stand still, look pretty

i'm MOVING!

2008-02-02T18:10:00.001+08:00

ok i'm moving because i want to change my template and i don't know how to reset the font colours of my previous entries. what a lame excuse. hur hur. please remember charissaisyourfriend always :)

(click here to access my new blog)

2007-10-10T20:27:00.000+08:00

blogger is quite stupid. i have been logging in with my hotmail account for the longest time now, and it still fails to detect that it is not a gmail account. which i am fine with of course, since it works to my benefit (: but it's just proves how technology is and can never be perfect. I REFUSE TO CONCEDE DEFEAT TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT ROBOTS MIGHT/WILL RULE THE WORLD SOMEDAY. never!!

having said that, everyone should go to youtube and watch flight of the conchord's "the humans are dead". it's simply hilarious. i love their version of folk/stand-up comedy. i hope they come to singapore! (:

i haven't updated since uni started because uni life has been simply boring. there's really nothing tell, save for the fact that it's been one essay/assignment/project after another. the workload is beginning to pile up but i'm not complaining because after all, i've been such a bum for the past 9 months. it's good to get the ol' rusty brain working again!

other than the fact that uni life is very different from jc, i must say that it is also rather unpredictable. i hardly know what to write or what the profs expect when i do my essays so i just scribble whatever comes to mind. and most of the time, they allocate large amounts of marks to a pretty limited amount of writing space, compared to what we were exposed to in jc. as a result, it caused me to overwrite during my first ever essay test and to spill out all sorts of facts and knowledge onto my history paper that in the end probably made me look either utterly stupid and overly enthu. only the marks will tell...

when i first stepped into nus, i was rather irked by the fact that my school bookshop, or co-op as they call it, sells rather provocative and kinky items, the kind you find in the topshop store near the panties section. it was then that i realised that no adults care about the school or the way it's run. the only thing that everyone seems to be concerned with is getting their degree, so that leaves the student union or nussu as they have horrendously labelled it to run the school and to make decisions regarding school activites, events and merchandise, whether it contains explicit content or not. moreover, the rather enthusiastic arts club seems to be primarily occupied with hosting and organising clubbing sessions, which i guess allows it to literally live up to its name as a club, and also makes it seem otherwise useless in uniting the arts faculty or giving it any sort of community spirit.

the main thing that really struck me about nus was the lack of school spirit. i suppose it's difficult to inculcate any trace of love for the school unless you're forced to participate in hall activities or because you simply having an undying passion for dragonboating or some other 'ra ra' sport or student activity in the school. moreover, the campus is pretty large and the various faculties are dispersed all over the school so that makes it more difficult for people to interact. however, it doesn't explain why other universities overseas have students proudly wearing their college sweatshirts wherever they go and happily proclaiming that they belong to the school.

hmm ok. this entry has unintentionally become rather anti-nus, which is not entirely how i feel. after all, i can't deny that the professors do know their stuff and their lessons do have substance. nus is internationally recognised too so it is definitely not a bad school on the academic side. i suppose i just miss the camaraderie (yea man, war lit!) that i've always had in SC and AC.

yay ok i shall end here. a big hello to all my friends studying overseas! (: i really miss you guys, hope you're having a blast, even though the adjustment period is tough. ok i shall go disturb people in facebook now :D

2007-07-19T01:27:00.000+08:00

WHY ARE BOYS SO STUPID SOMETIMES. WHY WHY WHY. GRRR.

just want to FLUSH THEM ALL AWAY. hmph.

(yes i know i'm not perfect, i just needed to RANT.)

