oh i also forgot to add that for once [i think?] ms tan said she missed us. however reluctant it was! haha. blooh so bored. still feel slacky
hmm. i just got back. o well. lunch at mac's with class [i shouldn't have sat with yonglai n chelsea yeah a bit bright] then back to rg w ser!:) so fun! but pity mrs kwan wasn't there. well. ms tan's lovely:) haha she was hilarious. n it was so interesting to hear abt her ex-ses n etc:D
haha chris i hope u read this: ms tan thinks tt either u/chim will settle down [ie get married 1st]. sth to do with ur personality. cudn't msg u on the spot cos my phone conked out! ah well:)
yeah.. she's so cute n funny. miss her lots. and my old class! all over again. haha. well. let me attempt to list everyone.
1steph 2puee 3xinmin 4shiqin 5candice [cheng] 6lyd 7chris 8aud 9ser 10hannah 11zhini 12woonteng 13claire 14michelle 15lijia 16peiying 17joon 18lou 19sheila 20chim 21ting 22pam 23jiahui 24jolie 25xuwen 26huichu 27amanda [seah]
yeah. i think that's all. plus me. should be correct.
but i feel bit bad for spending so much time out. and of cos dear ser was pouring out all her woes [probably like my umpteenth time listening to her rants] almost fell asleep haha sorry but yeah:p i wonder wat ms tan thought. well. like i was saying.. we're her 1st batch! and the closest, according to her.
so we saw ms hoo n chen lao shi n teoch [he's quite hilarious too] mrs see. ms ning's on maternity leave! 2nd kid = gal! so cute:) yeah i think that's about it. actually i must say i didn't really envision this when i was in sec 1. as in like especially for ms tan the way she talks to us now is so like a friend kinda thing. quite nice. u think so ser?
haha yup. so there's choir tmr. sigh. weiying quick return me my scores! haha. i wish we were learning new songs its more fun. n i lost my pseudo-yoik score! its a nice song:) hope we have a gd time tmr. haha....
yay i can load everyone's blog now!:) whee~
anyways clar is quite happy at the moment, saw my church junior and jkms studio junior. haha. and met junior class! i think they're v nice pple:) yay:) n somehow they seem like they're more talkative than we were last yr. pity couldn't stay longer to talk to them cos they had storyline. there're a pair of twins n a pair of cousins in my junior class! so fun!
hmm. yeah. am glad this week's tests are done. don't like tests. oh and there was poon pe today again. man. kinda as bad as monday's. ugh ugh! sigh. i've to get down to doing my jobshadowing report. finally;p should have done it during hols but sigh.
yay 12.30 tmr:) happy day! wonder wat i'll do. well.
there's something v wrong with my comp or sth i can't seem to load my own blog. o well. anyways to chris n peiying, clar's ends at 5.10 on mondays, 2.30 on tuesdays, 12.30 on wednesdays, 3.10 on thursdays and 12.30 on fridays! whee~:)
pe on mon was quite a horror esp when ms poon was leading us running all over the place and we hadn't the foggiest idea when we were gonna stop. i mean if you can see the end in sight its more bearable don't u think. and after all the situps and backraisers and squats and pushups i was joking w candice n eunice tt we'd be like invalid today.. can't move at all.. and candice was saying her bai ka will become crippled haha.
right. feel extremely slack. must go rectify that soon. auditions seem to be quite exciting! haha. like weiying said. but of cos they haven't really started yet -shrugs-
yeah at least today's chem test wasn't that bad. careless mistake. o well. considering i didn't prep v much for it.
oh. quote of yesterday frm ser "its those small little paper all cannot do one rite?" on our math tcher's notoriously hard "class tests" which are printed on half a4 paper [okay there's sth v wrong with that grammatically but i'm too lazy to figure out] as in the qns are not the run-of-the-mill kind. as jane probably can testify? i think:)
ah i HATE my comp. stupid adsl connection keeps switching itself off when it feels like it.
so i've to type everyth all over again.
