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RGS gymnasts set to compete in 2010 Youth Olympic Games
By Heather Tan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 May 2008 0145 hrs

SINGAPORE: Two 13-year old gymnasts from Raffles Girls' Secondary School are a step closer to flying the country's flag at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

That is because their coach feels they are of the age-group that will make a mark for Team Singapore.

Passion and commitment - that's what drive Phaan Yi Lin and Vivien Ho* from Raffles Girls to dedicate their time to gymnastics. They train for five hours, six times a week.

And these two 13-year-olds - the youngest members of the team - are all set to represent Singapore at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Phaan Yi Lin, Secondary One Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "For this, we will work hard and train so we will not disappoint our coaches and our families." The girls are part of the school's Junior Training Squad in gymnastics.

They train with seasoned coaches from China and the UK, and have been practising various moves, including the front aerial, back flip layout, giant swing, chest rolls and reverse split jumps.

The girls not only excel in the sport, they are able to handle school work too.

Nazyra Suhairi, Secondary Four Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "There's always a time for everything. In school, you just focus on school, and once you come to gym, you just switch off everything else that has nothing to do with gym - you just focus mainly on training."

Joey Tam, Secondary Two Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "Gym has been a part of our lives since really long ago. So we just squeeze in homework anytime we get."

RGS also plans to build its own gymnasium to dedicate more time and effort into coaching the girls. **

Alina Wee, Teacher-in-Charge of Gymnastics at Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "We would like them to train at least six times a week. And with great parental support as well as school support in terms of studies, we have to ensure the scholastic aspect of their life in school is also taken care of while they prepare for the YOG."

Currently, the school's training sessions are held at the Education Ministry's CCA Branch at Bukit Timah. - CNA/de

*GO YILIN AND VIVIEN! Keep on pro-ing and being aweshummmmm!

**COOOOOOOOOOL!

Yup so I realised that my posts are getting kinda self-centered nowadays. (Self-centered meaning all about me only.) SO I have decided that I will do dedications for the new year!

202 08: The QUEENS! I'll miss all those sick jokes, eyebrow-raising moments, legal eating in class for practically every lesson, junk food ordering, and class partayyes! Thanks for all the good unclean fun and we ROCK :D

Rhythmic Gym 08: B'Div champs for the 8th year running! Even though I won't be with you all next year, I'll still consider you guys my wonderful batchmates, seniors, and juniors! Love you guys and I'll pop down for training when I can. <3

English Drama 08: It was really fun and fabulous getting to know all of you and becoming an ELDSer! Thanks for all the laughs, puns, funny improvs, and awesome plays! Seriously the wackiest, p(h)unniest people on earth :D

PSB 08: I don't know what sec 2 would be like if I wasn't in PSB. Thanks to all the PSLs and SPSLs for being great seniors and friends and JPSLs for being part of the coolest, littlest PSB batch ever :D I'll remember PSLTC, all our great GMs, PSL sessions, Orientation, MGMs etc. etc. and we'll still be aweshum PSB 08!

109 08: So you'll all become 209'09 next year :) You guys have been the number one reason for my sleepless nights, no kidding. But it's all worth it when I see you all at PSL sessions, even just around school and I hope you all can grow closer together as a class in sec 2!

Taiwan Immersionees 08: Thanks for all the crazy crazy moments we've had, and all the field trips, lessons, computer classes, shopping, kumquat peeling, cup noodles, getting scolded, crying, laughing etc. etc. I couldn't think of a better way to spend the holidays than learning Chinese at the NTNU with you guys! Keep the gatherings coming on and drink more chin chow!

Yeah and thanks to all those other friends out there who made my year great, even if it's just a moment or two. AND LEKO BURRITO the aweshum 4th sister I have who crashes my house every spare moment she can and eats all my food and sleeps on my sofa and shares my mommy.

And I seriously doubt my family reads my blog because I don't publicise it but they've been really great too :) My mommy who drove me home from trainings in Potong Pasir, my daddy who works like crazy, my sisters who play with me, my rabbit who just sits around and acts cute, my cat who follows me everywhere I go.

Can't wait for Orientation 2009 now :) 105 class I/Cs are really cool peeps. Nandita and Jo-Ann say they're gonna be extra-participative SPSLs! Which means that they'll do the usual job, observing us and stuff, except they won't do it silently in the corner of the classroom, they'll join in all the activities. So I guess we're gonna have 30+ sec ones and 2 sec fours to entertain!

And guess what, Min Chih is taller than all of us despite being the youngest. I feel small. Really small.

In the lift at Far East, Nandita, Jo-Ann, Min Chih, and Zerline suddenly realised that they all live ridiculously close to each other, so they started screaming and exchanging info on the exact locations of their houses. Boo not fair :( But wouldn't it be cool if we could have like a joint sleepover at all their houses? We could travel back and forth and stay an hour at each house!

105 is a RICHARDSON class! Things keep getting better and better!

YAY CCAO :D

Wish I could've gone last year, too. Tour guiding is fun hahahahaha! And surprisingly, the sec ones talked to me. A lot. Alright, maybe it was only like 1 or 2 who kept talking to me and I was sooo glad that they didn't dao me. Wasn't very hyper today because of serious lack of sleep. But still happy :) And I found out how lame Charisse, my fellow 105 I/C, is. Still, no one got close to beating Shi Wei.

Haha it was super fun going round the booths going "Heyyyy! I got a group for you all!" to random strangers or friends. The LD booth was super funny, because everyone was just munching on cookies and hanging around like a partayye. And the best part was that we were the only CCA eating in front of the new sec ones and their parents, so paiseh hahahaha!

And the show the sec 4s put up was really really really good. :D "Ways To Torture Your Teacher" was so cuuuute and me, Karishma, Min Ee, Debbie, and Deenie snuck up to where the spotlights were to get a better view of the performance.

Yays to R.GYM for THE best souvenirs, in my biased opinion. And and and I got to intro the gym booth because Rosemarie was either being nice or feeling shy. You know how much I like "public" speaking. Yay aweshumm! Oh and thanks Ting for the Blue Batch Bangles.

I separate posts by topic, not by day. So that's it for CCAO I guess.

Needs to run. Needs to long jump. Needs to rollerblade. Needs to feel blood in my blood vessels moving. Needs to stretch. Needs to try on my new Adidas.

It seems the older I get, the slower I run. Grahhhh. It's just as well I can't make it to play catching with my Taiwan Immersionees. I'd probably feel slow and unmotivated. And there goes my punctured ego. Serves me right for not having a life.

So I'm back from Penang. And my life is already being tossed around in the washing machine. Heh, I remember back in China there was this giant Whirpool washing machine ad that hung outside the shopping center-ish place I used to go for milk tea. Maybe that was a sign or something.

I wanna go rollerblading! But it seems that all of us are way to caught up in our crazy lives to live like we did after PSLE and at the start of sec 1. Sheesh. Plus, we didn't even have any Aunties outings yet. Hell-o, can we please respect tradition?

2005: Malacca. Well, I don't know if this counts 'cause we didn't know each other well enough to be excited about this trip. If you don't count knowing Leko, that is.
2005: Desaru!!!
2006: Genting!
2007: Genting. Didn't feel right the second time.
2008: Nil.

See? It's like a curve or something.

Zomgoshness the PretSeLs cast me as the bimbo. The bimbo. The bimbo.
Can't wait :D Go PretSeLs!!!!

I'm backk from Taiwan!

Although I will miss that place and living there like CRAZY, I can't say that I'm sad or anything.

I have 37 good friends, a new found interest in Chinese, and lots of souvenirs.

I'm happy. :D

It's 4 hours to meeting time, and nobody wants to get sleep.

Just got a big scolding from Mrs Poon because everyone was being sentimental and having mass hugging in the corridor. I guess she heard us, because she gave us a long talk about being considerate. My roommates have all sorts of funny plans and now Sarah is on the phone with Sam discussing the possibility of sneaking out without being caught.

I love my new hoodie hooded jacket! It's Paul Frank and I have the black while Rachel my twinnie has hot pink :D Zhiyuan went shopping with us because we lost Sarah, Grace and Sam when they went to buy crepes and disappeared. So yeah, but I didn't mind shopping with Zhiyuan and Rachel at all because they're really nice to shop with. Zohmygoodness Jasmine Liu Jia Hwei actually goes SHOPPING? Yes, she does :)

And Zhiyuan loves stuffed toys and jackets like us so we always stop randomly to look at stuff. He's now regretting not buying a Paul Frank hooded jacket to match ours. We were actually hoping laoshi would decide to let the guys use up the remaining 5,500 Taiwanese dollars worth of food coupons on biscuits so Zhiyuan would have another chance to get back to the night market and find that jacket shop. But no, so now we have $5,500 gone to waste. It's about $270 Singapore dollars worth of food coupons.

So I have officially spent almost $300 dollars on this trip. Whoa, Nelly. The LLY is gonna be so happy to know how I splurged on their gifts. And guess what, I even bought my tuition teacher a gift because she's nice and also because I had to cancel a whole holiday's worth of tuition, much to Brendan's delight.

I miss gym. I miss gym. I miss gym. I need to jump. Very badly.

