Friday, March 22, 2013 : }

Guess our state of mind is always the last barrier to conquer.



On a sidenote, I keep Googling "sketch of xx", like anchors and words, in a bid to try and get my artsy side up. Just looked at fashion sketches and rly admire the talent, I wanna learn how to get the watercolour effect even with Mildliners like how my friend did for URA! The stuff I impromptu in lectures usually come out like some supercalifragilistic mess HAHAHA.

Really should get my inspiration board up proper, the last one failed 'cuz the styrofoam wouldn't hold my tacks for some reason HAHA.

CHINGYING; 12:33 AM

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OKAY anw so, it's the Friday of the March hols and I'm gna sleep soon so that I can stop pangseh-ing my fam for early breakfasts and then it'll be a work marathon tmr. I think I'm mildly-OK, REALLY- screwed for CTs but I think the next few weeks will be even more of a challenge, balancing syc hc and d'carn. I'll try not to fall too much behind, and still  keep my Sundays blocked off. (:

CHINGYING; 12:25 AM

Sunday, January 6, 2013 : }

Tabs for my song post-title because right now Fuga is stuck in my head (and I rly fear permanently). Oh well HAHAHA please let me grow to love the song instead of fearing and running away from it.

I don't know what I'm doing here the day before school starts, with unfinished homework less than half a metre away (what's new?) like I used to when I blogged more frequently HAHA. But I was blog-hopping, coming across old blogs and felt like reviving this space.

I realised I still haven't properly written down anything I've felt about this year; guess it really went too fast! Had a habit of recording everything I had in my DHS handbooks, but since I was always too lazy to lug it to school and clog up my bag sometimes I'd go for three weeks without filling in and then look back, try to rack my brains to fill it in and FORGET haha. Should be more meticulous this year, maybe put a calendar at my (yes new yay) desk or something?

(I should also record what I've been up to the past week, now).

I guess right now one of the few resolutions I've got would be to SLEEP EARLIER, and I'll be breaking it next week for orientation already (broke it for guitar chalet too HAHA). Worth it though! I realised that Y6 is going to be the last year I'll ever have to be able to balance my studies, extracurriculars and Him also. Wondering what happened to cell leadership and ushering, guess that all wasn't meant for me because it's something I would never have been able to handle.

So yup gna try make it a good year also, not that Y5 wasn't, but I think there are many things I could've done better...ESP to make sure that I'm currently not staring blankly at my Chem MCQ.

My laptop's rather laggy, gna have to clear my files and reformat it. ):



CHINGYING; 9:27 PM

Thursday, December 20, 2012 : }

Seehian and Glen introduced me to the song from Perks (didn't notice it when I was watching w Vivian though, oops, and with an alto guitar in front of me with HAHA the stuff I do while carrying my guitar sometimes gets pretty crazy but it's the price you pay for stacking events) ytd at OGL trng! Decided to do it for OGL performance because it's Stomp-able and with a cool guitar riff. Can't believe how enthu I got yesterday looking through all their different acoustic and rock videos on youtube trying to figure out how the arrangement was like. Must be overdue excitement from Jiaqi returning my beloved prime aww.

Anyway, it still never fails to amaze me how these musicians can interpret their songs in so many ways with bass lines and riffs and all. I think GE's made me so much more appreciative of music (: too bad I still can't play even basic chords that well >: shall keep striving, just wish I knew how to learn it faster. Sometimes it does get frustrating how I lack so much even in tabs, with the syf piece and all.

I just realised today is 20122012 HAHAHA. Guess I'm gna have a lot of things undone if the world does end (although I don't believe it) but somehow...I don't think I'll regret that much maybe? I think alot of Y5s have made sacrifices, like free time during the holidays and doing extra stuff that we maybe would want to do on a whim, for CCA and studies and everything else. And I guess they'e necessary. (:

Singapore's still so hot! Can't believe it's an almost 50degree temperature increase from -16 in Korea. Guitar trip was cool, should upload my photos some other time. Didn't bring my dslr along and I'm glad I did, although there were many shots that my EOS could've done better, I think the compact let me have a lot more freedom walking around and playing with the snow (FREEZING btw). You can't jam a dslr in your pocket, that's for sure.

Also really glad for the experience, playing White Christmas in front of the students somehow helped me connect EDS to Guitar. I mean that's why they're all called performing arts because we play to bring our music to an audience, for them to enjoy what we do. Cliched as it sounds somehow it never occurred to me before (except maybe during concert when I was so excited about playing our level song for classmates since it's quite meaningful to our batch) during combined or sectionals when we were in the rooms just drilling and refining. Hope I keep that in mind all the way to April next year.

Gonna catch up with some of the 2L friends later! Can't believe that a year later, we're all doing such different things our paths hardly cross. But we've been tgt for so many years I still really treasure them, somehow I'm always more at ease w them & I'm grateful for that.

