equally supportive.

Still, it feels fantastic to be back in Singapore! :D Then again, that means I have to complete my holiday homework =(

No more TV, computer, Xbox or anything for that matter =[

:(

2010-06-04T00:48:00.003+08:00

First week of June holidays?

And I thought I could start relaxing and have fun :(

So far every day of the June holiday has an event on. I am going through a Student Leader's Convention, whereby we develop leadership skills and learn more about other topics, which in my group's case, is social media and its assessibility.

The convention is an all-day programme. Arriving at hwa chong at 7.30 means waking up at 6.

Working with student who are not VS students is of course a rare occasion, although it will be a memorable one. :) I enjoyed this convention throughly :)

Anyway, today would be the final day of the convention. After that there is still a chinese project dued on monday. We are given a melody, and have to write in lyrics.

Even though I'm from choir, it is still a challenge, because the only chinese song I have learnt is 春天里. Haha..... bad times..... >.< It's true that I'm busy now, so I look forward to the last week of the June holidays. Till then, I have to "bite the bullet" and work hard. My L1R5 was not good :(

5 more days to YOG recording :O :O :O :(

"When you are going through hell, keep going!"

2010-05-28T23:03:00.003+08:00

Finally, semester 1 has come to a close. The last week of school was lectures and talks and celebration.

Monday was Maths and Science day, and we had to go through a financial literacy workshop. They told us how to invest in stocks. I don't really know what to say about this, because investing in stocks may lead to an addiction, thus the person will have a "High input, higher output" mindset. The person might invest all his savings and wealth on stocks and try to gamble with it, in hopes that he might be rich because of this. However, if the stocks plumet to a low price then the person made a huge loss, etc.

Sorry for the huge explanation, because I have 2 oral exams during the June holidays and I'm very nervous >.<

Anyway, I do admit it was heart-pumping and exhilarating to "watch the stock prices change", although i would not really want to get involve in this in future :P

Tuesday was A-maths and Bio lecture. :/ nothing much to say, but I did get to help out with the head prefect elections, by managing the stations.

Wednesday was Arts day. The teachers put up a very exceptional 4-instrument band performance, plus another teacher as a singer. While the Sec 3 cohord went to watch a movie, I again helped out with the HPE.

The evening was dramafest =) I helped to usher ^^

The performances were very good, and it was enjoyable :)

Finally, the last day was recieving back our report books. Based on my results, I feel that I need to improve on my 3 languages and humanitites. My sciences and maths helped to pull my percentage up, but my sciences could use an improvement as well. I will ask myself, "have I worked hard enough?". I would always answer with a 'no' , because there is alwys room for improvement. ;)

Anyway, looking at the upcoming events for the June holidays, I found out that I am really packed with events, mostly projects. Enjoy your holidays, but spend them fruitfully ;P

Haiz

2010-05-20T23:55:00.002+08:00

Haiz... :(

Another depressing day D:

Well, not entirely...

My whole morning was really rough and terrible. Got back History and Social Studies. I failed both :'(. BUT I would have passed if I paid a bit more attention to my SEQ format. I didnt fail THAT badly, but I would have passed if I actually wrote down the LINK for SEQ. Oh I actually got all the points. I;m sure it was good enough to get me at least an 8/12. However, just because I did not write one sentence which says "Because of _______, _______ happened" :( One sentence just took away a lot of marks. This happened for both papers.

However, my mood changed for the better. Next was maths, and I scored well in both maths. Since my maths teacher managed to pack a- and e-maths together in one session, the session after recess was completely a free period, so the whole class was basically slacking. Some went to the library, some where playing iPhone games, others playing chess. I was walking around out of boredom =.=, but soon decided to play chess :P

At 12.30 it was the final session for the day, which was BI. It is a great relief that BI is considered my humanities as well. Therefore, even if I get F9 for history and ss, but obtain an A1 for humanities, overall my humanities would be an A1. However, no I did not get A1. I got B3, which is not bad according to my own perspective. Out of all the 14 students who take BI in my class, there was only one A1... Thanks a lot Joseph >.<

well, yes, today has been a depressing day. However, failing is part of success. It would be better to make mistakes now than in SA2 or even the O levels. And this also tells me that I had not been studying enough. I need to be more productive during the June hols. I need to restrict my computer-playing time as well. =/

I estimated my L1R5 and it approximated to 12 or 13. I dont know my english marks yet, although the teacher only announced the ones who got an A1 or A2 for their English. Sigh, 12 is not good enough to get into VJC. This calls for a need to work harder :)

o.O

2010-05-19T14:39:00.002+08:00

The past few weeks have been exams, and just today we recieved back some of our results.

I have to say that the exams were quite difficult, including A-Maths and my humanitites.

Today, we recieved back our sciences. It 's very coincidental that my sciences were sort of the same. Physics-69, chemistry-69, biology-68

Also, it feels frustrating that I am just a few measly mark(s) away from a distinction, but at least it's satisfying that CA1 and class tests will pull me up, hopefully to an A1 :D

I feel that my bio has improved a lot since CA1, thus scoring a 68 is alright. However, I expected higher from myself for physiics and chem. So i guess the same results does not really matter, although I should always aim for A1.

Good luck to the Sec 4s in their final prelim paper and good luck to all of us who are recieving back our results =)

2010-04-28T21:45:00.002+08:00

Haha, today sure was hilarious, in good and bad ways.

First of all, there was a VJC student investiture in the morning, so all the sec 3s prefects had to attend it. However, I was already attending a TJC student investiture in the afternoon, so I was exempted from going to VJC. Therefore, there were only 2 sec 3 prefects left to do duty. Therefore I was made announcer :O

So basically I had to go and take the whole school cohord for assembly. =X

I WAS SO NERVOUS >.<

The first thing I had to say was "School, please put away your reading materials and look up". Instead, it became "School, please put away *cough* and look up". I actually was about to sneeze while saying that, so I immediately faced one side and coughed. Haha..... :o

So when I said "School attention", I started trembling due to nervousness. And my friends told me that I was slightly soft. Don't blame me, I was already informed the mic was a noobish mic.

So yeah I was shaky :(

Overall, I guess I did OK for my first "performance" on stage. It was good experience, because now I know I need to improve on my confidence. However, I would not enjoy being announcer again :(

Rhapping up rhapsody

2010-04-25T23:39:00.002+08:00

After months of practice, rhapsody has finally ended. This rhapsody is also my last rhapsody =( awwww, unless I retain at Sec 5 just kidding =X

Well, the performance overall was good, and it sure is entertaining for everyone :D

My entire class was there, and this was my class outing. Of course we might still have another one during the june holidays. =)

Oh, and at the end when jing ye threw his hat, it was my family which caught it hahah :o So I returned it to jing ye :)

Well, I better do my homework now :(

2010-04-22T22:22:00.002+08:00

Hi :)

It's been a depressing week D:

Well to start off, got back my physics kinematics test. I really do not understand the topic. I do understand all the formulae, but when it comes to applying it in questions, that's a whole new level of difficult. In addition, the test was mainly one question, with the various a) b) c) splits. That means if you dont understand say the graph, chances are everything is wrong. That's what happened to me =(

Although on the brighter side, I passed the test on light. =)

Oh, there was also a physics practica which I think i'll do OK for. However, I'm not sure if my answers were correct. If the distance between the lens-screen and the lens-object is the same, by right the image size should be the same as the object size, but my wasn't. I hope it does not affect much.

I also has a BI test. It was by far the most difficult BI test I take. I'm not even confident of passing :( I also thought opposites (like shortXtall, coldXhot) would be tested, WHICH IT DIDNT. Sigh =(

After the test, I had BI oral. The oral was about what you do for recreation. I screwed up my start by saying homework. BUT that's not what I meant. I wanted to say AFTER I have done my homework, I would ________. Well, I'm not sure if I said enough. After all, I have poor articulation.

Of course, such failures would not happen if I study and improve, but actions speak louder than words. :(

After rhapsody, I really need to catch up with my studies and seriously work hard every day :/

And again on the brighter side, rhapsody is in 3 days ^.^

Post-Bday

2010-04-15T01:01:00.003+08:00

The worst feeling on earth is when something awesome comes to an end. And alas, my birthday had ended about 2 days ago. Well, it is weird to post this entry AFTER the day which is AFTER my birthday. However, there is a reason :o

The homework pile was overgrown the past few days. And thus I stayed up late the finish them. I find it worse to be scolded by the teachers, and stayed up to 2am+ just to finish it. I was indeed tired the following day, but I did not care. How wrong I was

So on tuesday, it was the last period of the day. I had BI lesson and already I started to fell stuffy. However, I ignored it as I thought it was an effect from my fatigue.

During choir, my head was spinning and I felt dizzy. It was not good. Choir prac ended at 6, but my dad could only pick me up at 6.45, so I waited in the canteen while doing work. However, half of the time I was disturbed by my dizziness :(

Already I started to feel feverish, so I measured my temperature and was appalled by the reading - 38 degrees C!

I quickly tried to get rid of my temperature by drinking water, but to no avail.

When I got home, the first thing I did was to lie on bed and take a rest. When I woke up at 8, I still felt tired, dizzy, feverish. At this point, I was convinced that I was ill.

However, there was a Chinese exam the next day, so missing school would be disadvatageous to me. After dinner, I felt tired and slept again, this time to 11.

When i was finally consious, I did feel slightly better. Fortunately, my temperature had dropped to 37.2. It was time to start my homework.

At 11.30, I started studying for chinese. Memorising a lot of cheng yu was difficult, but I tried my best to absorb the information.

At appoximately 12.30, the tired-spell came back and I thought I would "close my eyes for a second". In the end, my head was resting on the table and I started dozing off.

When I woke up AGAIN, it was already 4.30. It was then when the sense of urgency struck me. I quickly studied up and got ready for school.

About the chinese test, I think I might do well, because there is no comprehension open-ended, only multiple choice. Well, I do feel better, although I do get headaches once in a while. My temperature is now 36.9, which means I got better again.

In conclusion, I feel that it is not good to stay up late, be it for study or playing purposes. Therefore, I will try to utilise the time in the day to quickly do my homework along with a bit of revision, before sleeping puntually :) And if you are really unable to complete your work, I guess asking for a time extension will be alright ;)

Well, I really need my rest. Goodnight! =)

Happy b'day

2010-04-13T02:12:00.003+08:00

Just a while ago, the most awesome day of the entire day ended :(

Well other events such as the first astronaut to travel round the world happened on that day :)

12 April :)

My birthday was well-spent and i enjoyed it ^^

Since it fell on a Monday, obviously it would be difficult for me to go out for my birthday dinner and get ready for school the following day. thus my birthday dinner was held on Saturday night at an Italian cafe famous for its chocolate desserts and gelato :o

Before dinner, I had lunch with my family near East Coast Park and we went to buy my present there :) I initially wanted a Nintendo DS, but it would affect my studies :( so I got something more meaningful. I got a pair of rollerblades :D

I really have no time to get out and try them :(

Anyway, dinner that night was great :D Although "The Ban" (in prepeartion of Rhapsody) has not been implemented yet, I did not eat too much throat-harming food :)

After dinner, we went strolling around the Clarke Quay area. The place has seemed to changed since my last visit. There was this swinging capsule there. It was suspended by long girders and the people (in a capsule) would swing across, just like the average swing in the playground, only that it is much faster.

