"Just know, when you truly want success, you'll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get" - Unknown
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful" - Joshua J. Marine
"Forget all the reasons it won't work and believe the one reason that it will." - Unknown
Just some quotes to spur myself, and my readers, on :) and the first quote is for someone I truly hope will not give up no matter what. I hope you are able to see that we're all here for you and that you should never give up on yourself, because many people envy you for your ability to do well in your sport, and hope you can turn that resilience to your academics. bottom line: we are all here for you and we will not hesitate to help you as long as you ask for it. jiayou :)
well uhm, JCTs are just over. okay maybe not just. but yeah I'm just trying to say that us y6s only have two last checkpoints. which will determine where we will go next. I'm not trying to hide my desire for stellar grades but I believe that A level grades are only as important as until we get into the course in University. thereafter it is not important anymore.
so yeah, it's kinda disgusting to see how we have to slog our guts out and mug our asses off just because of this. I mean some people don't even do what they do in Uni for a living. sigh, the ironies of life.
just wanna say I'm reaaaally thankful for the nice teachers I have, especially Mr J.Chang and Mr LYX (: super duper thankful that they dont ever give up on me and always believe in me no matter what (:
gonna post up little snippets of my post-CTs here :) but before that shall have a few pictures from the Navy Open House 2013 (;
so Miss Eileen got super duper excited as soon as she learnt about the NOH, and that my dad works in the Navy so she was super interested in going, and well since I missed the one 3 years ago, why not? :D
quite sucky that the day was really hot, not much winds. other than when we went out to sea on the Navy ship and the feel was reaaaally good because of the strong winds and the relaxing currents :)
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| HAHAHAHA YES. I KNOW. but this is just a reflection on how strong the winds were (; |
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| this was us, before going up on the ship (: |
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| sitting on the tank cuz that woman insisted LOL. I was actually quite afraid. :/ |
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| with Major Xavier and the other officer (Eileen couldnt rmb his name) who told us so much about life on the submarine! |
left the NOH about 7pm when everyone was leaving already HAHA. took many photos and played some games and toured many ships. all in all it was a good day :D
dined with Eileen at CCP before heading home, dying of fatigue especially because my shoes broke and had to walk in mummy's heels for quite a bit ><
alright now for Post-CTs :D
Friday 5 July
after the last paper, decided to check out the Hokkaido fair with JH (; wasnt really much to buy and we didnt wanna have food from the fair for dinner so we went around hunting for dinner :D
note: tampines is to be avoided during meal times, AT ALL TIMES. you'll die of hunger by the time you find somewhere which isnt crowded.
thankfully Jack's Place wasnt that crowded, I mean, there wasnt really a long queue. and we settled for that :)
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| lobster bisque - our favourite (: a must-have! |
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| had crayfish with chicken for myself (: |
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| the boy had venison and crayfish (: |
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| DESSERT :D yes a horrible photo I admit. but it was real good ^^ |
Saturday 6th July
Jpot lunch with da fam (: I cannot stand the photos I take at times, especially when I blog them out >< bear with it guise HAHA.
headed off to meet JH for a short while, after his sailing training, went to bugis to buy baking stuff before heading back home to rest!
Sunday 7 July
wokeup at godly 7am, after sleeping at about 3+am because of my baking date with the bestie :D
haha thank goodness (or not?) her beloved has the same birthday as mine, so I have preparation company during JH's birthday ^^
long-awaited rainbow cake in a jar, it was ultimate fun baking and playing with all the colours and the piping bags that couldnt get the batter where we wanted them to HAHA. although the end result was really terrible I still enjoyed the process (:
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| this photo sums it up (; |
headed out to meet my birthday boy soon after :)
lunch-ed at Secret Recipe but I dont have the photos cuz it's with him opps. like the nice ambiance of that place and the desserts were really so tempting but because of the (horrible) cake, we decided to leave the dessert for another time :) sorry dear I will make up for it after my As HAHA stuff you with fattening dessert hehehe ^^
was contemplating between a movie or just chilling out (SEE, SINGAPORE IS SO BORING.) and then I suggested gaming :D hehe rather good choice because everywhere else is crowded on a sunday. lost terribly to that boy but still had loads of fun ^^
went home for dinner cuz he had family dinner :)
spent my night watching Murray vs Djokovic :D SO HAPPY MURRAY WON YAYY :D awesumposum tennis never regretted spending that 3hours!
Monday 8 July
ironically this was JH's birthday but yet I spent the whole day home alone HAHA. took a good break off everything, vividly remember how nua my day was:
woke up at 1pm
lunch
watched drama online
watched drama on tv
dinner
watched drama on tv
watched drama online
yeah LOL I'd love life like this any day, over the hectic life I have now ><
Tuesday 9 July
FINALLY the econs peeps were done with JCTs, how thankful I am that I dont take that wretched subject. super thankful.
met my DH063 (w/o shimin) for gaming at Bugis and had a freaking good time laughing at each other's antics HAHA.
rushed off to meet JH and then headed to Cineleisure to catch Despicable Me 2 :D
been super excited for this movie and although yes the sequel couldn't match the first movie but overall the comedy effect was just great for relaxation ^^
presenting my favourite scene from the movie:
HAHAHAHA head to cinema and have a good laugh if you havent watched the movie!
and after going on and on about minions, the boy suggested Cineleisure for the movie so that I could take photos with this giant minion!
HAHA still rmb how he was like "the thing damn big, you damn small" when I was posing for a shot.
