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Sunday, January 3, 2010

It's the start of 2010.

And let's make all dreams come alive this year.

-happy new year everyone!

Labels: 2010

11:24 PM

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

2009 has been a year where all of us (4e1) have moved on to a new stage of our lives. Good things never lasts, perhaps huh. Moving on a stage of life brings many challenges, many unforgettable moments when i was feeling really down and also when i felt happy.

2009 has been an especially tough year, since there are so much things to handle, relationships, schoolwork, ccas, etc etc. This is also the year when i had slogged my guts out till 4-5am (with 730am as record timing) in order to sleep.

Nevertheless, schoolwork has got tougher and of higher capacity. Indeed, PW has left us a certain impact which all of us have individual and unique experiences of it. The days of PW were one of my stressful moments in my life i guess, where i had to like manage project and work at the same time. My group didn't had a really smooth path till the end. We changed our project scope for like a million times and had to always be rejected by our dearest PW teacher. How nice is that. Hahaha speaking of him, i don't wish to type out his name, cos i'll be still seeing him till end of next year. There's a lot more chances for me to say out his name, so i guess i shall not do it here. Back to my point, PW has brought me a lot of "sweet-sour-bitter-spiciness" in my life, and that made me ponder about life, made me know how good life was in the past.

Anyway, this nightmare of PW is finally over already and i ain't expecting much from my PW results. Sometimes, we do need to face reality and i'll never forgot the moment when my PW teacher said, "You are the worst group among the ten groups that i have this year". It didn't matter. As long as we had contributed our share of the project, no matter what the results are
, i won't feel guilty at the very least cos i know i have done what's expected of me as a member.

Enough about PW. I shall move on to other stuffs and not make this post anymore solemn. In this year, i applied for OBS, OCIP, Internship, etc etc programmes and guess what? I got in none. Boo~ I have been like thinking that i didn't get into all this because there are people better than me and that perhaps it was "godsend". Perhaps god knew that i couldn't manage my time properly and hence didn't give me the chance to participate in such programmes. Yeah, and i thank god for that. Seriously, i know that life would be of more experiences if i got into these activities and that life in school would be more fun. However, at times, we do need to sacrifice things in order to have others. This sentence has been on my mind for very long already and i understood it when i went through the darkest days of my life in tj. I know that for my studies, i have to sacrifice something. And yes, if i got into those programmes, i guess my promo results would have been worse.

Another thing i wanna talk about is CCA. I was very sad this year when i knew that i wouldn't get into band. Have you ever got that feeling of wanting something but you didn't in the very end? I initially was muddleheaded about what cca i should get into and my final decision was band. Guess what? I didn't get in. Furthermore, i was notified after like i went for quite a few practices already. That feeling of rejection and dejection was really really unbearable.

However, as time passed by, i had this feeling when i thought that it was okay not to be in the band cos i know i would pull the standard of the band down if i were in it. I have decided to give up that band passion for the next 2 years cos i know i have to for my studies. It's not that i don't do well in my work with band practices. Its the rigour and the stress of band that i would get that makes me wanna give it up for my studies. Yeah like what steph said, "the love-hate relationship with band".

Oh by the way, i am currently in CO. Yeah, but that CO passion isn't as much as compared to band. Yeah, i did felt bonded to CO for that little moment during the syf days, but now, i guess there's no longer a burning passion for it already. Back to my point, i do see no point of returning to band already. Yeah, people might think that i didn't go back because band got silver and that CO is GWH. Well, i am telling ya' that i didn't go back band cos i know i don't sound good on flute (both CO and band flute) already. With my front teeth continually like bucking out, i am sounding more and more airy on both types of flute. Hence, there's no point for playing until the day i get braces and my front teeth no longer bucks. And yup, i sound very airy on CO flute already, so i am trying my best not to sabotage band by not re-joining band. That's the best way i guess, even though i know i am doing bad for CO.

The very last part of my blog post is dedicated to my 4e1 and 12/09 classmates!

To 4e1: Having to know you people really made my life memorable and that i feel bonded to 4e1 and bedok view. Even though we may have gone our different ways, we still can meet up at times to prevent losing contact with each other! In life, we lose contact with people very very easily, so we should really really keep in touch! I look forward to a reunion at the end of next year~~ hhahahahs

To 12/09: You people are friendly and made me feel comfortable in tj! I seriously feel more bonded to 12/09 than tjco! hahahhahs yeah i guess everyone in class knows that. =) Its really heartwarming to be in the class of 12/09! We are at least not some super cheena or super boring class yeah? hahahs i do look forward to our class gathering next year -2nd jan!

