Dear Bloggie...

Grah...
Yes. Grah.
I haven't been keeping on to my promise of updating regularly...
Mab. I wonder how you do it.
I shall not grief over my laziness...

Ok then, a week of fasting has gone by...
And I guess, my stomach is finally getting accustomed to it...
Even though sometimes my gastric juices just flare up...
Makes me feel like I'm having PMS, however that feels like...
I said before, I'll get cranky easily when I'm hungry...
So this is really a test of my patience...
Which I will endure...

The past week has been tiring...
Not cause I've been exercising or what-not...
I've been looking after my superly-duperly-hyperactive nephew...
It's like his energy just never runs out...
He could run around the house for hours and not feel tired...
If he ran around by himself, that's fine by me...
But he drags me along with him...
And I must say, it's an interesting workout...
Made me forget I'm even fasting...
Only after afew rounds(of running) that I feel thirsty...
At that moment I realised I was fasting...
Which I begged my mom to look after him while I rest...
My mom told me this during one of the time when we were breaking fast...
She told me I wasn't that good with kids...
And I must say, she's very right...
Kinda makes me wonder if I'll ever change and if I could ever have children...

So effectively by looking after my nephew...
I wasn't able to do my music theory exam papers which I hoped to do...
Today I woke up at around 10am...
Bathed and watched TV...
After TV, I cleaned 3 of the ceiling fans in the house...
Of which now I'm infront of the laptop updating my blog...
I feel like taking pictures, but my sis has my camera...
And my desktop computer outside has been reformatted...
It is now clean of anything that I've dumped inside it for the past millions of years...

I wonder if I've said in my past entry before...
But I can't wait to go back to school next week...
I suddenly feel so hyped up and ready...
This attitude of starting things fresh and new...
It's actually not that new...
It was there at the beginning of last sem...
That was cause I joined SPband and felt quite excited about it...
But now I'm excited cause the modules seems like fun to me...
I'm also excited cause I won't have to stay at home and wait for time to fly...
With all this commotion of wanting to go school...
I have scary thoughts too actually...
The only thing that scares me would be collecting money for buying notes for the class...
Just hope I got my classmates to help me...
I know they will help me...
Speaking of school...
I said I will talk about my timetable...
And I will upload the pic to my blog right away...
Ok so the pic is up already...
I also realised something very interesting...
I posted the picture above my timetable...
Keyword is 8888...
Super nice number manz...

Ok now back with my timetable...
Monday I have school from 8am to 5pm...
Tuesday is from 10am to 3pm...
Wednesday is from 9am to 3pm...
Thursday is from 8am to 5pm...
Friday is from 8am to 12pm...
So I must say my timetable is quite packed...
On Wednesday I put tere till 3pm cause I have GEMs from 1pm to 3pm...
I think I'll love Friday the most...
Can go back early...
That is if I quit going to SPband...
But if I decide to stay, then I'll be wasting alot of time in school after Friday prayers...

So that's it I guess...
I hope this entry wasn't that long...
Take care everyone...
21 more days of fasting, I can do it!

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Okok, I haven't been updating for awhile not, ok not awhile, ALOTwhile...
And I haven't been keeping my word as to update like Mabeline...
So that's why now I'm updating this blog of mine...
Hopes hard that this blog doesn't die off anytime soon...
*GORENG GARING GARING jangan GORENG GARANG GARANG!*
Ok that was random...

Yesterday was the start of the fasting month...
It's interesting how I actually was looking forward to it...
My stomach grumbled quite alot yesterday morning...
Even today too...
But today wasn't as bad as yesterday's...
I guess it's all in the spirit of getting used to fasting...

Didn't do much the past few days...
Most of the time, I'd be online or I'd be just playing game on my PSP...
But mostly is playing games on my PSP...
I always wanted to do my music theory papers...
But until now I left them untouched...
Tomorrow I really got to do it...
But my nephew coming down, and my mom wants me to look after him...
Why do plans usually spoil just like that, it's quite irritating...

On Wednesday, I said I'll be getting my results right?
And well, yea, I did get my results...
I woke up at 8am...
Forced myself to sleep, but my heart was beating very loudly...
In the end I just dragged myself out of bed...
Turned on the modem and my laptop...
Went into my messenger...
Went into my school email account...
And there it was...
The email that contains my results...
So I picked up the courage and just opened the email...
I scanned through the results, expecting an F somewhere...
But there wasn't any...
There were only these results...

