Friday, May 26, 2006
okee dok.. vj beat mj 4-2 at the soccer finals yesterday. a very excited lubin gave me a thorough commentary of it this morning. soo.. that warrented a full day off! yayyy! ok but wait... i had bio spa. great. i screwed it up again. now both my chem and bio spas are screwed. lousy. HOW.. *whine whine* argh.stupid zizhao was rushing me so i forgot to empty out my locker. darn. then agnes, zizhao and i took a bus to parkway. wenxiu was pretty unhappy. sigh.
ok. so after spa, we went to parkway to meet emma( our darling sect leader) and the seniors for our swensen's treat. yep. emma rocks. i sound so materialistic. ok. emma still rocks regardless of whether she treats us or not. :) we seem to have something in common. we always seem to haave to go toilet. ahah. ok nvm. we shared a "regular earthquake" with a whopping 8 scoops of ice-cream. and after awhile, it got a little mashy so zizhao and faustine took it upon themselves to stir the ice-cream in the bowl so we all witnessed the aftermath of the earthquake. zizhao finished all of the disgusting brownish-greenish mess anyway..
then one of the seniors (i think she's called jacq) gave emma a candy that says "i love singapore" on the wrapper. and emma unwrapped it, put it into her mouth and... had a shocked look on her face and spit it out. ahaha. its supposedly hot. yep. and wenxiu tried it. she finished the whole candy!! meifang, zizhao and pearly had just as bad an experience as emma. ( maybe zizhao had a worse one.. hmm..)
today, i went to kbox for the first time in my life! there were 6 of us. emma, agnes, zizhao, shunyuan, yongsheng and yours truly, then tanying came halfway through(which made ys a little happier...haha. kidding.)and left (which made ys less happy.) . we became quite obsessed with catching tanying-and-yongsheng and agnes-and-zizhao on emma's camera.haha. at the end of the day, we took 85 photos! about 3/4 of which were pics of the abovementioned groups. "emma xue huai le.." kbox had mostly chinese songs which i had never heard of so half the time i was stoning or laughing at the pained expression on some of their faces when they sing (the high notes especially). emma fell asleep halfway through.. tt's so cute.they were trying to take a photo of her dozing off.
we went in at 1+ and were supposed to end at 5 but nobody came to chase us off. by 7 or so, we were dying for somebody to come chase us out. then there was this suggestion to paste a piece of paper on the door saying " please chase us out. thanx." but we decided against it (just in case the waitress thinks that we are weird and report to the management and then the management informs the police or something..). we didn't end till 8.30. by that time, we were singing songs like phantom of the opera.. -.-" so that ended off about 7 and a half hours of singing. i realised that i CANNOT sing chinese songs. my voice just doesn't sound ok with chinese songs. oh yes.. kbox is sooo expensive!! argh. i spent $17 + but that's ok because the 5 of us split cost and paid for emma as well. if u do the math, u will be able to calculate the cost per person.
anyway, we only realised we skipped lunch today like during dinner. and now i have gastric pains. oh great.. * pain* :( oh and all of us spoke to meifang today during dinner. she called and we passed emma's phone around for about 13 minutes. haha. somebody's phone bill is going to suffer.
joke of the day: yongsheng lives in the istana.
don't get it .. what's so funny? it's supposed to be a joke.. O.o
(wow.. tanying..maybe you'll get to live in the istana someday!!)
says oddball
Sunday, May 21, 2006
ok. i wanted to blog yesterday but i was simply too exhausted to do something as vigorous as pressing the switch which turns on my computer. i just came home, bathed and dropped dead on my bed.
oh yes. in case you haven't realised by now, RESONANCE VIII ROCKS !! yeah. we were so high yesterday after the concert. omg. there was a full house ok! i heard that the turnout was even better than that for perfect fifth, the guitar concert!! i am sure there were crashers. hmm. we saw people sitting on the steps up in the gallery. anyway, i guess its not that bad a thing.. i mean at least, our concert's worth crashing right..haha.
ok. i shall start from the morning. i came at about 8 o'clock and emma was already there. saw her at the stone table. and then mr lee came along saying that the pt is open so we lugged all the bags in (the senior's bags that were left at the stone table) then we were moving the chairs and music stands and the baby grand. oh this is boring. i shall fastforward..
ok so my heels were killing me. darn. they were loose and so they sound extra loud on stage. but everything turned out fine during the concert itself because everyone was noisy anyway. and i heard my name getting called. omg.. this is so.. -.-" yep. u get what i mean. and they wouldn't stop shouting so the conductor looked like he was giving us weird looks. oh right. i think i got a shock when the curtains opened. firstly because the spotlights were kinda bright and then there so many people and then everybody was shouting names.
