Chinese New Year!!

wheee chinese new year is here!! haha, today was hilarious! my secondary school class 4a had decided to go back as a class to St. Hilda's for CNY celebrations. i heard that qashrul was the one who initiated the whole thing and that dear fella did not even go back! so anyway, initially, angel and i did not plan to go back as our parents do not allow us to skip school, BUT haha due to our charming ways (heh), we managed to weasel our way through the security guards, teachers, and HODs.

NAH, we actually got permission! here's the funny part. angel, jolene, may, junxian, jethro and me (my new classmates lar) wanted to get out of school real bad. we stayed for the performance til 9, but after that we did not want to join in with the activities. so we all trooped down to the back gate, but oh darn it! although it was not locked, it was chained!! -.- sigh... haha we contemplated climbing over the gate but heh, well we are ladies after all. there were even ideas of poisoning the guards, or putting laxatives into their drinks so we could sneak out as they rush for the loo! our school had also invited a "lion dance" troop to perform for us, so one joker suggested all of us hiding as storaways in their lorry! but the saner ones reasoned that it might take hours before the lorry actually moves out of school! haha junxian was cute! he said that "what if the lorry drives until don't know where, we wouldn't be able to find our way back!!" all of us went "DOTS! we just need to get OUT of school, the minute the lorry exits MI, we jump out! we don't travel with the lorry to its destination!!!" haha... so we continued scheming and brainstorming of ways we could get out of our jailhouse. we truly resembled jailbirds lar, the way we pressed our faces against the fence which blocks us out from the world outside... haha pathetic right... haha

aha! our home tutor was the answer, we told ourselves. thus we went over to ask mrs kuek to see if we could go back to shss, or rather, for angel and i only. jolene and may were going home, junxian had to go back to his bowen sch thing, and jethro, ohho jethro! haha, no idea what he wanted to do. he was super funny, he tried to find excuses to go home, starting with

1) headache
2) stomachache
3) goldfish died
4) grandmother's wedding (she's remarrying)

and ending with

5) going with a friend to his secondary school (mind you, both of them are from DIFFERENT secondary schools! haha)

well mrs kuek wanted to help us out VERY badly but she did not want to get any of us or herself into trouble you see, so angel and me thick skin went to ask the security guards posted at the front gate, if we could go out early. they told us that we needed a permission slip signed by our home tutor and a HOD. so again, we marched over to the general office and asked the clerk there if we could have a permission slip or something. haha thank our lucky stars! a HOD man was behind us (he looked like a technician lab helper, not a HOD!) and he allowed us to go back to our respective secondary schools! haha, we enticed him! nah, haha, we psycho him til in the end he gave in and said "okay lar, we want to encourage filial piety in MI, so since you all are so filial and attatched to yoru secondary schools, i'll let the 6 of you off." he walked us to the school gate to give the secuirty guards permission to let us off, and then others asked him if they could go off too! haha he was so funny. he told them "i don't know all of you arh, i only know 6 of them." haha hilarious!

the minute we got out of school, angel, junxian and i started running like the wind (haha exaggerating here) out of toh tuck rise to catch a cab outside. 3 of us got in and we made out way down to tampines st. 81. poor junxian had to follow us all the way there as we were in a rush. i was so excited i whipped out my handphone to call amelia immeidately. haha was so breathless but my, my heart nearly stopped when i heard her voice! okay, not so kua zhang lar, but i missed her so much! haha... throughout the ride, angel and i were laughing at how we got away with it all! the "early dismissal", and the way we fought to get it.

opps, too late. we then realised that we didn't have enough money to pay for the fare! haha, again we were ultra fortunate that junxian had money with him. vikNESH (he's always going around calling us anGEL and loiSA you see, haha) had given him 10 bucks and he had another 10 bucks of his own so whew! we had enough, but heh, angel still owes him a buck while i owe him 30 cents. pathetic... haha... the total cost was around 12 plus lar, each of us had to pay 4.50. it's like a ticket to enter SHSS's concert.