Yeah, it was fun to see people scream >:)

Sunday passed by too quickly, except for the last 5 minutes before Monday. I was doing Social Studies notes when my watch struck 11:55 pm

It was real intense to wait for 5 minutes to pass, but it eventually dragged passed. At midnight, I was bursting with cheers :O My parents and siblings hugged me happy birthday :)

On monday, school was OK. No one taopokked me :)

Special thanks to the PB, who drew a big happy birthday drawing on the whiteboard :)

The last lessons before school ended at 4 was Bio. Ms Leow's lesson was more intersting than usual. Ms Leow was disecting an already-disected sheep heart while was left for 2 days :O

It was really horrible to see how an actual heart looks like. and we all have one :o

After school, Tristen and Tomus came to my house. they were prepared to throw water bombs at me and feed my dog some dog food. They even bought a cake to celebrate Tomus' and my birthday :)

Then we played Wii till 7 before we cut the actual cake ^^

Well, I guess that sums up my birthday :) I really enjoyed it this year!!!

BIG thanks to all who wished me happy bday, whether on Facebook, by SMS or even in school :)

Bestest Best

2010-04-08T19:47:00.002+08:00

I'm sure you've heard people say sometimes your best isn't good enough. yes, that has happened to me :(

Last monday we ran 2.4. it was dissapointing as usual :(

Although, this 2.4 will be a memorable one. Started off with me running at a pace faster than usual. I was experimenting to see if running with a constant speed or a fast speed with a few rests will be faster. I had a cough, which seem to hinder me to get a passing score. This time, I was closer to the ending point than anytime before. :)

Then again, I still failed the run. I think there might be retest on Monday, which falls on a very special day as well =)

Rhapsody is in a few weeks time. Its time to sharpen our skills and give our best for the next few days, and give an excellent performance on the 25th. Let's go for it ;-)

Camping and stuff

2010-03-25T23:32:00.004+08:00

Well, the past 2 weeks were very very very busy. I'm serious. But I decided to continue blogging

Let's start with... the Sec 3 KOREF Camp.

KOREF - Kahang Organic Rice Eco Farm - (woohoo I remembered what the acronym stood for) was an extremly fun camp, probably the most exciting and meaningful event since the start of school. It was a 4D3N camp where all the Sec 3s had to go for.

Food- The food served was awesome. Organic rice doesn't have that much of a different taste as compared to normal polished white rice. The dishes served were well cooked and I enjoyed it :) Guava juice tastes good =)

Sleeping- Slept in a stuffy tent with 5 other people. The tent was very warm at night, not the comfortable-warm, but the uncomfortable one. Xd Still, the activities were so tiring, we were oblivous to the heat and slept like a log. What we weren't oblivous to was the rain - the pitter patter hitting on the tent was loud and woke all of us up.Yes, it lowered the temperature in the tent, but it soaked through the tent wall AND the fly sheet. Rain is powerful enough to seep through 2 layers :o

Activities- Well, probably the most memorable activity about the camp was to climb Gunung Lambak. The mountain is extremly steep. If it weren't for the rope onto the sides, I would have slipped of. The climb up was mentally and physcially challenging. To ignore my fatigue, I sang songs in my head, although I got quite breathless when we were nearly at the summit, due to the low oxygen level. The scenery on the top was fantastic, and when I looked down, I asked myself: "Did I just climbed that high?"

Yes, it was a great achievement knowing that we are able to fulfill a gruesome climb.

Other activities include water obstacle course, rafting, padi farming, nature walk etc.

Campfire- On the night of the campfire, I saw a shooting star swift its way through the night sky. It is my first time seeing a shooting star. I don't think we'll ever be able to see any in Singapore, due to the bustling city and the glaring lights from the buildings, which cause light pollution. My class performed a song and cheer. It was a great way for us to unite as one and give out best shot!

Water- Water is an essential in our lives. If water had not existed, you would not be reading this, I would not have typed this. Well, you get the point. Unfortunately, we actually ran out of water. Thus our water was rationed and the bathing water became river water. River water has a distinct rusty smell :(

Overall the camp was excellent and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It also taught me a few valuable lessons that would really help me, help the class, and help the school. The VS morale, spirit, unity and strength should have improved as well.

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Well, I guess should stop here for today. Cya!

Results teehee

2010-03-08T01:33:00.002+08:00

Hello hello

Past few days of recieving exam results. There were shouts of joy, but frowning happened as well.

I wouldn't say I did well, but I wouldn't say I did badly at the same time. Sec 3 is a whole new level compared to sec 2. Its like comparing x^2 to x :) Yes, both of them are the same as they have a "x" in it, but its the "^2" which changes everything.

Quick review

English - compre not recieved yet. debate was good, argumentative essay was not too good.
Chinese - got 66 for the first test, 46 for the second =/ I'm satisfied with the overall pass, but still failing chinese makes me feel sad, although I expected it.
E-Maths - bare a1 :)
A-maths - yay =)
Physics - 3 marks from A1. Total internal reflection was not even tested, I thought I would do extremely well. Turns out you cannot expect too much from yourself, but you should set a target grade as well.
Chemistry - Probably my best subject currently =]
Biology - Passed the paper, did well for the test, but still I should do better
History - not recieved yet. Stalin just had to purge people. Thanks a lot >:(
Bahasa Indonesia - bare a1, its just going to get tougher. The difficulty momentum is just picking up...

Well, reflecting on my results, there sure is room for improvement, and I have to start studying more =/

I am satisfied with my results, and I hope everyone is satisfied with their's as well. If you're not, please study more. If you are, good for you :D

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In other news...

on friday the prefects called me along with 2 other classmates and said we were nominated by the teachers to become prefects. :o real shock to me

I thought students could only become prefefcts in sec 1 and 2. Turns out I was wrong.

Well, prefect or not, I still have to go for an interview on Tuesday, hope i won't mess up as much as I did in Sec 1.

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In other news,

last saturday, the sec 4s had to go for flag day. Instead of cancelling choir prac, they had us, the sec 3s, to carry out sectionals that day. The altos split into two groups. Jonathon, mel and I took charge of the first, while Tomus, Mikial and Enning had the other. Overall it was fun teaching the juniors. The mood was sort of different, maybe thats because the sec 3s are closer to the sec 2s than the sec 4s are.

Either way, we manage to complete the tasks and the practise turned out ot be more fruitful.

At night, my family had a BBQ. It was really fun. Although my dog kept running around, scaring my aunts and stealing food from the table. Naughty dog >.<

Looking forward to sec 3 camp in johor this coming wednesday and rsp cambodia trip in the march holidays. Till then, bye

nooo

2010-03-03T22:39:00.002+08:00

Hula!

The past few days were mostly exams and results. =/

Thursday

Biology - most of what the teacher taught did not come out. I would not blame my expected-bad-bio-results on the teacher, but it ws mostly my fault too. I was too busy studying chinese the previous day. I only got the "sense of urgency" to study at night. After studying chinese halfway, it was quite late.

The next day, I tried to study with whatever free time there was. Biology is my worst science, and possibly my worst subject. Nah, engrish and chinanese is my worst =/

Anyway, the paper was a disaster, worst than the chile earthquake :(

Speaking of the quake, the day is not shorter by 1.26 milliseconds.

Recieving the paper tomorrow, fingers crossed. I need 12 / 35 marks to pass bio as a whole.

Friday

The previous night I fell asleep halfway while studing 成语, although I already studied, sort-of.

The worst part of the paper was the 理解问答, where I did not understand the passage at all.

Recieving the paper on Friday =/

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Well on monday we got back chemisty. I did very well for chemistry, looks like it is my new best science.

Tuesday - got back physics. I got 0 marks for section A, although my marks overall got me an A2. I guess thats not too bad.

Well, more papers will be recieve.

Did I study well enough? well, there's no points saying that, because I've already taken the exams.

Besides, this is only CA1. Even thought I should take every exam seriously, I hope this helps me to adapt to Sec 3 life, act as a wake-up call, and spur me on to work harder in the future.

Be posting again soon, cya!

Chemphygrish

2010-02-24T17:59:00.004+08:00

Hulo!

Ok, 3 papers over the past 2 days.

Tuesday

Engrish compre first. My english teacher said that it would be normal if we failed. =/

The questions were indeed quite difficult, as for answering-the-questions wise, I'm really unsure if the ways I asnwered will get me marks.

I barely had time left in the end, after skipping 2 questions. With almost 3 minutes++ left, I quickly rushed through and wrote an answer.

Next was Chem. I guess (and hope) that I did great. Although I was confused about the different types of bonding and struture, the rest of it was OK.

Wednesday

Today was physics. Physics is supposed to be my best science. However, I dont think I might do as well as what I expect. I almost ran out of time as well. Its not that the questions were that unmanagable, moreover, I was unconfident of my answers and had to reread, recalculate etc. And at some points I just misread the instruction, thus having to erase and rewrite.

One question was quite intriguing.

They asked to find the density of a glass block. The measurements were already given, and they told you to list out your step by step procedure, state precautions and equations.

Well, the method mostly everyone used was to sin i / sin r and conduct that pin experiment. Then plot a graph and find the gradient.

However, I did a very direct and unsure-if-it-is-acceptable method

Mass / Volume = Density

1. To find the density, take the mass and divide it by the volume.
2.Multiply the glass block dimensions and that will be your volume.
3.Measure the glass block on an electronic balance.

Well, you get the point.

Yes, the question was asking for the density, not the optical density. Therefore, will this method be accepted? I really don't know =O

Anyway, no point looking back at my mistakes. There are still 2 more CAs left - Bio and Chinese part 2

Continue to do well in the CA, everyone. Please do not be daunted by anything. :D

Till then, cya! Xd

History CA1

2010-02-22T21:48:00.002+08:00

Hello!

And so it begins... the CA1.

Today was history. I would say that it was quite difficult.

Well, the topic was on Stalin's rule over the soviet union. One question asked if the speaker was a supportor of Stalin. Mr khoo briefed through the answers in class and those who said "yes" could only obtain a max of 2 out of 4 marks. (btw it was the first inference question)

My answer was "yes because he was scared". I asked mr khoo and he said if my provanace was correct I might get more than 2. I'm not sure if that will happen.

Well I shall stop blogging here. I need to study chemistry :)

Good night and good luck to all in their CA again! :D

Rep Soh Dee

2010-02-18T22:15:00.003+08:00

Hey,

ever since wednesday, I felt really tired in school. Why? Because I have undone homework that is dued the next day. Therefore I stay up just to finish it. I would say I do not really have a lot of homework, but instead I keep on procrastinating and only "wake up" at 10pm+

Today was a day of mixed feelings.

Chinese

Got back my results. I was surprised that I got higher than expected, although I only got 12/40 for the comprehension OE, so that is an area I need to improve on. This paper is only Part 1 of the chinese CA.

English

Debated over "Abortion is unethical". I was in the proposition, and the first speaker. I guess I did OK, although I spoke 15 seconds over the time limit, and my voice screeched halfway.

