天黑黑,星闪闪

2012-01-11T16:26:00.002+08:00

Another post.

Idk why, suddenly remembered that before I joined Facebook, one of the websites I usually 'hang out' with was blogger.

Ok, now blogger is like a long-time friend who chats with me only at times, mostly when I'm emo/deep in thought.

Hmm, today had a large mood change.

It all started in the afternoon.

ACE was quite nice, writing messages for people.

Each person will write messages for every person in the class.

Sometimes I doubt the sincerity of some messages, but I'll take it as true comments to make myself feel better :D

Hmm anyway then later hanging out in library coz nothing to do before the ARP briefing.

Started having emo thoughts of myself during the briefing.

Like how insignificant I was actually.

Then later I was called for some SSEF forms problem, which turned out to be a missing file (as in physical file) which school (or Janice) said it will settle.

Then I was a little surprised to see Roslyn there.

And seeing her (or any of the y6 people) kinda reminds me of the Nanao trip, which in itself didnt have much sad memories for me, but it linked to the matter before the trip...

So yea my problem that started during the briefing was made worse (not her fault though, probably my brain patterning).

So yea I walked towards concourse, passed by 2 happy groups, one was someone's birthday, another was the campus net group.

So I just passed by campus net group saying sorry I wont be going, and just left.

Somehow, the road home seems very nostalgic.

I remember the different mindsets I had all along the way from year 2.

Year 2 I was thinking of Pardus and com games.

Year 3 I was crapping with Teck Lim on most days.

Year 4 I was always complaining and trying to plan a work schedule which never really worked out.

Year 5 - Dont have. Hostel year.

Year 6...

Boarded a new 165 bus.

The feeling wasnt that much different from an old 165 bus, except much brighter.

So I started my train of sad thoughts about myself.

Link back to the pre-nanao trip days, where I was kinda angry and sad with myself for being such a failure.

I was like really feeling quite lousy on the bus ride, letting my emotions roll...even though the roads seem to have some developments that didnt exist in the lower years, it always seem so serene, peaceful, like memory lane...

So I started whacking myself down.

It all happened and until I could feel rather sad and looking out of the window was some light rain.

Then, at about Thompson there, I kind of drifted into a dreamy sleep.

Opened my eyes a little at few stops away from amk mrt, and went back to sleep.

When I finally woke up before the CTE flyover, everything seemed to have changed for the better.

I suddenly felt some bliss, some joy. I didn't know why.

I woke up 'even more' and felt a strong sense to fight back in life.

Then I looked up at the sky, with weak sunlight falling on my face...just felt extremely strong.

When I alighted the bus, and took a slow walk back home, I really appreciate the beauty of the estate.

It's so peaceful, and slow-paced.

A group of old men sitting round a table talking, some random guy like some property agent answering his phone...people parking cars...daily life.

I never experienced any of these 'slow life' when I took MRT, since the bus goes all the way right to my block.

Then, the playground had new facilities added to the old, stained facilities, but the old ones still make me feel nostalgic of the lower years.

Suddenly I felt that how I perceive these stuff did not change much whether I was Year 2, 3, 4 or 6.

Year 1 and 2 were the frivolous years. I enjoyed without even thinking of consequences.

Year 3 was more controlled. A controlled frenzy (ironical) could describe it. Enough mix of fun and a little work.

Year 4 started all my troubles. Started to want to work really hard, but always slacked off. Being detached from the teck lim bunch also made me 'mature' more, since I did less childish stuff with them but those were the great times :P

Year 5...strong desire to do well, could even be a total ass and forgo many things even my friends. Started to feel that I was a total asshole (maybe the word should be 'realize')

Year 6. Probably still quite an ass but I hope I can change for the better.

Things never seem to change.

But all I know now is that, I am empowered.

Is this God working in my life?

I'm just very happy that this magical moment happened to me.

Suddenly recalled something from Dream High.

Sometimes, there can be short-lived bliss that lasts only for seconds, but it is still memorable enough for a life time.

Maybe not a lifetime, but this short-lived bliss is memorable enough for me.

Now, I'm gonna work hard and fight hard and hope for the best.

I must succeed in what I want to accomplish!

2012-01-07T00:03:00.002+08:00

Haven't been posting for a while.

Whenever I post (except this post), I tend to be emo.

So, if you dont see any updates, IT MEANS IM DOING ALL FINE AND HAPPY :)

Recently I kinda realised that my world wasn't what I thought it was.

Still can feel everyone looking down on me, but that doesn't matter for the moment.

I may be different but if people don't appreciate, I don't really care.

Anyway, just randomly posting coz I'm bored.

New year started off ok.

Gonna work hard and fly high :)

I'm gonna make 2012 a sucessful year :D

No more emoness. I'm gonna live life without regrets, working hard for what I want to achieve :)

Trip to Penang 2011

2011-12-01T22:16:00.001+08:00

Ended up in 3 segments: Happy, Sad, Angry.

Don’t really feel like posting, since I already skyped it off yesterday.

Touched down yesterday evening, and finally a nice whole day slacking off at home.

Left on a Sunday (20th Nov), where the Monday to Friday in that week was last week of school and the Saturday was spent going out, so little time at home.

Perhaps I’ll stop writing such long posts which waste a lot of my time. Thinking if I should add photos for the Nanao trip post (below).

Hmm…

2011-11-11T00:29:00.030+08:00

Now another long post.

This time would be the outbound trip for Nanao SEP.

I think I've been mentioning that Nanao SEP people are REALLY AWESOME.

I feel sad that the year 6s are going to leave us, especially when they are quite fun to hang around and quite good friends.

Ok, so let us start the recollection of the trip before I forget.

Memorable lines I used...

KONNICHIWA, WATASHI NO NAMAE WA 'HANA YORI DANGO' DESU.

KIREI KANKOKU ONANOKO GA SUKI.

List of awesome people (nicknames)

Myself! (Kstar, hana yori dango, iceberg)
Raynor
Wei Ren (Wei-pyon) [pyon means bunny in Jap. The deer came up with this, I still find no correlation in that)
Shane (Stone) [he's quite stone at times]
Bingjie (Bing-chan, ice cube, bear)
Roslyn (Punk girl)
Vivian (Deer)
Michelle [Vivian was calling onigiri or something like that, which was a rice ball. Nobody else bothered though]
Qiusi
Junyan

Day 1 - Monday night

Ok, so Monday night. 31/10/2011

Reaching the airport, I received a call from Ms Mariko asking where I was, and then I realized I was at the arrivals floor and not the departure floor of Terminal 2. LOL.

When I reached, I thought I was kind of late, but it turned out that there were people later than me.

So we just casually chatted and stuff like that.

And I remember that I set the record for heaviest luggage ever :D

Can remember the guys all trying to lift it and guess the weight.

"I think yours is probably like 17kg" - Roslyn Ang

I'm not sure who said but someone was right when he/she said that my luggage would definitely be above 20kg.

When my luggage (also called 'half the great wall of China') sat on the weighing scale, it went up till 22kg.

Though in normal circumstances it should only go to maximum 20kg, but due to the group package the airport kind of closed one eye for that. Whew.

Then being very kiasu, we kind of boarded very early.

Once in, we tried playing cards, but soon it became increasingly difficult considering that we had to be on the move once every while, and started filling all the Japanese customs cards.

Then we moved into the waiting to board area, and later onto the plane.

First time travelling on ANA :)

I remembered that I was urgent coz I drank all my water before the boarding gate, and soon rushed to the toilet (in the plane) after putting down my luggage.

My seat was between Raynor and Wei Ren, of which I talked to Wei Ren a little. He taught me some stuff, and we also joked around, and he tried to teach me some FPS skills but sadly I forgot all that he told me :P

I remember that he was kind of sick, having flu, and was quite uncomfortable during the takeoff. Sadly I couldnt really give much advice, but could only say some stuff that I hoped was encouraging.

Then we started to play with the entertainment device, where I watched Kung Fu Panda 2 while he watched Green Lantern. Then I went off to the Kpop section and realized that 2NE1's Ugly is actually quite a nice song. Also heard INFINITE's Be Mine, but the title was in Korean, nae ga ha ja.

Then tried to sleep with the Kpop running, but I realized that I couldnt sleep with music playing. So I unplugged the jack and left the headphones on like a sound muff to sleep.

Sleep was ok until one point I half-woke up and realized that both Raynor (on my right) and Wei Ren (on my left) were leaning their heads on my shoulders. But I didnt really care coz I was too tired.

Then the irritating part was the cabin lights which suddenly turned on in the middle of the flight for breakfast, and even after breakfast the cabin lights were still on! Grr, couldnt sleep.

Breakfast was good though. Of course, Raynor didnt want his spinach, so I had an extra helping of it. For fruits I took an extra serving of dragonfruit from Raynor even though I dont really like dragonfruit, as I was just hungry.

And lol I had to test the food and tell Raynor what it was before he would eat it. He seems to be kind of picky with regards to food. Oh well, hope he can adapt to food more quickly, we would all go NS soon.

Then trying to sleep with cabin lights on was quite hard. Even after I slept, when I woke up I didnt feel refreshed. I was like WTF when I realized they didnt turn off the cabin lights after so long.

Ok, but I wasnt that pissed off. Everyone was happy and so I saw no reason to be pissed too. Couldnt really sleep, so looked around trying to see funny sleeping positions. Saw Shane with his mouth big wide open, then saw Michelle covering her entire head with a blanket and sleeping on the foldable table. Lol.

When we touched down, Wei Ren was feeling quite sick, and just looking at him made me kind of sympathize with him, though I dont really know how it feels like.

Day 2 - Tuesday Morning in Tokyo/Haneda Internation Airport 01/11/2011 (火)

Then we took a bus to another terminal. Loved the cool wind that received us, and I could remember Vivian saying something about being cold, but I was feeling cool and enjoyed the weather. Haha I guess different weather appeals to different people.

The bus ride was kinda quiet, only our SEP was on the bus. I think I made some comment about the bus track being made into an F1 track, with its cool bendy curves and stuff like that.

Then we arrived, checked in, and me and Bing went to the shops to buy something to eat as well as change off big notes (for me) while the rest went to sleep.

So I used 2 10,000 yen notes to buy 2 different items from the same store by requeing again. Idk if the Japanese found it quite ass, but I needed to change some small change. :D

Had some fruit and veggie drink that was claimed to fufill your one day's required nutrients from fruits and vegs, and it tasted kind of horrible at first. But at the end of the trip, I was loving it <3

Then I went to buy some pork cutlet sandwich which tasted really really good. Felt a little sad giving a little of it to the hungry Shane, but oh well I'm a nice guy :)

Then went to wash up at the airport toilet. Brush teeth and wash face made me feel quite fresh.

Then Wei Ren borrowed my Jap notes to copy some useful phrases, while me, Bing, Vivian and Shane started playing cards. Playing hearts was fun for a while until I got really bored, so I helped Shane shoot the moon so that Vivian would die and we could play something else.

They turned to playing taiti which I owned for 1 round coz I had 3 2s. :P

Then they wanted to play bridge but soon got scrapped when we all started going to the toilet.

On the second flight, with the little sleep I had on the first flight, I fell asleep soon after I was on the seat. Didn't even feel the plane takeoff! When I awoke it was like 10 mins to touchdown. Saw the nice green fields scenery for a while, then soon it was touchdown.

The pilot was really quite skilled, from the window I could see how the plane kind of slowed and slowly approach the runway. Cool!

Then we got off and moved our luggage to Nanao High School's baseball team bus that became our excursion bus.

Had a hard time moving 'half the great wall of China'.

Then we went sightseeing and first was a Botanic Garden with a Planetarium.

We had lunch in a restaurant there, and I had a nice cheesy hamburger steak.

Then we were given half an hour to appreciate the flowers and stuff like that, but most of us went to the playground to hang around and kid around.

I kind of walked around and was surprised to find a stone in the middle of somewhere written in Chinese saying something like 'South Korea, Incheon came to Japanese Garden'. o.0

I remembered that Bing-chan had a nosebleed due to dry weather. Some others speculated it was the Japanese girls. Hmmmmmm.

Then was the planetarium, which was all about stars. So the curator tried to speak in English, though a little slow. At some points he couldn't and used Japanese, but luckily Raynor and Ms Mariko translated for us.

So it started off showing us the night sky from Japan's point of view, then SG's, and also started showing us stellar charts and how Polaris is fixed in the night sky while most other stars move.

The chairs were quite comfy, leaning back like you're on a bed, and the ceiling was the projector like the science center omnitheater that kind.

So I fell asleep soon, and at the end when I woke up I heard Raynor saying something like "But Hurberg slept too!"

It was refreshing though :D

Then we went to visit the Thousand Rice Fields, which looked quite nice. It was funny how Wei Ren didnt wear his jacket and was trying to use every object for cover against the strong chilly wind since the place was near the seaside.

Then we saw a shop with a lot of sea produce but it was kind of expensive so no one bought anything.

Somehow Ms Mariko talked to the lady shopkeeper and she said that she still goes into the sea to catch seaweed and other seafood stuff, though this tradition is dieing out. Reminds me of the Haenyeo (海女) of Korea's Jeju Island.

Then we finally went to the Satamiya Inn.

Huddling around the table with the warm under table heater was nice.

Then we were supposed to change to smart casual for a dinner with the principal, but we just put on jackets...nice cover.

So we went to this place called 'Fish & Chips' but we didnt have any fish & chips but instead had hamburger steak. LOL. There was pizza, sphagetti and salad for side dishes.

Shane and Wei Ren then went to PK each other in who could eat a pizza slice the fastest. Poor Wei Ren choked and had to drink a lot of water to get it down. So I guess Shane probably won.

After a nice dinner, the guys went to the bath in the inn and it was quite a nice place. Except that I couldnt really get used to the hot water bath. I put half my foot in and immediately pulled it out with like a "F***ing hot!" expression.

Was kind of uncomfortable being seen unclothed by anyone else, so I wore my underwear in on the first time. Raynor too. Consequent baths we kind of got used to each other liao. Lol.

So after a bath and some crapping we went off to the room, did some unpacking and played 99 for the night (minus Raynor).

Sleeping arragement was simple, Year 6 guys take one side and Ytear 5 guys take the other side. Raynor took the side with the TV, I took the side with the safe. We actually agreed well enough having strong reasons for wanting to choose that respective side. Good chemistry :D

99 was damn fun :) Learnt to play it only today.

At first was taiti, hearts, then 99 for the rest of the night.

Epic fail: BOARDING CALLED ME!

If I had free incoming, I wouldnt mind letting the seniors troll boarding. But I didnt have...not overseas at least.

Then we slept kind of late, but in the morning I still felt quite ok.

Day 3 - Wednesday in Nanao 02/11/2011 (水)

Breakfast at the inn.

Kind of not used to drinking cold drinks during breakfast time, but it was a nice experience just like when I was in Korea.

We had to go to school.

So I decided to hairspray, but couldt get the ideal hairstyle I wanted, so I just pushed my fringe up to look kind of formal as a last resort.

Mr. Fuji (rather not call him Sensei, since he always give me this impression that he's kind of Westernized and maybe coz I heard that he stayed in America for a short while) was waiting outside the inn to walk us there, but being kind of slow we kind of delayed him by 10 minutes. Of course we got told off by Ms Mariko but, oh well.

So we walked there, and the scenery was quite nice. The streets were clean and the morning wind was cool. Japanese streets just look very diffrerent, very serene and clean.

Their traffic lights were also quite cool, they are more pedestrain-orientated as the junction pedestrain crossing had fast response times and were timed nicely so you could cross the whole junction at one time. You dont have to cross one way (eg. the 'length') and then wait for another way (eg. the 'width') like in SG. Sweet!

Then we walked beside the train tracks, and came to this crossing where cars can pass over the train tracks. May be quite common in other countries, but was kind of new to me though.

Then we went to Nanao Koukou (high school), and the gate wasnt very large. And we were told that the brick wall was 100 years old. Didnt really expect that.

Changed from our sports shoes to court shoes as the school has a rule of using 'inside shoes' and 'outside shoes'. The students' 'inside shoes' are some kind of slippers, but Ms Mariko asked them for permission for us to use our court shoes.

Then we walked in, and man their school looks quite nice. Even the interior is nicer than our school. We went to this room which was apparently the English teachers' room. We unloaded our bags and discussed what to do for the assembly.

Then we went to their school assembly and omg it was really an eye opener. Everyone lined up military style, standing straight at attention, in very straight files, no noise at all (not even a single sound).

Then we walked to the right side of the hall, where the MC said some words and our school song was being played by their band, at a faster tempo which I thought should have been used in our school :P

Then was the Nanao school song, of which the lyrics were written and framed on the right side of the school hall.

Then we went on stage and the principal and vice principal made speeches, followed by Raynor's speech, then our school corporate video was shown (in English) and then we had self-introductions. I remembered that Raynor was the only one who didnt get an applause as he didnt say 'Thank you'. LOL.

Felt kind of cool to hold a mike and talk to a group of people about yourself :D

Then the MC invited us off the stage at to the left side of the hall, where I saw something framed and hung on the wall on the left side of the hall that I thought was probably the Nanao School values or something like that.

Then we walked out of the hall, and passing by we realized there were some photos of the inbound trip on a notice board alongside the corridor leading to the hall.

Went back to the room, where we received Chemistry notes for the lesson after that. It was the orbital stuff, and instead of using n=1 and n=2 and so on they used k, l, m, n. They learned stuff like the orbital rule of d4s2 becoming d5s1 and stuff like that.

All was in Japanese so I could only fill the orbital diagrams part.

Then we had lunch which was a really really nice bento which was like a mini-buffet. The prawns were not bad, but I wasnt allowed to eat due to my mild allergy to prawns. Didnt really mind it though, not like I'm a usual prawn fan or anything.

So there was someone else who had a seafood allergy too (the deer). I jokingly suggested playing scissors paper stone and loser eats a prawn. If I lost 5 times, I'm screwed. The reply was 'If I lost even once I'm screwed'. LOL.

Then we had our dance performance, which was announced once during the morning assembly, and another time like 5 minutes before our performance.

Changed out of formal and went out to the stage area where many of our inbound buddies were everywhere and we were kind of waving here and there.

Then we did our dance, which I think wasnt that good, since I kind of missed beats and stuff like that.

And I adopted Shane's suggestion and at the ending of the song I threw a blowkiss, though not very extravagant. But it did evoke some moderate level cheers.

At the end, somehow someone told Raynor to tell the school I was about to do a dance solo, which I had to, and I did Roly Poly but I screwed up the direction I was supposed to face, but luckily no one in the school knows about it :P

Then there was alot of applause and stuff like that, before everyone hurried off to lessons. The inbound buddies came and the girls started calling me 'kawaii' while my male buddy (Koki) realized my hair had hairspray and soon the girls were trying to touch it.

And with the sweat from the dance, my hairstyle kind of screwed up -_-

Then was Chemistry lesson with Hirano Sensei.

He was really funny, and we had our sitting positions decided by Amidakuji, some sort of Japanese lottery that used ladders. I was nice to have a nice guy beside me who tried translating a lot of the lesosn with the help of his dictionary.

Then Hirano Sensei was really funny, and a student demonstrated the octahedral structure by streching his two arms and jumping to show us the 3dimensional nature of it.

Then we did some experiment to make liquid crystals like the one in LCD screens, but the nice part of it was that we didnt have to weigh the compounds, everything was nicely packed for us already :)

And we also learned about rare metals, where Hirano Sensei asked where we can find it. He said a place in Asia, 'very rainy and hot temperature'. We guessed SG, but it turned out to be East Malaysia.

Then we went to some science class called Speak Science class. It was the lesson where we made a Rude Goldberg machine. Surprisingly the lesson was conducted in English, and from their expressions the Japanese were like "WTF is she saying?" in their minds. Complete reverse of what happened to us (except Raynor) during the chemistry lesson.

Our group didnt complete a 5-step Rude Goldberg Machine to push a tin can off the table in 45mins :(

Michelle's group made a creative model of
1. releasing marbles to fill a can
2.to activate a lever
3.to push pins up to
4. burst a balloon
5. cardboard box behind the balloon push the can off

Nice one. Raynor's group also completed, but I wasnt really paying attention then. :P

Ours was a backward step working approach. After many trials we changed our step 5s.

Step 5. A cart would slide down the ruler and knock the can off. (The cart was just a box containing pins that had two straws placed underneath like a sled).

Step 4. The ruler was horizontal at first, so the supporting beam had to be knocked off to slant the ruler and then the cart can slide down.

Step 3. A string was used to release the masking tape that would roll and knock off the supporting beam.

Step 2. The string was made into a knot can be realeased by tying to a chair or streching it and cutting it off.

Step 1 : Not enough time.

Then we went back, and even at like 4 there the sky was getting kind of dark, like 6+ in Singapore.

Before going back to inn, we stopped at a supermarket where I bought a strawberry flavoured Meltykiss as well as a 'gift bag' of snacks which I ate.

Had dinner, a relaxing bath of which I remembered I had a long talk with Wei Ren about a lot of stuff. The rest kind of pangseh us and I was 'late' as I was spending a long time in the toilet releasing my load, and the bidet function was quite cool.

So we just stayed around pouring water on ourselves with pails. The water from the hot bath was too hot for me, and so I mixed it with cold tap water. While for Wei Ren the water from the hot bath was a little to hot for him, while the hot tap water was too cold for him. So we started mixing water from the hot bath with cold tap water except to different amounts and spent a really long time just relaxing and talking stuff.

Then we went back to the room.

Then I asked for 2 pots of hot water, with some mugicha and ocha. The mugicha tasted quite similar to the 大麦茶 I drank in Korea. The tea was nice and soon I got addicted to the mugicha.

The girls came over for a while after that, and just chilled out. Somehow in the middle of somewhere Roslyn became my "mum". And Yesung my "dad". Strange enough!

Can't really remember if this was the night whereby 4 guys stayed up to 3.30am to talk about everthing under the sun while eating instant noodles, but I think it was. This was where we really interacted a lot, and heard Raynor sleeptalking.

