A walk to remember

Life is made up of many new beginnings, new chapters, just like yesterday. It was a new beginning for the 35th, for me. A Walk To Remember. I shall not elaborate much on yesterday but here is my promise: In this new chapter, i promise to do my very best, to put in all my effort. The year ahead may be difficult, but as a batch, we are ready to take everything in our stride, and overcome whatever obstacles we may face. Jia you 35th! We can do this! This is just the beginning of a wonderful journey.

escape

I need one day where i can do anything i want and like without having to be worried about everything else. Just one day.. How nice if such a day would really exist.

Sentiments

BALANCE SHEET OF LIFE.

Someone forwarded me this email i think it is worth sharing. Enjoy=)

The happiness of life is made of little things - a smile, a hug,a moment of shared laughter ? It's not the wealth you amass but what you give to others and the lives you touch that you take with you for eternity!

Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities.
Creative Ideas are our Assets.
Our heart is our Current Asset.
Our soul is our Fixed Asset.
Our brain is our Fixed Deposit.
Our thinking is our Current Account.
Achievements are our Capital.
Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade.
Friends are our General Reserves.
Values & Behaviours are our Goodwill.
Patience is our Interest Earned.
Love is our Dividend.
Children are our Bonus Issues.
Education is Brands / Patents.
Knowledge is our Investment.
Experience is our Premium Account.

The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.

Ramblings

I've somehow lost my mood to blog these few days. This weekend was a total havoc, with absolutely no time for studies or tutorials=( I can't help but ask myself whether i have too many commitments now. I'm psycho-ing myself into thinking that i can do this! 24 hours a day is not enough! Can there be more than 7 days in a week?! I acknowledge the fact that i need to concentrate more on my studies. For the first time, i feel damn screwed. In fact, i'm actually scared. I don't like who i am now. I'm doing things i know i shouldn't be doing. I need to find the old me. A promise to self. I know what i want at the end. I shall work towards that goal with the end in mind. (I can do this. I can do this. I can do this......) I'll prove to myself that i can do this!

(pls ignore this post. i'm rambling.)

~ Discovering the magic of coffee.

Fighting for time

I feel as if i've not blogged in eons. I want to update, but i just couldn't find the time. Many things happened in the past week that i would like to put down in writing. But for now, there just ain't time. For now, this quote would suffice.

You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sail.

Oh right, Ms Heng made us read aloud the sonnets we composed in class today. I was embarrassed to read out mine, though no one would actually guess the true meaning behind it. (Perhaps one or two will. ) Actually, i don't really know if i put my heart into writing that sonnet. I don't really think it reflected my true feelings as most of what i wrote was not really true. Still, it was nice to hear the other sonnets written by my classmates on love. Lol. But still, you could tell that all of us were embarrassed to read aloud what may or may not be our deepest thoughts and secrets. (We, or at least i, certainly did not expect Ms Heng to ask us to read our sonnets aloud during tutorials. Thank god it wasn't during lectures><)

070709-09S77!!

Guess what day was yesterday?! Yup, it was home-based learning aka e-learning aka no-need-to-go-to-school day 1. But more importantly, it was our class birthday!!! Lol. Why?! It isn't some random day we chose, it isn't an excuse to not stay at home staring at lessons online; we actually had a reason to choose yesterday as our class birthday! It was the 7th of July, 2009. And we are 09S77! So ya, get the link?!

We went to Cineleisure to celebrate our class birthday. (I actually bumped into 2 of my roommates there separately. Looks like no one is in the mood for e learning. I was kinda surprised though, at the coincidence.) But it was a bit weird and awkward trying to "sneak" out of the hostel. Even the gates main gates were locked and i had to find alternative routes out of the hostel. Lol. Still, that didn't deter me from making my way down to Cineleisure. We had lunch together and the best thing was, we had a birthday cake=) (Or should i say birthday cookie?!) Lol.. It reads "HAPPY BIRTHDAY 09S77 "!!