There is Ryan, Terry and Joel at the door now. Probably more illegal gatherings? Sarah and Grace want RI and RGS to merge. I don't mind us being separated. We're still rather close, anyways.

I'm gonna miss this place. Loves OCAC, NTNU, Taipei :D Dedications coming soon, probably :D

Yay and I'm back!

So we had a really good lunch, with like 10 dishes per table? Of course no one could finish :( But I think the restaurant re-serves the dishes. We all suspect it, but we don't really care.

Afterwards we had 1.5 hours to go to the supermarket and explore the campus outside of our isolated little block which we're confined to most of the time. Instead, most of us just went back to our block right after the supermarket trip (where we annoyed customers by getting like one person to buy everyone's junk at one go) and we frolicked around taking pictures and giving each other piggyback rides.

So after that we went for a briefing which no one really listened to. I tried hard to but it just couldn't process in my brain for some reason. Jordan was like "Is Hong Lao Shi sleeping?" and Hong Lao Shi jerked her head around to look at him. Whoops.

THEN MAI LAO SHI BROUGHT US TO THE UNIVERSITY SPORTS AREA! I just looove Mai Lao Shi now. Actually it started out with the guys asking if they could play basketball there, then in the end 28 of us went with Mai Lao Shi. Well, we only had one basketball so I walked around with Linn, Rachel, Pearlynn and Chloe. Linn and I were looking for a trampoline, but that'd probably be indoors somewhere. There is an indoor pool that smells really really strongly of chlorine :(

And as we walked out of the pool building, that was when I noticed the LONG JUMP PIT! Linn and I were hooked onto it and we just jumped and jumped and jumped to no end. Now I have a bruise on my knee but who cares? My love for long jump has been rekindled! That was so cheesy. But seriously, I was happy for a good long while after that and I think I was the fastest girl eater at dinner. I went around announcing that I officially Love Jumping but no one really cared because I was just high from jumping.

After that, POOL! (I don't say billiards.) Joseph (Hoseph) was really weird today and he started standing on the table and whacking the cue ball with the stick like he was playing golf, which really annoyed Rachel who just wanted to beat him seriously once and for all. She won, but she says the game wasn't even serious. I CANNOT aim.

My roommates are AWESOME. We're swapping clothes for our graduation vacation and I get Sarah's favourite shirt and paikia hoodie! Grace gets my ACRES shirt, and Rachel gets my brown and red stripey sweater while I keep the green one and we're wearing them together on Friday so we can be real Twinnies.

Graduation vacation tomorrow. Returning Friday night. Apparently we're going to the last piece of untouched Taiwanese land. Sounds pretty cool, we're going to be doing a lot of hiking (even at 5.30am) and we're going to Ocean Park!

I LOVE LONG JUMP! GO RICHARD!

There's a lot more to blog about here in Taiwan than in Singapore.

Graduation today! Supposedly formal but in fact very emotional. After the goodbye video from the OCAC fu dao yuan people, everyone felt like crying and I sorta felt a bit like that too but for some reason I didn't. I started hyperventilating. It was really freaky because I forgot how to breathe so I was making weird wheezing noises and trying to breathe into my jacket (I have no idea why) while everyone was like "Don't cry!" and I was like "I'm not crying!". It took us(including me) about 5 minutes to realise I really couldn't breathe, and it wasn't just getting emotional.

So my wonderful awesome classmates all went upstairs with Ms Koh to get me some air at the rooftop garden. About 10 minutes later I could breathe properly again, but my arms were still weird from the lack of circulation. Ms Koh says the doctor says it's pretty normal when children get too excited. Eeps. THANK YOU CLASS #1 I TOTALLY OWE YOU GUYS ONE!

So after that we all played truth or dare. Claire had to go up to this woman working out on the treadmill and tell her she's pretty. The woman just smiled and it was pretty obvious we were behind this anyways. Jordan called us to the auditorium to sing songs together. We did some HSM 3 songs and some more bittersweet ones. We all went downstairs 10 minutes late on purpose, partly to see what punishment we would get. I guess the laoshis weren't in the mood to punish us.

Post getting too long. Look out for next post!

I can't believe we're going back this Saturday. Or Sunday. Whatever. Seriously stinks :( We all wish we could be like boarding school students and live like that and I guess we'll all miss all the rubbish we get to do like eat cup noodles every night and kope food from as many people as we can.

Graduation is tomorrow! And graduation trip to the countryside. Sounds cool :D

Hee today I was really impressed by the skits class #2 and class #3 put up. And I'm sure class #1 did well too! We all got prizes. Class #1 was named bravest class, class #2 recieved best presentation, class #3 was named most creative class. Then after the competition we all used the green chalk left over from class #2's horror skit to draw on each other's clothes and faces. My jacket took quite a bit of torture :D Renci's ear turned green and Jordan's face was kept green for the rest of the day for a dare or something.


Speaking of which, I can't believe I fell for this prank played after bed check, when we were all supposed to be in our rooms but people still sneak around anyways:

(Doorbell rings)
I open the door and just then Jordan appears from the stairwell with his bottle and starts filling it up.
Jordan says hi without speaking.

Jasmine: (half whispering)Hey, who rang the doorbell?
Jordan: Huh?
Jasmine: Somebody rang the doorbell
Jordan: Really?
Jasmine: Yeah, just.

Then Rachel comes over to the door and being the smarter of us two, goes

Rachel: He rang the doorbell.

So Jordan doubles over laughing silently but hysterically, what Sarah would call the chicko look, and I pretend to be mad.

So karaoke is over. Everyone's feeling kinda sad about this but me. I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling so much more than fine knowing that there will be no more reason for me to freak out every night any more.

I need to stop lonering. I shall will play pool tonight. I WILL.

Taipei 101 tomorrow night! Bubble tea and shopping on Wednesday during (supposedly) Chinese lesson time!

I bough a Nike shirt at 50% off. 440 Taiwanese dollars (about $22?). AND I just came back the supermarket where my roommates bought like 4 bowls of instant noodles each. I just bought this weird health food thing in a packet and instant milk tea. I don't even know if the health food thing is a drink or a food. I don't even know it's state of matter.

This place pretty much rocks :D

So here I am lonering in my room. I'm supposed to be upstairs playing billiards or something but I CANNOT PROCRASTINATE uploading photos!

It's kinda funny that I'm not nearly as Jazzy here as I am in school. Not enough sleep maybe. KARAOKE IS DRIVING ME NUTS. AND I THOUGHT KARAOKE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY AND SPONTANEOUS.

But the people here are nuts. During computer lesson on Saturday, lao shi was saying how he had the FEELING that we were on MSN and not doing work. Most people were having a mass class convo but I was being nerdy playing this Chinese computer game we were supposed to play but it's SO ADDICTIVE. So anyways whenever lao shi walked around looking at our screens they'd minimise MSN and pretend they were being good. Well lao shi wasn't convinced because this isn't his first year with Raffles students. Later on someone walked over to ask lao shi something and HOLY MACKERAL he was watching the MSN convo from the comfort of his special teacher computer that could show what everyone's computer was doing! Haha so what to do? Spam the convo with endless 老师很帅(lao shi is handsome). He was pretty amused :D

Whee we're going to buy more rubbish from 7 Eleven tonight! I don't think I have ever been so glad just to go to the supermarket or even 7 Eleven. The pens here are like half the price of what they're worth in Singapore it's awesome.

There are cheerleaders downstairs playing He Said She Said and Girlfriend over and over. Apparently they're going for some competition so they have been practising day and night for days now. It's pretty cool and they wave to us when we look at them.

Class in 48 minutes. Wonder if I should just fall asleep here again or join my classmates at the pool table.

My roommates are awesome CSI investigators :D

Life here is exciting!

Eeep.

I don't know what to make of this trip. Most of the time I'm having fun but sometimes I want to jump off the rooftop. My roommates say it's stress?

Taiwan is fun :) Even the Chinese classes, they're cool. I've met the Taiwanese equivalent of Mr Hogan in my class. And the female teacher is also very good. Only thing is that the vocab they're teaching us is super limited, like primary school :(

Inter class karaoke next week! Guess what song we're doing. Right, better not put it up in case someone from another class finds out.

Heee and the people are pretty nice here! And I'm gonna have huge biceps when I return, cause we're all practising arm wrestling during breaks. Inez and Shiwei's match was drawn. Tennis vs. rugby. Whoa. Claire is gonna beat her dad when she gets back to Singapore, she says.

Class starting soon.

Hey

I'm in Taiwan now. Go to facebook if you want to see photos:)
It's so much like China here. I don't think the Taiwanese want to hear that but yeah. It's so much like China here that I miss China again. But I won't cry or anything. I hope.

We're sort of grounded right now so we can't leave the building. Grounded for a week. And now we still have more than an hour until we have to go downstairs so we're sort of doing rubbish on the computer now. And CmPS. I'm waiting for Debs to send me the edited SOW cause she forgot to attach it. Okay maybe I'll just do it on my own SOW so we can merge the changes later.