A lot of guys stuff mentioned... ^_^

Then I was lazy and just slept at the Year 6 side, too tired to care about anything.

From here onwards, I was irritating Raynor a lot about Korean girls since he was saying that he hates 'obsessive Korean culture fans'. So in the end Shane told me that if I redefined my definitions to define 'girl' as Korean girls, and other females as 'non-Korean girls', I would save 200 words a day. Really worked :P

[Ok when I was writing this post on 11/11/2011, I stopped here at 1:54AM. Started at like 12AM there :O
Continued at 10:20pm on 12/11/2011 DD MM YY]

Day 4 - Thursday Trip to Kanazawa 03/11/2011 (木)

I don't remember mornings very well. Some mornings were good, fully refreshed, some were kind of crappy, with one morning I remembered Bing had to try to drag someone out of bed (was it? can't remember whether it was dream or reality).

Ok so this day I remember was kinda warm. Didn't even need a jacket.

Along the journey, the bus stopped to pick up some students from their homes. Lucky people. It was a school holiday so not everyone reported to school.

Koki was letting me listen to Bon Jovi's Its My Life, and I was surprised he actually knows a few English songs. Then he corrected errors in Ryan's Minna no Nihongo, and I taught him some Chinese while he taught me a Japanese pick up line. Nice exchange, eh?

Everyone else was sleeping...

And I remembered some funny part where Mineshi (Raynor's buddy) stopped to go to the toilet. Idk why there was laughter, but it was just in my memory somehow.

First we went to some castle/garden. I think it was Kanazawa castle, then there was some garden place.

Yama-chan was nice and bought me a stick with 3 dango-mochis on it (so it was Hana Yori Dango eating a dango-mochi combination) and tea set, of which the tea, strangely enough, felt like 中国茶 but being nice I decided not to mention that. Ok, not really 中国茶 but it tasted Chinese enough. If I didnt remember it tasted a little like 普洱茶.

But I was like half-glad that someone else actually wanted to try the tea, since I wasnt that enthu about the tea, and it could probably fit better with someone else as I'm not really a fan of drinking hot tea especially when the weather was kinda warm.

Then, we toured around the garden, and stopped by a sign that was kind of weird. It was written in Kanji, but I spotted a catch - it wrote 国 when the 繁体 should have been 國. Weird enough? Of course, the wood it was written on didnt seem very old either, so no way would I believe it was a traditional setting. But a good try coz wood always look the same, except they could have bothered to be more careful with the wordings!

[P.S Do Japanese use any 简体 in Kanji?]

And I remembered that Roslyn made a bet with me that if I talked to her buddy Kido, she would give me 100yen or even her Yesung card. Challenge accepted!

Later went to some souvenir shop where I bought cakes for my family. Yama-chan bought me some dango there too. Hana Yori Dango eating dango...the dango was really nice :D

Ok next was walking along Kanazawa street.

I kind of chose the wrong bunch to tag along with. I tagged with Raynor, Koki, Yama-chan, Mineshi, Kido and some other anime lovers.

We had lunch at some Italian restaurant which was quite expensive. Koki was nice enough to 'subsidize' for me and Raynor, our meal was like 1200 yen but he only asked us to pay him 1000 yen. What a great guy.

I talked a little to Kido on the way out of the Italian shop, and was surprised his English is actually quite good, I spoke once and he already understood, only he took a short pause before speaking English. I'm not sure whether he is not that used to speaking English, or not used to speaking :P

And he likes akb48 and SNSD. Wow.

Then they went to some anime shop where everyone except me and Yama-chan actually bothered. Yama-chan and I were like walking around aimlessly, I was trying to look at the music section hoping to find a familiar name, but not even BoA appeared.

Was helplessly sian and even contemplated telling the others that I'll walk off with Yama-chan...but somehow I think they finally realized or they finally finished buying their merchandise.

Met with Michelle's bunch in the store too, and I find it interesting how people can be interested in anime and manga MERCHANDISE.

Koki also asked me about Junyan's present, which linked to a long story back in inbound.

[Recap: During inbound, the last dinner at Changi Airport, Koki accidentally spilled Junyan's drink, so he asked me to pass $4 to her. Then later I realized that actually school was paying for the meal, and so since he already left Junyan had to accept the $4.]

And he still feels a little apologetic, so he thought of buying a small gift for her. This time, I kind of 'resolved' my part to play in blowing up the matter by telling Junyan in advance so she can pre-empt him. DONE. All because of my mistake at Changi Airport.

Now soon they left the anime shop, and we wandered aimlessly along the street in Kanazawa. They asked me what I wanted to look at, but I just replied 'just looking' as I was kinda unsure what I wanted.

Actually was hoping I could find some cool fashionable shoes like in Korea but sadly I didnt find any, but they brought me to some shop with all sporty shoes that didnt really fit my criteria.

Then we kind of wandered before going back to the bus. On the bus I collected my ¥100 from Roslyn. She refused to give me her laminated card of Yesung, which I actually wanted to try to style my hair after his (though my hair is like too short for any styling). Damn. Poor Raynor tried the challenge but got nothing except ¥1 which was later taken back by Roslyn due to his relentless talking. LOL OWNED.

Then we went to the Ninja temple. It had nothing to do with ninjas, but only the temple has a lot of traps which were super cool.

First was the Buddhist offering box. You step on it, you fall 2m down.

Then they had some neat traps. They were part of the altar, where most people in their right mind wouldnt venture to. Floor boards can be removed to reveal a flight of stairs from behind the altar, and near the altar also had removable stairs (more like a ladder-stair combination) that could go to the second floor and had nice hiding spot for this removable stairs.

Another was the double sliding doors. Let's call the door closer to you Door 1, the further Door 2. You pull open Door 1, you get to go to the backyard. You open Door 1 and Door 2 together, you get to go to a secret flight of stairs. So you can hide in the secret flight of stairs and leave Door 1 open to make your enemies think that you ran outside where actually you're still in the house/temple.

Another was the cool stairs that had sheets of paper somewhere and people hiding in a darkly lit room under the stairs and pierce your foot using spears.

There was also this room with many secret exits, supposedly for the samurais to use in fending off any attackers. One was in a wadrobe to quickly access the higher floors, another was a door that reveals an arched bridge that can quickly go the main hall where the altar was, while other doors go to different parts of the temple.

There was also this tea ceremony room that was said to have optical illusion to look smaller than it really is, but I didnt really feel that way.

And there is this well that is said to be 25m deep. You can jump in and there is a secret entrance supposedly leading towards Kanazawa Castle located 3m above water level. I wonder why 3m, perhaps to prevent the water from flooding your escape route on rainy days.

Then there was this hara kiri room with 4 tatami mats, and 4 also means death in Japanese, and it had a revolving door that cannot be opened from the inside but can be opened from the outside. Thought it would be of better use as a prison instead, but, oh well.

Then there was this stairs that are kinda steep and make you feel like leaping to get to the bottom of the stairs, but there are floorboards there that can be removed to make you fall down 1 storey + the height where you jumped off the stairs due to the dark lighting there. In(di)geneous.

Then after that we went out, and I remember the rest were taking very long at the charm shop, the place where they sell charms for good weather, etc. I wasn't interested at all, due to religious conflicts. Somebody tried pulling Koya's pants which had two large straps that were easy to pull. So I joined in the fun by ambushing him. Bwahaha.

Then we took the bus back, where we had a large '99' session, with the girls and the Japs. Raynor played and whenever he died, I initiated a large high-five with everyone else in the game, alive or not. In one round, me and Koya ganged up on Raynor by reversing 99s to him and he finally died.

Soon it got boring and then we kind of stopped. I gathered with Roslyn Shane and Wei Ren and just watched MVs like Super Junior.

Then we reached back late, and had dinner. During dinner we were asked to say something that we learnt, which ranged from 'life values' to chemistry stuff. Was about to say I learnt 'itadakimasu' so that we can start eating as I was like damn hungry.

We later went out to the convenience store where I bought 36 Doraemon corn sticks. Raynor bought even more like 60 or something, but for ¥9 there were kind of cheap, so I just bought a lot.

Surprisingly I can find JANG GEUN SUK pictures all over Japan, but no other Korean male stars. Epic weird.

Then we saw a magainze featuring KARA, and I was a little disappointed hearing how Koya liked KARA and the members werent as good as I thought they were. OH WELL.

Then I cant really remember what happened on Thursday night. Packing, and then sleeping early, like 12am or 1am there I guess.

Me and Raynor were joking about Yama-chan living in a boat, since he said that he could prepare a lot of seafood for me and lives near the sea. We also wondered if his 'boat' had a shelter, and whether the umbrella listed on the packing list was for that purpose.

Day 5 - Friday in Nanao High School and Homestay at Yama-chan's ~~Boat~~ House 04/11/2011 (金)

Now we had a lot of school activities.

The activities line up was school based stuff. First we were in some lecture theather having presentations, first Nanao High's and after a short break, NUS High, followed by Nanao High again.

There were funny presentations when one guy, the 'Ninja' who kept disappearing during the inbound trip said loudly 'JAPAN IS VERY SAFE! THERE ARE NO NINJAS OR SAMURAIS!' which was kind of funny. Another team (Koya and someone else) did an analysis on the angles that different bidet functions used, which was really super ROFL. They also taught everyone how to use the bidet.

Then we went off for lunch which the bento was kind of disappointing, considering that the first bento we had was awesome. It wasnt that bad, but only we had high expectations.

Bought a hot milk cocoa drink. I'm kind of slow to realise that vending machines actually dispense hot can drinks.

Then we went to the Noto Jufu shop to do some weaving. The weaving was kind of noisy, though quite fun and I was a slow learner and many times the old auntie (or obasan) had to correct me. But it was still quite fun overall.

Then we went upstairs to try some traditional Japanese costumes, where the girls (esp. Sachiyo) were daring me to try the woman's nightgown. I'm not that insane, and deflected it to poor Yama-chan who obviously declined.

Then there is this photo of me kissing some anime girl wallpaper. Asked for this photo as I was bored then.

Then later they went out and we saw a lot of students hanging on the spider web, though its quite small, much smaller than the one in Pasir Ris Park. Someone was shaking wildly while the rest were trying to hang on. Others were kicking a soccer ball around.

Then we went to a mountain that was called Goseki Peak. The road up was quite tiring and sweaty especially in blazer, but the view was nice and equipped with a bottle of tea it became kind of relaxing.

Took some photos, and made lame Japanese jokes.

Q: Name a hero of Japan.
A: I'll say Shima. Hero Shima (Hiroshima).

Then there were other lame stuff happening like daring each other to slide down the mountain and stuff like that. Sounds really fun until you reach the end.

Caught Raynor and this girl walking closely side by side, and I'm sure photos were taken of them. Looks kind of lovey dovey, but in fact they were just talking about anime and manga (what else do you think Raynor would talk about?)LOL.

Then there was still funny grass similar to lovegrass that had seeds that could stick on people's clothing. One guy (Kato?) was going around swiping it on people's clothings. The way to remove it is to swipe it the other way it was swiped, they said. Cool.

Raynor got some on his pants by some ninja moves, and so did Roslyn. Raynor was epic when he reached out his hand to try to pull the seeds off her skirt (and it was at the thigh area) until his hand suddenly retracted upon realizing she was a girl. That awkwardness was so funny, and it wanst that hard to imagine Raynor having pervetic thoughts either. No offense. :P

Then we sat on the bus back to the school. Had some tea ceremony, where I spilled some of the powder used to make the tea on my pants. -_-

Then the seiza position was difficult for the guys, after 3 mins I was like in agony at the numbing of my legs...

Then we finally went off, and off to homestay!

Me, Wei Ren and Shane met with our buddies Yama-chan, Miyata and Ueda to take the train. They go the same way.

Took a train ride that lasted half an hour but costed ¥480. The train wasnt that new either. Wei Ren alighted 2 stops before my buddy, while Shane's buddy allighted at the same stop as Yama-chan.

So on the train ride we rehearsed what to say to the host family.

'Konbanwa, yoroskiku onegaishimasu.' Thats all I recall, other than introducing my name, my true name and not Hana Yori Dango.

Yama-chan's grandfather came to pick us from the train station, and so I said those lines to him. Then it took like 10-15 minutes to reach his house, which had persimmon trees and some freaking large field.

So I repeated the lines to his family, went upstairs to unpack my bags, gave the gifts to his family. Bak kwa, merlion chocolates, some Singapore snacks including the choco wafers and some preserved fruits.

Then we had dinner which was kind of Chinese-style, had 烧鸡, potato salad and yong tao foo. Except that Japanese beans are a little more plain than Chinese beans. The food was too much and this time I couldnt really finish...while Yama-chan just finished everything in a very short time.

They asked me if Singaporeans used chopsticks and I tried to explain that only the Chinese tend to use chopsticks. Hard to explain the concept of 华侨 (Overseas Chinese) to them so I just said that my great-grandfather was from China. Hope they understood.

There was dango for dessert but I was too full to even try it :(

His cousins also came over, and after dinner I had a game of Reversi (they call it Othello) with Yama-chan, and next his cousin. Both lost to me :D

Then I checked out his toilet, which was kind of nice. The toilet seat had a nice cushion mat and was warm.

Then we went to play piano and he played Chopin's Waltz Op.64 No.2 in C# minor, the one that Jay chou played in the piano battle in 不能说的秘密. I played Younha's Maldo Andwae, with some hiccups here and there. Later he played some accompaniment while his mum and aunt sang, like a mini choir, which was quite good.

Then I had a shower, and tried Yama-chan's computer, which had 256MB RAM, 60GB hard disk, and a 1.4Ghz processor. No further explaination was really needed. I was lucky that google translate still managed to work...

But Japanese keyboard layout is kind of weird. Who will want to put your @ key as a seperate key, and your Shift + 2 becomes ' ?

So I emailed some people, like Koki and Natsumi (where Roslyn stayed). Logged onto facebook and spent 20 minutes just checking notifications...with a lot of lag time. His grandfather was watching baseball so I just watched while the com was lagging.

A message came from Takafumi/Mineshi/Raynor's buddy which wrote "So does Yamachan live in a boat?" to Yama-chan's handphone. I replied with "LOL NO" but no reply after that. Yama-chan didnt know what a boat was, so I wrote 船 for him on a notepad and he was like "OH!" *laughs*. No one else knew the boat joke except the Singaporean guys ;)

Tried to show him roly poly but it lagged badly, frame by frame. So I showed him the dance by doing a demo. His grandfather was out then, so it wasnt that awkward. Duh.

Later on TV was some Jpop time, which the songs werent as bad as I thought. So I realized maybe I was too quick to jump to conclusions upon hearing many terrible Jpop songs.

Then was washing up and sleeping. Yama-chan sleeps super fast and before I even really finished thinking about the day he was snoring. But in the midst of my thoughts I quickly fell asleep, probably at 12.30am.

Day 6 - Saturday Full day at Nanao High School + 2nd Day of Homestay 05/11/2011 (士)

Yama-chan turned on the lights at some early time in the morning. I was almost going to swear until I realized I was at homestay.

So we had breakfast which I couldnt remember what was the course. Ham and eggs I think. And I had some fruit juice that claimed to give you 1 day's worth of Vitamin C. Nice.

Sad Nanao High School students have school on Saturdays sometimes. Idk why either.

So his grandfather gave us a lift to the train station. Then we met Shane and Ueda. Later Wei Ren and Miyata came(as well as other people?).

Went to school.

[Pause here, it is now 13/11/2011 12:04AM. Probably going to continue this tomorrow
Continued at 10:22AM on 13/11/2011]

Went to the staff meeting room (our 'room').

Had physics class in the morning, and they were learning Dopura Ifekuto (thats what I heard, it just means Doppler Effect).

Was probably the lesson I could understand something when the lesson was in Japanese(excluding the 'lesson' where we made a Rude Goldberg machine which was in English). The teacher wrote a lot of kanji, which made it very understandable. Instead of seeing stuff like sound source, you just see 音源. And so on.

The 1 hour lesson quickly got bored as it isnt exactly 'new' stuff. I was trying not to snooze off...and finally the lesson ended. Then we headed back to the staff meeting room to change for aerobics.

Aerobics was kind of ok, though it got boring halfway. Some moves were quite similar to certain dance moves (incl. Roly Poly) and so I started doing them :P

I was struggling to follow the later moves which were more complex, but look around me and everyone else seemed to have a breeze except me and Raynor (who was the least interested).

Then after 1 hour of aerobics to random music including Bee Gees and instrumental of Utada Hikaru's First Love (at the ending part), we went to home econs class with the juniors. Making sushi!

And when we reached there, WOW our photos from aerobics are already pasted on some cardboard at the back of the class. With our introductory slides too. And Roslyn had her photo being dragged and enlarged to improper dimensions and LOL it was freaking funny looked like some 大头娃娃. Raynor's one was surprisingly quite ok, his smile was a lot better than the one at Sungei Buloh.

So I had some problem putting on the apron and bandana and kind of needed help. -_-

Unexpectedly, I was dumped with Vivian until I realized that we both have some kind of seafood allergy. Except that mine was only prawns (I think?), and to a less severe degree.

Then I messed up everything. While opening the sausages I accidentally almost broke one at the 1/3 mark. So I cut it into 1/3 while the other sausages were all sliced into halves. Someone called me a noob, but I said that it was being more thoughtful for those who have smaller mouths. ;)

Haha then later was a lot of other stuff that happened, of which I remembered was slicing vegetables, cutting seaweed, slicing tofu on your hand, which I was kind of nervous about. So I did it really really slow and carefully. Thanks to Vivian for the encouragement, but still very cautious about it.

For sushi we needed egg roll too, so the juniors went to beat the eggs and stuff like that. I was asked to crack an egg and they all laughed when I cracked it from the bottom. No problem what...I didn't make a mess and the egg still came out nicely... -_-

Then Vivian made egg rolls of which she was quite skillful. Remembered how Bing and Junyan's group made scrambled egg instead. Haha. On the second attempt I poured too much egg 'solution' but she still managed to save it. She's good, just that I'm better. *ego*

Later was lunch, and I tried this sushi with a lump of wasabi which killed me badly. Nobody dared me to but I just wanted to try something stupid. LOL.

Then Qiusi was making the juniors eat a lot of wasabi. What a bully and the guy's face was totally red as he tried to swallow the sushi.

The tofu soup was nice. Tried some bean paste along with sushi which was quite good. Some guy asked me about whether Singaporeans used chopsticks, so I just said that the Chinese used it. I'm not sure if they were thinking of China chinese, but couldnt be bothered to explain further. They will go to SG next year, so they should know...

Then after a really nice lunch, we went to visit the English Language Club. They did some 3 little pigs story, but with a twist that the wolf didnt die but went on to sue the pig for attempted murder. o.0

Their English was quite good compared to most of the school, except that I wasn't that used to the slang.

Then we went to the dance stage where we last performed and watched a band performance, and then choir. Natsumi was playing the clarinet in the band (never expected her to be a music sort of person).Their choir had only 5 guys but it was quite good, especially with Kido-kun as the powerhouse bass. Seems like he doesnt like talking but is enthu about singing.

Then we went to some science class where we made a decorated leaf.

First you scrape some stuff off the leaf in a basic solution, then you wash it in water, iron it, paint it, iron it again, then laminate it and woohoo.

At first I made a mix of colours which was quite nice but it dried off too fast so I changed to making a heart shape on the leaf. Would serve great use in future :P

Raynor talked to some little kid on our table, pointing to Yama-chan and saying "Etto...Yama-chan! Yama-Chan! Yama-Chan!" and a while later the mother and the kid moved to another table. LOL.

Then we went to the Karate Club, where we saw 2 rounds of sparring between a black belt and white belt. White belt was the ninja guy who kept getting lost and omg he was super fast and drawed with the blackbelt even though he didnt learn a lot of moves. *Applause*

Then the second round another whitebelt was more aggressive but less sucessful...

Then we just practised kicking against targets, where most of the girls except Vivian and Michelle didnt go but slacked.

Suddenly I heard a lot of random comments of me, like the Jap girls shouting 'KAWAII!' and the NUSHS girls making a heart shape and shouting 'SARANGHAE'. At first when I heard the second comment, I was hoping there was...a 'girl' but nope. There were none. :(

Then we went off by train to our buddy's home. Shane talking about playing Super Smash Bros with his buddy kind of made our buddies realize that we do actually play video games, and Yama-chan took out his PS2 later at night and we played Taiko drum.

When we reached back, we had dinner of hamburger steak (4th time I had it in Japan, 3rd time was at the inn). Surprised that the grandfather also eats Western food, compared to my grandparents who are quite loyal to Chinese cuisine. Later we had ice cream, where they bought Haagen Daaz Vanilla for me :)

We also discussed the plan for tomorrow (free & easy day) where we go to Aeon for shopping in the morning and then go to Karaoke in the afternoon with everyone else. His mother was nice enough and realizing I had many bags offered to bring it to Nanao High School for me so I wouldnt have to lug so many bags on the journey. :D

Then had a nice time in his toilet with the cushioned toilet seat, then went for a shower and this time Yama-chan borrowed his cousin's computer which was Core i7...no further explaination needed. It was even faster than my own laptop.

So we traded nice songs, where I spammed him with Korean songs and explaining to him about the groups by going to wikipedia and clicking on the 日本語 link at the side. DONE. Also showed him Yatta and the Jinnai school song thing.

He showed me quite a lot of nice Jpop songs. Ok, so this kind of made me less biased towards Jpop. Actually it made me have a new look at Jpop, and its nice to have a song filter.

Then was mass emailing everyone with this fast com. Vivian's buddy sent me something in Korean (romanized spelling) and so I went to google translate and spam her with the translation saying 'Nam Sang Mi is pretty'.

Another funny reply was from Kato who replied to my 'How is Bingjie' with 'Bingjie is dead.' So I replied 'Let's celebrate tomorrow!'.

