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.

i'm back! feel like i've been disconnected from the whole world while cooped up for 5 days at ulu ulu ntu. anyway, had quite abit of fun. have this urge to do some more of those mensa quizzes, that is if i manage to find those books my mom bought a long long time ago. haha. think i'm going nuts. met a whole bunch of really interesting people at ntu. heheh. very interesting indeed.

i'm at a library at ntu right now. just had a really yummy lunch of spaghetti courtesy of cjs catering. contrary to what jae told me bout the programme, its actually quite fun. MENSA activities are gonna commence in about half an hour. not exactly looking forward to that cos its gonna last till 10:30 tonight, which means less time to play bridge and daidee tonight. yep. tmr's the last day of the camp, so i'm planning to play cards and not sleep the whole night, that is if i can hold up with my sanity still functioning.

met up with zhiqi, bird and edina at ms chua's wedding today. needless to say, she was utterly gorgeous. stunning to be exact. her grace, her elegence, her poise, her smile... able's one lucky guy. :)

the wedding was beautiful. simple yet blissful. of course, there was the conventional march down the isle, flower girl and all. reminds of a time, some 12 years ago, when i was itching, literally, to get out of the nasty, fluffy white dress that looked to me somewhat like layers of mosquito nets, but ironically felt otherwise. had me considering not getting married at all if i had to endure all that discomfort again. then horrors of horrors, i found myself in the same dress a year later, promenading down the same aisle and cringing under the stares and "aw-so-cute" whispers amidst pachebel's canon in d. but that's besides the point. the sn choir did us proud (or rather made me feel proud) with their song dedication to the newly-weds. but what really stole the show was the groom's spontaneous surprise serenade to the bride. it was so sweet it almost gave me a toothache. (it also made the lady behind me cry. ;S)

see guys, it doesn't matter if you aren't rich or you aren't the best looking guy around. (although, i must admit, that wouldn't hurt) it's how you go about winning the girl's respect and ultimately her heart. naturally it may seem that the 2 most important factors are appearance and material wealth, but be careful that these 2 things might be the curse in a relationship. no. what's most important is that you treat her right, with dignity and utmost respect. patience, my friend. one day you will succeed.

sometimes i wonder: if somebody was talking about me, what would that person say? today, i went to the wedding, harbouring the premonition that i would meet someone. lo and behold, i met miss foo, my sec 1 form teacher. it was a pleasant surprise. couldn't quite recognise her at first. maybe its the glasses, or rather, the lack of them. it was great seeing her again. i owe so much to her, more than she could ever imagine. turns out that i used to be really close to the daughter of one of her colleagues at the current school she's teaching in. apparently miss foo's aware, to a certain extent, of my past escapades in my younger days. :S better be weary of my actions now. who knows who i might bump into next. singapore's so freakin small, its scary.

anyway, cheers to able and cheleen. may you guys be happy forever and ever.

crap. there's no pic to the quiz i just did. oh well. seems blogger and i dun get along very well. been having abit of problems with opening updated pages on blogger. geez. seems like the weather hates me too. its so darn humid. can hear the shower beckoning me for the 4th time today. can't turn on the friggin air-condition cos the workers busted a water pipe. sheesh. just my luck.

You are Trinity, from "The Matrix."
Strong, beautiful- you epitomize the ultimate
heroine.


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yay. got my tagboard up and running yesterday. feel accomplished. :)

was reading ronglin's blog bout the purple amulet from dazaifu. brought back lots and lots of memory bout my exchange to fukuoka last year. remember very vividly visiting the dazaifu shrine with the mystical plum tree, which was believed to have marked the place out for the building of this historical monument. i remember the three bridges we had to cross to get to the shrine. the first represents the past, the second the present and the thrid the future. we were gravely warned not to stumble or trip as we crossed the bridges, as it would anticipate any failures in our lives. also we could not look back on the path we had walked. something about not dwelling on what has passed, but focusing on what is to come. the first and last bridges were archs, while the middle one was level. its supposed to signify that there have been bumps in our past, and although the present may be smooth sailing, it doesn't mean that there will not be any difficulties in the future. then when we reached the shrine, we were greeted with tall slabs of granite with chinese inscriptions on them, and hundreds of plum trees in full bloom all around the park. legend has it that a famous scholar was buried there in the 9th century. he was very intelligent and wrote great poems and other literary works. he was actually born in kyoto, but was exiled to kyushu. it is believed that the plum tree beside the alter flew with him from kyoto to kyushu, hence the park full of plum trees. after his death, he was revered as the god of education and thousands of people from all over japan pay visits to the shrine before a major examination and hang amulets outside the alter for luck. so being kiasu singaporeans as we were, some of us bought some wooden amulets with nice verses on them, wrote our name and hung them around the pagoda. after that, we had a really nice tea near the shrine, sitting on tatami mats, sipping on traditional japanese tea and nibbling on rice cakes filled with plum paste. all this under the canopy of the plum trees. it was just heavenly.

