-=bdae shmuck.=-
Thursday, April 3, 2003 | 11:01 p.m.
its seems that everytime i try to communicate, what i get back is my own echo.
oh wellz, a great part of my birthday *rolls eyes* has gone by. only one hour to go before this miserable day ends. everyone's wishing me a happy birthday, but i'll rather they drop the "birth" part, and say "have a happy day,!" instead. if staying at home stoning, not doing anything except watching tv, sleeping and eating my meals is considered celebrating my birthday, yup, i celebrated. i know its all the sars thing and all...
regardless of that, i've learnt from past experiences, once every year in fact, not to expect too much. that way there's no disappointment. i've come to realize that my family does not celebrate birthdays around, true for everyone from my grandma to my youngest bro. oh well, i'll look on the bright side. If anyone asks: what did u do for ur bdae? i'll just say i've had an exceptional birthday this year because there is no cake, no presents, no friends around in-the-flesh, at all! Only bdae smses, tv, mirc, my bed and my meals.
-=day 17ven=-
Thursday, April 3, 2003 | 01:03 a.m.
HAppy Birthday to me!
the day when i finally came into existence upon this world 17 years ago. Haha, not quite though. I was born at...around 1 pm in the afternoon.
no plans for the day yet. it is unfortunate that my bdae lands on the Sars Hols... when most pple can't go out and all. no sch, just my family. but then, birthdays aren't really celebrated in my family. haha. juz hope some other scary epidemic will not be hanging around when i turn 21!
i'm 17. officially, that is. strangely, i don't feel my age. 17 is such an obscure, odd-number age. i would prefer 16. I want to be 16 again, come to think of it. Sweet sixteen. Cliche, yes. No point in turning to look back though. I'm glad of the passing year, with all its brilliant memories that will remain in me for as long as i breathe. I reminsce, and find happy recollections. These are the times that will stay with me forever, not the sad moments.
for the past year, it was indeed a year to remember. Sec four, and i am in the Four Faith classroom listening to ms poore, doing my maths homework after school, laughing at all the lame bao jokes and having fun with MG427. End of sec four, and i was trying to study for the prelims and o-levels. Finally, the exams came. I did it as well as i could, and then came the parting with my class during Graduation. All of them remain as sparkling individuals with their own unique personalities. Then came my new future in NJ, and came to know wonderful pple in 03A01. Though some of them have left, but i have come to cherish the time we spent.
i'm getting all nostalgic. a bittersweet feeling settles in me. Is that what turning 17 is all about?
-=day six=-
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | 11:41 p.m.
continued on with my novel. i'm not on a coffee trip, so right now i'm feeling sedated and normal. haha. the weather's a tad too humid for my liking though. would have preferred the weather that woke me up this -afternoon-. slept at 4 am last night. was online chatting with someone on msn who calls me his "asian soulmate". hahaha its really a strange twist of fate.
was woken up today but a blue and white flash followed immediately by a loud ear-splitting crash of thunder. It felt as if the whole storm was hovering over my house, or just outside the window, the thundergod aiming his next bolt right into my bedroom. that woke me up rather quickly, i'll say. haha. but i was enjoying all that drama in the heavens greatly.
ok, here's vesuvius page four, right click, and "save target as" ok, trombone SL? haha~ the wonders of technology!
-=day five n six=-
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | 12:02 a.m.