1st thief : Oh ! The police is here. Quick! Jump out of the window!
2nd thief : But this is the 13th floor.
1st thief : Hurry! this is no time for superstitions.
Teacher : Correct the sentence,"A bull and a cow is grazing in the field"
Student : A cow and a bull is grazing in the field.
Teacher : How?
Student : Ladies first.
haha:) my favourites out of this email that my french immersion fren sent. miss being in france come to think of it. esp when i was talking to clara just now.
finally got to watch love me if you dare. or jeux d'enfants. e french title is much nicer. anyways it was hilarious sometimes, vulgar sometimes, plain weird sometimes.. typically french! haha. don't noe wat to think of it. but. i got to watch it. that's the main thing! haha.
and today was interesting. even though we took 1.5h to audition 3 pple. and i really admire val n hk cos i don't think i wud have had the patience to do wat they did. yup. now that's a virtue which i do not yet posses and need to cultivate. which is surprising given that i've spent so much time waiting all over the place e.g. terp and choir stuff like today.
okay i shall hope that my connection doesn't cut me off again.
ooh cool church junior has aud n tim yap for ogls! too bad didn't see her today though would have been fun:) i don't remember much of orientation anymore actually. just that it didn't seem like 1 yr ago.
i guess i'm quite thankful for my timetable:) though i bet a lot of pple have better ones still [e.g. double math ppl grr:p] was good to see pple tho e.g. missed pam so much. tt horrible gal still owes me an outing [which i suspect will not materialise unless its a lets-go-study-thing] somehow i see her so rarely. like peiying in the morning b4 assembly.. lijia at lectures cos her class is mostly in front of mine.. lyd after school.. come to think of it i don't see jiahui v often either hmph. this has to be a council thing. o well.
ugh it is so hard to go watch love me if you dare. :( anyways clar is feeling out of sorts and lazy now [wats new] don't feel like doing anyth at all! ultimate. more like i want to do sth but dunno wat to do.
i went to look at job attachment reports in the library. they're horrifyingly long! ugh. i can't remember half of wat i saw/did there. okay wait i didn't do anyth there. well. the pple were all so detailed n stuff. help!:S
oh yes i have figured something out. i prefer going out in small grps than large ones. its easier to talk. in general. like today. when our class thing dwindled to 5 pple haha. and like my last post. that's sth very impt tt i just figured out. haha slow huh o well.
anyways. being j2 is freaky. and i've absolutely no idea wat to do in uni/where to apply to/whether i can get a scholarship [which determines whether i can go overseas in the 1st place]. ugh.
hmm. yesterday really wasn't my day. today? hmm. not that much better. had to climb 6 flights of stairs twice! due to 1) lift under maintenance 2)lousy memory. nvm at least i'll still get my 200bucks haha:D
yesterday e bus ride was quite funny. esp when conrad [i think] was complaining abt how our body should have been engineered to last for longer time in good condition so hk [i think] sed he should be an elephant instead. (do they live v long? ah watever.) so remembering finding nemo i was saying why doesn't he go be a sea turtle instead. in which conrad replied tt sea turtles didn't do anyth but swim around. can't eat or do anyth. so either hk/mz sed when u're a sea turtle u don't ask for much. which was rather amusing:)
n i didn't noe tt many pple who play soccer get the same problem as my pore bro. hopefully e pig's amusing him haha. oink oink wriggle wriggle.
oh and today. terp partner sam was telling me abt going to the volcano park. so i was like wondering are the volcanos still active.. so i asked him wat if they blow up while u all are visiting? so he sed very matter-of-factly "then we all die loh". how very optimistic.
and sam was telling me abt having an ice cream party at the place where he had his sc attachment and i was being idiotic n questioning the cleanliness of the spoons in the kitchen. so he was like "oh i'm sure they do experiments in the kitchen u noe.. like.. take 2 teaspoons of oil and add to [sth] and see if they explode!" haha:p
kinda reminds me of the way anna used to talk:) miss her lots! bah.
