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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

On the last day of the year, I shall sum up my 4 years in RI. You can just ignore this super long post, cos it's just something that I can look at 10 years down the road and laugh at my stupidity and naiveness.

GPA
3.53, 3.60, 3.23, 3.56.
These are the noobish GPAs which I have acquired over the past 4 years, and as you can see its some sort of a curve with a maximum stationary point at sec 2 and a minimum point at sec three. Honestly I must say that I am quite disappointed, particularly in my last 2 years, not just because I got owned by Dennis, but also because I failed to reach my go beyond my sec two 3.6 grade. Sigh, I only have myself to blame.

Recreation
This is actually closely linked with my GPA. In sec 1 and 2, I was exposed to DotA, but lower sec work is quite chicken-feet and I wasn’t particularly addicted so I had no problems there. In secondary 3, I started to play DotA a lot more, and even wasted lots of time online reading guides and waking up at night at 2am just to play DotA. Thus, it was in sec 3 when I started to not do homework at home because I spend all the time reading online DotA guides -.- I was honestly quite addicted already.

2 things cropped subsequently, which are 武侠小说 and Rubik’s cube. During the sec 3 June hols, I started having some craze about Chinese Swordsman fiction, and was averaging a book a day. It took me away from DotA, which is actually a good thing, but it made me continue reading when school reopens, this time under my table.

Coupled with this newfound technique of doing things under my table, I was introduced to yet another item – Rubik’s cube. This craze was even worse than the previous 2, and I really spent literally all my free time on it >.< It took me away from my武侠小说 craze, but also plunged my GPA to an unprecedented low.

Sec 4. I started reading武侠小说 during the Dec hols and it continued until the start of term 2, where I started getting hooked on a new item – Facebook. The “My Heroes Ability” application really kept me hooked all the way, and I was playing until my Hero was among the top 200 in the world and top in RI already -.- By the time I got a hold on myself and quitted the stupid application, it was already end of term 3. Much as I tried, I only managed to pull my GPA from 3.33 up to a 3.56, falling a little short of my already-revised target of 3.60.

Sighs.

In 15 days time, we are all going into JC. I really hope Sudoku doesn’t keep my addicted like every else once more >.<

SCRABBLE
I first joined the competition in sec 2, with Dennis, David, Sean and Lennard. On the competition day, Sean and Lennard forgot to come, leaving Dennis, David and I to try our luck at the competition with at least 2 walkovers to our opponents for every match.

We played North Vista sec in the first round and won 3-2. In the second round, we repeated the score, and in the final preliminary round, we played Yishun town sec and got trashed horribly 0-5.

In sec 3, Dennis and I joined Kenneth’s team, together with Thomas and Junlin. Breezed through the first 2 rounds, but lost to St. Nicks 1-4 in the third, halting our progress at the preliminaries again.

Finally in sec 4, my team, with Kenneth, Thomas, Xuewen and Haiwei were put in a noob team and so we finally made it into the finals for once, where we happily trounced everyone 24-1 to become Champions.

Perfect Cadence ending. But since there isn’t a JC category, I guess Scrabble stops here.

RE
Sec 1 was just a nice trial.

Sec 2’s music RE project on Mozart was quite a flop because I was the main guy doing everything.

Sec 3’s RE project on MozART was quite good, but we ended our run at the RE semi-finals.

Sec 4’s music RE project with Jon Shin on National Day Songs appeared to be quite good at the start, but looked set to be a flop towards the end. Then we were all going to give up, but Ms Shen stubbornly wanted us to get everything done and put up the stupid performance where the AV guys pangsei-ed us and forgot to put the lyrics down. But thanks to her stubbornness, coupled with Ben Low’s help, (Jon Shin’s timely overseas trip during the hectic RE submission week, Bryan’s blurness and laziness) and me staying over at ArtSpace to rush the orchestration for like over 10 hours straight, the project was quite a success and we got a silver award.

=D

CSCO
I’m a “regular guest player” who goes back and play for them whenever their annual concert is coming. In sec 2, I went there with my sis, and stuck together all the way because we didn’t know anyone else there.

In sec 3, Wanchien approached me because she saw me playing the cube, and I made more friends there and played bridge with them. 2007 concert was possibly the best experience among the 3 years with CSCO. That concert was really just unforgettable.

By 2008, I’m already sort of a “familiar face” there, so it wasn’t as bad as my sec 2 year. But still, other than my sis, there wasn’t a lot of people I knew and interacted with, so the experience wasn’t that enjoyable.