Happy April's Fool! Hahaha whoa in an incredible mood now. Wooohooo~~~~! The first day of April has arrived! Yay! Monday has just passed by. Oh, btw, did anyone notice the Toploader-Dancing in the Moonlight song that i've added to my blog? Lurve the first part.. it's my ringtone! Haha yupz and changed my guestbook again. Okok. my heart is racing like nobody's business. Felt as if i've ran a few kilometres. I suspect it was the coffee that did it though. Caffeine does do wierd stuff to you. *boing*
i'm so hyper rite now my fingers are shaking. Partly due to the movie that i juz downloaded and watched in a single breath. Coyote Ugly rulez!!! it is such a fantastic show. It was the only movie that i paid to watch for twice, and it still rox! yeah, its racy and all, but damn was it exciting and a good show! lurve the actress and actor. the plot too. Help i'm re-gushing about the show like i did when it first came out. gosh. *whew*
another thing: Jane Eyre! oh my. i'm so engrossed in that book i forgot all about time just now. haha i should have written an entry in Charlotte Bronte's english. woah hers is what i call bombastic. yet, strangely enuff, the words do convey a stronger and more powerful meaning, though i struggle desperately to understand the vocabulary. I'm still halfway through the book(the most exciting, i reckon). the plot thickens as plain jane eyre falls in love with mr. rochester and grapples with mysteries concerning a seemingly mad servant woman called grace poole. ahh~ i have to get back reading ASAP!
i wonder if energies can transcend space and transmit to pple reading this. if so, they must be cackling in their seats. I can't stay still! still quavering.. woah i should stay away from coffee in the future. ok, for monday though(supposedly today a few moments ago) i went nj in the morning to collect my instrument and scores. the trombone case is heavier than the trombone! absurd, but ironic enuff! lugged it all the way to amk s-11 for breakfast consisting of 1 runny egg, kaya toast, and..the ice-lemon tea instead of the coffee(oh, sheer horror if i consume 2 doses of caffeine!) the ice lemon tea was bitter. anywaes, been a long time since i had a "traditional" breakfast like that, so it was really quite nice. though it was quite lame to just go to bukit timah to get my instrument, its good to have a change of scenary, wake up in the -morning- and move around instead of behaving sluggishly at home and rotting.
ah.. at least i feel more calm after typing ridiculously long paragraphs prattling about rubbish. hahah oh, and a word of ...alert: My birthday is on 3rd of April! DUN FORGET! hahaha. /shameless me signs off.
-=day fo"u"r=-
Sunday, March 30, 2003 | 12:53 p.m.
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Till the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you get bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
//Dixie Chicks- Landslide
this song and Kid Rock(ft.Sheryl Crow)'s Picture kept on floating in my head. hmz... haha had a wierd dream this morning. dreamt that i was one of the american idol and i was at Raffles hotel in johor, then i got lost. my bro came to visit me, taking taxi to johor for 30 bux. it was all so disjointed. then i went to the posh swimming pool in raffles hotel to find huiwen, huijing, huifen and candice swimming there. >.<
wah the nasi lemak i'm eating is very hot. the sambal chilli that is. way better than macdonald's rice meal, for sure. i might go down to the library today to restock my books. ! forgot to return joshua his LOTR! haiz. okok. hope it doesn't take me.. 1 yr and 3 mnths to do it. btw, i was notified by my dear section leader at 7 am in the morning that we are supposed to go back nj on mon, 9.30 am, to collect our instruments and scores and go home to practise. OK good. I was scared i'm going to lose my recently acquired tone again. oh, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra v.zai!
-=day three=-
Saturday, March 29, 2003 | 01:51 p.m.
well well, its a sunny saturday afternoon with slightly overcast skies. I slept until 1 today. Well, not really slept, but just laid there thinking about stuff. yesterday was a comparatively interesting day. went for gz lessons till 1, before meeting the atsb peepz at bishan park. only me, bro, yl,benson, wl and cy where there. jm, who organized this whole thing with me(over the net at 1 am in the morning) was absent coz he was "bombing iraq". hahar. so, armed with a cooler full of ice, we went to bishan park one. sat around at a table playing cards(in public, mind you). bluff was so endless, but i was laffing my head off. hahaha feels good to be laffing among company though! wl bought her doggie along. =) ate some junk food bought by benson and cy. haha that was the "picnic".
we went to block 403 after for some bball.. actually, only cy and joshua who joined us later played. we juz sat there and watched. the sun was really merciless, so after a short while we decided to go to ql's house, or rather we ended up below her house playing badminton. i did not play again, since i was wearing very slippery slippers. haha i'll rather sit and watch joshua kill pple with his smacks.
thus ended day two of "imprisonment". as for today, i actually wanted to go swimming with wenli and qilin at ql's condo, but my parents dun allow, and i can't just go out coz today's their off-day and they are all at home. >.< slack slack!
