Monday, August 23, 2004 @5:54 pm
Hey people, its been a long long time, but I just didn't feel like writing. So whats been happening in my life? The big event is that MM will be leaving. Contract ends, wants to continue elsewhere (specifically korea) blahblahblah... Isn't that wonderful? After I've finally found a teacher that I like, can work with, is not boring, in fact, one that I really like, she goes off. This just shows how the world is out to upset me. And with the exams a month away, the possibility to of my having to drop a subject is huge and looming. And then I'll have a problem with choosing the subject to drop. Not that I won't put up a good fight to keep all my subjects. That I will. Afterall, PM did say that education is not all about grades. Yes I understand that this is the O levels we're talking about, but if I don't mind a couple of Bs in my cert. I don't see why I shouldn't be allowed to have them. So, I'll fight, and in the mean time, prepare for the worst.
I have to confess I've been slacking the whole weekend. I went for piano lesson on Friday. I think she had to prepare for the musicale on sat. or something. I'm trying to inch my way to a free musicale from my f.m. Anyway, I saw MM 3 times last week. Not that it wasn't good seeing her, it was. Once on Tuesday, @ aljunied mrt, the other on Wednesday, @ theory, and the next on Friday, @ piano.
I guess I can say last week was a very musical week. I practiced both exam, duet and other pieces like crazy, and no doubt this week will be very similar. It has something to do with giving the best last lesson. Also, its a good motivation to really do well.
Since when did I become so ...serious?...hmm....but its good...so I won't change it...
Today was the concert. I was emcee (again), and stumbled quite horribly, oh, damn him, telling me I'd be emcee last minute. Altogether it was a good performance. Yue said so, though I think he just said those to be able to get out of there quickest time possible. One good/bad thing was also putting off my platform. Fine, outwardly I keep trying to push it, but its actually quite irritating to think that you're going to do it week after week and in the end not doing it. So hopefully, it'll be done and over with next week.
Ok day, it should continue.
you know you love me
Monday, August 16, 2004 @10:00 pm
The weekend, my weekend was spent quite nicely, until someone had to tell me something.
Saturday morning was spent in school for A Maths where I managed to just pass my test through numerous careless mistakes and the consequence of not bothering to study. But oh well...I've 2 months to cram. After A Maths, nice me went to spend a leisurely few hours in the fishtank with H. Then we went off to 7 - 11 where I found out there YMM called my parents. But no, thats not the news. Though it did piss me off. I had to go back to school to complete uncompleted hw. No, the news came...
during piano. MM nicely asked if she had told me the news, then she nicely said that she couldn't teach me anymore soon. Asked why: contract ends. Asked when: August...!!!! AHHHH!!! NOOO!!! 'You mean you won't see me through my exam?!? I've to have a new teacher for the 2 weeks before my exam?!? And more importantly my favourite piano teacher is going disappear???Damn!!!!!' Isn't it wonderful? Horrible things come in numerous pakages. The spoilt my weekend and probably many days after...
you know you love me
Saturday, August 14, 2004 @10:52 pm
I promised you the tour's events and now I'll deliver.
Yesterday, we all worked pretty hard till A Maths period when we all went mad and went full force into preparation for the tour: changing, packing, eating.
In concourse: ppl gathered, lined up, I marked attendance. Guess who were the last ones to arrive, nvm, I won't tell you. (you were supposed to guess anyway) We were the first class to be ready, (of course, we are always good), so off we went into the bus, where the two xinyis sat together. On the way, the facilitators (in english, they are guides), talked. Actually, one of them did. She immediately went into my black books. Firstly, the voice, then, the manner of speaking, then, the tone and then everything else. Luckily when she separted us she gave us girls to the other women, a much nicer one as we were soon to find out. Ms Devika is her.
First stop, Fort Canning, there, we walked where we have all walked on other tours before, but this was the first time I actually listened and was interested. You see, good guides actually make a huge diff.
Then, we took the bus to Peninsula Plaza. There we had our 'break'.
Walked to St. Andrews, interesting.