All right. here's a run down of our repertoire:
Phantom of the Operaomg.. debbie, the choirgirl has such a nice voice. ><
marisa commented that it sounds weird(well.. cartoon-y she said)
but its interesting i guess with all that instruments.
In a Persian Marketwe were backstage shuffling around but the song is nice.
supposedly next year's syf piece. hmm..
Moscow Nights & Katyushaok. i screwed up. i admit it. at the beginning of Moscow Nights, i forgot to lick my lips. haha.
so i couldn't move up and down the harmonica properly.
but we actually remembered to listen out for the 2 bars of intro before each part of Katyusha.
so that's one good thing. considering that we kept forgetting during rehearsals.
A whole new world & Skaters' Waltzwe were sitting behind the curtains panicking and slacking so no comments.
ZhiZuwonderful! people were amazed by the little skit and gary did a great solo at the beginning of it.
other section songsdidn't get to hear those. but i am sure they were great too.
intermissioni saw so many people!! wenjia, angelina (looking like a little princess as usual..), denise and eunice (thanx u 2 for the flower!)
and of course xh and yingxuan and marisa! my dear dear dear dear secondary school buddies. yay. thanx so so much for coming. *hugs*
You Raise Me Upomg! emma rocks! stones! and boulders! enough said. u should listen for yourself.
Cao Caonice.. better than during the rehearsals and i saw people tapping their fingers to the song.
Rythm of the Rainsooo cute. esp. monic.
i like the rainmaker.. it has a name. it's called Rhonda the rainmaker..
Tears in heaveni think this is a great piece for harmonica. aggy and zz were shouting "go jiahui" but i think it was too soft. i mean tts 2 voices from up in the gallery.
Primary kids performanceok. they were absolutely great. so great that people were commenting that we pale in comparison. anyway.. they are soooo cute! they were bobbing their head to the song Take Five.
Any dream will do & Dancing Queenbackstage again. zz was bored and started taking mugshots of people..
my mom says Dancing queen was nice..
Amber Polka, New York, Can Canok. polka and new york were nice as usual. i mean the songs are nice songs so they usually turn out alright. Can Can was... *shakes head* u guessed it.. screwed. but oddly enough, people started clapping. dunno why but there they were happily clapping away. so loud that we couldn't even hear ourselves and the speed went totally off. so yeah. u get the idea.
Resonance VIII rocks anyway!
oh haha. my mom said tt she heard these 2 girls sitting next to her say tt our concert was better than friday's guitar concert! and i think it was definitely more entertaining than aj's harmoc concert. yay!
says oddball
Friday, May 19, 2006
ok. i am bored. so i happened to come across this thing on bel's blog. and she has been trying to get me to do for ages. so here goes..
Name 20 people you can think of right now at the top of your head. Don't read the questions underneath until you write the names of all 20 people. At the end tag at least 5 people.
1. xinhui
2. eileen
3. tanying
4. angelina
5. ivy
6. trinette
7. wenjia
8. shanelle
9. eric
10. shunyuan
11. zizhao
12. agnes
13. ying xuan
14. eunice
15. ruth
16. rachel ng
17. ray
18. lubin
19. belinda
20. sharon
Questions:
1. How did you meet 14 (eunice) ?
she's my junior! first met her at choir auditions when i was in sec 2 and then i got to know her because we are both in harmonica band and she's section 2's sectional leader!
2. What would you do if you've never met 1 (xin hui) ?
i dunno. i won't have someone to grumble to, someone to miss, someone to flood with sms's. wow. that's pretty tragic. thank goodness i got to know her.
3. What would you do if 20 (sharon) and 9 (eric) dated?
oh. wow. i dunno. they don't even know each other. sharon's in rj and eric is in vj. dunno how they'll meet..
"eric! how could you.. somebody's going to get sooo upset..."