okay, so we stopped at the springfield bus stop, and we RAN, yet again, towards SHSS, with junxian panting behind us. haha, poor guy... well he wanted to see our school what... haha... first person we saw when we reached school? AMELIA! haha i've never loved her so much! we had a group hug, a bear crushing hug! haha... then we walked in as graduates of SHSS. haha dramatic isn't it? too bad we didn't have a fan club or something waiting for us. haha, okay i'm babbling again. hee

gosh so many familiar faces, friends, fellow school mates, juniors, seniors too, and teachers! haha, there was this homey cosy feeling as we walked up to the hall. sigh... i love SHSS. truly, once a hildan, ALWAYS a hildan. okay, i'm getting sappy here... anyway, the concert was still going on. it was this hildan superstar singing competition thing, and we got there just in time to hear song ren (at least i think that's his name) sing! wow he's good, made my heart melt! haha i could fall in love with a guy like that, although i didn't understand a word he was singing since it was in chinese... haha

okay to name a few people i met... ... ... hmmm i've decided not to. it's just too many! i saw nearly the entire sec 4 batch, joy a senior, juniors, councillors, mr. wong, mdm norhani, mdm wong, mrs. tan the libarian... wow haha... and when mr. yap saw angel and i in school uniform, he was telling us that we disgraced the school uniform as we were not wearing our name tags, school socks, and for me, the school tie. he pointed to my black shoes and went "you still wear black shoes some more... councillor! never wear tie HAI YO!" angel was diaoing him and i so wanted so badly to roll my eyeballs up but i didn't want to look rude and was afraid my contact lenses would drop out onto the floor. haha... met nic teo too... he told me some lame joke, as usual, then twirled me three times... seriously, i do think he's insane... =)

oh oh, i'm wearing contact lenses! ain't used to it yet! mum made me get them as my degree went up and it was advised that i wear lenses to lower my degrees before i go entirely blind! haha, i got it three days ago... heh i'm taking pretty long to get it onto my eyeballs... i woke up at 5am the other day, and i only got it in around 6.45am... haha was nearly late for school because of that... taking them out is much easier... all you've gotta do is practically peel it off the eyeballs... okay am i scaring you? it's okay... =) i'm scared of it myself. haha that's why i take so long to put it on. scary, but my chor lor nature helpes me take it out easily lar. haha...

okay back to topic. after school, kim, angel, amelia and i went to macs for lunch! angel and i were kinda broke (thanks to the taxi fare) so we used our EZ link cards to pay! haha oh then i had to rush home, as my trip back to buona vista is super long! sigh, we went our seperate ways, and i boarded the train towards "don't play" station. (boonlay i mean, it sounds like don't play right? i was a kid and doing my version of a pole dance, playing on the train, when the announcement was made. DON'T PLAY!! i thought the person making the announcements was scolding me, heh) yeah then angel called me and guess what? she met alvin (my orientation group member) and gang at tampines interchange. they're from dunman secondary school so i guess they wanted to visit their school too. by then it was 12 plus, haha, not sure who they're visiting... security guards maybe? haha...

well that's about it! louie's eventful chinese new year! haha... my friends have planned an ice skating outing... i'm afraid i'll fall down and break the ice or my neck! haha, we'll see... it'll be an experience though... wheeeeee cant wait! =)

happy chinese new year you guys! =)