BA002B
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR ENGINEERS
2
B

ET0900
DESIGN & INNOVATION PROJECT
2
B+

ET0906
MICROCONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY
5
C

ET0905
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
4
C+

ET0050
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION DESIGN
5
D

MS4206
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS II (B)
4
D+

ET0053
CIRCUIT THEORY & ANALYSIS
5
D-

The D- for CT&A was quite shocking as I thought I was gonna fail that module...
And I found out, it was a Subsidiary Pass...
I guess it's a pass that I think I failed, but the lecturers pull me up to pass...
And my GPA is damn crappy, as expected, too ashamed to put it up by the way...
Next sem I really gotta buck up on everything...
No more fooling around, no more slacking...
With the help of my friend, I saw my new time table...
It's not much of a difference from all the rest, most likely it's very similar...
But on thursday is like lecture day...
With 3 lectures on that day, plus one tutorial...
I shall comment on my timetable on my next entry...
Now I still thinking on which GEMs should I take...
Anyone who knows what GEMs to take please tell me...
I'm now in the catagory of Science and Technology...
Enlighten me please...

Anyways, for today, watched a DVD on instrument maintanence...
Trust me when I say it was damn boring...
It was like every instrument, the guy keep repeating the same thing over and over again...
And also, most of the time he would be advising us to see a repairman...
I mean, if we have to buy a DVD that tells us to go see a repairman like 50 over times...
Might as well don't buy and just go see the repairman right?
Alot of them slept in the AV room while watching to the video...
At the beginning, TeckYang was like mocking the guys' actions like going in and out thingy...
But after awhile, they started to get bored, and slept along with the rest...
I stayed till the end of maintaining of Timpanis...
Then I went out and had a small chat with Sarah...

When the DVD finished, I went in again and Caiyan was telling everyone what to do...
Assiddiq will be very busy trying to find stuff as he's the QM...
And after watching the DVD, those instruments got dents will be sent for repairs...
As it hinders the TONE produced...
Actually to me, it doesn't change much, the instrument by itself is not perfect...
That's what the tuning slide is for...

Went down to the storeroom...
Mabeline was like polishing her tuba, just the top part...
And I greased her slides...
I don't really know why, but I like to grease instruments...
And also putting oil on the valves, makes me feel better...
Even though I'm not the one playing the instrument later on...
When band resumes again next time, I'm gonna make sure everyone's instrument shine...
Especially the tubas and euphoniums...
Gonna check on their instrument all the time...
So mabeline and shenghao, if u reading this, you know what I'm expecting...

Looking at Shirlin just now...
Just reminds me of the time I was QM...
Running here and there...
Asking people for their instrument's serial number...
Asking them what's wrong with their instrument...
Asking them if their instrument need any repair...
And doing stock checking...
But it seems Shirlin has everything under control just now...
Apart from new instruments which wants to be repaired...

JOY pang seh-ed me today, she say she wanna come...
In the end she go out eat with her friends..
Tsk Tsk Tsk...
Hahakz, it's ok, no hard feelings...

JO always been called lamp post, and mabeline still wonders why...

Zhihui screamed/squealed like mad when mabeline wanted to put that small ball in her uniform...

Everyone ate marshmellows from the chalet after packing up everything...

Gaby has a nice name... I shan't disclose it here, although many would tag it on my board after seeing this...

Rebekah always stares at me for a very long time...No idea why though, maybe she's slow...

Gwen kept singing Mary had a little lamb, I thought mary had a little lamp...

Izzati's forever hunting people down for band fund as always, good job! =]

ShengHao and Johnathan likes to gay around, like senior like junior....=X

XueTing keeps following me in an attempt to put that small ball in my shirt just like how mabeline tried to do that on ZhiHui...

Yihui and me thought of the same thing at the same time, the \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ has spread to her too from shirlin...

I just upgraded my windows messenger to messenger live, from msn messenger 7.5, feels abit weird, but I have to get used to it...

I guess that's I want to write...
I so gotta stop writing very long entries...
You people are so gonna get bored with me manz...
But I feel better when I type alot...
Heck, it's my blog! =X
But for all to see, ok I have no idea what I'm talking now, so I'll just end it off...