Alrights! i guess i typed enough already. till then, happy new year!

PS: My lappy was down like a few weeks ago and yesterday it was repaired!!!

I left the place around 540pm and look at the picture above to see what time i arrived. So do the math and see how horribly long i waited! Thanks zhao ying for the smses that keep me occupied during that long period of time!

Labels: a year in review, with my lappy repaired

1:56 PM

Sunday, December 27, 2009

I am still in the midst of completing my holyday homework. As you can see, or perhaps you don't, holydays are really really ending and i have yet to complete my homework. And also revision. I guess too much time was spent on homework to the extent where i couldn't pluck out time for revision. Die.

I really seem to be not able to recall a lot of theory and concepts because i haven't been touching them even though i have been doing homework. To me, homework and revision is totally 2 different things. Homework is to regurgitate whatever has been taught and revision is for making clear out of the concepts. See the difference yet? okay perhaps whatever i have been typing here doesn't show you the clear difference. If you have the time, go think about it. The difference b/w homework and revision.

On a side note, i attempted to reconnect with my primary school friends. Sounds funny huh? Well, indeed. Anyway, my attempt of reconnection is through the use of the everyone-would-be-using-by-now facebook. Hahas well, planning gatherings and meeting super old friends aren't a good way to reconnect as it seems to me, since they are super old friends, i doubt there's nothing much we can talk about yeah? So i guess face-to-face talks aren't as appropriate as it seems. Facebook seems to offer a better alternative then. Hahas. Its kinda of a thing that social networking sites like facebook helps reconnect people. Imagine without it, i guess i may have lost contacts with gargatuans of friends.

Oh yeah like i mentioned in my previous post, i have decided to do a year in review since 2009, after has been a "a year with change, where all of us moved on to a totally different stage in our lives, facing unwanted regrets, stress of decision-making, and a whole new level of responsibility asked of us." according to wei ling. That phrase seems nice though, i wonder how she thought of it.

Next year is year 2 of jc life. It seems like "phew, i finally made it." but then there's this feeling of unpreparedness and anxiety that is overwhelming. There's just so much to worry about for studies alone.

It always seems that i wanna write a lot of things in this blog, but its like i cannot pen down everything i wanna say down as i tend to forget my intended buckets of words. okay, forget it. Take it that you didn't read this paragraph. =P

Till then.

Labels: reconnection.

1:59 PM

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Life is like a train

Life is like a train,

We move in the direction of the railways, be it we are willing or not.

Once the journey started, we can never head back.

Only those memories are left in us for us to contemplate and reflect.

Life is like a train,

Throughout our journey, some board the train and some alight.

They brought smiles, hatred, hardship, cries and perhaps a milestone to our lives.

No matter what, they made us have life. Life that can never be changed.

Life is like a train,

We rejoice throughout our journey, we spread the love around,

We made friends, be it acquaintances or friends for life.

We feel engulfed in this cloud of happiness,

wanting it to last forever when we know it can't.

Life is like a train,

we do meet the darkest storms in our journey and breakdown at times.

We do need repair and time to recover.

We do need company and perhaps a little of comfort.

No matter what, we still move on.

Life is like a train,

We may head into darkness during our journey, for we don't know why,

Perhaps that's a past and parcel of life.

They say that there's a light at the end of every tunnel,

You may think it's cliche, but that's what you hope every single time.

We will move out of this darkness, some way somehow.

Life is like a train,

In our journey, it is always so unpredictable.

We may have agreed to meet, but we didn't.

We thought things would turn out our way, but it doesn't.

The least we can do, is to make best of this journey for the good of all.

Life is like a train,

throughout our journey, we move from one station to the other,

the move from one to other is the most arduous path ever

Once we reach one station, we miss and perhaps desire for the previous.

However, life goes on, we cannot bring time back.

Life is like a train,

In each station of our journey, they brought us everlasting memories.

they brought us reflection about life.

they brought us a better perception about life.

they made us think about life.

It is through each station we went past that made us as we are. Its the experiences that fill our life.

