(Tuesday, August 21, 2007-)
+4:37 PM]*
+4:37 PM]*
# Busyness
Psalm 23 in a busy world
The clock is my dictator;
I shall not rest.
It makes me lie down only when exhausted.
It leads me to depression.
It hounds my soul.
It leads me in circles of frenzy for activity's sake
Even though I run frantically from task to task
I will never get it all done, for my "ideal" is with me.
Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me.
They demand my performance from me beyond the limits of my schedule.
They anoint my head with migraines.
My in-basket overflows.
Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.
From "101 Ways to Simplify Your Life" written by Paul Borthwick, and published by Victor Books.
Hi blog. I am busy. Hence I have kind of ignored you. Today, lecture at 6pm. Ends at 9pm. I feel like bringing my laptop there. Ok i shall.
Im going to get married to my Fujitsu Lifebook S6410 soon. This coming Monday willl be the wedding ceremony. Officially we will be married when my first tutorial starts.
So what am I doing now? Resting in my room before my GEM 2901 class starts in LT32 in Science Fac. Gonna have to leave at abt 5.15 to get there on time. Disgusting ryte? Im on campus and still have to leave 45 mins early. Saded.
Life has been quite nice off campus, but today, I shall make it a nice one. Txs Beverly for the convo yesterday (= or today rather. Hehe.
Shout out to Yumei, Pras, Sek, Kari, Joanne and Stephanie. Miss you guys. Makes TJ seem so far away when I met u guys, cuz haven seen u guys in three eternities already lar.. treasure ur JC life, cuz it doesn't get much easier in Uni. That's local uni if you're wondering. Go overseas! Pls do! Dun make me see u in orientation when im in Year 3. If i do see u also, be in the camps k?
Ok, back to NUS life. Met Amanda today who graciously lent me her CashCard cuz Vanessa's had not enough credit to print my notes. Ate at the fabled Arts Canteen. Ok only lar the western food there. Still haven't found the best which is apparently at Business. Which makes sense. Business, west, seems to click quite well. While Engin, food? Hmm.. the only thing we know abt cooking is how many Joules of energy the stove will provide and to find the best material to cook the food in. Oh, we would claim to design it too, but i think SDE takes credit for that. So I guess engin canteen will not be able to boast much for now other than our Indonesian Panggang. Which I have yet to try. I will. I have four years... How will I not...
Ok, time's up Blog. I've gotta sleep and bathe before lecture. Trying to figure out how to squeeze in DINNER when lecture's from 6 to 9. Oh well, good to be back in PGP, although im not too excited.
Oh, yes, there's one thing u can take back from reading this post, I now have a Facebook account! Yes, search for the ONLY,i repeat ONLY Kenneth Stephen Wilson on Facebook k? Cheers ppl!
The clock is my dictator;
I shall not rest.
It makes me lie down only when exhausted.
It leads me to depression.
It hounds my soul.
It leads me in circles of frenzy for activity's sake
Even though I run frantically from task to task
I will never get it all done, for my "ideal" is with me.
Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me.
They demand my performance from me beyond the limits of my schedule.
They anoint my head with migraines.
My in-basket overflows.
Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.
From "101 Ways to Simplify Your Life" written by Paul Borthwick, and published by Victor Books.
Hi blog. I am busy. Hence I have kind of ignored you. Today, lecture at 6pm. Ends at 9pm. I feel like bringing my laptop there. Ok i shall.
Im going to get married to my Fujitsu Lifebook S6410 soon. This coming Monday willl be the wedding ceremony. Officially we will be married when my first tutorial starts.
So what am I doing now? Resting in my room before my GEM 2901 class starts in LT32 in Science Fac. Gonna have to leave at abt 5.15 to get there on time. Disgusting ryte? Im on campus and still have to leave 45 mins early. Saded.
Life has been quite nice off campus, but today, I shall make it a nice one. Txs Beverly for the convo yesterday (= or today rather. Hehe.
Shout out to Yumei, Pras, Sek, Kari, Joanne and Stephanie. Miss you guys. Makes TJ seem so far away when I met u guys, cuz haven seen u guys in three eternities already lar.. treasure ur JC life, cuz it doesn't get much easier in Uni. That's local uni if you're wondering. Go overseas! Pls do! Dun make me see u in orientation when im in Year 3. If i do see u also, be in the camps k?
Ok, back to NUS life. Met Amanda today who graciously lent me her CashCard cuz Vanessa's had not enough credit to print my notes. Ate at the fabled Arts Canteen. Ok only lar the western food there. Still haven't found the best which is apparently at Business. Which makes sense. Business, west, seems to click quite well. While Engin, food? Hmm.. the only thing we know abt cooking is how many Joules of energy the stove will provide and to find the best material to cook the food in. Oh, we would claim to design it too, but i think SDE takes credit for that. So I guess engin canteen will not be able to boast much for now other than our Indonesian Panggang. Which I have yet to try. I will. I have four years... How will I not...
Ok, time's up Blog. I've gotta sleep and bathe before lecture. Trying to figure out how to squeeze in DINNER when lecture's from 6 to 9. Oh well, good to be back in PGP, although im not too excited.
Oh, yes, there's one thing u can take back from reading this post, I now have a Facebook account! Yes, search for the ONLY,i repeat ONLY Kenneth Stephen Wilson on Facebook k? Cheers ppl!
Labels: Amanda, Arts Canteen, Beverly, Facebook, Joanne, Karilynn, Pras, S6410, Sek, Stephanie, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Tuesday, May 29, 2007-)
+11:15 PM]*
+11:15 PM]*
# (can't think of a title)
Tuesday
Today was pretty interesting. Woke up after a crazy chat session with the three in one, actually jz two, but yeah, it was crazy. Was chatting with a few other ppl too and eventually gave up because 2am (apart from being a track from Altered Frequency's album) sounded more like "you're asleep" and "you're not supposed to be making sense... what?.. precisely" so i slept. And woke up this morning at around 9 plus 10. Slacked around, surfed blogs and what not, yeah, actually what what not ar?
Who cares, i got myself out of bed (which takes a lot of effort when u haven't been working or 2 weeks plus...) and went for lunch. I think i stopped by TJ first to get my shoebag, talked with the fewex-councillors in the room and then went opposite. Got a rather ok lunch, and then as i was abt to leave for Beach Rd, Jaren's sms came.
Then went over to under LT 2,helped distracted sek's/pras's PW group with their soapy slippery GPP and then finally started to make our way to lunch. Why was I at lunch again? Don't know. Where were we going to eat? Don't know. We had many funny suggestions.
-->Daikin (go figure)
-->IKEA
-->McDonald's
-->LJS
But we settled on Pizza Hut cuz of their tempting student offer. But Jeryl still wanted his porridge. So he went and bought and brought it into the Hut.
Then we had many funny conversations and almost persuaded Diantahhhhhh not to buy lasagne and the person who took our order had some math problems. When the food came, Jaren's balls didn't seem to appear. But they ate anyway. Had a little surprise with Adele and Valarie coming to the Hut as well, but they were doing PW there... so sad... And then Shi Yun came and i told her they were inside before she could call them (on the phone lar). Then Chinese Drama Girl (CDG) also came. Sorry I dun know ur name. Sek thinks CDG is from AHS. But then again, everyone is from AHS lar in TJ. But u wouldn't recognise them from their EZLINK CARDS!! It was so funny when Yumei started laughing at the pics at the counter. Even the staff were so unprofessional and laughed with her. Jaren was "stretched", Diantha looked like nurse. After the meal, went off... haha, Yumei, u cannot read from this point on ok?
[-------------------------No Yumei allowed-------------------------]
We went to City Hall first cuz i wanted to get my ticket from nearby Beach Road. Diantahhhhh wanted doughnuts but the queue was insane, so we got nothing from there. Haha. So we decided to head on to Orchard to get more stuff with Jeryl Kari to join us there. When we were there, they were at Eunos. So, you guessed it, we moved on! Haha, but really, all the best to Kari and Jeryl for Band EXCO!
Stopped for Ah Pek Ice Cream, which Diantahhhhh and i got hte same while Joannie got some green thingy. But pro of the day goes to Joannie who ate it the tidiest. I get the the fastest eater award as usual, and wanted more.
Okay, now when we finally reached our destination, Kinokuniya was having a stock check. For ONLY today. It had to be JUST today.
-Business will resume on 30th May NO THANK YOU!-
Oh well, we headed off to level 3 and shopped ard. Ok, we started by sitting down while getting Diantahhhhh's Rubik's then we got Yumei her stuff. And had loads of fun looking ard all the weird stuff. Realised i haven't played board games or Uno in a long time. Oh, when Jeryl Kari arrived, I could only see Jeryl. Heee!
After we bought e stuff, got it wrapped, we went down to Happy House, or so i thought. There was this rather embarrasing moment but since this is my blog, i shall not suan myself. Haha! If u know about it, u can blog abt it.
Left for tuition, came home, and blogged.
Ok, some observations today.
Blogskins are created to irritate me
I missed 2 14s today.
Justea-Lemon+Green tea is cough mixture in disguise
Im losing my appetite
Life is a very deep word.
Life is meant to be explored and slowly understood.
If we fully understand life, it's not worth living anymore.
But we still strive to figure life out all our days.
Why?
Today was pretty interesting. Woke up after a crazy chat session with the three in one, actually jz two, but yeah, it was crazy. Was chatting with a few other ppl too and eventually gave up because 2am (apart from being a track from Altered Frequency's album) sounded more like "you're asleep" and "you're not supposed to be making sense... what?.. precisely" so i slept. And woke up this morning at around 9 plus 10. Slacked around, surfed blogs and what not, yeah, actually what what not ar?
Who cares, i got myself out of bed (which takes a lot of effort when u haven't been working or 2 weeks plus...) and went for lunch. I think i stopped by TJ first to get my shoebag, talked with the few
Then went over to under LT 2,
-->Daikin (go figure)
-->IKEA
-->McDonald's
-->LJS
But we settled on Pizza Hut cuz of their tempting student offer. But Jeryl still wanted his porridge. So he went and bought and brought it into the Hut.
Then we had many funny conversations and almost persuaded Diantahhhhhh not to buy lasagne and the person who took our order had some math problems. When the food came, Jaren's balls didn't seem to appear. But they ate anyway. Had a little surprise with Adele and Valarie coming to the Hut as well, but they were doing PW there... so sad... And then Shi Yun came and i told her they were inside before she could call them (on the phone lar). Then Chinese Drama Girl (CDG) also came. Sorry I dun know ur name. Sek thinks CDG is from AHS. But then again, everyone is from AHS lar in TJ. But u wouldn't recognise them from their EZLINK CARDS!! It was so funny when Yumei started laughing at the pics at the counter. Even the staff were so unprofessional and laughed with her. Jaren was "stretched", Diantha looked like nurse. After the meal, went off... haha, Yumei, u cannot read from this point on ok?
[-------------------------No Yumei allowed-------------------------]
We went to City Hall first cuz i wanted to get my ticket from nearby Beach Road. Diantahhhhh wanted doughnuts but the queue was insane, so we got nothing from there. Haha. So we decided to head on to Orchard to get more stuff with Jeryl Kari to join us there. When we were there, they were at Eunos. So, you guessed it, we moved on! Haha, but really, all the best to Kari and Jeryl for Band EXCO!
Stopped for Ah Pek Ice Cream, which Diantahhhhh and i got hte same while Joannie got some green thingy. But pro of the day goes to Joannie who ate it the tidiest. I get the the fastest eater award as usual, and wanted more.
Okay, now when we finally reached our destination, Kinokuniya was having a stock check. For ONLY today. It had to be JUST today.
-Business will resume on 30th May NO THANK YOU!-
Oh well, we headed off to level 3 and shopped ard. Ok, we started by sitting down while getting Diantahhhhh's Rubik's then we got Yumei her stuff. And had loads of fun looking ard all the weird stuff. Realised i haven't played board games or Uno in a long time. Oh, when Jeryl Kari arrived, I could only see Jeryl. Heee!
After we bought e stuff, got it wrapped, we went down to Happy House, or so i thought. There was this rather embarrasing moment but since this is my blog, i shall not suan myself. Haha! If u know about it, u can blog abt it.
Left for tuition, came home, and blogged.
Ok, some observations today.
Blogskins are created to irritate me
I missed 2 14s today.
Justea-Lemon+Green tea is cough mixture in disguise
Im losing my appetite
Life is a very deep word.
Life is meant to be explored and slowly understood.
If we fully understand life, it's not worth living anymore.
But we still strive to figure life out all our days.
Why?
Labels: Ah pek ice cream, Diantahhhhh, EzLink cards, Jaren, Jeryl, Joanne, Karilynn, Orchard, Pizza Hut, Pras, Raffles, Rubik's, Sek, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Tuesday, May 22, 2007-)
+11:32 PM]*
+11:32 PM]*
# Sprung... a leak
Tuesday
Historical day. Let's get the basics out of the way. Got up, went for interview, went to church, went to school, had dinner, tuition, came home to blog about it. Here we go.
Okay, the highlight of the day, the SPRING SG interview. If any of you from Spring Singapore is reading this - HI! Hope u had a nice day at work =)
Woke up at 7.40 after Jean convinced me waking at 7am for an 11am interview is madness. Haha. So i woke up later, took a shower, re-ironed my pants, did my QT and then prepared to leave. It was abt 9am. Reached the bus stop at 9.10, and 14 was already here. Yay. No need to wait.
Got up, sat down, listen to All of the Above till about hostel there, then started reading up my Spring SG notes. Yes ppl, i made notes. I know that Philip Yeo is the Chairman while Mr Loh Khum Yean is the CEO and his deputy is Mr Png Cheong Boon. I found out it has 5 branches and 4 strategic thrusts. But do you care? I guess not. Haha. But still, the stuff they do are quite cool. ETDF, CCI, MDP, BrandPact. Yup, without Spring, its like, building a house without machinery. U can do it, but it'll be much easier with their help.
Yeah, lets just say i was super early for the interview. Yup, met Maria on level 20, she took my certs, gave me back my Orange folder, and i sat down. There wa this guy opposite me. Just smiled, but he looked super tense. Didn't get to speak to him and he went for the interview.
Actually, there was an air of disappointment when ireached level 20, i instantly knew it wasn't the final round and there would still be a need for Round 4. But oh well. Read Enterprise Today while waiting. Prayed. And finally my turn came.
The HR Exec was a very nice lady, then she gave me a quick briefing on what was gonna happen in the room, and it was Mr Tan from Corporate Development and a lady from Enterprise Capabilities i think. The interview was rather smooth although i didn't throw all my knowledge of Spring at them.Yeah, should have done that. Sighs...
Then the usual ending question came.. Do you have any questions for us?
I asked about the departments in Spring, if i get to choose... bla bla bla.. then i asked about accomodation. And here's when the leak sprung itself.
HR Exec : We will certainly provide the accomodation for our scholars
Me : Oh, so you'll be paying for my hall fees if i accept NUS
HR Exec : Well, we will definitely fund our scholars' accomodation because they need it when they are overseas
Me : Oh, okay, so firefly is ONLY giving out overseas scholarships
HR Exec : Yes..... *and here i stop listening and start thinking.. oh crap.. i am screwed*
Yup. found out that firefly only wants to give out overseas scholarships. And i don;t have an overseas place to be sent to. So yeah, God, if You want me to take up a plain ASEAN in NUS, i will i guess. But if u give me the Spring Scholarship, i know its You cuz it will take a miracle to get me both a scholarship and a place overseas to read Engineering.
Yup. That's how the thing went. A quick 20 minute interview. Then bussed back to home. Slept. Sorry Jayne, my hp was going crazy today. JoJo smsed me and i finally got 8 msgs straight away after restarting my phone. Helped Jayne out and towards the end, she had to leave for driving. All the best!! Finished it up and went home.