Maths

Did not bring my file, but it was a good thing I photocopied the worksheet from my friends :)

Biology

The test was good, although I did not know "Why over watering plants is harmful to them"

After school, there was choir. Mr Kwei was not satisfied with our performance today. He says he will cancel Rhapsody if we do not improve, or replace the songs with those easy songs.

I do not want to sing the easier songs, as that will no long make Rhapsody Rhapsody itself. Therefore, we have to improve as an individual and as a choir :D

Other than that, I have to focus on next week's CA. It may only be CA, which is not the majority of our grades for the year, but still, why not do well now, and use it to my advantage.

Good luck to everyone in their CA, and enjoy the rest of your CNY, if you are still celebrating.

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CNY

2010-02-18T01:31:00.002+08:00

Hay!

xin nian kuai le! :D

CNY has been great over the last 4 days. I recieved a lot of red packets, but thats not the main thing about CNY, isnt it? Being together as a family is what that is important. =)

Before i go to my celebrations, I went back to my primary school on Friday with Tristen, Tomus, Jun Xuan, Joshua, and other Taonanites. Tao nan school has not really changed since i visited the place during teachers' day when I was Sec 1. Reaching the school, we were disaapointed to find that most of the teachers were in a meeting. We waited.

During the waiting time of 3 hours, mostly everyone returned home. I stayed back to walk around the school, do a bit of homework =/

Finally, the teachers were released. However, there was a fire drill.

Went to the field outside. The cohord assembled in 8 minutes and 3 seconds hahahaha

There were also quiet :) (Facebook group: Why must we keep quiet during a fire drill? WIll the fire hear us?) hahahahha

Finally finally, I got to talk to my teachers :D

It was worth the wait.

Now, let me recall the 4 days of CNY

Day 1 - had counted down the previous night, so I woke up late and was tired, but after the festive mood had entered me, I was cheerful and lively :) Had visitors coming over, it was my first red packet for the year =]

Took some family pictures while waiting for the guest to arrive. My dog kept on being extra and tried to stand in the picture. Attention-seeker lol XD

Went to my grandparents place for tuan yuan fan, or family reunion meal. Did not stay long, before we went to my maternal's side of the family.

Day 2

Started to gamble a bit *heheh*

Played blackjack with my family members including my cousins.

I also played the card version of monopoly. Its more stategic than dependant on luck, and much more meaningful then blackjack. It's a fun game, really :d

Family came over to my house for dinner :D

Day 3

Nothing much... same thing bai nian etc :D

Day 4

Day before we return to school. The festive mood was drifting away, and occupied by the anxiety of not completing my homework =X

haha

Played monopoly and blackjack in the morning with my cousins again, before going to my aunt's place. My cousins already finished their homework, i felt really guilty :O

There was a trampoline at my cousins place. If I could jump on a trampoline every day I would be much taller ;'(

Anyway, dinner was awesome. XD

Went to an italian pizzaria restaurant, where the "table cloth" is actually paper, and you are given crayons and can draw on the paper itself. I'm not good at drawing, so the paper looked more like vandalism than a masterpiece.

Moving on to the food. The pastas are great, but the pizzas are better. We ordered a pizza that was very large. I forgot the dimensions sorry :D

Random bit: The toilets of the restaurants are well decorated with funny jokes and stories. Seriously

And that was my first 4 days of CNY. I think my family might still be celebrating this weekend, but next week is the CA, so I should spend my time wisely.

Debate tomorrow, I should get ready :D

Good night, rest well and happy CNY.

Pain-Causing Reliever =/

2010-02-08T23:19:00.006+08:00

I spend almost 12 hours in school today, returning home was both a pain and relief :P

During recess, I was so embarrassed =X Running down from the 3rd to the 2nd floor of the stairway, I was throwing my wallet up and catching it. I dont know why... maybe I was bored =/

But anyway, suddenly I missed catching it and it bounced off my arm and landed on the roof of the first floor. It's quite hard to explain what happened...

Okay, you know from the 2nd to the 3rd floor, half way as you walk down, there will be a view of the ecopond to the school field direction? Yeah, there are railings to prevent students from falling on the roof, but nothing was said about wallets. =/

However, it was a good thing my wallet did not fall far, and I could see it just by looking over the railing. then I also saw a cleaner nearby and borrowed a broom from her and used it to sweep the wallet off the roof.

I really would not know what I would have done if my wallet was further away from the roof =o

moving on....

Anyway, my lesson ended at 4, but the classroom decorations were not done yet, so the whole class was told to stay back. We took almost two and a half hours to complete, but we did it! I guess it could be considered both class room design and CNY design :D

However, I did hurt myself while decorating the class. I fell off a chair but good thing my stomach landed on the chair which broke my fall.

With my failed drawing

I would say this week would be a very very very busy week, as I have a lot of homework, projects and choir pracs.

Well, I guess I should get ready for school tomorrow.

Cya!

Crash and Burn :o

2010-01-16T17:55:00.002+08:00

Because my house was under construction, my dog was put in my aunt's house. However, my hyperactive dog ran out of the house on Friday night, and to the main road.

Before you knew it, a car speeds past. My dog was hit by a car, and actually flung over. :(

BUT, as serious as it sounds, it isn't. My dog suffered from cuts and bruises on her head, and her jaw ligament is sort of damaged. She is shivering from shock, even when I visited her at Mt Elizabeth animal hospital on Saturday. I apologise if I acted emo :O

lol just kidding ;) I was shocked when I heard that my dog got hit by a car, but I was EVEN more shocked when I heard she survived. I was happy for her at the same time =)

Well, the construction at my house is nearly done, so I will get my dog back next Sunday :D

I really thought I would only be seeing her when the construction had ended, but I saw her much earlier. I didnt expect to see her in a hospital. She had gottened skinnier :)

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That aside, school has been getting more and more tiring. With CCA resuming, I have to manage my time wisely, and restrict myself from the computer (mum's rule :'( )

Besides that, I also have to start paying attention and absorb more in class, because the subjects are no walk in the park, especially bio :( :o

But anyway, I also can't wait to see the new Sec 1s in choir. :)

Well, I have a lot of homework to do today, blog again another day :D (yay rhymes)

100th post ^^

2010-01-04T20:11:00.002+08:00

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is mystery,
today is a gift, that's why it's called the present :D

So today - was the first day of school. =]

Walked into my class 3D, and got to see new faces, but mostly the familiar faces from 2A.

As I climbed up the stairs, I got to the 4th floor and was stunned for a while. Then I told myself "Eh wait, I'm sec 3 now". I guess I'm not used to the new changes yet - wearing long pants with belt >.< , walking to the 5th floor, learning 9 subs, carrying heavier textbooks XD, and writing 2010 on the date in worksheets.

Anyway, school today was awesome! =)

Of course, we had new teachers teaching us, and I was not familiar with any of them. Lessons today were not that stressful, although I have to get out of "holiday mode" quickly, or I wont be able to pay attention :P

And something common among all the students, was the holiday homework. It was great that we got less homework this time, compared to last year, but I guess that just meant all of us slacked off more =0

school ends at 4 on mondays for my class :(, but since hardly any lessons were taught, it felt as if we ended school at a normal 2.15 pm.

Tomorrow will be the second day of school, and there will be PE in the morning. I bet we'll be running 2.4 >.<

And sure enough, there will be more lessons to be learnt. =P

By the way, this is my blog's 100th post

=D

Last day

2009-11-28T00:52:00.002+08:00

Updating my blog really slipped my mind XP

Anyway, it was the last day of camp. After morning PT and games, we had to clean up the school. My group got the hall and the toilet behind it. Well, cleaning only took us 20 minutes.

Then we assemble for the prize ceremony :P

Even though my group was not one of the winning groups, it was OK. The point of coming to camp was to improve on the choir's discipline and standard in singing, which I felt was achieved by everyone in every group.

The camp overall was enjoyable and an unforgettable experience. Even though the programmes were affected by the rain, the camp was still a 100% success :D

____

Moving on, my class RSP chalet was last wednesday at east coast park chalet.

at 4pm, I started roller blading from my house to the chalet, it was probably a 2km+ journey, really tiring. When I got there, I saaw my classsmates trying to start the fire. Firestarters, leaves, twigs, matchsticks, and anything that looked crunchy or flammable was thrown into the fire. Of course, it did take some time for the charcoal to start burning. Meanwhile, i was exploring the place. There was nothing much in the chalet, except for a playground and a badminton court.

I started to play badminton with some of my friend. The court wasnt really the ones you see in community centres, it was more of an empty space. unfortunately, the wind was very strong and we stopped after a while. Returning back to the barbeque pit, my friends was taking the furry firestarter red stuff and throwing it in the fire. Surprisingly, it managed to sort-of start.

At this point, I was attacked by a water bomb :o

it was then the "water bomb wars" started. Water bombs (plastic bags with those colourful string) was thrown everywhere. I was attacked by at least 7 of them, but some missed me :D

Still, i was drenched and I even fell down, scractching my knee on the floor :0

With that, the bbq officially started. The food served were similar to the ones in the choir camp.

more badminton was pplayed at night, before we finally left.

The rsp bbq was certainly fun, and it was a very meaningful thing to do, other than playing computer games at home XD And we got to say a proper farewell to the IP students.

Its really late now, so I think i should sleep :P

Going for a holiday to Sydney, Australia. Be back nrxt Friday. :D

Day 2

2009-11-18T20:01:00.001+08:00

Hi

ok I am typing using my mum's iPhone so it will be difficult writing a whole post. Why I am doing this? It is because my computer got confiscated because my dad thinks i play too much =p

anyway, day 2 of camp was fun-er then day 1, but there was the same 'awesome' weather :o

ok the day started with me waking up, tired from yesterday. We packed our bags and moved to the music room, before practising for our performace later @ 12 for the vs open house.

Our performace was great! We caught everyone's attention especially the parents so I think we did excellent :)

after lunch was the amazing race. We had to proceed with wet weather plans due to the awesome weather =[

I will cut the long story short. My group came in fourth, which i think is quite good :)

the whole race was enjoyable, although one station was to transfer a 20 word message, which was completely random, and this slowed down a lot of groups.

He gave a sample of last month's economy crisis blah blah blah blah, yeah I had already forgottened the end part, censored by blahs.

After that we prepared for the BBQ while others could bathe :/

the BBQ pit I was in charged of started a fire first :)

again, the awesome weather disrupted our BBQ, so we started a fire on the canteen, with what is left of our charcoal. The fried rice went to the sec 1 and 3s, so we had plain white rice.

But wait! We added something special- mayo! Thanks to ak who brought mayo, the rice tasted like sushi rice, with the vinegary essence, everyone loved it =)

Then was talent time. All groups did well, and mostly everything was impromtu and random.

So that ends day 2, but we watched a movie before sleeping.

Will post about day day 3 tomorrow, when I might have the com back Xp

wow, I took one and a half hour to write that on an iPhone :p

ok then, cya!

Fin

2009-11-16T17:45:00.002+08:00

Hola!

I'm back from the choir camp. :D

Choir camp was really fun, though activities were disrupted by the "awesome" weather, the camp was still great :D :D :D

Well, Day 1 started out well, but I had to go much much earlier to buy stuff for the barbeque. First, we started by forming into groups. Daniel, Tomus, Hong Wen, Andre, Chia Xin and I =] (sorry if I mispelled any of your names).