I like my group :) Pearlynn is a nutcase. In a good way. But I think I'm getting a bit flu-ish. Or maybe I'm getting sinus problems like Nut.

202 ROOLS

ACP was fantastic. Haha fantastic seems to be my new favourite word! But it was. Even though I'm not exactly the most graceful or coordinated person in the world, but whatever. Sorry if I scared anyone with my temporary bimbness, I was just high and stuff.

You know, even though everyone got frustrated and tired and stressed during the last few days before ACP, I have to say that it's worth it. And I really did mean it when I said that my doubts about 202 had cleared over that one event. Yeah, so we have cliques and we're not THAT bonded and I really thought I couldn't survive the year. But what's the point of being such a loser pessimist anymore? We're leaving in 9 days, might as well make the most of this time to have fun and get the class together than worrying. I know 202 isn't perfect or really what I hoped for at the start of the year, but what I learnt from 109 is that you can't really compare classes, and you can't have a fixed mindset over what an ideal class is, cause we're all different and nobody's perfect. So we're all winners in our own special way.

And 202, I couldn't really say that you guys aren't a fabulously fun and shameless class with a knack for spotting innuendos :) I think we had THE most fun throughout this whole ACP, what with all the karaoke, air guitar, mad dancing and Mr De Souza videos. Like Rash and Yihui said, we don't have to win any ACP prizes, we've already won.

Let's make the last days of 202'08 the bestest ones yet! And no matter what, 202 still rools!

Happy birthday Trina!
I know everyone likes bullying Trina because of her lame sense of humour, but we still like her just the (lame) way she is :D
& Cailyn!
I'm glad I didn't get cheated into buying that $10 LeSportSac eh? Good thing for Alicia Tan. Don't get sick of gym, dude! Alright so you can't help it because they never change the routine, but eat more peanut butter sandwiches and you'll feel better!

PSB Night was fantabuloustest.

It seemed like just yesterday I was at leadership camp writing those acronyms that would possibly determine my sec 2 fate. I'm glad I picked the one with 3 letters:D

I'm gonna miss PSB 2008. Even though I know we'll still have great people for PSB next year, it won't really be the same without red-name-tag SPSLs. Not that blue name taggers aren't equally awesome, but SPSLs 2008 were like the first batch of SPSLs I got to know, and in a way, they're my PSLs right?

And like I said to Ting, even though people have this fixed mindset that J/S/PSLs are permanently on high, if there's one thing I learnt about SPSLs, I can say that they're some of the wisest people I've ever met. Not in the Confucius (Johnny Kong!) way, but they're wise in their own SPSL way. So thank you for all the help, advice, MGMs, GMs etc. etc. :D Especially JoHo and Yen Yee for taking care of 109 PSLs!

And whoa I totally experienced this strange Deja Vu when JoHo said to be a good PSL. Because I can still remember exactly on November 3rd 2007, Sharon said to be a good JPSL. Freaky how time flies. Every GM since somewhere halfway into this year, I've been wishing time would slow down :( And I missed farewell GM!

Rawr okay I'm whining again. Back to PSB Night. Haha a KNIGHT in Shining Armour fabulous! Sorry JoHo and Yen Yee for the strange song I half-composed! And I'm sorrier for screaming the lyrics, not singing them. Poor Xin Ping was all limp after land training because her coach was a "freaking sadist". Thank you Leena for guest-starring in our performance I totally owe you one! Pris Chew and Carey had the most sentimental performance of the night and everyone was like "Awwww!". So sweeeet. OH YES AND THANK YOU PRIS, ELAINE, CAREY, PSB TEACHERS FOR PATCHING ME UP after that dumb accident! And also thanks to the people who asked, "Are you okay?" and Nadia! Pris stayed back to entertain me with her guitar and I secretly felt SUPER DUPER jealous. Like Xin Ping. It's just fascinating watching her fingers move. I FEEL INSPIRED. It shall be my latest goal in life to learn to play the guitar. After I'm done with piano maybe.

Photos courtesy of Elaine Lau :)

LOVE PSB!

No one's coming back to visit. But I don't blame them. I dumped the wordpress for a month already.

Ooh tomorrow is going to be a mad rush.

1. Stand up speak out
2. Random class stuff like hanging around doing rubbish
3. OBS checkup(?)
4. Taiwan briefing
5. PSB NIGHT!
6. That's for me to know and for you to find out :D

It's gonna be fun and busy and fantastic and laught

I don't feel like going to school. It's supposed to be fun and stuff but somehow I have grown to taking a liking for my loser routine life. I'm hesitant about having fun. I feel weird at the thought of interacting with people I ALREADY KNOW. It's like I turning into some sort of loner.

I want to go. But I don't want to go.

It's super freaky how when you think life just goes on like that, whether you like it or not, your subconsciousness begs to differ. And then some strange dream to the likes of Frankenstein's monster comes and upsets the artificial balance.

This is going to take some serious thought.

Now I'll get dumb haunting deja vu moments whenever I use Yahoo! Mail. In other words, every day. Why YAHOO?

Hey

This has been a horrible post-eya. Last year, I remember we went to Novena, Plaza Sing etc. but guess what, I went home for piano today.

Okay, so it wasn't exactly anyone's fault except for mine. I knew piano was coming anyways and I really need improvement. Somehow I missed the announcement on inet about the taiwan vaccination postponement and ended up stuck in RGS which was like a ghost town cause everyone escaped withing half an hour. Only this bunch of sec ones hanging around and sec fours practising for net carn were left. That's it. So I sort of panicked and went down the the dance studio to check every half an hour or so, and read New Moon in between.

Right so I finally gave up and decided to check inet one more time and guess what? It struck me that I'd given up Angela's offer to watch House Bunny and Trina's offer to celebrate YuQing's birthday to stone in school! It was kinda late, so I went home and wasted another half an hour following my mom to NTUC. So by the time I was actually home it was 2.15, 15 minutes to piano. So I waited patiently for Ms Pauline and GUESS WHAT, I fell asleep. It was already 3 when she finally came cause she gave a time range, so technically she wasn't late, I was early.

Ms Paul is actually a pretty interesting musician. It's like lit to her, or something. She goes really dramatic sometimes and says stuff like "This song is like riding a boat" and then she picks my wrists up and make them do rowing movements.

Besides the point. So piano ended at 4.30 and I spent half an hour digging out the DVDs to bring to our unofficial movie marathon and searching for YuQing's gift and trying to put some life into my zombieish, tired, outer shell. Finally, when I called at 5pm, the marathon had ended and everyone had left.

But later I found out that cineleisure's House Bunny started at 12.50pm, which means that even if I went, I wouldn't be able to watch it. And maybe it wasn't too bad getting some rest from late nights mugging. Plus, this isn't like the last day of school or anything.

But I'm still extremely guilty for being too slow for YuQing's birthday. ARGH.

Hey

I'm into wordpress right now. Don't know if I'll ever come back. In the meantime,
http://www.paintedpavements.wordpress.com

See you:)

30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play
And it was FUN :) The last time I acted in front of an audience was during Drama Night 2007 when I had that ONE line as an orphan kid. ("Hey Charlene! Let's play!") But this time it was like WOAH, 2 hours. And Huifei is afraid of coming into contact with other human beings! Just like Mei Jia I guess, but they really shouldn't let other people know. In Huifei's case, we are going to make it a tradition to give her a constricting group hug after every performance. Cool eh?

Alright back to the point. THANK YOU to everyone who came to watch and I'm really glad that we could put on a play that lived up to our reputation (I hope!) in such a short period of time! Special thanks to VIOLE(N)T-LEE for taking over me during comp. I know I've said this a gazillion times to her already but I don't think I can ever thank her enough for that.

Rehearsal lunch breaks are deadly fun.

Have you heard the joke about the ocean?
It's too deep for you.

Have you heard the joke about the cradle?
It rocks.

Have you heard the joke about the blunt pencil?
There's no point.

And FPS was fun too! Lin taught us the one word game, where you have to answer all the questions people direct at you with the same word, and not laugh.

Shao: Everything King Midas touches turns to gold. Everything Jasmine touches turns to...
Me: BANANAS!

Lin: What do you like doing?
Amanda: Jaywalk

Lin: What's your boyfriend's name?
Amanda: Jay Walk

10 reasons not to make a list

1. Lists suck.

2. There's no point, Santa still thinks you're naughty.

3. If you should ever get carried away making a paper one, you'll get one so long it wraps around you and suffocates you like a boa constrictor. Not cool.

4. You may make a list of relatives, which could lead to you trying to make a list of your ancestors, which could lead to you researching on your bloodline, and you just might find out something truly shocking like you're actually related to your scary P2 teacher Ms Grisworld, and you may fall off the chair in shock and knock yourself into a coma.

5. If you make a shopping list, you'd probably lose it right before you go shopping. It's the way of the universe.

6. Because lists make you look organised. And should you be in the "We are disorganised and proud of it" club, you'll find yourself losing membership. And the goodie bag that comes with the membership.

7. With Adonis Lee in this world, you may, in your state of fangirliness, make a list of things Adonis looks like, such as a bowl of cereal, a plate of lasagna, or a ticket to the world cup. And if anyone finds that list, you'd better get your wig, sunglasses, and one-way ticket to the Bermuda Triangle ready.