But overall, I really enjoyed playing all the CO pieces, and the 2007 experience particularly has been really really great

RISE
Alas, my dear CCA.

Sec 1 was rather fun. The seniors had SYF and Mr. Sze asked Timothy to lead us in being stagehands. Then, like Mao Zedong, he gave us some super inspirational speech and empowered us, saying that we are a really really really important and integral part of RISE, and RISE needs us to make SYF a success. That really blew us over, especially Jianyang (aka Lumpy), and so he started becoming super enthu in every single RISE thing, taking Mr. Sze’s wish as his command. But SYF was a success and everyone was happy.

After SYF, as early as May we sec 1s were involved in our first concert where we just played a funny Elgar serenade and faked at the last row. Then we had another concert at the end of the year which featured imba Jinghui’s imba-er brother, Shanghui. That concert was essentially Mendelssohn, and I kept practicing the Hebrides piece because I really loved it <3 But I did not get to play it in the end, because I was assigned to play only in the first half, reason being that I failed Mr. Sze's assessments.

It was really quite unfair lor T.T Four of us together in the LT, Jon Shin was first, and asked to play C major scale. Then Zhaokai and Kaicheng were asked to play G major and D major, all of which I could play. Then I was last and was asked to play Eb major, which I stumbled and forgot. After that Mr. Sze tested Jon Shin chromatic scales and he managed to do it using some weird fingering, and Mr. Sze thought that Jon Shin was damn pro and never tested anyone else chromatic scales, when actually I knew how to play using the correct fingering -.- Yeah so I was like the worst cellist lah blech ><

Sec 2 was still quite fun. We had 3 new sec 1s which were totally ugh, and Matthew particularly favoured the geeky looking Jon yu. There was another concert, Prokofiev Symphony no. 1 “classical”, but as usual I did not get to play that favourite piece because once again I was assigned to play in the first half.

And then there was another concert, featuring Pucinella suite and Jupiter symphony. Jupiter symphony by Mozart is the really cool piece, and finally for once I was playing in the second half of the concert, except that this time everyone else was playing in the first half too except for me. Can you imagine how saddening it is? Really.

There was one more concert after that, featuring many cool cello pieces, including Tchaikovsky’s Roccoco variations and Villa-Lobos cello octet piece. I thought maybe I wasn’t that bad as I was playing at cello #7, until I found out the #7’s part is actually easier than #8, which Jon Shin was taking… Sighs, I’m still the worse guy here.

Sec 3. The new exco dominated by cellists was great. 3 seniors, each one with their own unique personality which blends together to give the cello section that disciplined, rigid, pro, and yet fun character. Cellists were dominating in every sphere, from rehearsals, to sectionals, to soccer. In a masterful 5v5 cellos versus 2nd violins (led by Jinghui) soccer match, Jon and I scored 5 goals apiece to trash the violins 12-5 and showed them who was boss.

Camp was fun, because I was part of the organizing committee, even though out of the 2 games I planned, 1 was an amazing flop. Thereafter, elections were held and the new exco was selected. It was quite disappointing though

Always, and I mean always, after elections, the sec 4 batch will split into 2 groups, and 1 group will start being anti-RISE, and they are mainly made up of people who ran for posts during elections and did not get voted in. Haiz, I still continued being in RISE as the happy enthu person with a 400% attendance record.

mesmeRISE concert wasn’t really anything much, but it was probably the most memorable concert I had in my 4 years because I played as a solo, combated stage fright, and was involved as a “sub-solo” in Vivaldi’s Double cello concerto 2nd movement as the third cellist =D Basically I was section leader for that minute piece, but it was my only chance as a SL in my 4 years.

Sec 4 was really sucky. Rehearsal felt boring, and I realized I was constantly looking at the time on my handphone. Our batch was quite divided, and people ponned so much and Mr. Sze instilled “enforced absence” on some people -.- Sec 4 is the year where boys grow into teenagers and realize the true meaning of Mr. Sze’s Mao-Zedong-like empowering speeches, and start to doubt the credibility of it. In the mid-year camp, we were sorta hinted as the worst batch in RISE history, and as part of the batch, it was definitely quite disappointing and saddening.

The final Renaissance concert concluded at NAFA to a nice success, but something felt missing there. It didn’t feel that… good.

4 years in RISE, I’ve completed my grade 8 cello exam, and its time to move on. Really, I’ve never regretted being in this CCA, if I had the chance to go 4 years back in time, I would continue putting RISE as my first option, just that this time I would go practise my Eb major scale, and draft and rehearse my election speech better.