Walked to Parliament house. Changed IDs for passes. Went up 3rd level. Went into actual parliament room, through a 'strangers' door'. That was insulting. So much for making Sgreans feeling that they have a part to play.
Walked to Supreme Court. Went into court of appeals. Got a shock, so high tech. Computers @ every seat. Really interesting. Other than the computers, everything else was more of less like that of the court rooms you see on TV.
Then this other dumb facilitator gave us the talk about the court. She was sooooo ******* irritating. Every single thing was a 'so called'. Nothing is exactly what it is, they are all 'so called'. I was so irritated. Then, we walked to the bus, where we gave MD a resounding round of applause. Thats how good we were.
You know you love me
Friday, August 13, 2004 @11:02 pm
Ok, heres goes the blanks for the gaps. bleh...I'm getting so lame, but you can't blame me, thats what a school system like mine does to you. You get so stressed up and when you're not doing work, you get lame. Ok, I'll stop crapping and get on to business.
Tuesday was spent finishing two books. Good books, go the my books page to take a look and search it up. You'll want to read it. Other than that, my Tuesday was boring. I TRIED to do my work, but it was just tooo mundane.
Wednesday, comes the fun. ELDDS CIP after school. Had lunch with C, then we trooped to the fishtank with the ppl we picked up. There, everyone was waiting, so off we went. The whole group of us walking out of school and bagging the bus. And on the bus, making a fool of ourselves. Thank goodness there was only one other Primary School guy on board. And C was so freakingly irritating. She was so caught up with T. I'll just list some of her irritatingness.
1) said could take 197, when it came, said couldn't. turned out could.
2) said block 97. went to block 57. said maybe it was 57. walked around, no childcare centre. said 97.
3) when it was affirmed that there was no blck 97 in the area, she told us to just walk on.
4) in childcare centre, continued being irritating...(I won't tell you how)
So, H and I left her to be irritating and sent her to conventry. Then, we had to survive telling those inattentive kids the story of Pat the Postman. Fine, we weren't very interesting and kids' attention span is short. But its not our fault they have to listen to like 4 stories in a row.
After we finished boring the kids, H and I escaped to Swensens @ PW where we enjoyed 2 rounds of Topless 5. De-Li-Cious!
Then, both of us had to rush off to our various activities.
Thusday, YMM tried to be funny. She suggested that the school installed cords like those safety cords performers use so that teachers could fly up to class. She'll just have to press a button, and up she'll fly to class. In the case of a technical fault, no fret, it would be the job of the students to pull the teachers up. Right, that'll be fun.
In the afternoon, @ German, quite a lot of interesting facts were found out by talking to F.A. while we were supposed to be doing work.
*Frau Chua was the top pupil in their time (she was a berlin wall student)
*When MOE needs 'chers, they pull ppl out of mainstream schools, send them on crash courses, come back and start teaching (eg. Frau T.H.M.)
*She went on the Sec 3 immersion programme 15 years ago (which makes her ___this year)
*FO was married twice and...
Thats all for now. I'll tell you about interesting today tomorrow. I'll promise you it'll be interesting. (that is if I haven't been affected by the system too much)
you know you love me
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 @6:23 pm
My my my, it has been a long weekend. Or rather a long Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Sunday was spent as usual @ granny's. Had a smashing time watching 'Ms Congeniality' and 'Pratical Magic' both in a row. Both good watchable movies.
The next day, Monday, National Day, Holiday! Spent the morning eating cornflakes in front of the TV flipping channels. Theres nothing good on the TV @ any time nowadays. Thats too bad. So, walked around the house, played some piano. That 'What a Friend we have in Jesus' MM gave is really a challenge. But then, theres nothing I can't get under/over/around.
Went for lunch with family @ 'tall ppls place', at least thats what I call it. Its this Chinese restaurant @ east coast set up by these really tall people. Its the family whose daughter got into the papers 'cause she was 14 and modelling. (rmb the Elite Model search) Food was good, some anyway. Others wasn't to my liking.