*Cue College Anthem - Jazz Version (which is my ringtone btw)*
Yumei called and i get to go and get the cable. She was doing make up PE. Reached school and saw her and Sek. Sek was doing the most cool make up PE I've ever heard. Shoot 100 balls. And Sek being the *cute* haha Sek she is chose 100 3 point shots. I reached at 57. And stayed around till 100. It was super funny lar with Yumei helping Sek with the balls. Yumei is also a B.. I.. M... B... She's a Bimbo.. B.. I... m...?... She's a Bimbo! Hahaha! *knocks her own head with the ball* Haha! Twice! Haha! So funny!! And then Sek also laughed, then can't concentrate and shot a few ass-balls (according to Yumei) Haha! Ok, she meant air-balls. Then after about an hour (they were ther for an hour already) we left while Sek still wanted to stick around shooting more balls. So cool ryte, 100 shots for make up PE.
Then as i left, saw the PE teachers opposite. Anyone want to guess what they were doing. I doubt any of u can guess it right. Seriously, even I didn't believe it.
Ate my dinner, on the way out, met Aprine, Amanda and Ying Huan, topped up EZLink and then went for tuition. Then came home. Yup. Hi. Im still on the school laptop. I bet that's illegal when u were retrenched like more than a week ago? I guess TJ jz rocks!
Shout outs
Zhiyuan, Trinity, Ryan, Cadence, Shawn - All the best starting tomorrow. It's a learning journey. Remember that, you make mistakes and you grow stronger!
Zhiyuan - Congrats on ur scholarship(S!) U crazy siao girl!! Take care tmr too. And of Zsa too
Julie - Jia you! Be a nice usher k? U rock!
Zsa Zsa - I don't really know what I can do for you except pray that God sends a special guardian angel to watch over you, your pain killers and your heart. Care lots for you..
Jean - Congrats on NUS Business!!! Awesomely cool!
Lay Sian and Co - Sorry about the confusion
TJCians of 05/06 - A level certs and SGC are ready for collection
Historical day. Let's get the basics out of the way. Got up, went for interview, went to church, went to school, had dinner, tuition, came home to blog about it. Here we go.
Okay, the highlight of the day, the SPRING SG interview. If any of you from Spring Singapore is reading this - HI! Hope u had a nice day at work =)
Woke up at 7.40 after Jean convinced me waking at 7am for an 11am interview is madness. Haha. So i woke up later, took a shower, re-ironed my pants, did my QT and then prepared to leave. It was abt 9am. Reached the bus stop at 9.10, and 14 was already here. Yay. No need to wait.
Got up, sat down, listen to All of the Above till about hostel there, then started reading up my Spring SG notes. Yes ppl, i made notes. I know that Philip Yeo is the Chairman while Mr Loh Khum Yean is the CEO and his deputy is Mr Png Cheong Boon. I found out it has 5 branches and 4 strategic thrusts. But do you care? I guess not. Haha. But still, the stuff they do are quite cool. ETDF, CCI, MDP, BrandPact. Yup, without Spring, its like, building a house without machinery. U can do it, but it'll be much easier with their help.
Yeah, lets just say i was super early for the interview. Yup, met Maria on level 20, she took my certs, gave me back my Orange folder, and i sat down. There wa this guy opposite me. Just smiled, but he looked super tense. Didn't get to speak to him and he went for the interview.
Actually, there was an air of disappointment when ireached level 20, i instantly knew it wasn't the final round and there would still be a need for Round 4. But oh well. Read Enterprise Today while waiting. Prayed. And finally my turn came.
The HR Exec was a very nice lady, then she gave me a quick briefing on what was gonna happen in the room, and it was Mr Tan from Corporate Development and a lady from Enterprise Capabilities i think. The interview was rather smooth although i didn't throw all my knowledge of Spring at them.Yeah, should have done that. Sighs...
Then the usual ending question came.. Do you have any questions for us?
I asked about the departments in Spring, if i get to choose... bla bla bla.. then i asked about accomodation. And here's when the leak sprung itself.
HR Exec : We will certainly provide the accomodation for our scholars
Me : Oh, so you'll be paying for my hall fees if i accept NUS
HR Exec : Well, we will definitely fund our scholars' accomodation because they need it when they are overseas
Me : Oh, okay, so firefly is ONLY giving out overseas scholarships
HR Exec : Yes..... *and here i stop listening and start thinking.. oh crap.. i am screwed*
Yup. found out that firefly only wants to give out overseas scholarships. And i don;t have an overseas place to be sent to. So yeah, God, if You want me to take up a plain ASEAN in NUS, i will i guess. But if u give me the Spring Scholarship, i know its You cuz it will take a miracle to get me both a scholarship and a place overseas to read Engineering.
Yup. That's how the thing went. A quick 20 minute interview. Then bussed back to home. Slept. Sorry Jayne, my hp was going crazy today. JoJo smsed me and i finally got 8 msgs straight away after restarting my phone. Helped Jayne out and towards the end, she had to leave for driving. All the best!! Finished it up and went home.
*Cue College Anthem - Jazz Version (which is my ringtone btw)*
Yumei called and i get to go and get the cable. She was doing make up PE. Reached school and saw her and Sek. Sek was doing the most cool make up PE I've ever heard. Shoot 100 balls. And Sek being the *cute* haha Sek she is chose 100 3 point shots. I reached at 57. And stayed around till 100. It was super funny lar with Yumei helping Sek with the balls. Yumei is also a B.. I.. M... B... She's a Bimbo.. B.. I... m...?... She's a Bimbo! Hahaha! *knocks her own head with the ball* Haha! Twice! Haha! So funny!! And then Sek also laughed, then can't concentrate and shot a few ass-balls (according to Yumei) Haha! Ok, she meant air-balls. Then after about an hour (they were ther for an hour already) we left while Sek still wanted to stick around shooting more balls. So cool ryte, 100 shots for make up PE.
Then as i left, saw the PE teachers opposite. Anyone want to guess what they were doing. I doubt any of u can guess it right. Seriously, even I didn't believe it.
Ate my dinner, on the way out, met Aprine, Amanda and Ying Huan, topped up EZLink and then went for tuition. Then came home. Yup. Hi. Im still on the school laptop. I bet that's illegal when u were retrenched like more than a week ago? I guess TJ jz rocks!
Shout outs
Zhiyuan, Trinity, Ryan, Cadence, Shawn - All the best starting tomorrow. It's a learning journey. Remember that, you make mistakes and you grow stronger!
Zhiyuan - Congrats on ur scholarship(S!) U crazy siao girl!! Take care tmr too. And of Zsa too
Julie - Jia you! Be a nice usher k? U rock!
Zsa Zsa - I don't really know what I can do for you except pray that God sends a special guardian angel to watch over you, your pain killers and your heart. Care lots for you..
Jean - Congrats on NUS Business!!! Awesomely cool!
Lay Sian and Co - Sorry about the confusion
TJCians of 05/06 - A level certs and SGC are ready for collection
Labels: Jayne, Sek, SPRING SG, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Sunday, May 20, 2007-)
+10:04 PM]*
+10:04 PM]*
# Spring...
Interview coming up. I want this. Yup. Prayed about it, and i want it. I need it.
Tuesday 11am somewhere along Jalan Bukit Merah. Not too sure how to get there, but i'll find out. I guess i've sort of ruled out NTU in my mind. But I don't want to have to go through uni on another ASEAN scholarship. It will be sad.
Spring Singapore. Read up about you. I guess it's something i can do for quite a few years. But of course i need to know what u really want and deliver it this Tuesday.
Okay, a little recap of the weekend. Friday was cool. Went for Choir Concert. It was nice, especially the musical this year. Met some of the choir people again. And Ms Tham vaguely remembers me. Yay! Haha. Carian was dancing in front of my side of teh audience but i don't think she saw me. Valarie was singing on my side too, didn't notice me either, but then again, she was supposed to be lookign at Ms Tham anyway. Had difficulty spotting Shi Yun but i saw her during the musical. light green scarf =)
The concert was good. Ushering was very bad. Emcees were a little off, not quite the right atmosphere. And the programme booklet was.... erm... smelly. Yes it was, go smell. But overall it was a nice concert.
Gave a little (yes, it was quite little i know...) something to carian, shi yun and valarie (whose name was spelt valerie in the proramme booklet) and then took off to eat dinner with eugene. Newton circus. First time, overpriced, but at least the Hokkien mee was nice =) I don't eat prawns though. Sad eh? But txs eugene for dinner =)
Then took 48 home and slept. Next day had College Day.
Met up with many people. Txs for the camera in the morning Yumei! Took some pictures, talked a bit. Then sat down, went to audi, didn't sit down. Went walking ard with Ben Tham. Then had to sit down when it was about to start.
The college was rather pretty, but its jz a facade. I found out that Dr Vivian Balakrishnan is a young man. Haha, that changes quite a bit of my perception, and his speech was not bad. I guess its a pre-requisite to be a politician? Got stephy to take pics for me. Txs Steph! I know it must have been difficult.
Got my awards, for SC (plaque), 4As (CAC Award), Overall Top Student (Some-guy's-name trophy) and gave the valediction. Cadence and Zhiyuan got awards too. The council's a brainy one this year!
Ok the valediction.... Let's see, i have heard many different things abt it. I was nervous. So stupid lar.. But i sort of settled in after a while. There were those who were laughing (yes, i won't embarrass u here) and those who were trying hard not to laugh. But i tried. I am proud of myself, and i think my valediction wasn't as boring as last years. Yay =)
Yes, i loved college day! Yes, call me proud but its something that im proud of myself. Of course i know its not jz me who could have done it alone, but i think its something i will remember for my whole life =)
Talked to many people, parents (some of which i don't know), tutors, juniors, friends, students. Then went for class outing. All 10 of us. 9 most of the time. Ate at Surf n Turf. The food there is not bad. And had a nice "discount" when they didn't add Mei Lien's meal to the bill. But the owner so nice say no need to pay. Haha. Of course they did spill water on grace and teik kheng, so they did kind of owe it to us? Yup, talked a lot. Ni Ying wants to buy laptop. (Ma) Lay Sian either wants to be a teacher or an accountant. Pei Fen, haha, she's definitley not committing suicide at 25 anymore. Mei Lien is gonna go UK. The guys... are in army. Period.
Then walked ard, went for YA.
I was ridiculously dressed from college day for YA, so they got me to be the "late usher" which is the guy who gives out this letter to those who were late to remind them to come early for service next week cuz we're locking the doors at 7.30pm sharp. Yup, honour God with our time. So it was not too nice a job, but it was alright. Although the speakers weren't. Just the left one i think. Winnie and Addy had a hard time with the sound board this time.
Yup, other than that, service was ok, ended on time and we ate chicken rice for dinner and i went home.
Shall skip Sunday. For those of you who are wondering, take a long thought of how (our cell in particular is doing) and then maybe u'd understand the way i reacted.
Yup... bye people..
Tuesday 11am somewhere along Jalan Bukit Merah. Not too sure how to get there, but i'll find out. I guess i've sort of ruled out NTU in my mind. But I don't want to have to go through uni on another ASEAN scholarship. It will be sad.
Spring Singapore. Read up about you. I guess it's something i can do for quite a few years. But of course i need to know what u really want and deliver it this Tuesday.
Okay, a little recap of the weekend. Friday was cool. Went for Choir Concert. It was nice, especially the musical this year. Met some of the choir people again. And Ms Tham vaguely remembers me. Yay! Haha. Carian was dancing in front of my side of teh audience but i don't think she saw me. Valarie was singing on my side too, didn't notice me either, but then again, she was supposed to be lookign at Ms Tham anyway. Had difficulty spotting Shi Yun but i saw her during the musical. light green scarf =)
The concert was good. Ushering was very bad. Emcees were a little off, not quite the right atmosphere. And the programme booklet was.... erm... smelly. Yes it was, go smell. But overall it was a nice concert.
Gave a little (yes, it was quite little i know...) something to carian, shi yun and valarie (whose name was spelt valerie in the proramme booklet) and then took off to eat dinner with eugene. Newton circus. First time, overpriced, but at least the Hokkien mee was nice =) I don't eat prawns though. Sad eh? But txs eugene for dinner =)
Then took 48 home and slept. Next day had College Day.
Met up with many people. Txs for the camera in the morning Yumei! Took some pictures, talked a bit. Then sat down, went to audi, didn't sit down. Went walking ard with Ben Tham. Then had to sit down when it was about to start.
The college was rather pretty, but its jz a facade. I found out that Dr Vivian Balakrishnan is a young man. Haha, that changes quite a bit of my perception, and his speech was not bad. I guess its a pre-requisite to be a politician? Got stephy to take pics for me. Txs Steph! I know it must have been difficult.
Got my awards, for SC (plaque), 4As (CAC Award), Overall Top Student (Some-guy's-name trophy) and gave the valediction. Cadence and Zhiyuan got awards too. The council's a brainy one this year!
Ok the valediction.... Let's see, i have heard many different things abt it. I was nervous. So stupid lar.. But i sort of settled in after a while. There were those who were laughing (yes, i won't embarrass u here) and those who were trying hard not to laugh. But i tried. I am proud of myself, and i think my valediction wasn't as boring as last years. Yay =)
Yes, i loved college day! Yes, call me proud but its something that im proud of myself. Of course i know its not jz me who could have done it alone, but i think its something i will remember for my whole life =)
Talked to many people, parents (some of which i don't know), tutors, juniors, friends, students. Then went for class outing. All 10 of us. 9 most of the time. Ate at Surf n Turf. The food there is not bad. And had a nice "discount" when they didn't add Mei Lien's meal to the bill. But the owner so nice say no need to pay. Haha. Of course they did spill water on grace and teik kheng, so they did kind of owe it to us? Yup, talked a lot. Ni Ying wants to buy laptop. (Ma) Lay Sian either wants to be a teacher or an accountant. Pei Fen, haha, she's definitley not committing suicide at 25 anymore. Mei Lien is gonna go UK. The guys... are in army. Period.
Then walked ard, went for YA.
I was ridiculously dressed from college day for YA, so they got me to be the "late usher" which is the guy who gives out this letter to those who were late to remind them to come early for service next week cuz we're locking the doors at 7.30pm sharp. Yup, honour God with our time. So it was not too nice a job, but it was alright. Although the speakers weren't. Just the left one i think. Winnie and Addy had a hard time with the sound board this time.
Yup, other than that, service was ok, ended on time and we ate chicken rice for dinner and i went home.
Shall skip Sunday. For those of you who are wondering, take a long thought of how (our cell in particular is doing) and then maybe u'd understand the way i reacted.
Yup... bye people..
Labels: 29th College Day, Cadence, Carian, Choir Concert, Eugene, Grace, Lay Sian, Mei Lien, Ni Ying, Pei Fen, Shi Yun, SPRING SG, Valarie, Yumei, Zhiyuan
the story ends like this;
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(Tuesday, May 8, 2007-)
+11:01 PM]*
+11:01 PM]*
# Break Free
Monday
Guess what, i've been listening to or is it guess what i've been listening to? Either way, it's All of the Above by UNITED! Oh yea. And it rocks! Haha, if any of u have the time to check, i find the e-guitar in Hosanna at 2:37 quite funny. But after a while, it starts to sound cool. Oh, yes, let me tell u my favourite songs from this album (this is so not related to monday, but who cares)
1- Point of Difference - refer previous post
2- Devotion - chorus lyrics rocks!
3- Found - although i initially ALWAYS skipped this song in Mighty to Save, they revamped it so well it is actually much easier to listen to. NOTE : I hate songs where the singer/s do/esn't sound natural at all.. like when they have too "ghostly" voices. Refer to Found in MTS or Lead Me To The Cross from AOTA.
4- Future Decided - bridge rocks! (and yes, playing bridge rocks too, but not as much as this!)
5- Saviour King - JoJo, i admit the build up for Still is STILL (pun intended) the nicest, but this when they go into chorus for e 4th time, i love the vocals!