2007-07-18T00:05:00.001+08:00

nothing better to do (:

2007-07-17T23:51:00.000+08:00

hello i'm back.

i haven't blogged for a really long time because well, to be perfectly honest, there hasn't been anything to blog about. on top of that, i doubt anyone reads my blog, so i've considered leaving it to die a slow, lonely death.

however, after reading the blogs of other self-indulgent people (haha, yes that's the painful truth my friends), i've been inspired to blog about my own life again. yes, how very ironic.

so in the past 2 months, i've been spending much time reading (yes, to ensure that the brain is still working) and meeting up with friends, which is always good (: and although some people find bumming around rather meaningless and boring, i find it rather therapeutic and relaxing. i have discovered that i thoroughly enjoy sleeping late, waking up late, having meals at my own pace, reading TIME mag/newspaper/novels, surfing the net, shopping online, watching TV, taking as much time as i want doing QT and reading the bible. haha. what can i say? looks like i'm cut out to be a 'tai tai' (:

actually nowadays, i've become so accustomed to being at home all day that i find it a drag to leave the house, save for the times when i go to church. haha. in all other cases, i find it rather tiring to be walking around town and spending cash when i can be at home, snuggled at in my bed reading a book or shopping online (:

having said that, i'm looking forward to uni life too. i'm hoping to join campus crusade and Ultimate Frisbee (!) yay (:

also, if you are leaving singapore, please drop me a message so we can meet up soon k! if you sneak off and leave suddenly i shall be terribly upset. heh.

2007-06-04T12:30:00.000+08:00

i love this song (:

2007-05-29T23:32:00.001+08:00

SOME neoprint machine.

2007-05-29T01:01:00.000+08:00

relief teaching was finally over a week ago! i've just been too lazy to blog about it. hmm and when i say finally, it's not because i don't miss the girls, i do. it's just that i seriously hate dragging myself out of bed when the sun isn't even up yet. grr. so YAY, i finally get to wake up late after 5 long months!! (:

my cards for the girls

yes indeed! :(

my table (:
(with happy notes from other people)

messages from 2sy

kai qian is nuts

charissa and charissa

rong and me

jinglin and me

mrs khong rocks

mrs fern's apple cake. yum!

FOOD (: - our favorite pastime!

this is 2pe

they are crazy

as you can tell (:

yup that's all, and unfortunately i still have 2 piles of marking to cover. ARGH. it's like holiday homework all over again!

photos from noah's treasure! (:

2007-05-10T22:09:00.000+08:00

i like this photo. it's so nice and happy (:

"yay, spin spin spin!"

"mummy i don't know the flavour of the sweet!"

"aye, don't put the songsheet in my belt!"

haha growie. some name.

monkey eating fish food

"hey, where's pumba?'

ah meng (and friends)

sick.

argh, my hand!

peek-a-boo (:

getting up-close and personal

cute hair

sluurrrrrpp!

2007-04-30T08:59:00.000+08:00

ok i'm in class now.

i have to invigilate a 1hr30mins compre test.

and i'm very very bored because

a) i have nothing much to mark at the moment, just a lot of other things to do. and all these other things can't be done while invigilating.

b) it's too early in the morning to be doing serious work. my brain is still hibernating.

c)i'm still very tired after the church outing to the zoo yesterday.

thus, i am sitting in front of my laptop and pretending to be planning my lesson or whatever with the computer while surfing the blogs of other people. ah yes, and i decided to revisit some older entries from my previous blog.

and i came across this.

on 5th april '05 i wrote "new class now..1aa2..it's not too bad. the ppl there are really nice and it's quite fun too..yup yup. so hopefully it will be a really fun experience in that class."

it's quite funny to read it now, and actually realise that 2aa2 turned out to be the fun, crazy, noisy, whacky class that i expected it to be, and so much more.

and also, reading my older entries has made me realise how much i have matured. *ahem* yes, i have! it almost irks me to read about the things i thought about or said back then, because right now, after JC, a lot of our perspectives have changed. we no longer live merely from day-to-day, hoping to scrap through our exams with whatever last minute work we've crammed in. instead, most of us have now had a taste of the working life or army, for the guys. and now the decisions we make have a much greater impact on our future than before. now, we think further ahead. for most of us, when we select our courses in university or even our universities for that matter, we can practically see our careers slowly falling into place. and all the wishful ambitions that we've had since we were children such as "mummy, i want to be an astronaut!!" "mummy, i want to be a rockstar!!" "mummy, i want to be a tai tai!!" slowly begin to disappear. save for maybe the "tai tai" part though, for the so-called lucky few who have filthy rich boyfriends :)

ah yes, and so the saying goes.