MEP

Sec 1 MEP was totally phail. I remembered the Arts @ Atrium performance, where in my makeshift team of 4 members, I was the only guy who passed with 26/50 marks. Thereafter, RIMEP stopped sec 1s from having Atrium performances anymore T.T

Sec 2 and sec 3 was gradually getting more fun, like crescendo haha. Through soccer, we MEPpers bonded better and had better Chemistry to crack jokes and make MEP lessons fun and lively. A common one would be Ms Shen’s “sontata”, which she probably prepared the previous night.

Only towards the end of sec 4 did I realize that I actually treasure RIMEP a lot. Its like a separate class you had together with for 4 years, and the times you been through together is really quite memorable. The finale for the final high scorer’s concert was quite phail though haha.

Shan’t talk about ’07 high scorer’s concert. Pretend it never happened.

FRIENDS
Made many friends in my 4 years, and forged closer bonds with existing ones. I’m sure you had too =D Okay I thank all of you for being there with me and I shall just list like 20 people even though I know there are really a lot a lot more out there. Thanks guys.

Dennis (2J, 4D, MEP, NBG)
Jon Shin (RISE, MEP)
Jinghui (Rosyth, RISE, MEP)
Jian Xiong (2J, 4D, Rosyth)
Xuewen (Rosyth)
Samuel (4D, MEP)
Joshua Foong (4D, The non-Bio gang ha)
Bryan Kum (4D, NBG)
Vince (4D, NBG)
Zhixuan (RISE)
Kaicheng (RISE)
Kenneth (Rosyth)
Andrew (4D)
Ernest (4D, MEP?)
Adriel (RISE)
Matthew (RISE)
Yiyang (RISE)
Bryan Choong (Rosyth, RE)
Ben Low (RE)
Haiwei (Rosyth)

And there are many many more, including those from other schools as well.
Thanks guys, Happy New Year!

PS: I need to get used to writing my dates xx/xx/09 ><
PPS: I typed this post from last year to this year lol =P

Saturday, December 27, 2008

This week has been a sporty week.

Monday: Basketball @ CCK
Tuesday: Badminton @ Hougang
Wednesday: Tennis @ Tanah Merah
Thursday: nothing.. was Christmas and no one was free
Friday: Badminton, followed by Swimming @ Seng Kang
Saturday: Tennis @ Tanah Merah

I've already talked about basketball in my previous blog post, so I shall talk about the rest.

Badminton was fun, but I'm super noob since I have always played badminton in an open space without a net, and the sole purpose would be to bring the ball over to the other side -.- But the absence of the net leaves me unexposed to lots of tactics like cheapo shots where you just tap the shuttlecock lightly over the net and leave me lunging for it since I will probably be at the back waiting for the shuttlecock instead.

But I'm improving fast okay. 3 things to work on, backhand, jump-smack, and cheapo-shots, and I should be done. I almost won kenneth on Friday >.<


Tennis is played at my Uncle's condominium, where I am noober than I am at badminton but I am still improving fast. My backhand is still cmi, but other than that I'm quite an okay player already. And my uncle's daughter, (I think she's around 5 years old or so), haha she's super duper cute and has a really sweet smile that will brighten your day and make you go "Aww....". Really haha! =D

Swimming was as usual, and I'm still vexed that my leg always cramp when I start doing the butterfly stroke. Cos breastroke activates mainly your knees and thighs, freestyle moves your thighs a lot, but butterfly uses a lot of calf muscle and when I'm at the 40m mark and nearing the end that's when I'll go ouch -.- But I still can't be bothered to do warm-up exercises =P


I haven't been playing any computer games at all, mainly sports and my cello and piano, but sad to say I haven't been touching my cello much this week again T.T like about once or twice only >.< I realised that even if I spend my whole day at home, my 2 biggest time-wasters are Reading and Sudoku.

Once I finish with this series of 武侠 I shall stop reading and spend more time on cello and piano. But I think I will still continue with Sudoku because I stopped playing my Rubik's cube already and I need to occupy my hands with something. Rubik's cube sucks because it harms my fingers and each solve is only like maximum 40 sec. That's really quite short. Each sudoku solve however is about an average 7-8 minutes for the "professional" difficulty puzzle (which is the highest one on my phone) and I realised that maybe I should convert to a Sudoku book before I spoil my eyes because the sudoku game on my phone said that I have spent over 3.5k minutes on it already ><

No more Rubik's cube =P Anyone interested in Brand's suboku challenge next year? =D
Oh and next tuesday I'm going to play tennis again, so rest of the days still available for other sports (I'm particularly itching for badminton and basketball) Haha =D

Anyone?