6- Selah tracks, especially the one after Devotion, Draw Me Closer (i think) which has quite meaningful lyrics as well
Ok cool, enough of publicity for the album, which totally rocks, oh yeah, enough. Back to..
Monday
Oh, lemme see.. what happened here... Or rather... what didn't happen.. Carian ar... Ok shall not blame her lar, my fault for not bringing back the GP Resource Package. So 03 had to do an impromtu lesson on advertising. Yes, 06, the whole lesson was NOT planned, but i knew what it was about at least ryte?
Continues and finished my THE (yes, its there for a reason my students..) Mass Media intro and even had to take 06 out of 133 because i felt it was so stuffy and they were like.. falling asleep. So we had Alfresco GP with everyone on the ledge outside the art room window except the nine (thinks of the coffins... hmm.. ee...) Of course the stared during the period change must have been funny, but at least they were awake. I think... Were you?
Anyways, had lesson with 21 where i did the current affairs quiz which was also screed up. Wanted to zap for everyone but some teacher had astack of like 500 papers to zap so i tried to print it. Then some other teacher was printing 37 pages... Sian!! So i finally did my final current affairs quiz. And it was too easy.. darn..
After that, i ran out of time giving back essays that i had to hold some of them back. And talked. Then went to the sports com like i always do on mondays, and talked. A lot! Haha, pretend to want to mark essay summore. Hehe. Had a nice chat with Zsa^2 abt many random stuffs. Then she finally had to catch her drama plane. And i still think u have a yellow/PINK wallet. Haha!
Then talked to Shuming too! Had so much to talk abt! Hostel seems more scandalous than ever!!!! Really man! And i think M4-06 will forever remain legendary! Shuming agrees! I think. And shuming, u must behave lar... always go visitors lounge.. aiyo.. at least dun kena caught can? And dun say what i taught u abt the magnetic door and masking tape! All e best for ur EZLINK too.
To Julie- u can do it! U will survive! All e best to u and Jaren too, not for Zhiyuan! Haha! for HC!
Den ate dinner alone and came home alone and marked all the paragraphs from 06. Oh, productive sia!
Slept
Tuesday
Only one lesson and i remembered to bring the sweets. YAY. Apparently it wasn't too nice cuz it was too sweet... the Fe-y... dun get it right? Then had nothing else to do so i finished off my gemming with eugene. I won thanks to IMBA wraith slate. Oh Denise came back today!
She had shocking stories to tell of Monfort and the staffroom was alive again wh=ith her being around. And i might consider working where she does. Can you believe it, up to 40 a day in tips?? Yeah, but then Monfort stories were cool, and the info abt 3 years a level restrictions on scholarships.. appaling!!!
Then did e book for Kathleen and Shums, haven done one of those in ages. And then went to 222. Taught a few ppl how to do Rubiks today. They include Sam, Yumei, Zhiyuan, Jaren. And Eugene has a 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 Rubiks!!!!! I WANT ONE!!! 3X3 is the classic, 4x4 is called Rubik's Revenge, 5x5 is called Rubik's Professor!So cool! 4x4 one makes the 3x3 one look like a noob's toy! So fun! I think Zhiyuan has mastered the first phase of 2x2 solving for the Revenge cube! Yup, had tuition today, bus came late but i think it was my fault. Then i decided to blog. Then i decided to sleep
Shout outs
Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie - heard u guys got Gold! CONGRATS!!
Sek, Song Hon - get well and heal soon
Yumei - Jia You!! Dun give up!
Julie, Jaren and e rest - all e best for HC
Lousia, Aruna, Verena, Christina and anyone else - All e best for LEO!
Zsa, Shuming, Jane - nice talks!
Guess what, i've been listening to or is it guess what i've been listening to? Either way, it's All of the Above by UNITED! Oh yea. And it rocks! Haha, if any of u have the time to check, i find the e-guitar in Hosanna at 2:37 quite funny. But after a while, it starts to sound cool. Oh, yes, let me tell u my favourite songs from this album (this is so not related to monday, but who cares)
1- Point of Difference - refer previous post
2- Devotion - chorus lyrics rocks!
3- Found - although i initially ALWAYS skipped this song in Mighty to Save, they revamped it so well it is actually much easier to listen to. NOTE : I hate songs where the singer/s do/esn't sound natural at all.. like when they have too "ghostly" voices. Refer to Found in MTS or Lead Me To The Cross from AOTA.
4- Future Decided - bridge rocks! (and yes, playing bridge rocks too, but not as much as this!)
5- Saviour King - JoJo, i admit the build up for Still is STILL (pun intended) the nicest, but this when they go into chorus for e 4th time, i love the vocals!
6- Selah tracks, especially the one after Devotion, Draw Me Closer (i think) which has quite meaningful lyrics as well
Ok cool, enough of publicity for the album, which totally rocks, oh yeah, enough. Back to..
Monday
Oh, lemme see.. what happened here... Or rather... what didn't happen.. Carian ar... Ok shall not blame her lar, my fault for not bringing back the GP Resource Package. So 03 had to do an impromtu lesson on advertising. Yes, 06, the whole lesson was NOT planned, but i knew what it was about at least ryte?
Continues and finished my THE (yes, its there for a reason my students..) Mass Media intro and even had to take 06 out of 133 because i felt it was so stuffy and they were like.. falling asleep. So we had Alfresco GP with everyone on the ledge outside the art room window except the nine (thinks of the coffins... hmm.. ee...) Of course the stared during the period change must have been funny, but at least they were awake. I think... Were you?
Anyways, had lesson with 21 where i did the current affairs quiz which was also screed up. Wanted to zap for everyone but some teacher had astack of like 500 papers to zap so i tried to print it. Then some other teacher was printing 37 pages... Sian!! So i finally did my final current affairs quiz. And it was too easy.. darn..
After that, i ran out of time giving back essays that i had to hold some of them back. And talked. Then went to the sports com like i always do on mondays, and talked. A lot! Haha, pretend to want to mark essay summore. Hehe. Had a nice chat with Zsa^2 abt many random stuffs. Then she finally had to catch her drama plane. And i still think u have a yellow/PINK wallet. Haha!
Then talked to Shuming too! Had so much to talk abt! Hostel seems more scandalous than ever!!!! Really man! And i think M4-06 will forever remain legendary! Shuming agrees! I think. And shuming, u must behave lar... always go visitors lounge.. aiyo.. at least dun kena caught can? And dun say what i taught u abt the magnetic door and masking tape! All e best for ur EZLINK too.
To Julie- u can do it! U will survive! All e best to u and Jaren too, not for Zhiyuan! Haha! for HC!
Den ate dinner alone and came home alone and marked all the paragraphs from 06. Oh, productive sia!
Slept
Tuesday
Only one lesson and i remembered to bring the sweets. YAY. Apparently it wasn't too nice cuz it was too sweet... the Fe-y... dun get it right? Then had nothing else to do so i finished off my gemming with eugene. I won thanks to IMBA wraith slate. Oh Denise came back today!
She had shocking stories to tell of Monfort and the staffroom was alive again wh=ith her being around. And i might consider working where she does. Can you believe it, up to 40 a day in tips?? Yeah, but then Monfort stories were cool, and the info abt 3 years a level restrictions on scholarships.. appaling!!!
Then did e book for Kathleen and Shums, haven done one of those in ages. And then went to 222. Taught a few ppl how to do Rubiks today. They include Sam, Yumei, Zhiyuan, Jaren. And Eugene has a 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 Rubiks!!!!! I WANT ONE!!! 3X3 is the classic, 4x4 is called Rubik's Revenge, 5x5 is called Rubik's Professor!So cool! 4x4 one makes the 3x3 one look like a noob's toy! So fun! I think Zhiyuan has mastered the first phase of 2x2 solving for the Revenge cube! Yup, had tuition today, bus came late but i think it was my fault. Then i decided to blog. Then i decided to sleep
Shout outs
Carian, Shi Yun, Valarie - heard u guys got Gold! CONGRATS!!
Sek, Song Hon - get well and heal soon
Yumei - Jia You!! Dun give up!
Julie, Jaren and e rest - all e best for HC
Lousia, Aruna, Verena, Christina and anyone else - All e best for LEO!
Zsa, Shuming, Jane - nice talks!
Labels: All of the Above, Jaren, Julie, Rubik's, Sek, Shuming, Yumei, Zhiyuan, Zsa^2
the story ends like this;
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(Friday, April 20, 2007-)
+11:22 PM]*
+11:22 PM]*
# Eat The Fat and Drink The Sweet
Thursday
Lemme fast forward to 21's History lesson. An American lesson, rated X. They were rather fast to reach class which is of course a welcomed rarity. And soon the video was on. Although i had to warn them of the impending nudity and mostly-f-up dialogues.
Once again i needed the miracle of screening 120 minutes in 6000 seconds. Well, i tried to help it along by skipping a family fight scene, and a brother to brother moment and went along with what i think was crucial to the story. Also skipped the journey to school a little. But mostly, it was there.
What was the =.= part of the movie? Watching it for the third time. But it actually connected more the third time i watched it. Yup, and the curb stomping and final scene still hurts everytime i watch it. Today was the end of movie week and it ended with a few in tears, some in disgust while other lost in dreamland. Oh well, i hope some things were actually beneficial, other than expanding ur vocab by one word.
The ending was rather silent and solemn, and didn't have to debrief much. 21 seemed to be stuck to the chair as they were reluctant to leave, but lunch was the greater temptation in the end. I too had to rush for lunch as it was relief for Siok's class next. 09
They were rather, hmm, blur for most of the lesson although i did try my best to teach them essay skills. More of a recap actually, but most of them lost the caps already so it was from the start again. Tried to get responses but most were in this form. "Er". "Huh". So i settled on direct teaching with them taking notes. Dunno if it worked. All e best Siok!
Then it was off to 03 with the final groups presenting. Rather normal, but more quiet than usual. I guess genocides aren't the most "lively", pun intended, thing to study. Then it was the end of my day, so i went to slack with the SC, had a nice dinner with some of the guys and met Hosea and Annabelle both at the hawker opposite TJ. Cool coincidence eh?
Nice night to sleep. Yay.
Friday
Day didn't start off too nicely cuz i couldn't wake up early. Oh well, it was freezig cold too. I need a washing machine too. Irritating. Seriously. Three months of living on my own hsa taught me this. Things that are a must for every house
-WASHING MACHINE
-Ironing board, complete with a working iron.
-Microwave oven
-Water dispenser
-Mattress
And today was a nice day because i got back my EZLink card from Siok who kindly took it for me after i left it at the Siglap CC after badminton. Then she was absent for two days so i had to slowly sneak my way in to the staffroom when other ppl opened the door. Finally!! Freedom.. to be confined in the staffroom.. err.. haa..
Final round of presentations today. 21 started off well and ended rather well too. But it was 06 that was rather sad. I admired the effort put in by Verena and co., but time management needs to be improved so that u won't have to do such rush jobs. Sorry to spoil all ur efforts, but i did try to get the class going but it was a rather slow start....
Then i was free and decided to try, try i say, try to mark GP Newspaper Articles with some o6 ppl at the marquee but it didn't turn out too well. Enjoyed a soya bean drink instead. Of course that was after saying all the best to Sek who was leaving for her match against IJ. I think. Sorry to Yumei for taking so long to buy e soya beans. Haha, Sek more important. Lol. I know guys bball won, even thrashed their opponents. No idea abt b or v ball girls though. Update me ya?
Then it was off to scroom. Slacked a lot. Marked some work. Slacked a little bit more. Talked with Hui Min, met Verena, Aruna, Diantha and a few other current 06 ppl in LT1. LEO meeting apparently. Then finally went down to Cartel but met JoJo on the way. And James too. Yay!
Reached cartel and took our reservation for 25. I thought it was too much but in the end, it was jz nice. YES, 25. Oh, what were we doing there? Celebrating Gabriel and Hubert's bdays. Went across to draw money and im seriously becoming broke with all this ex dining. Met Ying Chuan and Winnie opposite and waited for like an hour for everyone.
Finally Gabriel arrived blindfolded with jeans! Strapped to an iPod to cut off his hearing and led in to Cartel!! Ppl took turns taking pictures with him while he was utterly clueless. Some even bullied him lar... cough..FX...cough...! I must say i was innocent of all this.
Had a big meal of St Louis Pork Ribs! Then even had cake. Yup. Ate the fat and drank... water. Haha. Took 12 back. Yay. Oh, i saw the councillors were at the adventure tower at the time i was passing by TJ. Hope ur emo-stayover was fun.
Shout outs
Cass-still searching
Gabriel and Hubert-Happy Birthday!!
Sek and Yumei-How did e game go?
TJC Guitar Ensemble-Congrats! GOLD WITH HONOURS
Zsa-enjoy e movie
Louisa-hope to meet ur bro!
Lemme fast forward to 21's History lesson. An American lesson, rated X. They were rather fast to reach class which is of course a welcomed rarity. And soon the video was on. Although i had to warn them of the impending nudity and mostly-f-up dialogues.
Once again i needed the miracle of screening 120 minutes in 6000 seconds. Well, i tried to help it along by skipping a family fight scene, and a brother to brother moment and went along with what i think was crucial to the story. Also skipped the journey to school a little. But mostly, it was there.
What was the =.= part of the movie? Watching it for the third time. But it actually connected more the third time i watched it. Yup, and the curb stomping and final scene still hurts everytime i watch it. Today was the end of movie week and it ended with a few in tears, some in disgust while other lost in dreamland. Oh well, i hope some things were actually beneficial, other than expanding ur vocab by one word.
The ending was rather silent and solemn, and didn't have to debrief much. 21 seemed to be stuck to the chair as they were reluctant to leave, but lunch was the greater temptation in the end. I too had to rush for lunch as it was relief for Siok's class next. 09
They were rather, hmm, blur for most of the lesson although i did try my best to teach them essay skills. More of a recap actually, but most of them lost the caps already so it was from the start again. Tried to get responses but most were in this form. "Er". "Huh". So i settled on direct teaching with them taking notes. Dunno if it worked. All e best Siok!
Then it was off to 03 with the final groups presenting. Rather normal, but more quiet than usual. I guess genocides aren't the most "lively", pun intended, thing to study. Then it was the end of my day, so i went to slack with the SC, had a nice dinner with some of the guys and met Hosea and Annabelle both at the hawker opposite TJ. Cool coincidence eh?
Nice night to sleep. Yay.
Friday
Day didn't start off too nicely cuz i couldn't wake up early. Oh well, it was freezig cold too. I need a washing machine too. Irritating. Seriously. Three months of living on my own hsa taught me this. Things that are a must for every house
-WASHING MACHINE
-Ironing board, complete with a working iron.
-Microwave oven
-Water dispenser
-Mattress
And today was a nice day because i got back my EZLink card from Siok who kindly took it for me after i left it at the Siglap CC after badminton. Then she was absent for two days so i had to slowly sneak my way in to the staffroom when other ppl opened the door. Finally!! Freedom.. to be confined in the staffroom.. err.. haa..
Final round of presentations today. 21 started off well and ended rather well too. But it was 06 that was rather sad. I admired the effort put in by Verena and co., but time management needs to be improved so that u won't have to do such rush jobs. Sorry to spoil all ur efforts, but i did try to get the class going but it was a rather slow start....
Then i was free and decided to try, try i say, try to mark GP Newspaper Articles with some o6 ppl at the marquee but it didn't turn out too well. Enjoyed a soya bean drink instead. Of course that was after saying all the best to Sek who was leaving for her match against IJ. I think. Sorry to Yumei for taking so long to buy e soya beans. Haha, Sek more important. Lol. I know guys bball won, even thrashed their opponents. No idea abt b or v ball girls though. Update me ya?
Then it was off to scroom. Slacked a lot. Marked some work. Slacked a little bit more. Talked with Hui Min, met Verena, Aruna, Diantha and a few other current 06 ppl in LT1. LEO meeting apparently. Then finally went down to Cartel but met JoJo on the way. And James too. Yay!