Then me and Yama-chan went to play PS2, where we played the taiko drum game. Won him in accuracy in most games but he has longer streak combos and always won me. Except in one game where I thrashed him.

Then we went to wash-up and sleep. Before that, I gave him a gallery of Singapore notes, $2, $5 and $10 and told him it was for 'souvenir', which he didnt really get so I google translated it for him.

Day 7 - Sunday Amazing Race + Back to Satamiya Inn 06/11/2011 (日)

Morning I woke up tired, but not as tired as the previous morning where the lights just flash flooded my face.

Had a nice breakfast, and then thanked Yama-chan's family in English. He had to translate for me...then I gave his mother a Singapore keychain as a token of appreciation. Lesson learnt: split your gifts equally so you can surprise them with a gift each day, coz the host family will also do that. :)

Then we took some photos and then left.

Along the train journey people started popping in. Me, Shane, Yama-chan, Ueda met before boarding, and in the train already had some people hanging around, and later at further stops more familiar faces got on. Basically, most people except Raynor?

A lot of interesting events happened on the train :)

Shane and Wei Ren tried teaching me shuffling, which I vaguely remember now.

Then we reached a train station and took a shuttle bus.

The bus went to AEON SHOPPING CENTER. The Japs pronounce it as 'ION' though. It's very American style, large area of parking lots, the mall is wide but not high. Had 3 storeys but the 3rd floor was undergoing renovation.

Met with everyone first, before dispersing off slowly. First I went to buy some gifts, like a calendar for my family, a diary for Natalie's birthday present, a caligraphy pen for Teck Lim, a caligraphy mat for Szeto. (P.S I decided who would get what only at the end of the trip :P)

Then the guys played Taiko drum at the arcade, where Shane and Wei Ren were good at. I tried but got owned.

Then we went to another floor where we walked past a music shop and I actually thought of buying a mini metronome that I thought was ¥500. But checking again I realized it was ¥5000 and thanks to Wei Ren who reminded me it was $80 I did not buy it. WHEW. Then I bought picks, 1 metal pick for Ben, 1 bronze coloured pick for myself and at the counter saw 2 nice Japan picks and bought them for myself :D

Alot of time was spent in the arcade again. Me and Yama-chan played air hockey against 2 other people, and sadly we lost. Was close to winning but made slips and let them have a 3 point advantage. SIAN.

Bingjie and Raynor then went to play some racing game.

Wei Ren was trying to win a prize from those machine in which you lower some callipers and try to get the prize out. The prizes were placed horizontal on some vertical support. Me and Shane were just watching and Shane was actively giving advice.

Later we realized how 贱 it was, they would make sure the weight was at the back, so if you tried to knock it off it would just fall back into the tray. And the callipers opening force wasnt great enough to swivel it, so it would be quite hard to play. I think at least 1500 yen was spent there, with nothing returned. Sad.

But Miyata went to another machine and managed to get a box of candies out of it. :O

Then we went to some CD shop, which bored me Wei Ren and Shane. But the guys said we had to wait till 11.20, with no reason given. So I asked Yama-chan, and he said actually we can go if we wanted to. So he gathered Miyata and Ueda and we left the CD shop.

The CD shop had some Kpop but who bothers buying them anyway. The girls were crazy over Akb stuff, Roslyn was searching for her Jrock bands, and etc. To me it wasnt any interesting at all, considering other than the Kpop stuff nothing else was familiar, other than some Bieber album.

Then Wei Ren wanted some ornaments for his house, but he said 'interior decoration' and Yama-chan brought him to some interior decoration shop. LOL. Ueda and Miyata went to 'chope' seats at the food court.

Then we went to the food court, and it was crowded. We took the 'choped' seats and after ordering some ramen, the girls told us we only had 10 minutes to eat. Worse still, the food had not arrived.

Then we chionged to toilet before the meal, then chionged back and there the noodles were.

Challenge : Finish a bowl of ramen and 6-piece gyoza and run to the bus stop right outside the mall in 5 minutes.

Challenge accepted, challenge completed :D

Gave 2 gyozas away to the hungry Yama-chan, and left the soup there (the soup was actually quite nice, but didnt drink much of it).

So we completed the challenge. Yea! Rushed onto the bus, which was stalled a little for us by the other early people (everyone else except me, Wei Ren, Shane and our buddies).

The bus went back to the train station, then we took more stops to the Karaoke place. I could remember someone being quite pissed at someone else. And someone who banged INTO me. And many more interesting stuff happened :)

Some parents were there to give us a lift from the train station to the Karaoke place, while Raynor's bunch had to walk there. Miyako's mother came and sent me, Shane, Yama-chan, Ueda, Michelle and Miyako to the place.

Lame joke: What you think of Karaoke?
I think KARA quite ok leh.

[Paused here at 11:53 AM on 13/11/2011, for lunch.
Continued at 2:47PM on 13/11/2011 after lunch, a nap and a bath]

The karaoke costed ¥8000 for 2 hours, which was equivalent to $130. So I thought it would be a nice place, considering that many other people said that Japanese karaoke was fantastic and stuff like that.

On the contrary...the karaoke lounge was beside a bowling arena. The room was larger than normal Kbox rooms (duh, we had like 20 people in it), but the facilities were kind of terrible. The speaker system was poor, and to 点歌 you have to comb through a freaking thick book as thick as yellow pages to look for the song you like, then key in the number into the remote.

And the chairs were kind of cheap too.

Bing-chan sang a lot of jap songs that the japs knew but most of us were foreign to, probably the deer knew some, but I was just stoning. Raynor went off to play bowling with a few others.

They made me sing Bo Peep Bo Peep, Tonight, Gee. I realized that whether it was in katakana or hangul, I was lost. I can't read katakana (yet), and my hangul reading speed is very slow.

Then at some random point of time Yatta started playing so Bing-chan solo-ed while the others like me Wei Ren Shane Roslyn were shouting into the mike the parts that we knew (like the G-R-double E-N LEAVES and the chorus). That was one high moment.

Yama-chan was nice to buy me a carbonated drink. The other buddies did that too I guess.

Then we had Moves like Jagger, which actually a nice song.

Qiusi and Junyan sang some 張靚穎 song.

Then after a long round of Japanese songs came the English, which had Grenade by Bruno Mars of which finally Michelle sang something, then had Forget You (which the Japs probably wont know). Then it all ended. LALALALALALALALA.

So we paid like ¥440 for the thing of which I still owe Wei Ren (I think?).

Then we went out and I had a scare when I suddenly thought I lost my blazer as my bag felt light. But it all turned out to be nothing coz actually I just drank a lot of my water and LOL the weight obviously decreased. Close shave man.

Wei Ren actually panicked more than me and started helping me to ask around. Though embarassing, but, still, thanks a lot good friend... :D

Then Miyako's mother sent the same bunch back to the supermarket near Nanao High School. Everyone was sleeping on the journey while Michelle asked me about econs stuff and we just started some conversation about econs class stuff which drifted off to economic related stuff.

We went to the supermarket and being despo I just grabbed a lot of snacks. Yama-chan wanted to buy a plastic bag for me but I declined, and stuffed them into my bag.

Then we walked to Nanao High. On the journey I was telling Nishizaki about the word 'chink' on her sweater meaning Chinese. She kind of understood I think. Then she was suggesting to me random ideas like walking in the middle of some pair and flirting with the girl like a Korean drama. Perhaps Raynor is right, she is quite a troll.

Then I went with Yama-chan to his family car and collected my bags from his mum. His mum was nice and gave me an extra bag to put my shoe bag and also all the gifts into. That helped me a lot, especially during the trip back to Singapore.

Then was the 'farewell time', where Natsumi gave me a gift bag, and we were taking pictures. Took pictures with Natsumi, Sachiyo, and suddenly got dragged into a random bunch of people taking photos.

Then we went back to Satamiya Inn. Had a nice dinner and debrief and filled up feedback forms. Dinner had Japanese kimchi, which someone said was called kimuchi, but everyone else gave me their kimchi -_-

But the Japanese one is quite salty compared to the Korean one, and not as sour. So it wasnt that nice...

Feedback forms had a lot of of negative responses though, some ranging from 'they should also consider personality in the selection process' to Raynor 'personally do not like aerobics' as he gave aerobics a horrible rating. I generally enjoyed everything, so I gave nice comments. Regarding the bento, I gave a good rating, if they were referring to the 1st bento I would have given an awesome rating, but to the 2nd bento only a so-so rating.

Then for me, after dinner was spent in the toilet.

Heard a lot of noise and banging on the male toilet door, then heard Wei Ren shouting like "I'm sorry but your fangirls are too strong!" and stuff like that. Heard a lot of girly laughter and didnt really get what was happening.

Next point, would be, NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN TOILETS.

Then was a nice long bath spent with me, Wei Ren and Shane in the hot bath tub. Finally I managed to stay in hot water for such a long time :D

Raynor and Bingjie left earlier, and after realizing we took a long time, Bing-chan came over and started blabbering stuff but I just shut the door on him. LOL.

Then soon we took a quick rinse and went back to the room to pack. I accidentally dumped all my dirty clothes into my bag planned for food, so...oh well had to improvise and then put all my food into my big luggage.

So I had 1 check-in, 3 hand carries, 1 the dirty clothes bag, 1 small backpack and 1 hangbag like thingy that my host family gave me to store my shoe bag and gifts. Some food were stored there too.

Then the girls came over and we had some truth or truth session which later became more of a sharing session as people got tired. Some questions raised were obviouly pointing to specific matters.

Then we had a late night and it continued a little while longer within the 4 same guys until Shane started snoring, Bing-chan got pissed trying to sleep with the chatter so it all ended there. And I moved my futon over to the Year 6 side.

Then it was a tired night which seemed to pass too quickly.

Day 8 - Monday Wajima Morning Market + Travelling 07/11/2011 (月)

Woke up feeling kind of crappy from the lack of sleep.

[Take a short break from 3:39PM 13/11/2011 to 3:51PM]

So, we had a rushed breakfast and later left our bags at the inn while we went to school to quickly thank the principal. He was busy and had a senior management meeting at 7:45 so we had to catch him from about 7:30 to 7:45.

So being one of the latest (me and Wei Ren) we were one of the last few to leave. Others went ahead, and upon reaching the school we were lucky enough to meet him and say some words to him. He also told us 'the best souvenir is a safe journey home'. How true indeed.

Then we went back to the staff meeting room which was a little bit familiar to us already, and met the students there again. For the last time, I actually did some Roly Poly moves, mixed with some Super Junior. :D

Then we left on the same small bus which took us back to the inn. We carried our luggage onto the bus and then left to Wajima Morning Market with Hirano Sensei.

On the journey only I realized how little photos I took and tried to take a few. Would be missing the weather and scenery, would be missing the people (incl. fangirls), and perhaps the drink that gives you enough nutrients from fruits and vegs for 1 whole day (had 2 bottles of it in the entire day :D).

Searching my bag I realized I forgot to give the 5 Singapore keychains out. Intended for Hirano Sensei, Mr Fuji and Arakuni Sensei, Koki and Natsumi. So I asked Hirano Sensei to pass the gifts to them on my behalf. I was actually that forgetful...

So we passed by some island I think was Noto Island. Nice scenery, especially on the bridge.

Then I took a nap and soon after we reached Wajima Morning Market. Mrs Hirano was waiting for us as we alighted, and we greeted her.

First we went to a shop to make some 豆沙饼. They were strict with hygeine so we had to wear a mask, apron, bandana and disinfect our hands before going in.

Then we took 60g of dough and some flour and started making it into the shape with our hands, and later adding 60g of red bean paste and wrapping it, before dipping it into some yellow coloured rice and smacking it onto the 饼 so it could stick on.

Qiusi and Junyan helped me with most of the initial steps...I forgot to take the flour and LOL the dough all stuck onto my palms. -_- Was still in a sleepy daze then. Raynor didnt make as he needed the toilet.

Then the shop said they will bake our biscuits, so we went off to shop around. There was a lot of sea produce being sold, but I bought souvenirs, as well as some chopsticks. Actually wondered if I should buy some sea salt thingy for my family but Roslyn said that it was a waste of money. So I decided not to. It wasnt that cheap anyway, like $8 to $10 for a small packet perhaps 300g?

Then Hirano Sensei was nice and bought chopsticks for me Roslyn and Shane.

Then we went back to the shop to collect our biscuits which were hot from the oven. People who were cold pressed it against their faces for the warmth. Sounds despo, but I guess they probably needed it. There was a cold wind blowing.

Hirano Sensei also bought me a katekopta, the Doraemon 竹蜻蜓. I saw the price was ¥500 and felt kind of bad, it was $8 which was definitely not worth it, it was just wood. But oh well, cant decline right? So I just accepted it.

Then we went past some stall selling some sort of biscuit which was like a crispier and flattened out version of egg rolls you usually eat for Chinese New Year. Roslyn and Shane got a free bag of it when they bought some nicely packaged ones from him as he was closing stall. Nice guy.

Then Hirano Sensei also bought stuff like some hot pancake-bun and shared it with everyone. What a nice guy. He also bought the biscuits I mentioned in the paragraph above and shared with everyone.

Then Wei Ren and Shane bought Vietnamese style farmer straw hats with Japanese-looking Kanji on it. Wearing it on with the plastic bag made them look totally retarded but funny.

Another incident of Raynor getting owned (too many to list).

Raynor: "Hey punk girl, can I have of that ______ (some Japanese word that probably refers to the biscuit)?"

Roslyn : "No."

Me: "Hey Roslyn can I have one of those?"

Roslyn *passes bag over* : "Ok." *smiles*

Me *smiles back*: "Raynor got OWNED!"

Raynor: "Not fair..."

Then we went to a foot onsen. I seemed to be quite ok with the water temperature which shocked the guys a little. It was warm and nice, and I washed my hands with a seperate onsen water outside the onsen place. Warm and nice.

Then we dried our legs with towels provided by Hirano Sensei. What a nice guy!

Then we boarded the bus and went somewhere for lunch.

This place was kind of interesting. I got owned by trying to push and pull a sliding door which was the toilet door -_-

Then we had a choice of hot udon, cold udon, or soba for 'dessert'. Took hot udon, but later realized I should have tried eating soba dipped in hot tea.

The tea was 中国茶 though. The setting was really traditional, except for the hot water flask dispensing 中国茶.

So had a nice lunch, and famous quotes arose from this discussion. There were 3 tables, 1st table had Ms Mariko, Hirano Sensei, Raynor and Michelle, 2nd table was me, 饼贱, Qiusi, Junyan, 3rd table was Wei Ren Shane Roslyn Vivian.

1st table was conversing in Japanese, 2nd table in Chinese, 3rd table in English. Multicultural indeed.

金言玉语 arose from the 2nd table discussion, such as

连人都是饼贱的更何况是块鸡呢

Trading 4 pieces of chicken for 1 piece of chicken. Hmm ;)

Then we went to some place where the girls tried on the Kimonos. Guys went off to some Kiriko Museum which to me, was kind of boring. But it was next to the sea and the sea breeze and scenery was nice. Reminds me of a very serene environment.

Then later went back to the Kimono trying place and they explained a little on the different kimonos each girl was wearing. Wasnt that interested, so after seeing for a short while the guys went off to the massage chairs which had CD players and a nice motorcycle hemlet like thingy to shade the light off for a nice rest.

Shane was lucky to find a CD in his chair, but to me the 'relaxing music' wasnt that relaxing.

Took some pictures before robbing someone (not Raynor) of the chair (there were only 4 such chairs and 5 guys).

Then we went to Noto airport. Had a hard time passing luggage through the bus window this time. Ms Mariko told us not to let Hirano Sensei carry any bag, as he just recovered from some sickness. So to pre-empt him, we passed bags through the window while he was at the side, in smiles. Probably laughing at our despo-ness.

My 'half the great wall of China' lost weight, to 17kg. My dirty clothes bag was like 6kg. So both satisfy the requirements. Yay.

At the counter, they asked me to look at some notice and it said aerosols prohibited. So I tried to ask them if my hairspray was allowed. So I did charades, said Gat-su-by (Gatsby) and demo-ed the action to them while making the spray sound. (ssssssss) They looked a little amused, then asked if there was a cap on, to which I said yes and then everything was OK. Whew.

Then we went in and due to some rule of only max 2 handcarries, Roslyn was nice and helped me to carry the handbag like thingy through the customs. [After all, my "mum" right? Haha]

Raynor went on to mention some stuff like carrying my bag with the word "HChew" written on it sounds inappropriate sounds like she's carrying stuff for me and bla bla bla which in the end ended with a death glare from Roslyn. Owned, again.

Then we checked in and Raynor told Hirano Sensei that we would wave so much until he got bored of it (in japanese). He just smiled.

So we checked in and then went on the flight which was spent talking random stuff with Wei Ren and Roslyn. Mostly listening, until a while where I just snoozed off.

We reached Tokyo/Haneda Airport. We went for lunch while I lugged my 3 handcarries around. Finally went to some restaurant which wasnt that expensive.

Had some taupok and udon meal. The Japanese taupok is a lot nicer than the Singaporean one which I mostly dont eat. It was sweet and nice.

Raynor had only ¥300 remaining, so I exchanged my ¥ for SGD. He gave me 12SGD and ¥300 while I paid for his ¥1050 meal of some pork cutlet rice.

Dinner I was sitting beside Raynor and opposite Vivian and Bingjie and Ms Mariko, and the conversation from the other table with the rest kind of mentioned me a few times, but when I looked over everyone just smiled. Hmm. We also had a debrief and were told we were a group that didnt give her any problems compared to the other groups. Raynor mentioned "Oh cause Nelson was in the previous group?".

Then was free time, we all went to the top deck and enjoyed the night scenery and cool wind. First was taking photos and then camwhoring and photobombing.

Then people went off shopping, and me too. Bought a few souvenirs, and lent ¥100 to Raynor to call his Tokyo friend, but no reply so he returned it to me. Then I met him walking aimlessly and we just walked around a bit before going back to the open deck. I took more photos with my camera 'night mode' on and realized the large difference. Oh well. Then took some 自恋照 but my hair was quite screwed then so yea the results werent that good.

Then the plane ride back...was supposed to be sitting next to Qiusi but Shane and Qiusi swapped. We tried some language game thing where Level 1 and Level 2 had a crazy increase in difficulty. Tried Chinese but the romanization was so terrible that we couldnt understand much unless we listened to the audio given.

Asked for cards but the air stewardess said that cards are only for kids and they werent supposed to give...I was thinking like "WTF? How would kids know how to play poker cards? Its more like a game for mature people". But I tried talking nice and asking for another pack, which she relented. :) Charm, eh?

Then was very tired and tried sleeping...till the stupid cabin lights came on AGAIN for breakfast. Breakfast was quite nice, but I thought the flight to Tokyo breakfast was nicer. Then the same problem with strong cabin lights so it was hard to sleep. But still slept. Wooooo.

Day 9 - Tuesday morning at Changi International Airport 08/11/2011

If you realized I put the Japanese way of naming days from Day 2 - Day 8.

I didnt do it for Day 1 or 9. We're in SINGAPORE, so WHY WOULD WE NEED JAPANESE CALENDAR SYSTEM?

Then the moment I turned on my phone, was spammed by epic system lag and 3 messages from my dad, Benjamin and Glen. So I had a hard time getting through the customs gate with my 3 handcarries. But I finally went through.

We had a final debrief about passing photos and filling up the review form and then collected baggage.

Shane and Roslyn were nice enough to follow me to the wine and perfume shop to "look around".

THE TRIP OFFICIALLY ENDED HERE.

Then Raynor followed us as my dad said he wouldnt mind giving Raynor a lift to Kovan MRT.

Then we left the gate soon after, and my father came so we dropped Raynor off at Kovan before finally reaching home.

Talked a little to Raynor on the car.

Then went home, crazy unpacking, loaded everything on a table and then took photos, then later a bath.

Went to hostel after that, with Wei Ren's gift bag which was left in my handbag like thingy my host family gave me.

Went to canteen to pass it to him, and he pointed to his luggage beside him. LOL.

Then went up to hostel, did some cleaning up and unpacking the stuff I brought to hostel, then had a nice sleep till 2 in the afternoon and had some instant noodles.

To me, this was where the trip REALLY ENDED. Haha. When I got some rest.

Ok, now to upload photos...maybe I should post this whole blob of text first and upload photos at a later time. Took super long to write this entire post!!

[Finished writing the text on 5:23PM on 13/11/2011]

Crazy number of words, at least >12,700.

2011-10-29T01:15:00.003+08:00

Finally able to post after such a long time of inactivity :)

I wonder how little known this blog still is, and I guess I'm a little relieved so that only close friends would read what I write.

Though I guess no one actually bothers, since blogs are like so 'old' and without active publicity nobody would bother reading.

So now it can be said to be like a diary for me.

Life has been joyful and saddening at different intervals.

Let the story begin from before the exam periods.

Before the exam period, the very week before the exams I remember finishing homework and finally feeling so happy that no more homework need to be done.

During the exam period, suddenly felt that life became a lot more meaningful. Life was rather fun, when you have the right mood and attitude to life studying seems to become a lot more meaningful and enjoyable.

Had an emo thought on the night before Chem (which was one day before my birthday). It was like that - if I knew that I only had 2 more days to live, what would I do?

Then I felt really sad that I didnt do much that I could for all the poor people out there, being blessed in so many ways yet being very unappreciative and always wanting more materialistic wealth, yet is unwilling to share more than a few coins in my pocket with a poor person on the street.

That kept me thinking late into the night.

Then after Stats exam, with only BioChem paper for the next day, I suddenly became super slack. It was like the exams have just ended. Since it was my birthday, I went out to KFC at Clementi Mall with Ben, Zf, Jun Kiat.

Spent the afternoon a little slacking off, and then going to the music room to study as the room was just too hot.

And after a long night of studying, I was super tired and slept at 12+.

After the exams, of course I spent my first few days unproductively by doing nothing.

Strangely, I didnt feel much like playing games. I played a while then stopped and felt so sian.

