It's the last day of 2008 and I'm here at home at this time, blogging. Woots. Not that I'm regretting it or anything... I've always been quite a sedentary person anyway... just staying at home and chilling out is one of the ways to countdown too, i'm sure... still remember last year (was it last year? can't really remember...) went to countdown at esplanade with chun yiu, shi qi and nicholas... nearly got squashed to death... but eventually spent a great night at chun yiu's house with my sec 2 class...
speaking of spending days, just went out with 4D1 '08 yesterday... went east coast park... honestly, it felt like i wasn't meant to meet them at all... i was late cuz of army. thank goodness mr ng was still willing to grant that half day off... took 196 from bedok but didn't noe where to alight... luckily still managed it... went to east coast park... had to walk a freaking long way before i finally saw zhenning, grace, yan jing and nic wee... rented a bike... crashed into someone two minutes after renting it... scraped my right knee, left heel and hands... zzz... but still had a hell lot of fun with them la... tried roller blading after cycling... omg i suck big time at it... i think see yuan and darrin are gonna have bruises on their arms, kudos to me, as i was gripping so tightly onto their arms while trying to stand up and steady myself... =.= finally gave up after half an hour of trying... i think i made a little progress ba... now i just need to let go of the bar... =P
after slacking a while, they decided to go to the beach... we couldn't decide on what to play there but grace was struggling to get the ball, so we eventually played 'Monkey'... lolz... after that it became captain's ball... playing with 4 ppl on one team simply isn't big enough... still prefer playing with my own 4D1 ppl... hahaha... den changed to volleyball... my hands and wrists hurt like crazy after volleyball... urgh...
apparently 4D1 '08 aren't very decisive ppl, as we spent abt 20 mins trying to decide what to eat for dinner... ended up trudging over to burger king... zzz... so much for wanting to watch little nyonya... we still chatted till abt 8.45pm lolz... on the train back ying ting was gossiping at the top of her voice... so naturally e guys (including me) standing near her were all like rolling our eyes till u cld almost hear them...
hmmm... looking back at 2008... let's see what i've accomplished...
1. SD Anniversary in February
2. HR Festival in May
3. Got my driving licence in June
4. Completed JLPT 4 in December
5. Become much more active in my yongsha, in addition to ASD
6. Took up CIC role in ASD and assistant district leader role in my yongsha
7. Wasted a whole year in the army
8. Gave tuition to Justin
9. Studied Japanese for nearly a year
10. Finished working out the melody of 'Xuan Ze' with Nicholas Rao
11. Finished the lyrics of 'Sheng Huo Jie Pai' and 'Invisible Armour'
12. Finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha, Twilight and New Moon
13. Rubbed out some unnecessary memories
14. Managed to feel less emo
not a bad list... to me at least... haha... not trying to boast or anything... just wanted to prove to myself that i still can do lots of things despite sacrificing so much time to army...
do i have any new year's resolutions? well... not really, i guess... cuz from what i've observed from many people, including myself, that hardly anyone sticks to their resolutions... resolutions are made for the sake of making... how many people remember their resolutions one week after making them? lolz... so i don't think i'm gonna make any this year. just live out this coming year to the best of my ability and make sure i have no regrets... =)
2009... ORD is finally in sight... tho it's still some months away... but that oso means i'm leaving ASD soon... is that a good thing? have i remained in ASD for too long? it really will pain me a lot to leave ASD... i'm not sure i'm ready to enter NUSSD yet... i've never been good with change... and this is going to be a really major one for me to make... i've sunk my roots deep and long into ASD and now having to pull them up is going to cause me excruciating pain... i've so many memories of ASD, both good and bad... thank goodness more good than bad... i've grown to love this family so much... without ASD i really won't be the person i am today... i noe wan xiang wldn't approve of what i feel... he'd want me to move on... but it really is difficult... to all my beloved ASD juniors, please treasure your time in ASD, as it really will just flash past like that...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
warning: to all who have yet to watch twilight and do not wish to be exposed to any form of spoilers, please kindly divert away from this page now...