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| YAY MINIONNNN <3 ok I need to grow up. HAHA. |
since there was 18chefs and we havent had it in ages, since the Simei branch had to close for East Point to undergo renovation, so we decided to go over for dinner :D
tried their pasta for the first time, would say it's really not bad ^^
Wednesday 10 July
painfully headed back to school after so many days of sleeping happily ><
it was a truly painful day at learning fest, especially that food workshop where we had to sit 3hours, on the floor, cross-legged.
if you guys dont know I am actually the owner of a body with manymany problems.
sitting cross-legged on the floor for a prolonged period just means: back pain, knee pain, ankle pain.
not the best thing to happen for someone already angst that school has reopened.
cyber-wellness was supposedly quite okay, just that fatigue caused me to fall asleep ><
PAC for the YA talk was pretty enjoyable tho, hilarious seniors made my day!
went to train for Touch Rug with the 21 girls + yimin and xiaoqi for an hour or so then headed off to family dinner :)
yay tzechar my favvvvv <3 especially when there's crab HAHA.
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| salted egg butter crab - the most sinful crab dish on earth, also the most heavenly (; |
Thursday 11 July
learning fest workshops got slightly better, started the morning with coffee brewing!
I wouldn't say it was verrrry boring, just that I fell asleep during the parts where it was more dry (yes pun intended) ><
shimin got a cup of cafe latte at the end of the workshop and shared it with alina katherine and I (:
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| super love latte art, I'm gonna put it in my to-learn-list after As (: |
Friday 12 July
SPORTS CARN 2013 :)
I was really excited because it's my last huge event at DHS already. altho the exposure to the Sun wasn't something I was looking forward to.
took the morning train with my best friend since I was taking about 3/4 of her journey (: thankful for the company in the morning and the nice talk even tho the train was rather crowded.
met JH at harbourfront and we made our way to Sentosa together :)
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| HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOHYUXUAN <3 glamqueenz+Germain ^^ |
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| with my favourite bimbz <3 |
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| DRAKON TCHOUK (: |
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| with xinyi (: |
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| DH063'12 (: |
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| floppy - the girl who requested $10 for a photo >: |
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| Ms Selena! |
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| supposedly a solo photo with Amanda but someone forced her way in. MY SUPPORTERS GANG HAHA. |
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| with the babes who didnt have an umbrella in the rain, and featuring Benedict's epic face LOL. |
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| with 21! (: |
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| with the babes and Mr LYX, one of the best teachers I've met (: |
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| the PE teacher/mentor I've always been so thankful for (: |
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| with Hunghui the beach babe HAHAHA. |
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| w Stella and our cool shades (; |
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| w Siow Ying and Looi Han at the bus-stop! |
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last but not least, the DRATOO <3
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weather was bad, getting a little too hot to stay on the island so decided to head back to mainland with JH (: chilled a lil at macs to rest those sore legs before heading back to Tampines for dinner (:
grocery-shopped w him because he wanted to cook his family dinner the next day hehe so proud of him :') and it's awesome fun grocery shopping with you (:
really sad we didnt managed to help Ervin get back what he really wanted last year. but I guess he could see that most of us tried our best (:
Saturday 13 July
wokeup early again, for service learning at Peace Connect (:
met Siow Ying and Alina early in the morning for preparation before the event.
didnt capture much from the event, so here's the only photo I got!
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| prettaye balloon in a balloon (: gonna learn it someday ^^ |
took the train to Admiralty to granny's house from Lavender.
I swear this is the train route I hate the most :< because the train seriously takes forever between two stops (only for some stops though).
superb spread of food, A for quality and service (:
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| w mum <3 |
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my favourite nephewwww <3
okay I only have one nephew.
BUT HES SO ADORBZZZ. <3 |
and yes then sunday came and past, and zoommmm monday.
back to school.
sigh.
Wednesday 17 July
only interesting thing this week was that I had my virgin blood donation experience (;
so excited but yet scared at the same time!
and I was reaaaally high during when the blood was being extracted from me I think I scared the babes, they must have thought something was wrong w me LOL.
Thursday 18 July
celebrated Jie Min's belated 18th with the pw peeps and hanzhang kaixiang junyou (:
headed to ramen champ, but being me who's not really a fan of ramen, ate rice instead :D
thanks to the horribly long break before H1 T.T
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| not the best place to take a photo but I love how glam I look here (; |
H1 ended at disgusting 515pm but thank goodness for daddy who came to pick me up (:
went to Tampines 1 to get a cake for mummy cause Thursday was mummy's birthday :D
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| Happy Birthday mummy <3 |
Saturday 20 July
dinner with the psch gang ystd, thai seafood despite the fact I dont take thai food.
ALMOST EVERYTHING WAS SPICY I SWEAR. but it's okay, the company made up for it (:
Attempted soccer style pose hahaha. The only group of people that I feel most at ease with in my simplest outfit and my truest self, just like primary school days. No one judges the way you dress and behave, no one hates you for jokes that are mocking. Love the simplicity of every meet up that lasts past midnight. Truly my second family :') really thankful for such wonderful friends I've made since young.
caption from my bestf's photo on insta (:
so true I couldn't have said it better myself.
Sunday 21 July
after a day of mugging at home mummy took me out for dinner at Jack's Place (:
not gonna post the food photos, too fattening making me guilty ><
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| dessert and tea (: |
daddy was attending an event at the Istana but came to pick us up after dinz (:
and since I was wearing a nice dress I decided to take a photo with him :D
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| me and my smart+handsome daddy <3 |
okay done :D
that took long LOL.
time to get back to geoggg~~~