Then the next few days were spent so-so, did some stuff like playing piano, listening to music while mostly slacking off doing nothing.

Then was all the exchange programme stuff. Presentations, dance rehearsals, meetings.

Actually regarding the Nanao SEP, my mood graph really changed a lot.

At the start of the SEP, from the first meeting I was kind of 'sian' as that time everyone was still rather new to me and we didn't really mix much.

Then the meeting before the inbound trip, suddenly Vivian became very enthusiastic about it and somehow we managed to bridge the Year 5s and Year 6s and they talked a lot of stuff with me just listening and nodding as I had a sore throat then (painful to talk).

Regaring that sore throat, it started a 2 month 'torture story' for me. Being robbed of my ability to sing was a terrible thing, listening to nice songs yet not being able to sing along. It was like one of the biggest insults and irony.

But thank God that I pulled through. In the start, I believed, but soon began to doubt and later even kind of thought that why God didnt want to help me. But thanks to a lot of encouraging people, I eventually continued believing and praying and thankfully, it got better and better and one morning when I woke up I was so surprised to find my voice back again and started singing and screaming :)

Back to the story of Nanao SEP.

Inbound trip was fun, got to know the seniors better. I never really knew any seniors before that, probably just a few PSLs who took care of my class when I was in Year 1, and the level of interaction is usually just a wave or smile.

So it was quite nice to know that they are actually quite a fun bunch of people. Before that, I never knew of their existence. Wei Ren said he was in basketball but due to my basketball attendance records I guess its normal why I was shocked that I didn't realize he was in basketball. He kind of broke the ice by starting to be humorous (as he always is) and started introducing Bingjie as Bing-chan which made me realize the existence of someone else.

And slowly, I got to know all the other people, by which some level of interaction was made. Realized the Year 6 batch is actually quite different from our batch. More outgoing I guess.

So that time was actually quite a nice time, where ironically, the Singaporeans kind of sticked together in the outings and not really following our buddies.

Then was a lot of Skyping, and led to long long long long long chats which was essentially nonsense, and some periods of Audition.

Now though, since exam period there, the chat has been kinda dead, and yea, until now.

But I dont know since when I started to not really like the SEP so much after all. It was just a sudden feeling, like suddenly I feel kind of unenthu for it.

Can't even determine why or how or when it started, it just kind of appeared out of the blue.

So I became a little less enthu for meetings and stuff like that, including sloppy presentations (my first draft was done all the way till 3 in the morning, so kind of pissed off and tired).

Dance practises were rather fun though, especially using the dance room which reminded me of the fun times of aerobics kickboxing. It was esentially not really kickboxing, more of martial arts dance moves to music that actually works well as cardio exercises, but it was still kind of cool to punch and kick and elbow and knee in rhythm to funny songs.

So then, Vivian taught Beginner by Akb48.

And of course, I was a beginner to dance and so easily settled for being the 2nd worst in dancing in the SEP :(

And speaking of dance, I think Roly Poly really kick started my yearning to learn hip hop (partially inspired by Zun Dian),

And now, after practising Roly Poly for so long, yet practising with mistakes and having to recorrect them and stuff like that, made me kind of sick of trying to learn how to dance that song.

It's like a song that is one of the best few songs you have ever heard becoming less of a joy and more of a burden.

And strangely I wanted to use that song as a platform for the 1st dance that I try to pick up myself, though largely unsucessful and most people who saw it either didnt know what I was doing, or was stunned at how stupid I looked.

Ah well, I hope I can get back into the mood of loving that song and then, learning to dance Roly Poly was so enjoyable and that time really had quite a lot of passion for it.

Maybe the deadline for learning the 1st half of it properly for Nanao SEP kind of rushed me and pressured me which made me kind of find the song a burden :(

Ah well.

Now hope to quickly perfect the moves as much as possible tomorrow and on Sunday, trying my best and not to let down the people who have trusted me and my ego.

Esentially, I can say that its all my fault for being extremely ego and even wanting to try something I have absolute no background nor confidence in.

And recently, a few hours ago I was reflecting on myself. Many times I had felt that me being ego and using it as a life motivation seemed to have gone too far. Sometimes ego can just result in extreme delusion and the worst fact is that you don't care about people who remind you that you are deluded.

And comparing my life to that of others', I realized how sad my life had been. Wasted 17 years of my life doing nothing. Playing computer games. Doing nothing. Not working hard in life.

Many times I compared myself to some inspirational people such as Jay Chou and BoA and I realized how much effort they actually put in, compared to me who slack off in every area of my life, with schoolwork finally receiving more attention, but maybe not as much as it should have deserved.

As a closer comparison, realized that the seniors actually have more of a 'life' then I do. They are quite academically motivated, yet have sufficient musical talents. I can only blame myself for being so blind to neglect the arts side of me.

Thinking about musical talents, with people around you having absolute pitch while your own pitch sense is virtually nonexistent kind of demoralizes me. And also, though I have a grade 8 certificate, but whats the point? I doubt my standard is even equivalent to that of most grade 8s, and though I like some classical pieces, I usually pass them off as being 'too difficult' and usually play pop songs.

Another issue is playing by ear. My ear skills are not that great and I take very long to figure the correct key of a song. Then I add very cliche and boring and simple chords that are mostly the tonic triad with a repeated tonic note to any melody I have.

Seeing nice accompaniment from Jay Chou pieces like 安静and 听妈妈的话 made me wonder why I cannot write such good accompaniments, and not even to say melody.

My goal to compose kind of flopped, with my compositions still being sucky. I kinda envy those who can compose so well, such as the composer of Younha's Can't Believe It and SeeYa's My Heart Is Touched.

Really, really great songs.

And yet I cannot even write something that doesnt damage the ears of the listener.

I feel like a total failure in the arts side, which I am trying to improve on.

And also, I realized I sang a lot less, and due to the 2-month thing my singing also deproved tremendously. Sigh.

My areas of focus are songwriting, singing, dancing (hip hop, pop kind) and musical talents (absolute pitch, playing by ear, etc.).

Hope I can accomplish them this holiday and make it meaningful, despite my busy ARP schedule which is basically a non-profit job from 9.30-4 or 5 from Monday to Friday.

And hope I can be less superficial and appreciate things from different points of view.

Hope the outbound Nanao SEP trip will be a great one. Great company of people, but however I'm a little unethu. I don't know why too :(

By the end of this holiday, must be better in dance :) people like TZY and the rolling without slipping team motivated me too! TZY is quite good sia.

Oh well, hope to be good at those moves...

And I'm posting this at 2'o clock, in the morning

2011-09-17T13:12:00.002+08:00

:)

In a happy mood now!

Thank God!

Received a really pleasant surprise. :D

2011-08-13T14:19:00.006+08:00

Hmm, I can say that my life kind of feels changed for the better.

Last night was a good time for me, just being able to apperciate serene music while doing math tutorial 3.

But somehow I just got into one of those worship moments and started spending a lot of time just singing. (Very happy)

In some sense, I can say that I felt intimacy with God.

:)

Today morning was good too, except that my body temperature was a bit hot and so it irritated me a little, but I could still say I'm happy :)

Played a bit of MW2, then had lunch and finished up the Math tutorial.

Now going to start on my revision worksheet.

Somehow, I gained an enthusiasm and drive in life.

And suddenly I got reminded of the CIP plan.

Hmm...I thought that joining some other CIP project that has a lack of helpers would also be quite good.

Anyone wanna join a CIP and try our best to commit? (Possibly after exams, and try to fit in certain slots in between ARP schedules for it)

Yay just feeling happy :)

Somehow, I miss the frivolous days of year 2. I'm still quite slack now, so I have to work harder... :)

And I realize that some hymns are actually quite nice, liek Amazing Grace (probably the most popular), How Great Thou Art, etc etc. :)

2011-08-06T23:05:00.003+08:00

What do you put your trust in?

I encountered this question in a Japanese profile sheet that we were supposed to fill up and give to our Nanao buddies.

Then I thought for a while and wrote down Karaoke.

Somehow, the word God just didnt come across to me, naturally.

And throughout my two-week fever and sore throat sickness period (which I have not fully recovered from, still have coughs), I was out of voice.

Even now, throat feels dry and 沙哑 and so on normal high notes also cannot produce any sound...

Somehow, I just feel that life has been a teacher somehow.

Where you put your pride in, where you will follow.

I do not know where I should put my pride in...

My grades aren't top, neither is my fitness, or musical skills.

But I had liked singing a lot, since it gives me quite a lot of motivation.

But somehow life had reminded me that even if I could be momentarily good, it will not last forever.

But what about God?

He lasts forever.

But I tend not to consider him my 'pride', since he is not something that I own.

But somehow I should learn that pride isnt something good.

Self-confidence is just another euphemism.

Just drank some Korean yujacha and still feel a bit 沙哑.

I really, really pray that after drinking honey (when I am less full)I can recover my singing voice...(Monday needs it, and so do all my hobbies!)

Somehow I feel a bit guilty, yet enlightened.

God...how do I get closer to him, and how do I change my bad ways?

Repentance has not worked for me; I haven't changed much.

Still sinning in many ways.

Sometimes, I wonder why am I like that...

Not willing to give up fifteen minutes even when I have a whole free day.

What is my true calling in life?

I don't know.

Will I answer the call?

I don't know.

I need courage. Strength. The fruits of the Spirit.

Sometimes it takes a true loser in life to find it.

When you are down and realize that nothing else is worth then you see the true riches that you had always had.

Will I take the step of faith?

2011-07-02T14:34:00.001+08:00

Yay F.I.R!

Their new album sounded quite good, better than the mainstream songs you hear on yes 933 in these few weeks...

:)

2 SCVs left, Math tutorial and assignment, then maybe do some reading of bio notes and I'm free :D

Oh wait, english group proposal...

2011-06-30T20:42:00.002+08:00

我似乎累死了。

开学不到几天，功课就接踵而至。

而新的课也还没复习。。。
实在缺乏动力和鼓励。

今天我遇到了好友们，聊得比起我平常说的话多了一些。

突然感觉每个人似乎什么也没变，只是我觉得自己变了。

自己似乎突然沉默了多几倍。

开始写这些post,我发觉自己用中文写post多数是比较沉默，认真，很少是开心的事。

我虽然不会对生活有什么厌倦，或emo,现在只是突然很困。

想要有很多时间赶完功课，现在却浪费时间写博客。

我想很多人应该还未知我已经开始在继续写博客，这样也好，让跟我不熟的人突然知道我的私事，总觉得有些不自在。

一边听歌，一边享受下雨后的感觉。。。超爽。

如果能够选择没有阳光或没有雨，你会选那个呢？

我宁可没有阳光，下雨时，总是凉爽，浪漫。。。

但我不喜欢晚上下雨，不然不能望着天空欣赏美景了。

我喜欢夜晚，这是灵感最强，世界的美丽，华丽，都出现了。

好温柔，好抒情。

夜晚对我而言是最让人能够深思，沉浸于自然的美的时候。

躺在扩阔的草原，望着天空星星月亮，让情绪自由发挥。。。

好享受，好幸福，没有烦恼，会到最单纯的时候。

希望能与好友们一起欣赏繁华的夜景。

夜晚，使我感到自由自在。

2011-06-25T21:33:00.004+08:00

Feeling really bored.

1 last SCV to do, not motivated for school at all.

Still in the holiday mood...

Or maybe because I just cut my hair...

My head feels kind of lighter somehow.

Today morning was quite good for me, waking up to nice music.

The moment you wake up is the most sensitive, most vulnerable moment of the day and response to music can be amplified compared to listening to it with a sober mind...

Somehow I listened to this nice song (my alarm)...

The feeling was kind of emo, a mixture of joy and sadness after some mental processing when I got reminded of some matters, though the initial feeling was kind of emo (due to the song).

Just like the way the song builds up the emoness in the verse, then gently peaks to overflow the sadness.

Very descriptive language here, but this song is really really really very nice.

Joy was because I started the day with nice music so felt happy, while a bit of sadness was when I remember the state I am in...the same problem as the first post after the long hiatus.

Somehow I am tempted to post this in Chinese, but somehow got quite lazy.

Somehow when I think of writing Chinese I always think of very philosophical verses, yet when I type everything turns to a very casual and common way of writing.

Also like another song...

Very 'explosive'. 充满爆发力! Quite emo too..desperate too.

Hmm and due to the last 2 karaoke sessions I remembered of a nice oldie, Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You.

Great timeless classic.

And somehow I'm like crazy over the dance in 罗志祥‘s 独一无二, it looks totally awesome and cool!

So many new albums to listen to...

1. 梁文音 - 情人X知己
2. 罗志祥 - 独一无二
3. F.I.R - 亚特兰提斯
4. 王心凌 - 黏黏

And still havent completely finished listening to F.I.R's previous album and not fully listened to 丁当's compilation album...

Music starved :(

2011-06-23T20:36:00.002+08:00

最怕空气突然安静。。。

今天不懂发生了什么事，突然乱唱起歌来。。。

早上到了Biopolis，等着我的‘导师’时，就阅读了《天界无限X》。

我已读了所有的《天界无限》书籍，《天界无限I》，《天界无限II》，《天界无限21》。。。

等了好久好久他都没来，所以就一口气读了6集。

感觉好爽，自少没有像以前只是用电话上网，看一些超无聊的网站，例如Stomp，或者就会上Youtube看MV.

今天到了那，做了一下子的工作，大约十二点左右就放了，刚好德林发简讯来突然问我要不要去宏茂桥吃午餐。

我就打电话给他，说我在Buona Vista, 他也‘刚巧’往这儿来，所以就叫我和诗敏一起吃午餐。

两人一看到我的长头发就感触良多，一个吃醋他没有长头发，另一个一直要我像那个吃醋的家伙一样剪短头发。

走了一点路，遇到了两个同学，打个招呼时，相反的，她们两对我的长头发又良好的感触：）

我们就决定到Ghim Moh小贩中心吃，到了那吃饱聊天到差不多三点。

聊了一大堆废话。。。

然后回到宏茂桥喝贡茶。。

然后搭巴士回家了。

回家后就玩C&C 3，吃晚餐，吃晚了就写博客。

明天不需要去Biopolis，万岁!

2011-06-22T20:10:00.003+08:00

Have not been posting for a very very long time.

A train of thoughts ran through my mind, and somehow I just wanted to write something.

有时候，我觉得很矛盾。这整个假期，到底对我有什么意义？

虽然每天有去Biopolis做ARP，回到家却什么也不做，只有玩电脑游戏，或看看电视，根本没有做任何有意义的事。

有时候Biopolis让我“放假”，我都是出去唱K歌，回到家已经蛮迟了，隔天就抱怨说时间不够。

本来已经做好了十二月份的打算看连续剧，弹弹钢琴和吉他，但我一听到十二月份还是要回到Biopolis,心中似乎沉重了十倍。

我似乎已经到自我催眠的地步了，一直提醒自己这是为了我的学业，而且十二月就可以好好放了假，轻松一下。

突然听到那闻消息，感觉好难过，有一点舍不得，不甘愿的样子。

我对自己失望的是每天回来几乎都没有什么动到我的乐器，自己已经下定决心要努力的练习，我却偷懒，只玩游戏，看电视，到头来什么事也做不成。

这番话我说了百多遍，连自己都有嘲笑自己的感觉。我下定决心时一直对自己太过自信，但一下这坚定的意志力就慢慢被时间冲淡，不再感受到当时的热情，当时的坚强。

我也发现我变得很倔强，老是不听任何的劝告或提醒。。。

真的觉得很矛盾，自己对浪费的时间念念不忘，却希望能有再多一个星期可以陪陪自己，有属于自己的时间，让自己好好过一下。

今天又和好友们唱K歌，这次的K歌却让我感到一些往事的情绪。

想到当年我首先听到周杰伦的歌，真是美妙极了。

如果没记错，就是晴天和半岛铁盒，那时我就有了个新的偶像，一个竟然能写出那么动听的音乐。

现在虽然在音乐方面可说是比较成熟，懂事，但对那些歌念念不忘。

我也记得我第一次听了七里香，更爱上了这些情歌，就开始听周杰伦所有的歌。

上中一，上学途中很闷，所以开始收听yes 933，也就从此听中文歌。

我对音乐一直都没有什么想法，就单纯喜欢听罢了。钢琴对我来说像是一堂额外的课，我只是以学生的态度面对着它，偶尔弹弹流行歌，但多数把练钢琴当作一种功课，一种负担。

中三中四那两年，也许是音乐课吧，让我感受到音乐除了弹钢琴或流行歌还有很多用处，那时我也慢慢改变我对音乐的看法，慢慢的发现，我的确离不开它。也是那时，我也很期望自己也能像周杰伦，等等创曲。

虽然我的白日梦一直存在，但我也没试一试，一向来都会说自己缺乏灵之类的借口。

到了去年，看了陈绮贞的演唱会后，我有了一股超激烈的冲动，想要好好磨练我的乐器，也要自学创曲。

但到今年来，我终于开始了，‘创作’，就是用Finale乱乱的click来click去，创出了我的‘三部曲’。司徒义伦就开始哈哈大笑，取笑我，而且不只他，而是全部听过这难听的歌都这么做。

自己也有点失望，决定再创其他曲，虽然比较好听一点，但也不是什么了不起的东西。

一直写了好几首，写了一点就开始另外一篇曲，全部都没什发展。

抱怨了这么久，慢慢的描写我现在的感受，就是如此的千变万化。

希望有好的主意，可以开始写新歌，或者继续我那些未完成的曲子。。。

好需要灵感，先写一些词，再添上音乐。。。

学期又不敢浪费时间这么做，假期又没时间，好为难。。。

我还是要承认，在我心目中最伟大的流行创作歌手有周杰伦和陈绮贞。希望将来也能像他们一样的利害。。。

音乐改变了我，给了我一个新的人生，在我人生里添了很多色彩.

2010-11-09T22:06:00.001+08:00

This show is in my possession now. Yay.

=)

2010-10-24T18:10:00.004+08:00

Long time since I last posted.

Today, passed by TS@Heartland Mall, and so went in to buy some shows!

Bought Beethoven Virus for $13 and Possessed for $9.90.

Total $23...

Still waiting to get some other nice shows!

Watched 爱就宅一起 from 1.30-3pm on Channel U today :D

Showing from 11.30pm-12.30am every Mon-Fri night, but can only watch it on Fri nights :(

I dont like the Saturday chinese version, which feels rather bland...

Need to chiong finish as many shows as possible, and still got other shows that I already have...

Will be busy... :)

Next time will try to find more shows with Nam Sang Mi :D

2010-10-01T20:25:00.002+08:00

Long time since I last posted here lol.

Sometimes, things happen too fast.

In a flash, and now I finally realised that I am going to 16 soon.

Things seem to have hardly changed, except that you have even more unrealistic dreams.

And I better be more mature for my age :D

But once again, I am thankful for all these.

Today, somehow as usual, me and Raynor's simple conversation turned into some about religion.

And once again he was right about one thing.

Can we really put God first in our lives?

To be honest, if any trouble really came to me, I think God would not be my most important thing, but I will most probably abandon him.

So now, I want to work hard, work towards to building a proper relationship with God.

One thing is the lack of faith I guess.

And another is to take things for granted.

When things go my way, I thank God, when they don't, I get disappointed with him...

But now I realise that these are blessings and he is not obliged to grant me whatever I demand, but he still does it out of goodwill and grace.

Moreever, compared to other people in the world that could be worse-off, we are rather lucky to have a safe country, families and friends, a roof over our heads, and so on.

What else can we ask for?

I'm lost.

Allow me to understand "Faith is not based on what you see."

The rain example really did give me a huge boost that time, but it seemed to have died off now.

I pray for a revelation, for new hope.

2010-09-08T23:25:00.002+08:00

Have not posted for a long time...

405 outing after Sports Day was fun.

Pool, bowling, arcade.

And Joelle's (mother's) apple crumble. :P (If you dont know then nvm)

Rawr.

Today went to Kbox with Jk and Melvin.

And GUESS WHAT.

Saw 郑各平 at AMK's hawker center (the one near broadway plaza) in a police uniform.

And watching the filming process is actually quite interesting...

And I didnt realise for phone calls they use lip-synching... -_-

And they took like 10mins to set up just for a 10s scene of Zheng Ge Ping buying food and walking away.

Cool.

Haha.

And idk why but I'm stuck with the tune of SNSD's Oh! ...

2010-08-27T22:06:00.003+08:00

The crazy week finally ended.

Math Test and Chinese Test werent satisfactory, especially Chinese Test where I thought the test was 1 hour when it was only 50mins and so I did slowly and in the end left with 2 minutes to answer 3 comprehension questions which in total is 5+5+2+2 = 14 marks.

So...

Math Assg
Chem Assg
Physics Test Revision.

I'll do the assignments tomorrow, revision on Tuesday...

Basketball training just now!

For the first time, I actually didn't feel that it was a complete waste of time.

It is still a waste of time, but not complete waste :P

Did some stupid drills then played match.

Teamed with Ivan, Shao Hao, Raynor and some other tall guy.

Halfway Raynor got swapped with some junior.

In the end I scored 2 "accidentally", while the rest is Ivan-Shao Hao combo.

Yea :D

Fun and felt damn warm after the match, which I had not had in a long time...

:D

Now hostel rooming sequences are like totally random.

Interesting :)

2010-08-23T20:01:00.001+08:00

Once the week is over...

more posts can come.

Crazy week!

2010-08-11T18:16:00.002+08:00

A lonely star right above in the gloomy black sky.

Looking up at the sky in Johor, that was what I saw.

Went to Malaysia on Monday, just did some visiting and a little shopping.

Hmm, but the night view at Lower Pierce Reservoir is amazing.

Went there on Sunday, after dinner at some prata place called Casurina Curry.

A few stars can be seen, a lonely body of water that seems threatening in the dark, and many other people there.

So just walked along it with my parents and my cousin, and spent a lot of time there talking random stuff.

Yay.

Saturday - slack day. Didn't do anything. Watched Power Sunday and 我猜.