right. i should go get hol hw done ugh. and sigh even tho i wasn't in spore for 10days i still can exceed my sms limit. underestimation is always bad. ooh there's johnny depp on cna tonight haha. let me quote liangsi "sounds so groupie"
alrighty now i shall post all my grouses abt lotr [haha] that should be ample warning. esp when i nitpick a lot. and i mean a lot. cos when i read the book i don't imagine the kters/places to look like wat they did in the movies. so if u don't wish to get annoyed by me, don't read:)
haha my fren's busy pointing out to me all the blunders in the 3 shows. -very amused-
frodo
he's quite okay actually. looks alright:) n acts quite well too for tt matter
sam
haha i really can't stand the way sam looks. and he's spposed to be nice n respectful n loyal to frodo which he certainly wasn't in the 1st 2 [or maybe only the 1st] but for rotk he was quite good
merry n pippin look a bit weird too
gollum
haha he's good. quite gross tho
gandalf
he doesn't resemble the gandalf on chris' book [haha] and somehow not as nice as the book kter. he sed quite a few sarcastic things in the book. bushy white eyebrows? hmm..
saruman
not bad actually. i thot denethor should look like him. speaking of which let me quote chris "he looks plain evil" which wasnt' spposed to be the case.
aragorn
ah i actually like him:) tho at the end when he was crowned king he started looking a bit diff somehow. n i thot it was absolutely inappropriate for the king to lunge at arwen. although i guess aft such a long absence.. but still.. he's the king! ah nvm. o yes n he doesn't look v good in real life either.
legolas
haha i was really quite amused at the way they just focus on him so much for no reason at all save to let pple enjoy eyecandy. and there was one scene he just sed 2 words n it was =so= extra. but he really looks quite good as an elf. but in real life/in pirates of caribbean, terrible. ah but i liked the scene where he climbed on the oliphaunt n started killing off pple it was v cool:) n then aft tt gimli was like "that's only counted as 1" tt was hilarious:D in fact the pair of them are hilarious. and his shooting arrows are v nice too:)
gimli
nice dwarf. v amusing:)
boromir
looks a bit weird. n faramir too. n not really very tall/proud/distinguished or watever.
elrond
i think they shudn't have gotten hugh weaving to do it. looks absolutely weird. esp aft agent smith like chris sed.
galadriel
haha. spposed to be one of the most beautiful pple. which is. sadly not the case. and she has a weird way of talking. like she has a problem. sounds spasticated really.
arwen
hmm not bad i guess she actually looks kinda elf-like. but not exactly the most beautiful either. and they purposely played up her role [like legolas haha]
eowyn
she looks positively weird too. maybe the narrowly set eyes. but also not "fair" and watever not. n i don't think she was spposed to be looking terrified when facing the lord of the nazgul.
eomer
looks kinda weird somehow. the nose or sth. but otherwise okay.
theoden
not exactly very tall either. n doesn't look v kingly.
rosie cotton looks absolutely old. i can't remember any more kters at the moment so i guess that will suffice.
and they changed quite some parts of the story. which i mind. quite a bit. like the beacons were already on fire when gandalf was riding to gondor. n they didn't need to persuade theoden to help gondor. n smeagol didn't turn frodo against sam. ah too many to list.
but i think their settings were good. tho i didn't imagine a lot of places to look like wat they were like in the movie. n the elves didn't go help them at helm's deep. tho i really like the elf archers:) way cool:) gondor either. but tt was really grand. n interesting. oh n the nazgul. i thot their steeds wud look more like birds. not dragons. although i just realised upon checking the book tt they were spposed to look a bit like bats.
mm the shire was good. very pretty:) looks rather other-worldly
oh the ents! somehow they looked a bit fragile to me. cos they were so thin n stuff. but then again on reflection they're spposed to look like trees like the birch n chesnut n watever which i sppose aren't particularly large in girth. so. sigh. resigned.
