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ntu-jc challenge was concluded today. we actually won 2 prizes! best poster and most innovative in the defence science category. amazing. not particularly ecstatic right now. probably still stunned from the unexpected win. anyway, well done guys! kinda feel sad yet relieved that its over. nevertheless, thanks for a really exciting and enriching experience!

anyway, happy valentine's day!

do i love you because you're beautiful
or are you beautiful because i love you?
do i want you because you're wonderful
or are you wonderful because i want you?
~Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Anywhere the wind blows
Doesn't really matter to me

-Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

not only is life a bitch, it has puppies!! zhiqi, how right you are.

couldn't go with my family to pulau penang this weekend cos i had to perform for some alumni cny celebrations in school. the performance, was, well, far from good. hope none of the audience will remember it in time to come.

sad enough that i couldn't join my family and my other relatives having fun spending the weekend staying in kei-longs, i got locked out of my house! yes! i got stuck outside my house looking like some burglar scouting for loopholes to get into the house. thought of climbing to the second level to get into my study room but didn't want to arouse the suspicions of my not-so-friendly neighbour, or risk falling onto the spikes they'd erected on the wall separating our backyard. darn set of keys i'd been given was incomplete for both front AND back doors! how coincidental is that that both keys to the metal gates were there, but both wooden door keys were missing. bleah. in the end, had to skip disciple cos i couldn't get my stuff out of my room. had to go all the way to paya lebar mrt in my make up and hair to get the complete set of keys from my maid who was celebrating hari raya. guess its just one of those days when i wish i hadn't gotten out of bed at all, not that i wanted to in the first place.

a fine cny this is turning out to be.

happy cny everyone!

cny's pretty dull this year. seems like it gets progressively less exciting each year. nevertheless, time spent with my cousins more than makes up for the lack of festivities. was never especially close to any of my cousins cos those with whome i spend most time with are guys and basically we don't have very much in common. but then again, there are 8 of us abt the same age and when you add in the 7 lil monkeys in primary school and below, there's never a quiet moment in the quek family. love my cousins loads!

too bad i didn't get to go back to tangkak to visit the other half of my relatives. its a whole different type of fun. cards, mahjong and alot more talking. and of course there's my baby nieces that i sadly was not able to see. to rub salt to the wound, celebrations in this little town was especially extravagant this year, with the main street lighting up like chinatown in all its authenticity, wooden shop houses and even fire crackers and fire works, so i've been told. argh. wish i could have been where all the fun was at.

anyway, SATs are finally over. what a relief. was at smu this morning and decided to pay a visit to the gymnasium. i miss gym sooo much. was watching sherry from rj, sarah, gladys, stacey and the twins train and i just felt like going down to the mats and just jump around a little. also met the twin's parents and learnt that they've gone to rgs. needless to say, my first reaction was one of indignation. but then, something occurred to me and i was overcome with guilt and to a certain extent, shame. not comfortable sharing the details here so i'll just stop here. darn i felt really bad.

my day started really horribly today. thank goodness it got progressively better. couldn't have gotten any worse anyway. still, was quite dampened. good thing i have great classmates and juniors and a really interesting angel and mortal to brighten my day. hehehz.

had a browse through Inspirations 2003 today. gotta say that i'm really impressed, and jealous too that it wasn't an annual thing when i was in SN. really creative and simply beautiful. was especially absorbed in yong hui's expository essay on education. great language and quotations. really impressed. easily puts me to shame. haha. seriously. she's one talented gal. great job!