This was what i cooked up, pardon me for grammatical errors, just had some contemplation of my life this few days, when i thought about it in bed.

By the way, i shall do a review of this year as a whole, hopefully by the next few days. Till then.

Labels: Life.

3:17 PM

Friday, December 25, 2009

On the day of Christmas,

with the roads covered with snow, we met and i wanna say...

Merry Christmas 2009!!!

Labels: hohoho Merry Christmas =)

3:46 PM

Friday, December 18, 2009

its been awhile since i have come blogging and look! holy-days are ending. yeah, ending.

i shall recap what has happened over the past (few) days of my life.
1. OGL Mass dance
2.YAH Birthday Bash

1.OGL Mass dance
5 dances for orientation next year and i still can't remember the dance moves. Shit. The other OGLs were telling me that its 'okay' to not be able to remember the dance moves. After learning the dance moves, the important thing that i cannot remember is the sequence of the dance moves! hahahs well, i guess the phrase "practice makes perfect" is apt to describe this situation here.

oh by the way, the 5 dances (in no chronological order) are: S club, Heartsdale, That thing you do, Jai Ho and Speedy. Yup, jaiho is hard cos everything is fast moving and what i can remember is the "swim, swim" move.

2. YAH Birthday Bash
Oh yeah, i went for YAH's (Youth Advolution for Health) birthday bash on 12th dec. It was fun being a sector head to be looking over the stuff and i liked my 2-pc black pepper chicken! YUM YUM!

talking about chicken, hahaha have you ever eaten fried chicken without the skin? God i think its a waste not to eat the skin cos that's the reason we eat fried chicken right? for the taste and the skin? ahahas went to eat lunch yesterday with che xuan and henry and henry didn't touch the chicken skin at all. The reason: fats. hahahs i guess everyone has their own preferences and i can't force them.

oh by the way, 4E1(INCLUDING TENDAYS) IS HAVING ITS GATHERING FOR THE YEAR 2009!!!Like finally. Even though the intended gathering at marina barrage wasn't a success, hope this gathering at jesslyn's house would be a nice one. =D

oh and zhao ying, i wanna go have a spectacular view of your freaking-ly big house!

18th december 2009, 1:24pm

Labels: recap.

1:09 PM

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

My days are numbered. Holy-days are numbered.

While the days are counting down, my homework is piling up. God, i haven't do any GP and econs homework yet. And well, i am still in the midst of rushing through my maths tutorial -Differential eqns, P&C and probability. And now i am at Probability, after i made up my mind to skip the tj-proclaimed challenging qns. Well, P&C and probability just require some common sense at times and well i admit that i do lack some common sense sometimes bleahx.

Tutorials completed for chem and physics!!! but well, i haven't started on the holiday assignments cos i would need to revise everything before i start on anything right? So yup, waiting to complete tutorials for maths and econs before i go on to revise and then do chem and physics holidays assignments.

3rd,4th and 5th dec was fun being a volunteer for Standard chartered marathon race pack collection! John, Grayson, Wei Jie and I went for the event and i earn big bucks for the event! I guess i shall equip myself with new sports shoes, school shoes and school bag with this money, and a little more monetary support from my bank account.

This week isn't as "blank" as expected since there are gatherings, CO, OGL and YAH. Next week would be worst since mass dance practices gonna start and trainings for SLL might start too. Damn. I wonder if i could finish my homework and revision for J1 topics by the end of this holys, cos it seems to be getting more packed day by day. I would sacrifice any other useless stuff i perceived for my studies, and i won't let my studies be neglected again.

I feel relieved that i withdrawn from chingay 2010 since its in 19th and 20th feb 2010 and is very near to MCTs, so i guess i shall keep my 2010 just for studying.

Labels: numbered

3:25 PM

Monday, November 23, 2009

This was what i posted on my blog during the Aug-Sept period of this year:(making it small so that this post won't look so long)

1. wanna work as a private tutor! Che xuan's got lobang for me so i hope i can be a private tutor for the holidays and earn some money!

2.Train for NS! Gonna keep on running and build myself up so that i can keep fit! and can pass napfa for next year.

3.(a) Gathering with sec4 peeps! i miss 4e1 and friends a lot! gonna meet up with them and also study with the other jc kids.Oh oh and play mahjong + guitar hero!!! BBQs!!! SENTOSA!!! - I HAVEN'T GO THERE YET, HOW SAD.