ah anyways the fight scenes were good. give them credit for those. esp when they make up the bulk of the 3 movies. ah the sam-frodo-gollum scenes are so draggy. n i don't like those parts in the book either. 3 1/2 hrs! i'll nv watch it again.
i'm actually quite tired and wondering wat i'm doing online. anyways i was having regrets abt ssef n nsts [as usual] but on reading my prof's v cheery reply to my email abt meeting to discuss those 2 things it doesn't seem so bad for now haha.
anyways. rotk! i shall critique it tmr. haha just ask chris i have so many criticisms to make. i guess i always prefer my imagination. but there're always gd things abt e movie. time to sleep!
ah i forgot to add. the static in LV is horrible! horrible horrible horrible! i hate getting electric shocks! bah. oh yes and its refreshingly cooling here in spore aft being over-cold in vegas n japan. alritey back to writing my journal [yes i decided to somehow, procrastinating with regards to hw:p]
and also i've found my lovely song! carol of the bells!:) yay! thanks to the bellagio website.. grateful for a good website haha:D
ahh. am trying to look for this christmas song which i've heard soo many times but can't put a name to. choral one. terribly frustrating!
anyways its so early.. only cos i slept at 9.30 haha. 1st thing i appreciated was spore's greenery when i got back. LV is like a real desert.. there's practically no greenery at all save the palm trees they planted for aesthetic purposes.. and they're everywhere.. but that's still kinda diff in the end.. its still artificial.. and in the outskirts its really all little grey shrubs and cacti. really ugly to me but parents didn't think so.
the hotels. well. when we first drove into aladdin i was like whoa.. its so grand.. and inside.. the decor and stuff.. but actually after a while the grandeur wore off. and seeing the hotels consisted of like visiting the casinos [haha] cos they always make u walk thru the casino to get to wherever you wanna go. my dad was saying its their ploy to make u spend money before you get to yr destination.. cos everytime we go for buffets [which was really rather often i must say] we'd to go thru this whole long walk
oh yes and i also appreciate spore's rules abt smoking.. they can just smoke anywhere in vegas.. even in aircon areas.. which is totally sucky. and that happens sometimes in france too.
so now i can name most of the big hotels. like in alphabetical order. anyways each hotel had shopping, casino and sometimes attractions like shark reef n stuff. so everytime i went to the shark reef/secret garden/dolphin habitat n etc i'd want a tiger/lion/dolphin n so on. the dolphins were really sweet tho:) n they're so smart!
okay i feel kinda robotic now. but anyway. there was horse riding too [happily;] western! i don't think i've ridden western before. major was a good horse but he didn't seem to like me very much. v easy to get him to trot:) and cheyenne [i think its a v nice name but it'll just proly get mispronounced all the time] was absolutely naughty. refused to stop! horrible mare. hmph. she'd like turn her head ard n stare at me. somehow she felt quite lazy at the beginning. and at the end she'd keep trotting. just to annoy me. cos she's not spposed to.
o yes v glad my bro came along:) he's hilarious.. he said he watched pirates of the carribean at least 10times thruout finals week.. just put it on replay and listened to the dialogue. and then he was imitating johnny depp occasionally it was quite amusing:)
ohhhh!! the shows! okay free shows were fun but the 2 others i watched were way cool:) cirque du soleil's 'o' [thanks to jane:] and the magic of rick thomas [whom my bro sed reminded him of chow yun fat] i wanted to go watch mystere at treasure island too but i guess hafta be a hse guest to get the gd seats n stuff. sigh. 2 resident shows at LV! how cool is tt. n i can never figure out how magicians perform their stuff.. he was quite funny tho kept saying he hated birds although he was working with them.
