looks like jc life is picking up. can't believe half a year has passed... meaning a quarter of my life is jc has just slipped through my fingers. its quite scary when you think about it, really. this week has been by far the most eventful week this term.
the s7s were sent down to toa payoh stadium on monday to cheer our netballers on. we're talking about a team of really great players here. we won ac by a mere margin to emerge the undisputed champion for the 7th consecutive year! kudus!
tuesday: went down to paragon for my dental appointment today. felt really weird wondering down orchard road at 11:00am in the morning. i'm a sucker at pon-ning lessons.
went back to st nicks on wednesday to sell LionHeart tix. sales were better than i expected. too bad the teachers have a retreat on that day. i miss st nicks so much. promenading through the school compound moved me beyond words. every corner i turn, i envision my life back then, doing duty at the canteen bridge, queing up for uncle mobeen's infamous teh tarik, studying in the family lounge, listening to the laughter of the primary kids as the play on the sister's bridge, walking by the peacock cage... and of course the gym. how can i ever forget the gym. toil is joy. the gym. pain and laughter in all its essence is engraved on every pillar of the gym, etched in every grain of wood on the floor, stricken in every stroke of paint on the murals, intertwined with every fibre in the mat. one can only appreciate the true value of a jewel after it is gone. the memories linger on forever, long after the days are done and gone. st nicks is more than a second home to me. it is a part of me.
thursday. met up with cel, char and cel's friend, abiel, to watch measure for measure, an RP performance at ulu pandan cc. intriguing plot. politics and sex. how apt that a depiction of life in shakespearen england is still prevalent today. some things never change, no matter how much you may will it to be. kudus to RP on a job well done.
double-champs for bball declared today's newspaper. well done hwa chong! :) kudus to you guys (and girls) too.
that brings me to the near end of the week. tmr's yet another busy day. practice for SYF will last from 8:30 to 5. the dance is almost near perfection now. its a beautiful dance. the props are so professionally done, if i do say so myself. perhaps its seeing that all our hard work is paying off that makes the experience so much more satisfactory.
time to get some shut-eye now.
au revoir.
:)

I am an imaginary number 1i I don't really exist _

what number are you?

this quiz by orsa

erm... whatever....

seafood heaven! that was dinner for me. fresh oysters, cereal batter coated prawns, butter crabs, steamed fish... absolutely delightful! top that off with the soft, amber glow of the candle, the cool breeze from the open sea, the rhythmic lapping of waves upon the shore, dotted city lights twinkling in the horizon, palm trees dancing in the breeze and a repertoire of my favourite songs playing in the background... sounds almost too picture perfect; almost too good to be true. but that's where i was. in paradise.

happy birthday, mom!

I am an overly happy A.D.D kitten


Which cute or possibly strange kitten are you?
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sense
+antisense
+nonsense
+missense

= no sense

argh. hate the weather! its so humid! makes me so lathargic. not in the mood to study at the moment. for the past hour, i've been staring at my DNA notes with nucleotide sequences staring back at me. super unproductive. that's bad.
my sister's having a bbq today. they're still preparing the food in the kitchen downstairs. by right, i should be helping them out. but i have to study for my bio test. supposed to be studying, that is. oops. argh. i think i'm going crazy. keep hearing miss ong talking about how polyaromatic hydrocarbon, which is found in bbq-ed food, displaces some nucleotides in your DNA and mutating it. ignorance really is bliss. at this rate, everybody's going to have to eat vegetable planted in your own backyard what with all commotion about the chicken flu, mad cow disease, insecticide drenched greens, genetically modified whatevers... ok. i think i'm going a little of track. back to earth.
apart from studying my bio, or rather, staring at my bio notes, had a reallly great time in church crapping with my fellow agapians. hehe... with jaesson, benjamin, euclid and say yong around, you can expect the group to be anything but dull. jaesson was dressed up as keanu reeves today, black shades and all, despite the horrible weather. what a hoot! and typical of jaesson, he was rejected 5 times in the span of 2 hours (once by esther and 4 times by moi). haha...but what's new. really hope he gets the scholarship he wants. it'd be a pity if he can't read what he wants to. all the best jae!

2 more days to study for bio. dunno whether i'll be able to finish. anyway, we got back our SATS diagnostic today. scored a miserable 1310. bleah. that's the results you get when don't bring your calculator and you're too lazy to read the compre passages. wth.
the softball teams of hc and rj played out the finals on homeground today. we won the title for the girls but lost for the guys. quite sad. it was a close fight. and alot of the "outs" we got was because of air balls... a pity.
anyway, aimei and celene came down to hc to support today. went completely ballistic seeing them. hehz. miss them so much. saw calvin too. its been almost 2 years already...whao. still can't believe it actually happened. oh man...haha...
k...better get back to my bio notes now... can't slow down.

You are Storm!

You are very strong and very protective of those
you love. You are in tune with nature and are
very concerned with justice and humanity.
Unfortunately, certain apprehensions and fears
are very hard for you to overcome, and can
often inhibit you when most need to be strong.


