my race

Sunday, December 26, 2004,02:06 p.m.

i'm too late for christmas, so happy boxing day. i'm still dead tired from da's sleepover (what sleep). by 4am- my mind was on auto-pilot.. i was playing mahjong in a trance. silly meizhen wouldn't let us sleep until she won, but when she finally did, she was so happy she wanted to continue playing. and then she won again. and the cycle continues. i think we played like... 20 games at least? totally crazy. meizhen still refuses to sleep, so we decided to watch Gen-Y Cops but at 5.30 am even edison chen couldn't stop me from sleeping. 10.30 am dalena lee wakes up, and in the process, wakes me up, and moves into her room. later on she asks : "how did i end up on my bed?" sleepwalker. bloody hell i'm still freaking sleepy.
tried to play squash, i'm not very good. keep forgetting i'm not playing tennis. but happy birthday diane.
everyone complains abt my christmas card- it's not my fault the glue isn't sticky enough and the glitter falls off as a result! lisa is upset i called her a slimeball, but i meant it affectionately you slimeball!
everyone is mudding again- i feel like we've just been transported back to year 2000 again. except now everybody is a freaking tier while i'm a lousy level 1 newbie with no qp, no exp, no eq and squats in da's manor (ever since shauna loo evicted me). -wuv da-
watched ocean's 12. there's george clooney and brad pitt but i have a freakin crush on catherine zeta jones! she's so hot damnit. lis that slimeball of a fangirl is setting up the catherine fan club. the show sucked. but hell there's eye candies.
dear petrina, i've been out to watch movies, play mahjong, visit little kids, buy phones and computer games etc. etc. so don't call me a hermit anymore :)

Sunday, December 12, 2004,10:43 p.m.

i'm back... i can hardly believe what a long week it has been. just a few days ago i was mugging away for sats and then walking 10km. then prom preparation took over my life. i never knew how much trouble people go into for prom. i remember the ny prom where all i did was slip into a dress my mother bought for me and then turn up at the hotel. this time, there was make up and hair and shoes and every freaking detail in the world. but really. all i wanted was to hang out with my friends- i don't think i would have cared much if somebody turned up in her pyjamas. but people turned out looking great too anyway. i'm sorry that i didn't go out with them after the dinner, but then again, pet wasn't that lousy company =) thankfully the hotel room was large enough for 10..12? people. i slept for like 2 hours before i woke up for firefly. i was feeling better than i thought i wld feel... except for one of the games where my legs were going wobbly. pet and i were in different groups, but during lunch, one look at her- i knew exactly what she was thinking (which i will not reveal for her own sake). and then i hardly got any rest before i dragged myself out of bed at 5am the next day to go to bangkok. lots of shopping, my greatest mistake was to bring a war lit book with me- i never thought a book could have such effect on me. or maybe i was tired, 8 hrs of shopping daily is not good for already tired legs. i'm very happy to get some rest tmr.

Sunday, December 5, 2004,08:14 p.m.

10km, 1hr50mins later... i emerge alive, victorious and medalled! the race was much better than i imagined. in fact, it was rather pleasant... weather was not so bad... nice drink stops on the way... and i wasn't even that close to the back of the pack! diane makes excellent company too. the funniest bit was when lixin barked at diane from across the road (at this point, qz and lx already did the u-turn and were about...4km ahead of us?) and everyone around us was shocked too :P oh. chengwei came 20 mins late. then she overtook us. and finished about half an hour before us! the last 100m was probably the toughest. considering it was about the only bit we kind of sprinted. pretty medal! i'm so proud of myself. i should quit indulging in myself =)

Thursday, December 2, 2004,07:25 p.m.