4. Did you ever like 19 (belinda) ?
of course! she's one of my best buddies. ok wait.. "like" as in like her as a friend. i am perfectly normal. thank you.
5. Would 6 (trinette) and 17 (ray) make a good couple?
um. i don't think so...
6. Describe 3 (tan ying) .
she's cute, pretty and scandalous (muaha.. just kidding). she is nonsensical, loud and plays the harmonica, guitar and piano really well..
7. Do you think 8 (shanelle) is attractive?
Of course! i think she is pretty in a nice, innocent, daddy's-little-girl way.
8. Tell me something about 7 (wen jia) .
she's my classmate and she's from anglican high and she's in guitar ensemble and i am attending her concert later!
9. Do you know any of 12's (agnes) family?
Umm no :p
10. What's 8's (shanelle) favourite?
favourite music? she likes praise and worship kind of music. she likes.. hillsongs and avalon.
11. What would you do when 18 (lubin) confesses that he/she likes you?
uhh.. scream? this is so wrong... it is not possible. as far as i know, lubin is perfectly normal.
12. What language(s) does 15 (ruth) speak?
English and Chinese
13. Who is 9 (eric) going out with?
well well.. i dunno. there's too many possible candidates.ok. maybe i know. but i have to keep hush-hush about it.
14. How old is 16 (rachel ng) now?
16 i think.
15. When was the last time you talked to 13 (ying xuan) ?
after nj's guitar concert. about 2 weeks ago.
16. What is 2's (eileen) favourite band/singer?
i haven't the slightest idea.
17. Would you ever date 4 (angelina) ?
yeah. we should go on a shopping spree together. must ask the girls in class as well and ivy... must not forget ivy (unless she's abstaining from shopping again).
18. Would you ever date 7 (wen jia) ?
why not? we could have a date with the group mentioned above. shopping spree...
19. Is 15 (ruth) single?
ahah. yep. i think so?
20. What's 10's (shun yuan) last name?
Koh
21. Would you ever be in a serious relationship with 11 (zi zhao) ?
oh my goodness.. no. no way. nonononono. anyway, he's attached to ***** (cough cough). ;P
22. What school does 3 (tan ying) go to?
VJC.
23. Where does 6 (trinette) live?
somewhere near the school? somewhere around marine terrace i think. *think*
24. What's fav thing about 5 (ivy) ?
she's somebody i will never get tired of crapping with. yeah. she's a really nice girl. although a bit (maybe more than a bit) boycrazy. haha.
5 people to be tagged: - xinhui - ivy - bel - tanying - shunyuan
says oddball
Thursday, May 18, 2006
it's 11:30 thursday night.ok. i shall admit it. i am slacking (gasp.) yep. SLACKING ON A THURSDAY NIGHT! haha. we have halfday tomorrow!!! muaha. xinhui: haha. are you jealous? XP oh but i came home at about 9 today AGAIN. that's the third day this week that i came home at about this time so you can tell what a hectic week i've had. harmonica concert's this saturday! (i sold one more ticket today! yay! eric! you rock! but OF COURSE ;) you have to come)
anyway. i have changed the song again. this time it's YOU RAISE ME UP by josh groban. emma, section 1's wonderful wonderful sectional leader will do a solo of this song on harmonica this saturday! can't wait.
says oddball
Sunday, May 14, 2006
heard a beautiful song in church today. they were raising funds for the annual mission trip and the video clip came with this song called "The Mission".
i don't have the song but i found the song on this website.(please please please go listen to it.pls.haha.) i think it's a great inspiration for all who gave their lives to the service of God. :)
http://hometown.aol.com/creationsbytim/page4.htmlThe Mission
by Steve GreenThere's a call going out
Across the land in every nation
A call to all who swear allegiance to the cross of Christ
A call to true humility
To live our lives responsibly
To deepen our devotion to the cross at any price
Let us then be sober
Moving only in the Spirit
As aliens and strangers in a hostile foreign land
The message we're proclaiming
Is repentance and forgiveness
The offer of salvation to the dying race of man
To love the Lord our God
Is the heartbeat of our mission
The spring from which
Our service overflows
Across the street or around the world
The mission's still the same
Proclaim and live the truth
In Jesus name
As a candle is consumed
By the passion of the flame
Spilling light unsparingly throughout a darkened room
Let us burn to know Him deeper
Then our service flaming bright
Will radiate His passions and blaze with Holy Light
To love the Lord our God
Is the heartbeat of our mission
The spring from which
Our service overflows
Across the street or around the world
The mission's still the same
Proclaim and live the truth
In Jesus name
To love the Lord our God
Is the heartbeat of our mission
The spring from which
Our service overflows
Across the street or around the world
The mission's still the same
Proclaim and live the truth
In Jesus name
To love the Lord our God
Is the heartbeat of our mission
says oddball
Friday, May 12, 2006
you know.. people say that everyone has a hidden talent but i am beginning to wonder whether i happen to be the exception. i feel so useless.. i am never good at anything. i am neither disciplined nor ambitious. i am not good at math nor science nor languages nor arts. gosh.. i am just drifting about life with no sense of purpose.seems quite pointless really.. my life is so pointless.