"like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives"

hah. talk about corny.

hey pretty (:

2007-04-25T11:58:00.000+08:00

ahhhh....

2007-04-22T22:37:00.000+08:00

a thought struck me today:

i'm at the PRIME of my youth.

yes, the PRIME.

ah, i should live life to the fullest now, this should be the moment.

but then again, that could mean being foolish, worldly and selfish.

thus, i shall try my utmost best abstain from 'fleshly lusts' as 1 Peter aptly put it.

still, it's a comforting and thrilling thought to be at the PRIME of your youth - the age where your parents begin to let go and you begin to start being more of yourself and less of who everyone wants you to be. SWEET (:

on a sidenote: tv serials can be so insightful. (and i'm not just saying this from a bimbotic point of view)

those were the days

2007-04-20T12:44:00.000+08:00

these are the days of endless dreamin'

troubles of life are floatin' away like a bird of flight

2007-04-16T17:12:00.000+08:00

haha that's us at sports day i.e. the relief teachers.

yay i love my 4gy shirt!! "4gy... is like whoa."

i stole those photos from charissa wong's blog. heh. i bet she doesn't even know that i read her blog. it's quite fun to read about people that you used to know, and to see how they have changed, and then to catch up with them again finally after so long. and as they tell you about the things they have done etc, all you can do is try your best to hide that knowing smile. nahaha. sneaky eh?

now you know.

well, my time at sc is slowly coming to an end. 1 and a half more months! honestly, i can't wait to be out of work and to be unemployed, to have no obligations, commitments whatsoever. on the other hand, i know i'll miss my students. they have made life a challenge for the past 4 months and it'll be hard not to see them everyday once all this comes to an end. well for now, i just want to be over and done with all the marking, keying in of CA marks and mundane yet stressful demands of this job. yup, alas, this has become a job, no longer something that i look forward to. however, there are many things to be thankful for. like how the craziest, noisiest 14 year olds and turn into the sweetest, most grateful and teachable human beings just when you least expect it. such things do make your day (:

a question has been lingering at the back of my mind for the past few days;

is it ok to hurt someone in order to protect yourself?
does it make you self-centered or is it only right that you do so? is it only permissible when you want to prevent yourself from hurting the other person even more? or is it just a defence mechanism that prevents you from hurting yourself even more?

2007-04-16T17:07:00.000+08:00

Oh, would you please get out from under my skin?
'Cause I can't begin this yet
And I don't know what my intentions are
They're speaking in a different tongue
And, deep inside, I'm not as tough as I seem
But I won't let you know
Until it's right, I'm gonna stay my distance, and you should go
Oh, would you please get out
I'm not as strong as I seem, but I won't let you know

2007-03-22T21:46:00.000+08:00

hmm i'm supposed to be marking lit tests now. but i decided to blog about this before i forget.

last thurs, jamie angie tiff adrian yap karl and me went to genting-kl-jb. i haven't been to malaysia in awhile but i must say that i've forgotten how impossible it was to feel completely away from singapore because of the huge similarities between both countries. the people, the shopping centres, the food. mehh. anyway, despite that, i must say we had wicked fun :D i've never been on a holiday with such crazy and weird people before. and being around 6 psychotic people for 4 days and 3 nights was the best part about the entire experience. yay! let's go on another holiday everyone! (:

a little bird in a nest jamie found (:

praying not to die as jamie-the-motion-master drives us around her neighbourhood (no, she did not drive us to kl, thankfully!!)

come on, pose for my camera baby.

yes karl, show us how it's done

HELP!!!

boys are stupid. heh.

yes! i finally overcame my fears with this ride.

one of my favourite photos.
(i have no idea what jamie and adrian are doing.)