turning into a lawyer

okay i've suddenly thought up of an amibition! haha, weird huh... i'm thinking of becoming a lawyer! haha, those criminal ones... hee... but it's a little scary, dealing with them. i wanna be a defender! =) my inspiration? haha the lawyer, madison, from tim green's books! haha! however, i just found out that in order to be applicable for that particular career, i have to get an A in GP (general paper), be real proficient in english and etc. i'm not sure about science, math and all those stuff, but i might as well do my best in those too yeah? well so basically i'm panicking, as i have slowly realised that my english is failing me. so... i'm back to my OLD resolution again. i'll do my best to write good english in my blogs, i hope. yeah, i wanna do well for GP! i'm going to read the newspapers as i read my novels and books... with ZEST and PASSION! haha, that was what my current lit teacher told my class. we need to have ZEST and PASSION to do well in literature! haha, so ZEST and PASSION it is for me. i can't imagine pouring over the newspapers, especially the main straits times section as it's the most unappealing part for me, but that i must do! i do't mind the home section but goodness, the MAIN one? it feels well... boring perhaps... but my GP teachers said that we must know our facts not only at an individual level, but also at a global level. louie, world news is for you! sigh... i have to change my habits now... =( read newspapers everyday, every section, all the time! haha

talking about newspapers, i'm considering journalism too! haha, i do not really enjoy the writing part, but it sounds nice, and something that i believe i can cope with, better than other careers. does that make sense?

okay i'm switching topics very fast. my mind thinks too much haha. my new cca, badminton! haha i haven't exactly signed up for it yet lar, but i'm all for it! haha, it would be cool to actually play badminton regularly now... =)

all these trend of thoughts make me remember something i learnt somewhere in school... a teacher told us something about one thought leading to many many thoughts... it was in literature i believe. she told us about a lady who composed a poem similar to this. a cloud of thoughts or something like that. i'm ashamed to say that i slept in her class. NEVER before have i slept during a literature period. i have always been wide awake during mrs. koh and mr. rashidi's lessons. somehow, this time i just couldn't seem to keep my eyelids open. i promise myself though that in future, i'll sit up real straight and be extremely attentive. haha =) i want to take literature at a H2 level!! not H1! sniff oh well nevermind. i'll stick with my current combination. i can always change it later! =)

friday the 13th!

haha wanqi and angel told me that friday the 13th is a black day, a dao mei day! haha it MUST be true after what we have been through today! allow me to explain...

i attended yet another group outing with my mi mates today. it was supposedly a bbq to celebrate two people's birthdays. namely, carmen, and benjamin. i'm not too sure if these outings are for cyrus one, or the whole of cyrus or something, but nevermind about that. just a thought. anyway, i arrived there pretty late, around 7 plus as i had to travel from music class in buona vista. the place was near MI, and i could actually take bus 173 from there -.- BUT i was told to travel all teh way to bukit batok, adn take 173 from the interchange. hai yo haha but nvm. it was an interesting though stressful ride. the train was darn crowded. oh ya, a mum asked her 5 year old kid what bukit batok was in chinese, and the little one answered with much confidence. i was so embarrassed that i myself did not know it! haha a five year old kid beat me to it! haha oh well...

anyway, basically, i arrived there at 7 plus. 2 guys met me at the bus stop. haha i had escorts! haha, nice of them =) nat, ting, and wanqi were already there in the house when i went in. we played with poker cards for a little while and then nat went home. the 3 of us left decided to help start the cooking as it was 8 plus by then and though everyone was hungry, no one was cooking -.- one fella told us "maybe you better start the cooking. it's okay if you poison us, cause if we don't eat now, we'll still die of hunger" haha it was pretty funny... so the three hopeless cooks tried to kick start the bbq by putting the grill onto the pit. haha we took approximately 20 minutes to do that? haha in desperation, we decided to call the boys who went out to jalan jalan. by the time they got back, we were already cooking the raw food. we were unsure whether they were cooked or not so we just trial and error lar haha. some food were erm, chao ta of course. hee but that's not the point

the point is...

argh! people were complaining and criticising so much! i mean come on, we're cooking for you, we had not eaten either too you know. if you don't want to help it's fine, but please do not ask "who cooked this shit" when everyone is hungry and yet you're not doing a thing! there were of course more comments on our bad cooking but nevermind, what's in the past, let's leave it in the past! =) i guess everyone was pretty frustrated then...

the most amusing thing was that we three girls walked out on everyone with attitude, or rather only wanqi lar. haha, ting and me were loking down all the time and muttering bye without sincerity, but wanqi is seriously the best! haha she dao-ed everyone! and as our msn nicks say....