went to watch twilight with zhenning, see yuan and nic wee yesterday... hansen was sposed to come too... but he cldn't wake up in time, even though the movie was at 1.40pm... =.=... but anyway, the movie was mainly a visual summary of the book, as usual... but i was quite impressed that it actually managed to capture most of the main scenes in the book, which i felt was good... though somehow i got the feeling that bella wasn't smitten enough with edward... she's got like this fetish for the scent he gives off, to the extent she even sniffs at the sweater he gives her... don't see any of that in the movie... not the sniffing part... but more of the smitten-with-this-guy-that-can't-possibly-exist kind of thing would have made it more convincing... n by nw, even if u haven't caught e movie u wld haf heard all dis swooning over the male lead, Robert Pattinson, from gals everywhere, over how handsome he is, how cute his tousled hair looks like and whatnot... well, all i can do without getting blasted by these gals is most probably to just roll my eyes ba... he's sort of like become the next Daniel Radcliffe or something... ppl now instead of squealing "Oh! There's Harry Potter!", they scream "Oh! There's Edward Cullen!"... pity there isn't much to swoon over the female lead for... not to say Kristen Stewart isn't pretty... but the character of Isabella Swan wasn't meant to be extremely attractive in the first place anyway... to say the least, she pales in comparison to Edward Cullen, as described in the book... she's meant to ba... haha... pls kindly refrain from unnecessary abuse to this blogger, as this is the blogger's humble two or three cents' worth... though i must say, Ashley Greene actually does look quite attractive, especially in real life... her character of Alice itself exudes quite a bit of charm and charisma... but maybe that's what the book calls for ba... one of my favourite characters in Twilight... can't wait for New Moon to be produced...
i know perfectly well how Edward Cullen feels like when he's dating Bella Swan... it's what i'm feeling everyday now... now that i'm forcing myself to refrain from eating this, that and the other... omg... i nv knew i had all this willpower in me... to be able to walk past Old Chang Kee and have the smells from it blow in my face and me being able to walk away buying nothing takes nothing short of a Herculean effort... sobz...
can't wait for Jan's ASD inst mtg... woots~!
went to watch twilight with zhenning, see yuan and nic wee yesterday... hansen was sposed to come too... but he cldn't wake up in time, even though the movie was at 1.40pm... =.=... but anyway, the movie was mainly a visual summary of the book, as usual... but i was quite impressed that it actually managed to capture most of the main scenes in the book, which i felt was good... though somehow i got the feeling that bella wasn't smitten enough with edward... she's got like this fetish for the scent he gives off, to the extent she even sniffs at the sweater he gives her... don't see any of that in the movie... not the sniffing part... but more of the smitten-with-this-guy-that-can't-possibly-exist kind of thing would have made it more convincing... n by nw, even if u haven't caught e movie u wld haf heard all dis swooning over the male lead, Robert Pattinson, from gals everywhere, over how handsome he is, how cute his tousled hair looks like and whatnot... well, all i can do without getting blasted by these gals is most probably to just roll my eyes ba... he's sort of like become the next Daniel Radcliffe or something... ppl now instead of squealing "Oh! There's Harry Potter!", they scream "Oh! There's Edward Cullen!"... pity there isn't much to swoon over the female lead for... not to say Kristen Stewart isn't pretty... but the character of Isabella Swan wasn't meant to be extremely attractive in the first place anyway... to say the least, she pales in comparison to Edward Cullen, as described in the book... she's meant to ba... haha... pls kindly refrain from unnecessary abuse to this blogger, as this is the blogger's humble two or three cents' worth... though i must say, Ashley Greene actually does look quite attractive, especially in real life... her character of Alice itself exudes quite a bit of charm and charisma... but maybe that's what the book calls for ba... one of my favourite characters in Twilight... can't wait for New Moon to be produced...
i know perfectly well how Edward Cullen feels like when he's dating Bella Swan... it's what i'm feeling everyday now... now that i'm forcing myself to refrain from eating this, that and the other... omg... i nv knew i had all this willpower in me... to be able to walk past Old Chang Kee and have the smells from it blow in my face and me being able to walk away buying nothing takes nothing short of a Herculean effort... sobz...
can't wait for Jan's ASD inst mtg... woots~!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
went zouk wif some asd ppl ytd... sometimes i reli dun understand y dey wld put demselves thru tt kind of torture... squeezing through the crowd and remaining squeezed throughout the entire time wasn't exactly my idea of fun... saw chock there tho... nt exactly surprised... he reli lives up to e name of mambo king... lolz... n to top it off... of all ppl i had to bump into, i had to bump into qiuyi, eleanor and clarence... e gals looked insultingly surprised, while clarence... well... nt as if u duno hw he usually is... one look at me n it triggered off the i-am-going-berserk-now actions... oh well... probably will hear more from him durin e 4d1 chalet ba...
speaking of which, is tmr... wonder if clarence wld haf told all e others tt i acty go to zouk... can hear all e teasin n insults already...
left zouk at 3am... bumped into mark... lolz... at least he din seem so surprised... =p whole bunch of us went to sit at e walkway nxt to zouk... talked abt life... took a big bunch of fotos... finally decided to trudge home... cabbed back... thank gdness there wuz a long line of taxis waitin outside... haha...