78 has been displaced from our cosy little corner of hcjc. darn. really liked it there with all the tables and all the space. was like our own little haven away from the noise and the crowd. on the other hand, its a return to civilisation after years of isolation from the rest of the class benches. haha. oh well. the sl and cafe better be worth us giving up our he(2) shan(1). gonna miss the place and 77 and all those memories. sigh.

cny's round the corner. yay. love visiting pple and just spending time with my relatives and friends. too bad this year i won't be joining the fun at tangkak with my maternal relatives. stuck in singapore this year cos i've got SATs on chu(1) san(1). wth. was really looking forward to playing with my beautiful baby nieces. dunno when i'll get to see them again. SATs, be gone!!

one week of school has gone by and though i'm almost adjusted once again to the speed of this conveyor belt, i just can't get rid of this nagging feeling of insecurity that threatens to drag me down into sporadic bouts of depression. not that i'm specifically unhappy about something. at least, i don't think so.

thanks shung for that really meaningful worship session today. perhaps i've lost sight of the shore for a while and have been blindly travelling in the wrong direction those weeks i couldn't make it to church or for disciple. but after today's session, i'm reminded once again of the comsuming, omnipresent love the Big Guy has for me. And even though i stray from the flock ever so often towards material pursuits, He specially goes out to look for this hopelessly lost child and brings me back. And then He celebrates the return of this lost child who shouldn't have succumbed to human temptation in the first place. Amazing love, how can it be, that You my king would die for me? Amazing love, i know its true. And its my joy to honour You. In all i do, i honour You.

Its been an amazing 3 years with Agape. I'm gonna miss the company of all you guys! Eugenia, Huey-Chyi, Say Yong, Timothy, Kong Jin, Jaesson, Terri, Ben, Jenghis, Eugene, Euclid, Nat, James, Jocelyn, Bu Bin, Bu Wei, Aaron, Justin... think that's all of us. Hmm... wonder how those pple who have left us are doing. Sigh. YM's gonna be different with the reshuffling. Yep. Its definitely neccessary, but i'm really gonna miss all the crap we shared. hehz. Love you guys always! AGAPE ROX!! ;P

feels weird being J2. i never did quite fit into the shoes of being in secondary school in the first place and look at me now, a senior in junior college with only a year more before entering uni. its so adult, a word so familiar yet so vague and distant. i remember a time not so long ago, when staying up past 12 was a luxury left only for the eve of a special day. i remember vividly the last night i was 12. the elation of finally owning a disc man, and, at the same time, the nostalgia of my childhood that was ticking away. the reason for my sadness was not just the robbing of the privileges and concessions that comes with being a "child-under-12", but the symbolic loss of innocence, or rather the eligibility for feigning it. then again, i lavish upon the freedom being a teenager entitles, but stumble then and again under the heavy responsibilities and expectations. very soon i'm gonna be out of my comfort zone and the road ahead is a blur of choices. i look forward to the future with bated excitement and nervous anticipation.

my grown-up christmas list
do you remember me?
i sat upon your knee
i wrote to you with childhood fantasies
well i'm all grown-up now
can you still help somehow?
i'm not a child but my heart still believes
so here's my life-long wish
my grown-up christmas list
not for myself but for a world in need

no more lives torn apart
and wars will never start
and time will heal our hearts
every man will have a friend
and right will always win
and love will never end
this is my grown-up christmas list

what is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
maybe only if the blind believe can we ever find the truth

there'd be no more lives torn apart
and wars will never start
and time will heal our heart
every man will have a friend
and right will always win
and love will never end
this is my grown-up christmas list
this is my only life-long wish
this is my grown-up christmas list

	Cheer Bear You're the Care Bear cheerleader! Your spunky personality and optimisim lifts everyone's spirit. Though you want everyone to be happy, you stand your ground on issues you feel strongly about and this can bring disunity among your friends. Despite this, you are a true believer in working together.
Take the Which Care Bear Are You? Quiz!

oh yeah. i almost forgot. merry christmas everyone!!!

merry christmas to my dearest 03s78, 4Charitians, 1 and 2 faithians and 6hibees!!
merry christmas to the snpmb and sngym team esp bird, edina, cons, ps, zq, jioubu, kel and chris. love you guys.
merry christmas to the hc, sn sec and ij primary teachers.
merry christmas to fukuoka futaba high schoolers, seiai, miwa, melbourne uni and especially ISSS 2003.
merry christmas tmc ym!!
merry christmas bern, chris, joyce and andrea.
merry christmas dad, mom, rong and han.
merry christmas xiz and bean!
and last but not least merry christmas my dearest angels cel and aimei. miss you loads!