Friday - School's NDP marching was rather inorganized, everyone was like not marching in sync except for UGs.

And Sourav with short pants is like... *blank*

Then the concert got more and more boring, until it was finally over then was class outing.

Sentosa!

2010-08-07T00:02:00.002+08:00

405 outing!

1st sucessful one.

List of the 14 legends :
Me
Joelle
Ben
Teck Lim
Jun Rui
Anzhi
Chen Wei (cameraman)
Yong Kiat
Minh
Gen
Esther
Vivian
Amanda
Sourav

So we went Vivo, and on the bus was also the 204 people.

Then at Vivo, there was like a "level outing", 3 Year 4 classes went out (including ours), and we even saw Mr Tan Rui Feng going out with 402.

Lucky them.

So we went to eat at Kopitiam, when me and Minh ate Double Teriyaki Hamburger from Pepper Lunch which costed $7.90.

Super good ^_^

Then we went to Giant to buy a lot of stuff, and soon set off to Sentosa!

Got off the train and walked to the beach.

Then put down stuff, and after a while took off shirt and plunged into the water!

Splash!

And we buried Jun Rui in the sand. :D

After a while of playing, me, Minh, Yong Kiat, Jun Rui, Teck Lim and Sourav swam to the opposite beach.

Then after people see us doing that, even the foreigners swam across...

Guess we are a tourist attraction :D

Then me, Yong Kiat and Sourav swam back to bring more supplies to the people on the other beach.

Halfway suddenly leg cramp, my left foot 3rd and 4th toe stuck together...as usual.

But can still tahan... :)

And Gen and Esther went to buy a bikini from the store nearby LOL and they just look so retarded.

Then they joined the people on the other side of the beach.

This time bringing the rations, Ben joined us, and bringing a bottle of water is not easy, so I stuffed it into my pants.

Then I forgot to warn the rest not to drink from it...but it was a bit too late. xD

Then we swam back, bathed, played ball and frisbee, then went to Vivo.

Sourav and Gen left early.

Then at Vivo Joelle left befpre dinner.

Dinner was Carl's Jr, and I spent $12.50 on Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger.

Still owe Yong Kiat $2.50.

Then after dinner Ben and Minh left.

The rest went to play Truth and Dare up there, and after like quite a long while then Vivian had to go so we all stopped.

So the rest went home, me and Teck Lim + Amanda went to play arcade (not my fault for tagging along xD).

Then played some picture spot the difference thing which was quite fun, and then air hockey!

Won Amanda xP

Lost to Teck Lim by a bit.

Analysing his moves he seems to use a lot of angles and stuff, so I should intercept rather than trying to wait for it...

Can try it next time.

Then we played street basketball and nooo we failed 2nd stage.

Then play the throw ball at the screen game and got through 3 challenges but then failed the last one. :(

Then went home.

NEL to Serangoon, then walk to bus interchange and 315 home.

The night view is really so nice...

The night view is just so captivating, beautiful and touching and gives you a sensation that you just want to let your tears fall...

2010-07-27T20:44:00.004+08:00

It all started with the 305 one-word story.

Then the one-phrase story, and then the one-sentence story, and finally the few lines story.

Then this all died after a few weeks of Year 3 Sem 1.

Then, last semester, due to boredom during Chinese class, me and Teck Lim started the 听写 story.

Here is goes.

Sub in some names yourself for some fun.

The original story...with minor edits

R 想要追求梦寐, 圣洁的 A, 大言不惭地炫耀他的肌肉, 说他们相得益彰. 同时, M 跑了进来, 铿锵地吹嘘 :＂这只是雕虫小技！看我的！＂M 使出跆拳道，让R 羡慕不已．突然，M 遭 D 的突袭. D 绷着脸，凝眸着M. M 羞涩地望着D. D 穿得像个霓虹灯，杀气渗透出来，渲染了整个茶竂酒肆．D 很挑剔，揣摩了一下子，才筛选了闭门造的车来驾驭．D 把 M 塞了进去，把他载到河边，收了M的税，然后在乖癖M的身上倒了一箱的蚤子，再推他进河里．谁知，M的窍门　立竿见影，他逆水行舟，飘上河流，完全不符合逻辑.

2010-07-26T21:22:00.001+08:00

Once again I'm thinking too much.

I actually managed to think of a plot for a drama LOL.

Boredom must be creeping on me.

Time to be a super mugger and do practises...hope this lasts.

I realise something...

Less Math in the subject, the better I do.

No wonder my Math is struggling the most...

Haiz.

Now nothing much to write about.

Must continue developing my "script for imaginary drama" LOL.

Thought of dunno how many already.

:D

2010-07-24T19:43:00.003+08:00

Homework :

-Physics Assg
-Chem Assg
-Maths Assg
-Chem Prelab
-Eng advocacy proposal

Half-done physics, and now almost finished chem.

Then maybe try to do Maths too, then finish the rest tomorrow.

A slacky weekend.

Talked to Hao Chun on msn for the first time.

Posting with my new laptop while watching 愛.

第五季and 白白的 by 张韶涵 are very nice =D

And once again, 匿名的朋友 is so emo and touching...

Ok now I think 愛 is making me really random.

~^_^~

Anyway, being in a city is too busy sometimes.

A random song came to mind.

回到原点 - 钟晓玉

走在繁华的城市里
错综复杂的关系偶尔会让你心窍鬼迷
谁能真正互诉真心
谁又不曾为了名利感情而着迷

倘若我们能回到最初的原点
或许这份感情就能永恒不变
倘若我们能回到最初的原点
或许彼此之间不会有句点

倘若我们能回到最初的原点
或许这份感情就能永恒不变
倘若我们能回到最初的原点
或许彼此之间不会有句点

或许彼此之间不会有期限

2010-07-22T19:24:00.002+08:00

Music test over!

Yay.

Due to one person from 407 who has not taken the test, cannot post details here.

The week passes fast.

Chem quiz tomorrow.

Homework list of the weekend

-Phyiscs Take Home Assg
-Chem Assg 2 (anticipated)
-Math Tutorials
-Chem DIY
-Phyiscs "In Class" Assg (Wed)
-听写 on Monday

Slack time. :D

Must try my best to be a super mugger like Joelle...do all the practises from textbook IF POSSIBLE.

Thinking of that makes me feel bored.

2010-07-18T18:39:00.002+08:00

Music education.

Haiz.

Music Assignment wasn't that bad, finally knew how to shortcut my way through, and one question thankfully Krystal pointed out the me in the notes have the direct answers...so it helped my one question a lot.

Studying for music test even worse.

Emilia Wong - pass the word: know the key persons and books they wrote, some important dates, definitions of key words, some facts on projects/proposals/intelligences, what are the 3 key words for philosophy, study all the acronyms....that's all. Even if you read through once (focused readng)...enough. No need to memorize

I seriously hope for an open-book surprise...

Done with chapter 1 only.

2 more chapters, and the rest of the handouts (13 of them, excluding 3 being photocopied from the textbook).

Haiz.

Still have not done :

- Economics Insight
- English Advocacy Proposal (confirm topic with Ms Cheng tmr)
- Math Tutorial back page
- Chinese 作文
- Revise for Physics "in-class assignment"
- Revise for Chem quiz

I'm screwed.

God help me.

2010-07-14T18:59:00.002+08:00

My Maths is dying and it's still Chapter 1.

Guess have to start doing tutorials...

天生我才必有用.

Guess it is time to get back on the busy track of school life.

Got a new laptop :D

Acer Timeline X 5820TG.

Core i5 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 1GB ATI graphics, 15.6" HD screen :D

$1500 there...

Hmm somehow I realised my Core i5 has only 2 cores, but I think it's good enough, no much use for 4 cores.

And somehow I feel like building my own desktop, but I dont want to waste the money or time, and I am not sure if I can even do it...

Perhaps in future can get Sourav to help to teach me how the build.

The experience will be super cool :D

2010-07-09T13:30:00.002+08:00

Bored.

:)

Listening to yes 933!

Just changed the blogskin again.

For older posts if they are still white...you have to highlight over them to read.

:D

2010-07-09T11:15:00.003+08:00

Slacking at home on a school holiday.

Many things to be done.

Read Music 11 handouts :S
Do Music Assg (related to the handouts)
Chem DIY
Chem Assg 1
Chinese 理解问答
Some Math stuff that I didnt complete in lesson as I was slacking off

Time to do work...

2010-07-04T19:56:00.003+08:00

Thursday 1st July

Happy birthday to Angela!

Ok, then nothing much happened on that day.

Friday

It's FRIDAY!

Then school was, a bit interesting.

Saturday

Woke up early to go for piano lesson.

Slacked the whole day at home.

Sunday(today)

Went church in morning.

Took taxi there since my bro used the car, and met an old taxi driver who told us of how casinos cheated him of over 40K.

Then had a sermon on where you built your self-esteem upon, which really applied to me somehow.

Then took bus back home, then took 73 again, then went to sumo to meet Teck Lim Jorgin Jun Kiat.

Zhi Sheng was late and later only Teck Lim went to fetch him.

Then went to watch 葉問:前傳 Ip Man the Legend is Born.

Not bad, except I would say the movie is like a chronology only depicting the key events that happened and not the whole part of his life.

Which is rather expected since they had like, only 100mins.

A lot of the fighting scenes were improved, they supposedly incoporated karate fighting and stuff like that, but however it didn't seem that well planned, coz too much bias on Wing Chun...

And also, the sword fighting part was rather cool.

Overall, for $10...still kinda worth it.

Perhaps $8 is better price.

Yea and then reached home, lie down on the sofa for a while, and surprisingly slept for like 2 hours there.

Then bath and came to computer.

And took such a long time to realise, Germany won against Argentina.

Yea :D

2010-06-29T20:50:00.006+08:00

School finally came again.

Now our timetable is more slack, more free periods, but seems like the workload is going to be around the same...

Ending times are 6.30, 3, 3, 3, 6.30 from Mon-Fri.

Yea.

We finally had 1-hour lunches and free periods as the days before :D

And recently on Facebook, me and Zundian had a PK 赛!

Coz he was talking how good Angela 张韶涵 was, then I started arguing with him how much better Stella Chung was, then he decided to have a PK 赛.

PK 赛 - 第一轮

Stella Chung 钟晓玉 : 11

Voters : Myself, Dayna, Vivian, Jia Yi, Sourav, Jorgin, Kai Jie, Zuo Wei, Zhan Feng, Jun Kiat, Cheryl Yeow
Guys : 7
Girls : 4

Angela Zhang 张韶涵 : 2
ZunDian, Su Chang
Guys : 1
Girls : 1

Stella Chung 钟晓玉 WIN.

(No reference to the Stella and Angela in NUSH)

PK 赛 - 第二轮

Stella 钟晓玉 : 5
Voters : Zhan Feng, Li ZuoWei, Jolene Chan, Jonathan Ang, Vivian Lau

Nam Sang Mi 남상미 : 2
Voters : Myself, Ischelle

Angela 张韶涵 : 1
Voters : ZunDian

Stella 钟晓玉 WIN, and once again Angela 张韶涵 LOST.

Knew people would vote for Stella Chung, so I voted for Nam Sang Mi :P

Just wanted to make Angela 张韶涵 lose and disappoint ZunDian. xD

Tomorrow's Wednesday is a bit sian day...we get 1/2 hour lunch =(

But a good thing is that it is the only day we have 1/2 hour lunch =P

Time to play more basketball...need to grow taller and be more fit. =D

2010-06-25T22:57:00.005+08:00

Yesterday was the 24th of June, and a rather special day!

Let's see what events fell on that day...

- KBox with RYAN AND MELVIN (That's what made it special!) and the imaginary Notesandmorenotes

- 叶问 : 前传 Ip Man : The Legend is Born release date (Who want go watch?)

- Swensen's treat :D (never had it in a while)

- Dayna's birthday (Someone should really find it a really special day, eh? )

- Donovan Chan's birthday (P4-6 friend, quite close to him last time)

Ok why Ryan and Melvin.

First was a girl called Charlene who smsed everyone to go to Kbox, and told us who and who was going, and it took 1 girl not to go, then a chain reaction started and because of "herd mentality"(the term proudly defined by our dear Prof. Spencer Ng), it left 3 guys to battle the war against the karaoke set.

So we arranged to meet at 12.30 at 313@Somerset.

And I was late (if I was early many jaws will drop), and so were the 2 of them.

We were supposed meet at main entrace of 313, and there Melvin was stoning at the underpass to 313.

He thought that was a main entrace... -_-

Ryan had more brains and went to the VERY MAIN ENTRANCE at level 1. *clap*

Then we discussed where to have lunch, while me and Melvin forced Ryan not to eat Mcdonalds.

In the end still ate it... :(

And NO I DIDN'T GET MY PURPLE GLASS.

(As of now, today, just ordered McDelivery, and supposedly coming with the purple glass :D)

Then we strolled to Kbox@Cineleisure.

The 1st room had problem, one of the microphone wasn't working, they swapped another one which didnt worked, swap again and still didnt work, then they changed a room for us.

Yay.

Then we started singing.

Only 3 hours, 2-5, but in the end we left at 5.15 lol.

Sang a lot of random songs (I sang most xD)

And a lot of oldies all 3 of us knew :D

And fun to see Melvin snatching the mike away from me whenever there are songs I dont know...he knows that my vocal enhancements are too awesome and distracting ;)

Then me and Ryan sang duets, but we both sang guy and girl part each (so is 2 people solo-ing a song together), and my dry throat made me miss some high points, but made it up in other high points :D

Then when leaving, we saw a poster of Fahrenheit.

Then we were randomly talking stuff.

Me (point to poster) : That's 汪东城(Jiro Wang).

Melvin : HUH? 黄澄城?!

Ryan : WHAT?! Spencer?!

Us 3 : LOL

Then went to TimeZone to play Arcade.

Time Crisis 4...I lost 2 lives almost consecutively due to being rusty. But my last life lasted really long...heh.

Then Melvin lost 2 lives due to RYAN'S SUPER SHOOTING SKILLS that SHOT MELVIN.

Sad guy, each credit has 3 lives, and each credit costs $1.40.

And Melvin still didnt realize that LOL.

Then played Initial D, where Ryan won Melvin.

Which was surprisingly, coz Melvin was leading, and used tactics like blocking Ryan's car.

And they play some mountain that was so damn straight with little curves, and Melvin's Impreza lost to Ryan's AE86. -_-

I played alone coz alone can play 2 games :P

Then played Akagi and Akina, but the controls really differed from PS2, got owned there... :(

Then we played air hockey, and I 6-2 Melvin.

Btw, Melvin didnt score anything, but I own goaled twice.

Once I swipe, then I miss and when the slider moved backward with my hand it hit the chip into the goal.

Another one I hit sideways and wanted it to just go haywire, it went into my own goal...-_-

The rest I just played so violently and it was so loud that people actually looked over...heh.

$1.80 per game, $0.90 each which was rather expensive, yet fun, for me at least.

Then me and Ryan played street basketball, $1.40 per game. We didnt make it pass stage 2 :( as expected LOL.

Then we went to Koufu for dinner.

Shared 牛肉汤 with Ryan, $2.50 each.

The beef was a slightly more delicious version of chewing gum.

Ok by watching 食客 and learning how they comment I choose not to comment...sounds so weird about me commenting on food.

The soup wasn't fully filled with the taste of the beef, but still quite good for the price.

Since it was Koufu and not the Korean Imperial Restaurant featured in 食客 :P

Then Melvin left at like 6.30 for his TKD lesson.

Then me and Ryan went to Swensen's@Ion Orchard :D

I got a voucher, buy 1 sundae, free 1 sundae.

So Ryan ordered Sticky Chewy Chocolate and I ordered Frosty Chocolate Malt.

Yay and being evil I took Ryan's Sticky Chewy Chocolate for myself and gave him my not-as-nice Frosty Chocolate Malt.

But we still share around.

Then we 物尽其用 the water jug found at Swensen's, and after 2 water jugs emptied, we found 2 full waterbottles ;)

And how much did it cost us?

Let's see...(had the voucher/coupon)

Supposedly $8.50, but 10% Service charge and 7% GST costed an additional $1.50.

But still...had to spend the voucher/coupon away as it was expiring soon.

Haha.

Then went home, and LAN CS at night.

And stupid Ryan kept lagging, when he told me to do a pingtest and my pingtest was perfectly fine.

Well.

A video of Melvin and a recording of Melvin is in my phone, approach me to listen/watch them (diff songs).

School is starting =(

Who want go watch 叶问 : 前传, Ip Man : The Legend is Born? :D

AND MY MCDONALDS PURPLE GLASS JUST CAME. WOOHOO.

=D

2010-06-21T22:14:00.003+08:00

Yay.

Yesterday (Sunday), went to some Rendezvous Hotel near Cathay for some lunch buffet thing.

And the service charge + GST alone alr cost $25. -_-

Then after eating finish went shopping around Orchard...spent like close to 3 hours in Plaza Sing.

Then just walked down Orchard Road stopping at each shopping center for a while, finally reaching Orchard MRT and then went home.

Yay now for my drama collection. (Recent additions)

On Saturday, bought 食客 (Sik Gaek/Gourmet/The Grand Chef), a Korean drama on Korean cuisine and their cooking skills.

I'm also watching it from 11.30-12.30 at night on Channel U :D.

The one I bought has the cover rather similar to the display shown above, except that one the 4 characters are looking forward, and the center guy is smiling with his teeth shown.

On Sunday, bought 换换爱 the VCD for $5 only. THE FULL SET.

Image quality is so-so, like those of youtube videos, but better than buying the DVD which one set costs $20.

Then bought Meteor Garden Part 2 DVD for $8, since we already have Meteor Garden Part 1 according to my mother.

Still trying to look for 爱就宅一起, watched a small part of it somewhere and want to watch (next holidays).

And when looking through some DVD/VCD shops, I saw an old drama of Rainie Yang, called 恶魔在身边, and the cover picture of her is really, very very, China-looking.

And that picture looks so...unlike her...compare to the one in 爱就宅一起 and you can see a lot of difference...

Well but still didn't buy that one.

Not like I really care, because I didn't bother to read the sypnosis.

And now a bit in the drama mood, dramas I completed during this holiday...only got one.

不良笑花.

Old show, but I discovered the DVD hanging in my house and since I didn't watch it before, I went to watch it.

Yea once again it's Rainie, and I wondered how it ended up in my house, but I came across a price tag that prints "$8" and so I guess it was at a sales section and my mother just bought it.

Well it's not very funny compared to the 1st 4 episodes of 海派甜心, but still ok.

Rainie's bimbo and act cute voice and attitude gets a bit irritating as time passes...

And yea the show had a few "touching" moments but sadly I only felt the "sadness" when he met with his mother again, that part rather touching sia.

Then the love part is all rather...amusing but just not touching haha.

Still miss 海派甜心 which can make you tear from comedy and emo scenes. :D

School's starting =(

Must rush to watch 食客 and do Chinese.

Korean and Taiwan dramas FTW!

Oh wait, Mediacorp's been taking leave for a moment on my to-do list.

And I doubt it's going to come back anytime soon. :S

2010-06-21T14:01:00.003+08:00

Nice songs.

Really like Here I am to Worship, somehow it makes you feel convicted...

2010-06-11T22:48:00.003+08:00

Yay.

Came back from street sales.

Got a free T-shirt.

It's PINK.

The only people I can remember who have a liking for PINK are Dayna, Yong Kiat, Zun Dian.

Ah street sales started of well.

I was 5 mins late (as usual).

Then Raynor was like "I'll be 10 mins later than you", while he was actually 30 minutes late.

So we started to sell after changing (after Raynor finally came).

So I went with Joelle, Ben went with Raynor, and the Year 5s just camp near the banner.

Joelle asked so many times and got rejected many times too :P

At first I just carried the tray, and just stone and let Joelle get the "customers".

But somehow I started to talk to more people, and they started buying the cookies =D

Then as we were strolling we saw 3个大小姐, Cherie, Christine, Shi Hui.

And they wouldn't help the poor physiotherapy patients while they were shopping =(

And many other "competitors", most from Youth for Causes...another was for some single-parent families.

And finally at the de-brief session at like 5 (everything was sold out thanks to us =D), the 3个大小姐 happened to be there too.

And got "rewarded" by some snacks.

I think the shirt was a better reward =D

Then went to Mcdonalds to play Monopoly Deal, then at like 6.45 Joelle and Raynor left so me and Ben went to Food Republic for dinner.

After that went home, yay :D

And I'm super outdated but yea I like "Love Story", both the one by Taylor Swift and Andy Williams (oldie).

The story of Andy William's one like a "sequel" to Taylor Swift's one, but in terms of date released it is considered a "prequel"... :P

2010-06-08T22:02:00.002+08:00

This post is "inspired" by one of the posts on ZF's blog.

Regarding someone talking about Mercy Relief and his comtempt for it.

(http://zf1994.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview.html)

I'm not going to Copy-Paste the stuff here though.

But this reminded me of a sermon some time ago.

It uses the song "Where is the love" by Black Eyed Peas as a part of the sermon.

It's rather catchy yea, but you gotta look deep into the lyrics.

People killing people dying
Children hurting you hear them crying
Would you practise what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?

Father father father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?

Matthew 25 :

Verse 40 - The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

Verse 45 - He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

Verse 46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Regarding that "random guy" on ZF's post (I know who it is), I think he had better rethink.

Every life is precious, for we were all made in the image of God, and God breathed life into us.

And if God has blessed us so much, shouldn't we go out and be a blessing to those who are not as equally blessed?

Sometimes it is just really amazing how some people lack COMPASSION.

2010-06-07T14:00:00.001+08:00

Super pro 中国妹.

Yuja Wang, 王羽佳 playing Flight of the Bumblebee.

2010-06-05T22:24:00.004+08:00

Friday

Woke up early, but as usual my time management was so good that I had to end up rushing, but in the end was only late by 5mins (surprised, eh?) there. =)

So reached Toa Payoh MRT at 10 05 for HEARTeens Street Sales.