nearly forgot... went to support andrew at his band concert last nite too... which i muz admit, reli wuz quite a gd one... e third symphony... omg... nearly went into spasms when i saw andrew playin an alto flute... >.< miss playin in a band so much... reli shld consider joinin nie band if i ever get e chance...
i managed to smile when i thought of her... but at the same, at the back of my mind, i couldn't help but feel she was a filthy hypocrite...
speaking of which, is tmr... wonder if clarence wld haf told all e others tt i acty go to zouk... can hear all e teasin n insults already...
left zouk at 3am... bumped into mark... lolz... at least he din seem so surprised... =p whole bunch of us went to sit at e walkway nxt to zouk... talked abt life... took a big bunch of fotos... finally decided to trudge home... cabbed back... thank gdness there wuz a long line of taxis waitin outside... haha...
nearly forgot... went to support andrew at his band concert last nite too... which i muz admit, reli wuz quite a gd one... e third symphony... omg... nearly went into spasms when i saw andrew playin an alto flute... >.< miss playin in a band so much... reli shld consider joinin nie band if i ever get e chance...
i managed to smile when i thought of her... but at the same, at the back of my mind, i couldn't help but feel she was a filthy hypocrite...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
can't believe those pics would spark off so many comments from asd hahaha... had those pics buried in my com for e longest time le... got much more actually... just some of them are too random and too sia suay to put on facebook... sia suay for me la... u might haf noticed i have no qualms on putting sia suay pics of others... =p
met up wif my flute section on monday... pity quite a number of ppl cldn't make it... oso can't help it... i got no choice but to put it either on a wkend or public hol... aniwae those hu did come... we reli had a whale of a time!!! first time eatin modesto's pizza... e ultra large one... chloe took nearly an hr to finish hers... no exaggeration there... she said she wanted to savour her food... but tt's teeming along the lines of overdoing it... =.= haha... laughed at n joked abt chloe as usual... she's forever like e life of e section... always laughin gigglin makin silly jokes n lookin blur! i drove junhong, chloe and matthew ard... had quite a gd time... took quite a number of pics... tho none of which chloe has sent me yet! grrr... but overall we reli had a blast and i can't WAIT till we haf our nxt one!!!
there're so many things i wanna learn in this 5 months!!!!!!!!!!!! sadly, i lack the time and money to do them...
1. learn econs - been on my list for some time le... but haven't actually gotten down to learning much of it yet...
2. learn guitar - my mum's kinda discouraging me from learning it cuz i want too many things and have too little time and money... not very sure hw long a guitar course will last too... so duno how much money i will dwindle away...
3. further my competence in my dear flute - i really dun wanna let go of my flute... those 6 years with my darling really were some of the best times in my life! and i really wanna find that feeling again!!! but a good Altus 1007 flute costs ~$4000!!! omg... faintz...
4. further my studies in jap - for this, i don't feel much guilt as i'm already into it... just completed JLPT 4 on sunday, hope i passed it well... really wanna continue wif e pre-advanced course in Bunka and go to a university in Japan with NUS's Student Exchange Programme!
So many things in store for me! Life awaits...
met up wif my flute section on monday... pity quite a number of ppl cldn't make it... oso can't help it... i got no choice but to put it either on a wkend or public hol... aniwae those hu did come... we reli had a whale of a time!!! first time eatin modesto's pizza... e ultra large one... chloe took nearly an hr to finish hers... no exaggeration there... she said she wanted to savour her food... but tt's teeming along the lines of overdoing it... =.= haha... laughed at n joked abt chloe as usual... she's forever like e life of e section... always laughin gigglin makin silly jokes n lookin blur! i drove junhong, chloe and matthew ard... had quite a gd time... took quite a number of pics... tho none of which chloe has sent me yet! grrr... but overall we reli had a blast and i can't WAIT till we haf our nxt one!!!
there're so many things i wanna learn in this 5 months!!!!!!!!!!!! sadly, i lack the time and money to do them...
1. learn econs - been on my list for some time le... but haven't actually gotten down to learning much of it yet...
2. learn guitar - my mum's kinda discouraging me from learning it cuz i want too many things and have too little time and money... not very sure hw long a guitar course will last too... so duno how much money i will dwindle away...
3. further my competence in my dear flute - i really dun wanna let go of my flute... those 6 years with my darling really were some of the best times in my life! and i really wanna find that feeling again!!! but a good Altus 1007 flute costs ~$4000!!! omg... faintz...
4. further my studies in jap - for this, i don't feel much guilt as i'm already into it... just completed JLPT 4 on sunday, hope i passed it well... really wanna continue wif e pre-advanced course in Bunka and go to a university in Japan with NUS's Student Exchange Programme!
So many things in store for me! Life awaits...