The first activity was to design a flag and a mascot. We put LP on our flag, standing for Little People. It was drawn well, for we had talented artists in the group.

Then, we were given a theme, a compulsory pose, and a catch phrase for Talent Time, held on Day 2. our theme was "Highway to Hell", the pose was "Jellyfish" and the catch prhase was "If there was...". Completely no link, but we managed to pull them together... sort of. More mentioned later.

After lunch, we played a few games, followed by a practising our songs in East Coast Park. Yes, we went out of the music room and to east coast park to sing. Because it was slightly drizzling, we played Twister in the music room :D my group won both matches ^^

When the rain stopped, we thought it would not rain again. so, when we got there, it started to pour. So we practised under a resting spot, the pavilion thingy.

when dinner was over, we had this Mystery game, where one guy was murdered and we had to find out who was the murderer by looking for clues and interrigating them. It was fun playing detective and looking for people, but we did not guess the person accurately. :(

Finally, the final activity for the day was a horror movie "Coming Soon". It was really uber scary. the funny thing about watching a horror movie is that you feel quite relieved after watching it, even if you fear the monster will haunt you or something. Yeah, even though I was scared and under my sleeping bag most of the time, I liked the movie. =]

Well, that concludes the first day, shall post about day 2 tomorrow ;)

New Beginnings

2009-11-12T23:41:00.003+08:00

Hello!

First of all, I would like to thank Kenneth Chiang for creating me a new blogskin :D Yup, you probably have seen the changes already ;) It's now more lively, like me! :P

Boomz

Okay, reviewing my old posts, I found out I had not talked about the cross country run. Just a brief summary, I ran and ran and ran. The running on sand part was the best :D Best of all, I managed to complete the run under 28 minutes, which is the expected target for everyone! :)

The Choir Camp is tomorrow! I'm gathered all my stuff, now its just stuffing them into my bag. =] I cant wait for the camp, especially the bbq. The bbq is in-charged by sec 2s. This means we do the shopping, we do the cooking (muhahahah) and serving :D (we are not responsible for any casualties)

Anyway, planning for this bbq was quite difficult, especially the proposal. 3 pages of it took us far longer than the deadline. But anyway, it was fun shopping and going out for a change, other than slacking at home.

Well, other programmes in-lined this holiday are the RSP BBQ (yay another BBQ!!!!), sort of like a farewell party for the IP's. Well, it won't be the last time we see them, because they will still come back from VJC to VS to continue learning. :-)

The camp is at 9.30 tomorrow morning, but those incharge of purchasing food for the bbq have to report earlier to buy the food, and I'm involve. I better quickly pack my bag and sleep, its getting late.

Be back on Sunday, and see some of you at the VS open house ;)

2009-11-05T22:56:00.002+08:00

there was a grasshopper in my bathroom just now. I told my maid to shoo it away, and while grasping it, she broke off one of its legs. I feel sorry for it. The leg is in the dustbin now. I wanted to scan it to show you all, but I'm too scared to touch it. :o

Okay hello, I've not been blogging for a long time. I'm looking for a new design for my blog, but to no avail :(

Anyway, I've not really been doing much during the holidays, other than going for choir.

Choir camp is next week, so thats one thing to look forward to :) Oh, and there's an RSP fieldtrip tomorrow, so I better sleep now.

Until then, happy holidays :D

<:o)

2009-10-21T15:13:00.002+08:00

Yay! the exmas are over!

But anyway, the chinese exam was ok, for once I could answer most of the compre questions "confidently". and for bi, yeah it was fine, just that the cloze passage was kind of difficult.

Another year has past, and that just means to work even harder next year. It happened so quickly, while I was revising chinese, I looked through the first chapter. It seemed so long ago.

OKAY, but why look back when there's more ahead? And now, it's time to enjoy till the holidays end :D

History is History =D

2009-10-17T21:51:00.003+08:00

Hola!

My dog killed another chameleon today :/ I couldn't film it, I was sleeping x.x

okay, the exams are nearly over, so here's my "review" for the past exams (tues to fri)

Tuesday was MT compo. I spent more time writing the letter than the compo, and I couldn't think of a good topic to write. :( But still i managed to complete everything... *cross fingers*

Then there was bahasa indonesia listening compre, which was quite difficult...

Wednesday was history. i did not write a difference and purpose in SBQ for a comparison question, and i did not write the other factor in SEQ. no time D:

Pe theory is fine

Thursday was science. Physics was the one i'm most confident in, while chem was the most difficult.

And there was bahasa indonesia compo, which was OK, but I messed up certain words

Lastly, friday was engrish compre. I really don't know how I'll do, cause my summary may have lacked a few points.

well that's about it, other than MT and BI paper 2 on tuesday. Guess i should start revising tomorrow or monday. And I think that I should be glad that those exams (especially history) is over. :)

Happy deepavali and goodnight :d

Pant

2009-10-12T20:38:00.002+08:00

Hola!
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Ok, looking back, the year seemed to go by so quickly. Remembering the first lessons taught at the start of the year, it seemed like a long way back, but actually, it's faster than you think.

So, the SA finally started, and I shall review what I think of them...

Friday was English paper 1, or composition. Just composition, so we returned home after 1 hour. even before recess :D

But anyway, there were 4 topics and I wrote the last topic, which is the one-word topic. Yeah, it's about loyalty, and I'm not really sure how the teachers will judge it, but I should be fine, I don't expect to do that great in English anyway :P

Today was Maths. To be honest, it was really difficult, and I hardly had time to check. I even sort of forgot how to find the gradient of straight lines DX

But anyway, I just hope for the best, cause there's no use crying over spilled milk :D

Chinese P2 and BI listening compre tomorrow. :X

Good luck in the exams XD

ZzzZzzZzz

2009-09-28T02:42:00.002+08:00

Okay, I'm back to blogging after a week of busy :P

I had 2 chinese compos dued, and with art and bi project, things just got out of hand.

Anyway, there were 2 important things that happened over the past few days.

Firstly, there was my MT paper. Not the SA one, but the one before that XP

Only 4 chapters were tested, and 2 of them were TfU chapters, so there were not so many words to remember. For the first time, I actually learnt mostly all the words, not just how to write them, but their meaning as well :D

Passing is one checkpoint, but scoring high is another. Recieving results in school later, so I'm quite nervous. MAY be posting my results :D

Ok moving on to the science practical exam. It was messy :(

First I took physics. Task 1 to find out the weight of a ruler by balancing a weight and measuring the length, etc... My table buddy kept erasing his mistakes so it was difficult balancing a ruler with a shaky table.

Part 2 of physics was finding refraction using a glass block. Should be OK

Next was bio

first I had to find the xylem of a celery stalk. It was fine, hopefully...

The next part was the increase/decrease in length of a potato strip during diffusion.

After that was Chem.

Part 1 of chem was to find out which chemical was which, and i ended up writing acid/alkaline for the names of the chemical, when you were actually supposed to write like Hydrochoric Acid...

part 2 was filtering, nothing much to say...

Overall, I think i did best for bio, and the worst for chem. Stickers were pasted on the worksheet. Some of us recieved different coloured stickers, so we didn't know what it meant. I guess we'll find out when the results are announced.

It's really late, goodnight everyone :D

EMD :)

2009-09-21T10:38:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Yes, I know I have not been posting much recently, :D

Okay, but anyway for EMD, I was not spectating it, but performing in it in the choir.

Overall, we could have done better, but it was alright for a really small group. And most importantly, we had fun and the audience enjoyed it.

Oh yes, backtracking to the school holidays, half of it was taken away by my trip to japan. It was great, and I bough a few stuff for my friends XD

However there is still a lot of homework I have not completed XP

Better start now on Hari Raya.

Selamat Hari Raya to all :D

Boo!

2009-09-06T22:48:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Okay, report cards are out, and I'm very happy with my results, although MT really pulled me down. Bleah...

But overall, I think it's fine :D

Okay, something rrrreeeaaaalllllllllllllyyyy weird happended today... (spooky, in fact)

The house phone rang and my brother answered it. He has a habit of putting it on loud speaker so I heard the conversation. It was a grandmother who sounded like my grandmother (maternal), even the pronounciation of words are quite accurate and identical, too. She was looking for my parents. After telling her that they went to the market, she left a message and said "记得十一点拜阿公", yes, in chinese. For benefits of those who don't know chinese, translation: Remember to pray for your grandfather at eleven.

After that, she hang up. When my parents got home, my brother passed the message to them.

What's so creepy about this? My grandmother passed away 2 years ago... And especially at this month...

Ok, but we really did go to the temple and visit. Even though it's a wrong-number call, who wants to take chances?

This is all true ;P

On a less scary note, I may be going to Japan on Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon... So anyone want anything from there?

Bleah

2009-09-02T21:18:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Yes, the holidays are just a week away, but I don't think anyone would use the week to play. SA2 is just 4 weeks after that, so A LOT of hard work and practice would be needed.

Anyway, results are announced on Friday, but I'll comment in how I'll get ^-^

English: ^^
Chinese: (bleah)
Math: =)
Science: =]
History: XD
Home Ec: [not marked this term]
Art: :P
Bahasa Indonesia: =>

Yes, the type of smiley is how i felt i did, based on the amount of effort i put in and the results.

Yeah, and I'm not telling you which smiley is the smiliest, and (bleah) is not a smiley =P

Okay, had english oral today... It was fine. I kept saying "erm", but the marks i got was satisfactory.

Chinese oral is next wednesday during the hols, but I'm not sure if I'm going Japan. Parents are deciding...

But anyway, I got to prepare for it anyway soon. :D

tayota!

Whee!

2009-08-21T22:23:00.003+08:00

Hola!

The exams are finally over, but projects are still have yet to be done.

Anyway, a quick summary of the exams...

English (News Report)

Honestly, I don't know how well I'll do. We were only taught the format and stuff on it on Wednesday, with only 5 days to memorise the format, let alone know how to write it well with only 2 practices.

Chinese

We had to memorise china history and other phrases. My teacher even taught our class the wrong page to memorise. First, it's really ironic to learn about China history when not many of us are china people. Well, for general knowledge, then i guess it's OK. But anyway, I think that was "giveaway" marks. Just by spending a few hours memorising stuff, you can get a "free" 20 marks. Well, in total I got 62/100 for the paper, but I guess that was already not bad. =)

Maths

I could finish the paper on time, with 5 - 10 minutes to check. Surpisingly, drawing of graphs was not tested. A real relief, as I keep making mistakes in the drawing. Bleah.

Bahasa Indonesia

The listening compre, from what as I know, I think I'll get 9/10 ^^ I was confused between "hand" and "arm", in BI of course. Anyway, for the main test, I had trouble at the cloze passage. It was the "fill in the blanks" like those in Primary School English, where helping words were not given... Other than that, I should do fine.

Physics

I think I failed at all the question on Moments. Sad... But the other questions were OK :)

History

I hope I do well. History has been weak subject. I mean, I can't absorb much of what is to be leanrt, but I since the questions tested were inference and realiabilty, I hope I at least pass. For those of you who don't know, our marks are uploaded on the History blog, but it's just a table stating how many people got A1, how many people got F9, etc... When I saw it, it was at 12, but check it just to see. Your marks should be up soon, mine too.. Cross fingers.