Raynor brought his sis along.

So me, Joelle, Raynor & sis went out to sell.

At first Raynor's sis tagged with him so I went with Joelle.

Later we swapped when Raynor left his sis in Joelle's care.

Then later we met again during lunch.

Then this time most of the stuff are sold already, and that time Angela just came and had lunch, then we all went to do HDB sales.

Then completed :D

Played Monopoly Deal.

Raynor's egoism and statements of love were, really funny xD

For the sake of Angela, shall not post them here... xD

Saturday (Today)

Woke up late.

Read a bit of bio while playing Advance Wars.

Some DS game which I used an emulator to play because I saw Teck Lim playing it on the bus some time ago.

Then later at 3.40 there went to bath, and prepared to leave home soon.

At 4.10, felt hungry so went to eat instant noodles...ended up leaving home at 4.30.

Then I walked down a few steps, then my mother call me back and say "Cannot wear slippers to church, etc etc" so I came back and wore my track shoes, and ended up leaving at 4.40.

Luckily God helped me when 854 came quickly.

Ben was smart enough to tell me HALF AN HOUR EARLY, and in the end I was 25mins late, so we were still 5 mins early :D

And LOL Natalie brought TAN ZHI YANG to CHURCH.

I repeat, NATALIE BROUGHT TAN ZHI YANG TO CHURCH.

I remembered TZY saying he was an Atheist, but this time I'm not sure if he came because of God or because of...you know, eh?

Basically all the songs they played during worship I all didn't know. =(

But they had random games, like one of them being shaving a balloon, they dump shaving cream on the balloon and must shave it and prevent it from bursting...

Another was an "mini obstacle course" which first made you run on 8 chairs, stuff 8 marshmellows into your mouth, make weird noise into the mike held out to you, then run one round, then jump through a hula hoop like those dolphin performances.

And the winner is the one with the least time, it was 30.3 secs I think.

And there was a dance competition between the different regions, and there are some who danced Indian dance...rather good actually and they won 1st prize.

And they had a sermon about building a foundation on God.

And for the altar call, luckily the people there were nice, a random guy asked me if I needed him to follow me up...quite friendly.

The other time at my church I didn't go forward...but this time there were other people and a bit of encouragement so I finally had to courage to go up.

As Ben said, stepping up is an act of faith... =)

Yea and so later had dinner with Ben at NorthPoint.

They had some Japanese Food Court.

Paid $6.50 for some Pork Belly Japanese Omelette-Noodle thingy (I gave it that name xD), $1 more for extra noodle.

Then had a nice Starbucks Java Chip (Venti)... =) and I GOT 2 SHINY $1 COINS AS CHANGE!

But one of them, I donated to a guy playing the guitar...as Ben said, something worth to you only has meaning when you donate...

A phrase, based on a part in the Bible that says something that material wealth can only be feast for our eyes, COINED by me :

"If a shiny one dollar coin has shined its light for you, go forth and give it to another who needs it, so that two may enjoy the light of the coin."

And another phrase I remembered of (I think I created it too xD) : "Tears wipe your eyes to clear your vision and to see the world in a whole new light."

Yea. =D

And the lyrics of some nice songs that we discussed during dinner.

Everlasting God

You are the everlasting God,
the everlasting God,
You do not faint,
You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak,
You comfort those in need,
You lift us up on wings, like eagles...

Here I am to Worship

Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes let me see
Beauty that made this heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You

Here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You’re my God

You’re altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

And other nice songs previously mentioned :

Make a difference by City Harvest Church

http://www.freewebs.com/mediccg/aboutus.htm

Servants of the Gospel

Enjoy!

Recently, started to listen more to "Classical Music".

In fact, is Romantic era music, Chopin.

Love the Nocturnes, Op.9 No.2 and Op.27 No.2.

And also some Etudes, Op.25 No.12 "Ocean" is nice. =)

2010-06-03T23:08:00.002+08:00

Street sales for HearTeens today.

Planned to leave house at 8.45, counted time to reach there nicely.

But my dad sent me to AMK MRT station, and so I was like very early.

Reached at 9.30 :O, half an hour early!

(When Teck Lim heard this he wondered if I had a fever xP)

Then stoned at a corner.

Then later Joelle came and saw me then brought me to where they were waiting.

Then got a quick briefing.

So we set off!

Me and Ben topped the sales record :D

Met a nice British guy who is a Singaporean, and he donated some British coins too.

And we met a guy who LOOKED LIKE JOHNNY but BEHAVED LIKE RYAN.

Now that is really really...unexpected.

He was a bit of a joker like Johnny in the start.

He asked if he can exchange his lunch for the cookies.

Then being politely we just smiled and say Sorry cannot.

Then he ask us for our names, then our school.

Then he started talking about how he drove past our school and why he didn't see us, bla bla.

Then only he took out a 20 cent coin from his pocket and put it into the container.

Then he just high-fived us :O

Then he just said "You are the top of the nation, must add oil ah!"

Then he said "You know what it means?"

"加油"

"Yay!" *gay Ryan voice*

Then we walked away.

And feeling a bit...weird.

Yea.

Then after that went to AMK to have lunch at Sumo House with Ben and Teck Lim.

Then they went off to RP for their SMP while I went home to prepare for piano.

Woohoo. =)

And I actually read a bit on evolution and I found it rather interesting...I wouldn't mind voting for it if it went for the award of Comedy Fiction.

=)

2010-06-01T21:16:00.003+08:00

Today was badminton.

Woke up in the morning at like 10.30, ate Fish Fillet and Sausage McMuffin, then too full to have lunch.

So turned on my com, read random stuff, and started going to Youtube to listen to really random classical pieces.

Then I heard part of a piece that I dont know the name of that piece, it sounds like

C C D F E D G G G A E F D D D F E D highC B A G F E D C

It just sounds light and a bit funky, and I think it is some 20th century piece?

Not very sure about that.

Then went for badminton, first went to Jun Kiat's house to get his stuff from his mom.

Badminton was with Cheryl Lit Mabelle Zhan Feng Jun Kiat.

Then badminton was fun for the first part which later got a bit tired.

And had a stomach ache.

But later it became better, and they were planning to leave.

ZF and Mabelle went off, but the 3 of us went to my place to play basketball.

Halfway Dillon joined.

So we played for a while.

Then Cheryl Lit had to go home.

So walked her to the bus stop (Dillon went to JK's place to get some CS notes), then borrowed $1.20 from her to get my bubble tea :D

Then drank and when reach home, dinner time. =)

And watched 我要唱下去!

Anyway on Sunday the sermon included this short story which I thought was rather interesting...

A wise man was strolling in the garden.

First, he saw a butterfly flutter around the different flowers, yet it seemed frustrated, landing on a rose for a few seconds, then flying to another flower for another few more seconds, then moving to another flower, then finally flying away.

Then, along came a botanist, with a large sketch book and a large magnifying glass.

He sketched the flowers, noted down details, then closed the book up and shoved it into his bag.

Next came a bee.

The bee flew into a flower, and after a while, came out jubiliantly with nectar to bring back to its hive to be made into honey to be shared with the hive.

So, the wise man compared the 3 scenes he witnessed to the happenings of the world.

Some of us, are like the butterfly, moving on from master to master, but never finding the "perfect master" that we have in mind.

Whereas some others are like the botanist, studying hard, acquiring knowledge from all the four ends of the world, yet all is stashed in our minds without being put to use.

While others, they are able to use the knowledge they have learned and put it to good use - and to share the benefits of it with others, just like the bee.

This story is really quite...interesting and serves as a reminder to us too.

Anyway this video is damn cool, skip to halfway there, that pianist is really damn pro, see the speed she plays the scales...

2010-05-30T23:26:00.002+08:00

Wasted a lot of a time this week.

Re-finish the campaigns of Yuri's Revenge and Red Alert 3.

Well some time later maybe I go re-complete Red Alert 2 and Uprising campaigns.

Didn't really listen to much songs these days...don't know why too.

Oh, a nice song by Jyin 傅健穎, another Malaysian singer, from Stella's company.

If you look at the credits(at the start of the song)...you can seriously see how limited their manpower is.

Well it's a nice song though.

Heard it somewhere before, perhaps Yes 933 but not very sure either.

A song from her latest EP <你知道我在等你個人首張創作EP>

EP details : http://ent.sinchew-i.com/node/20689

But I still waiting for Stella's new album, coming out soon.

Yea =D

2010-05-28T10:20:00.003+08:00

Went for Asia Conference & Church Growth International yesterday!

It's by City Harvest Church, held at Expo.

So basically I reached Expo MRT at like 3.30, and only me and Joelle reached on time (I actually reached on time!!).

So how did I reach on time?

When I left my home at 2.25, I walked out of the lift, walk past the pillar, saw the new WAB Scania bus and knew that only 73 has that type of bus, and thus I sprinted across the HDB void deck and the road and quickly caught the bus.

Then at AMK MRT station, saw that the train heading to Marina Bay was coming in 1 minute so rushed also.

And caught the train.

The train had the colourful sign board that has little green dots to tell you where the train was heading.

I looked and was rather surprised.

The train was at like Orchard and I looked and saw all the green dots on the East-West line.

Then later at City Hall, just as the train door opened, the other train arrived...so ran across with the crowd.

The only time I had to wait for the train was at Tanah Merah when going to Expo.

But that time I was really ahead of time.

Praise God!

Then we waited for Ben, Berton and Amanda.

And so got a Burger King takeout to eat (but I finally ate it only when I reached home at like 23 45)

Then we started queueing I think like 5 there or what.

Met up with Berton's cell group.

And surprisingly one of them stays at Serangoon North Ave 1.

So queued in the hot sun.

A quote from one of Berton's cell group members "The Israelites waited 40 years, so what is this compared to them?".

But luckily we had umbrellas and soon the rain clouds were blocking the sun.

Then people started cheering there.

Then we played Monopoly Deal to pass the time, until it was 6.30 and we could go in.

The conference was rather normal, a bit less than what I expected though.

Thought would be a lot of worship and stuff, but it started off with like a 1-hour ad of City Harvest stuff, and we took this time for toilet break.

And before the offerings they had a "mini-sermon" about tithing and giving to the Lord, a bit realistic, eh?

But still, Benjamin wrote this on the envelope for the offering.

Dear LORD, may this money be used ONLY for the building of your Kingdom.
And not for any other purpose. Amen.

Which hopes it serves a reminder to them.

Somehow, I realised HOPE and FAITH were different.

To EXPECT and to BELIEVE is totally different.

Faith.

Today morning woke up early, downloaded AC Radio but still cannot access the Internet Radio for the Asia Conference...

My home wireless is still very outdated and doesn't support Wi-Fi...so that's why.

And just wondering, why they didn't like just give a site where you can watch it too instead of using an iPhone app. -_-

But after all I tried all I could, and ultimately wisdom comes from God...and I don't have to be so desperate over those sermons.

Having the Word of God is so much wiser than any other teachings.

Just read about Solomon's wisdom and yea it came from God.

So, I want to believe that someday I will receive a revealation.

And I pray that I will stand strong and not fall away before it comes...

2010-05-25T20:26:00.004+08:00

Yesterday - SIMC

Hui Kang owned, really.

CO + Mambo No.5 + Hui Kang = Wonderful

Today

Today was bowling and basketball.

Woke up early in the morning!

But, my mother held me back...so in the end was like 20mins late for bowling thingy.

Well but when I reached the arena they were still at the counter...so well didnt miss out much.

Me, Ben, Teck, Jun Rui, Jorgin, Zhan Feng, Yong Kiat, Esther, Vivian went.

Played 3 rounds, and plus shoe rental cost = $10.

The 1st round underperformed, 2nd round improved yea and got 81, which is probably my highest score so far.

My super spin method did give me the strikes...well but the rest were rather useless...

And I tested a hypothesis that you bowl a heavy ball and even if it goes slowly it has enough force to knock many pins down...and yea it was rather true.

After that we just split up, me and Zf went to some food court at Millenia Walk there to eat.

Then we walked back to City Hall MRT and took MRT to Choa Chu Kang.

On the way talked about random stuff, including the nice view and good location of the YCK landed proeprties, and later the other half was solving the Rubik's cube.

Then we reached and saw Joelle, so the 3 of us went to NTUC to buy a drink as me and Zf were thirsty and then we met up with Jun Kiat at the MRT.

Then we just walked forward following Gen's instructions and woohoo we reached.

But the 1st court was full, and so waited for Cheryl Lit and Angela, then went to another court and started playing.

Angela was wearing a purple shirt that reminded me of Raynor's purple pants.

情侣装?

Lol.

So it was rather ok we played full court until some other people went to use it so we changed to half court.

And a while later 5 netballers from St Magarets asked if they could 5 v 5 us.

And they scream A LOT.

I never really heard of much screaming but so far all I can remember was some time ago Hilda was just screaming and talking loudly when we just walked past.

Or some time last year when Jia Min screamed because she saw some lizard when we were playing basketball.

Lol.

So at first it was Angela and Cheryl Lit who stepped out, but soon I got sian and swapped Cheryl in.

Then a while later Joelle swapped Angela in.

Then we stoned until they allow us to 7 v 5 them.

Then we got sian of being sian and so started to play a bit more seriously.

Used height advantage yea ;)

And it's rather hard to play with them...

It's like rather not-so-comfortable going near them and stuff, since we totally dont even know them.

(And to Angela if you ever read this, you better not tell anyone those comments...it's...totally...I've got nothing to say....)

Then we went to the MRT, bought a drink and went home.

Yay. =D

And yea I feel that I should kinda learn the guitar, it's cool and since I'm so free, yea.

And anyway people, want go to some Asian Conference for Youths?

It's a Christian event at Expo, on Wed, Thu, Fri evenings.

And does anyone know where I can find the mp3 of this song "Making a difference"?

The chorus goes like this (http://www.freewebs.com/mediccg/aboutus.htm)

We want to run to the altar
And catch the fire
To stand in the gap
Between the living and the dead
Give us a heart of compassion
For a world without vision
We will make a difference
Bringing hope to our land

And this is a nice song - Servants of the Gospel!

2010-05-22T22:07:00.003+08:00

So...CAP was above my calculated one but still not satisfactory.

Now I realised its hard for me to honour any subject except if I try super hard and get like A or A+ like what Ben suggested and then hope for teacher reccomendation.

So have to really pray hard.

J.O.L (Jesus on Leadership) was fun =D

Well, today my group co-ordinator had the same problem as me...honouring problems too but yea that time she was in uni and their modular system is like totally similar to ours.

So have to place all my trust in God and work harder next semester...

Basically J.O.L was rather fun.

Reached there at like 7, from the 4th floor outside the chapel, there's a mini-balcony (I doubt any of you even know what I'm talking about xD) and so we just slacked there and talk random stuff about life until the session started.

Then just went through 'lecture' and we were asked to name some leaders.

Suddenly some people shouted "RYAN! RYAN!" then I was like a bit surprised.

Then in the end it was another Ryan LOL.

Then when asked I had like no other leader to say (LKY, etc alr mentioned), so bo pian say Kim Jong Il.

Then the next instruction was to pick out leaders who practised "self-sacrifice".

So, obviously something got cancelled out almost immediately.

Then we watched some video on youtube about leadership quotes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhxINyIZ454

I rather like these ones.

"A leader believes in you and helps you to believe in yourself"

"Authority is a poor substitute for leadership"

Then ice-breaker time was some game called Cat-and-Mouse and basically something like whacko but just modified.

After that was simple group discussion, then supper, then sleep time.

Didn't bring sleeping bag and damn at night my legs were freezing while my body was like burning.

How I wish there were thermal equilibrum.

But struggled through the night still...with only a small towel.

12 - 2 (woke up, too cold), 4 (woke up again), 6.30 (approximate as I saw a little sun), then 7.30 (dont want to sleep anymore, biological clock alarm already ring).

So next time I'll bring sleeping bag...or blanket.

Then I realised near me was an empty guitar bag which I could have improvised into a sleeping bag...well just a random thought I had xD

Then we waited for breakfast, and breakfast was rather good, had soon kuey, siew mai, chicken-mushroom pie. =D

And had Cafe Galilee (the cafe stores at libraries)'s coffee and tea in the thermos flask. (I think the catering company caters to them too?)

The coffee was ok and just as I finished my last drop of Nescafe then the fresh hot coffee came in...grr.

The tea was a bit weird, it was something between 中国茶 and those Lipton tea.

Then we went through some survey which told us our spiritual gifts.

And they said that God gives different gifts to different people, but he can take away and give you other gifts when you need them.

So they say your spiritual gifts are not to be taken for granted and if you do not utilise them God will take them away and give you something else to fit your current scenario.

I realised my gifts were Exhortation, Teaching and Mercy.

Exhortation is Encouragement.

I was surprised about mercy as I didn't think that being merciful is actually a gift.

There are many spiritual gifts and the survey I still have it, perhaps next time Campus Net I show you guys and you guys do and try yourself too! =D

Then was lunch which the veg was super good and literally like drugs you just cant stop eating it. xD

Then we had oreo cheescake and mango agar jelly cake which was quite good too.

And the drink was orange juice...orange concentrate added with a lot of water, till you can taste the slight hint of orange and then wonder if they actually just dumped colouring and only one bottle of concentrate into a 10 gallon beverage container.

Then after that was DISC profile and how to work well with others.

I'm high I and C, which are like rather contrasting.

High I are like the super hyper ones,

while High C are like the super emo ones.

Double personality, eh?

But the DISC activities were really much better than how our school got Ms Sim up to talk a whole lot of words but no use.

In simple activities they already showed us why we were D I S or C. (There were no high D there, surprisingly)

So they gave us 10mins to answer questions about the opposite end (D and S are totally contrasting, and so is I and C).

I was in "I".

And from presentation style, "I" people had rather bad organisation, while the "C" people one were very nicely done, underline and bullet point.

"S" was somewhere in between, they bothered to divide the different questions.

So another activity was 15mins to imagine we were planning activities for 13-year olds.

So "I" was like so noisy and when asked if can split into 2 groups everyone just shouted NO, and they say that's part of "I" people, they like to stick together.

And this time we tried to be like the "C" people, underline and bullet point, but in the end some had capital letters while some didnt so it was still fail.

And "I" people are more general as they just spam everything under the sun, and for ours we suggested group cycling, which is a social activity, part of "I" personality.

While "C" people are very detailed, they actually went to ask the course co-ordinator what they meant by plan activity, and even thought of budget, whether parents will allow, safety concerns, etc etc.

But 15mins they didnt plan all as they were too detailed in considering this and that, and reflected the typical "C" behaviour.

"S" people thought of those ice-breaking games, and those reserved but people-orientated games.

And they had some elaboration, but did not cover every single random thing like we the "I" people thought of.

So in the end we learned a lot more, rather than from Ms Sim's powerpoint.

Then they went through strengths & weaknesses, do's & don't with each different class of people.

Yea so in the end, we did some pledge to start serving God in some way (for me I chose outreach).

Then went home.

Weeeeee.

Oh yea, forgot to mention to.

My ex-SGL has this cool bible called ESV Study Bible.

At the back, he let me read a lot of useful information.

They compared Christianity and other religions to show a brief overview.

So I read that part.

I wont post stuff about other religions as I'm not too sure about them, and it could easily result in a lot of unnecessary tensions if any mistake is made.

And also read about Jehovah's Witness, which are very distinct from Christians in many ways.

They dont recognise the Holy Trinity and said it was a man-made term, and also say that Jesus is only a sub-god and the Holy Spirit is only a force sent from God and not a spiritual being on its own, which is definitely WRONG.

The Bible has no term to call Father, Son and Holy Spirit the Holy Trinity, but that is just a name humans gave to define it...

Just like you call this object a "computer", you give it a name only what...

And got another "branch" of "religion" called Christian Science which made me really LOL when I read it.

"They believe that, since God and sin cannot co-exist, and God is everywhere, sin does not exist.
Hence, no need to care about anything."

And another part reflects them to be agnostic atheists (idk about this term but Raynor told me about it, it basically means people who think that God's existence is not important to their lives), in which "They believe that they define their own heaven and hell".

But is really a joke la, what kind of religion is that.

And bearing a name "Christian Science"?

Science is more than enough to call this "religion".

Or, pure ego-ism.

Well basically then, I read about Catholics, Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Turkey churches) and Protestant.

The first divide between believers in God is between Christians + Catholic and Judaism (Jews).

Then Christians + Catholic believe in Messiah, but well the differences right are many, so Christian and Catholic split.

Then Christian has Eastern Orthodox and Protestant (which came later).

Eastern Orthodox are somewhere in between Catholics and Protestants.

They are very particular about signs and sacred objects and is like a must-have in their worship, if not they can't worship or something like that.

While Protestants are free and easy and give thanks and pray to God, anytime, anywhere.

So now yea focusing on the difference between Protestants and Catholics.

The language used in my friend's ESV Study Bible is rather strong, you can clearly see the writer's inner feelings.

So basically Catholics are rather traditional in their worship as compared to the Protestants.

They retain many customs of the past and so on.

But the writer had very strong language describing that they place too much emphasis on Mary, which is Jesus's mother and instead neglect the Holy Trinity.

Can't really remember much of the argument, but when I have the chance I'll go and see more...and try to compare and contrast.

Hehheh.

^^

Wow didn't realise I spent so long blogging.

To my dear readers,

God bless!

2010-05-14T17:03:00.003+08:00

Exams...

Did rather badly, some got CA to pull-up, while some...just completely pulled everything down.

4.0 is out of reach for this sem.

Now I'm hoping for something >3.0.

Math - 22/65 for exam, with CA I presume A there, Math will get B-...

Adv Physics - Exam just passed by a bit and with CA B+, should be B-.

Thermo D - CA got A, exam like 21/47, so calculated a B.

Chem - 28/40 for exam =( Plus my screwed up CA, I guess its somewhere C

Cell Bio - CA I presume somewhere B or B+, with exam 68.5/1000, I hope B+...