o yeah and its like on 13 dec leann rimes was performing at aladdin [while i was still on the plane grr] and then 20 dec mariah carey was performing at aladdin while celine dion was performing at caesar's palace.. actually not that i wud have watched them [i think] but just think there're so many pop concerts in vegas it really lives up to its name of entertainment city
okays am at this yahoo cafe which is free! woohoo~ at japan airport waiting for flight back. haha i found it quite amusing we go to vegas with 2 pieces of luggage and one bag each, come back with 2 luggages, 1 box, 2 bags each. anyways this jap keyboard is a leetle bit weird. therefore cant figure out the punctuation and this looks like the way jiahui smses haha:)
too lazy to type anyth more at the moment so.. shall wait till when i get home and am super bored
i decided the flight here's really tiring. and finally get to sleep on a real bed. lovely. i have a [queen size? dunno] all to myself!:) hahaha
and the comp's really well controlled there's like nothing else besides internet explorer and i can't load icq2go [hardly anyone uses icq anymore methinks] and i don't think d/ling msn wud work. so well. heck.
hotels are really really grand. but the grandeur wore off after a bit heh. having some problems finding nice show to watch crap should have booked for cirque du soleil long loong time ago:( our fault. bah. its really tiring walking around from hotel to hotel.. they're seriously huge.. and one can hardly find fastfood or cafes or stuff. mostly restaurants. dinner buffet was good tho:) luckily didn't eat lunch today.
i wanna go ride horse!:) haha. with good conditions n all. it isn't too cold yet thankfully. i forgot wat else i wanted to say so o well. shall go sleep if possible its like 1am+ here i think. can't be bothered to change watch time.
just visited my uncle's house and feel very poor. its a huge house! with rustic charm and all. and all the little nooks and crannies [sp?] which are so cute:) and fun to stick around in. decor's lovely etc. sigh. and this mini swimming pool. the architecture is wonderful!! yeah like this little thatched hse which is actually quite grand. anyways yeah i can't say enough words don't do justice.
o wait i forgot to talk abt e bad pts there're quite a few mosquitoes and LOTS of stairs so i wudn't actually want to live in it but its just really pretty:)
ugh out of 6 pple on msn 4 of them aren't replying. just wanted to tell u guys bye.. o well.. hopefully they'll hurry up n reply i've like 4 hrs left to flying off. and 2 hrs to going to airport. better remember to pack everyth.
oh i forgot the funniest thing. in the morning i was standing around novena and then this person who was working at tan tock seng stopped, looked at my sch u [wearing tt cos i'd to do metro cip later] and asked "u're from ri issit?" [i think she was from the old era when ri was a mixed sch since my mom's fren was frm there] "they're still abusing u like tt ah?" and "since you're a rafflesian i'll support u:)" it was quite amusing.. her terming comm service as abuse..
ah b4 i forget again. my 2 upper limbs are suffering from tremendous aches. sorry lyd but i am -never- ever going to help youth challenge thanks.
whole day of cip! ugh. my feet are numb. and my hands were trembling after holding that stupid heavy box [for youth challenge cip] for like 2-3hrs.. the nurses etc at tan tock seng were so unhelpful! bah.. guess they're sick of old pple..
and i hate the way pple just ignore u when u're talking to them.. i mean.. like hello i'm talking to u would u mind looking at me or at least saying something.. geez. most of the time i was trailing off in mid-sentence cos pple just walked off. that really sucks lah.
anyways the youth challenge thing was really crap. 1st of all i wudn't sell those spastic feather pens. 2ndly u tell us to meet at 8.30 and only start the stupid freaking briefing at 9.30 and waste a whole lot of time till 10+ to make sure everyone's there.. and then give us hrs only starting frm 10am.. at least for me anyway sucks.
thought metro was better. at least there're vouchers so maybe tt'll induce pple to donate haha. and i decided tt when i sound happier pple are more likely to donate. and pple frm the cosmetics/make-up area are more likely to donate too. observations from one day. which might/might not be true. anyhow.
must record the 3 funny incidents b4 i forget!