Somehow I realise I never quite get around to blogging or recording everything I want to, but this'll do. Hopefully I squeeze in some time soon to actually TALK about my holidays instead of just faint fragments of everything before I forget them hmm. (And math HBL too ohshucks)

/so while scrolling through photos to decorate this post with I realised that I really should delete all my repetitions of attempted artsy shots. They're taking up WAY too much space. <: at="at" better="better" em="em" get="get" hope="hope" i="i" photog="photog" soon.="soon." thing="thing" this="this">

CHINGYING; 11:22 AM

Friday, November 23, 2012 : }

Spent the past week at URA for CUBE! I'm thankful to have at least interacted with some from other schools since we only mixed teams on day 1 actually. Best part was my own team though, since i was the only one from 21 I was kinda worried I didn't know the rest well and all but our team dynamics not bad HAHA 8)

The challenge was about redeveloping the railway station, which was super cool really cuz I missed it when it closed so I was hoping to get to see it again and I did! And it became more of an architecture than geog challenge so we found it really hard and confusing and it was crazy because NONE OF US COULD DRAW. I think other groups had way nicer sketches but I still feel accomplished because I guess my late-night stuff were passable. The most impt thing is that your lines must be confident, I'll always remember that. (:

Crazy four days, was really sad about missing guitar camp cause I think my love for guitar grew exponentially after the juniors came in (not that I don't love my batch tons either btw) and like every night when we were stuck at the 9th floor of the east wing sketching and cutting hexagons I'd see the alto1 whatsapp come alive and feel kinda "nooo" about missing out on all that.

BUT ANW, so after all the waking up early and late dinners (dinner at 11, can you beat that) and literally blood sweat and tears because of a couple of penknife accidents, still proud of my team that we kinda managed it in the end c: And the chilling, Sab and I will miss the dart boards HAHAHA can I have it too in my future workplace!

Results come out in Jan ("competitive siol") so I'll see this cool group of people again, til then gna maximise my hols C:

CHINGYING; 2:58 PM

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 : }

Currently in rage/angst mode thanks a LOT to ____. Everything just seems to be clashing because some people just assume that you have all the time in the world to dedicate to one thing, and it doesn't seem to be enough that I'm already giving my all.

CHINGYING; 11:50 PM

Sunday, June 17, 2012 : }

Mollifying my conscience by convincing myself that translating @Shakespearesong's lyrics to figure out their modern counterparts is good practice for Lit. Because oddly enough, I really couldn't bear to touch my lit books after I finished Twelfth Night in the second week.

I know, I know, and I said lit was something I'd never regret. Forget about that H3 I guess, Senior High's made me rethink so many things (especially taking on new roles and whatever).

So where do I begin? Granted, I've been more active on tumblr, but somehow I felt like posting something really long that would look pretty out of place amongst all the pictures on tumblr. Posting's probably gonna be interrupted halfway through the musings since I'm gonna go out soon to visit waipo and see if I can help with the bahzhang 8)
...yes, even though my grandma can fold three perfect dumplings in the time it takes for me to do one that has a 50/50 chance of bursting open in the pot. Need to learn that art soon or I'll be a greenhorn at everything traditional.

Happy father's day to my favourite (albeit only) dad; kind of glad that he's always encouraged me in areas that I wanted to pursue like reading, books, more books (I haven't read any these hols, RECORD. My dream is to go to starbucks without my homework and sit there reading a book all tumblresque, in a year and a half maybe), music, craft etc. Hopefully I can somehow broach the topic of Usher Ministry soon (:

Kind of got reminded why I study yesterday, and why I take on the things I do. I wish I could say it's for purely altruistic reasons like "for the greater good" but well, selfishly a little, I do love the stuff I take on and that's why I did even though it's a sacrifice of free time.

WHOOPS THREE MINUTE DEADLINE TO LEAVING THE HOUSE and I haven't even gotten to the significant events (which is what blogger is all about, huh? For me to look back at my posts and reflect on my reflections [HAHA] and feel happy or sad or whatever heh). Musing on pause brb.


Anw, I should probably end off with the Confucius joke that is so indicative of CAP.
Confucius say: Man who makes mistake in elevator, wrong on so many levels HAHAHA

CHINGYING; 12:11 PM

Sunday, February 12, 2012 : }

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CHINGYING; 1:09 AM

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 : }

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Saturday, May 14, 2011 : }

I'M ORIENT MADE BABY.

(actually I was made in America but whatever HAHAHA)

Anyway Monday with EDS was really fun running through the water getting soaked drying and running through again; Tuesday's bouldering left me with 236263 aches but it was fun nevertheless cause I'm hooked!

OBS next week and I'm chionging packing (as always lol); went to expo today to get the backpack etc so fingers crossed that everything fits!

I'm actually quite excited to see the interior of the Crown Plaza @ T3 tomorrow for my uncle's wedding; it's supposed to be really environmentally friendly and all :D and speaking of the environment, Charity Drive's back on with a global warming/record day theme so I really hope inspiration hits me real soon!

I got a B for LA LOL. I guess I've done my best so I shouldn't be bothered about this two-grade drop in what is supposed to be my best subject. Please please please let my lit pull through /:

EDS stuff to settle and Math ass to do. chiong ah!

CHINGYING; 10:28 PM

Monday, May 9, 2011 : }

CHINGYING; 1:03 AM