Spent the afternoon playing the piano and flipping channels. I do believe i found some movie good enough to sit through. After that, was just nice to watch the repeat of PM's ND speech (which I missed the day before) and continue with NDP. Given it was all the same except for the show section, but as a patriotic Singaporean, I enjoyed it all. Of course adding the fact that it would be the last of PM Goh's as PM. It was seriously great, only regret was not being able to party over @ the stadium. But partying @ home wasn't so bad either.
We'll miss PM Goh as PM. Had almost zero contact with him, but the impression I have a him is a great, compassionate leader who knows how to get in touch with his citizens and who has brought Sg far from LKY days. It seems that there are limits that each PM will stop @ and the PM must be changed before a country can be brought further. The change of generation...
And of course, the best was kept for the last. Singapor Idol!!! Afte NDP...Wow, was it good or what? Of course, it was an exact replica of of American Idol only renamed and relocated, and that was rather downing, but other than that, it was altogether very entertaining. There was the really good guy, whom we'll all see more of. And there were the slops of the event who we'll all regret to have missed but will not be sorry to see the backs of them. And of course, not forgetting the guy who was too good for the pop world. I personally felt sincerely sorry for him. I would have loved to hear more of that Shanghai Rocky guy.
And of course, theres today! Tuesday, day after ND, school holiday!!! Woke up @ 9am. Cornflakes in front of Pebbles and Bambam. After that, some piano and then I managed to sit through a movie on HBO. After that came the part where I actualy did something. I went to the library, got myself some good books, went to Macs, had lunch, and went home to finish those books. Check out my books page for those.
Happy National Day!!!
You know you love me
Sunday, August 08, 2004 @9:28 pm
Whoa, yesterday was finals day! And what a day! I was as good as dead @ the end of the day.In the morning, woke up @ 6.30, got ready, walked to Aljunied leaving two logs in bed. There, I got commented on looking like I just escaped from a pub. Hurmphhh...
Took MRT to Paya Lebar. This entry isn't going be have very nice sentences, I just want to get everything down while I still have the mood.@ Paya lebar, met fishball. Teasing started immediately. Waited for Zealous, walked to Singpost. Met Wyntrice; rich blur girl, got sent there, and didn't know where the Mcdonalds was. Ate hotcakes and sausage, disgusted people with the amount of butter I spread. Still had plenty of time, crapped plenty.Took bus to school; teased J all the way about attracting guys.
Saw KH on the way into school, was out to buy hairspray. In school, lazed, talked a bit. Heard H's school choir again. Gossiped about how C is always sticking to T. Then rehearsal started. Did two runs. Had a nice time rushing to put on my pants during scene transition. Almost forgot to run out and stop those two fighting again. That was the first run. After my last scene, C pulled me off to look for bandage. And because of that, we had to walk around the school in the killing heat looking for the St. Johns people only to find that someone had aquired it.Second run through ran by quite smoothly. And this time ,we had to walk to the canteen to collect the burgers. 45 burgers!!! They came in two huge bags. I never thought bread could weigh so much.
Meijie then gave a few comments. Hmm, somehow I'm beginning to like Meijie. @ first, when C first told me abt her last year, I thought she was an ah lian. But now, I beginning to really like her, she's really very nice and very dedicated.
@ 11.30, it was off to Sg Poly. As the stupid people had brought the props up the bus first, people who didn't want to be squashed up had to climb all over to the back. It felt good to be catwomen however. On the way, people gave motivation speeches, we ate, and the best part was we played our 'hello game'. We waved hello to every car behind us. Most people were sporting and waved back. Some were really 'dao'. But I'm not going to concentrate on those 'dao' ones. There were some really cute ones. Especially those with small kids. There was this ang moh girl especially cute. Then there was this cool guy. He raised the peace sign. Old man, but COOL! Many others just raised hands, but some waved really enthusiastically. I hope we brightened up their day. Added some spice to it. They'll have stories to tell when they get back.
@ Sg Poly, we spent the first few hours making up and doing last minute preparations (not that there were many). Altogether, we were a calm lot. I have no recollection as to the time we went back stage. Dom. came about an hour before we went on stage. My, was it good seeing him. Our wonderful director.