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry X'mas to all fellow readers and bloggers out there! =D

This is my shortest post in months =P

Monday, December 22, 2008

Basketball (and mahjong and bridge and poker) outing @ Chua Chu Kang today

I haven't played basketball for ages. The last time I played was on 11th Nov, at Dennis' house after we collected our APR and Dennis finished suanning everyone.

Today's basketball was quite fun I guess =D 8 people in total, 4 RI guys and 4 SJI guys. 3 matches in total. The first match was RI vs SJI, and we got trashed like some crap.

I scored 0 points in that game, and I realised that I really really really cannot shoot for nuts. If I try to shoot, my accuracy is probably like 10% when not under pressure and 5% when under pressure. If I do a lay up (provided that I managed to actually get under the net and jump without obstruction), then maybe the accuracy can be around 40%-50%. But half the time I cannot dribble my way through everyone -.-

But basically I still can't shoot for nuts. So I thought of holding the ball and jumping up to near the hoop, and then just tipping the ball lightly over the hoop and into the net =D Well and it worked pretty well I guess haha, and my team won the second and third match. Whee :)

Yay so in the 3 matches, I averaged like 2.3 points (I scored 7 total, 3 in 2nd match and 4 in 3rd match), ~1-2 blocks, and like ~5 rebounds or so.


Then after that we had lunch and went to Joshua's ouse, where we played mahjong, bridge and poker. Mahjong was quite boring, we played 8 games, and I only won 1, which is the last one. Haha that match was quite funny. Dennis was left with 2 tiles, and has to discard one. If he throws the "2 bamboo", then Joshua wins. Then he chose to throw the "1 bamboo", and Yuxin and I both got a combined win =DD

Bridge was okay.. Dennis won all the 4 games.

Poker was quite fun haha =D I won the first round mainly due to luck. Like I got pretty good cards and did not bluff my way or anything. But in the second round, I was the first to get kicked out after bluffing a "All-in" and stupid Dennis caught my bluff >.< Hmmppff. But he lent me some chips to re-enter the game and I made quite a comeback... until I decided to go bluffing again. Dennis and Yuxin were left in a final showdown and Dennis got trashed quite badly haha

Yay today was quite fun =D Okay, now who's house to crash next? (:

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Friday was a badminton outing with Bryan, Xuewen, Kenneth and his cousin. We met up at Hougang Sports complex, me being the earliest because I can just cycle there within 10 minutes. Bryan, the host who organised this, came 10 minutes late, and he said he didn't book a court as we are just going into the hall and find vacant courts -.-'''

And thanks to his blurness, we went to book a court in Sengkang sports complex, which is situated in a super-ulu area called Farmway. Then we played for 2 hours and I got trashed by practically everyone because I am super noob.

On Saturday, I cycled to Sengkangs sports complex with my mum and sis to go swimming, because I saw that the pool there was quite cool haha. If you have been to Jurong or Chua Chu Kang swimming pool, its roughly the same there at Sengkang. And I realised that I can swim 10 laps of breaststroke and freestyle each, but the moment I start on butterfly, my leg will always start to cramp >.<

Tomorrow there's some basketball outing at Joshua's house, hopefully it will be fun. My right arm is still aching from that hardcore badminton on Friday.

And I'm glad I quitted my job haha, now I am touching the cello or/and piano everyday for a total of at least 1 hour or so =P

Oh and I realised I haven't handed in the GIRO form for RJC. Ooops. Anyone knows when it is/was due?

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Blogging during work again

TOMORROW SHALL BE THE LAST DAY I WORK.
Thereafter Dennis can replace me while I finally get spare time to do other things.

Phew..

I played my cello once in the past 7 days omg. And it was only like around an hour T.T How to go Y.O like that?!? Must practise more until I roughly reach Annie's pro standard, then can at least squeeze sparingly into Y.O and start faking there. Crap I really really really really don't want to end up in T.O (or now they call it Y.S) where I'm on par as LISCOLN QUAH. Nonono, no way.

>.<

So I must practise!! And to do that I need to find time. Tada, no more work. I freaking quit. Enough of stoning in front of a super-lag computer for 8 to 9 hours straight, processing Excel documents of 500 rows by DW columns, and each cell contains like one whole string of comments, so that whole document is like 1 megabyte. 1 MB for an excel sheet full of text. Siao lah.