A levels over! in case somebody didn't know...
whee, been working on the marathon thingee. i walked for like 5 hours straight on tuesday! had a hair cut too.. i still feel very aggrieved that eng siang's hair cut took 15 mins longer than mine! talk about value for money. bought a prom dress too. i hope nobody turns up in the same dress as me. da's idea of smart casual involves a tight-fitting bright pink blouse with a black mini-skirt. i'm about the only person in the world who hasn't watched the incredibles. sniff.
post a level rocks. i traded A level texts for SATS books. yippie. but anyway. engsiang sheryl and i were amongst the few people in singapore (along with some bloody japanese smokers) who didn't watch the idols finals. had drinks instead. i ordered a blue hawaii and was promptly served a green hawaii. whilst i cannot deny that my face flushed pink.. boy.. sheryl was the wasted one! happy hour loke lives up to her name.
my brother bought a 1970s mini.. it is really noisy. when he comes home, i feel like i'm living in the middle of an airport runway. but very cute. funny boy was afraid his car will rust when it rains!
i tried to fix the vcr so that i cld record sg idol. the vcr works now. if only i didn't kill the tv whilst fixing the vcr...

Sunday, November 21, 2004,07:32 p.m.

i'm bored sick of studying. just read my friends blogs.. amazing how so much stuff cld happen without me knowing! da continues her fight for intellectual property rights- it's not just pictures now!; meizhen, bless the girl, gets arrested. hold on there guys :P we are almost done. come nov 30th, we go shopping :) pet almost ruined my life- by impersonating as me and making a dedication to perfect 10 saying "i love taufik!" or something like that. spent the whole night nervously listening to the stupid radio- first time in a year- thankfully jamie yeo ignored her. i love jamie. but yeah, believe it or not, i'm truly over my fan-girl experiment!

Sunday, October 31, 2004,05:29 p.m.

Collegeboard is nuts!

Tuesday, October 26, 2004,11:00 p.m.

this will be my last entry until the As end :)
school's be officially over for more than a week now... it's odd that we aren't going to have lessons together anymore. but lessons were hardly the thing that mattered anyway. celebrated sheryl's birthday today (happy birthday girl)- it's amazing how you can always count on chengwei to goof up as usual but we love her all the same. and it's very rare that estelle is so sweet :) haha.
man utd beat arsenal, i hope it's a good omen for me too. from the perspective of a man utd fan, i think arsenal was making too many fouls, ronaldo should have gotten a penalty, riley should get a restraining order against viera, and henry and reyes were very lucky not to get sent off for always getting in the way of gary and phil neville. dangerous play really- somebody could have gotten injured!
we're all busy studying for As now... i don't think it'll be until it ends that the realisation that we are all going to be moving in different directions will kick in. anyway. i love my class, really :) you guys rock, it's been a great two years. for a more elaborate closing credit, please refer to christina's blog. (unless you are like petrina i.e. cannot read, then just view the photos)
good luck guys :)

Sunday, October 17, 2004,11:33 p.m.

ello. photo albums updated.

Monday, October 11, 2004,06:52 p.m.

alright alright my dear friends. i've earned myself enough stick for being a fangirl. this will be the end of my fangirl career.
ch*m watch: she wanted to keep this a secret, but since i already blurted it out, ch*m has recently been 'triggered off' by the 'presentation of (Beyonce's) body!'

Friday, October 8, 2004,04:45 p.m.

singapore idol was darn fun! haha, well, i'm a fangirl. taufikkk! chim refuses to talk to me anymore. but not before she tells me how she is attracted to fatherly figures! and attempting to sing "great balls of fire". anyway, back to idol. we tried to stay close to the entrance and being singaporeans, ppl formed a queue behind us so that was quite cute. except we were standing at the wrong place, so much for queuing up! we were sitting on the upper deck like outcasts but anyway. it was fun enough. poor pet, after a whole night of rooting for "chrissypoo" you cld see her sinking in her seat when he started to sing. we took lots of pictures like the fangirls and boys that we were. lixin went home with an ugly survivor t-shirt :P

update: gosh got so worried for tauffy for a while :P zhuanghui is feeling guilty because he promised to vote for david but didn't- your fault he's out!

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles; he goes on. Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild."
The Fifth Mountain - Paolo Coelho

Tuesday, October 5, 2004,05:26 p.m.

ch*m never fails to bring joy to my life. upon finding out that her darling orlando bloom is getting hitched, she was 'shattered this morning', but being the optimist that she is, decided that 'it's still alright to lust after a married guy i think'. she requested that i do not show anyone her sms, hence, the above person shall remain unnamed. i have high hopes for ch*m, one day, she may rise up to the level of victoria beckham, who recently commented that when it came to giving birth, she was 'like a rabbit.'