PATHETIC us. eating puffs along e DESERTED roadside. we nearly got SMASHED by a reversing car and and ongoing car

haha the host's mum was real nice. she gave us three currypuffs to eat on the way home. =) so we walked to the bus stop, and we realised goodness, was it even a bus stop? there were no benches, no lights, no bars, haha just a piece of metal above our heads and a near invisible bus pole there! haha, we sat down on the road to eat our puffs, and again as the nick tells it, we nearly got knocked down, from both sides! on our right a car was going towards us, and on our left, a car was reversing! haha boy did we feel lousy and pathetic at that point of time. we were quite pissed off too so we lost our appetitie, but on the bus to clementi, we became tired and just didn't have anymore energy to be angry at anyone. we had drinks at a coffee shop in clementi and basically, joked and crapped a lot... haha well we had fun then yeah? oh and poor wei yao (mr. polar bear) tore his ankle ligaments... keep him in prayer! we were missing him like mad cause he would have made our day! haha

so i guess all in all, the whole outing wasn't a total black out right? =) we already planned our next chinese new year gathering.. haha or rather gatherings... we're gonna go visitation! haha... =)

combination

okay my combination is like wow... so non me... i'm taking chemistry, physics, and mathematics at h2 level, and literature at h1 level!! ahhhhhh... so scientific and sciency! haha well, we had chem, physics and math on the first day of lessons! i repeat FIRST day... haha... sigh, we didn't start on any physics but immediately we had chemistry homework. and math oh goodness kill me, just murder me... math was like piang! i was just copying, and copying and copying without understanding a thing! haha... terrible... have to revise again and again and over again in the hopes of understanding at least 10 percent. sigh... pray for me, i'm losing confidence and faith! =(

and now, we need a graphic calculator for math... i just smsed elisa, jami and june about it, but elisa hasn't even heard of it! ahhhh!!! and it's darn expensive lar.. it's 175 or 210 bucks can... imagine, if you drop it on the floor... bang! wah your heart will just stop... the worst part is that in poly, you don't need it! so it's such a waste if you purchase one and then decide to go to poly! sniff... it's quite tiring really... trying to decide on so many things now and gosh, i'm so scared! feel so hopeless... useless especially when the math teacher starts to talk... at least i can grasp chem, but math!!! sigh, i love angel that's all i can say... we shall pull through this together okay? =)

=(

a week in MI

MI's been interesting. we had a week of orientation! well cyrus one rocks to the core! haha i've got such a cool group!! although we were all ignoring each other during the first day (everyone was so shy!!), we made at least a friend too! okay, so we were forced too due to the icebreakers... haha, but subsequently we really had fun!

for the icebreakers we had to "get to know" the person sitting next to us. so i "got to know" benjamin! he's this really tall fella (and he knows it! will explain later), who is from st. joseph's institution... haha we asked a lot of irrelavant questions lar, such as shirt size, whether one likes to eat or not, and if one has any animals at home. okay that sounds so like my questions... well i was the one asking the questions mah. the shirt size was by our group leader. oh ya, his cca was canoeing, but he doesn't like to canoe. hmmm okay i guess... haha...

during break, i was standing at a noticeboard i school, desperately sms-ing and calling angel cause i was so lost! haha, and this girl, theodora was standing enxt to me, doign the exact same thing! ahah since she's in my group, we laughed and agreed that we might only be able to find our friends in the mi crowd next year! and then an angel appeared in front of me... ANGEL!!! haha i happily skipped off with her, then looking back, saw theodora still standing there, so i invited her along! make new friends! =) theo's nice... haha very sweet... kinda quiet and innocent, but great! must not forget this funny part. we were eating at the basketball court (it wasn't allowed but heh), and a hilarious incident occurred. there was this gigantic tree nearby, and this guy threw up another fella's sch shirt. it stuck there lar! they tried using a ball to push it out, and guess what? the ball stuck too! by then we were spluttering all voer our food. it was real funny! haha, then a saviour came along. this guy used a mere TENNIS BALL and one throw, the ball on the tree came loose. of course there was no hope for the sch shirt so leaders had to be involved together with bamboo sticks. haha funny man...