8. Aunty Gladys insists that lists are for weak-minded people who cannot bother to remember things. And you have to obey her. Or else.

9. Your older sister once told you that you're allergic not only to sharks, pianos, and Swedish accents, but lists as well.

10. You may feel the urge to put it on your blog, which is totally uncool.

Watch out for part 2: 30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play, to be performed in the KS Chee on the 25th (7.30pm) and the 26th(2.30pm and 7.30 pm) of July. Tickets are free at $10 each

Comp is over once again. Thanks for the chocs/hugs/notes/lip gloss/food everyone!

Yay RGS RSG and our good friends from IJTP RSG! I think everyone did really well, whether you were danrens, jitis or optionals :)

RGS RSG: B Div champs for the don'tknowhowmanyyears running! Thanks for doing the math, Mrs Wee. And indiv 2nd! Which is really really awesome considering that Mel, Hazel and Cailyn were never indivs before. Dajiti 1st! And they only trained for 2 months, too! Glad and Jolene were great as usual too :) Xiaojiti didn't win, and it's partly my fault for freaking out at the first pao, but ahh well, we did our best. Vivien and Yilin won for all the optional apparatus. Well done RGS RSG:D

IJTP: I can't really remember what all of you all won so I will just do a thank-you message. Thanks for being our Gym mates! Even though we're not in the same school and all we still cheer for each other and help each other out and I think that's really cool :) Well done for everything and catch you guys some other time!

You know what? I don't think I should've made a wishlist. I shouldn't even wish for stuff. It's not very nice because there are other kids out there wishing for non-abusive parents. So yeah. I shall be *happy* with what I have and NOT think about stuff like beanie babies. Even though it's human to want stuff. But that doesn't mean you can't try to forget. Oh man I don't know what I'm saying. I want beanie babies but I don't want to want them? I guess?



What I know now is that I don't know the meaning of going on a hiatus. (Not in the literal sense.)

Jasmine wants:

1. A pair of white clubs
2. That famous Broadway musicals soundtrack (I think it's called Mama Mia?)
3. XJT GOLD OR SILVER
4. A hug :)
5. A hello-happy-birthday-dude!
6. Dried cranberries and an apple for a nice healthy lunch
7. To get that ink stain off my pencil case
8. Beanie babies or any other soft toy
9. Nice yummy books like Feeling Sorry For Celia
10. A guitar. Just for fun.

for her birthday. Though those in bold will do, since the rest are material items and it's no good to be too materialistic. Yup and all these are fulfill-able things, or I'd wish for everyone to have a nice day or something, but you can't really do that, can you? Okay please DO NOT spend your money on the stuff here because I do know they are expensive (to me at least). Number 5 and 4 will do. I'll just mail this to Santa to see if I've been a good girl.

My mom says the sores on my tongue means I'm getting HFM disease. Ick. This is probably the worst time of the year to get an infectious disease. SO if I'm absent for a long time, you know what happened. Meanwhile, I've been posting too much. So I will go on a 2 week hiatus. Also because I have a lot of stuff to do. Adios :)

Alicia Tan's making me do this. (See tagboard.)

1.Do you like your present school?
Yeah :) But I feel like killing myself when I see all the PTs due this month.

2.What do you want the most now?
The remote Adam Sandler had in one movie that enabled him to stop, pause, etc. time.

3.What type of ice-cream do you want to be?
If I'm lemon sorbet or Cherryberry gelato, I can lick myself. Eww gross. Maybe I should be a flavour I hate so I don't lick myself. Maybe I just shouldn't be an ice cream.

4.Do you hate your friends sometimes?
No. The most I get is secretly irritated. Hate is too strong a word :0

5.Name something annoying your friends do that annoys you.
Talk to me too much at assembly sometimes. Call me a killjoy, I'm not used to talking at assembly.

6.What is your goal this year?
I've got many of them. The most obvious one being become a PSL :)

7.Do you forgive or forget or both?
I forgive all the time and I try to forget but forgetting isn't something you can really control right?

8.Do you believe in eternity love?
Its not "eternity love, its eternal love" And yeah, why not?

9.Have you ever done something for a crush or boyfriend/girlfriend?
No. Do I look like someone who has a boyfriend? Sorry, I'm too feminist right now.

10.What do you enjoy doing the most?
Conducting PSL sessions.

11.Have you done anything for your admirer?
No.

12.Do you like your CCA?
Yup :)

13.Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
I'd hate to lose any friend. Does that answer your question?

14.Who would you probably spend the rest of your life with?
I have to idea. But like Alicia says, ME. Duh.

15.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
People.

16.Do you find life meaningless?
Not really. But I have a crazy theory that actually I'm living in a miniature playset belonging to some people and everything is just made up. Like the black hole and WW1 and YOU.

17.What do you live for?
I don't know. I just live. For the rest of the world, I guess.

18.Who do you talk to most in school?
I have no idea. I talk to a lot of people

19.Who is the last person/people you've talked to on msn?
I don't MSN. I sent a file to Violet on MSN a few weeks ago. But we didn't talk.

20.What do you crave to eat right now?
I'm really full and there's a horrible sore on the tip of my tongue so maybe a lemon sorbet can numb it?

Tag 8:
1. You.
2. You.
3. You.
4. You.
5. You.
6. You.
7. You.
8. Cause what's the point of doing this when the person I tag might not read it? But YOU're reading this so HAHAHAHAH!

This is totally unfair. They can totally just arrest undercover agents for invading people's privacy then. WAKE UP WAKE UP WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT HERE, PEOPLE? Arresting the people selling whale meat, or arresting the people reporting the crime?

Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a whale meat embezzlement fraud in Japan -- Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki -- have been themselves arrested -- for allegedly stealing the whale meat that they turned over to police as evidence.
Demand the Japanese government free the activists

This is the backlash. We've uncovered a scandal involving powerful forces in the Japanese government that benefit from whaling, and it's not surprising they are striking back.

What is surprising is that these activists, who are innocent of any crime, would be arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers. Theirs are, to date, the only arrests that have been made in the Tokyo public prosecutor's investigation into the embezzlement we documented of millions of yen worth of whale meat.

This was not a police action -- it was an intimidation tactic by the government agencies responsible for whaling -- and the kind of harassment of whistleblowers that a modern democracy should not allow. Our first news that an arrest was imminent came from Japanese television stations. Someone leaked the information to ensure images of Greenpeace activists in handcuffs appeared on news reports in Japan.

More than 40 police officer raided our offices and the homes of the activists, and spent 10 hours seizing cell phones, documents, and computers, despite the fact that we had documented every step of how we obtained the whale meat, turned the full dossier over with the evidence, and made ourselves available to police to help with the investigation at any time. A simple phone call could have brought Junichi and Toru to the police station. Instead, the government made a public spectacle of shutting Greenpeace down.

Don't let Japan shut down the truth. Demand the release of Junichi and Toru and demand an end to the whaling programme in Japan. The corruption of a few bureaucrats who profit from whaling should not be an excuse for harassing those who have exposed it. The domestic and international shame which this scandal is bringing on the Japanese agencies responsible for whaling is just one more reason that Japan should stop its sham scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean forever.

Please, take action now and pass this message along to your friends. Let's get Junichi and Toru back with their families, and demand the real criminals go to jail.

Thank you,

The Greenpeace whale team

CLICK HERE: http://www.greenpeace.org/tokyo-two

Talent vogue was SO MUCH MORE than fantabulificent. I don't think I have ever been to a better school concert like WOAH. And I'm so glad I bought the tickets early. It's fully worth the 8 bucks and I betcha next year's tickets would be snapped up in 3 days.

Thanks performers (and guest performers)! You guys were awesome and sexy and TALENTED. And congratulations! Yupp. The Bballers won first prize. I haven't seen that much moshing since me and Cailyn's air guitar thingy we made up at gym chalet! Anyways you guys were fantastic and hilarious and enjoy your BANANA republic, MANGO and APPLE merchandise! (Plus the basket.)

Thanks TALENT TEAM! Thanks for the fantastic hosting, effort and for shamelessly plugging every Thursday. Thursday is the only day I look forward to assembly. Please keep the ads going! Hah but that's a dumb suggestion cause that would be pointless since the show's over.

Yay I love how RGS is crazy and exciting and funny! And HEY XJT'07! I want US to perform next year! We can act bimbotic. WITH APPARATUS. That would be cool but insulting to the sport of R.Gym. But still!

Quote of the day:
"They have such tight butts. There's like no flab at all. Laoshi would love them!"

Weirdest conversation of the day:
"Hey! You told me she could sing, you didn't tell me she could mosh!"
"I told you she could dance."
"(Pause) Okay never mind, that was an unfunny joke."
"Yeah. I don't get it."

Howdy

So, what is this mysterious cabbage-like thing hmm? I discovered it while attacking veg to feed Rabby. Apparently if you cut the end of the xiao bai chye (yup, that's how they spell it) where the stalks meet, you get this cute rose pattern. Cool eh?