*Forte is light dynamic*
*28 more days of fasting*
*18 and 100 days young*
*please. PLEASE. do not spam on my tagboard, thank you*

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

*321st entry*

Ok, I didn't blog yesterday cause well, basically I was too tired...
I cleaned my whole room yesterday...
Vacuumed the floor and swept the floor also...
So my room is DUST FREE now...
So proud of myself..
Usually I clean my room like during the fasting month...
But my dad told me later fasting month I'll get very tired and stuff...
So I decided to just clean my room...
It was alot of hardwork of course...
But I guess the hard work paid off!
I'm kinda lazy to take a pic of the cleaned room, maybe another time...

So what did I do today...
Having slept at 2am yesterday night chatting with a friend doing Zuowen...
An advice to everyone, don't chat with someone doing zuowen...
They will take forever to reply, or maybe never...
So I bailed out at around 2am...
Slept all the way till 12pm...
Actually I was awake at 10am...
But it was raining, so I continued sleeping..
Dragged all the way till 12pm...
After which I bathed and had my brunch...
I then looked after my nephew, as in like play toys with him...
When I was done looking after him, I watched some show on crunchyroll...
Now I'm at the second last episode and it's really getting intense...
I planned to do my music theory exam papers...
But I guess I can leave that to another day...

I can't believe there's just 3 more days left to fasting month...
Really looking forward to it...
I'm gonna learn to be more patient and persevere...
And also keep my heart pure...
The window of repentance will be opened...
And I've sinned so much that I pray hard that I shall not repeat my mistakes...
And in 2 days time, I'm gonna get my results for my exams...
I'm really feeling quite scared but I must accept whatever results I get...
I must persevere and move forward!
No more being lazy...
No more slacking...
Everyday I gotta do something so that I will improve...
I'm gonna quit not doing things I set myself to do...
I will do the things I plan to do with a focused mind...
Though my future is still uncertain, Allah knows the best for me...
I must believe that all I am, all that I'll become is already planned by Him...
That is why, in the new semester, I'm gonna make sacrifices...

Before I joined SPband...
I told myself I was going to cope with my studies...
I told myself it won't take much of my time...
I wanted to prove to everyone that I can do both...
But I guess I'm mistaken...
And there's no one or nothing to be blamed for it but myself...
My own ignorance and foolishness made me believe life was going to be easy...
How wrong I was...
What hurts most was knowing my own capabilities yet taking the risk...
Mistakes after mistakes which I made...
And I dared to call myself a leader?
How can a person who can't do something so simple be a leader?
Who am I to kid, i'm just an ordinary person...
I have yet to find it in me...
I have yet to find what makes me tick...
But till I do...
I shall keep improving myself towards a better future...
For the past I can't correct, The present I can change, The future I can plan for...
I just gotta be strong in everyway possible...
Alot of people are counting on me, and I won't let anyone down...
I would like to apologise for the things I'm going to sacrifice...
For the things I'm going to abandon...
I just hope everyone would understand what I'm going through...
Take carez everyone...

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Ok so today there's supposed to be band...
But there isn't any as most of the comm members are at the SL workshop...
I realised my playing has gone from bad to worse...
My high notes are sounding so crappy that I can't bear to play it...
Anywayz...
Wanna blog about yesterday...

Morning had band...
During band there was this sort of Total Training warm up but with leg movements...
Which onli a handful were moving their legs...
I let jezer play my Eupho as I wasn't in the mood to play...
So I just walked around the basketball court...
When Rebekah gave the beat...
It was quite soft and uneven...
Maybe she was scratching her nose or something...
After total training warm up...
The band was broken off to sectionals...
I walked alot during sectionals...
Going from section to section...
Mrs Chua came and gave out two songs...
One of them was Armed forces something something...
And the other one was Pachelbel Cannon...
The Eupho and Tuba section played together both songs...
It was very easy actually, so we played around 2 or 3 times only...
I was feeling quite useless yesterday...
Cause I dunno how to teach James how to play properly...
Till Mrs Chua had to step in and teach him personally...
Mr and Mrs Chua are the greatest people the band could ever have...
Their patience and determination just inspires me alot...

And I was quite shocked that Ginny didn't know how to count rhythm...
She was like calling me to play for her the rhythm...
I hope she buck up on her rhythm soon...
Then it was combined...
Mrs Chua went through the Armed Forces song with everyone...
Then let the sec ones do combined with Ms Leong...
While we played Pachelbel Cannon...
It felt a little weird as I felt as though I was playing Classical Cannon...
I miss that song alot...
The song has afew hard parts, but not too difficult...
Then she gave us to read We're All in this Together...
That song I really no face already...
Sight reading that song was just a disaster to me...
It wasn't too difficult of a song actually, but the notes look very complicated...
I can't believe I broke down when playing that song...
I must train on my sight reading skills more...
That means, more songs to read!