After that, we went for a movie. Watched Ice Age 3: The dawn of the Dinosaurs and laughed my heart out. Something slightly embarrassing happened though, at one point during the movie, i laughed out loudly but no one else did. Shi Ing turned to me, looked at me weirdly and started laughing at me. Lol. Oh, the best thing about watching a movie at 12.45pm on a weekday is that the whole cinema belongs to us. There were a few other students from Hwa Chong but the majority of the cinema is 09S77. It certainly feels as if we booked the whole cinema for our class birthday. Now, ain't that a nice thought=)

The day continued with us going to the arcade. I shall let pictures do the talking here as they say, a picture speaks a thousand words.

After that, we went on to take NeoPrints. I was kinda reluctant at first. But in order not to be a wet blanket, i went along. Oh wells, here is the final product.

Although not the entire class turned up for this little get together, it was still a merry event. My roommate actually told me that she envied me for my "close-knitted" class. It's weird how one day alone can exude that image to others. However, to me. I still think we were more bonded at the start of the year, during the times of Fac Dance competition. Perhaps it's because during that period of time, we were not that occupied with work. I don't really know but what i do know is that I really do miss those times.

I feel really bad now. I just called Jiaqi to tell her that i cannot be the emcee for the National Day Formal Dinner because on that day i have to go for an event by MOE. It's less than one month to the formal dinner and i understand that by telling her now that i can no longer be the emcee, i am putting her in a difficult position. I really want to be the emcee and am happy that she has faith in me, but i cannot not attend the event by MOE as well. I feel really bad as i talked to her just now. I could sense the disappointment in her and i myself am upset as well. Why must both events be on the same day?! Why can't MOE hold that event one day later?! Oh gosh~ I really feel very bad right now. I shall try my best to help her look for a replacement emcee! Sorry Jiaqi~ (though u'll never read this)

Went for MOE's leadership development programme today. I don't regret spending my Youth Day holiday at that programme because i've learned alot about leadership and teamwork. We played a few interesting games and learned the roles we play in a team. Basically, a team should consist of 4 types of people to be successful : the creator, the advancer, the refiner and the executor. Lol. Guess which role i fall into?! That is for me to know and for you to guess.. We played a game called "crossing the moat" which requires lots of teamwork and effort. Initially we made many mistakes and had to start over and over again. Every time the whistle sounded to signal that we had broken a rule, everyone would groan as we would have to start all over again. However, 1 good thing was that no one pointed fingers at one another and we all learnt to trust one another and complete the task as one large team - Asean committee and scholars' committee. No matter how we try to outdo each other, we are still serving the same student body.

Today's meeting about Asean Dance was pretty fruitful. We fixed the date and the venue. Lol. Guess what?! Decided to make it a charity event and donate whatever profits we make to charity. That way, MOE will have no reasons not to support us=) Haha. Oh ya, trying to invite some famous personalities to give the event more appeal now. Hopefully this year, we can over shine the senior batches and make a huge profit, not a loss.

Oh, i saw something comical but sweet as i was walking back to the boarding school today=) Lol.

Crescent reunited~

Ok. Promised Soap and Tallie that there will be a post on yesterday. So here it goes.

Seriously, nothing i can type will do justice to the few hours we spent together yesterday. It was "Crescent Scholars Re-united". Lol. Mrs Tan took us out for Indonesian buffet at The Rice Table. It was nice to see Mrs Tan again, especially since the last time i saw her was for Chinese New Year when we visited her at home. Mrs Tan couldn't join us for lunch as she was not feeling well. But, we promised to treat her to good food for Teacher's Day. Speaking of Teacher's Day, this year it's our junior turn to think of a nice way to surprise Mrs Tan! Haha.. We have officially passed over the baton. Lol. I can't help but laugh whenever i think of what we did for the past two years. (1st year- we made a video, one that i m too embarrassed to watch now; 2nd year- we made a bear from build-a-bear workshop)

So, three generations of Crescent Scholars gathered under one roof today.(Oh gosh, that DOES make me sound old.) We were supposed to share our JC experience with our juniors and grand-juniors (Oh gosh, i feel old..) As we stuffed ourselves full with spicy Indonesian dishes, we talked about our current lives, abused the exams in our respective schools that were just over, talked about old times in Crescent and Nanyang. Lol. It was humorous to see us talking across tables. I actually miss the times in Nanyang where we would just crash each other's room, cooked macaroni or bake cheese cake and just indulge ourselves. Believe it anot?! There's no one's room here for me to crash=(

After that, we walked to Orchard Central to digest our tummies. Orchard Central is a very pretty place at night as i found out on Saturday along my walk with Kee Jia.