Talking about Dominic, he's a raelly nice guy and a great director. Fine, he may be the rebellious boy who often gets called out by Soon. But that aside (actually thats part of his charm), he really has a way with people. He commands attention, and when he ticks you off, you don't think of damning him. He's really really good. And not to mention his sense of fashion.
We spent the last few minutes calming our nerves, feeling bored, drinking beer (a sip, KH bought for scene), feeling hot. And the really last few minutes hugging each
other and asking each other to 'break everything'. Oh, I must mention MC's nieces from Holland were with us. They are in Sg for a visit. They don't look any diff. from sg. teens.
Backstage, it didn't feel any different than any other times really. One doesn't really think about how many people are up there, or maybe butterflies actually disappear with age/experience. I'd believe that. So, we went up on stage, and gave it all we got. It felt good. My changing was accomplished smoothly and in time; assisted by MJ and C helping me unbutton and unzip my skirt. Thanks guys. Before long, it was 'GAME OVER'. And came another round of hugs and handshakes. Feelings of accomplishment and exhilaration soared. That was that, we did it! We had given our damned best! Everyone was exceptionally happy.Oh and I must mention YSF came and gave a speech before and after.We really worked hard. Especially MJ and D. They were the ppl who made this, made it happen. The Sec 4 really sacrificed alot of time, considering their oncoming O's.We strolled back to the audi. Then slipped into the back to watch the other. I sat beside C and Z.
First was Loyang. We seriously thought their play was lame. It was all talk no action. It seemed more like a lecture about the value of life(teen suicide) with a skit thrown into it. Next came Naval Base. It wasn't too bad. In fact I quite liked it. Their little girl was so cute. And their lead was really good. Only their multimedia was rather uncoordinated. And for the ringing of the phone, they needed their actress to go 'Tring tring...'. It was qutie funny and ironic. They had the sound of the doorbell and christmas carols on their computer, but not the ring tone. C and I had fun critising and comparing the plays. (Thats what gossipgirls do)Before the results, we saw clips of the simi-finals. Some were not so bad, the rest were simply lame. There was this particulary good one, I think the girl in it was the best actress.Before results were annoucned, we had to listen to some peolpe talk. There was this MP, who's speech was simply unlistenable. How can there be a MP that can't talk? How on earth did he get people to vote for him?
Best actress was this girl from CHIJ. And best actor was of course none other than CCHMS's very own Shannon Sia. He was really good. Woah, were we elated! And then, we were first runner up. (sadly). I was crossing my fingers when they announced the first runner up "no...no...we have to be the champions...". Well, unfortunately, we were 2nd. D went up for the throphy and $1000. How cool, we'd have a blast @ the end of the year. Oh well, @ least we were 2nd.Damn Loyang got 1st. I seriously don't understand why on mars they won.
Mrs Tan then appeared. We didn't realise that she had been there the whole time. She said that Loyang's script was tight. But that still doesn't weigh enough. Why on Neptune did Loyang win!!?!??Handshakes, congratulations went around. Then we went outside. It was over all too quickly. Outside, hugs went around again. Poor MJ cried. We all had a right to be disappointed. Hugs! But as MC says, we all know that we are the CHAMPIONS!!! And we are all winners.Oh and outside, H and I noticed the first person C ran to was T. Hmmm, don't you wonder whats going on?There was time to spare before the bus came, so we bought some drinks, sat @ the cool shelters, talked, and teased D abt his gf.
Then onto the bus we went. And so resumed the 'Hello game'. This time, with new members of H and ST. People were so sporting. And to repeat, those with kids were especially cute. And of course, there were the 'dao kia'. The people who stared @ us either curiously/amusingly/strangely/tiredly. Many of those stared like wondering if they knew us, why on earth were we waving to them. Those people must be lacking company or must be really slow. We went back to school with the knowledge of us having brightened up the day of those many people we waved to.Back in school, we all trooped up to the drama rm. with some thing or other in our hands to park up there. Then it was off home. And thanks to Nick. we got a ride out. His parents van was so cool. Nice pple.And so ends our adventure.