I guess the whole CA should be put behind now, and I should focus on my projects and SA. Before you know it, it'll just be a few days away... :D

Happy Birthday, Singapore

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

Hola!

Yeah I know I'm 4 minutes late in blogging about our home's birthday, but I was so busy the entire day...

Anyway, happy 44th birthday!

There's only 1 more week till the exams are here, better get ready!

Random pictures:

Yay Singapore!!!

Tripped :(

2009-08-04T22:15:00.007+08:00

Okay hola!

I have not been blogging recently, must have been studying too hard :P haha

Starting off with P.E., I passed all my 5 stations. To me, it's a big deal. I'm surprised I passed SBJ, really. I could not evene reach 160 cm last year, but somehow I reached 190 this year! Must be growing :D

But my sit and reach barely passed.... Either way, I still failed as 2.4 pulled me down. So hearbreaking DX

Blogging will be temporarily stopped for now, preparing for exams and homework has increasded :(

This is a heartwarming and cute video. Enjoy!

Yummy

2009-07-25T19:31:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Since I don't have time to post, I have 2 videos to show:D

You'll laugh XD

Sorry somehow I can't emebed :o

Please open in a new window :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MytfhzcSF-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIrvpn3k9A4&NR=1

Happy watching!

Ouchies...

2009-07-17T18:42:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Okay, so today was my 2.4 run... :(

I FAILed as predicted.

For starters, my ankle was already hurting. It was just a sore, nothing much, so I thought I could run. WRONG!

So during the last sprint (last few meters), I just dashed like crazy past the finish line. 103th yay!

After I collected my position button, I just limped to my class. I discovered that the pain in my ankle became worse... :/

So sad, I limped back to VS by myself. When I got back, I did not intend to leave for recess and instead just stay in class. However, I was summoned by my teacher to help with RSP speech day tomorrow. Walking down one storey was already torture, and I still had to go to the 3rd floor above the staff room.

Well, I guess walking there wasn't so bad, but it was just too slow. I mean on certain tasks like this, I would just run run run my way there.

Oh well, the pain has somehow vanished slightly, so it was not as pain as before! hurray!

Tomorrow is speech day. I'm the mike guy (might guy, lol). I need to hold a mike as the altos are too soft to be heard. I'm not the only one, there are others too :P

Oh well, better give it all my best, my parents will be there as my brother won the RSP award. Congrats to all prize winners and happy speech day everyone!

rofl

2009-07-16T20:01:00.003+08:00

Hola everyone!

Okay, the past three days have been really weird and disasterous, but mostly weird.

Tuesday

During the 11:55 temperature check, my temp shot up to 37.5 degree C. Only a few people know about it and they freaked out. Come on, I was 0.1 away from the trigger temperature. I took again to get an accurate result - 37.3, 37.3, 37.2, 37.2

Still, I was sent to the general office to be "checked". I rested for 45 minutes and drank water like crazy. While waiting, I read my music textbook (it was music period at that time).

I think I am, no flu-like symptoms so far.

Wednesday

I stayed up the previous night and started doing my art project. It was really chaotic, and I slept at 2.35 am. I was REALLY tired the next day.

So during first lesson, English, I was slightly tired, but I hanged on. We were told to practise our incident report format, so I just followed instructions. I also went to the toilet to wash my face. However, it didnt work.

Next lesson was chinese, terrible. I KO-ed halfway while reading the newspaper (we are supposed to read it, so don't accuse me of not paying attention during lesson :P). I was woken up when the teacher called my name, good thing only a few people noticed. I immediately woke up and continued reading. By the way, I was in dreamland for only 1 minute, so I guess I was half-asleep!

So the sudden shock woke me up for the next few lessons. Recess, art, history. During the last 10 minutes in school, I started to get tired, but I still managed to pay attention and finish whatever that had to be done. I was awake troughout in choir, maybe lunch did the trick.

Anyway, during art, we had to present on animation. The file I presented was the file I had before staying up, so in a way, I stayed up for nothing!!! >:( but at least there was enough content. Phew...

Thursday

I did not bring my pencilcase, which meant that I did not bring my termometer as well. (it was inside my pencilcase XD ) I went down to the general office and saw mr chia there. I was surprised he did not raise his voice at me. 36.4 degree C.

After school ended on my way home, there was this teenager around my age following me and singing No Boundaries by Adam Lambert. I thought he was following me, till he went straight when I turned to my house. He was blasting the song in Tenor range haha.

So the past few days have been terrible, I wonder how I pulled through. Well, at least I did learn my lesson.

Visit the general office even if you feel well but have a high temperature.

Plan your time well and sleep early, real important!

Pack your bag (and documents) not at the last minute, so you do not miss out anything.

That's about it, hopefully this disaster does not strike again... :P

2.4KM TOMORROW, GOING TO FAIL :(

Fly~

2009-07-10T19:34:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Things in my life keep getting weirder... ...

Remember once when I told you all that I saw something white move past my house sideyard once in a post? (in the end it was really my dog)

Well, another incident happened.

It happened in school now. 5th floor *shivers*

Okay, I was the first one in my MT class (as usual) so I decided to sit down first and ~~Emo~~ study. As I walked in, I heard a sound similar to someone (or thing) drumming on the table rack below. It was across the room and somehow I was braved enough to walk towards the source of the sound. When I walked there,

the sound stopped. LOL

Okay, so I thought it was nothing and went to my seat. Then the drumming came back! I walked towards it again and it again poof-ed.

I was freaked out but I went to sit down. The drumming stopped when my friends came into the room.

I figured out it was perhaps the construction from the indoor sports hall. Maybe someone was hammering and building something or whatever. Or was it? :D

Speech Day is round the corner, so choir prac will definetly increase. Yippee, we are performing with the band! Sounds interesting. :P

~

2009-07-04T23:45:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Okay, so during PT in choir today, we were playing soccer. It was then when one of my juniors came up to me when I was beside someone else. He told him," Hey, let me mark this Sec 1."

...

Haha, my juniors don't recognise me... :P

One week in school has just begun... ...

Day 1 - Celebrating YOG, so we had to peel of sequins from a piece of sequin cloth to form a larger image. The glue used for the sequins to be pasted was really difficult to come off, so we just took a piece of scotch tape and ripped everything off!

I expected the YOG challenge to be something more challenging. Sports could have been one of them. Peeling stuff of a piece of cloth was quite sian-ish, but the end product was kind of successful and worth it.

___

For the next few days, lessons resumed. I guess the topics/projects now are really different from Sec 1. Better start getting used to it... ...

Overall my teachers, some remained the same, some changes here and there.

A week in school went past really quickly, so I guess you can say that time really flies when you're ~~NOT~~ enjoying it.

Just kidding ;)

Back to School :(

2009-06-28T21:32:00.002+08:00

Hola!

Okay, tomorrow we all are going back. How sad. To me the holidays seemed quite fast, like a gust of wind just passing by. Oh well, who said school was 100% boring? At least the subjects have changed.

GOODBYE LITERATURE (and geog)~~!

***Flings Macbeth out the window for my dog to read***

Hopefully with the new subjects like history and art, I will pull myself up! :D

Tmr is YOG day, no lessons! (except for Sec 4 :p)

A new term has started. I think it means I should step up on my studies. it starts by reading about the lesson in advance.

Anyway, what's left of my homework is a whole list of chinese phrases that I need to memorise...

I guess I need to sleep early today. A new day is a new beginning :D

Move...

2009-06-24T02:34:00.003+08:00

Hola!

Okay, you may not believe me, but something funny happened :O

So 2 days ago, it was like midnight. I heard something and stared out the window. I saw something move across. I was so freaked out I immediately went to bed.

Next morning, I went downstairs and saw a washing bucket. It was supposed to be near the kitchen at the backyard, but apparently it was there.

I then saw the pail move!!! Wow, I was scared, but I still went towards the pail. I flipped it open...

...

...

...

and my dog was underneath it!!!! :D

haha my dog looks so funny :D

Anyway, I found a new box for it to sleep in :P

So, I guess what I saw moving the previous night was just my dog trying to break free from under the pail... or was it?

Hehehe, anyway choir prac was cancelled and everything.

Oh, look at the time, I better get to bed :)

Plucked!

2009-06-19T15:18:00.002+08:00

Hola!

*this is an edited post for Thursday*

I was told that there was RSP in school at 11, so I got ready and everything at 10.30 and left the house. Upon reaching the school, I had my temperature taken.

36.3 I'm cool :)

But the queue for the temperature was very long, so I was delayed for a while. When I got to the room, I saw no one inside or outside, and the door was locked. I though maybe everyone was late, so I loitered around for a while. 30 minutes past, still no one... :(

Ahhh, there was nothing going on at all! :O

Haha, okay I'm off to finish my homework. :)

Bye~

0.o

2009-06-14T23:54:00.003+08:00

Hola!!

Wow, today is a weird day. Really.

I woke up from a bad dream, I knew watching too much Naruto is bad for me >:)

Okay, after tuition my parents suprised me with a new phone. XD Yay, it looks so much better now. However, you would not believe the trouble I went through. I had to write down all my contacts from my previous phone on a piece of paper, and then copy them onto the new phone.

It's still the same number, don't worry, but somehow it could not copy my data over :( I locked myself in the room and copied 100+ contacts... ... ... ... till I realised an option "Copy to SIM" or something. Arrgh, wasted 1 hour+ on this. All along I could just copy my contacts on the SIM card and just switch cards and everything's done...

LOL, my finger hurts :P

During dinner there was this table full of Channel U celebrities. I wanted to say hi, but I did not know them... Haha, well I recognised a few...

Lastly, something just happened about 10 minutes ago. My brother's friends were at someone's house pranking people. Haha you guessed it, my brother got pranked!!!

His friend told him that they were lost somewhere. My brother nearly left the house! Haha, I was dying from laughter. :D :D :D Classic prank

Anyway, I'll be starting my work tomorrow. I know, have not gotten the "work mood" yet. So I guess I'll start and finish tomorrow, or at least by Wednesday. As for projects, I'll still have at least a week to finish them. ;)

Till then, you can find me on MSN or something... :)

2009-06-07T22:19:00.005+08:00

Congrats to the new com!!!

Gotta make this quick :p

Here are 2 cold jokes. The answers are in white, highlight it over

How did Mr. Lim open his car without his keys??

With his Khaki (car-key) pants...

How did he drive?

With his Cargo pants...

Nothing interesting have been happening in my holidays, so I'll be posting again! :)

Ring... Ring...

2009-06-01T19:43:00.003+08:00

Hola!

Yippee, the holidays are here! I guess it's not all about playing, I mean, we still have homework and projects.

Anyway, got back my results! I got to say, I'm 2-third happy and 1 third disappointed.