Saw a very nice stall which sells fruit tarts which mesmerized Tallie and her kept eyes glued on the stall for a long time. Don't they look absolutely mouth-watering?! I saw a shop which got me excited. Lol.

By the time our buffet ended, it was already 4 something and it was a tad to late for me to make my way down to East Coast for rollerblading with my batch mates. I was looking forward to it for quite a while as i have not rollerblade before. Felt quite bad for not being able to make it down there. Sorry Oasis~

Here are some pictures from my outing with Kee Jia on Friday after Bio exams=)
I missed home badly last night. Maybe because it was the sudden emptiness i feel after blocks. Having too much time on your hands is not a good thing. I guess over the pass two weeks i have been suppressing my feelings to concentrate on blocks. And now that it is over, the gate just opened and everything came rushing out. Seriously, this was the worst case of homesickness that i have felt in a while. Thanks for making me feel better=)

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Met up with my brother today. He delivered stuffs i forgot to bring from Malaysia to me. I now have my watch back again=) Lol. Had dinner with him at Swensens. This time, my darling brother treated me!=) Thanks bro! The apple crumble at Swensens is delicious. Mouth-watering in fact.

5/5

Blocks are finally over!!! Am relieved, happy but yet still stressed at the same time. Relieved that it's over! Stressed because this is when the real work for the planning of Asean Dance starts.

Bio today was not good but not as bad as chem or maths. I skipped Eukaryotic Genome while studying as everyone says that it is a small and unimportant topic, and GUESS WHAT??!! The unimportant topic came out for essay question!!! 14 marks ar!! Anyway, i had so much time that i drew cute little diagrams of telomerase extending the telomeres for the 3rd essay. Lol. Felt stupid drawing those unnecessary diagrams in my essay but i had nothing better to do. Oh ya, i heard a funny comment today. Someone said "It's the end!"- literally and figuratively. Lol. It's the end of blocks and it's the end because we all did so badly! Get it?!

Liberation finally came at 3.30pm as the paper started late due to some naggy teacher. Went out for a movie with Kee Jia. We watched Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Even though we were more than 15 mins late for the show, they were still screening adverts when we got into the cinema. It was a light and enjoying movie and i kinda enjoyed it.

After the movie we walked along Orchard Road, from Plaza Singapura to FarEast Plaza! Lol. Snapped pictures of the beautiful night scenery on the way. I actually realised that the Istana Park looks quite nice at night, especially with the lightings and walkways. Felt contented just roaming around Orchard, breathing in the (not exactly) fresh air and relaxing after a week of exams. Thanks for today Kee Jia!

I'm still lagging with my homework and tutorials. Guess life goes on as usual after blocks. Though there is a short holiday until Thurs, i guess there are loads of things i need to get done, therefore, NO SLACKING! I envy people who have reasons to go back to Malaysia during this short holiday. If i had known earlier that sabbaticals would be cancelled, i would have cooked up a story and found a reason to go home too! Lol. Yeah, i miss my friends that much~

4/5

Saw an SLK in school today. Wonder who's the owner.
I don't wanna talk about math either.
Something interesting today was that my temperature was 37.5C before the start of Math paper. Lol. I was afraid that it would hit 37.6C and they would isolate me. But luckily it didn't.
My roommates have finished their exams and are currently celebrating. I'm the only one left with a paper tomorrow. Nevermind, 1 more day and it'll be over. BIO here i come!

3/5

Recently, an old friend (or should i say foe) is back to haunt me. That irritating friend is known as INSOMNIA!

I don't wanna talk about Chem. It's that bad.

Why must the school postpone sabbaticals? Now the thing i am looking forward to after exam is gone, what is supposed to sustain me?!

I'm walking towards Maths with hesitant steps.