I spent 4 days on this stupid survey already >.< Patrick got the easier one and spent 2 days. I wanna get into Y.O! T.T I've been harbouring this thought for like since end of sec 2, but at that time I was super duper noob (and I still am), and I keep wanting to go Y.O directly. I really regretted lah, should have just tried and go T.O in sec 3 like Wang Xiang or Jon Koh, and by now hopefully I should already be in Y.O

But Sam Tho joined at end of sec 4 too =D And he auditioned using Haydn Cello Concerto too so I shall hopefully do the same. Really must practise!! The outcome lies in your own hands. Really. Look at Survivor Gabon, Bob rocks man. Physics teacher who never says die. Record 5 immunity challenges in a row, and before the last tribal council, he actually went to PRACTISE fire-making over and over again in case there was a tie (which Sugar promised him), and because he PRACTISED, he owned Matty and got 1 million dollars in the end.

Poor Matty, I favoured him too. But still, Bob rocks =D Who ask Matty to be so complacent.

Moral of the story, practise, practise and keep fighting for what you really want.

Friday will be a beautiful day.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Ten things about me

1. Are you single?
Yes, and unavailable. My cello takes up most of my spare time now =D

2. Are you happy about that?
Sort of

3. Are you bored?
Yeah, BLOGGING FROM WORK NOW

4. Are you sad?
Yes, work is a waste of time

5. Are you Italian?
No?

6. Are you plastic?
I'm biodegradable

7. Are you cool?
No I'm hot. Actually cool would be more appropriate >.<

8. Are you Chinese?
Yes

9. What are you?
A 180cm, 55kg, skinny guy who gets below average GPA and sucks at playing the cello and piano.

Where's 10?

Ten Facts
1. Initials:
CHR. Like CHRistmas. =P woah

2. Nicknames:
honggy (primary school), stick insect (winston), hongz (jianxiong)
I can't wait for Dennis to do this qn =D

3. Birth Place:
Thompson hospital or something. Can't really remember

4. Hair colour:
Black

5. Age:
16

6. Eye colour:
Like kinda the same as my hair

7. Birthday:
23rd June. Same as Zidane =D

8. Mood:
Tired

9. Favourite Colours:
Blue

10. Left or right handed?
Writing, drawing and chopstick-holding, bottle-cap opening with left.
Racket-holding, hand-shaking, basketball shooting, rubik's cubing, hand-waving *hi*, slapping across your face, one-handed smsing, drink-can-opening and a lot a lot more with right.

Ten this or that
1. Love or money?
Love, I'm quite a romantic.

2. Hard liquor or beer?
Yikes, can of coke thanks

3. Cats or dogs?
Puppies =D

4. A few best friends or many regular friends?
Pure elements are weak, alloys are stronger. So a mixture of both is best =D

5. Television or internet?
Internet. Everything on TV is up there anyway.

6. Pepsi or coke?
I like their advertisments more =DD

7. Wild night out or a romantic night?
Depends on the person.

8. Money or happiness?
Happiness

9. Night or day?
Day.

10. IM or phone?
Phone? I'm banned from the computer half the time anyway..

Ten differences in a relationship
1. Smile or eyes?
I... don't get it. Smile? :)

2. Light or dark hair?
Dark

3. Hugs or kisses?
You watch all the movies, its always a hug followed by a kiss -.- So most of the time you need a hug first. >< Hug

4. Intelligence or attraction?
Ever heard the jokes about the dumb blond? I think I'll go for intelligence

5. Hook-up or relationship?
Relationship

6. Trust or love?
With love there's trust

7. Long distance or short?
Short. Heck imagine, eh my girlfriend lives in America we see each other once in 6 months.

8. Call or text?
I would prefer text cos I can save them. But you need a call every now and then too.

9. Older or younger?
To be perfectly honest, I don't mind older if its not more than 3 years or something, since women tends to outlive men anyway. But yeah most of the time it should be same age (like my good old mum and dad) or younger.

10. Looks or personality?
Personality > looks. But still needs to look decent.

Ten Last
1. Last phone call you made?
To Mum

2. Last phone call you received?
From Mum

3. Last person/people you hung out with?
Dad, sis and bro at breakfast

4. Last person to text you?
Mr Tan Ban Huat, my current "boss" who's incapable of bossing anybody around given his personality

5. Last person you tickled?
My sis

6. Last person you MSN?
Dennis. Last night about the job

7. Last person you hugged?
That must be ages ago. I think during grad nite or something.

8. Last person you slept(sleep) with?
I sleep with my bro everyday cos we share a room -.- But you mean on a same bed then look to the future.