I improved from the 37th in class and blasted all the way to 18th! :D Woohoo, I'm going to keep working. The funny thing is that 18 is "sort of" half of 37! :)

Maybe I'll become 9th next, then 4th! :D

My L1R5 is 13. If I want to get into VJC, I guess I need to "half" the score and get 6! :D I know it's possible :)

The next third is that next term I'll be taking Art and Home Ec - I hope I'll be able to do well in these subjects, so I can boost my score. :D Oh yeah, History too! :D

Why I'm disappointed? I got 1 C5 and a lot of B's. Literature was C5 :( I'll never take Lit in Sec 3. Chinese and others can be improved. :P

Overall, my percentage is 72. I'm 3 marks away from an A1 grade, so I guess I'll have to work harder. Even if I do well, I will still strive to do better.

It starts by opening a book. :)

quitters never win, and winners never quit

2009-05-28T23:00:00.002+08:00

Hola people!

Okay, so far from CA1 to now, I sort of improved, but I'm still quite dissapointed with my results. I felt that I have not been applying 100% effort. Pehaps I just rosed to the occasion and "tyco" improved. Yeah.

So for CA2, I'm going to put in 200% and study a few weeks before the real tests, so that I give myself more time. I also must kick out my lazy attitute :D

I can still give myself more time to watch TV or to go out, but playing computer games is a big
N-O.

I want to be at least the 10th in class. Will I achieve that? It's all up to me...

Okay, my MSG was 2.75, quite bad if you ask me.

The report book is given out tomorrow....

Be blogging again tomorrow. Cya, good luck to everyone in their report books... :)

2009-05-25T05:46:00.002+08:00

Hola Everyone,

I know my blog was dead for some time... haha

Okay, so some of my results were already announced. After my performance in CA1 compared to now, I think I improved. The reason why I did badly was not having enough sleep and managing my time properly, so I worked on it. Plus with the fact that we are allowed to go home immediately after the exams, surely I have more time to prepare. ;)

On Friday I went to Tomus' house to play Halo 3. I got defeated pretty badly. 15 to 3 :(
haha

Okay, to the main bit now. Maths has been released. It consisted of 100% of my SA1, and I got a 72. Ahh, 3 marks away from A1. The good thing is that CA1 will pull me up. I made 6 careless mistakes by not simplifying...

For third land, I got a 75. Woohoo! CA1 will pull me DOWN however. Awww....

Okay, chinese is bad. I failed the main paper and listening, but compo and letter wrtiting pulled me up! :P Still I think I could have done better. Perhaps I should have started with the comprehension of the main paper, at least marks are of a higer percentage there.

Other subjects such as English and D&T are not really announced yet. We may get them later on Monday. :D

Good luck to everyone in their marks and to the Sec 4s in their prelims. :)

Blast off! :D

2009-05-14T17:26:00.003+08:00

Hurrah!

The exams are over, other than fearingy how much I'll get, I can finally relax for a while... before school starts again.

Flashback____

Literature- Poetry was fine, but Macbeth was slightly difficult.

English- Who knew drafting could work, it helped me for the summary :)

BI (compo)- *shivers* the reply letter was okay, but the compo writing was slightly difficult.

Word for thought:

Instruksi = instruction

Instruk = instruct (verb) ?

Haha, I forgot what "tell" was, so I tried to see if that will work.

Chinese ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Okay something weird happened. Seriously.

The paper was supposed to be 2 hours, but my teacher heard it as 1 1/2 hours. I mean I did not even finish! plus there was this guy shaking his leg VIGOROUSLY.

FAQ - Why not face the other way?

Answer: There was another guy shking his legs too.

Yep, I only had 15% focus and could not complete.

Anyway back to the minus 30 minutes thing. Yeah, so 1 chinese teacher said they will look on our paper and see what they'll do. I hope it's extra marks because the 理解问答 (Part A) was kind of difficult. Hehe :D

As for my BI main paper, it was alright ;)

thouugh the cloze passage was difficult.

Yippee, everything has ended :)

Time to get ready for VJC concert.

Seeya, hurray for everyone! :)

2009-05-09T15:21:00.002+08:00

Hola,

I just discovered that my mum reads my blog when she is at her workplace. hehe...

Okay, so happy Vesak Day! and happy belated birthday to my older brother. He is 19, and his bday was yesterday. I stayed up to midnight the previous night and SMS-ed him while he was studying. The time on the SMS says 00:00. Woohoo! I was the first one to wish him!!! :)

My cousin also SMS earlier than me but she was too early. 11:59 haha 1 minute early.

Okay, so the recent exams were science and math. They were difficult-er than I though.

Chem was managable, but i made some mistakes here and there.

=
E.g. Other than litmus paper and universal indicator, name other 2 chemical indicators.

hehe, I put phenolphthalein and red cabbage juice.

Hehe, i don't know if the red one is wrong, or maybe even both were wrong... haha, i laughed at my answer. I only found out the answer after the test. Jonathon Loh also put the same red cabbage juice answer. I mean, it does work. Check out YouTube. There ARE tests.

Okay, bio was quite bad. I mean, the MCQ was fine but the short-answered questions were quite difficult. One question was absurd. You don't want to know. its bio, i must remind you.

Maths was really really tough. I did not have enough time to check my answers for part 1, and part 2 was just difficult with little time to spare. Phew, I think I'll only make a bare pass.

Maybe my marks won't be as bad as I think, but you never know. We'll see...

Remaining exams: EL P2, Lit :( , CL P2 and third lang.

Okay, gotta go cram Macbeth in my head. I even managed to memorise Act 1 Scene 1.

First witch: "When shall we meet again?"

I don't know, next time after the exams? lol

3 Days down

2009-05-06T21:30:00.003+08:00

Hola~

Okay, so only 3 days have passed and I'm already really... nervous?

Firstly, Geography was terrible, well sort of. The funny thing, during CA1, when I thought I would do fine, my results were REALLY BAD. So, I really don't want to know how much I'll get. I mean, I also did not do 4 mapwork questions. 0.o

Next, I went over the topic of my Chinese Compo. I don't want to say, it's embarassing. :#

I'm also really scared about tomorrow. It's Science. For term 1, we learnt Bio. For the current term, we are learning Chem. However, the exam tomorrow will have a higher percentage of bio than chem. So unfair. :(

Can't really blog much. Although I really think I need to use my time well. Really.

Okay, before I cram the solubility table in chem, I will share with you something that happened yesterday. I did not being my thermometer. The funny thing, was that I did not even touch my pencilcase from Monday, and out of the blue it just vanishes. Had to waste $4 on a new one. When I went home, it was not in my table, or in my bag.

Things these days are so complicated. :S

Okay, I also have problem with chem and bio. Wonder what my subject combee will be...

Oh well, better start now.

:D

Good Luck n_n

2009-05-03T20:40:00.002+08:00

Hi!

okay, so the exams start tomorrow, so before I going insane, relax by watching this video!

Ode to Joy - Performed by the Muppets!

...

For some reason I can't entirely copy the embed code.

Here's the URL to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdNAV6zSpRY

Enjoy, and good luck to all!

Looking Ahead

2009-05-02T22:20:00.003+08:00

Hola!

Okay, so the exams are just in 2 days. I'm combining studying with fun at the same time. i should have more time given to myself to study, while the other part to just watch TV and stuff. i planned out a schedule so i don't get carried away. :)

I can't stand the noise. My parents are playing Mahjong in the room with my brothers. I'm not playing. :S

So looking back to the Chinese project, I feel that I should not really care about it. I mean it's already part of the past, no use regreting over it. Also, I scored pretty high for the common test, and plus the high watage of TfU, perhaps my marks will still be great, we'll see. :0

Well, I'm glad it's SA1 instead of CA1. At least after the exams I get to go home and study more. Also on MOST days, there are only 1 paper. this means I can focus more on the subject and then with the remaining time of the day, I can prepare for the following exam. :D :D :D

CY (my classmate) : Hey how did the pig get on the roof?

Me: How?

CY: Swine flu (flew)

Me: =.="'

Okay, so there is a crisis going on now, and its in the orange zone, quite risky. So far at least 159 people have died from the epidemic. Quite sad I must say. On the bright side they said someone should have found a cure, but it is only available in 100 days (w.e.f. 30 April). However, in Singapore, it is said that there currently is a slight prevention, not a cure.

Okay, i don't want to scare you, but my mum's friend, is in Hong kong doing a business trip. Yeah, uh-oh. There has been a recent case there.

CY and I have been debating about this topic. He says that it is the end of mankind, that it will spread to everyone and we'll all be either dead or zombies. How sad. I rebutted him saying PM Lee thinks that we will get through this like SARS and Bird Flu. Oh well, what will be will be.

All the best for everyone in their exams, hope you all pass with flying colours. :D

1 + 1 = ?

2009-04-30T22:29:00.002+08:00

Holaz!

What is the number 1? It is a number, nothing much.

But what is 1 + 1?

2, duh :)

So if something is added to something else, the result changes.

If we add another 1, the result will just get bigger and bigger. till you choose to subtract.

I'm going to my main point now. So remember I said there was this chinese project where the leader "sabo-ed" himself by using "ee ni mi ne me ni mo". What I can't stand about this is that as a leader, your role is not to assign roles to people, compile work and make sure everything is running smoothly, but it is to help your members at the same time and give advice to improve, and not wait until the deadline or the submition and start acusing them and pointing fingers.

So as this leader for our chinese group, he DID help, a little. But that is not the point. He did not even bother to read the work I sent to him for compilation. He said, "You expect me to read everything, ah? You know how late it was?" The time then was 10pm. There's nothing wrong with sleeping at 10, but we had a crisisi then! And how long will reading 2 pages of work help? When there was a slight problem, he accused me. >:(

To solve this problem, either I don't work with him, or we appoint someone else to be the leader. I know I can't entirely blame him, but really...

Relating back to the 1 + 1....

So he made me work for 3 hours straight (7pm after dinner - 10pm) changing the format and stuff for the presentation. I was SUPPOSED to do Literature project, but because of this unforseen missile, there was no time left... So this pushed back my schedule for Wednesday, then to Thursday. Thankfully, tomorrow is a public holiday. I can finally have a proper rest (recently it was 3 hours only) and finish up my work, before , mugging for the exams. After a disappointing result for CA1, I am determined to work harder for SA1. Good luck to everyone else, and happy Labour Day Eve.

A lot of other things occured. Such as our D&T project. Looking at our final product, I think it deserves a thumbs-up! Our efforts were paid off. :)

Lastly, the Choir Trip to Penang is cancelled :(

due to, what else?

Swine flu, I hope it does not trotter its way here to Singapore and to all those people out there, take care! I heard that there is a cure for it on the radio today on my way to school. It should be available in 100 days. Meanwhile in Singapore, there are some medication to slightly prevent infection.

Take care of your health and hygiene everyone, good luck for the exams! :)

Uh-Oh

2009-04-26T19:07:00.004+08:00

Hola!

Okay, I got to make this post short because I have a lot of work left to do.

So anyway, my weekend was used to paint my D&T characters for the diorama. Well, it took longer than I thought. Urrhh, D&T... It's fun and easy to do well, but it is really time consuming... Oh well, my effort and hard work will pay off, just like how we got GWH! ;P

Okay, so anyway Thursday was our photo-taking session. We had the last slot so there was free time between 2.15 to 5+. I wanted to use the time to finish my work but I had to go for D&T make-up. When we got ready for the photo taking, we had to line up according to height. I realised that I was the shortest Sec 2 now! Ahh! I lost to Tomus :(

Aaron went to measure us. There were only 3 Sec 1s in front of me. So embarassing~ :$

I counted after Tomus, and there were another 7 Sec 1s before the next Sec2. Being short feels weird. Haha...