Monday, October 4, 2004,09:11 p.m.

i've been dreaming alot these days. more specifically, i've been dreaming about me and fuzzy exercising these days. i think the whole marathon thing is going into my head. just as a clarification, dream #1 involves chim and her bathroom, not chim in the bathroom- fuzzy and i were jogging anyway. dream #2 involves us mountain trekking, curiously enough, at takashimaya. with a bunch of other people. tmr we are getting back econs. i've never been so nervous about receiving a paper back. i thought i got over the stage where i cldn't sleep because i kept thinking abt it. but it's coming back =) argh i wish i didn't screw up my econs paper so badly. painful painful. last night i watched the cancer charity show on tv because i felt bad abt not going with my dad since he helped organised it. i felt even worse when i saw shaun yue on tv, but i'll get over that =) i'm feeling guiltily good- guilty because i am, good because it's been a while since i felt so comfortable with myself. what happens next? i want a good night's rest.

Saturday, October 2, 2004,07:20 p.m.

it seems like a long time since life has been this entertaining! cycling at sentosa was fun, except that we tried the challenge trail (i.e. going up winding steep slopes), i had a punctured tyre and i melted under the sun. poor chim's got little spokes in her foot too. but otherwise it was fun. nice to see almost the whole class out together! huixin as usual, throws in a couple of classic lines:
Huixin: I want to go swimming because I brought my swimsuit
Me: Huixin just wants to show off her figure....
Huixin: No, it's just that I'm hot.
how do you argue against that kind of logic =)
dodgeball is a darn sad movie :P i suspect it's an excuse to kick/throw stuff at/whatever at each other's balls but whatever =)
i've also been playing railway tycoon 3. my company, Training Wheels, is currently in debt because i made a slight mistake of having 2 trains but a one-way only line. re-discovered my love for typer shark. decided to read how to be idle as well.
this is kind of old news, but rooney hat-trick! haha, always thought he was over-hyped but who cares so long as he plays like this!
zhuanghui's measly treat. petrina surprises me all the time :) boy you shld have been there to see chris and my reaction.
argh.... how do you get back to the mugging mode! actually, i think the perfect jolt wld be receiving my prelim results... gah.. next week... no... ...

Monday, September 27, 2004,04:34 p.m.

arrivederci prelims! la. am downloading music now. darn bored now there's nothing to mug fer (well. not till next week at least). well. i gave up studying (kind of) during the weekend. watched man utd. am pleased to say they are back in business! but oh still so very close. tottenham cld have gotten lucky. can't wait for rooney. made-in-china track is pretty darn cool. any track that gets schumacher to commit that many mistakes has to be darn good. raikkonen was so close! stupid buttonhead. but then again, you can't help but smile to see barrichello win. he's such a happy pill. is there friends tonight? sniff. withdrawal symptons. even repeats are welcomed. zhuang is back, the slob that he is. lusting over the resse witherspoon and olsens (mutated DNA freaks!) of the world. good luck for prelims boy! yawn. it's tiring to have nothing to do in the middle of the day. i wish there was something good on tv. huixin's cycling trip tmr better be good. make me go all the way to sentosa and get sun burnt. ah well. i would like to stay at home and chill for the rest of the week, just getting a quiet rest for myself. the world can wait =)

Friday, September 17, 2004,05:21 p.m.

fever pitch
i feel like nick hornby.. except i find my that my fortunes bear unfortunate resemblance with that of man utd's current season and not arsenal's (damn them). need a desperate miracle to kickstart my prelims!
-serene, in a miserable and frustrated slump.

Saturday, September 11, 2004,11:49 p.m.

manchester united 2 bolton wanderers 2
full strength team with van nistelrooy, giggs, keane, heinze and co, and man utd still can't win. this time, there isn't even an inexplicably good opposing goalie to blame. everything seems to be there, yet something is just lacking. maybe it's the sloppiness, incompatibility. lack of will? it just doesn't feel right anymore. chemistry lost.
i'm taking part in the 10km run, i'm not kidding =) i hear you get a pretty medal if you finish it. anyone interested, tell me!
-posted by serene, who begins her own relegation battle in a day's time.