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-=day one=-
Friday, March 28, 2003 | 12:08 a.m.
yesterday the news broke out for me through a sudden sms that all schools will be closed tomorrow(Thurs). there i was, happily blogging(see previous blog) and determined to look forward to school tmr and start all over when suddenly i'm told there's no school for ten days. At first i was skeptical. School had never been suspended so abrubtly in all my 10 years of education. School has never been stopped in singapore since...very long ago, according to the papers. its also a disease outbreak back then. guess such things never really change huh.
this is such a particular year. Everything big is happening all at once. I admit it does make life a tad more interesting. Then i can say when i'm all old and fat that when i was 17 war broke out in iraq and there was a 10 day no school thing becoz of a virus. I was really indignant and irritated by the stopping of sch initially. swearing, then, comes quite easily. I juz can't accept the fact that my whole sch routine is just broken coz of a silly virulent mystery disease. and my birthday is on the 3rd of April! *bawls/sobs/whines* dun care, pple out there, sars or not sars, better do something k! hahaha. ha to risk your life over me! >_<
-=feverish=-
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 | 05:55 p.m.
i suppose things will eventually get better huh?
yesterdae was like the lowest of my life in nj. but right now, i feel much better as things are more or less settled and the nice cool weather plays a part too. I realised that if i keep on moping about the past, the future will not be there for me to look forward to, so i shall juz shed that depressing mood and get on with wat i have.
lectures ended at 1140 today, with the KM talk ending at 12. slacked around in the student lounge with the PTA for about 2 hours before eating lunch at the canteen. Was raining cats and dogs. it rained kittens and puppies went i was on my way home so it wasn't too wet. in fact, it was so nice and cooling. read Jane Eyre(the words inside are so chim!) and grabbed toast+cereal drink, haha, so it was really kinda a relaxing treat. =) feel good!
the SARS thing is really getting on to irritate me. Everywhere warnings are given, starting with my parents. now i'm supposed to go home after sch everyday to avoid that atypical pnuemonia crap.
(i got a FEVER,
i'm hot,
i'm INFECTIOUS )x2
(S
A
R
S
can't be stopped!)x2
haha came up with that silly cheer suddenly after lunch. =)
-=toilet humor=-
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 | 09:18 p.m.
Sometimes, even though i tried hard not to, i have to admit that things will never be the same again.
today was the 2nd day of orientation after lectures till the afternoon. the smell of the LT5 where econs lecture was held makes me sleepy. learnt nothing new there, i shouldn't have gone. waste of time. Then lit, where we did all the intro stuff again. Might as well not go too. Then maths. was glad to see dear old ms chan again =D and she started on inequality chapter. the one and only educational lecture of the day. No nonsense from her at all.
it was such a drawn-out-long-freewilly day.
weather today was quite cool. the skies were reasonably dark, like on the verge of raining. feels kinda like my mood actually. had proper orientation after lunch, did the OG session first. we tried to do the 'untangling' game. was quite fun. then after some dallying headed to the specs stand for cheers and songs. cheered, sang, danced. i actually went up to this group of guys and asked one of them to dance the 'summer night' wif me coz they were in this bunch and i can only do the girl part properly. Oh wellz, not so fun as the day before.
all this while, i can't help but miss those who were gone.