Okay now we move to Friday. I forgot to bring my Chinese 课本 so my teacher told me to copy down the WHOLE passage. It was the worst day to NOT bring the textbook. The passage was ultra long! 6 pages long! AHH!!!

When I got back to class, I realised it was under my table!!! Eeek! So 倒霉! How silly...

Also, yesterday I had Chemistry make-up in the morning, the usual time choir prac would have been, but there is a temporary break now. So what I learnt was useful and I'm glad I can focuse on my studies for now...

So after that, I went to the fitness corner with Daniel Lock and Tomus. Both of them can do REAL pull-ups, I'm so jealous. Haha, that's another thing I can work on. However, I can climb to the top of the monkey-bar! :)

However, the main problem was getting down from the top. At first, the way I got down was to just jump off. which was REAL STUPID of me! :(

So instead of the suicide method, I slide down the sides :) Innovative! :D

Lastly, I took a "What is your Real Age" on FaceBook, and the result was 9! At first, it was 8, before my birthday. Haha, I'm a Primary 4 with the intelligence of a Sec 2! :)

A final note to everyone who is going to the VIP, or IP, good luck to you and all the best in your application! :)

OK, back to work! :S

Your Time Ran Out!!!

2009-04-24T01:43:00.002+08:00

>HOLA<

So exams are round the corner now. Things have just been too busy. I mean look at the time I'm posting this!!! 1:43 am

If there's one thing I can't stand, that would be when things get out of hand. For example, I planned 1 hour to finish 2 difficult questions from my Maths Workbook, in the end, I somehow took more than that...

Homework has just been piling up. Now that CCA has temporarily stopped, perhaps I should use this time to catch up with my studies and homework.

Okay, it's late. I really need my sleep. Tomorrow is another day...

Whatever things that need to be done, should be done and completed, so I can "face" more tomorrow...

:(

2009-04-22T16:35:00.005+08:00

Hola~~

Today is EARTH DAY! Let's all contribute and restore our world. RENOVAN!!!

Okay, but I'm going to talk about something really unfair...

So we had our BI exam, about time. Every question which requests to write down the time, I wrote it out in full BI letters.

For example. Now os 4.35pm. I wrote out as four thirthy-five pm.

You get the point. And that was marked wrong!!!

I can't believe it, I mean we are learning the language and aren't we supposed to write it in full letters? The correct answer was 4.35. Without any pm! I really don't get it :(

Someone said the teacher gave instructions to do so, but I don't remember hearing so... Well I did ask her about page 3 (my marks were deducted on pages 1 & 2) about the writing as numbes, so I thought the time was only supposed to be written as numbers on that page.

What I said may be quite complicated, but anyway, it's probably my own fault which landed me into this plight. I don't remember hearing anything, but it was probably announced. Oh well, my final marks weren't to shabby...

^^

2009-04-22T16:35:00.001+08:00

3rd Lang Exam

2009-04-21T22:35:00.003+08:00

Hola!

Firstly, I would like to congratulate the VSCO. Haha, after intense prac and with all their hard work, they got a satisfiying gold! ~~Refer to the link at the title to view all the results.~~ Our C.O. is registern number 35.

Okay, so I had 3rd lang exam today. I was surprised I was not nervous with shaking legs, but i was just gripping onto my shorts...

So reading the passage was fine, but the tricky part was when the teacher asked me the meanings of words in the passage. I blanked out then and panicked. There was also this stupid fly buzzing around my mouth... :(

Irritant

Haha, our conversation about how i plan to practise for this semester's exams was smoother than i thought, but still i think it can be improved.

Oh well, no point in looking back now...

Just aim forward and strive again for greater heights!

Apparently the link at the title may not work. Please go to this link:

http://www.chinese-orchestra.com/index.php

The Dog Choir

2009-04-19T23:23:00.002+08:00

Haha, before I sleep (and face CL Exam and Bahasa Indonesia oral exam tomorrow), please watch this video. It's about a dog singing while playing the keyboards, or SOMEWHAT like that:

ATTENTION: Sorry for the small space for the video...

One Dog Show @ Yahoo! Video

Yay, he's going to be an SL next time. hahas

Do you want a Lift? I don't...

2009-04-19T20:20:00.002+08:00

Hola

Okay, my house is infested with some flying ant-like bug. They are attracted to bright and shiny things. Basically lights, mirrors, etc. So one of them landed on my brother and he said "Haha, that means I am bright" Haha, bad pun :(

Okay, so anyway on Friday, I was scolded by a teacher for taking the school lift. I HAD AN EXCUSE!!! and its a good one. I was helping my temporarily disable friend (fractured his arm) to carry his bag. I mean we had D&T stuff to carry and you don't know how heavy that would be. Really, so next time to avoid anything of this matter to happen, I will just use the stairs. Btw, the bag is a roller bag, so how else do I carry it up?

Hmmm... But really, next time I will not take the lift, even when I'm helping to carry stuff, unless I'm with a teacher.

To simplify it: Eg - If you don't want to cheat and get caught in the exams, then don't bother cheating at all

Another case of lift happened today. So I was about to enter the lift in the Parkway building to go for my tuition at the 9th floor. There were 3 lifts, and 2 of them opened in the ground floor. I was about to enter one of them when a sudden feeling told me not to. So I took the stairs up.

When I got up, all the lifts broke down and where stuck. Freaky, eh?

So the people (including my tutor's son) were stuck in the lift for 45 minutes. Yeah, that's a long time. Also, there were 2 short-circuits in the building during my tuition. Haha, imagine teaching held in darkness... Spooky

I took the lift down to the first floor, grabbing my bag tight, hoping there won't be another short-circuit.

There wasn't. Phew...

Moral of the story, lifts are not nice.

:)

SYF~

2009-04-16T20:17:00.002+08:00

SYF was today :P

In the morning after we left VS, we arrived in Victorira Concert Hall. We heard other choirs sing and most of them were actually quite good. I was nervous before our performance but was fine during the real thing.

So we gave our best shot, proved to them that we are the best :)

However, we made some minor errors, such as going sharp at certain places. Thus, we were quite nervous about the results. Still, we were confident in ourselves.

During the 6 hours break between our performance to the results, I went with some friends to Burger King and ate :P

Then, we moved to Suntec City, window shopping at certain points. :D

We went to caffoure and other places.

So on our way back, we were starting to get anxious yet happy. We are happy this competition is over and had enjoyed ourselves throughout, but what about the results?

We were in the waiting room. Silence. The announcer made a speech first. As she announced the results, the suspense was overwhelming... Then, it came to us...

"Choir #21 - Victoria School..."

I froze at this point.

"Choir #21 - Victoria School"

She repeated it again. I was stunned for a while, but then got back to "serious" mode.

"Gold with honours"

Woohoo~ The whole choir was screaming and cheering. We were actually not supposed to make too much noise, but we were too excited and happy...

:)

Tomorrow...

2009-04-15T19:54:00.003+08:00

Tomorrow's the big day...

A short 5 minutes or so will judge our standard for the next two years... We've been practising for so long, I'm sure our efforts will pay off. In less than 16 hours, we would have performed. In less than a day, the results will be anounce. (as of 8pm now)

Can't post much, but I will post our results.

Okay, need to have an early night, all the best to everyone.

;)

Too Angry for a Title

2009-04-13T22:17:00.003+08:00

Hola all,

as you all know 12 April (yesterday) was my birthday. Thank you all who wished me during Choir prac, SMS or Facebook etc. So my family booked a chalet for me till Thursday morning. That means after school, I'll go there till about 10pm, then go home. Well, after today, I will never want to go there again.

Yesterday was fine. I mean the chalet had a basketball / tennis court, bowling alley, arcade, swimming pool, playground etc. You think that is fun? Think again. I really enjoyed myself on the first day. We had a BBQ and celebrated with a cake and everything.

But I was not allowed to go swimming. I mean, what's wrong with that?

The second day was terrible (today). When I got there, I wanted to play the PSP, but it ran low on battery. After it finally died, I wanted to charge it (I brought a charger). Guess what, there was no adapter there. I mean a chalet is something like a hotel, so shouldn't there be adapters?

I was starting to feel bored, so I went to the playground. It was about 6.30pm already. I climbed to the top of the slide and just lay down there. Thankfully there was no one there. I mean, would I just sleep in front of everyone? ;)

After a while it started to get dark. I went inside the house and asked for money to the arcade. The games there were not the popular games you usually find. Also, the difficulty level of the games were set to the most extreme. The game I played was familiar to me. I usually made it to the final boss stage. However, I lost at Stage 3 already. It wasn't a close match at all! I struggled at Stage 2 already... They just wanted to rip you off like that...

So I went to play Pool with my brother, you know that billiard game thing. My brother being a soreloser, came up with a lame excuse when I accidentally missed. He said it was an "intentional miss". I thought he was right at first, then he just played dirty. I was about to win when he stopped the ball, and just played by himself. I set the billiard stick down and wanted to go back. He then used the billiard stick and hit me on the back! The pain was bad enough but there was also blue chalk on my NEW shirt... So he played for a while more. As I was about to leave, he dumped the billiard stuff on me and told me to return it! There's no respect or logic here at all...

So I went back to the house. Everyone was watching TV, playing Mahj0ng and everything... So for 2 hours + I just stared at the TV, bored to tears... :(

There really was a big difference between yesterday and today. I enjoyed yesterday, but today was just dissapointing...

☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠

2009-04-09T18:26:00.002+08:00

[Hola]

Okay, so during Geog lesson today, our Geog teacher had to attend something to her class (1A). What actually happen was a fight. Actually, something far worse... ...

So my brother (yes, he's in VS) came home today and told me what happened.

Why and how did the fight start? They fought over, a pen...

You might be wondering, "That serious?!"

I'm not going to mention names...

The "attacker", one of my brother's closest friends sadly got suspended. My brother had recess with him. He said that he was perfectly fine and in a good mood. I don't know if I got my story straight, but when they returned to class, that guy wanted the pen back. The "borrower" refused and hit him with a pencilcase. Somehow the "attacker" got so angry, he took his tennis racket and repeatedly hit the "borrower" in the chest and the arm, so hard that his arm broke, after a recover not long ago.

It's quite unbelievable that a normal pen caused the "attacker" to get suspended. It's sad to say...

If you have any questions, don't refer to me as I don't have my facts right. This was all from my brother. Hehe.

Another thing, during english lesson, we were to write naratives :(

Yeah, like my previous post, I brainstormed and got a rough idea. However, the teacher said stop just as I was about to finish. I improvised and quickly wrote a sudden ending. :(

Back to happier stuff.

It seems as if our SYF standard is improving. Hopefully nothing will go wrong at this point of time (Touchwood). It is less than a week away. To be exact, if we fast-forwarded to the next week, we would have our results already. Would we get a GWH? We can, if we do our best! :)

SPLAT

2009-04-08T21:23:00.003+08:00

Hola!