Friday, September 10, 2004,05:51 p.m.

oh well. with roddick and henin-hardenne out, my love affair with us open is pretty much dead. with friends ending in 2 weeks, my life is pretty much over too. oh and that prelim thing too. i'm a sad sod. soddit. my new philosophy in life- soddit. i shall attempt to answer every thing you (generic term) throw at me with a 'soddit'. so soddit.
on a happier note, i can't wait for next year! it's such an exciting thought. zhuang is taking part in singapore idol (as usual), i'm going to watch f1 at sepang (and maybe shanghai too, raikkonen better not get a screwed up car), my brother's going to run the marathon at some obscure part of the world (kenya? cairo? whatever.), my sis is getting married, we (because i don't remember who 'we' is) are going on a europe roadtrip, da's gonna join new face like she always wanted to, sheil and al are getting jobs so i can sponge off them, mich goh's (bless the girl) gonna taking me shopping with her AMEX and the whole freaking world (save the current j1s) will be partying! what a wonderful world.
but till then, soddit.

Monday, August 30, 2004,09:02 p.m.

aiyo, i don't know what is worse. manchester united's games, the rate of my revision, or chengwei's escapades with a certain holy person. bleargh. not updating my blog for the next mth. don't come visiting. :)

Wednesday, August 11, 2004,05:51 p.m.

manchester united is like pre-revolution russia. tsar alex's autocratic regime seems to be crumbling. i will have faith :P
i am not sure if i shld be embarassed or honoured by chris' post. after all, she posted it on Aug 9- and instead of any national day message, she devoted her post to ME. that makes it serene 1, singapore 0. what good are private emails if people like chris and estelle keep circulating stuff i write to them =( but i assure you, i have been quoted terribly out of context! unlike mr. wu...
singapore idol is hilariously bad. the judges are more wannabes than the contestants. go banana-man. i feel like my tv diet hits a new low each time :P started the year with american idol and jamie oliver, moved on to a simple life and now, i'm stuck with singapore idol :)
i need to sTuDy! yDuTs!

Saturday, August 7, 2004,11:16 a.m.

i am bacck! never found the time to write on this- plus nothing really happened anyway. happy national day. there's always this unusual wave of patriotism that comes around every national day. you walk around orchard road and see half the world wearing the same red shirt and it is not a manchester united jersey.
hc homecoming carnival was more fun than i expected. ugly banners and shirts aside (i'm convinced the organising committee is colour blind!), it was infinitely better than being cooped up with my books. got pied in the face by a debate junior... talk about respect for your seniors! oh well, not my fault his face was so small i missed most of it when it was my turn to throw the pie.
met up with the ny debate gang on tuesday... ms mala has the cutest little girl! sheil- if you are reading this, post the bloody photos and those from my bloody birthday too. it's so cute to have a cute kid. great night out- if only we didn't have school the next day.
floorball rocks! never enjoyed PE so much in a while. reminds me of rgps where we used to watch Mighty Ducks and play street hockey. i wish i joined a sport instead. the girls in class formed a team- we are scouting for new talent! jo, ignoring our cries for a vote of no confidence, established herself as team dictator. chengwei gets to be our main sponsor, lucky her. oh huixin might be promoted from the youth team- the sight of her looking sheepish scoring against wu "commandoboy" zhuanghui is plain hilarious.
the optimist view is that we might just finish the syllabus a day before the prelims. i have faith.

Sunday, July 18, 2004,02:59 p.m.

because i felt like archiving.

2003
Jan-Mar 2004
Apr-Jul 2004

4/14
03a15
Christina
Dalena
Diane
Jean
Jolyn
Lisa
Lixin
Lucas
Meizhen
Mich G
Mich T
Pet
Qingzhao
Rachel Ho
Riposte
Shauna
Sheila
Xun
Photos
Photos Jr.

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