3(b)MISS CHIA'S WEDDING!!! Speaking of that i am thinking of what to dress for miss chia's wedding. hahahahahs

4. Swimming perhaps??? I want to learn swimming, but i am seriously broke and my sponsor is me. I am considering picking up kayaking after learning how to swim =) So at least i participate in sports and get in touch with the sun a bit more. Playing music in an air-con room is kinda of boring to me already, especially now that i am still in co. Might want to go into kayaking as cca next time =)

5. study!!! Need to prepare for exams!

6. Photo albums! I feel like printing all the photos that i have in my com and put them in photo albums as a form of memory.

7. Plus i joined a SIG in my school, musicbox - hope i can learn the piano and french horn perhaps? hahahahs i decided on french horn randomly cos i wanted to learn playing a brass instrument.

8. Stayover at cousin's house! Play Wii! Cycling! Oh and i wanna train with xavier, and enojy the fun of dog-running.

9. Tennis games!!! I learnt some basics of tennis as part of my pe elective and its credibly fun! Shall play with other tennis elective classmates during the holidays!

10. Oh i applied for internship in my school. Hope i get in, and might consider not working as tutor(as stated in 1.) if i manage to get into internship.

11. ohoh and i am applied to learn bowling for Sports carnival in school, yup so for the next time i go out with 4e1 people i won't turn malu when playing bowling! hahhaaaahahhs

12. Pack my room and file up notes!!! My notes are getting thicker by the day and i think i will get those uber thick files soon.

13. Sleep!!!I wanna catch up with my doraemon shows at channel 8 930am know! hahahaahaahaahhs

14. Revamp my blog. I thinking of a new address for my blog. Guess "reviloelcnu" is quite boring already....

15. Oh and i wanna buy new school shoes and bag, provided that there is effective demand for it. hahahahs

16. Lastly, for tendays, let's crash the poly open houses next year again!!! i am thinking of some places/galleries that we can afford to go, hahahah!

but well...as you can see, life isn't that predicted as it seems to be.
Again, things changed for this holys~

Changes to my things-for-holys~ are shown in red.

1. wanna work as a private tutor! Che xuan's got lobang for me so i hope i can be a private tutor for the holidays and earn some money! -----[Ain't going to teach since che xuan said that minimum time before i can say goodbye to the tutee ( i guess sp? -the one having tuition) is like 1 year. So yup, given my commitments i cannot make time for it, there goes my money-making opportunity.]

2.Train for NS! Gonna keep on running and build myself up so that i can keep fit! and can pass napfa for next year. -----[Well, training plans are not as consistent for now since its like raining nowadays esp during evenings and i can't wake up in the morning to run. The worst thing is that i am still unable to do pull-ups till now.]

3.(a) Gathering with sec4 peeps! i miss 4e1 and friends a lot! gonna meet up with them and also study with the other jc kids.Oh oh and play mahjong + guitar hero!!! BBQs!!! SENTOSA!!! - I HAVEN'T GO THERE YET, HOW SAD. -----[Yup, till now, TENDAYS haven't meet up yup cos the other jc kids are like having lectures?! awww....yeah so i guess shall wait till december then.]

3(b)MISS CHIA'S WEDDING!!! Speaking of that i am thinking of what to dress for miss chia's wedding. hahahahahs -----[Hai, this was even more saddening. Miss chia already had her wedding dinner before we knew it on facebook. so yup, no more wedding dinner to attend. T.T]

4. Swimming perhaps??? I want to learn swimming, but i am seriously broke and my sponsor is me. I am considering picking up kayaking after learning how to swim =) So at least i participate in sports and get in touch with the sun a bit more. Playing music in an air-con room is kinda of boring to me already, especially now that i am still in co. Might want to go into kayaking as cca next time =) -----[Given my schedule, hope i still have time to swim. *prays*]

5. study!!! Need to prepare for exams!-----[Yup, the only thing i know i must do. And hence, i see piles of tutorials, lecture notes on my table. Hai, my standard still not good enough yet.]

6. Photo albums! I feel like printing all the photos that i have in my com and put them in photo albums as a form of memory. -----[Given my current amount of money votes, i don't think i have the time and money and mood to print the photos and pack them into photo albums.]