i hate it when i don't know what to do. i hate pw. more than ever.i can never seem to get anything right.my pi has no focal point. the gpp is a mess. nothing is left of my work in the gpp. i didn't contribute anything to the gpp and when i try to include the blibliography, the st goes and write there "what books and websites?" great. i can't even do a proper blbliography.. i am so pathetic. everytime i try to say something, there'll be this weird silence and then i'll feel so stupid because i seem to have got the stuff wrong again.i am so ignorant. i am stupid.
and there the others are planning and alloting work and stuff. and here i am sitting in a corner waiting for bits and pieces of work to get passed on to me. i hate being fed stuff to do. argh. i try to take the initiative but i hardly even know what the project is about.i want to be more involved instead of complaining about it on my blog. but how?
i kinda wish i was in..well..nevermind.i shouldn't say such things in case some people read this and there's no point saying it anyway.sigh.
says oddball
says oddball
Thursday, May 11, 2006
phew. busy week.well.. i am owing teachers homework. oh gosh. it's so horrible. mon was napfa 2.4km. and then tue was that dreaded looong day again, to make it worse, GPP was due.wed was the econs symposium which was well.. not exactly something you would look forward to AND i had to study for thu's econs essay test. so i tried to stay up to study but i still decided to sleep at 3am AND i was about 1/8 through market structure. so.. today's econs test was WONDERFUL.thu .. we had fri's timetable which means superlong tutorial day and econs test AND bio makeup lessons.
argh. my tutorials are piling up and the teachers have suddenly decided to speed up on their tutorials. great.argh.argh argh.i am dead beat now.
ok here's what next week sounds like:
mon: napfa 5 items (oh great.) and harmonica pract
tue: looong day and harmonica rehearsal
wed: chem SPA and harmonica pract
thu: math makeup lessons and PW and harmonica pract
fri: tutorial day. and guitar concert
(i should go get the ticket from wenjia asap)
sat: harmonica concert! omg.. "can can".(cannot cannot)
great. wonderful. i should really go do my tutorials now. gotta buck up.sigh.
says oddball
Friday, May 05, 2006
i finally understand what is meant by the chinese phrase "huo bu dan xing". my uncle must be going through a very rough spot in life. firstly, his brother (my uncle) had just passed away from a heart attack.then today, my auntie (his wife) met with a car accident on her way home from the funeral.she's now hospitalised due to a head injury.now, my mom and her siblings don't even dare to tell her mother about it in case my grandmother gets upset again.
oh god. please keep my family safe and sound as we go about our daily lives.we are living in tough times oh lord.although my mom's extended family are not believers of christ, i pray that you will look over them as they recover from the loss of a loved one.i also pray for joyce.i don't know how i can help her. i can't say that i can fully understand how she feels so please lord, give her and her family the strength and courage to rebuild their lives.there is so much sadness in the world today.sometimes, we can't help but doubt that you are really there for us. help me father, to trust in you in all that i do.amen.
says oddball
i went for my uncle's wake yesterday.it was the last night so they had this bunch of people chanting stuff and banging and clanging. anyway, you get the idea. i must have been out of my mind because i wore a white LONGSLEEVE blouse there. ok so all my cousins were part of this ritual thingy where they had to kneel and stand and knnel and stand and walk to and fro, so there i was feeling bored.i felt so stifled sitting there that i ended up walking up and down the corridor.
ok this is the first time i have attended a funeral that's like that so i was quite shocked. there were people playing mahjong, drinking beer etc. and with all that clanging and noise, how is one supposed to pay their last respects or remember the deceased? ah well.. i felt quite bad because i was feeling so detached from everyone there and i could not watch the ritual thingy because it would seem rude to stare..
in the christian wakes that i have attended, my grandparents',there is usually a remembrance service on every night held by a pastor and the coffin was placed inside the house so that people could walk in to pay their last respects. Usually there's some background music being played, to create the right atmosphere i guess. at my grandmother's wake, i chose to play Amazing Grace, her favourite song, sung by micheal crawford.this song's quite meaningful really..