Reached cartel and took our reservation for 25. I thought it was too much but in the end, it was jz nice. YES, 25. Oh, what were we doing there? Celebrating Gabriel and Hubert's bdays. Went across to draw money and im seriously becoming broke with all this ex dining. Met Ying Chuan and Winnie opposite and waited for like an hour for everyone.
Finally Gabriel arrived blindfolded with jeans! Strapped to an iPod to cut off his hearing and led in to Cartel!! Ppl took turns taking pictures with him while he was utterly clueless. Some even bullied him lar... cough..FX...cough...! I must say i was innocent of all this.
Had a big meal of St Louis Pork Ribs! Then even had cake. Yup. Ate the fat and drank... water. Haha. Took 12 back. Yay. Oh, i saw the councillors were at the adventure tower at the time i was passing by TJ. Hope ur emo-stayover was fun.
Shout outs
Cass-still searching
Gabriel and Hubert-Happy Birthday!!
Sek and Yumei-How did e game go?
TJC Guitar Ensemble-Congrats! GOLD WITH HONOURS
Zsa-enjoy e movie
Louisa-hope to meet ur bro!
Labels: 09, American History X, Annabelle, Aruna, Cafe Cartel, Dianthaaaaa, Gabriel, Hosea, Hubert, Sek, Verena, Washing machine, Winnie, Yumei
the story ends like this;
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(Wednesday, April 18, 2007-)
+8:23 PM]*
+8:23 PM]*
# How Great Is Our God
Monday
Today was movie day with my classes. And, yeah, really God has been really good! He helped me a lot with this whole movie thing i wanted to do with my classes. Firstly, the movies, i had no idea where the movies were gonna come from, cuz i didn't have a DVDRom on this com, but God provided it through a portable hard disk. Then there was the expertise of projecting the video... For some unknown reason (at that time), everytime i tried projecting a video, it would appear black on the screen. Thank God my first double coincided with Siok's so we could combine classes! (=
Then it was the duration of the movie. 1 hour and 50 minutes. Impossible to screen in any double, but even after a long setup delay, it was just nice that break was after that and some stayed on! Yay! 8 if i counted correctly, which is more than 50% (=
Same miracle happened for 06! PW was after my screening session, and Ms Yanti wasn't ard cuz of MC, so i had the next period all to myself to finish American History X! Yay! But some in 06 were falling asleep while some wanted to run off to see soccer. But they were nice and stayed on *CLAPS* =)
Okay, the story itself, i regret the very coarse language. Really sorry to my classes, but ignoring that, the movie is really something solid on the big D.
Then to 21, the first up for presentations. Sorry i looked very black face, although i didn't mean too, im like that. Sorry ya... Didn't mean to expect so much of you guys. Im jz a very "presentation" kind of person. I expect presenting views to come naturally, so appearing unprepared sort of, yes, pisses me off. But i guess i did overreact. Sorry, i'll see how things go on Friday, but as for tmr, jz enjoy k? I'll pray that somehow, the movie will fit once again.
Oh yeah, Holocaust Remembrance Day wasn't on Monday lar, even u guys said it was in January!
After school, it was tuition. Not too bad once again, except there was once question i didn't know. Maybe any of u guys can help me? Its on electrolysis. In order to coat a piece of plastic with Chromium, two plastic rods are thinly coated with graphite, connected to a battery and immersed in Chromium(III) sulphate solution. The question is, "Why will this method not work for Zinc?" I think it refers to reactivity series or E-naught values. Txs for any replies!
Ate macs for dinner. Sorry Tristan.
Slept!
Tuesday
Shall skip what happened after my class, but for 03, presentations started. Not too good as well, but hope it gets better! Then after the part i skipped, Ms Ng asked me to help her relief CG28 and 12 for her periods that day. Not too bad i suppose, cuz i took 28 and i knew some of them. The presentations were overall good, except the fact i didn't know that it was a double period until someone asked me. Haha, and too bad that guy is gonna get killed by his classmates. Oh well, things happen. Lol!
Then after that it was 12, with JoJo inside there before me. Aapparently, according to JoJo, some of them were scared of me and didn't dare ask for sweets from her. Haha, and they weren't as prepared as 28, but some in 28 were abt their level too. But i guess its jz me being over expectant of presentation standards...
Went for badminton after that at Sigplap CC. Wasn't on form today, and got tired real soon. Plus that CC is white, so hard to see the shuttle. And i tried my first few jumping smash from the back, or is it base, line. Realise i never actually could do that. So i tried today and ddn't turn out nice. Cuz from the back, i usually whack to opponents back or drop, can't smash cuz i dunno how to jump and smash. oH OH, Anyone up for a game of badminton?? I'll treat u bandung if u win? But if u in school team then diff story lar, cuz i failed the school team trials... haha.
Then went for tuition. On the way there, Mrs Quek told me its cancelled. On the way back, she said its on again. So i walked back again. There was this dog that barked at me 3 times lar.. I guess he was fed up too with me walking past his gate so many times. Haha.
Ate dinner at their house (so nice ryte, only God can provide such a nice tuition place!) and then taught tuition. Even had apple juice to drink while teaching! *BIG SMILES!!* Then headed home. Slept.
Wednesday
Relieved for Ms Ng again on 28. Not too bad, finished what i set out to do. And then had my own class. Not as good as i wanted, but yeah, its the over expectancy thing.
Major update of the day, Release of SC Results.
IT'S FINALLY HERE, THE 31st SC Elects.
Number of Councillors (without TA2) - 36
Number of TA2 (separate elections) - 6
Yes the 30th followed our "results slip method" but they stuffed it in a balloon and asked the nominees to burst it. Oh well.. Still had the "grade numerical" and "grade alphabetical". Haha, i still laugh when i see it!! I think the template is exactly the same. Jz modified.
There were happy people, abt 25 or more of them who came for the results ceremony. And there were the teary ones. Guys were the main crying ones. Diantha handled it very well i would say. Very proud of u! *smiles!!* Others jz left, while some had to be consoled. All in all, a solemn occasion.
So here you have it. The 31st Elects.
the full council - 42 (including a now merged TASC)
How the lockers will be allocated, i dunno, cuz there are 36 so maybe the Welfare Haven will have to make way. And TA2 councillors will face some discrimination maybe?
The SC room seriously isn't made for 42 ppl, so that'll be interesting to see. And new locker covers too! Haha, well, thats taking it a little far, council camp first. Be afraid Zhi Yuan, be very afraid. Know how to swim? Haha!
Oh Oh, this is an important part of my post!! Read read: Law Yifu Eve!!! Welcome to TJ for ur visit!!! I really thought i saw u, but i said, can't be lar, that's Julie only, can't be Eve. But guess what, it really was!!
And she so nice say she came back to see me!! Haha, although it was obviously Chinese Drama but ignorance is bliss. Haha. Talked quite a lot with her outside LT1. Sorry didn't go in and u had to fan urself with ZO Cards. Then finally went for dinner with Yumei, JarEN, YingEN, Zhi Yuan, Diantha, Aaron, and two other Elects whose names i can't spell. Haha... At BK. And it was my second meal out after a very very very nice lunch with JoJo and Eugene at Pizza Hut after they mistook our order! Yay, FREE LARGE PIZZA!
Shout outs
Cass-i'll be searching and praying
Dianthaaaaa-u've handled it really well
Zhi Yuan & Co- CONGRATS!! 31st Elect
Li Sze & Co-CONGRATS!! 5-0 thrashing
Shermin & Co-CONGRATS!! 4-0 thrashing
28 and 12-it was nice teaching you
Evelyn-im still holding on to ur pen. Sorry
Today was movie day with my classes. And, yeah, really God has been really good! He helped me a lot with this whole movie thing i wanted to do with my classes. Firstly, the movies, i had no idea where the movies were gonna come from, cuz i didn't have a DVDRom on this com, but God provided it through a portable hard disk. Then there was the expertise of projecting the video... For some unknown reason (at that time), everytime i tried projecting a video, it would appear black on the screen. Thank God my first double coincided with Siok's so we could combine classes! (=
Then it was the duration of the movie. 1 hour and 50 minutes. Impossible to screen in any double, but even after a long setup delay, it was just nice that break was after that and some stayed on! Yay! 8 if i counted correctly, which is more than 50% (=
Same miracle happened for 06! PW was after my screening session, and Ms Yanti wasn't ard cuz of MC, so i had the next period all to myself to finish American History X! Yay! But some in 06 were falling asleep while some wanted to run off to see soccer. But they were nice and stayed on *CLAPS* =)
Okay, the story itself, i regret the very coarse language. Really sorry to my classes, but ignoring that, the movie is really something solid on the big D.
Then to 21, the first up for presentations. Sorry i looked very black face, although i didn't mean too, im like that. Sorry ya... Didn't mean to expect so much of you guys. Im jz a very "presentation" kind of person. I expect presenting views to come naturally, so appearing unprepared sort of, yes, pisses me off. But i guess i did overreact. Sorry, i'll see how things go on Friday, but as for tmr, jz enjoy k? I'll pray that somehow, the movie will fit once again.
Oh yeah, Holocaust Remembrance Day wasn't on Monday lar, even u guys said it was in January!
After school, it was tuition. Not too bad once again, except there was once question i didn't know. Maybe any of u guys can help me? Its on electrolysis. In order to coat a piece of plastic with Chromium, two plastic rods are thinly coated with graphite, connected to a battery and immersed in Chromium(III) sulphate solution. The question is, "Why will this method not work for Zinc?" I think it refers to reactivity series or E-naught values. Txs for any replies!
Ate macs for dinner. Sorry Tristan.
Slept!
Tuesday
Shall skip what happened after my class, but for 03, presentations started. Not too good as well, but hope it gets better! Then after the part i skipped, Ms Ng asked me to help her relief CG28 and 12 for her periods that day. Not too bad i suppose, cuz i took 28 and i knew some of them. The presentations were overall good, except the fact i didn't know that it was a double period until someone asked me. Haha, and too bad that guy is gonna get killed by his classmates. Oh well, things happen. Lol!
Then after that it was 12, with JoJo inside there before me. Aapparently, according to JoJo, some of them were scared of me and didn't dare ask for sweets from her. Haha, and they weren't as prepared as 28, but some in 28 were abt their level too. But i guess its jz me being over expectant of presentation standards...
Went for badminton after that at Sigplap CC. Wasn't on form today, and got tired real soon. Plus that CC is white, so hard to see the shuttle. And i tried my first few jumping smash from the back, or is it base, line. Realise i never actually could do that. So i tried today and ddn't turn out nice. Cuz from the back, i usually whack to opponents back or drop, can't smash cuz i dunno how to jump and smash. oH OH, Anyone up for a game of badminton?? I'll treat u bandung if u win? But if u in school team then diff story lar, cuz i failed the school team trials... haha.
Then went for tuition. On the way there, Mrs Quek told me its cancelled. On the way back, she said its on again. So i walked back again. There was this dog that barked at me 3 times lar.. I guess he was fed up too with me walking past his gate so many times. Haha.
Ate dinner at their house (so nice ryte, only God can provide such a nice tuition place!) and then taught tuition. Even had apple juice to drink while teaching! *BIG SMILES!!* Then headed home. Slept.
Wednesday
Relieved for Ms Ng again on 28. Not too bad, finished what i set out to do. And then had my own class. Not as good as i wanted, but yeah, its the over expectancy thing.
Major update of the day, Release of SC Results.
IT'S FINALLY HERE, THE 31st SC Elects.
Number of Councillors (without TA2) - 36
Number of TA2 (separate elections) - 6
Yes the 30th followed our "results slip method" but they stuffed it in a balloon and asked the nominees to burst it. Oh well.. Still had the "grade numerical" and "grade alphabetical". Haha, i still laugh when i see it!! I think the template is exactly the same. Jz modified.
There were happy people, abt 25 or more of them who came for the results ceremony. And there were the teary ones. Guys were the main crying ones. Diantha handled it very well i would say. Very proud of u! *smiles!!* Others jz left, while some had to be consoled. All in all, a solemn occasion.
So here you have it. The 31st Elects.
the full council - 42 (including a now merged TASC)
How the lockers will be allocated, i dunno, cuz there are 36 so maybe the Welfare Haven will have to make way. And TA2 councillors will face some discrimination maybe?
The SC room seriously isn't made for 42 ppl, so that'll be interesting to see. And new locker covers too! Haha, well, thats taking it a little far, council camp first. Be afraid Zhi Yuan, be very afraid. Know how to swim? Haha!
Oh Oh, this is an important part of my post!! Read read: Law Yifu Eve!!! Welcome to TJ for ur visit!!! I really thought i saw u, but i said, can't be lar, that's Julie only, can't be Eve. But guess what, it really was!!
And she so nice say she came back to see me!! Haha, although it was obviously Chinese Drama but ignorance is bliss. Haha. Talked quite a lot with her outside LT1. Sorry didn't go in and u had to fan urself with ZO Cards. Then finally went for dinner with Yumei, JarEN, YingEN, Zhi Yuan, Diantha, Aaron, and two other Elects whose names i can't spell. Haha... At BK. And it was my second meal out after a very very very nice lunch with JoJo and Eugene at Pizza Hut after they mistook our order! Yay, FREE LARGE PIZZA!
Shout outs
Cass-i'll be searching and praying
Dianthaaaaa-u've handled it really well
Zhi Yuan & Co- CONGRATS!! 31st Elect
Li Sze & Co-CONGRATS!! 5-0 thrashing
Shermin & Co-CONGRATS!! 4-0 thrashing
28 and 12-it was nice teaching you
Evelyn-im still holding on to ur pen. Sorry
Labels: 31st SC Elects, Aaron, BK, Chinese Drama, Dianthaaaaa, Eugene, Eve, Jaren, JoJo, Julie, Pizza Hut, Results slip, Tuition, Yingen, Yumei, Zhi Yuan
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(Tuesday, April 10, 2007-)
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# Can't Live A Day
Firstly, I just wanna tell people who don't already know, what Good Friday (look above, it's scrolling. haha) is really about.
Well, the story is very simple. Nobody is perfect. So people make mistakes (sin) right? So we have to pay the price for it. Woulnd't it be good if someone else paid it for us? That would be the essence of Good Friday! Jesus paid the full price for everyone's sins today when he was crucified. So yup, there you go, everything forgiven and entry to heaven secured on this simple account of God paying the price for us. That's GOoD!
Yup, and my Good Friday was spent mostly in FX's house and Emmanuel. Fast forward the fact that I woke up late, i quickly (as quick as i wanted to at least) rushed off to FX's house although i was late. But partially, i blame my forgetfulness cuz i went out of the house 3 times before i remembered to bring everything i was supposed to bring. Haihs.. Oh well, 12 came after a while, and 155 was perfectly on time! So no waiting for the transfer too!
Then FX must have been quite scared why nobody there yet so she msg-ed me, and James also, but the super-quick me was already on Telok Kurau road and arrived within minutes. Sat around and waited for BS, ordered pizza. Played Scrabble while waiting. James had no vowels, i had no consonants. FX had nice letters (or words as she claims it) all the way! So unfair...And the game actually looked quite pro cuz we could build quite a few words side by side. Haha, it "looked" pro cuz all the words are like primary school words lar... haha.. so much for the intellectual cell.
BS arrived and then we ate pizza and Gabriel arrived too. All the rest weren't gonna come except our special guest Winnie! We decided on a movie to watch, or rather, since we were all so undecisive, BS jz picked one. The worst one i think. Windstruck. If anyone EVER watched this before, give me a shout or a comment ya? Pls, i wanna know why u watched it in the first place.