So well the first day of school was kinda slack and fun. The new History teacher had to go for a photo shoot so we were left in class watching this video but it only lasted 10 minutes so we just hung around for the remaining 50 minutes. Bio was... weird. I'm not sure what we did. It was more contact time-ish. So the rest of the day went on with people going MIA on account of the CCA/leadership boards photo shoots. And I discovered while running down the spiral staircase that the best way to run in court shoes is to run on tiptoes. So that way the heel won't get in the way. The dancers were still in stage makeup at the time of the PSB photo shoot so they looked scary in a nice way :) LD (I don't really like ED. It's like Health Ed.) photo shoot was kinda sad. And SORRY for wearing my culottes and PE shirt!

Oh yeah and PSB applications are out! But I discovered that lots of people still have the impression that a good PSL is a hyper-laughing-smiling-never-frowning person. In my humble opinion, PSLs can come in all colours and flavours and just by being hyper doesn't make you a good PSL. Quote Rachel Miao "Being a PSL isn't about being bubbly and enthu. It takes a lot of patience to be a very good PSL." Gosh, I can remember that from before Sec One Orientation 2008. I think she said it in Pre-Orientation Training? Yeah so anyways, I do notice that PSLs like me tend to be very high and stuff during PSL sessions but we're doing this to keep the mood happy and stuff and not because it makes us better as PSLs. THAT WAS AN INSIGHTFUL INSIGHT FROM JASMINE AND GOOD LUCK FOR THOSE APPLYING :D

Whoops I gave too many clues away. Sheesh. Fine so there are only two things to do now.
1. Give the recognition.
2. Scream and complain.
I'll do #1 first:)

CONGRATULATIONS MS NURUL :) WE(jasmine) HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE A SHOO-IN TO WIN THIS CONTEST ANYWAYS!(Well, not really haha.) WELL DONE! WHOOHOO! AND YOU WERE SMARTER THAN MS CHENG LYNN WHO THOUGHT I LIKED XMEN 3! YOU HAVE PROVED THAT YOU HAVE GOOD MOVIE KNOWLEDGE LIKE TOTALLAYE SO WELL DONE!

You know what? I'm even gonna buy you something from stall 1 just cause I feel like it :) Well done! So you see, reading Jasmine's blog does pay off!

Right, now for the screaming and complaining.

That was not the least bit fair guys! First you guys complain that I don't give clues, and now I give too many clues and you guys guessed the movie in like 2 weeks! You guys should have known that I'm a horrible clue-giver. Did you see the clues I set for my sister when we were playing treasure hunt? Fine, maybe you didn't but URGH! (Proceeds to sulk in a corner.)

Ok fine it was my fault! I'm not REALLY angry :D

Hello my adoring blog readers! (HAHA)

Since no one has made any guesses yet, I will make it much easier by providing all the clues I can think of in one shot.

1. It was in cinemas in 2007.

2. (Forget about the previous clue #2 cause it doesn't help much) There is a hot actor in it that had many RGS girls fangirling for some time! Well actually it depends on perspective, but some people claim that this other actor was also worthy of being fangirled.

3. It came out in May- June (?)

4. It is the third movie of a series. And the most successful one so far, too! (I can't call it a trilogy because I'm not sure if there's another one coming up.)

5. It is not horror because I never watch horror movies. Neither is it animation. (Not that I don't watch animated flicks.)

6. One of the main characters is a struggling theatre actress.

7. The hot guy dies.

8. A quote " ...wouldn't want us living one second with revenge in our hearts. " If you paid attention to the trailers, you would be able to remember this one!

Yup so there you go. Happy guessing! I can't give too much away cause you get 3 guesses already. Use them wisely.

I don't know why, but I feel like deleting my blog, or moving to xanga or something.

Science Investigative is driving me nuts. The proposal is too SHORT! Something must be wrong I betcha. Plus, the rubrics are for the REPORT right? Right? What is missing I HAVE TO PUT MORE STUFF IN and submit in 13 hours but it just doesn't feel like enough yet and how am I supposed to get enough types of simple sugars for the experiment since some cannot be bought from supermarkets all pretty in plastic sacks? I mean, galactose is present in milk but how am I supposed to get it from the milk? Milk the milk?

Argh forget it I'll skip the galactose then.

Dear feet,

My ballet shoes are getting small. Please stop growing.

Thanks
Jasmine

CLUES to the movie-guessing contest!
1. The movie was in cinemas in 2007
2. I don't watch a lot of movies, so I pick carefully

Aha, what could that mean?

Hello

I'm doing up my Integrated Science project proposal now, so you can start heaving dramatic sighs of relief cause I'll make this quick and non-philosophical. Which actually means kinda superficial, but it's a nicer way of saying it.

OW. I ACHE ALL OVER.

That's all for now. I'll go back to doing my work and hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I fall asleep unglamorous-ly on my pretty computer.

NEED FREE RECOGNITION?
Then this contest is for (points at your nose) yes, you!

Simply be the first to guess what Jasmine's favourite movie is by 1st August (exactly one month away). It's that simple! Plus, if you're from RGS(S), you will even be congratulated personally by Jasmine herself!

Contest rules:
1. Leave all your guesses on the tagboard.
2. Every participant will be entitled to three guesses.
3. The management will not be held responsible for any injury or loss of life (or worse) suffered by participants during the course of this contest.
4. Prizes may be subject to change. (There may be a mystery prize!)
5. This contest is only for fun and we strongly advise you to NOT spend too much time (or money) (or sleep) in trying to think of movie names. You never know.
6. Any foul play such as blackmail, phishing etc. discovered by the management will result in the participant losing eligibility to participate in this contest.
7. I thought no one read contest rules.

Hmm

I'm ranting on my blog a lot. And most of the time I don't wanna give everything away so everything's vague that makes people think I'm emo or took too many panadols or something. And if I'm not complaining, I apologise a lot or publicise or (in the rare event) talk about events or something.

SO I'm gonna do something different. I'm gonna do one of those blog quizzes which aren't really quizzes cause you give answers but there are no CORRECT answers. Actually I've done one before way way back like on May 11 2007. This one's from JoOu's friend Fik's blog. Thanks, even if I don't actually know you personally. I only remember this name cause you're the Richardson sec 4 level co-ord, aren't you?

It's harder than it looks! Copy and paste to your own journal, erase my answers, and add your own.
Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And Have Fun With It!!!

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Jump (What I do a lot.)
2) BOY NAME: Jay-Z (Hah!)
3) GIRL NAME: Jamie (I like that name.)
4) OCCUPATION: Jumper (Not the supernatural movie kind, I was thinking more of, long jumper or high jumper?)
5) A COLOR: Jade (I had to look up wikipedia for this because my range of Colour Vocabulary isn't what you'd call impressive.)
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Jumper (Again, not the athlete or movie kind. I was thinking more of a sweater.)
7) BEVERAGE: Juice
8) FOOD: Jalapeno peppers (Not that I eat those.)
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Jelly soak (The stuff you can buy from Robinsons that comes in powder form and turns to jelly when you put it in a tub of water.)
10) A PLACE: Jurassic Park (Or Jamaica.)
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Jam on the B.K.E./ C.T.E./ P.I.E./ any other jammable place
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: JUMP!

What is it with me and jumping? Thinking of inter-house long jump too much? Probably. I NEED TO TRAIN. I'M GETTING UNFIT. And reading Feeling Sorry For Celia isn't helping either. Elizabeth (the protagonist) trains like 10km everyday. And she came in TOP 5 in the Forest Hill Half Marathon. Like woah. I really admire her. It's like the first time I've ever found myself admiring a fictional character who never does her homework. But then again, even if she doesn't get an education, she's already adequately smart enough PLUS she'll probably end up becoming a long distance runner anyways. I really love the book. Read it after I return it to the Deborah Tan library.

A FEW MINUTES AFTER I PUBLISHED THIS POST

GASP. I can't believe how similar my answers are to Jo's! But not a lot of words start with J anyways.

I love GMs :) I love GMs :) Open house was fun :) Laoshi thinks we're getting better :) I'm actually READING again :) 30 reasons not to be in a play :)

I hate my url now. Maybe I should change it. Again.

I bought a swimsuit last week. First time in 8 years. For some reason, people just love giving me swimsuits so I don't have to buy any.

Hi, Wen Jia Ying. I am not an emokid. Life just bares its cruel pointed ugly teeth at me. You don't understand. Nobody can understand. Life hurts? Hah! An understatement, don't you think? Fine, I'm joking.

LAST LAST FRIDAY

Me, Maria, and Ting went for lunch at NYNY :) Had an aggression session with Janne at the bus stop first and that turned out kind of weird in a funny way.

Maria: Alright, imagine Jasmine told some horrible lies about you that got you kicked out of PSB
Me(looks appalled): Hey!
Janne(in a sad disappointed angry tone): Jasmine how could you!!

NO(!!) I'm not the evil kind even though Ting suspects me of having secret evil intentions. She says I look like I'm hiding evil intentions inside my evil brain.

Anyways it was great fun :)

PHOTOS!


Before and after

110th post. How ironic.