After band, went to friday prayers with Izzad, Assidiq and Amalul...
Sat under the scorching heat of the sun for like 20 mins?
Luckily I got to squeeze into the mosque for some space...
After prayers, me izzad and assidiq went to meet the rest...
They wanted to go Pizza Hut...
I didn't bring any cash along, so I wasn't supportive of the idea...
But luckily Caiyan would be kind enough to lend me some cash first...
Don't worry, I'll pay you back on Wednesday...
Shirlin was like damn hungry...
So as Izzad and me...
So we ate like four slices of pizza...
And Assidiq kept bugging me...
I felt irritated, obviously...
And the rest planned on Holiday practice for the next hols...
After all the eating and talking...
We went to Sunplaza Park to like have some fun...
Me, Shirlin, Jo and Yihui went to walk around the whole sunplaza park...
Me and Yihui saw lightning, shirlin didn't, so we were like, we didn't saw anything la...
But she still stared at the clouds waiting for lightning to come out... =X
After our walk around the park, we went to the fitness corner...
I was so happy playing with the spinning thingy...
There was this kid who jumped on it and I literally flew upwards...

After playing at the fitness corner...
Went to meet the rest again...
They were making music videos...
So we decided to join in the fun...
We made two videos, if I'm not wrong...
The star of the video was LiangRong...
He was like dancing like mad all the time...
I just became one of those extra extra people...
Who jumps in and out of picture randomly... =X
Zhihui made her head bobble like an egyptian...
Caiyan posed with her Macho when it dropped...
Both of them were like ball room dancing on the grass...
Everything was just weird... =X

We went home at around 6pm plus...
Me, Jo and Yihui took the same bus...
Yihui had her trumpet with her..
And the bus was already so crowded...
So we just squeezed into the bus...
When the bus jerked, everyone was like banging on to each other...
And when we reached to our bus stop, we had to squeeze our way to the exit...
I can't imagine carrying a tuba onto that bus, not even with a Eupho... =X
So we reached home safe and soundly....=]

Wow, two entries in a day...
I shall try to blog as often as Mabeline blogs on hers...
I said TRY hor... People busy with life... =X
Actually I've been busying myself playing Tiger Woods 2008 PGA Tour...
The game very nice, my friend is so gonna be jealous of me... =X
I guess that's it for today! Take carez everyone!

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...



I'm seriously sorry for not updating my blog...
I've been a lazy bum for like afew weeks...
Even though I'm often online, I lazy to update...
See how lazy I am?
Lazy lazy lazy lazy lazy...
That's ME!
Maybe just for blogging I am la...
Ok so what have I been up to for the past few long moments of my life...
On the last entry, I wrote that I was going to Batam for camp...
And I did...
It was, ok lah...
Four days and three nights was quite a long time away from home...
The first day was quite an eye opener for me...
Apart from the BORING leadership workshops which were an eye closer for most of us...
So the first day's activity was raft building...
We were supposed to make a raft which is made of 6 barrels, 6 short poles, 6 long poles and nylon strings...
At first we planned on how the raft should look like and where the barrels should be placed...
Then we put the plan into action...
One of my groupmate learned how to tie the nylon string around the barrels...
We helped to position the barrels so that it doesn't slip off...
So we made the raft...
Looks solid as a rock.... But a rock that floats...
We positioned ourselves on the raft...
11 persons on a raft made out of 6 barrels...
But sadly the raft broke down when we were halfway there...
So there's a boat that took us back to the shore...



Second day we went to do high ropes activities...
I actually like doing high ropes...
Cause it's something which I am familiar with...
So I did belaying for two people...
Luckily they are as light as me...
If not, I think I'll fly when they fall or something...
Anywayz, after belaying two people...
It was my turn to do the high ropes...
I expected it to be very easy la...
But the first level when I passed through it...
And I looked down...
From below it didn't look that high, but from above it was VERY high...
But as I went through from first to second stage, it felt better...
As in the height didn't bother me anymore...
The third stage was quite difficult, that's why I took quite a long time on it...
Luckily I got support from my belayer...
At the end of the third stage, we had to go through a flying fox...
To me, I expected it to be faster...
But was disappointed as it was quite slow...
The I got down from the thing...
And it was all over...