oh man. feels like i've been to fukuoka and back again, reliving all those memories. *sighs wistfully*

ack... construction workers strolling in and out of the house. dusty wooden boards lining the floor. drilling, drilling and more drilling that threatens to shake the house down to crumbling dust. ear-splitting noise that spoilt my morning plans for an action-packed non-stop vcd watching marathon. not fun.

CELEBRATION!!! i've finally been liberated from the trecherous bondages of pw! *punches fists into the air in jubilation* ;P i'm so relieved. seriously, i felt quite lost after the presentation. like "huh? so what's next?" chinese? checked. pw? checked. its like a huge bundle's been lifted off my back. (which incidently was aching so badly when i got home yesterday, i climbed into bed before 10.) now... to concentrate on chalking up hours for cip, getting ready for the ntu-jc challenge, preparing for the much awaited summer school at melbourne uni, clearing up the "in" tray of tutorials, preparing for tests when school reopens, attend dance practices and plan for next year. oh wait. think i forgot to mention something important. have FUN! hmm... seems like there's still quite a huge pile of stuff to get done, but wth! cut those strings baby cos this girl's gonna HAVOC!!!

stumbled upon this really cute but meaningful song while flipping through my primary 1/2 music jotter book.

would you like to swing on a star

would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams home in a jar
and be better off than you are
or would you rather be a mule
a mule in an animal with long funny ears
he kicks up at anything hears
his back is brawny and his brain is weak
he's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
oh by the way if you hate to go to school
you may grow up to be a mule

or would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams home in a jar
and be better off than you are
or would you rather be a pig
a pig is an animal with dirt on his face
his shoes are a terrible disgrace
he's got no manners when he eats his food
he's fat and lazy and extrememly rude
but if you don't care a feather or a fig
you may grow up to be a pig

or would you like to swing on a star
carry moonbeams home in a jar
and be better off than you are
or would you rather be a fish
a fish won't do anything but swim in a brook
he can't write his name or read a book
to fool all people is his only thought
and though he's slippery he still gets caught
but if that sort of life is what you wish
you may grow up to be a fish

and all the monkeys aren't at the zoo
every day you meet quite a few
so you see its all up to you
you could be better than you are
you could be swinging on a star

everything you ever told me was a lie... lion king

what do you do when someone betrays you? cry your bleddy eyes out. sink into self-denial. sedate yourself with sleep. cross your fingers and toes and try to move on, scars and all. problem is, how can i move on without your assurance that things will change for the better? i've been living in my fantasy world for too long. far too long. perhaps i was being too hopeful. but what good can pessimism do? i'm confused. scared. haunted. the only other time i felt like this was in a dream. my worse nightmare in my 17 years of existence to be exact. now, i still feel like i'm stuck in a nightmare. i can't think straight. i feel detached from everything around me. i'm still trembling and finding myself close to tears thinking...

i have an obligation. a responsibility. seems like i'm the only one left standing to dispatch it. and i will carry it out. you mark my words.

CHIJ
You scream for your school at any opportunity and
for some strange reason you love your school to
no end. You wear your belt so low that ACS
boys' pants would be considered high (yeah.
oh.. my..god)


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You are blue. You are somewhat innocent, in the fact that your genius only extends to the physical world. You have a false sense of contentness. You are usually the quiet one, the genius. Everyone can count on you to help when they have problems, but you only fall short of being able to solve your own.

What inner color are you?

confined at home again today. was running a temperature last night. woke up this morning with a prickly throat and a head too heavy to be lifted from my nest. tis the forth time this month i've succumbed to various physiological discomfort that has warranted medication, which brings me back to my point about feeling like an invalid. didn't realise the severity of this frequency till just. this just goes to substantiate rach and vics' comment about me looking weak. oh well.

yup. finally changed my layout. think it looks alot cleaner and sanguine compared to the previous. don't you think? well... guess i wasted enough of my day. shall return to pw and chinese now.