9. Last person/people you laughed with?
Sis. She tried to get back at me for tickling her.

10. Last dream you can remember?
About Sugar winning Survivor Gabon lol. I haven't watched yet, don't tell me. Its showing right now but I'm supposed to be working lol.


Tagging Dennis and whoever else is boliao enough to do.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Hmm just an honest question. How many people actually bother to do warm-up exercises before you swim? None right?

I haven't been moving my ass a lot ever since the cool holiday job at RI where we played soccer during our free time. Speaking of which, I just got my invoice today, where it stated that I got $155.50 for that 4 days of "work". And speaking of work, the current one where Patrick and I go there and waste the whole day on the computer is freaking BORING. Morale of the story: Always go to work or any other event with 3 other colleagues to form the magic number "4" and a pack of cards or mahjong set. ^^

Anw, I went swimming today. Started with the normal breastroke, or frog-style if you prefer to call it that way, then went on to freestyle. Then I went on to butterfly, and after like 2 laps, on the third lap I kena-ed a cramp on my right leg.

I manged to struggle to the side of the pool and rested there, then after like 5 minutes the cramp subsided and i went on to swim freestyle slowly again, and this time I kena-ed a cramp on my left leg.

-.-

Dang, that shows how out of exercise I am.
Basketball, badminton, SOCCER anyone??

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Yay I just got my “new” cello =D It’s a revamped version of my old cranky China one, and the revamping costs $660.

I feel so scammed when my sis bought the old China cello last time, obviously that guy changed all the strings and parts to the cheapest China version. China strings, china pegs, China bridge, China soundpost, China tailpiece. And even the ~$20 cheap bow broke after like a short while O.o

Now this cello is cool :) It feels good, its good, and it’s loud, like really loud =D

But of course, the person playing it is still a freaking noob. Haiz…

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Today's job was boring..

Hmm I actually enjoyed yesterday more >.< If you must choose between spending your whole day with friends, your cello, and not getting paid, with spending the day in front of a laptop and type all day, getting $6.50 an hour, I thik everyone would choose the former.

And what's more, the laptop doesn't have Internet. So Patrick and I just spent most of our free time (which was considerably much much much lesser compared to TDI) playing Hearts.

And initially I thought of working 9.5 hours to get $61.50, but I finished with 8 hours and get $52 instead. Dang. How come annie's pay is so good.

Hmm maybe next monday I shall bring DotA there to play..

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Today was a complete waste of time.

Worse than the days where I just stay at home and read books in the morning, practice cello in the afternoon and watch TV at night.

Woke up at 8.
Dilly-dallied until 8.30.
Went out to eat breakfast, came back at 10.
Played cello till 10.30.
Packed up, had a quick bath, lunch, and left house at 11.40.
Reached Serene’s house at 12.50.
Rehearsal until 3.
Played Bridge,etc.. and indulged in random gossiping until 5.
Reached Swiss Hotel at 5.35
Started performance at 6
Ended performance at 7.10
Dilly-dallied around until like 7.40+
Went to eat dinner, finished at like 8.30
Played bridge until 9
Reached home at 9.50

Basically me, jon shin, ben wee and 5 other people formed an octet and performed as background music during the RJC grad nite reception today. Initially they promised us “GOOD FOOD”. So we actually thought we could join in a bite with the rest of the J2s also.

Then suddenly, the “good food” disappeared, and we were told to have dinner with a “$5” budget as the payment for the day.

Right…

I still owe Jon Shin $2 from dinner.
Jon Shin owes Ben Wee $50 because he bet that the girls will change their mind when they reach “The Pizza Place” and decide to have dinner at “Burger King” instead and lost the bet.

“The Pizza Place” is da ultimate scam. Lol the personal pizza is really personal man.

And Margaret doesn’t know how to use a knife properly haha.
And you can be amazed by how girls can spend hours of their time away just by gossiping.
And Jinghui the imba seems to have a new girlfriend, and that girl apparently has a photo of two of them together in an interesting pose with Jinghui's arm over her shoulder. hmm..

Yeah but still the day is a waste of time, and the performance was totally humiliating and a complete flop..

$5 for the day.. I can earn more in one hour tomorrow >.<