Bio D - Overall can get B+, since exam just passed and CA is rather good =)

English - 27.5/50 for Compre, 31/50 for Essay :D

Chinese - B- for exams, plus the B+ of CA...and hopefully my file check...make it B please =D

Music - A-. A bit disappointed, wanted to get A, my music test got 98%, but sadly my final project got B and pulled my CA down!

Econs - Not yet.

Da Vinci - Idk if its counted, but I sure hope I did well...

Total MCs : 28 (w/ Da Vinci)

MC of C/C+ : 3
MCs of B- : 11
MCs of B : 4
MCs of B+ : 4
MCs of A- : 2

Not counted yet : Econs, Da Vinci

To get >3.5 my Econs need to be at least A-....

Sigh.

2010-05-11T16:06:00.001+08:00

Exams over!

Script checking next. =(

2010-05-08T20:41:00.002+08:00

Went to watch Ip Man 2 with Teck and Jun Jun.

Super cool.

I want to watch Ip Man 1... =D

Really cool, it shows Wing Chun techniques well, but the final fight still a bit not fair as in the end he win by hitting vital points.

Well Chinese martial arts always do that =P

Holidays must find more things to do =D

Teh Yun Ling

i watched :-) thought of learning Kung Fu, so that all of you will be afraid of me... @_@

2010-05-07T20:42:00.002+08:00

Yay.

Exams are mostly over.

Left with Econs and Thermo D.

Thank God for being with me so far in all the exams.

Today when my Bio D revision was so screwed, the paper seemed so easy...ok not very easy but rather la.

Really have to thank God and praise him!

Had a celebration, and had pepper lunch with JK and TL.

Had a nice hamburger w/ rice set =D

$11.90.

Wanted to splurge more on buying Coffee Bean, but decided to save for movie...Coffee Bean will be on Sunday =D

Ok better start saving, holidays will spend more due to stuff like Kbox or going out, or buying new pop piano songs =D

Reccomend me a place where got a lot of pop Chinese piano books =D

Other than the Bras Basah one.

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Memories of the MA4110 Exam

White booklet : Eh, can do most. =D
Yellow booklet : WTF?! I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO ANYTHING!

And at the same time, I had a nosebleed...in the middle of the exam when my time was already running short and didnt know how to do the paper...

Jk : Who sit around you?

Me : In front - Jun Rui, Behind - Joelle, Left - Angela, Right - Amanda.

Hope I do well for Math...hope that wisdom molecules diffuse from Angela into the air and into my head =D

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CM4105 Exam.

Held my bladder from 9.05 to like 10.20.

Thought no time to do finish paper, but in the end finished 10mins before time.

No more time for toilet =(

Really have to control really hard.

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Woohoo holidays are here, anything fun just call me along =D

2010-04-28T22:06:00.002+08:00

Dead blog.

Exams are coming, so have to study harder and spend less time slacking off.

Hmm.

Mood swings recently.

What is wrong with me and my world.

And yesterday night when I was facing emo-ness, thank you for helping me to pick up the pieces.

And find out that life wasn't as bad as it was.

I have to thank God for showing me a chapter which was inspiring.

We should surrender all to get rid of the worldly worries and burdens.

But to that person, I really have to thank you.

Sometimes, I believe in 旁观者清.

Thanks for being a true friend.

2010-04-23T21:31:00.002+08:00

Exams are here!

Happy about NAPFA, praise God!

Sit-ups : A
Chin-ups : B (did 6!)
Shuttle run : A
SBJ : C (222cm, God really helped me on this one! I could only jump like 210+ but when the actual testing I managed to do 222...thank God!)
Sit-and-reach : B (Thought 45cm was A...but >45cm was A...WASTED!)
2.4 : B (11:14, quite slow...1 second in front of Ben, 4 seconds in front of Gen! 6 seconds behind Anzhi.)

So my total points = 5 + 4 + 5 + 3 + 4 + 4 = 25

Could have gotten 1 more from sit-and-reach, but who cares I already got my Gold!

=)

Mugging for SJCHO...need to mug for exams soon.

Will have to work hard!

And MR TAN RUI FENG listens to RAINIE YANG.

2010-04-09T21:06:00.004+08:00

Speech day today.

Dozing off when I was just 2 seats away from Mrs Yeo, thankfully Yong Kiat was big enough to block me.

o.0 Last year ZF got Chinese award, this year Ethel got Chinese award. Wonder who it will be next year haha.

For Higher Chinese no one can displace Anzhi, his tests all never lose more than 5 marks. Zzz.

English summative was ok...though feel bad as I overheard the topic some minutes before the test.

Then we went to Ben and Jerry's for ice-cream.

The Backgate Turnstile had a new record : 240kg!

Me - 58
Yong Kiat - ~80
Ben - 65
Jorgin - ~45

Total : ~240.

Then we happily went to Ben and Jerry's.

On the train from Commonwealth to Outram, we saw Anzhi and Chen Wei, and Su Hang and her friends.

To Anzhi : 为什么没一起去?

Anzhi : 我去买电脑.

Zzz.

On the train from Outram to Dhoby, everyone was standing, but me and Jorgin sat down to listen to music, and opposite got like Minh and Ba Don.

Then Ben wanted to sit, but when he saw the rest standing he said "Aiyah I just stand too la!"

Ba Don : "Wah, so manly!"

Everyone laughed.

Then you know 16 people is very confusing, so I told Jorgin "Just follow Thao, she has the vouchers!"

Took like 5-10mins to chiong the ice-cream.

Then we split. LOL.

Went home, while 203 people went to watch movie.

Then reached home at 4.00, slacked off drinking my bubble tea, taking a long bath, watching and researching on martial arts till 6.30.

Dinner, then started work at 8.30, from 7.40 I started to label my Rainie Yang albums, and finally finished making them perfect artwork!

I even went to Google translate to search the 繁体字...hehheh.

For Stella Chung its not from Taiwan so I didn't do that, but I spent a lot of time too, including trying to get the "softcopy" album.

Haiz, hell week next week, must work hard and pray hard!

2010-03-27T22:01:00.002+08:00

Suddenly remembered of a dream...

I dreamt that I went to some variety show (most likely is 我猜).

Then I don't know why but I was there with like, Ryan.

Then suddenly they asked if the audience can come up with a script for some mini drama or something.

Then I seem to like, drift off into another view and thought of the best story ever!

Haha...

The main character is Ryan (uh I don't know why)
Then for the rest of the cast can't really remember who they actually were in the dream (if I'm not wrong Ryan's gf was 瑶瑶 LOL)

So I shall give fake names to the characters!

Jun Jun = The girl of Ryan's dreams
Teck Teck = A girl that likes Ryan, and later Ryan turns out to like her too

Uh, so it starts with Ryan going to a new school.

He's a rather quiet guy.

And so despite the chatters of 405 (yea lol), Ryan was just an emo guy sitting on a random seat.

People tried to be friendly, but Ryan just went like "Um. Ah. Or."

So the classmates eventually talk less to him.

Then one day when Ryan was walking along the corridor.

He meets the girl of his dreams (let's call her Jun Jun)!

Which is from the neighbouring class (the dream school had a slightly different layout as our school)

But Ryan still emo and went to the eco-garden to sleep.

Then by chance, she passed by.

And Ryan fell into the pond.

The End.

Lol no, just minus off the last 3 sentences.

Continue with the story...

So Ryan went to the music room to emo on the piano. (The room layout was something like Secret, the show with Jay Chou)

Then Ryan started playing and slowly...someone walked in.

Then can see the shocked expression on his face just like Da Lang's when he saw Rainie.

It was actually the girl he like...

Then they made friends and Ryan behaved EXACTLY like Da Lang (except a lot less words). (All cos of JK telling me that Ryan is like Da Lang, then even in my dream also believe him >.< )

So Ryan went home feeling gay.

One random day, a new transfer student (let's call her Teck Teck) met Ryan and immediately liked him.

So she hugged Ryan from the back, leaned her head against Ryan and said she liked Ryan.

Then Ryan turn his head and saw the girl of his dreams (Jun Jun) shocked.

So she just left.

But as all dramas go, in the end Ryan managed to explain, and she forgive him.

But as time goes, their relationship always faces ups and downs.

And Ryan wants to make sure that Jun Jun likes him, so he pretends that he like Teck Teck so he can make Jun Jun 吃醋.

But later on, when Ryan has the chance to confess to Jun Jun, she accepts, but Teck Teck was behind watching them...

Then Teck Teck stormed Ryan and slapped him, and started to say stuff like "你为什么欺骗我?你为什么玩弄我的感情?" and so on.

Then Jun Jun is disappointed and just walks away.

Ryan is at a loss.

He emo in the rain, and suddenly the scene change where Ryan emo in the rain playing a grand piano and singing 丁当's 我爱他.

Then after that back at school...

Ryan makes it clear that he likes Jun Jun, and he rejects Teck Teck, and Teck Teck swore to take revenge.

So Ryan and Jun Jun develop further... <3

Then one day...

A new transfer student came.

It was actually Teck Teck, but dressed as a guy (Teck Teck is actually a girl, remember, it is just a fake name!)

Then she hangs around with Ryan.

And because she is too girly for a guy, Ryan slowly likes her...

And Ryan starts to question his own gender orientation...

So he tells his sis, and his sis advices him (Ryan just tells his sis everything, but only the advice that is valuable will be covered here - my imagination-dream script was too long!) to confess to Jun Jun.

Then he finds his childhood friend (OK I'm definitely NOT saying who I dream of, but just call her Gen Gen) and she says the same thing too.

So Ryan knelt down in front of Jun Jun and confessed...just like Jiro doing so in Hana Kimi...saying the key phrase loudly "我对不起你, 是同姓恋!"

Then Jun Jun got shocked. Then Teck Teck, also there, revealed her original female self.

Ryan is shocked...he runs across the AYE screaming like an idiot.

When Ryan was crossing the road, a Proton knocked into him.

I can "see" the camera focusing on the Proton tiger head logo!

He went to hospital.

And woke up, facing memory loss.

Doctor said 2 conditions were possible.
1. Remember no one except the most important person
2. Remember everyone except the most important person

So Ryan went back to school!

Yea he can remember everyone else, including Jun Jun and Teck Teck!

But he cannot remember of what they did or what...

And because he had some kind of gender crisis before his memory loss, he tends to be super egoistic, like "我是超帅的" and with the cute pose Mr Toh made on his FB xD

Then when he slowly learns of his past, he is shocked because he always thought he loved Jun Jun the most...

So he decides that if whoever knows a piano piece that he frequently plays will be his gf...

So Ryan plays...but both of them do not know.

Then Ryan's childhood friend (Gen Gen) walks in and completes the piece...

Then Ryan thought that she is the important one that he forgot...

But she says that he played this piece to her when they were still young, so the 2 girls definitely wont know...

And Gen Gen is already attached to Ben Ben, and hopes that she and Ryan will stay best friends forever, and no more than that.

So Ryan starts to receive advice from his sis to find out who he loves...

And there are too many stuff that Ryan did, or to be precise the sis told the 2 girls to do and see Ryan's reaction...

And Ryan still cannot decide.

But finally, even though Teck Teck had done so many evil things to revenge Ryan, he still loves her most...

But one day when his sister accidentally remember of a past incident, she secretly steals DNA samples of Teck Teck to test for DNA with Ryan...

And it turned out that Teck Teck and Ryan were siblings...

So Ryan realised that his love for Teck Teck was...gone in a moment.

He dances in the rain stupidly and sings 我问天, and YES, I DID IMAGINE HAO CHUN SINGING(not in the dream).

Then his sis calls their parents back (their parents are living overseas to manage the business), and they explain the whole story to Ryan.

Ryan had a twin sister, but she was kidnapped at the hospital...

So they never told anyone else except Ryan's sis.

Then the story progresses on...

And Teck Teck asks why she and Ryan cannot continue their love even though they are siblings...

And Ryan just replies..."是我门有缘无分..."

Then Ryan starts to devote himself to loving Jun Jun (with the encouragement of Gen Gen)...and the final episode...

Ryan is in the dance hall, and suddenly, the lights focusing on the orchestra stops, together with the music.

The lights focus on Teck Teck, where Ryan asks his sister to dance...

And Jun Jun is obviously eating vinegar...heh.

But still, in the end Ryan and Jun Jun get together as a couple, while he and Teck Teck always argue over small matters, but are still on quite good terms...(Teck Teck was actually quite a fierce person, fierce with words but no violence unlike Bao Zhu in 海派甜心)

And the story ends there!

Hard for people to imagine the story with words, but yea, in my imagination it's rather vivid.

Feel like becoming a director and scriptwriter!

Haha.

The story part of it was my dream, but using my scriptwriting skills gained from excessive Mediacorp and a dash of Taiwan dramas plus a little of Korean dramas, I continued it.

Heh heh...

didn't do any work at all the whole day.

But who cares.

I'm trying to find the history of Christian denominations, like when got Protestant, then when they branch out, and branch out form what at when and why and how.

Ben's coming to my church tmr!

And as for the original cast I dreamt about...to paiseh to talk about. Heh.

Goodnight! ^^

Miss yesterday's star-gazing!

2010-03-26T23:14:00.003+08:00

My English is always rather broken and bad, and always at an elementary level, due to speaking and reading and watching too much Chinese.

Now shall try to speak more Queen's English...not Singlish.

Today was the Vivace concert, which was rather nice.

A good air-con, a comfortable seat, and surrounded by good friends.

Halfway during the intermission, Ms Teh left as she said it was too late =(

Oh, a funny thing happened to Tung!

There was a dance item where six of the dance club members came to find some members of the audience to dance (Minh and Sankar were some of them), and I was telling Binh how nice it was to see Melvin and Johnny invited to dance xD

Then Tung made his way down to dance with Vivian (Goh), and what was even funnier was that halfway he stopped to tie his shoelace...because she stepped on it and Tung cannot move!

Ahhahaha!

But after when the whole thing ended, Ben, Yong Kiat, Melvin and I went to the netball court to admire the night scenery, and the STARS.

The stars were simply dazzling, pretty, beautiful, and one word - AWESOME.

You just feel the greatness of it's artistic beauty, shining just before you, and in a dark setting, how that light shines is just simply amazingly wonderful and a great feeling came upon me.

Started to feel very strong emotions then...

And learnt how to feel the world. (I first thought of 感观世界 but decided to use pure English!)

And I learnt the meaning of 陈伟联's 触摸, there is these lyrics that say "听说在天空, 有迷人的星座..." (Kelvin Tan's "Chu Mo", which says "I heard that in the skies, there are captivating constellations)

Seriously, during hostel year I hope we can frequently come to enjoy the stars and night scenery.

And I also felt the strong bond of friendship and hope we can stay good friends forever.

Feeling very strong emotions now, though they slowly faded since we left the scene...

Ben said to leave quickly and not take any pictures so that this special memory will always be remembered in our hearts =)

And only after a while, I remembered about the greatness of God, and wondered, if I ever felt such a greatness about him as compared to seeing the stars.

Then it dawned upon me...

And well, just a matter of fact, I realised that I can remember emotional moments very well, even how small I am, as long as it is strongly emotional I can remember every single detail.

Including the extremely beautiful and awesome night sky of OBS, where Yan Sheng was teaching me to spot Orion constellation.

What a great night, I seriously felt that $10 is quite low for a price, as this concert gave us the chance to enjoy such a great night view with friends.

Once again, I repeat!

天黑黑, 星闪闪!

天黑黑, 星闪闪!

2010-03-24T18:31:00.002+08:00

School has been busy.

Since the start of school, 2 tests await.

Today's music test was good, Thanks be to God!

I memorised so hard last night, and after praying, I managed to answer most of the questions easily...hope I can get somewhere near full marks! =D

Tomorrow is thermodynamics test.

Rather scared as I know I will screw up.

So I have to start mugging the physics textbook...

Need to catch up for ALL the lessons.

Gahh.

And yesterday, missed free cone day to do the cyber-wellness booth...but at least what made me happy was plugging my thumbdrive into my com and seeing, STELLA CHUNG's Be Myself album.

And I got speakers from my bro yesterday too.

Well, seems like it replaced the ben and jerry's free cone that I missed. =)

And music final project is sian, you medley 3 songs that Dr Wong chose.

I would prefer doing songs that I like.

And the notation assignment is going to be very hard, 8 tracks, and like 40 bars.

>.<

Better quickly start on Thermal physics. And remember to do Catalytic times.

And I'm hooked to Rainie's songs now.

^^

2010-03-16T19:28:00.004+08:00

Nice duet ^^

Rather sweet =)

Finally Luo Zhi Xiang shows his non-idiotic side, and Rainie her cute side (apart from the angry side in 海派甜心)

2010-03-14T17:24:00.002+08:00

Finished watching 海派甜心 (Hi my Sweetheart)! ^^

Really feel sad for Rainie Yang, the character she potrays is just sooo sad.

First 3 episodes bullying Da Lang was very funny, but later on she met with many tragic stuff...

I also don't know why I am like so emotionally attached to the show, when I see a sad moment (especially when Da Lang and Bao Zhu met in episode 10 I think) I almost felt like crying...seeing the sad, pathetic and very heartbroken face of Rainie + the rain + the emo music just feels so sad.

While Luo Zhi Xiang just hide at one side and cry, and with his Da Lang look he looks pitiful too.

But fate is so cruel that one car accident, and one note, caused the 2 lovers to break up for 4 years, only to get back together, and yet face even more problems (the car on fire, radio station on fire, Da Lang losing his memory)...

And it's rather touching when Bao Zhu was saying why she liked Da Lang, then Xue Hai (who is actually Da Lang but in another makeover) was like crying because he feels guilty that he was no longer the Da Lang that Bao Zhu knew...damn sad.

But episode 9 was very funny, especially when Luo Zhi Xiang had diarrhoea, and also the part when he ended up in Rainie's room, especially the scene in the bathroom was super LOL.

Quite a nice show after all, but sad at some times...

Planning to watch either Down With Love (就想赖着你) or Autumn's Concerto (下一站,幸福).

Autumn's Concerto story seems even more sad than Hi my Sweetheart...

Now, to finish all the rest of the homework...

Sigh.

And finding someone to crap about dramas too xD

2010-03-13T09:05:00.002+08:00

I had a dream...

of a storyline for some drama/movie.

I dunno how I came up with such an idea, but well...

A guy started training martial arts in a martial arts school, when one day when he was exploring around he accidentally heard someone playing the violin, and as he walked closer, he realised it was a girl.

After time he realised that she is the master's daughter, and later they get closer.

But, the master forbids his students from trying to date his daughter, and so the guy has to make a decision...

His family told him to continue learning martial arts as he can still date someone outside...

But his heart tells him otherwise...

Then the show ended there.

And if I'm not wrong, I distinctevly heard a familiar voice (when I was still in my dreams).

Then, my alarm started ringing and Stella started singing. Haha.

The dream was over...but if only can make it into a script and then perhaps get some $$.

2010-03-09T22:29:00.002+08:00

Don't know what is wrong with me.

Sudden emo feeling.

I started to think of my current self, and cannot find much good points.

Hardworking? No. My will to study hard and do well seemed to be gone.

Now I'm lagging behind and starting to do badly.

Now much heavier, running is a lot harder for me...had to rush and put in so much effort, yet slower than my last year's timing by a bit...

And my piano skills have decreased significantly, my playing skill has no "touch", dynamics, my rhythm suck (as usual) and I keep hitting wrong notes.

Haiz, seems like I can't do anything much right.

And just can't seem to change my attitude.

"忽然发现早已忘记对这世界该有什么感觉..." -咸鱼 by 黄靖伦

I hope to get my spiritual life up first.

I have learnt that it is impossible for me to get my life right, so I shall entrust this into God's hands.

For what is impossible for man is possible for God to handle.

So I hope I can keep my daily devotion...and I believe God will encourage me throughout my life.

2010-03-07T21:23:00.002+08:00

Mann.

I have always wanted to learn 咏春拳.

But in Singapore, hard to find...

Went to "survey" the 武术 class at The Serangoon CC, and it was rather...slack, with about 8 little kiddos, and 2 of them are especially noisy.

It was some 洪家拳 and I don't know anything about that.

But being rather "deserted", maybe can learn more since I guess I'm the only one who is much more mature than those kiddos...but feel so weird.

But still gave it up.

Maybe going to "survey" Jun Kiat's Aikido class, I don't know why but now I've taken a liking to join classes where I don't know anyone, rather than I know someone, coz it just feels, weird.

Can't understand why.

Gahh.

And for music final project I hope we get to select the songs, if we were to choose from a pre-set list would be really, really disappointing.

2010-03-04T20:43:00.003+08:00

1-day notice hw :

Chem Prac
Thermal Take Home Quiz

2 -day notice test :
Chinese test.

Mannn. School sure is...fun.

No motivation to study Chinese test, guess I'll study it like any regular 听写.

Nice songs!

2010-02-26T22:42:00.002+08:00

2nd crazy week over.

1st crazy week started when whole lots of homework started piling up onto us, that was like, during the festive CNY period.

2nd crazy week just passed, where bio plant press project was due.

I had started the press at around 6pm the day before, and thanks to Yeow Xiang and Yong Kiat I managed to press my plants using an iron. o.0 Sounds crazy at first, but I was really desperate.

Now we have a whole lot of homework, especially Chemistry, 4 sets of homework flew straight at one go.

And Ms Wong is not teaching us anymore, now got the new teacher Mr Tan or whatever.

Tan Rui Feng will definitely be much better than him ^^

I seem to be deproving a little.

My econs test got 15/20, which made me rather pissed, as I had expected a 16. I got 8/10 for my a-say as I did not write a concluding statement.

Then for the MCQs out of the 3 wrongs 2 of them was just I didn't read the question properly, which means I was kinda unlucky and stupid at the same time.

At least I am consoled that my Physics Take Home Quiz got 9/9!

Thanks to Toan who told me my mistake, and asked me to add in the reasoning for the curve =)

Bio Quiz seems screwed.

Maths Test I didn't do too well, due to the damn partial fractions.