7. Plus i joined a SIG in my school, musicbox - hope i can learn the piano and french horn perhaps? hahahahs i decided on french horn randomly cos i wanted to learn playing a brass instrument. ------[Yet again, i ain't going for the musicbox classes because 1.money and 2.time. I guess thats life, hahas]

8. Stayover at cousin's house! Play Wii! Cycling! Oh and i wanna train with xavier, and enojy the fun of dog-running. -----[Hmmm..i am not sure of this cos my cousins are like working at minitoons soon. so i doubt i have the time to go stayover.]

9. Tennis games!!! I learnt some basics of tennis as part of my pe elective and its credibly fun! Shall play with other tennis elective classmates during the holidays! -----[Err..i kinda of forgotten about this. oops, but well, have to see the others if they have time to make it for tennis.]

10. Oh i applied for internship in my school. Hope i get in, and might consider not working as tutor(as stated in 1.) if i manage to get into internship. -----[Nah, some of the internship programmes are like scams. I didn't even get to go for interview and voila! No internship. =) Hence, i think i will not be working at all perhaps for this holys~.]

[On a side note: I am quite glad that i didn't get into internship eventually cos i realise that with intership =/= freedom. So i'll have more time to handle other stuff,esp studies given that my results aren't that good.]

11. ohoh and i am applied to learn bowling for Sports carnival in school, yup so for the next time i go out with 4e1 people i won't turn malu when playing bowling! hahhaaaahahhs -----[Haha, wait till i meet them first!]

12. Pack my room and file up notes!!! My notes are getting thicker by the day and i think i will get those uber thick files soon. -----[Oh, wrt to this, i finally bought my TYS! that was like 2 days after OP day. yeah now with everything almost like forgotten, i have to pack my notes and wait for the day where i can have my thick thick files to place my notes which they call home~.]

13. Sleep!!!I wanna catch up with my doraemon shows at channel 8 930am know! hahahaahaahaahhs -----[Yeah, trying my best to ctach up with doraemon as far as possible nowadays. Weekly does of doraemon adds to the spice of my life!]

14. Revamp my blog. I thinking of a new address for my blog. Guess "reviloelcnu" is quite boring already....-----[I think i forgotten how to change the address of my blog. And even if i manage to find the place to change my web address, i think i would have forgotten the new name for it. =P

Revamping wise, not much has been done cos i am too lazy to change everything and edit things all over again. I shall try to create my own blogskin one day perhaps? haha wait for that day.]

15. Oh and i wanna buy new school shoes and bag, provided that there is effective demand for it. hahahahs -----[demand for newbbies isn't that effective yet.]

16. Lastly, for tendays, let's crash the poly open houses next year again!!! i am thinking of some places/galleries that we can afford to go, hahahah! -----[Remember to crash TJ's! haha]

Okay, i am getting tired for typing already. One last thing i wanna say is that i am officially an OGL! HAHAHA
okay...perhaps not that really exciting to you huh...wait for the next post then!

23/11/09 5:20pm =)

Labels: A thousand of miles begins with a single step

4:53 PM

Sunday, January 3, 2010

It's the start of 2010.

And let's make all dreams come alive this year.

-happy new year everyone!

Labels: 2010

11:24 PM

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Labels: a year in review, with my lappy repaired

1:56 PM

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Labels: reconnection.

1:59 PM

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Life is like a train

Life is like a train,

We move in the direction of the railways, be it we are willing or not.

Once the journey started, we can never head back.

Only those memories are left in us for us to contemplate and reflect.

Life is like a train,

Throughout our journey, some board the train and some alight.

They brought smiles, hatred, hardship, cries and perhaps a milestone to our lives.

No matter what, they made us have life. Life that can never be changed.

Life is like a train,

We do need repair and time to recover.

We do need company and perhaps a little of comfort.

No matter what, we still move on.

Labels: Life.

3:17 PM

Friday, December 25, 2009

On the day of Christmas,

with the roads covered with snow, we met and i wanna say...

Merry Christmas 2009!!!

Labels: hohoho Merry Christmas =)

3:46 PM

Friday, December 18, 2009

18th december 2009, 1:24pm

Labels: recap.

1:09 PM

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Labels: numbered

3:25 PM

Monday, November 23, 2009

23/11/09 5:20pm =)

Labels: A thousand of miles begins with a single step

4:53 PM