So today there was morning practice! Although it is quite too early, somehow we sould better. Maybe because we just woke up and class has not started yet. :) Okay, so today there was STILL detergent in my bottle. What's up with this? Good thing I shook my bottle first before drinking. Ha! I survived from liquid poisoning! :)

The new blogskin is starting to fit in, although the space for text and stuff is quite small. Hmm, I'll change blogskin during the 100th post, or sometime earlier!

Ah!!! There is an English narrative writing tomorrow! and Mr Leo says it must be related to Southeast Asia, as part of RSP. I don't mind writing on this theme, but it's difficult adding in a twist. Guess I need to brainstorm later! :)

I also need to do the research for Chinese. Haha, I sort of "sabo" that guy to be leader. Hehe, actually not really. He sabo-ed himself after doing "ee ni mi ni mo". Haha!!!

I just realised that the exams are actually quite near. I mean, apart from graded work and assignments, the exams are just in May! That is not long... I guess I need to step and buck up on my studies.

On my way home today, I saw a disgusting sight, on an animal. A mynah, again. If you recall back, my dog bit a mynah to pieces. This time, it was far worse. (but my dog had nothing to do with it. Phew!)

Okay, here's the picture:

Ya, Ewwwww. Where's his (or her) head?

There were flies everywhere on the body. He was most probably ran over by a car. Yucks.

If this picture insults you in a certain way or you find it disturbing, I will be happy to remove it! Shout out in the tag board!

I don't mean to post happy tree friends photos!

Hehe

New Blogskin!

2009-04-06T17:01:00.003+08:00

Hola!

Woohoo! I just changed my blogskin! It really was difficult changing and everything. I know this skin has quite a small space for the text, but isn't the theme so cool? The titles of each component are exam-based. Neat, huh?

Okay, so today (Monday) there was no Choir, or BI as the Sec 1s had to go visit an Indonesian School. So most of the Sec 2s had to record a song - Bengawan Solo. We did not sing, but play instruments such as anklung and the arumba. Everyone was in a rush to go for CCA, home, etc; As a result, we all just wanted to get it over and done with, so we were playing all "un-focused". I was there to watch and listen, as I have not played the instruments last time.

So there was this guy, he was all rushy and showed lousy attitude. I mean, just because his parents were supposed to be at the school at 3:30, he just left suddenly. I called him back, but he just ran off! Thanks to him, we had trouble so we had to ask another classmate to play 2 angklungs at once!

I'm also certain that his parents had not arrived yet.

He also had memorised my NRIC some time last year. I mean, it's not like I did anything to him! He keeps annoying me but repeating my NRIC over and over and over again. I don't feel safe with him knowing my personal particulars. He might use it for other activities like sign me up for some course without me knowing, or whatever.

Arrgh, better not talk about this. Thinking about it makes my brain explode... So the band SYF is tmr. One of my classmates left after recess for intensive prac to 4pm. Well, good luck to them! All the best! Jia You!!! =D

As for choir, SYF is only in 9 days. Let's just maintain/ increase our standard and sharpen our singing within the last few days.

Go for it! =)

10.30pm rule :(

2009-04-05T22:50:00.005+08:00

Hola!

Okay, so my parents gave me this 10:30pm rule. Which means I must sleep by 10:30 or they scream at me! o.0

I'm not kidding!

And I know now is supposed to be past 10:30pm. I just gave them the "wait" word and they did not really say anything else! But on other days, I just put down my work and go off to bed. So then, how do I finish my work? Well, I set my alarm to 5am. Haha, so if I can't sleep late, I'll just wake up early!

So after a busy weekend, it's back to a busier week. With choir prac and RSP, I think I might really wake up early! Well, I don't really mind waking up at 5.30am. I mean, these activities are fun and helps me with my O levels and others. Also, waking up early is healthy, isn't it?

Added in : Ok, I changed my blogskin. Cool, eh? I have no time to add in my profile and links YET. Check again soon.

Bye, I need to sleep!

16 days more!

2009-03-31T21:13:00.003+08:00

Hola!!

Ahhh! SYF is in 16 days! 0.o

So anyway this "is the final gear"! :)

Ok, that aside. Today was terrible, sort of. :(

So it started in the morning till end of school. It was time for morning assembly... So i thought it was in the parade square, but it was in the hall. I went all the way down, only to find out the location was changed back to the parade square =.= :)

After that, back in class, I wanted to drink some water. When I took a sip (or gulp), the water tasted lemon-ish. Hmmm, so at first I thought, yummy :) but then I shook the bottle and bubbles and foam started forming over the surface.

Ahh, I just drank dilluted detergent! :S

Then during chinese class, the guy beside me, sneezed with blood splattering over the place. Then the blood landed on my uniform. There was a whole blotch there, as I stared at him. So he did not apologise, but just splashed the water from his bottle on me! I mean, blood was bad enough, now dilluted blood was all over my uniform!

During PE, I sprained my leg during the 100m sprint (which I failed :( ). I missed out on playing floorball! :(

Recess was fine. Thankfully

I'll go straight to OPW. The same guy who was in my team kept on talking during the presentation... ... Really annoyed >:(

Finally, we had a Environmental Activist meeting. I didn't mind going for it, but the teacher promised it would end at 2:50. It didn't. The topic was the same. I mean, if we already know what to do, what's the use of saying it over and over......

Well, I was glad the day ended. I could de-stress during choir and finally get home. Phew, the day was tiring, but I "survived".

If this were to be applied to SYF, I would say that the practices and everything is tiring and everything, but our efforts will pay off. I'm certain of it ;)

50th post - Earth Hour

2009-03-28T21:14:00.002+08:00

Hola people!

Okay, I'm blogging in total darkness now with only a candle, as it is Earth Hour! (8.30pm - 9.30pm, 28th March) So yeah, you're supposed to turn off your lights to contribute to saving the Earth! Its fun! just one hour and you can help the earth, how nice!

So that aside, I've not been blogging for a very long time as work has just piled up!! Last time, I said I have time mangement problems, but now I just have no time!!! :(

I mean SYF is just 20 days away, I can't wait for that day! Hang in there, Lie Wen! :)

Okay, better get back to work!

SYF Prac Rehearsal

2009-03-19T23:30:00.003+08:00

Hola

Weehee, there's an SYF rehearsal tomorrow. Hopefully we do our best! :)

Then again, we shouldn't get our hopes too high.

Anyway, after choir prac ended, I went to Katong Shopping Centre!!!...

...to collect my glasses.

Flashback: My glasses were eaten by monkeys in Bali. :(

So anyway, after I collected them, I waited at the bus stop. Then I saw two guys, around sec 4 - JC that kind of age. They were smoking, hopefully their not from VS.

The overhead bridge was only like 20 steps... not wait. LESS THAN 20 steps but they just dashed across the road like mad dogs and CLIMBED over that tall green fence, railing, seperator, whatever it is called.

Hmm, bad students

Okay, then my bus came and it was PACKED!!!

I squeezed myself into the bus and soon was ready to get back home.

However, one stop away from my alighting station, the bus pulled over to drop and pick up people. As the door was closing, it CLAMPED an old lady on her arm. She wasabout to get on the bus when the door just slammed. So both of them [old lady + bus driver] had a heated argument over me ear...

Think it was cantonese or something. Still, the bus driver should provide excellent service and "the 'customer' is always right".

So anyway, today was sort of colourful, and full of events such that work has piled up on my table.

Well, better get started, even though it is this late.

Cya all next time.

Peace out :)

TIRED OUT :(

2009-03-17T22:16:00.003+08:00

I am tired and have slight fever :(

Hehe, I finally finished unpacking :D

So anyway I'll be free tomorrow, time to do work.

Anyway, I might only change my blogskin slightly later as I lost the blogskin I was looking for.

If you want to know what it looks like it is a happy tree friends bunny about to put a fork in a electical switch.

Cute,eh?

I need to sleep to refresh myself... Goodnight ;)

Back from Bali

2009-03-16T20:49:00.002+08:00

Hola

Okay, i'm back from Bali!!! :)

Ok ok I shall not post much because I'm tired =.=

But something... ... "interesting" happened.

We were in the Uluwatu Temple. There were a lot of monkeys and I mean A LOT!!! So there were warnings of them stealing your stuff but I did not really cared because from "past experience" as you know I thought they were harmless.

So I took a lot of pictures of them when suddenly, i thought I was PUNCHED on the side of the face. I went like "What?". Then with my almost-blind vision, I saw a monkey took my glasses and BENT IT IN HALF . So someone helped me lured the monkey with peanuts and took the glasses back and tried to "un-bend" it. Parts of my glasses came off so I had to wear my spare glasses.

Do not laugh at me if I bang into things or cannot see you now. Really.

I hate monkeys now!

Conclusion - I guess I have to blame my ignorance and "IGNORE-rance". But I feel like blinding that monkey with my camera flash. Just kidding, they are just so despo for food that they steal stuff.

Imps.

distracted

2009-03-10T23:25:00.004+08:00

Hola

I'm distracted.

By what? Almost everything.

Have you ever planned to do something, but something different happens or you just take too long that you give up?

I am an example. I want to start and do my work, but I somehow drift off into doing something else like lying down on the sofa, watching TV, surfing the Net. Well, all this extra time piles up causing me to sleep later, say about 2.30 am (yes, that happened before)

Well, the funny thing is that when I sleep late, well I don't feel tired, but I feel tired after sleeping early. Weird :S

Anyway, I think I should lock myself in the room when I am doing my homework or studying, and turn off the computer and shut the windows, to avoid any distractions :)

It's a study method :) I'm not being emo XD

And when I'm done, I can relax for a while.

Hopefully my studies will improve if I have a proper mindset in studying hard :)

Haha, anyway I performed in Ritz Calrton with the choir.

Our performance went slightly well, although no one was really paying attention to us. You could only listen to them eating and I think only 5 people were truly listening. But as long as we gave our best, thats good :)

I admit the food was great and everything and it was a fun experience :)

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Leaving to Bali for my RSP trip on Thurs. Coming back on Monday.

>:(

2009-03-05T22:39:00.002+08:00

Hola All

I wont be posting for some time as the week is getting busy. With Choir prac, projects and normal classes and homework again, I wont be posting as often.

Recently a lot has happened. I have the Good, the Bad and the REALLY UGLY (V.bad) results. For example, my maths and D&T were pretty high, my chinese remained sort of remained, even though i dropped HCL, and I really messed up for Lit and Third Lang.

You know what this calls for? An emergency thinking.

Maybe I can set aside unimportant stuff, such as watching tv, and playing psp and others, and focus them more on studies and cca, such that i will have more time in the end and sleep earlier too, allowing myself to concentrate more in class the next day and perhaps i could learn more :)

Projects - CE-TT, Geog, RSP, Lit, D&T, etc...

I really need to maybe plan on what I want to achieve and aim for it :)

This calls for practice.

Last point. There has been a rumour going on around the class. I'm sure everyone knows about it and suspect me, along with a few other people. Let me get this straight that if you think it is me, I have nothing against you. Yet you go around saying false tales. If I did the same for anything you did, how would you feel?

I have nothing against that person (name I shall not mention) so why would I do this? I'm already that busy and you think I have time for this? I have a life.

So if you see anyone spreading this rumour about me or anyone else, tell this to them and see what they have to say. Also if this persist, I will not hesistate to report this matter. :)

I mean it :P