Ok ok, the story wasn't that bad, except the ending felt like it went on longer than a zombie's lifetime. Why? Cuz we all knew the guy was gonna die, and when he did, we could also predict how he was gonna die. Oh, that just proves that only the beginning was nice. So, back to the horrible ending. Let's put it this way, the show was supposed to be emo and we should all be feeling bad for the girl who lost her bf, but then, THE WHOLE CELL WAS WAITING AND LONGING FOR HER TO JUST DIE!!! Stupidly frustrating. And the girl in the movie is such a loser lar.. she jump off a 30 storey building also cannot die... -.-''
Yeah, once we were done with our frustration and fed-up with Knocking on heaven's door being mutilated by Korean singers, we played BRIDGE!! Yay, the main highlight of the outing! Too bad we could only play two rounds before FX had to go and change. Which btw took forever. Girls really need to exlain why it takes so long to get changed. Really. I mean, like, seriously, really really.
Then we walked to church, oh wait, to the St Pat's bus stop, jz that it felt like church cuz it was so far. And paying 65c per ride sucks. but at least it was a ride to church! Along the way, things i found out
-Winnie has ONE bag (=
-FX needs other ppls bags
-Birds congregate and have a common toilet, evident from their deposits that concentrate at certain areas.
-Singapore is hot (duh...)
Then we were actually on time for service and it was quite funny how Matthew was in a cab right beside us. Haha. Service was good, although it felt a little rushed, but other hightlight was Su-E came. So had time to catch up with her a bit and all. And oh oh, Su-E, if you ever read this, gimme a tag cuz i met ur RGS friends at FIREfly assesment round 2. Charmaine and Debbie. Oh and Hi to people from the Superhero Group if any of you are reading this! HI (=
After service, we parted our own ways. FX, MY and BS went to FX's to.. er.. i dunno. Gabriel went to meet up with his KC friends. I mean JC. lol. what a typo. I headed down to parkway for dinner with Su-E and we caught up on the past 3 months. Found out that Tao Nan doesn't have the brightest kids in Sg, contrary to popular belief. Believe me, there are BIG exceptions!
After that, i think Su-E had some other appointment so i headed back to Sennett and slept. End of a good friday (=
Saturday
Busy day, thank God had no tuition today or I would have died. Woke up, didn't eat lunch, went for music prac, which started disappointingly late. Already this week had to evac hall 3B by 3, we still started 30 minutes late. That's like, 1800 seconds late. And if one second had two crotchets, that 3600 notes wasted. U get the picture...
We did everything except the new song, which i thought was a huge mistake, cuz we spent quite a lot of time trying to polish up simple things, when in the end, we actually did the new song. But i liked the new song, it's meaningful and slightly different from how all the other songs we sing sound. If you're wondering, we did Evermore (PS), Can't Live A Day (YouthAlive), Jesus I Surrender (JD), Worship You.. (PS)
Lets fast forward to after prac, went to the youth room and finished up as much a si could, my Think Big presentation for FIREfly. Then went to beer garden at ard 4 plus for a weird lunch then back to youth room. Helped out with the "Attack of the Aprons". Sounds so weird ryte. HAHA, well, that's YA for you! Then went for musicians and preservice prayer.
Soon it was service. It didn't start out too well as Evermore was a little too upbeat and I couldn't catch the timings for Can't Live A Day. And try jz saying these lyrics, they qualify to be rap lines. Really
"God you are my God, You are my all, And everything I give to You oh Lord"
which is like sung in one breath, and it goes up all the way. Not easy for me to sing. But who ever said i could sing anyway. Haha. Then after that was continuation of Tenets of Faith which was delayed by an extra long annoucement time. Cell's moving to weekdays now!
After that, it was off to beer for dinner. And sorry to XiuYu for always running off whenever i meet u. Haha. I guess u didn't go for SYF? Catch up with ya again ya! Then had Emil (or Edmil) im not sure, from Sweden, who's like, Sarah's bf eating with us. Quite cool. He can use chopsticks. Yay, but was slower than FX at eating lar, so that's not too fast. Hehe! But then again, it was $4 of char kway teow he was eating, so i guess its balanced. Then headed home and slept. Yay. Sleeping rocks! *winks to shuming!*
Ressurection Sunday
I think Ressurection Sunday has more meaning than Easter sunday, cuz i dunno what Easter means. Oh, yeah, Yumei, Here's my Easter Post! Hope u reach until here to find it! So what is Easter really all abt, well, it's like, the most important part of Christianity.
Basically, u now know how good it was of God to pay the price for us on Good Friday right. But it would be no use if God paid the price and died. Christians would be serving a dead God, and that's like so pointless. So here's the most significant day, when Jesus was ressurected from the dead, proving that when we believe in God, we also can have victory over death. Not that death (the worst disease in the world, with a 100% uncureable record) will not come to Christians, but the curse that comes along with death, which is eternal seperation from God has been broken!
So basically, resurrection sunday is really an awesome time when we can remember that we are really saved and serving a living God who has conquered death so that we don't need to fear what happens to us after we die. And no, i don't believe in re-incarnation or transmigration of souls. There's only one chance to get to heaven. That chance is now.
So sunday started off really nice, with the whole place decked with nice palms and orchids. Surprise of the day, Su-E came in a dress! Haha, how often do you see one of those! Another surprise, there were 3 worship leaders! One from Chinese Service, one from Main, and our very own lovely Rachael!!! *cheerss!!!* There were even kids too and we did Jesus You're My Superhero in the main service!! So cool and funny!
Sermon was also really funny with the translation having "extra ingredients" compared to the english version. Haha. Really funny. Then went off to lunch, and then to church to help ShuJing
Stayed there for almost the whole afternoon and the whole evening. Jayne, MY, ShuJing, Meredith and I came up with the wonderful CFC board for the prayer room. Hall 3A in Emmanuel will now be open from Thursday onwards at night for anyone to come and pray! Cool huh! Think i will make it a point to drop by before i head home.Of course, i wanna see the lovely (though grossly oversized) board we made. Haha, looks so CFC-ish! And sorry to those of u who think i used un-glam photos of you as the background. Ultimate photo goes to Meredith. Haha!
Then went home and realised the internet at Sennett has broken down... So sad... That's why no updates for so long. I sms-ed ps Mark and he said i could go back to church. So nice of him. Love u lots Ps Mark!!! And he is going with the whole Karen team he next day to Thailand. Still let me come and use the wireless in church. So i stayed in church and finished up my Think Big and chatted a bit too.
Ate this fruit which is supposedly planted in Sg. That's right, PLANTED in SG! So rare right!! But not for long cuz e government is gonna close the plantation down. WHat fruit, u might ask? Well, i dunno, its nothing i've ever seen before. It's like an oversized banana, with rockmelon shape and a juicy taste. Yeah.. it's... yellowish?
Oh, i even got a ride back! Yay, did my laundry, ironed and everything and slept big day on Monday
Monday
FIREfly Assessment.
Classified till 20th April.
Things to note
-it wasn't too boring
-HC ppl are nice!
-Charmaine and Samuel, hope to see you guys in round 3, actually jz Charmaine, Samuel, hope u get A*STAR
-the rest of the superheroes, all the best too!!
-SUPERMAN, SPIDERMAN (ME), HULK, ELEKTRA, BLADE, PHANTOM, BATMAN, FLASH, ROBIN!
Labels: BS, emil, FireFly, FX, Gabriel, Good Friday, Jayne, Matthew, Mei Yian, Meredith, prayer room, Ps Mark, Resurrection Sunday, sarah, ShuJing, Shuming, Su-E, Winnie, XiuYu, Yumei
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(Friday, March 30, 2007-)
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# Jesus I Surrender
Friday
Today was not too nice a day. I enjoyed myself, but htere are certain things i found out abt myself.
Lessons were alright, although i still must apologize to all my classes for not finishing on time.. And 06, txs for the spamming arh..
Gave out lots of sweets over the past few days. I think Louisa is gonna have to lower her sugar intake soon if things keep up. Haha. Hope u guys enjoyed version 0.5 of the current affairs quiz. Give me some feedback ya? Then after that, it was lunch
Tried out the unpopular Malay foodstall, and surprisingly, the food is actually jz as good. Really no idea why its not as popular... Sure gonna have to tutup kedai (close shop) soon. So sad. After lunch, got the sad news of staffroom table shift of Jocelyn. Just wanna say i think its really stupid and ridiculous. I know i dun have the full picture, abd im biased in my opinion, but let JoJo stay... pls... Why bother pleading.. heartless ppl..
Watched the ending of FMA in the morning too. Sad story too.. Sorry haven found Cepeta yet Wei Ren. Printed Yumei's PI for her too after some minor editing work. Gave it to her in the hall b placing it on a table. Yumei, u actually looked quite happy playing volleyball! Must really be ur passion (=
Rotted in the staffroom reading GP bulletin. Also waited for Siok to come back from her 1.20 but she never did and we were supposed to start the screening of The Rabbit Proof Fence and The Crash. Neha and I told Ms Kwan that Siok must have been "kid"napped by her students, and she was like.. "oh.. ok..". We were like, now we know Ms Kwa wouldn't care less if we died. Hahah, at least this was funny and not sad.
Then i started off The Crash for 4 TA3 students. Sad. But oh well, at least there were no major problems. Except me NOT catching the whole story of The Crash. When i went in to check on the TA3, all i heard within 5 minutes were more swear words than on Zsa's blog for the past month! And also there was a sex scene where the woman's was showing... Yes, the movie was M18, but still... But I clarified that it actually has an impactful story.
Back to the real movie for JC1s, Hotel Rwanda. A really good movie abt the heroic efforts of Paul Resjhfadacir (dunno how to spell or even vaguely pronounce his last name, but truly awesome guy!!!) Sad story on genocide of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda. Dianthaaaaa didn't like it very much either. Esp the "bumpy" truck ride from getting the supplies (not surprise hor MY)
Then went off to close the Geog room which is VERY dusty. It felt like the beach of East Coast Park when u walk in the room lar. Ok i know im exaggerating, but u get the idea ryte? Shuming or Zsa maybe could tell me more abt the geog room?
Then went to scroom, talked to Evelyn, had dinner opposite with cass while Aaron and Evelyn refused to share a table! Hmmph!
Then went for music prac. Helped move e stuff into place. Couldn't get the accoustic to work but Addy with the magic fingers with the sound board managed to get it working somehow. I tried 4 different ports and 2 cables and produced no signal at all lar...
I finally played bass today. It was Jesus I surrender. Im almost deaf on my right ear, but thats the price bassist pay i guess. Hehe. It was nice playing bass one again. And tmr im on! Yay!!!!! Gtg sleep now!
Today was not too nice a day. I enjoyed myself, but htere are certain things i found out abt myself.
Lessons were alright, although i still must apologize to all my classes for not finishing on time.. And 06, txs for the spamming arh..
Gave out lots of sweets over the past few days. I think Louisa is gonna have to lower her sugar intake soon if things keep up. Haha. Hope u guys enjoyed version 0.5 of the current affairs quiz. Give me some feedback ya? Then after that, it was lunch
Tried out the unpopular Malay foodstall, and surprisingly, the food is actually jz as good. Really no idea why its not as popular... Sure gonna have to tutup kedai (close shop) soon. So sad. After lunch, got the sad news of staffroom table shift of Jocelyn. Just wanna say i think its really stupid and ridiculous. I know i dun have the full picture, abd im biased in my opinion, but let JoJo stay... pls... Why bother pleading.. heartless ppl..
Watched the ending of FMA in the morning too. Sad story too.. Sorry haven found Cepeta yet Wei Ren. Printed Yumei's PI for her too after some minor editing work. Gave it to her in the hall b placing it on a table. Yumei, u actually looked quite happy playing volleyball! Must really be ur passion (=
Rotted in the staffroom reading GP bulletin. Also waited for Siok to come back from her 1.20 but she never did and we were supposed to start the screening of The Rabbit Proof Fence and The Crash. Neha and I told Ms Kwan that Siok must have been "kid"napped by her students, and she was like.. "oh.. ok..". We were like, now we know Ms Kwa wouldn't care less if we died. Hahah, at least this was funny and not sad.
Then i started off The Crash for 4 TA3 students. Sad. But oh well, at least there were no major problems. Except me NOT catching the whole story of The Crash. When i went in to check on the TA3, all i heard within 5 minutes were more swear words than on Zsa's blog for the past month! And also there was a sex scene where the woman's was showing... Yes, the movie was M18, but still... But I clarified that it actually has an impactful story.
Back to the real movie for JC1s, Hotel Rwanda. A really good movie abt the heroic efforts of Paul Resjhfadacir (dunno how to spell or even vaguely pronounce his last name, but truly awesome guy!!!) Sad story on genocide of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda. Dianthaaaaa didn't like it very much either. Esp the "bumpy" truck ride from getting the supplies (not surprise hor MY)
Then went off to close the Geog room which is VERY dusty. It felt like the beach of East Coast Park when u walk in the room lar. Ok i know im exaggerating, but u get the idea ryte? Shuming or Zsa maybe could tell me more abt the geog room?
Then went to scroom, talked to Evelyn, had dinner opposite with cass while Aaron and Evelyn refused to share a table! Hmmph!
Then went for music prac. Helped move e stuff into place. Couldn't get the accoustic to work but Addy with the magic fingers with the sound board managed to get it working somehow. I tried 4 different ports and 2 cables and produced no signal at all lar...
I finally played bass today. It was Jesus I surrender. Im almost deaf on my right ear, but thats the price bassist pay i guess. Hehe. It was nice playing bass one again. And tmr im on! Yay!!!!! Gtg sleep now!
Labels: bass, FMA, geography room, hotel rwanda, JoJo, Lousia, ms kwan, neha, PI, sad, Shuming, Siok, sweets, the crash, the rabbit proof fence, Yumei, Zsa^2
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(Tuesday, March 13, 2007-)
+12:41 PM]*
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# Found
Thursday
It seems so long ago, looking back. It was rather a dull day other than the fact it was fry-day. Eugene and JoJo had quite a fun time giving out points. Sorry to Shermin and co who walked away and missed 1000 pts. Mostly did scholarships and university applications. Mostly a boring day, feeling rather lost. And was actually looking forward to Friday. Mahjong seemed tempting.
Friday
Continued applications from the previous day. Also saw Eugene playing TD with Aaron. Had Canadian $10 lunch as well with the RTs. Nice. Im really not in the mood to blog, but its sort of the reason why im blogging. Just wanna be FOUND. By so many poeple. But I'll be back on this issue. More of what happened next that was quite exciting.
Guest appearance of Jia Yi in TJ. Met her at scroom. Had quite a nice time talking. About council. What went right and the many wrongs. The traditions. The fun. The mistakes. The fights. The people. Its common knowledge that the 29 has been outshined by the 30. We all know they've pulled the right strings in and left some loose. They've held the right people close while for us, its only a shadow to be feared.
A unity we could only hold together has been cemented
Privileged
Yet not knowing the price
Strong
Yet lacking the refining fire
Favoured
Unknowingly masochistic
Great
Yet ungrateful through time
Yet what can a shadow say
Observing
Yet what is lost cannot be found
Stepping away
Council has been good. It always will be, it's the very essence that keeps it going. No matter the batch, the traditions held, the culture taught or the knowledge passed down. It will groom you if you let it. It will teach you if you are willing to learn. To Diantha and Cadence, if you want to run for council, give it your best shot. If you get in, don't waste the many chances to learn and grow. It won't be easy, I know, but it will be harder if you get in and don't benefit from it.
Had a great time talking with JY, showed her 06 and 21 in the hall during the emo time they had. Danced two mass dances and a speedy. Laughed a lot at the chaotic fun-dance. Pointed out ppl like Eugene, Samuel, Cadence, Yumei, Mengting and others from 06 and Julie, Shuming and others from 21. Didn't find 04. Sorry. But then, all good things come to an end and it was time to leave the hall.
Back to scroom and then left to meet 06. Yay. But then realised i didn't have my wallet with me. Made 06 wait quite a lot. Sorry Yumei, knew u were really not feeling weel. Rushed to the staffroom and realised i didn't have my wallet. So I was heading for dinner at Simpang with 06 OGLs + Joanne without any money. But of course they weren't gonna let me starve and Cadence and Diantha offered money. Txs for the offer and esp Diantha for the $10.