RAWRRRR

Not emo, just frustrated. And a little disappointed. Such a pity, cause I had a lovely day today sitting at briefings, scrubbing the class, GOING OUT WITH MARIA AND TINGFANG and SL-ing. Shall post about it when I'm done with the PSB video.

My posts get weirder and weirder. Go for Pangea Day!

Pangea Day is a global day of film that aims to provide viewers to see through the eyes of the other. In a world torn by conflict and opposing views, the creators of Pangea Day have thought it to be immensely important that people should understand the worldview of others, and that film would be the best medium to achieve this objective. On May 11 at 0200hrs SGT, official Pangea Day sites in Cairo, Kigali, Los Angeles, mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and london will be connected through a 4-hour live simulcast featuring a program of powerful films, visionary speakers and uplifting music.

RJC will be hosting a screening of Pangea Day on May 12th, Monday as well! So come on down after your exams to relax and just enjoy award winning films and listen to the stories told by people around the world!

Venue: Hodge Lodge Time: 2-6pm!
Come on down to RJC's very own student's lounge and enjoy the movie in our mini theatre! Promised to be a comfortable and relaxing experience =)

Venue: Canteen Time: 315-715pm!
Enjoy a refreshing drink as you watch the movies in our canteen! Enjoy the films in the company of friends!

Venue: Amphitheatre Time: 315-715pm!
Sit with groups of friends in the amphitheatre, you can even play a game of Monopoly or other board games while watching the movies!

This screening will definitely be an eye-opener, so come on down after your exams and just...chill out!

For more information one can go to:
http://www.pangeaday.org/
http://www.pangeaday.%20sg/

Forward this email out to all your friends! Spread the news about Pangea!

This post is for everyone, but especially for my 202 mummy Alicia Claire Tan, also known as ACTooby.

Jasmine

One thing you have to know about this person, is that she may seem very emo sometimes, which is very unlucky for Trina because she's the first schoolmate she talks to (or ignores) in the morning since she takes the same school bus as me. Anyways, we said MAY, because in actual fact, 80% of the time she's just very tired and can't be bothered talking to anyone cause she has to conserve her energy in order to not fall asleep in class in a rather embarrassing posture on her desk. For the other 20%, she's just complaining about her life in her head, about all the things she missed out on or about how she never gets enough time to engage in activites like play with her neglected soft toys. (Sometimes, she'll even complain on her blog.) Therefore, do not worry about her too much because she's soon to try to get everything sorted out, and before you know it, she'll be happy and non-emo again! :)

Hello everyone

MYAs are over. Sad. You know, it's actually been the second-best week I've had so far this year. Sleeping early sure makes a lot of difference to my mood and my level of zombieness. Plus it's cool going home early and getting to take really empty MRT trains home! They're usually so crowded I can hardly breathe. PLUS I realised I can enjoy mugging :O Call me weird.

Oh wow this is my SECOND MYA already. I'm growing old so fast.

I suppose I should stop thinking and saying that I had a bad time in SPS. I mean, yeah, there were a lot of things I didn't like about the school, a lot of uneventful happenings, a lot of other things I wish I could forget about. But there were still people I regarded as my friends, teachers I liked, and some fun times like Sing Singapore and P6 Inter-class Games.

Presenting of scripts was good. I like speaking to an audience. Even if the audience is like my class and I'm making an announcement. But the sec 2s only got to do one piece cause of that NSW International Science Competition that made us late. I liked Tiffany's "Flopsie". My monologue was utterly boring. Maybe I should try another one and email it to Michael Corbridge if I have the time. Thank you to everyone who came to watch!

"When I heard the scream, I came out of the cupboard and slipped on something wet, then I fell on mom. I thought she would catch me, but she didn't. She didn't." - Flopsie

I really really don't mean to be high. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. It's bad cause sometimes I'm not controlling it and it makes people think I'm not to be taken seriously.

I have a lot of nice sensible things I want to say. It's just that I don't always find the premise to do so. That's why I like MGMs I guess. It keeps my high down, and it's keeps my good talk UP.

I'm sorry about GMs. A lot of people= Jasmine forgets to shut up. But really I did mean the teddy bear rubber band thing. And the tape up the homework cupboard thing.

And I just get happy when I'm with the board. I just get very very very happy, cause I love what we do and I love my job and I love everyone.

Sorry world. I will try HARDER to not get too happy. It's annoying, even to me.

The yearbook is super thick. It's inspirational reading on its own. I mean, look at all the awesome award-winning people inside. And look at all the conferences and overseas trips and conventions they send all the pro student leaders and people to. It's kinda funny cause the most inspirational people aren't just those famous ones like Jane Goodall, but fellow schoolmates. Also known as seniors. People who study in the same classrooms as us, cheer in the same amphi as us, and sleep on the same desks as us. It kinda makes you think. There's more to being in this school than just being a student. There's so much more we can achieve, like these people did. And it's not just the leadership positions and awards, it's the differences they made and the legacy they're continuing as RGS girls. Wow. I feel like we have a lot to live up to. One day those people in the yearbook will be our very own batchmates. Wow.

My headache is coming back. Ow I thought it was gone. My mom says I'm gonna get sicker if I don't stop sleeping so late. I hope concert goes well.

Hello everyone. I'm sorry for emoing so much nowadays. School's just been kinda weird.

ORA ORA ORA TOMORROW! BUY PSB JELLY COCONUTS THEY'RE REALLY YUMMY! Trust me :)

OR

OM OM OM GO SUPPORT! The OM people worked really hard so MUST SUPPORT IF YOU CAN ok?

Goodbye long weekend. Goodbye June hols.

OHNOOO I feel like my life is screwed again so WATCH OUT GINA cause you'll be sitting next to a crazy emokid tomorrow if I don't stop whining soon.

It's not worth emoing. It's not worth emoing. It's not worth emoing.

Maybe I should go talk to a sec 3 and listen to their complaints. Then I'll learn to appreciate my life better.

#1 JoHo and Yen Yee can really rap :D

#2 I throw my rope best when I'm thinking about everything BUT gym.

#3 I'm zombie-ing through my life. It's like I'm there but I'm not there.

#4 I'm turning into an emo kid. Just ask my deskmate.

#5 I love my house. I love my house. I love my house. I love my house. I LOVE MY HOUSE RICHARDSON.

#6 I love 109 and 109 i/cs a lot a lot.

#7 I have PFT tomorrow.

#8 I have no confidence in my IPU any more. Just a gut feeling.

#9 My leotard is now my sole reason for living. And my jazzpants.

#10 I have no idea why I numbered everything.

Last PSL session today. I was kinda sad but I didn't cry. Wow. I'm still impressed. This is the second time this year when I was prepared to cry but didn't. Which is a good thing :) I mean, can you imagine me crying in front of all my niners?

PSL session was good, but I missed the discussions. Discussions were actually my favourite part of PSL sessions last year. I like discussions, I love MGMs and stuff like that. I just don't show it cause I look very dead as compared to when I'm hyper and crazy. That's my getting-seriouser look, NOT my bored look. I don't smile when I'm thinking too hard. I mean, who does?

But PSL session was still goood! I loved them last year, I love them this year. And most of all, I LOVE MY SEC ONES! They're an absolutely fantastic class, and the reason why I haven't become the petrified forest of Singapore. No, make that the petrified tree. I'M REALLY PROUD OF MY NINERS. REALLY REALLY REALLY. And they're soo sweet! They gave me this cute hallmark mug and stuffed it with notes! I added them to my note collection. (Seee, I keep all your words of encouragement okay!)

Food twister was the highlight of today! Try putting your hands in a jar of peanut butter, and your feet in a jar of kaya, and you see how it's done. Argh but it's so messy cause we forgot to put newspaper below the food! I think I would've been super freaked out if someone made me play too, because I'd hate to have to try to get rid of all the mucky stuff stuck onto me. But it'll still be fun I guess.

It was also good cleaning up after debrief. I think we (109 i/cs) really bonded while mopping the basketball courts. Like, what a way to bond! But yup, it was fun. MGM was good too, even though like I said, I look very blur during discussions. Just something I noticed today.
I WANNA JOIN PSB :)

Yay I finally got my new leotard and jazz pants! I wanted the one Ting has but they ran out of those in my size. Argh. Oh well, but mine is pretty too! Once again, COME WATCH GYM CONCERT!

What a nong nong post.

Sports Fest today! :D :D :D

And sports fest is fun, okay, Yu Jia!

Hmm well actually I wished everyone was louder and that my throat didn't hurt so much. But still, good job everybody! Whoohoo Richard got second! Just like last year. But it doesn't really matter what we get for overall, cause we know that our house spirit is there and it's super strong and VERY LOUD. Watching mass dance was kinda funny. I mean, the dance was nice but it makes you wonder if you looked like that last year. Like "Woah, people could see me all the way over there?" But still, well done sec 1s!

I'm super proud of my fellow Richardsonians for showing so much house spirit! I was kinda afraid that you guys would have become un-enthu but you all DIDN'T! And I'm super proud of the sec 2s and Dharani for going for house dinner. Sharon said that house dinner was usually a house comm- sec 1 thing, but TRADITIONS CAN CHANGE RIGHT? (Think The Whale Rider).