Day three of the camp was all about jungle trekking...
There were two groups doing trekking that morning...
And both of us went opposite directions...
My group started out with the hard part of the trekking...
While the other group started with the easy part...
So my group went through tough forestation and muddy swamps first...
And ended off the trekking with an easy walk...
We arrived at the last checkpoint first and the other group came back afew moments after we arrived...
My shoes were super disgusting after trekking...
Went back to the resort and to my room to wash my shoes...
It looked like crap before I cleaned it...
Now it looks more like a shoe...

The food there was just amazing...
Sadly I don't have any pictures on the food I ate...
Or you guys would be drooling all over the place...
But I enjoyed breakfast the most...
Pancakes, scrambled eggs, mee/nasi goreng...
It just felt like heaven...
And there was koko crunch too!
Too long never eat cereals make me feel deprived...

On the fourth day of the camp...
We went to an orphanage home...
I bought some gifts for them before going to Batam...
But when I was there, I wished I could give everything that I have...
Looking at them just made me appreciate the things I have and took for granted...
My group was the one sitting inside the house doing colouring...
There were papers that had barney's picture on it...
And the kids were asked to colour in it...
There was this girl whom me, Olivia and Carol helped to colour...
It looked the nicest out of all the rest, well maybe no one helped the other kids...
I just felt like staying there and looking after them...
But we had to leave...
After saying one last huge good bye...
We took a group picture there and was on our way to shopping...

I exchanged only 30 bucks of Singapore dollar for dunno how many rupiahs...
At first I thought of buying a watch...
But I think again, the price like not really worth it as it's the same as in Singapore...
So in the end, I just used up a small portion of that 30 bucks on eating at A&Ws...
It felt so good after so long of not eating A&Ws that everything tasted new...
Loved the curly fries, the Root Beer float and of cause, the Waffle with Ice Cream...
But sadly I couldn't finish eating everything, left afew stuff only...
Wanted to give to Carol, but she was quite full also...
So we went around the shopping centre...
In search of an arcade...
Of which we finally found one...
Andre and one other guy(sorry I forgot your name) played Time Crisis...
While me and Olivia played House of the Dead...
We didn't have time to play alot as it was time to assemble back...
After going to arcade, we rushed all the way down to the supermarket...
Cause Olivia wanted to buy some buahsusu(sp?) which is some kind of fruit...
After grabbing some buahsusus, she just went out and the security guard stared at her...
Then she walked in back, due to pai seh...
And started to queue to pay for the fruits...

Assembled at around 3.30pm batam time...
I collected the passports and tickets...
Gave out to everyone in my group...
And we started walking towards the ferry terminal...
I thought it would be a short walk...
But it was quite far away as we had to cross a bridge...
We took our bags from the bus and headed to the customs checkpoint...
And by around 4.30pm, we were on the ferry waiting to head back to Singapore...

Reached Singapore at around 6 plus...
It felt good to be on home ground once again...
Even though everything looked familiar, everything felt different...
Four days away from home is a very very very long time ok...
And I realised my hp can last for four days...
But it died on me when I reached Singapore...
So I couldn't call anyone when I arrived...

My reflection for this camp.............
I find that it's quite stressful on my part...
Being a group leader isn't easy, seriously...
And on the last day of the camp, the lecturers were asking me to do alot of stuff...
Which I got a feeling if next year I go for this GYL camp...
I'll be the head leader of the whole camp...
Taking control of my own group was already hard enough...
What more the whole camp...
I guess I learned alot too, through all the experiences...
And even though the workshop was dead BORING, I absorbed some stuff...
So it's not totally wasted ok...
My half concious mind still working though I was half asleep...=X
Anywayz, it was great making new friends, knowing the other side of people no one knew about...
I guess people got to know the real me in camp...
Lastly, I'd like to say that it's a camp like no other I've been through before...=]

Ok I have updated my blog now...
So ShengHao, please stop hogging my tagboard as though u own it, reality check, u don't...sheesh....
Rebekah, I have nooooooo idea why he's doin dat to my tagboard...
Estherr, WHY YOU JUST PASSED MY TEST!!!!!! I DID BETTER FOR YOURS LOHZ! =X
aisa, How are you gonna see me on msn, when u haven even added me in yet? AND I WANT MY PICTURESSSSSSS!!!!!! grrrr....

Take carez people!

Zupz Zupz!