Thursday, December 04, 2008
am i suffering from OCD? in case, you're wondering OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. For scientific information, go and google it. lolz...
i really do suspect that i'm suffering from mild OCD. there must be a reason y i always have to make sure i put my gongyo book down with a snap loud and sharp enough for me, otherwise i redo that action over and over again. there must be a reason why i keep tuggin at my prayer beads till i feel i've achieved that particular pain in my fingers. there must be a reason y my gongyo book must lie such that its breadth makes a parallel line with the edge of my butsudan. there must be a reason y i have to make sure my spectacles are laid such that the sides make a parallel line with the side of my bed when i go to sleep. there must be a reason y i have these random thoughts of death coursing through my head every now and then.
kenshu is comin up this week. kbox wif e guys is comin up this week. jlpt is comin up this week. kbox session wif su xin n e rest is comin up nxt wk. chem remedials are comin up nxt wk. y do i nt feel the slightest exhilaration?
received a letter from nus ytd... uni life is finally within view... reli hope i'll be able to share a room wif wei han... i really feel it'll b much easier to share wif someone u noe... given the way i react to strangers... lolz... kinda makes me sound autistic...
last saturday was teck kiang's wedding... haven't seen so mani of the asd alumni for a very very long time... reli great seein all of dem again!!! n i wuz reli qutie surprised to c sook yee's students fill up one big block in the diamond hall... wonder if that many of my own students will come and grace my own weddin in future... hahaha... had to rush off early for jap class tho... cldnt even stay behind to take pics wif dem... v v sad... but still met up wif tuan kiak, wei han, juay kai, stella, jianli and joel afta tt la... so still nt too bad... loved the feeling when all of us packet food frm shilin n went up to third floor for dinner... e open air area nxt to food republic... found it all cornered off... asked ard n found out there were gonna be fireworks due to vivo's 2nd anniversary celebration... but we din c it there la... onli later when some of us went off left mi, wei han, juay kai and tuan kiak den we managed to c when we went mac's to nua... hahaha... reli quite awesome... vivo apparently quite rich ar... fireworks lasted abt 5-7 mins wor... reli awesome... pity i din haf my camera wif me...
when it comes to frens... i nid to c tt some ppl go for breadth... some ppl go for depth... n some jz dun wana go near u... i nid to learn n accept tt... lest i'm goin to b verrrrrrrrryyyyy miserable for a v long time...
boku no kanojo wa doko to dare desu ka?
i really do suspect that i'm suffering from mild OCD. there must be a reason y i always have to make sure i put my gongyo book down with a snap loud and sharp enough for me, otherwise i redo that action over and over again. there must be a reason why i keep tuggin at my prayer beads till i feel i've achieved that particular pain in my fingers. there must be a reason y my gongyo book must lie such that its breadth makes a parallel line with the edge of my butsudan. there must be a reason y i have to make sure my spectacles are laid such that the sides make a parallel line with the side of my bed when i go to sleep. there must be a reason y i have these random thoughts of death coursing through my head every now and then.
kenshu is comin up this week. kbox wif e guys is comin up this week. jlpt is comin up this week. kbox session wif su xin n e rest is comin up nxt wk. chem remedials are comin up nxt wk. y do i nt feel the slightest exhilaration?
received a letter from nus ytd... uni life is finally within view... reli hope i'll be able to share a room wif wei han... i really feel it'll b much easier to share wif someone u noe... given the way i react to strangers... lolz... kinda makes me sound autistic...
last saturday was teck kiang's wedding... haven't seen so mani of the asd alumni for a very very long time... reli great seein all of dem again!!! n i wuz reli qutie surprised to c sook yee's students fill up one big block in the diamond hall... wonder if that many of my own students will come and grace my own weddin in future... hahaha... had to rush off early for jap class tho... cldnt even stay behind to take pics wif dem... v v sad... but still met up wif tuan kiak, wei han, juay kai, stella, jianli and joel afta tt la... so still nt too bad... loved the feeling when all of us packet food frm shilin n went up to third floor for dinner... e open air area nxt to food republic... found it all cornered off... asked ard n found out there were gonna be fireworks due to vivo's 2nd anniversary celebration... but we din c it there la... onli later when some of us went off left mi, wei han, juay kai and tuan kiak den we managed to c when we went mac's to nua... hahaha... reli quite awesome... vivo apparently quite rich ar... fireworks lasted abt 5-7 mins wor... reli awesome... pity i din haf my camera wif me...
when it comes to frens... i nid to c tt some ppl go for breadth... some ppl go for depth... n some jz dun wana go near u... i nid to learn n accept tt... lest i'm goin to b verrrrrrrrryyyyy miserable for a v long time...
boku no kanojo wa doko to dare desu ka?
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