It was great seeing the JC 1 house comm people again. Brings back fond memories of us when we were sec 1s. I MISS HOUSE PRAC. We should be allowed to go for fun, wouldn't that be great? But the poor house comm :( Ada was totally disgusted by the oneohonenians's sick comments and jokes. I don't blame her :) but I'm used to them.

Thanks you house comm! Yesterday was fantastic!

And the only thing that matters,
Is climbing up that social ladder
Still care about your hair and the car you drive
Doesn't matter if you're 16 or 35

If you didn't know, that's from Bowling For Soup's High School Never Ends.

I guess RGS is a very different school in the sense that you don't see so much of the problems the heroes/heroines face in chick flicks. (Where there are these evil cheerleaders and geeks who wear their pants up to their armpits and rebels smoking.) But we face a very different set of problems.

No prizes for guessing what.

I remember that day Irina (I think it was her) said that when you're Sec 3 you just feel like your whole world comes crashing down. And Shze Hui says that sleeping at 1am is very normal. And that answering every question in the Maths paper is Mission Impossible 4. And a whole bunch of other stuff I hear Sec 3s talk about. I feel like I have no right to complain about workload anymore. Can I just stay Sec 2 forever?

Right now I'll just enjoy being a Sec 2 while it lasts.

Thank you 109 i/cs :)
You guys are awesome, like Rachel would put it.

PSL session was good even though everyone was all mass danced out and I was all gymmed out. Well not really, I only did one complete routine. And the synchronisation was all sala.

It was great today during MGM. We got to talk about problems PSLs face and it's good to know I'm not the only one who has sudden emo attacks. I like MGMs. They're like casual serious discussions. Thankew T & D!

JoHo is afraid of Mas Selamat but I don't think she's in danger cause she's so much taller than him anyways. Oh man I hope they catch him soon and put an end to all this drama. And so I don't have to see his face on posters everywhere I go. It's kinda freaky knowing there's a terrorist on the loose and Singapore ain't that big so you have a pretty high chance of meeting him. Not that it's a bad thing, because then it's easier to catch him. But everyone says he's already outta Singapore. You know, he's actually become like the laughingstock of the nation as well as a threat to the country. Just take a look at Actooby's tagboard.
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After MGM I went to eat ramen with Pris Chew and Jenny and Irina and we had a long conversation over lunch. Not boring but sane and interesting. Long and normal discussions are good. Random lame discussions get too lame after a while.

Example of a random and lame discussion:
A: Haha.
B: Haha.
A: Geog is so lame.
B: WHATever man you're so much lamer!
A: Don't argue with me man.
B: You're so lame you don't even let people argue with you. HAHAHA SEE, YOU'RE LAME!
A: That was lame. SEE, YOU'RE LAME!

See? I like long normal discussions, and I like lame ones only when they're funny.

I'm sorry Yi Hui I still really the blogskin you designed, I really do. I just got bored having the same skin for so long.

But I think you should be happy too cause I used it longer than any other skin I used!

Ah well today was alright. Not too tiring I guess. And I liked the spicy chicken a lot even though it killed my tongue. But I'm just not so happy about a lot of things. PSL sessions are ending soon too. Actually I think PSL sessions actually do as much for me as they are supposed to do for the sec ones. It's like while I'm there conducting the sessions for them hoping they gain something out of them, I seem to be more alive than I am the rest of the week, and it feels good. Maybe it's because when you conduct those sessions, you know what you're there to do, and you really want to do it well, so you give it all you've got and you're naturally more enthusiastic. And I'm glad that I don't speak like a bimbo in front of the class as much as I did in the earlier PSL sessions. It just happens sometimes when I feel really self conscious. Oh no I'm gonna miss PSL sessions so much. It's like even though I'm still their PSL, we don't see each other so much anymore and I'll miss conducting those sessions and everything. I don't mind doing those proposals every week for the rest of the year actually. Plus, I'll be super low without PSL session every saturday. I already missed them a lot when we skipped 1/2 weeks? Ah well but I guess I'm not supposed to be stuck to them forever right? I mean, ultimately it's THEIR class and THEY are supposed to have learnt the importance of class bonding, supporting each other, etc.etc.etc. so they can work together and all and that's the purpose of PSL sessions anyways.

Training yesterday started off terrible. I was all weak from running up and down the basketball court during PE because I have adopted a terribly tiring and lousy strategy of following the basketball wherever it goes. My kua tiaos were horrible, like I haven't trained for 20 years. Probably not even 150 degrees yet. I was FORCING myself to jump but my body was stubborn and refused to cooperate. At least it got a bit better after a while.

This post is for my favourite sec 1 class 109!

Hello niners if you guys are reading this! I'm writing this post because I'm really proud of you guys because:
1. You guys were very enthu and participative yesterday!
2. You guys have BONDED as a class which is fantastic !
3. You're organizing your very own class outing!

Yay yay yay just when I was wondering how you guys were doing (since we haven't had a PSL session for quite a while). I was very very pleased with you all yesterday that you all are very enthu about your 109-ship. It's great that you are all proud of your class because you really should be and I'm sure your other PSLs will agree too! You all have really grown together as a class since your first PSL session and I'm glad.

Have fun at your outing and keep up the good work!

Hello fellow humans!

Since my dearest Ops rotation 1 friends haven't written their tributes to Ops rotation 1 yet, I shall lead by example. (What a brilliant idea!)

My Tribute To Raffles Girl's School Peer Support Board Operations Rotation One (Nice long no-abbreviations-used title)
Operations Rotation One was a lovely bunch of people:) and it was great working with them! Our first GM started off kinda awkward and only four people turned up cause it was held during the December hols. But we've had a lot of fun working together decorating the SLAC and singing together :) and during my time at Ops I had the chance to conduct an ice breaker with Cheryl Gatot which was lots of fun (but then I fell sick the next day and the doctor told me my throat was very red and swollen). So THANK YOU Ops for making rotation 1 lots of fun! And thank you JoOu for the cute shoelaces too!

Danny Noriega's last night on American Idol 7. People think he's gay but whatever I don't need to know. What matters is the performance right? He's out, but I think he's a good performer, like he performs with lots of energy and it's nice to watch good performances right?

91st post. Which shows how little I blog. Anyways SECOND update on what's been going on!

FOUNDER'S DAY!

I think this year's founder's day was MUCH MUCH better than last year's. Not that last year's was boring, but because it's greek themed. Which is super cool, esp all those laurel wreaths. And I think our very ego form teacher did a good job :)

Seriously, what is it about RGS and foreign countries? Our motto's in LATIN, our school song's called from high OLYMPUS (which explains the greek theme) and Athena's at our gate, too. Okay so it's just that our school loves greek stuff, the latin part is started with RI and the Auspicium Melioris Aevi (?).

Back to founder's day, like I said, it was way cool this year, with all the greek statues and togas and wreaths and everything. Actually the statues looked kinda freaky, in a cool freaky way. Wu You is too tall! She was the statue with wings in the pretty dress.

Then it started raining after the opening speeches, but it was just a drizzle. The MCs told VIPs to proceed to the hall but then Mrs Hoo said we can just bear with a little rain because WE PROMISE TO GIVE YOU A GOOD SHOW like it was so cool everyone started cheering and it made me really happy. Maybe it's because it's more fun sitting in the Amphi than watching a live telecast (5 seconds late) in class.

Right I shall just summarise everything in one sentence: The performances were fantastic, the theme was fantastic, everything was good.

But I was kinda disappointed that the Arete cheers weren't scary or fierce like they were meant to be. And the Raffles cheers weren't loud enough. It started raining heavily right after the ceremony (we finished just in time!) and Wen Jun let me have a lick off her yummy Turkish ice cream during the reception cause I wasn't allowed to have any due to the fact that I'm not pro enough to perform and I'm not in PB.

I love my school :) And that's the reason why I wouldn't trade my Rafflesianship(and a lot of homework!) for the free time I had in primary school

Fine Alicia I shall update!

Ahh alright I haven't been updating for QUITE SOME TIME already so I shall start with something that happened QUITE SOME TIME ago.

Inter-house nong jump!

Ok I was kinda mad at myself after the event but I guess it's another one of those times that I get mad at myself for things people don't even notice. Like that time during PSL session when I did the life story of Oprah Winfrey, and I was guilty guilty for 2 days.

Anyways I really really miss house prac and doing RICHARD cheers. Make that really really really really really really REALLY. So I was kinda happy and scared to be doing something for the house again. Me and Lynn were freaking out while packing our bags like kanchiong people. I don't even know if kanchiong can be used in this context but nevermind. I don't know, it was kinda funny seeing everyone in house shirts at the long jump pit again, brings back memories of house prac at the long jump pit at sec one.

Well I was much less anti-social this year, and I talked to the other jumpers and we freaked out together. And I think it was great that everyone cheered for one another regardless of house. And of course it was FANTASTIC to see Lynn and Steph again. Not that I don't see Lynn like almost everyday, but you get what I mean. But Steph doesn't remember me from long jump last year, she only remembers me as a T3SL (she was a T2). Sheesh :D

Poor Steph had phlegm so she sounded croaky and she had shot put too so she was shuttling back and forth. Hah it was really fun this year, with everyone more friendly and all. And then I taught Steph and Lynn the We're All In This Together dance, but now I forgot why. I was super happy and full of house spirit :) and also because long jump is fun! Well, it won't be fun if you do it everyday and train for competitions, but it's fun as an inter-house event.