And now Maths vectors is starting to kill me as I'm losing attention in class due to fatigue from sleeping late. >.<

EI is due this Tuesday, had better chiong it.

Now I'm stuck, what much is there on supply and demand.

And I think Ms Tong will be sick of reading any articles related to Proton, Perodua, or any other automobile brand. Had better find something else.

Chem Quiz on next Tuesday, 听写 on Wednesday.

Better get 40/40 for 听写 once, coz Ryan got 40/40 once and I have never, only to get a 39.5/40 some time ago.

So, I must get 40/40! Well, that seems hard, but I hope, and pray =)

PE today was rather "fun". Me, Yong Kiat, Anzhi and Toan tried to jump from Chua Chong Ping's class into Dr David Sun Xiaoqian's class. However, we got called back...

Then we joined them in some 8-minute event where you run across the netball court.

Yong Kiat and Minh were slacking...

In the front I just ran fast and set the pace for the rest of them xD

After a while got tired and went back to normal pace, and once I beat Yong Kiat's no. of laps, just slacked off.

Who cares.

Shao Xiong was a bit weird during running, I was running straight and he was incoming, then he bang into me -.- Does he like, run in a swervy path or what?

Second time, I did not give chance, and just streched out my left elbow for him to knock into. Man can't he just run in a straight line?

Well, later was chionging 公函 during English lesson, with a Formative for Comprehension that took like < 1/2 hour

Then did the model chinese paper that I owed Toh...the 片段缩写 only since the rest I did in Wednesday's waiting for Da Vinci.

Forgot to bring it consecutively for a whole week, lucky Toh was on "paternity leave".

Dr Wong : Why isn't Mr Toh here in school today?

Berton : He's on paternity leave.

xD

We saw pictures of his daughter, called 卓语馨 (last word is xin1), and I don't know how 语 and 馨 are related. 馨 is like 芳香, so I thought, isn't it something like 鸟语花香 xP

Then he told us about her weighing 3.6kg, and taking 38 weeks, and so on.

Everyone was like so excited to see photos of his daughter, and like the sleepy aura suddenly disappeared.

Then when it was CCA time, the sleepy aura got even thicker than it was before.

Happy birthday to Ivan (he probably won't see this though) =)

I feel so stupid not to think that Brandon Yeow is actually Cheryl Yeow's brother and not the 403 Brandon that I thought he was.

And now I'm listening to Stella Chung again... ^^

2010-02-22T18:53:00.003+08:00

Today afternoon, somewhere during Chem lesson, when I realised I "lost" the "important note", I was kinda pissed off.

But I made a new one (thanks to Joelle giving me some blank paper), and when I reached home, I realised that it was in my drawer...

=)

If you don't know what is the "important note", it was created on 8 Dec 2009, somewhere in Orchard (I think was ION Orchard), to assist me in the music search after Cheryl Lit suggested that good idea =)

The original note! My scanner cant tell the difference between a white paper and no background =(

^^

2010-02-19T20:38:00.000+08:00

Nice songs.

2010-02-17T16:06:00.003+08:00

Not been updating for a long time...

Chinese New Year was boring, staying at home, watching Momo Love and doing work.

Seriously a big waste of time, didn't do much.

Too many things to handle now...

School
Fitness
Piano
Music (My own listening pleasure)
Martial Arts (If possible)

Haiz.

2010-02-06T16:15:00.003+08:00

现在因为有这么多莫名其妙的怪懒来我的博客,不方便用他们懂的语言 =P

太多功课了.

透不过气.

黄靖伦的<透明人>,真的好厉害. 他的假音真的很好,如果能像他就好了 xP

郭静的<百分百>真的太好听. =)

<心墙>也是. =)

<心电心>也听不腻! 哈哈.

F.I.R 的新专辑还没听...但第一首已经蛮好听的.

蔡旻佑的<寂寞,好了>也很不错,第一次听他的歌.

大嘴巴出新专辑了, <万凸3>...

听说周杰伦三月份要出新专辑,如果真的有的话,谁要一起送给姚俊兆...

还是找不到钟晓玉的专辑, 原来外面的音乐店都退货了...所以需要从唱片公司定. =(

迷路兵新专辑也是找不到...但没这么重要 =P

郭书瑶的EP, Lala 徐佳莹的专辑, 还是挺好的. xP

希望我讲了那么多他们听不董的废话,会不再侵犯我的隐私了. ^^

2010-01-25T18:04:00.002+08:00

Stress level is high.

No time to post.

And, Zhang Linchuan/Baconlord if it is you coming from Plano, Texas, just tag me on the tagboard, ok?

2010-01-20T20:18:00.002+08:00

不知为什么, 我的博客竟然有美国人来看...看旁边的"跟踪机"显出他是直接来的...

他是用来哪西OS, 三天前来过, 不知有什么阴谋鬼怪...

想起来还蛮可怕的.

...

功课太多了...

累死人...

梁文音的《爱,一直存在》很好听 ^^

王心凌的《心电心》只有几首歌好听...其他的还是差强人意罢了...

希望那个来哪西的怪懒别在来了...

说不定可能是张林川呢 :O

2010-01-17T18:07:00.002+08:00

Omg it's a very very very addicting song!

手心贴手心, 一起心电心!

Lyrics below :

这一个城市已经被爱占据
谁逃得开爱的攻击
和他约会吃饭逛街看电影
都让人变得神采奕奕
亲亲额头咬咬我左边耳朵
有种奇怪的荷尔蒙让我脸红红
张开你的双手跟着我这么做
大胆的爱勇敢的爱刺激又精彩
全世界幸福在洋溢没有人需要寂寞
手心贴手心一起心电心
街上的情侣最耀眼又最吸睛
现在听口令所有男孩和女孩
预备起全民恋爱不幸福绝不放弃
手心贴手心一起心电心
高矮不在意也不管你几公斤
要用一颗心去爱另外一颗心
现在起心动调频决定要和你黏T T
(It's alright~ It's alright~)
听说恋爱的小孩不会变坏
只要呼吸就会笑起来
牵他的手走在大片人海
不景气通通被幸福打败
亲亲额头咬咬我左边耳朵
有种奇怪的荷尔蒙让我脸红红
张开你的双手跟着我这么做
大胆的爱勇敢的爱刺激又精彩
全世界幸福在洋溢没有人需要寂寞
手心贴手心一起心电心
街上的情侣最耀眼又最吸睛
现在听口令所有男孩和女孩
预备起全民恋爱不幸福绝不放弃
手心贴手心一起心电心
高矮不在意也不管你几公斤
要用一颗心去爱另外一颗心
现在起心动调频决定要和你黏T T
(It's alright~ It's alright~)
没有人需要寂寞
手心贴手心一起心电心
街上的情侣最耀眼又最吸睛
现在听口令所有男孩和女孩
预备起全民恋爱不幸福绝不放弃
手心贴手心一起心电心
高矮不在意也不管你几公斤
要用一颗心去爱另外一颗心
现在起心动调频决定要和你黏T T

Another addicting song...

Just love music!

Now listening to 梁文音, 郭静, 王心凌, 黄靖伦.

2010-01-14T22:18:00.003+08:00

Days go by.

School life is getting hectic, and I am still loafing around...

Projects :
Bio - leaf collecting
Physics - photo-taking
Chemistry - Demonstration Day
Math - Series
Econs - Schleduled around CNY
Music - Forecast =P

Homework :
1. Maths Assg 1
2. Bio Practical + fill up missing blanks
3. Physics Assg (Thermal)
4. Chem Assg 1

Da Vinci has research methodology now...sians.

Need to start preparing for O level Higher Chinese, disappointed in my O's Chinese.

And hope to resume swimming (but I guess there's probably no time) and get Bronze Medallion =D

Time to chiong for higher grades and for the future...

My walk with music has to be dramatically shortened =(

Hope I can still listen new songs from YES933!

Oh, and work on my physical fitness too.

2 and counting!

2010-01-10T17:02:00.004+08:00

Life is kinda boring...

New school semester, 要拼才会赢.

Must get above 4.2...(I got this "standard" from Melvin, whose parents wanted him to hit that to get a new com)

So have to start revising daily, unlike last time when got test/quiz only study a bit, then my CA not too good, around B+ there only...

So if can like Ben or Teck Lim or simply, the rest, get A- or A for CA, then exam get around B or B+ can give you ~4.5, but I do not have strong determination so need constant encouragement...

Wasted time this week on Apple App Store, filled my Itouch 8GB with so much music, TV show and apps that it has only ~400MB left. =P

And I hope to feed my music addiction. Appetite has been growing bigger...that now I listen to a lot of random singers.

And I feel so stupid, I didn't think that Rainie Yang (杨丞琳) was actually a singer...Nokia Music has 3 of her albums which I'm downloading now. =)

A nice song that got me hooked as much as 走火入魔(when it first came out, I heard it and my whole day was spent thinking, dreaming about the song) is a duet too...

画沙 - 周杰伦与袁咏琳, Drawing Sand by Jay Chou and Cindy Yen.

Lyrics :

周杰伦&袁咏琳 - 画沙
词:方文山曲:袁咏琳
专辑:画沙

午后的风摇晃枝桠抖落了盛夏
我对着蝉认真说话在对你牵挂

晚风轻敲著海沙浪堆积起无暇
我跟纯真在比傻爱上你放不下

这风景如画(开满凤凰凤凰花)
院子里花洒 (浇灌著那种情话)
等最美的晚霞等故事长大

用手中的流沙画一个你呀
曾说过的永远我们一定不会擦
我的青春开始在喧哗
因为大声说爱你而沙哑

用手中的流沙轻描着你的脸颊
也答应说好的未来绝不会重画
许过的承诺我就不会再去拿
因为我爱你呀
将思念压成花有你的记忆乾燥成瓶中沙
像沙漏般想著你滴滴达达
擦美美的趾甲喝你泡的茶
原来幸福可以这么优雅

不论多大风沙路多分岔
我一样找到你呀
管他风怎么刮管雨就怎么下
越痛我就越来(越潇洒)
不摘不属於自(己的花)
喔爱闪著泪光为你我可以当傻瓜

And dunno why, suddenly I started listening to Claire Guo 郭静's 在树上唱歌(Singing in the Trees), the songs are rather nice.

Nokia Music gives me random nice albums =D

Was reading this crazy article about building some super crazy pro desktop that costs almost $16k USD...

Wasted whole afternoon reading about building desktops, I got redirected there after searching how to install Snow Leopard on PC but in the end it was too troublesome so just forget it.

Now listening to Cindy Yen's latest album =)

And Cyndi Wang 王心凌's latest album has a song called Happy Loving which is sooooooooooo memorable, just dunno why you just sing along and can't stop.

2010-01-05T21:13:00.002+08:00

Woohoo Orientation.

Stupid activities.

First day was house meeting which was 3 hours of stupid cheers, and Ivan kena sabo to be level rep. =D

Then was mass dance with Fibo...just hanged around with Melvin, Matthew, Leon, Lester.

Second day was house activities which were boring but tagball was fun.

House meeting became Whacko, and many times you cant hear people calling you coz the circle is too big and you get hit and you just look blur.

So in the end many of us (including me) got hit 3 times but no time for forfeit =D

Now I really find myself unfit, and wasting my holidays, but well I think I am more confident in my vivid imagination which I spent during the holidays.

Must train for pull-ups...and miss basketball soooo much.

Will be going for training...have to =P

Now too addicted to Chinese Pop...

Shows I need to catch up on

1. My Girlfriend is an Agent
2. Treasure Hunters
3. Auntie Lucy 之灌蓝 (Not very sure on the name)

And woohoo got a lot of new music!

2009-12-28T22:55:00.002+08:00

Played pool today.

At first, none of the balls could be struck in when I started chalking the stick.

When I realised I stopped chalking for a while, and suddenly after I hit the 8-ball, the black shiny ball changed my luck, and after that I hit in the next 4 or 5 balls in a straight row.

So me and Teck Lim won against Jun Kiat plus Jorgin for that round, but total of 3 rounds we only won 1 round.

Pool is fun with a lot of luck, and skill too.

Realised when I tried new moves like backspin, I ended up flicking the ball...

But it was fun after all.

The BBQ was a bit boring, we just ate and talked about OBS.

Later then we played truth or dare, and finally Teck Lim was forced to drink.

Then we just played catching at the playground, while Kwok got owned by the security guard.

Then we went home.

Lalala.

Who came?

Me, Teck Lim, Jorgin.

Anyone up for Treasure Hunters on 31st?

And Kbox anytime soon.

Or bowling or pool, not too expensive can liao.

2009-12-27T19:09:00.003+08:00

205th post.

Suddenly, I realised my life was spent rather unmeaningfully.

I found a song, 咸鱼 by 黄靖伦, aka Salted Fish by Wong Jin Lun.

Lyrics are as followed...

Video here.

黄靖伦 - 咸鱼

作词:阿火作曲:陈海维

LRC制作:活在当下 QQ:6313827

天刚亮雨滴落房间的窗
我像咸鱼躺床上一天接着一天
我连呼吸都厌倦
[00:41.89]
忽然发现早已忘记对这世界该有什麽感觉
(连悲伤都不会)
忽然惊觉这个世界少了我也没有什麽差别
(我想我需要点改变)

起了床今天眼神不一样
抛弃咸鱼的目光背包装满能量
帆布鞋陪我去闯
忽然发现换了一面看这世界就会找到特别
(就算翻身很累)
咸鱼翻身那天我会记住你的笑脸当作纪念
(我期待你害怕这天)

我的人生自己决定我的旅行自己履行
我的人生自己决定我的旅行自己履行

就算雨会淋湿身体 (会淋湿身体)
拒当快晒乾的咸鱼

2009-12-26T18:58:00.002+08:00

Christmas is over...

What a day spent outside just shopping for clothes.

Are new clothes really so important?

Oh wells.

Today woke up, watched 天堂鸟, some show from 11-1.

Then slacked till 2, then did the chemistry practises till ~Q40 there, then went for lunch.

During lunch watched the 白蛇新传 thingy starring 范文芳 and 李名顺, which was surprisingly addicting, watched till 4 plus.

Then suddenly thought of 我要唱下去 and had random thoughts about it.

Then practised piano for a while, then came up to use my com.

Read Yahoo news, Facebooked, then now blogging.

What a day.

Megatex IT Show (23-27dec) and Metro Sale (25dec-3jan) at Expo keep advertising on TV...

Lol.

2009-12-24T12:02:00.002+08:00

Christmas Eve!

Thinking how I have wasted my holidays, and my previous year, I hope to work harder and score better next year.

I lack the determination to train, and am lacking behind in fitness too.

And my commitment for quiet time daily has not even started...

Time to get things done.

Hope in the new year, I can work harder towards my goal...

And put aside TV (which means either 7pm or 9pm only).

And try not to waste too much time on com.

The cool and crisp rain of morning is definitely a delight to anyone's senses (except those with rheumatism).

Early morning, I woke up at around 8, and couldn't get back to sleep.

So took out my pop song book, and read through the lyrics, imagining the tune and the song in my head...totally bored.

Then after breakfast went upstairs to my room, and started using com.

And now I realised, that I don't even care about MouseHunt like last time.

I still think of Pardus now and then, guess it had a large impact on me last time.

And if I don't score well...I'll be terribly emo.

Hope people can encourage me to work hard, especially my new seatmates =)

And I'll celebrate in the holidays! =)

Hopefully I'LL GET THE ALBUMS I WANT ASAP!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-21T17:57:00.004+08:00

Got a new printer =)

Prints much faster, and Canon catridges are much cheaper than the old HP one.

我知道年轻就是要不顾一切去冒险

才不会到老了自己才在后悔

趁着地球暖化之前我能做些什麽

还有时间我自己许的预言

Meaningful lyrics, from 法克这个人.

2009-12-18T22:17:00.003+08:00

Today was a fine and nice morning when I was dreaming about some random things happening.

Then, a sudden familiar tune rang through the air, and the Stop button was pressed on my brain's Blu-ray DVD Player.

The prelude of Stella Chung's 太天真, which is also my ringtone.

Slowly waltzing to the phone and enjoying the music, as soon as I reached the phone, and brought it back to my bed, and then it died off.

Called the number back, but it was busy, and so just waited.

This time with the phone beside my ears while I almost went back to sleep, the beautiful music blasted out, waking me up.

So I answered the phone.

And it was Ben who called to come to my house early.

After the call I dragged myself out of bed, and all I can remember from the dream was some random TV show.

Oh well.

Brushing my teeth and washing my face, I looked for breakfast and there were 4 egg tarts, so I finished them off.

Then someone called me from the door, it was Ben.

So I made him do the 老规矩 before he can go up.

Then we played Metal Slug, a bit of L4D and went for lunch.

After lunch of noodles we went to Jun Kiat's house to play Monopoly, at first I was winning, till I cheated and took money from the bank, then I started losing like crazy.

Guess God is fair after all =)

Then our game was interrupted when the whole lot of them appeared.

First Dillon, then after some 5 mins Cheryl Lit and Gen.

So they reached, and yay we can finally keep the Monopoly set.

So we played basketball.

Then they came to my house for drinks, stayed a while and Dillon started sight-reading all the pop songs and impressing Cheryl Lit.

Gen had to go, and after hesitating a while Ben decided to catch up with her... <3

After that Cheryl Lit had to go, so Dillon and Jun Kiat went too... (sounds like history repeating itself)

So I was alone, and lazy to practise my Taekwondo.

I didn't train AT ALL since the start of the holidays...

Sigh.

Holidays are going to be over really really soon.

Need to start studying, but study what.

My pre-holiday plans were all...screwed.

1. Compose a pop song
2. Train Taekwondo!
3. Train for chin-ups
4. Play more basketball
5. Swim!
6. Guitarrrr.
7. Play more pop songs.

None of them done.

Plus since the start of the holidays I was bored with my games, just spend the time pacing up and down and thinking of random stuff, or listening to nice songs and singing them out loud.

Haiz.

Oh and my cousin's gonna come over and stay over tonight.

^^

2009-12-17T22:48:00.002+08:00

200th post!

Woke up this morning, found a piece of paper and wrote down the details.

That was the first thing I remembered once I was out of bed.

Carefully placed it in my wallet, then brushed my teeth and washed my face.

Turned on the com, ate breakfast...

Was supposed to be cycling at East Coast Park, but due to rain and clouds we changed plans and went to Marina Square for bowling + KBox.

We refers to Benjamin, Cheryl Lit, Dillon, Gen, Jun Kiat, Me, Zhan Feng.

Bowling I was the lowest score...keep getting longkang shots.

Then when the game ended, I threw 2 balls, and wow, one was a strike, another one left 2 pins.

Then I got charged $0.80 extra.

Worth for my strike =D

Who cares.

Then was Kbox, Zf and Ben were unwilling as they know few songs.

It was mainly Chinese songs, and most of them I knew =D

Had a great time...and went off-key when my throat was drying. Lol.

Didn't do any recordings of Jun Kiat...too engrossed.

And too lazy.

The other time recordings are good enough =D

Cheryl Lit can sing really high...only she shy shy like Jun Kiat one.

Halfway Zf left, after a while Ben left.

But a retarded song was "Yellow Submarine", retarded lyrics and retarded tune.

But retardedly funny.

Many songs I don't know the name, so till I heard the chorus only I realised what song it was.

Love song duets are soooo nice ^^

But at the end due to lack of drinks I was lazy to try to pitch the original singer.

Then just did what Jun Kiat did all the while - just be monotonous.

Melvin in the house. Angela in the house.

If you don't know what we talking about...it may be obvious to those who listen to 今天你要嫁给我.

Then went home.

HOPE CHERYL LIT CAN MANAGE TO FIND MY ALBUM!

2009-12-14T20:22:00.003+08:00

好久没写日记了.

星期四

那天早上, 风和日丽, 所以我心情感到好凉爽.

约好俊杰和俊兆去KBox唱卡啦OK...

12点到达AMK Hub, 到KBox Plaza楼下的LJS吃午餐, 然后上二楼的Raiders玩一个小时的L4D2.

然后就去KBox...需要申请什么会员卡才能有学生的配套...我出两元, 俊杰出三元, 俊兆出五元, 所以他收下那张卡.

起初我们都不好意思放肆地唱, 但后来我们都玩得好愉快.

录下了俊杰唱王心凌的"爱你"和"Honey",超好笑!

那天, 真的觉得超级棒, 但令我失望的是...KBox没有钟晓玉的歌曲. =(

星期一

一起和好友去打电脑游戏. The End.

2009-12-08T18:06:00.003+08:00

Woke up early and went to Yio Chu Kang for tennis with Ben, Gen & her sis, Cheryl Lit, Jun Kiat, Berton and Zhan Feng.

Played tennis until 11, then bought a drink, and we (except Zf) went to AMK Hub for lunch.

Then went to Orchard with Ben, Gen & her sis and Cheryl Lit.

Walked around ION Orchard, the "Titanium" store downstairs didn't have the album. =(

Then went to some Wheelock place, hanged around Borders, after that Cheryl Lit left.

Then we walked to Takashimaya and went to Kinokuniya, after that Gen & her sis left.

Then me and Ben went to Gramaphone at the basement and they didn't have...

So me and Ben walked more, and we went to Heeren's HMV but they didn't have.

Later we went to Cineleisure top floor and played L4D2 for 1 hour.

Damn ex, $4.50 an hour...$2 per extended hour I think.

L4D2 is damn cool, you can throw pistols away for melee weapons, got baseball bat, axe, chainsaw and ninja sword.

Chainsaw is damn good against horde attacks...just power up and all of them die.

Then we went to 313@Somerset, and along the way we met some NUSHS people, 3 girls and 1 guy.

They have a Mac store there, just played around with the Macbook Pro.

Then went home.

Anyone wants to go Raffles City and Iluma, and accompany me to find the music albums?

Shop around there too =)

***天黑黑,星闪闪***

Trip to Penang 2011

连人都是饼贱的 更何况是块鸡呢

天黑黑,星闪闪

连人都是饼贱的更何况是块鸡呢