Walked to the 2 and 9 bus stop and got on after quite a long wait and a talk on sc life. Finally reached Simpang Bedok and met 21 there. Haha, Shuming was so terrified of the pokes. And i did finally give in to one poke as 21 were leaving. Sat down and took almost forever to order. The menu wasn't very clear or helpful either so I had a mango with lychee dessert and 1 plain and 1 egg prata (read roti canai to Malaysians). Should have ordered my dessert later cuz it came way before anything and I slowly ate it. Some things i found out that night
- Cadence is a VERY slow eater
- Diantha is a slow eater
- Cadence, Karilynn and Dianthaaaaa all wear braces
- Stephanie is a healthy eater
- Yingen and Jaren eat fast
- (i already knew this but) 06 is full of cam-whores. Haha
Then after a very long dinner and queue time paying we left for Yumei's. The surviving people that made it there were just Yumei (duh), Ying and Jar EN, Cadence and Dianthaaaaa.
Had a nice bus ride with almost the whole bus to ourselves then reached Yumei's place which is so cool. Wish I could stay there. Haha. But the rooftop is really nice. Except people that are still high from orientation decide to bang the railings to cheer beats and stomp on the rooftop rather than enjoy the scenery. Took more pictures. Man... One should get Yumei an analogue camera and see how she suffers with film. Then went down for Mahjong and i surfed the net.
Took a swap after that and played mahjong instead, but ended up losing all anyway. Yup, so my mahjong skills haven been upgraded. But this time I could play without reference to the paper. Ok fine, I had to ask Yumei or Diantha, but well, i wasn't totally blur. I think. lolz.
Then had more fun playing bridge with Diantha. Ok, clarification on the scoreline, it was 3-2. So nobody thrashed anyone although i totally owned the first game and she almost owned the last no-trump game until I got control. Haha. Finally got the mahjong ppl to bridge. Which was a good thing cuz 4 man bridge is so much better. Bad thing cuz Yumei doesn't bridge so she curled up on a sofa and slept. Sorry to Yumei again. Then instead of leaving at 11 to get the last bus, we decided to stay till 11.50 to cab home and avoid the midnight surcharge. Jaren got his dad to come.
So we bridged on, was really fun to bridge once again, legally. Haha. And major discovery here is....
-Dianthaaaaa is the ultimate blur queen at bridge! *gives stacks of mahjong tiles!!!*
Finally we decided to leave and Dianthaaaaa led the way. You can so tell that this was a recipe for disaster but we were all too tired to realise. She didn't know the way. So we just walked till we reached a road. So much for avoiding the midnight charge. Then we found a taxi. Without a driver... Dotzzzz... Continued walking until we found a cab and took it home, with Cadence dropping off first in TP, then Dianthaaaaa the blur queen at Simei and me last. For the record, I owe
-Eugene $10
-Zsa Zsa $10
-Cadence $7
-Dianthaaaaa da blur $17
Oh well, it was a nice time (=
It seems so long ago, looking back. It was rather a dull day other than the fact it was fry-day. Eugene and JoJo had quite a fun time giving out points. Sorry to Shermin and co who walked away and missed 1000 pts. Mostly did scholarships and university applications. Mostly a boring day, feeling rather lost. And was actually looking forward to Friday. Mahjong seemed tempting.
Friday
Continued applications from the previous day. Also saw Eugene playing TD with Aaron. Had Canadian $10 lunch as well with the RTs. Nice. Im really not in the mood to blog, but its sort of the reason why im blogging. Just wanna be FOUND. By so many poeple. But I'll be back on this issue. More of what happened next that was quite exciting.
Guest appearance of Jia Yi in TJ. Met her at scroom. Had quite a nice time talking. About council. What went right and the many wrongs. The traditions. The fun. The mistakes. The fights. The people. Its common knowledge that the 29 has been outshined by the 30. We all know they've pulled the right strings in and left some loose. They've held the right people close while for us, its only a shadow to be feared.
A unity we could only hold together has been cemented
Privileged
Yet not knowing the price
Strong
Yet lacking the refining fire
Favoured
Unknowingly masochistic
Great
Yet ungrateful through time
Yet what can a shadow say
Observing
Yet what is lost cannot be found
Stepping away
Council has been good. It always will be, it's the very essence that keeps it going. No matter the batch, the traditions held, the culture taught or the knowledge passed down. It will groom you if you let it. It will teach you if you are willing to learn. To Diantha and Cadence, if you want to run for council, give it your best shot. If you get in, don't waste the many chances to learn and grow. It won't be easy, I know, but it will be harder if you get in and don't benefit from it.
Had a great time talking with JY, showed her 06 and 21 in the hall during the emo time they had. Danced two mass dances and a speedy. Laughed a lot at the chaotic fun-dance. Pointed out ppl like Eugene, Samuel, Cadence, Yumei, Mengting and others from 06 and Julie, Shuming and others from 21. Didn't find 04. Sorry. But then, all good things come to an end and it was time to leave the hall.
Back to scroom and then left to meet 06. Yay. But then realised i didn't have my wallet with me. Made 06 wait quite a lot. Sorry Yumei, knew u were really not feeling weel. Rushed to the staffroom and realised i didn't have my wallet. So I was heading for dinner at Simpang with 06 OGLs + Joanne without any money. But of course they weren't gonna let me starve and Cadence and Diantha offered money. Txs for the offer and esp Diantha for the $10.
Walked to the 2 and 9 bus stop and got on after quite a long wait and a talk on sc life. Finally reached Simpang Bedok and met 21 there. Haha, Shuming was so terrified of the pokes. And i did finally give in to one poke as 21 were leaving. Sat down and took almost forever to order. The menu wasn't very clear or helpful either so I had a mango with lychee dessert and 1 plain and 1 egg prata (read roti canai to Malaysians). Should have ordered my dessert later cuz it came way before anything and I slowly ate it. Some things i found out that night
- Cadence is a VERY slow eater
- Diantha is a slow eater
- Cadence, Karilynn and Dianthaaaaa all wear braces
- Stephanie is a healthy eater
- Yingen and Jaren eat fast
- (i already knew this but) 06 is full of cam-whores. Haha
Then after a very long dinner and queue time paying we left for Yumei's. The surviving people that made it there were just Yumei (duh), Ying and Jar EN, Cadence and Dianthaaaaa.
Had a nice bus ride with almost the whole bus to ourselves then reached Yumei's place which is so cool. Wish I could stay there. Haha. But the rooftop is really nice. Except people that are still high from orientation decide to bang the railings to cheer beats and stomp on the rooftop rather than enjoy the scenery. Took more pictures. Man... One should get Yumei an analogue camera and see how she suffers with film. Then went down for Mahjong and i surfed the net.
Took a swap after that and played mahjong instead, but ended up losing all anyway. Yup, so my mahjong skills haven been upgraded. But this time I could play without reference to the paper. Ok fine, I had to ask Yumei or Diantha, but well, i wasn't totally blur. I think. lolz.
Then had more fun playing bridge with Diantha. Ok, clarification on the scoreline, it was 3-2. So nobody thrashed anyone although i totally owned the first game and she almost owned the last no-trump game until I got control. Haha. Finally got the mahjong ppl to bridge. Which was a good thing cuz 4 man bridge is so much better. Bad thing cuz Yumei doesn't bridge so she curled up on a sofa and slept. Sorry to Yumei again. Then instead of leaving at 11 to get the last bus, we decided to stay till 11.50 to cab home and avoid the midnight surcharge. Jaren got his dad to come.
So we bridged on, was really fun to bridge once again, legally. Haha. And major discovery here is....
-Dianthaaaaa is the ultimate blur queen at bridge! *gives stacks of mahjong tiles!!!*
Finally we decided to leave and Dianthaaaaa led the way. You can so tell that this was a recipe for disaster but we were all too tired to realise. She didn't know the way. So we just walked till we reached a road. So much for avoiding the midnight charge. Then we found a taxi. Without a driver... Dotzzzz... Continued walking until we found a cab and took it home, with Cadence dropping off first in TP, then Dianthaaaaa the blur queen at Simei and me last. For the record, I owe
-Eugene $10
-Zsa Zsa $10
-Cadence $7
-Dianthaaaaa da blur $17
Oh well, it was a nice time (=
Labels: bridge, Cadence, council, Dianthaaaaa, Eugene, Jaren, Jia Yi, Julie, Karilynn, mahjong, Shuming, Simpang, Stehanie, Yingen, Yumei, Zsa^2
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(Tuesday, March 6, 2007-)
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# More Than Life
Monday
Okays, after emo-ing on sunday, life continued like normal. Still feeling happy but lazy to shift. But I got it done anyway. But that's later. Morning was quite bad. Dunno why I was so drained. I already had the Sunday to myself and still I was tired. Oh well.
But i reached school as usual and really the blur me forgot to bring my laptop charger. So I had the laptop but no power. So it had to run on battery and to make matters better, Jonathan borrowed my laptop for a lesson he was relieving. So when it came back, it had thankfully lots of battery left, but still, i had a lesson to prepare.
Not having my own laptop is so weird, doing a Current Affairs Quiz on an alien laptop just feels wrong. So i tried to get it done by 10am by sending the file back to my laptop. Tried to get the usual images for background but for some absurd reason, i was blocked from Google Images Search page! Why?? Why?? Just beside me, Siok's was working just fine... So I tried to rush it but to no avail as only 2 questions were done and thats more like a question than a quiz. So I went to 06 with totally NO lesson planned.
Thank God they didn't expect one either. Haha, so I basically wasted time with admin stuff, except the feedback part which was the real thing i needed. Then we went off to take pictures. Quite funny how most people were in their ties and others were casual. But we took pictures anyway. More to come this Friday I think!
Then after cam-whoring and getting a nice 4-piece poster, i went back to the staffroom. Did the daily crossword although i lost to the Siok-Neha-Aaron group, i still managed to finish it with random letters here n there. Then Aaron got us a ride to Quality Hotel where our celebratory lunch was to be held. Siok and I were laughing over how it sounded so fake, like : Buy this Quality Detergent or Use Quality Noodles. Sort of the Minyak Angin Cap Kapak sort of thing... Only Malaysians will get it i guess. And Qquality Hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Oh well.. We waited quite a while but no complaints when u get a free ride in a private car of Mrs Neo, so it was cool.
Reached the Grand Ballroom after everthing had started, and the few of us in the car sat down at a table. I ate too much. Haha, but its a buffet, you're meant to eat too much ryte? I ate
-Olive Rice
-Roast Chicken
-Sweet sour fish
-Beef stew
-Hong Kong Noodles
-Some veggie... why???
-A second helping of chicken n fish. haha
-Laksa
-Chicken rice
-Cakes for dessert
-Drank orange juice and water
It was good food, but not excellent or I would have exploded. Walked with Eugene, Neha and JoJo to the MRT and MRT-ed back to Bedok. Took 31 to the back gate which was wonderfully locked so I walked the long way around. Oh well... Met some games com ppl and then some SCIP dudes and two dudettes. Few councillors were around too and they were loud. SC is loud. That's cool.
After a while, heard a familiar tune from the piano. I knew it had to be Evelyn. Yay!! One of my wish list came true!! I didn't have a guitar around but I'm not complaining. Sang quite a few songs, listened to some from 5300. It was nice. Evelyn had quite a few nice songs i've never heard of before. Even a Malay one. Haha, but Hari Ini still rocks. Oh, and sorry if i sang really bad hor Evelyn. Then after a while, Zico wanted to talk to her so i stoned around and allowed my food to digest. Then talked to Eng, who was later joined by Evelyn. The SCIP dudes seemed to be busy with the video. No idea how that's gonna turn out but ever since my year, Orientation videos have been awesomely cool. Seriously, the videos are reason enough to turn up for orientation ok?
Then after that, Evelyn left to get the JAE Posting results. Perks of being in SC. mua ha ha ha. But in the end, she didn't get a hard copy of the list, so sad, but she had a long time talking. And i didn't see her after that. Smart move Evelyn. The $4000 of orientation shirts arrived and we helped Eng get it into the scroom which has the world's MOST horrible lock. Called Steffi to get the combi, but the dial is such a horrible one that my fingers were hurt. But I randomly turned the thing and after half an hour (not exaggerating), it fell open. Phew...
Counted all the t-shirts and hauled them into the council room. Then stayed around a while before leaving for dinner and home.
Read the newspaper like a good GP tutor while eating dinner and finally told Aunty Lily that i was moving out. Somehow, i think she knew i was going to ask. But it was cool. Went smoothly and i went back to finalise the packing. Was waiting for the cab peak hour to end at about 8 and dragged majority of my stuff down. Flagged a cab and the uncle was friendly. Cost me $3.20 though. I reached my new home.
No one was in. An eerie loneliness was in the air. Unpacked my stuff slowly. Didn't quite like the smell in the room but i will survive. Decided to take a walk back home to make sure im familiar with the surroundings. Had a nice slow walk in the night home alone. Took about 25 minutes?
Part Two (a) of my wish list came true. There was FX who sms-ed me and we started to chat. Then there was Winnie. Then Aunty Kaith. Then had mom too. There were so many people msging me. Haha. Sort of funny how my wish came through digitally. Was nice to be not "lonely" on my last night in my now-ex house. Here's the complete list of ppl that I msged or msged me for various reasons.
-FX
-Winnie Chew
-Aunty Kaith
-Mom
-Stephanie Sim
-Anantha
-Cheresa
-Zsa Zsa
Looks like the only GP rep here missing is...you would know urself la ya? But no biggie. Jz had a nice night. End of Monday
Tuesday
JAE Day. Not a nice day. Shall skip everything that happened. Wanna know, talk to me? Haha. Blogging isn't everything. Just had a very low atmosphere. Fast forward to the nice part of the day, lunch with 06
It was so nice of them to decide on Gelare at Siglap instead of Far East so I had time to go with them. Had a long time waiting, and a less, but still long time ordering. But it was worth it. Had a nice time eating, chatting, and most importantly like any 06 outing, taking photos. Took some really nice ones, maybe 06 u could gimme some links for the photos of the day? Sorry goes out to Diantha who has the scariest photo of me ever. And to those i got the camera flash in their eyes. But overall it was a nice time and i took forever to leave. Darn...
Was late (yet again) for badminton at Chai Chee, but the remaining 45 minutes was worth it. Sweated a lot but had a nice game. Shot of the day, cross court from my right to the left which was almost horizontal and only about 2-3cm above the net and landing just inside with no chance to Sean. You had to be there to see it. Hee...
Then headed back to school, the long way from the interchange and got a Big Gulp. Sat around with some SC ppl and then went to the Audi. Then went home, rushed a bath, went to old house to surrender the key, collect deposit and toothbrush *winks*, went to tuition, which the family provided me with dinner, and taught tuition. Then crashed home. I was so tired... Slept till today, 6.50 instead of 6.15.
Wednesday
Yup, I was late. No surprise so I rushed out of bed, up my hill and down the six-sided dragon. School started rather differently with a mini farewell to Mr Liu. Mrs Pang takes his place as he goes off to be a principal. Mr Cecil takes her place. Then had nothing to do in the staffroom. Met some of the OGLs like Xuewen, Cai Yu (? hehe), Julie, Yumei, Shermin, and many more students.
Met Teik Kheng today and helped him with his printing and stuff. Realise I have lots of things to get done as well. Oh well. Had lunch with 21, rather, OG13 (which is sadly nameless) and talked with them. Talked to a few, maybe just one or two 2nd intakers. A cedarian. VJ reject, appealing back in. Overall, a lack of enthusiasm, characteristic of O2
Then after lunch, met Ms Lau and talked to her a bit. Then met Xuewen and Cai Yu and later on other students like Song Han and Jacob, Nicole. Then met the other RTs and Heri and Sam. Yup. Had the tribal music group who were really good perform. Potentially illegal information, they cost $1500 an hour, so yeah, they were really good. Too bad im not a tribal music fan. Found out Yumei isn't either. Hehe!