oh and i found a few of my pri. sch friends! haha one of them is amanda, who's in my group too! i totally did not recognise her, but she recognised me! aww so touched... i'm famous... haha! okay then came the games, mi dance, and the oh to goodness SOOO boring discipline talks and subjects combination talks... but i guess it's a neccessity...

ookay, i can't remember details and it'd be too long anyway so i'll just emphasise on my new found friends since that's what orientation is about. jovin, another girl in our group, started passing this book along asking for everyone's numbers and email adds. i remember her casue it's something i'd never dare to do. i'm too shy. i'd just look down and feel real akward. actually jovin's kinda shy too but we both don't know what made her do that.. but anyway it was great cause after that, we all got to know each other better! then there's jasmine, fadilah, michelle, wanqi (her name is together, haha she told me that), natalie, ting you, carmen, pamela (she joined our group on the erm, third day i think), and i missed out a few girls so sorry... i know who you are but can't remember your names! i apologise but i still love you guys! =) okay then there's obviously benjamin, alvin, felix, weiyao erm er... seriously, i think we can forget about the names lar arh... i can't remember a thing. give me faces anytime... =)

what else? okay, we had our first group outing on the 9th january. our group is a very enthusiastic one... haha... i actually heard about it from alvin, then i passed it on the jovin when she called me. the original plan was to go to plaza singapura to play pool, but somehow along the way, the plan changed to orchard taka, then to cineleisure, but still pool.

we ate at macdonald's first. there was a whole lot of fries left! haha so we played this numbers game. each time we lost, we had to eat 5 fries, and we kept giving the longest fries to that poor fella. haha had a good laugh. after that we went to change into home clothes as we were nto allowed into the game room in school clothes. goodness as some did not bring their casual clothes, we had to mix and match to help them out! haha i ahd to pass my school skirt off as a normal skirt! the minute we went in, the man went "oh erm half u is also not allowed" haha. wanqi told him that was not a school skirt. haha she was good! and yeah thanks, we looked small so we had to take out our ezlink cards to prove we're 17! -_- okay on to the game! oh the game was hilarious... haha, theodora and jovin left before the game started, but wanqi and i stayed behind. we took cue sticks, and realised they were longer than us?? haha heavy too... so well, we attempted to help our respective teams play, but of course we were of not much help. in fact i think we slowed them down a lot, thanks to the way our white ball continuously going into the holes... or better yet for my case, the ball flew right OFF the table, don't ask me how that happened okay... by then we were pretty hungry so off we went again to eat! haha, this time at mos burger... wah the guys can eat a lot! wanqi and i were kinda out of the circle so we stonned a little, very quiet. i lost my appetite cause it felt a little weird. in the end we did share a corn soup though. =) it was NICE! i'm going for the frozen strawberries next! hee...

okay time to go home!! majority took the bus home i guess, while a few stayed back to take erm neoprints. did i get it right? yeah.. that sticker picture thing... wanqi, alvin, me and another fella who's from cyrus one (i didn't even know he's in my group til today) went to sommerset station. since wanqi was taking the opposite train, the two guys adn me went off first. i couldn't decide whether to go back to buona vista, or back to tampines instead. (long story) at city hall, i was still thinking about it when alvin made me so kan cheong and told me i had to "decide now". so ookay! i went back to buona vista... haha it was nearer. he actually calculated the number of stations. buona vista - 9, tampines -11... he said two stops did not make a difference but well, haha. that concludes cyrus one's outing!! =)