Yay I think I've jumped a personal best, but it'll be scary competing with the sec 4s next year (hah i'll be competing with the people who taught me how to jump!) and yup I hope everyone had fun jumping!

I LOVE MY HOUSE OF BLOO

SLI was fun :D Formal uniform chokes you and makes your feet hurt but it's still fun to wear it.

I didn't get to watch the wonderful items, esp the cute PSB Peer Support Family one! Oh well i'll wait for someone to put it on youtube.

So coool i met my sis's friend weiling from st nicks. It was fun begging people to take free curry puffs.

It was real fun sitting in the canteen after the ceremony looking at amanda kuan do dumb things with her stryofoam plate mask that she made by poking holes for eyes and a mouth. And yinleng is crazyyyyy about carly's brother. Who is 1 year old and very cute. She is waiting for him to grow up. Well ok her philosophy about age gaps can make sense actually. But still, she'd have to wait like at least 13 years. Ahha but she's soooo funny!

Concert prac is so fun :) i love the dance

You know i realise that i speak like a bimb when i speak in front of a big group of people without a script to read from because:
- When i raise my voice it can go really HIGH
- I say 10 "like"s in every sentence
I DO NOT normally speak like that ok!

Can't wait to get monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday over with. YAY YAY SLI on friday and i get to look tall in court shoes and say "this way please" over and over again :D

Ushering is fun!

Oh but tuesday should be OK too. I don't mind mondays and tuesdays actually. I hate thursdays because 202 has 4 blocks in a row before lunch. There's GM this tues and i like GMs :) Sure hope ____ gets the award!

And art module will be over soooon! I don't hate it, but it makes me feel lousy because i'm bad at art. Oh and i don't think i really learnt much about how to improve either. Most of the stuff i learnt is about other people's art (like Picasso and the greek statues). Whatever, i'll stick to stick figures and doodles and live happily ever after.

I'm telling you, dailaoshi is wayy good. She's the face at the end. Dai Yong-Jun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbt3J4_we0

Hello world

I sincerely apologise for all the reading of emo rants you had to subject your poor eyes and brains to.

Thank you.

P.S I am fully aware that the sentence above is grammatically incorrect. However, due to my lack of pro-ness in the english language, i shall just leave it as it is as to avoid further breaking of grammar rules in the process of correcting it.

I JUST CAN'T LET GO.
YOU CAN TAKE ME OUT OF GYM BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE GYM OUTTA ME
I WILL TRAIN.
SO THERE.

(disclaimer: the 'so there' is not directed at any of you out there. this post is supposed to be for me to remind me not to be lazy and to train by myself. and it's not anyone who took me out of gym, it's me. so i guess i'm talking to myself. weird.)

Happy cny and don't eat too much junk :D

Just back from SPS. Super annoyed.

Same story as last year teacher's day, security guard talks to you like you can't understand a word he's saying, everyone's restricted to only the canteen, and you don't know anyone there.

I found out WHY i didn't know any juniors in primary school. Except for liyana but that's cause she's asyiqin's sis. I actually attempted to ask mei yin's friends what time they were released from school and they IGNORED me like i wasn't there. Super irritated. Attempted again. Got ignored again, so i gave up.

Anyways gym's kung fu fighting was super nice :D I still love gym and i WILL train on my own. In fact, i'm gonna stick to a plan:
PE days: Run AT LEAST 3 rounds round the track in the morning. Unless there's homework to chiong.
Everyday: Yatui, 2 sets of fubeiji AT LEAST
Saturday: Run AT LEAST 3 rounds round the track before PSL session unless there's a meeting or something.
Friday: Go to the gym 45 mins before concert prac to train rope.

And THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the people who cheered me up today! Thanks for all your jokes, encouragement & hugs. Even if i didn't write your names here, it doesn't mean i've forgotten you guys and i'm so glad i know all you wonderful people :)

OHNO I MISS TRAINING :(
It's only been 2 trainings that i missed so far. But i still miss training.
I know i can train on my own now, fujis, beijis, skipping, yatui etc.etc.
But it just isn't the same.

Yelling "ONEOHNINE!!!!!!" is becoming quite a habit now. This is what happened in 202 before chinese today:

(Rashvin starts making announcement on geog trip)
Me(irritated): ONEOHNINE!!!!!
(Rashvin finishing up announcement)
Me(still irritated): ONEOHNINE!!!!
Some other 202er: TWOTWOOOOOO!!!!
Me(realises dumb mistake): whoooops!

See?

This post is to thank everyone that has helped me get through one of the worst weeks of my life!
I've been acting kinda schitzophrenic since last week, and i'm sorry if i gave anyone the what's-the-meaning-of-life look.

Thanks for the free hugs, the advice, the encouragement, the leaf, the listening to me rant on and on about my problem. I really appreciate it and i love you guys loads and loads for being there for me. And thanks for putting up me even when i start being emo or teary.

RGym! I may not be there anymore but i will always be right there in spirit with you guys on the carpety mats doing the fujis and beijis. I will. I'll even continue doing yatui on my own so that when you all get discouraged you can think that jazzy is doing yatui too just like you all. If you need anyone to watch you all, or coach the sec ones, i'll do it. I STILL LOVE RGSRSG LOADS AND LOADS AND LOADS AND I WILL KEEP TRAINING ON MY OWN<3

I think i know the bestest people on earth. Thanks for being there for me:)

What i hate more than anything right now:
HOMEWORK

And everyone is sick now. Except Isabelle Lim. That's what she says.

BUT concert prac is fun! Yi Lin and Vivien have joined THE COOL CLUB :) Which is the name for our 2008 sec 2 and sec 1 batches. That's my favourite part of gym. The freedom to be nuts. Yeah.

EVERYONE COME WATCH GYM CONCERT IT'S GONNA BE FANTABULOUS! But i have no idea when it is.

Oh yeah and some company has invited Blooming Of Spring to perform for some Suntec Rocky whateverthingy next sat. Blooming Of Spring is the name of our ballet concert item, by the way. I didn't think it was that nice actually. Well anyways, that means more stalkers in flower costumes for me. Maybe since it's on a saturday i can use training as an excuse and go late so i don't have to be stuck backstage with them for so many hours.

I miss 101.

But at the same time i'm super glad that 202 turns out to be an enthu class after all! Our argument with Mr De Souza proves that too :) Well actually it just proves we're a funny class but whatever.

Mr De Souza: Ok, for your class motto, "Rule yourself before you rule others". I changed it a bit so that the meaning's the same but it sounds better. How about "Be good stewards of your own lives before leading others"? 

202: NOOOOOO!

Mr De Souza: But "rule" makes you all sound so... power hungry!

202: But we are! We're ROYALTY!

The same thing for the class vision. Ours was something to do with becoming good queens or something, and Mr De Souza wanted to change it into ladies and he says it also sounds high-class anyways. But nope, nothing less than royalty for 202'08 :P

I heart 202!

It's reeeeal quiet without the sec 3s.
I'm sick from all that yelling at orientation.

Orientation is officially over, but i still can't remember everyone's names. I can remember their faces. That's a start.
Well it's kinda funny cause during RI 4 109 didn't cheer very loudly, but then in a matter of 3 days they suddenly became more enthu.
I know there are other very very loud classes but i shan't be upset cause all classes are UNIQUE right?
MOST ZANY WHOOHOO!
And no, for once i didn't cry. (Hear that, joey?) I didn't cry during 101 farewell party either, but that was cause i was only there for 5 minutes. Maybe it's partially cause i know there will be lots more PSL sessions after this.
Me and chat went to dingdei at house prac today. Ahahaha i felt so extra. But it was fun cheering for RICHARD again <3 <3 I love my house. I wanna go for every single house prac and cheer on the amphi steps again. They should make entire-house house pracs. That would be so cool.:)
Yay i love RICHARDSON and 109.08 :D :D

I can't get used to being sec2. It's like when people go "Sec ones sec ones!" it's like they're still referring to me.

W-ell 109 wasn't very enthusiastic today during PSL session & icebreakers. They were kinda reluctant to move and stuck in little groups. But Anthea says that it's cause it's only the first day and they should warm up soon. Good to hear.

R.I. was fun fun fun! I love cheering :D I'm so glad XinEr gave us that scolding last year for not cheering cause in actual fact i really really wanted to cheer but then my classmates didn't want to so i didn't dare to cheer too loud. But after the long long talk everyone CHEERED VERY LOUDLY! So yay and we all lived happily ever after, cheering day by day.

As for 202, everyone is kinda sticking to their sec1 classmates. But i'm gonna have PATIENCE cause high I s lack patience like me sometimes so PATIENCE, girl! It's gonna be tough cause i'm so high today :D

Orientation tomorrow.

GO 109! GO 109! GO 109!