Which X-Men character are you most like?
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who knows the depths of your heart?
who knows where it ends and where it all starts?
who knows just what's down there?
all you can be sure of is its gonna come up one day.
its coming up this way.

ain't no use denying
no use trying to set all the captives free
you can please God, you can please yourself
but please don't try to please everybody else.
they dun wanna be

and the scheme of things when you think about it
far and away is the best view of it
you just can't hide your heart away from it
so swallow your foolish pride
let the clouds get in your eyes

clouds by elmo

yay! finally gave my blog a new look. hehe...was suppose to do my bit of the research on the ancient civilisation of Egypt, but spent most of my time trying to figure out the colour codes for my template instead. opps ;P
anyway, had a really great day today. 7 of us went down to rj during maths lecture to sell tickets for Lionheart. the sales weren't that good, cos basically everyone was broke somehow or another. 10 bucks might be a tad hefty, but its for charity!!! all those who are reading this right now, please buy the tix!!!
anyway, the good thing bout today is that i managed to see all my dear friends at rj. cel, aimei, serene, zhimin, tiff, justin, lindy, joo leng, yoke pean, emilia, clara.... and the list goes on. man! miss them all soooo much! part of me wishes that i could be with them in rj, but then again, if i were, i'd never have been able to meet all you wonderful people from hwachong... my dear classmates, fac mates and dance mates. choosing to come to hc instead of being with my friends at rj was a painful decision, but one which i do not regret making. i remember at this time last year, edina told me something i will never forget. she reminded me to pray about it, that however things turn out, it is all in accordance to His perfect plan for me. sounds cheesy? well, not to me. i'm starting to see the light of things. initially, i felt really uneasy about putting rj as my first choice, and now i'm beginning to understand why. the reasons? i'll leave you to speculate. :)

JUNE: Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite and soft-spoken. Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Abiding. Able to show character. Easily hurt. Prone to getting
colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious. Executive. Stubborn.

am i?

today, i was reading a book on palmistry. its really amazing how the shape of your palm, the relative length of your fingers, the various contours on your palm and even the shape of your fingernails, can tell so much about your character. some people may think its hogwash, nothing but a load of hot air, with the sole purpose of misleading the gullible. but reading it with an open mind, you find that there really is truth within. i'm fascinated by how meticulous they are with the evaluation of your character with respect to your palm. all this must stand for something, given its long history that stretches way beyond recorded time. i'm not one who clings on to every single premonition that appears in my horoscope, but it really is interesting to put its accuracy to the test.

was in school from 7:30am to 9:30pm today. busy busy busy. but what's new. i feel drained now. anyway, today, someone i just got to know said that i had the st nicks look and the gym look. ??? what does a nicolite and a gymnast typically look like? i really have no idea. i mean, even if i'd gone to a different school, joined a different cca, i'd still look...well... ME. all these stuff are determined by ur genes, aint it? its not as if they've been altered by some mutant radiation that can only be found in the sn gym.
oh well, i'll take that as a compliment. i'm proud to be an sn gymnast, nonetheless.

on my way home today, i passed by IJ sec, which has presently been relocated along thomson road. seeing those girls in their blue pinafores and white blouses buttoned up to the collar made me all warm and fuzzy inside. watching them stroll out of the school compound in twos and threes, i couldn't help but try to imagine myself as one of them, pinafore and everything. it's been a month since and i've already missed wearing the ij uniform. i've worn it for 10 years and would gladly wear it with pride for the rest of my life if i could.
next door stands the slf building, looking as it did when i first entered it 9 years ago. indeed, i can still remember the marbled floor where we ate our fillet-o-fish, the orange tiled patio where we waited eagerly for our 5 minutes of fame, the softness of the cushioned seats in the auditorium, the dim amber lights under which i immersed myself in the world of enid blyton and her wishing chair... it was a magical night, filled with fantasies and dreams of hundreds of ij girls, all eager to carry on the work father barre so humbly founded.
indeed, twenty years down the road, i'm sure i'll still see myself, not as an ij(tp) girl, or a st nicks graduate, but as a true-blue convent girl, born and bred. the ij crest, to me, is more than just a badge attached to a blue piece of cloth. it holds a legacy that is more than 200 years old. the ideals of st nicholas pierre barre still resounds clearly in my head. truth. justice. freedom. love. God bless his soul.

"simple dans ma vertu. forte dans mon devoir"
always and forever.

i thought i did what's right
i thought i had the answers
i thought i'd chose the surest road
but that road brought me here

so i put up a fight
and told U how to help me
now just when i have given up
the truth is coming clear

U know better than i
U know the way
i've let go the need to know why
for U know better than i

if this has been a test
i cannot see the reason
but maybe knowing i don't know
is part of getting through

i try to do what's best
and faith has made it easy
to see the best that i can do
is put my trust in U

for U know better than i
U know the way
i've let go the need to know why
for U know better than i

i saw one cloud and thought it was a sky
i saw a bird and thought that i could follow
but it was U who taught that bird to fly
if i let U reach me, will you teach me?

for U know better than i
U know the way
i've let go the need to know why
i'll take what answers you supply

U know better than i

~Better Than I
by David Campbell and Jodi Benson

thanks weicheng, for sharing this song.