this time round it was nothing like our O1. i was quite disappointed by the lack of organising at the games. I just couldn't bring myself to do all the pointless activities. "Close your eyes! Close your eyes!" they said, at one of the station where we have to form a train with eyes closed and follow thru a series of obstacles. obstacles my foot. I mean...everyone can see what's ahead. They splashed us with cupfuls of warm water and dabbed some green paint on me. *rolls eyes* was barefooted, btw. after that, went tennis courts to try and squeeze 8 pple into a square formed by shoes as perimeter. with a 1X1 shoe space, only managed.. 6? lame larh. oh had this station where we have to chiong up a very slippery slope with help from a hanging rope and team members. that one was quite fun. mini dove facial foam littered the grass. last station at the center of the field, another pointless, disorganised game.
does anybody out there feel this way?
after the games, stood around the track for the "finale".. ao1 came up with a v.farni cheer about the PTA-Pon Teng Association. Hahaha changed the lyrics for the Nj Yah cheer to that. We had very frequent PTA meetings, founding members namely kiamin, president doug and chairman kervin. after the games we cleaned up before going to KAP for mac dinner. actually wanted to go BTP to avoid the crowd for dinner but the guys decided after we got off after the KAP bus stop to walk back to KAP coz there seems to be not much pple in mac. Sheesh. Was famished by then. Felt kinda like a flat coke. Ooh but things got better after mac, definitely. Cheered up, even though the spicy mac crispy was really really a killer. i would have died-ed if i ordered 2.. luckily mine was 1 spicy, 1 "original". Was laffing my head off about all the anecdotes regarding the toilets and the pool of shit that benson claimed that pple drowned in before. Hahahaha. Then benson used his very loud "shhhh" in mac and everyone suddenly shushed. was quite amusing. best part of the day for me, i think, would be the mac dinner. came home after that. i am typing this immediately after i reached home. The mood is there, you see.
i feel lost.
-=dancin' in the moonlite=-
Monday, March 24, 2003 | 10:53 p.m.
*lets out a long, relieved sigh* oh today's finally over. It was quite a mixture of feelings today was i went to nj with sandy. Saw a lot more SN girls, yet i can't help but miss the others who left. Felt quite... out of place and wierd this morning but everything fell into place when i saw the brudders(sadly, no sistas!). Was happy to be back in A01 row singing the college anthem and being with friends i've come to treasure over these few months.
note: got reprimanded by SP this morning assembly for wearing coloured socks. ARgh. wat's her problem. Okok.. i'll try to wear white? Hmz.. the morning was quite slack. We had an OG session, welcoming *counts* 6? newcomers. We tried to make them feel welcome. Yeah~ but i din participate in the treasure hunt. instead i was accompanying zq, benson and km consecutively and singly to eat at the canteen. Haha. another note: today's weather is unbearably hot and humid! O.o wassup with all that global warming shmuck. the humidity resulted in lethargic and overall un-enthusiastic behaviour even though we tried not to show it. Ugh.
however, things got better after a light but unrelieving shower. We went down to the grandstand for cheers and songs. at first, everyone was fanning themselves with the song sheets with a look of impatience plastered on them, but as the crowd started -warming up- figuratively, it wasn't that bad. Had fun doing all the NJ cheers all over again. Brings back the O1 days. then it was the mass dance! We started as a huge unorganised mess but after some organising, i was paired with joseph, my band section mate. =) i had fun dancing. It was kinda my first proper dance with a guy since i came NJ? it helps too that he is 185 cm tall. can't really stand dancing with... shorter guys. sigh. he had came over from Rj where he was posted to.. it was his choice. Liwei, fengyi and winnie came back too! Liwei was so onz. about the whole thing. i really feel she should be given a chance in NJ. this is where she can shine(and i don't mean sweating only).
Congrats on Doug on having bought his spanking new cue stick! *muz lend me hor* haha. it was soo cool! good buy! yupz after the activity at the track, did the ao1 cheer, then went for OG session, before heading to KAP for some Mac. Sigh...really wish 03A01 is 03A01, forever.