Then almost missed staff conference which had no relation whatsoever to the RTs and then had department meetings. Never knew colleges knew both the paper 1 and paper 2 grades of the students. Also, TJ Lit did extremely well. 71% Distinctions, 40% above National Average. Econs S also had 80% Distinctions. So thats some good news. Then had the bad. If i get the soft copy of results, they'll be here ok? For GP only lar of course.
Then debriefed about the English Fair. Had many comments. And i did bring up the fact that the blogs lagged like CRAZY. But also that most people bonded through this English Fair and got introduced to a variety of GP issues within the first few weeks. Many confidential details were also discussed. Haha, my students must feel so curious now. Oh well, nothing much, but there will be changes for the next EL Fair.
After the meeting, Im here in the staffroom. Back to marking I think.
Okays, after emo-ing on sunday, life continued like normal. Still feeling happy but lazy to shift. But I got it done anyway. But that's later. Morning was quite bad. Dunno why I was so drained. I already had the Sunday to myself and still I was tired. Oh well.
But i reached school as usual and really the blur me forgot to bring my laptop charger. So I had the laptop but no power. So it had to run on battery and to make matters better, Jonathan borrowed my laptop for a lesson he was relieving. So when it came back, it had thankfully lots of battery left, but still, i had a lesson to prepare.
Not having my own laptop is so weird, doing a Current Affairs Quiz on an alien laptop just feels wrong. So i tried to get it done by 10am by sending the file back to my laptop. Tried to get the usual images for background but for some absurd reason, i was blocked from Google Images Search page! Why?? Why?? Just beside me, Siok's was working just fine... So I tried to rush it but to no avail as only 2 questions were done and thats more like a question than a quiz. So I went to 06 with totally NO lesson planned.
Thank God they didn't expect one either. Haha, so I basically wasted time with admin stuff, except the feedback part which was the real thing i needed. Then we went off to take pictures. Quite funny how most people were in their ties and others were casual. But we took pictures anyway. More to come this Friday I think!
Then after cam-whoring and getting a nice 4-piece poster, i went back to the staffroom. Did the daily crossword although i lost to the Siok-Neha-Aaron group, i still managed to finish it with random letters here n there. Then Aaron got us a ride to Quality Hotel where our celebratory lunch was to be held. Siok and I were laughing over how it sounded so fake, like : Buy this Quality Detergent or Use Quality Noodles. Sort of the Minyak Angin Cap Kapak sort of thing... Only Malaysians will get it i guess. And Qquality Hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Oh well.. We waited quite a while but no complaints when u get a free ride in a private car of Mrs Neo, so it was cool.
Reached the Grand Ballroom after everthing had started, and the few of us in the car sat down at a table. I ate too much. Haha, but its a buffet, you're meant to eat too much ryte? I ate
-Olive Rice
-Roast Chicken
-Sweet sour fish
-Beef stew
-Hong Kong Noodles
-Some veggie... why???
-A second helping of chicken n fish. haha
-Laksa
-Chicken rice
-Cakes for dessert
-Drank orange juice and water
It was good food, but not excellent or I would have exploded. Walked with Eugene, Neha and JoJo to the MRT and MRT-ed back to Bedok. Took 31 to the back gate which was wonderfully locked so I walked the long way around. Oh well... Met some games com ppl and then some SCIP dudes and two dudettes. Few councillors were around too and they were loud. SC is loud. That's cool.
After a while, heard a familiar tune from the piano. I knew it had to be Evelyn. Yay!! One of my wish list came true!! I didn't have a guitar around but I'm not complaining. Sang quite a few songs, listened to some from 5300. It was nice. Evelyn had quite a few nice songs i've never heard of before. Even a Malay one. Haha, but Hari Ini still rocks. Oh, and sorry if i sang really bad hor Evelyn. Then after a while, Zico wanted to talk to her so i stoned around and allowed my food to digest. Then talked to Eng, who was later joined by Evelyn. The SCIP dudes seemed to be busy with the video. No idea how that's gonna turn out but ever since my year, Orientation videos have been awesomely cool. Seriously, the videos are reason enough to turn up for orientation ok?
Then after that, Evelyn left to get the JAE Posting results. Perks of being in SC. mua ha ha ha. But in the end, she didn't get a hard copy of the list, so sad, but she had a long time talking. And i didn't see her after that. Smart move Evelyn. The $4000 of orientation shirts arrived and we helped Eng get it into the scroom which has the world's MOST horrible lock. Called Steffi to get the combi, but the dial is such a horrible one that my fingers were hurt. But I randomly turned the thing and after half an hour (not exaggerating), it fell open. Phew...
Counted all the t-shirts and hauled them into the council room. Then stayed around a while before leaving for dinner and home.
Read the newspaper like a good GP tutor while eating dinner and finally told Aunty Lily that i was moving out. Somehow, i think she knew i was going to ask. But it was cool. Went smoothly and i went back to finalise the packing. Was waiting for the cab peak hour to end at about 8 and dragged majority of my stuff down. Flagged a cab and the uncle was friendly. Cost me $3.20 though. I reached my new home.
No one was in. An eerie loneliness was in the air. Unpacked my stuff slowly. Didn't quite like the smell in the room but i will survive. Decided to take a walk back home to make sure im familiar with the surroundings. Had a nice slow walk in the night home alone. Took about 25 minutes?
Part Two (a) of my wish list came true. There was FX who sms-ed me and we started to chat. Then there was Winnie. Then Aunty Kaith. Then had mom too. There were so many people msging me. Haha. Sort of funny how my wish came through digitally. Was nice to be not "lonely" on my last night in my now-ex house. Here's the complete list of ppl that I msged or msged me for various reasons.
-FX
-Winnie Chew
-Aunty Kaith
-Mom
-Stephanie Sim
-Anantha
-Cheresa
-Zsa Zsa
Looks like the only GP rep here missing is...you would know urself la ya? But no biggie. Jz had a nice night. End of Monday
Tuesday
JAE Day. Not a nice day. Shall skip everything that happened. Wanna know, talk to me? Haha. Blogging isn't everything. Just had a very low atmosphere. Fast forward to the nice part of the day, lunch with 06
It was so nice of them to decide on Gelare at Siglap instead of Far East so I had time to go with them. Had a long time waiting, and a less, but still long time ordering. But it was worth it. Had a nice time eating, chatting, and most importantly like any 06 outing, taking photos. Took some really nice ones, maybe 06 u could gimme some links for the photos of the day? Sorry goes out to Diantha who has the scariest photo of me ever. And to those i got the camera flash in their eyes. But overall it was a nice time and i took forever to leave. Darn...
Was late (yet again) for badminton at Chai Chee, but the remaining 45 minutes was worth it. Sweated a lot but had a nice game. Shot of the day, cross court from my right to the left which was almost horizontal and only about 2-3cm above the net and landing just inside with no chance to Sean. You had to be there to see it. Hee...
Then headed back to school, the long way from the interchange and got a Big Gulp. Sat around with some SC ppl and then went to the Audi. Then went home, rushed a bath, went to old house to surrender the key, collect deposit and toothbrush *winks*, went to tuition, which the family provided me with dinner, and taught tuition. Then crashed home. I was so tired... Slept till today, 6.50 instead of 6.15.
Wednesday
Yup, I was late. No surprise so I rushed out of bed, up my hill and down the six-sided dragon. School started rather differently with a mini farewell to Mr Liu. Mrs Pang takes his place as he goes off to be a principal. Mr Cecil takes her place. Then had nothing to do in the staffroom. Met some of the OGLs like Xuewen, Cai Yu (? hehe), Julie, Yumei, Shermin, and many more students.
Met Teik Kheng today and helped him with his printing and stuff. Realise I have lots of things to get done as well. Oh well. Had lunch with 21, rather, OG13 (which is sadly nameless) and talked with them. Talked to a few, maybe just one or two 2nd intakers. A cedarian. VJ reject, appealing back in. Overall, a lack of enthusiasm, characteristic of O2
Then after lunch, met Ms Lau and talked to her a bit. Then met Xuewen and Cai Yu and later on other students like Song Han and Jacob, Nicole. Then met the other RTs and Heri and Sam. Yup. Had the tribal music group who were really good perform. Potentially illegal information, they cost $1500 an hour, so yeah, they were really good. Too bad im not a tribal music fan. Found out Yumei isn't either. Hehe!
Then almost missed staff conference which had no relation whatsoever to the RTs and then had department meetings. Never knew colleges knew both the paper 1 and paper 2 grades of the students. Also, TJ Lit did extremely well. 71% Distinctions, 40% above National Average. Econs S also had 80% Distinctions. So thats some good news. Then had the bad. If i get the soft copy of results, they'll be here ok? For GP only lar of course.
Then debriefed about the English Fair. Had many comments. And i did bring up the fact that the blogs lagged like CRAZY. But also that most people bonded through this English Fair and got introduced to a variety of GP issues within the first few weeks. Many confidential details were also discussed. Haha, my students must feel so curious now. Oh well, nothing much, but there will be changes for the next EL Fair.
After the meeting, Im here in the staffroom. Back to marking I think.
Labels: Cai Yu, English Fair, Evelyn, Gelare, Jacob, JAE, Julie, Nicole, packing, pictures, Quality Hotel, Shermin, wish list, Xuewen, Yumei
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(Saturday, March 3, 2007-)
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# Awesome God
Okay, I just HAVE to blog about yesterday. The 2nd of March. Perhaps the biggest checkpoint in my life so far. A Levels came out today.
The day had already been anticipated by me a whole 3 weeks ago. When all the rumours saying it was after Os or whatever. I knew it had to come. And reliable sources indicated it was to be today. And it was so.
Day started off like any other day.
YEAH RIGHT!
The moment I entered the staffroom, the atmosphere was different. I knew by the time I finished my first lesson, the results would have arrived. My ingenious plan to stay out of the staffroom didn't materialize. But I wasn't nervous. I was so much better prepared this year than any other results day. Cuz I know my God will make a way for me. It's Gonna Be Alright! So I was rather calm.
Went to 421 for my first lesson of the day. I must have dreaming or something cuz 06 arrived before I did. Miracle of miracles eh? So I went ahead and taught them the AQ, which is pretty obvious to them by now, my favourite part of GP!! Did the whole "structuring an argument" lesson based on the AQ and spent the rest of the time (which always finishes too fast) on the AQ.
Dunno why but I decided to bring my water bottle to class and good thing I did too cuz its one of the first times i started to choke on nothing... So weird. But lessons still went on. 06 must have thought i was too scared or nervous, but let me assure you, I wasn't. Okay, maybe a little. Haha.
Then went back to the staffroom. Siok was there. She couldn't sit down. Haha. Paced around her desk. Talked to her and soon, it was time for 21.
CR 104 i think. And surprises of all surprises, there were some of them already there!!! Results should come out everyday man.. then can have more time for lessons. But the excitement was short lived when only half the class was there and the remainder came in late. Haha, remainder sounds like maths to me. Yes, i know its just me. And did the same lesson on the "structuring an argument" and then the AQ. Really hoping 21 and 06 caught the AQ well, cuz its actually easy to score in it. *wink to Shermin* And the choking thing happened again. Oh well... And i accidentaly stepped on the article i was using and put it at Zsa^2's folder. Forgot to take it back. Sorry to Zsa^2. Then it was Ms Kuah's lesson. And I was already late for 04's.
Reached 04 and its no surprise by now that they were already there. Oh well. Gave them the world's hardest compre to do and went through their essays. Missed Selina and Zach though. At the stroke of halftime, 5 more players were brought onto the GP field (jz read James' football blog) *Phildia, u can give it a read too* from the KI locker room. But there were two casualties in the conversion process and off they went. They took a token of appreciation for their participation in the form of papers.
It was soon lunch time... ok, didn't feel to quick for me though... And Kenneth still wanted to avoid the staffroom. Nice to bump into Mr Eugene and went down for lunch. Bought my food and placed it on the table. Then i went through Shi Min's (pronounces it the way i like it... bluack...) essay. Mary Jane maybe? Haha and then Y/Ni N/Ying's. Then Kathleen's, then Hui Shian's. By then, flies already turned my Malay Food Meal into a Gourmet of Bacteria but txs and txs to those who turned their arms into fans, i didn't get a stomach upset. Yay.
Finally ate my food and talked to the 21-ers around. Then that fateful sms came. I dun think the P or VPs of TJ will ever find my blog unless you people tell them, I shall let this private information be shared in bits and bytes.
Teacher A sms-ed me (yes, I am being a little paranoid here) saying congrats and that Teacher A was proud of me! I was really overjoyed, ecstatic, exhilirated. Then there was one more sms. I knew what it was and didn't want to open it. Julie had the privilege of being the first to know my exact results, even though she didn't know what it actually meant. Haha. I was really in a state of ecstatic-shock. Trembling, in joy. Shivering, in excitement. Tearing. On the inside. I knew my prayers were answered. I knew, they were more than answered. They were pressed down, shaken together and over-flowingly answered. I couldn't move! Couldn't stand. Couldn't talk. It was just an awesome moment. Thank you so much, my Awesome God!
Then on, a big weight had been lifted off my shoulders... I had this (most likely, please do tell me 21) spastic smile on my face for the whole day up till the actual thing in the hall. Went opposite to meet up with the others from 01. Yup, a whole bunch of botak guys and an Indian, an Indo and various other people. Then came back to TJ to use the toilet with Thammie. Met some 06 OGLs and various other people along the way. Then went to the guys toilet and I went to the staff one jz to make fun of Thammie, who was slightly slower than usual. Haha. Anyways, we wondered around school with ChenYi.
And to those of you who actually remembered what she was wearing, I like those kind of Tees. Haha, its jz my taste in how girls should dress up. Told her she looked nice in it. But don't think she realised what it really meant. Oh well. The colours were nice too. It jz looked great. *smile* And this is my blog so I shall be slightly more thick skin ya? Then again, don't think anyone would remember what she wore though but that's ok. My batch people were dressed in many different types of outfits. Ranging for casual to ARMY. From 6-inch-nano-pico-micro-minis to Oversized pants. From dull and black to striking reds. From polos to Polo's. From simple to triple layered with matching make-up. But me, I jz liked the simple top ChenYi had on.
Had a walk with Thammie and ChenYi cuz we were "clique-less" at that time. Walked around school, from canteen to audi to back again and aimless stoning. Saw all sorts of people and emotions. From the cool to the clueless. The calm to the calamity-stricken. From fooling around to frozen cold. From nervous to nevermind. It really was a big day.
Soon, the hall was open and Ms Thangam tried to get me to go in and i said i didn't want. Haha, but i did anyway.. so good boy.. haha.. then sat down like the super obedient 01 that we are. And Mr Tong started things off by reminding us he was the DM, in a funny way. The biggest error of the slideshow was them using the college crest without the letters J and C in it. Don't think any other TJ fanatics noticed it but oh well. Its just me.
Mrs Loke gave an "inspiring" speech before the results were announced. I was once again sitting beside Thammie. And to my students, Thammie is a MALE. Then soon the countdown began. Or rather, count-up. 3Ds... 4Ds... Dissapointed gasps as well as satisfied screams were echoing the hall. Was so shocked when Thammie didn't appear in the 4 or 5 D list either. We thought it was over. 6 D. Still nothing. Neither had I anything to be certain of.
7 DISTINCTIONS
01 - KENNETH STEPHEN WILSON
*SCREAAAAAMMMMMMMSSSSS!!!!!!!!! (louder than Phildia maybe, with back up from my class, fellow cohort and even my own students)*
First name on the 7D list. It was like a dream-came-to-life moment!! Was so so so so so so overjoyed!! Didn't bother to look at my results when I got it and just came down the stage although i was most likely still on cloud seven. Oh yeah. Jun Yi was the next name and the nest four of the 7 D list were also from 01. People say we are the best! Hee.. We rock.