and to all, a blessed new year!

my trusty 8210 is gone forever! darn sad. it may be primitive but don't you dare underestimate its ability. its an awesome phone. well at least its alot faster than 8310. oh well. i guess this heralds a new beginning? hopefully so.

the new year is here and i'm as flustered as always. homework left undone, revision left unchecked, worksheets left unfiled, cupboards left unorganised. i'm been stuck in such deep shit for so long a time i can't remember the smell of fresh air! yeh. sorry pple, haven't been keeping this place updated. been really busy with really mundane stuff that would probably lull you all to sleep. as if you don't know what its like anyway. all hail the education system man! bleah.

home sweet home! boy am i glad to be home. still, even tho the weather in melbourne is eratic, i still miss it. sweating like nobody's buisness here. even tho melbourne's horribly overpopulated with retarded flies, i still miss it. tried swatting a mosquito in my toilet today, but to no avail. sigh. i miss melbourne so very much. miss the weather. miss the food. miss the buildings. miss my friends. i guess returning back to singapore was all in due time. 17 days away from home and my comfy bed is a tad long. still, it felt more like crashing back to reality than anything else. melbourne is so different from singapore yet i felt so at home there. maybe it helps that i have relatives there, and perhaps its because the population of asians there is considerably higher than other non-asian countries. but its something about the culture, the whole scene there, physical and spiritual, that makes me feel relaxed and enthralled. i guess i needed some time away from home, away from everthing. i needed to clear my mind. now i feel refreshed.

went to watch we will rock you yesterday. great music! punk hair, punk clothes, punk music, punk jokes. totally rocks dude! sweet. its basically a really unconventional musical based on queen's chart toppers. had the element of a rock concert in it. was really cool.

i've paid my dues
time after time
i've done my sentence
but committed no crime
and bad mistakes
i've made a few
i've had my share of sand
kicked in my face
but I've come through

we are the champions my friend
we'll keep on fighting till the end
we are the champions
we are the champions
no time for losers
cos we are the champions
of the world!!!!!!

melbourne's great. really enjoying myself. could be better if
1. the weather would just make up its mind
2. the sun weren't so darn scorching even when its so friggin cold
3. there weren't so many houseflies
4. my cranky camera could resurrect
5. the dingy dryer would stop shriking my clothes

but apart from that, like i've said, melbourne's great. the food's delicious, the people here are fun, the chocs are heavenly and you can play soccer for one whole afternoon without sweating a drop. sweet.

anyway, just visited jae's blog and saw all those pics of pple in yellow having a wonderful time at youth camp. darn. wish i could have been there. bet you guys had lots of fun. :)

at aunty lucy's place now. managed to leave the group to spend the night here with my beloved cousins. :) its a completely different experience going around with locals. went shopping with aunty lucy at victoria market, myers and target. yay. great place this is. the breeze is so cool and even tho it was 35 deg celcius yesterday afternoon, hardly sweat at all. the locals feel that its really hot tho. so last night, suelee, mike and i went down to lygon street to have ice cream and to star gaze at 11. wanted to go to st kilda's beach and cool down a little in the sea, but suelee had to get up early this morning. oh well. nvm. so in the end, mike and i stayed up till about 2, looking thru some of his very interesting photos, and catching up some on the balcony cos it was getting a little hot in the apartment. yep. well anyway, going back to trinity college soon. gonna have some time there alone before the group gets back. man. wish i could spend more time here with mike. really miss them loads.

finally flying off to melbourne tmr morning. somehow the excitement has worn off. hopefully i'll get refuelled again. anyway, if anybody needs to contact me, email me k. please don't call my phone or sms me unless its really urgent. you might not be able to get me in the first place. yep. danke!

i'm so doggone pissed off! argh! dunno what is wrong with me. i dun have the right to be pissed off at anything or anybody cos nome has explicitly pissed me off. but i am. and i hate it.