Amazing Grace
-- by John Newton
Amazing grace!
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost,
but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
anyway, here's a new song for my blog. it's called "I believe in you" sung by il divo and celine dion.i first heard it at musicfest! finally managed to get my hands on the song! whee.. beautiful song.
says oddball
Monday, May 01, 2006
Somebody's down to their last dime,
Somebody's running out of time,
Not too far from here
Somebody's got nowhere else to go
Somebody needs a little hope
Not too far from here
And I may not know their name
But I'm praying just the same
That You'll use me Lord to wipe away a tear
'Cause somebody's crying
Not too far from here
Somebody's troubled and confused
Somebody's got nothing left to lose
Not too far from here
Somebody's forgotten how to trust
Somebody's dying for love
Not too far from here
It may be a stranger's face
But I'm praying for Your grace
To move in me and take away the fear
'Cause somebody's hurting
Not too far from here
Help me, Lord, not to turn away from pain
Help me not to rest while those around me weep
Give me Your strength and compassion
When somebody finds the road of life too steep
Now, I'm letting down my guard
And I'm opening my heart
Help me speak your love to every needful ear
Someone is waiting
Not too far from here
Someone is waiting
Not too far from here
says oddball
something happened today that had me thinking about the frailty of life and the unpredictability of our circumstances.
my mom just came in to my room to ask me if i was hungry when she received a call saying that my uncle, my mom's younger brother had passed away. his wife found him slumped against the bed, foaming at the mouth when she went home today.the doctor said that he had died of a heart attack 3 days before.nobody knew because he was the only one at home.it kind of hits you when its somebody you know. and he was the second youngest in the family too (which means that my mom is much older than him).nobody expected this sort of thing to happen because my mom's family never had a history of heart attacks.
he left behind a wife and two young children, the oldest is only in primary school. come to think about it.. it could have happened to anyone.i have had quite a few brushes with death and dying these days. it's scary.
it's only in times like that that i know that i should cherish every single day that i have and that people and things come and go. u don't know when you or your parenst will be next. i really love my parents. i want them to know that but it's so hard to say such things. i don't know what i'll do without them really.i wish i could tell them that but its weird that it is probably the hardest thing for a person to say. often, when we finally muster up the courage to tell someone that you love them, it is too late.
i am reminded about my grandmother. i guess she was a good example of what i talked about above. she took care of me since i was a small kid and i lived with her all the way till i was 10.when my mom used to cane me when i was naughty and she was in a bad mood, my grandma would be the first person i would look for. my shelter from the storm. she had been asking me to help her dload mp3 music file for Amazing Grace for her for some time but i kept putting off the task because the chinese o levels was round the corner. my mom had been asking me to show more concern for her ever since she came down with liver cancer.but somehow i got caught on with other things in life that i never did ask her how she was, i didn't tell her that i loved her and that she was the best grandmother i could ever wish for. she returned to her maker 3 days before my o levels chi paper.in the hospital, she looked so skinny and pale and she was in a coma.her favourite song was Amazing Grace and my dad asked me to sing it to her but i couldn't. i couldn't do anything. i felt so sickened by how i couldn't do anything looking at her lying in that pathetic hospital bed.my dad was cradling her hand, humming Amazing Grace to her.i just didn't have the courage to do that, perhaps i couldn't come to terms with what was going on.all i did was cry and cry.
i wish i had done more for my grandmother. i am her oldest grandchild and i know that she did more for me than she ever did for any of my cousins.all i can say now is that life is short and you don't know whether you will wake up to see the rising sun tomorrow. while you can, appreciate what your loved ones have done for you and do what you can for them. don't wait till you HAVE to.. by then it will be too late.
says oddball