And on the second page, Tham Zhen Hong Benjamin. along with Wenny and many others. 8 D, Mei Lien. along with 3 other scholars. Haha. Top 4, with 8 Ds, of Temasek Junior College were from Malaya (3) and India (1). What a sweet irony. But yes, the majority of the scholars did well which I am very happy over. All in 18 and the 01 (with minor exceptions) and econs students got their straight 4. Hall was a rather surreal place once the results were out. People were obviously happy, but mindful of the less fortunate. Lots of talking. Lots of faces. Just Lost. Talked to many poeple. Met JoJo but not Denise. Congrats to all and special mention must also go out to top sciencer Koh Chau Sean followed closely by Zhongshan and Bharat. Both from the same room lar.. IMBA M4-04. M4-06 also had our IMBAness when we were the only room with full attendance despite having an Indo, a Sabahan and a KL guy who needs to shop more than his results. Plus even the permanent residents and illegal immigrants of 4-06 were there too lar. M4-06 Rocks!!!
Left the hall and met Amanda and Aishah. Then met my students. So nice to see them. Had a mini group hug even. Haha. Pras and Jack Jack. Lol, talked with them quite a lot, walked around too. Too bad they didn't get to see their eye-candy. But then again, they had me! Haha, ok, Im not that perasan. Met many of my students later on, Yingen, Yumei, the 06s basically, Julie and 21s. Met Xue Wen adn Cai Yu and Selina too. Talked a lot. Was very high. Very happy. Elated.
Walked around rather aimlessly till tuition. Traded umbrellas with Riyanti and went off. Reached late but Benjamin was later. Haha. Talked with Mrs Quek abt my results before actually giving the tuition. I can't believe i've gone through 12 chapters of sec 2 maths in 4 days. Wow.. And then rushed off for Fish and Co. Glasshouse.
Waited forever and a day for 14 which never came so Phil and I cabbed down. MAJOR mistake. Firstly, the cab driver purposely drove slowly... Then, it was majorly jammed during peak hour. Then he tried to avoid telling us how long it will take to reach by talking blurly and murmuring. Hated the cab ride. It cost me slightly less than 15. So cheated. But oh well, it wasn't going to ruin my day!!
Reached Glasshouse just as 01 was leaving. Darn. Scholars were there though. I ordered Grilled Sambal Fish which was nice!! Yay! Txs for the recommendation Quen. Talked a lot with the scholars and talked even more. Stole Heri's fries and let him taste some good, non-oily, fish. Fish n Co. is always nice. Except the price. Oh well, it was a nice day. Had live music though I didn't like most of the singers cuz they ruined songs i actually liked. To those of you who heard me comment, those were really the very few secular songs i actually like. JY should know at least 1 of them from 14/02 dedication. But poeple go to fish and co for the people. Not the money. And there were 3 birthdays. Lame Fish n Co. cheer didn't help... But it was really nice catching up with all the scholars and others. So many places. Greats will certainly arise out of the few of us.
Then walked over to Cathay Cineplex for no reason. Wondered around and stood around while talking. Girls left first and then me, TK and Phil left while the rest went on wandering. Movie maybe? I dunno. Sean left to club first and took my phone along. Hope it comes back jz fine. It should lar... Unless he gets too drunk.
Waited 14 revolutions of the earth around the moon before 14 came. It was crowded but there were seats. I was so stoned out of tiredness I didn't notice Iman and Hafiz came on board. Oh well, they looked blissful together. Chatted until reached home. Talked with Phil and then surfed the net a bit.
Replied the many many people who msged me. Wanna specially thank 06 for their creative msg too. Sorry goes out to mommy. Didn't mean to let you worry. Really. Sorry.
Had a few replies come back in. Yumei, u need more sleep. Phildia too. Haha.
Summary of the day
General Paper A1
Malay Language A1
Mathematics A
Physics A
Chemistry A
Further Mathematics A
Mathematics S Merit
Physics S Distinction
Project Work 1
BIG THANKS TO JESUS, MY AWESOME GOD. WITHOUT YOU, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. SPECIAL TXS GOES TO YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL ANSWER TO MY F MATHS PRAYER. TRULY, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH YOU.
To my students, if you want to be inspired by me, don't be because of my grades, but be because there is a God out there who answered me when I cried out to Him for wisdom. When I was an average scholar who never touched A for FM, who's first GP grade was a C, whose Year 2 results were worse than year 1, He gave me what no tutor could. Hope. Love. Wisdom. Peace. Truly, without him, I would be in the pits of despair right now. But He is faithful, even when I wasn't. He was always by my side. He was my wisdom and I was dumb. My light when I couldn't see. My strength when I wanted to sleep. My conscience when I wanted to pon. My peace in times of fear. My security in times of doubt. My reason. Its You.
The day had already been anticipated by me a whole 3 weeks ago. When all the rumours saying it was after Os or whatever. I knew it had to come. And reliable sources indicated it was to be today. And it was so.
Day started off like any other day.
YEAH RIGHT!
The moment I entered the staffroom, the atmosphere was different. I knew by the time I finished my first lesson, the results would have arrived. My ingenious plan to stay out of the staffroom didn't materialize. But I wasn't nervous. I was so much better prepared this year than any other results day. Cuz I know my God will make a way for me. It's Gonna Be Alright! So I was rather calm.
Went to 421 for my first lesson of the day. I must have dreaming or something cuz 06 arrived before I did. Miracle of miracles eh? So I went ahead and taught them the AQ, which is pretty obvious to them by now, my favourite part of GP!! Did the whole "structuring an argument" lesson based on the AQ and spent the rest of the time (which always finishes too fast) on the AQ.
Dunno why but I decided to bring my water bottle to class and good thing I did too cuz its one of the first times i started to choke on nothing... So weird. But lessons still went on. 06 must have thought i was too scared or nervous, but let me assure you, I wasn't. Okay, maybe a little. Haha.
Then went back to the staffroom. Siok was there. She couldn't sit down. Haha. Paced around her desk. Talked to her and soon, it was time for 21.
CR 104 i think. And surprises of all surprises, there were some of them already there!!! Results should come out everyday man.. then can have more time for lessons. But the excitement was short lived when only half the class was there and the remainder came in late. Haha, remainder sounds like maths to me. Yes, i know its just me. And did the same lesson on the "structuring an argument" and then the AQ. Really hoping 21 and 06 caught the AQ well, cuz its actually easy to score in it. *wink to Shermin* And the choking thing happened again. Oh well... And i accidentaly stepped on the article i was using and put it at Zsa^2's folder. Forgot to take it back. Sorry to Zsa^2. Then it was Ms Kuah's lesson. And I was already late for 04's.
Reached 04 and its no surprise by now that they were already there. Oh well. Gave them the world's hardest compre to do and went through their essays. Missed Selina and Zach though. At the stroke of halftime, 5 more players were brought onto the GP field (jz read James' football blog) *Phildia, u can give it a read too* from the KI locker room. But there were two casualties in the conversion process and off they went. They took a token of appreciation for their participation in the form of papers.
It was soon lunch time... ok, didn't feel to quick for me though... And Kenneth still wanted to avoid the staffroom. Nice to bump into Mr Eugene and went down for lunch. Bought my food and placed it on the table. Then i went through Shi Min's (pronounces it the way i like it... bluack...) essay. Mary Jane maybe? Haha and then Y/Ni N/Ying's. Then Kathleen's, then Hui Shian's. By then, flies already turned my Malay Food Meal into a Gourmet of Bacteria but txs and txs to those who turned their arms into fans, i didn't get a stomach upset. Yay.
Finally ate my food and talked to the 21-ers around. Then that fateful sms came. I dun think the P or VPs of TJ will ever find my blog unless you people tell them, I shall let this private information be shared in bits and bytes.
Teacher A sms-ed me (yes, I am being a little paranoid here) saying congrats and that Teacher A was proud of me! I was really overjoyed, ecstatic, exhilirated. Then there was one more sms. I knew what it was and didn't want to open it. Julie had the privilege of being the first to know my exact results, even though she didn't know what it actually meant. Haha. I was really in a state of ecstatic-shock. Trembling, in joy. Shivering, in excitement. Tearing. On the inside. I knew my prayers were answered. I knew, they were more than answered. They were pressed down, shaken together and over-flowingly answered. I couldn't move! Couldn't stand. Couldn't talk. It was just an awesome moment. Thank you so much, my Awesome God!
Then on, a big weight had been lifted off my shoulders... I had this (most likely, please do tell me 21) spastic smile on my face for the whole day up till the actual thing in the hall. Went opposite to meet up with the others from 01. Yup, a whole bunch of botak guys and an Indian, an Indo and various other people. Then came back to TJ to use the toilet with Thammie. Met some 06 OGLs and various other people along the way. Then went to the guys toilet and I went to the staff one jz to make fun of Thammie, who was slightly slower than usual. Haha. Anyways, we wondered around school with ChenYi.
And to those of you who actually remembered what she was wearing, I like those kind of Tees. Haha, its jz my taste in how girls should dress up. Told her she looked nice in it. But don't think she realised what it really meant. Oh well. The colours were nice too. It jz looked great. *smile* And this is my blog so I shall be slightly more thick skin ya? Then again, don't think anyone would remember what she wore though but that's ok. My batch people were dressed in many different types of outfits. Ranging for casual to ARMY. From 6-inch-nano-pico-micro-minis to Oversized pants. From dull and black to striking reds. From polos to Polo's. From simple to triple layered with matching make-up. But me, I jz liked the simple top ChenYi had on.
Had a walk with Thammie and ChenYi cuz we were "clique-less" at that time. Walked around school, from canteen to audi to back again and aimless stoning. Saw all sorts of people and emotions. From the cool to the clueless. The calm to the calamity-stricken. From fooling around to frozen cold. From nervous to nevermind. It really was a big day.
Soon, the hall was open and Ms Thangam tried to get me to go in and i said i didn't want. Haha, but i did anyway.. so good boy.. haha.. then sat down like the super obedient 01 that we are. And Mr Tong started things off by reminding us he was the DM, in a funny way. The biggest error of the slideshow was them using the college crest without the letters J and C in it. Don't think any other TJ fanatics noticed it but oh well. Its just me.
Mrs Loke gave an "inspiring" speech before the results were announced. I was once again sitting beside Thammie. And to my students, Thammie is a MALE. Then soon the countdown began. Or rather, count-up. 3Ds... 4Ds... Dissapointed gasps as well as satisfied screams were echoing the hall. Was so shocked when Thammie didn't appear in the 4 or 5 D list either. We thought it was over. 6 D. Still nothing. Neither had I anything to be certain of.
7 DISTINCTIONS
01 - KENNETH STEPHEN WILSON
*SCREAAAAAMMMMMMMSSSSS!!!!!!!!! (louder than Phildia maybe, with back up from my class, fellow cohort and even my own students)*
First name on the 7D list. It was like a dream-came-to-life moment!! Was so so so so so so overjoyed!! Didn't bother to look at my results when I got it and just came down the stage although i was most likely still on cloud seven. Oh yeah. Jun Yi was the next name and the nest four of the 7 D list were also from 01. People say we are the best! Hee.. We rock.
And on the second page, Tham Zhen Hong Benjamin. along with Wenny and many others. 8 D, Mei Lien. along with 3 other scholars. Haha. Top 4, with 8 Ds, of Temasek Junior College were from Malaya (3) and India (1). What a sweet irony. But yes, the majority of the scholars did well which I am very happy over. All in 18 and the 01 (with minor exceptions) and econs students got their straight 4. Hall was a rather surreal place once the results were out. People were obviously happy, but mindful of the less fortunate. Lots of talking. Lots of faces. Just Lost. Talked to many poeple. Met JoJo but not Denise. Congrats to all and special mention must also go out to top sciencer Koh Chau Sean followed closely by Zhongshan and Bharat. Both from the same room lar.. IMBA M4-04. M4-06 also had our IMBAness when we were the only room with full attendance despite having an Indo, a Sabahan and a KL guy who needs to shop more than his results. Plus even the permanent residents and illegal immigrants of 4-06 were there too lar. M4-06 Rocks!!!
Left the hall and met Amanda and Aishah. Then met my students. So nice to see them. Had a mini group hug even. Haha. Pras and Jack Jack. Lol, talked with them quite a lot, walked around too. Too bad they didn't get to see their eye-candy. But then again, they had me! Haha, ok, Im not that perasan. Met many of my students later on, Yingen, Yumei, the 06s basically, Julie and 21s. Met Xue Wen adn Cai Yu and Selina too. Talked a lot. Was very high. Very happy. Elated.
Walked around rather aimlessly till tuition. Traded umbrellas with Riyanti and went off. Reached late but Benjamin was later. Haha. Talked with Mrs Quek abt my results before actually giving the tuition. I can't believe i've gone through 12 chapters of sec 2 maths in 4 days. Wow.. And then rushed off for Fish and Co. Glasshouse.
Waited forever and a day for 14 which never came so Phil and I cabbed down. MAJOR mistake. Firstly, the cab driver purposely drove slowly... Then, it was majorly jammed during peak hour. Then he tried to avoid telling us how long it will take to reach by talking blurly and murmuring. Hated the cab ride. It cost me slightly less than 15. So cheated. But oh well, it wasn't going to ruin my day!!
Reached Glasshouse just as 01 was leaving. Darn. Scholars were there though. I ordered Grilled Sambal Fish which was nice!! Yay! Txs for the recommendation Quen. Talked a lot with the scholars and talked even more. Stole Heri's fries and let him taste some good, non-oily, fish. Fish n Co. is always nice. Except the price. Oh well, it was a nice day. Had live music though I didn't like most of the singers cuz they ruined songs i actually liked. To those of you who heard me comment, those were really the very few secular songs i actually like. JY should know at least 1 of them from 14/02 dedication. But poeple go to fish and co for the people. Not the money. And there were 3 birthdays. Lame Fish n Co. cheer didn't help... But it was really nice catching up with all the scholars and others. So many places. Greats will certainly arise out of the few of us.
Then walked over to Cathay Cineplex for no reason. Wondered around and stood around while talking. Girls left first and then me, TK and Phil left while the rest went on wandering. Movie maybe? I dunno. Sean left to club first and took my phone along. Hope it comes back jz fine. It should lar... Unless he gets too drunk.
Waited 14 revolutions of the earth around the moon before 14 came. It was crowded but there were seats. I was so stoned out of tiredness I didn't notice Iman and Hafiz came on board. Oh well, they looked blissful together. Chatted until reached home. Talked with Phil and then surfed the net a bit.
Replied the many many people who msged me. Wanna specially thank 06 for their creative msg too. Sorry goes out to mommy. Didn't mean to let you worry. Really. Sorry.
Had a few replies come back in. Yumei, u need more sleep. Phildia too. Haha.
Summary of the day
General Paper A1
Malay Language A1
Mathematics A
Physics A
Chemistry A
Further Mathematics A
Mathematics S Merit
Physics S Distinction
Project Work 1
BIG THANKS TO JESUS, MY AWESOME GOD. WITHOUT YOU, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. SPECIAL TXS GOES TO YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL ANSWER TO MY F MATHS PRAYER. TRULY, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH YOU.
To my students, if you want to be inspired by me, don't be because of my grades, but be because there is a God out there who answered me when I cried out to Him for wisdom. When I was an average scholar who never touched A for FM, who's first GP grade was a C, whose Year 2 results were worse than year 1, He gave me what no tutor could. Hope. Love. Wisdom. Peace. Truly, without him, I would be in the pits of despair right now. But He is faithful, even when I wasn't. He was always by my side. He was my wisdom and I was dumb. My light when I couldn't see. My strength when I wanted to sleep. My conscience when I wanted to pon. My peace in times of fear. My security in times of doubt. My reason. Its You.
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the story ends like this;
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