1. there were 2 ladies. one donated 1st. and gave e lucky draw thingy to hk [btw thanks for coming if not i think i'd have been really bored] and then the other one donated, gave to the 1st lady, who dumped it in the collection box and then realised her mistake.
2. another lady who said to hk "i come here everyday" so i was thinking.. how weird is that u come to metro everyday to buy stuff? not like the stuff's gonna change rite.. as if new stock comes in everyday..
3. one lady whom on hearing that $5 wud be gd for donation [since dick sed tt was spposed to be the limit for the coupon bklet], got her husband to find change cos she only had 2 $50 notes.. so btwn e 2 of them they came up with $4 in coins for me and the lady dumped it in my hands and refused the coupon bklet. i was really quite amused. but at least she was nice:)
think i've had enough. i hate asking pple for donations.
yay going to stay with jane in vegas!:) 2 or 3 nights? anyways woohoo~! :) haha jane if u stand me up on this one i'll kill u:p
oh i decided my hols have been very enriching but not so much in e area of academics haha. like terp and work attachment and church camp and rda cip. hmm. actually tts not a lot but well. time really flies
just back frm church camp. and like a 4.5h nap. cos i slept ~4hrs this morning. wasn't spposed to sleep but it really got quite boring.. there were like just 6 of us playing cards and then aft tt liesl wanted to watch e soccer match.
anyway.. on e whole.. it was good!:) yay:) actually felt quite comfy with them. and i've found fellow bridge fanatics:p haha okay not really fanatics but.. hm.. bridge-lovers? jasmine's hilarious.. and the guys.. haha.. jonathan and timotheus "i'm the indonesian maid!" [i can't remember wat jonathan said on e phone to merit that though unfortunately] and hans who gets quite impatient sometimes. can't remember much else at e moment. oh anyways i learnt to appreciate n count my blessings better. esp after jason was talking abt his army experiences i was quite horrified. poor thing!:S
and sigh i've just realised how fast time passes. tmr i'll be spending e whole day doing cip and then sat i'm flying off! and i haven't done v much hol hw or anyth. gah. which means i'll have to chao piah when i come back.. there's like jobshadowing report to be done.. and probably choir comm meetings too and stuff. and other stuff tt i planned to do. hols are too short!:S oh and terp! ugh. will have to go back to ntu
ah. ri concert was. hmm. not particularly very good i think. esp the finale. wat a horror. it was a complete fiasco. and i was like hmm how come i can't hear any of the sops besides either tiff/weiying who was behind me..
and the chord thingy for deck the hall! i'm quite horrified.. why didn't he tell us beforehand tt we'd have to play the chord ourselves ugh there was like this interminable silence when mr toh mouthed at the sops f-sharp major and no one moved and val was like "clar i can't play!" [or sth like tt] and i temporarily blanked out and then after tt then realised wat an f-sharp major chord was. argh. terrible. i bet the audience knew how unprepared we were just frm tt. oh but at least they laughed haha hopefully tt was kinda a saving grace.
and the very very long waiting. but the talking was quite interesting:) besides the fact that it kinda got into quite a bit of a bitching fest for a while. and seeing emilyn!:) happy. haven't seen her in ages.
oh and i must thank jan lots for doing my make-up:) saved me. anyways then they all started saying i looked like a doll. then i remembered how serene kept persisting in calling me a furby last time. [grr]
RDA today. i think Dunedin is a v pretty horse!:) if i ever get to buy one i want something like him:) haha. bay. nice eyes:D and he's got character the last time the rider got off him he gave [the rider] a nuzzle:) like a kiss! haha anyways it was very cute:) and Fraggle was so naughty today. i could just see the balefulness in his look. think he didn't like me very much as a sidewalker.
oh and sandra's cocker spaniel's so cute and friendly its tail kept wagging n wagging n it was very excited n curious abt everyone. and its furrier than the horses. haha. i have a penchant for furry things.