Happy National Day!!!
You know you love me...
Friday, August 06, 2004 @9:23 pm
The long awaited update
ya, well, here it is.E last week of July had been a horrible one for L. All because of those freaking migraines that have been bothering her since like forever (actually since a few months ago). She had been getting them for like 2 hours every day after recess. What is this, something has to hinder whatever she does. Anyway, that was that. This past week has been fine and spent quite happily. Headaches gone for some reason. Maybe its the anticipation of a lessonless Friday.
So, this week has been filled with the usual activities and rehearsals. Much of them unproductive. L could have done a much better job if only...oh well...But then, they managed to run through some stuff. I won't brood over the week. Instead I'll tell you about interesting today.
So, Today, 6th July, Friday, the schoolday before National Day, the day of national day celebration. And as usual, the school celebrates it by asking pupils to come in the national colours and with the national day song competition. L's all wore similar hang-ten T-shirt and showed off their style and spirit with a funky tie. To tell you the truth, L had been opposed to the tie @ first. But as chair, she had to change sides once the majority seconded the vote. So, it wasn't too bad. L and A were emcees for the song competition. They got the news like 2 days before, and the programme 1 day before. That 1 day before was the day they went to Sg poly for rehearsal, so they only managed to do the script @ night. To put it more specifically, L managed to do the script @ night. But of course she did. And to give someone some credit, with contributions from A. And they did a pretty good job, considering the 1 hour they spent on it. Today, they did a pretty good run through; only to be told that there was a little reshufeling of the order and there was some change in the song titles. So, changes had to be made to the beautiful script they did the previous night. They had an argueably hectic and easy time being emcees. The stage was unearthly hot, the changes were humanely numerous and the teachers were unusually shy of singing. Aww, that makes it sound sucky, actually it was quite pleasant. Only, the first comment L had to get was 'You sounded so hollow'. For goodness sake, tell that to the people managing the system. And its not like they had a chance to properly run through the whole thing. Anyway, all was actually well, changes were taken into stride, a bad job was well done, and the people involved are in any case satisfied.
After the celebration, L had to go for Chem. prac. Well well well, its always best to let teachers who are known to have moods pontificate. So L did just that. And as usual, finished her titration in doulble quick time. Somehow, she just can't fathom why some people take ages to finish the experiment.
With the work done, L happily went back to GMPS with C. On the way into school they met MC and ML going out for lunch. Hey, MC remembers her name! After teaching L 7 years ago! But of course, L is so memorable. They then went on to talk to ML, MN, MT, MH. Convenienly, the rest of the teachers had left, they had arrived an hour too late. Right, thank VT. Being the nice guy ML gave them a tour of the staffrm. and the sad thing is, no one that they could talk to could be found. Awww. Oh well...that was about it.
L went out with E to raffles city for BK and to wait for YW and SY. Wonderful, instead of going to the BK @ RAFFLES city, they went to the BK @ RAFFLES place. That shows how much people listen!
L then had to go for a as usual enjoyable piano lesson. After that, meeting the peeps in citylink. There, they had a nice walk walking aimlessly and ending up @ suntec. And there, L met H, WK and O, who went to watch movie without asking her!!! Now, ....Oh well, she been booked anyway. 5 steps after stepping away from those people, she walked into MN. What a small world this is. MN was alone, hmmm, guess MW dumped her for her bf. Said hi, smiled, walked off.
The troop then proceeded aimlessly again. They continued walking aimlessly, talking and enjoying each other's long lost company until deciding to go back to the MRT station. There, L was made a fool of. She was supposd to be spun and placed in front of the map where she was to poke her finger. Everything went according to plan. She was spun, and the only thing was, she poked her finger into a man's face! HURMPH!!!!! NVM, they did as she wished. They went to the airport. You'll all be rolling your eyes. But hey! The airport is actually nice place to go to. Its cool, peaceful, and has a fantastic atmosphere. There, they had a nice walk and had 5 scoops of swensens ice-cream for $1.60. Want such treats...ask L out someday.
They hung around and reached home @ 7. Wonderful day!!!
Happy ...
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