:)

i'm feeling happy :D

2007-03-03T14:28:00.000+08:00

YAY.

after yesterday's results, all i can say is THANK YOU GOD for making a way (:

and to every single one of you in 2AA2, i am extremely proud of you. we worked so hard from being the noisiest, most playful class who ate at every single lesson to a class that did well together. i love you and i'm thankful for all of you.

especially to tiff, angie and jamie, i'm so happy that all 4 of us did well together even though we goofed around a lot and did silly things that were potentially a waste of very important studying time eg. singing and dancing in the nl til mario came to lock up. heh.

and also, thank you ms sng for being sooooo amazingly anal retentive because we got the lowest msg in the entire school for GP :D

2007-03-01T23:01:00.000+08:00

results tmr!!

i've been trying not to think about it, but this morning i woke up and it hit me. tmr could change a lot of things in my life. however, the world will not stop spinning and life will not come to an end. even if i do badly in the world's eyes, i know it will still be according to God's plan. that's definitely a comforting thought.

hmm. and i've also been thinking about what to wear tmr. how insignificant and bimbotic, i know, but i remember some poorly dressed people going up onstage last year. not that i think i will get to shake kelvyna's hand but yea, i would like to avoid certain shirts that could potentially make me look like a loser. for instance, my 'i love tv' shirt and my 'clever island' shirt. if the results turn out to be less than expected, many unfortunate deductions could be made.

oh i also checked out the ikea at tampines today. it's AWESOME. i love it. it's so huge and my favourite part is the warehouse part. i love the sky high shelfs and rows and rows of furniture still in their boxes, and the lovely smell of fresh wood. mmm. i must say that the ikea restaurant lacks variety though, but i absolutely love everything that ikea has. they all look yummy. yes, even the non-edible shoeboxes, quilts and candlesticks (:

ok all the best for tmr everyone!!

2007-02-28T11:51:00.000+08:00

here's a collage of random photos from last year that i found in my phone.

my personal favorite is the one of lancey's trademark move (:

2007-02-26T17:40:00.000+08:00

hello i'm blogging. in the staffroom. wahaha. i feel like a really happening teacher. no, i know i am. heh. so much for humility.

i have never liked tell all blogs.

eg. today i went to the zoo. first, we went to the rabbit enclosure. we pet the rabbits. then we fed them.....(5 paragraphs later).......the giraffes are so cute!! they kept eating leaves and making weird noises. next, we went to the polar bear enclosure etc etc.

RAH. i tend to skim through such blogs. i'm like get over your life!

the next kind of blogs which irk me are ah lianzzz blogs.

eg. 2dae me n ah bao went 2 arcade. we played para para. lollxx. ah bao is supa hipzz manzz. he beat me at all levels. ah bao u rox manzz!! i luv u 4eva. kekexx. i tell you ah, we will get married one loh. if we dun ah then i surely cannot tahan and i will diezz.hehexx juz kiddin manz.

AHH. i get goosebumps reading such blogs. in fact i spent such a long time typing that cos i had to force myself to be ah lianzz manzz. i don't understand how typing like that is cool. it's like saying failing is cool. mehh. i'm elitist, i apologise.

the third kind of blogs that i don't like are blogs full of 'look at me i'm so hot' pictures. eeeeyer. get over yourself!!

hmm. ok i'm done complaining about bloggers for today. i must say that i do enjoy blog surfing though. velda calls me a voyeur. and unfortunately, i must admit that i am. oops.

A LEVEL RESULTS ON FRIDAY. and we thought that day would never come. well, the good thing is that i don't have school from weds to friday cos it's activities week!! yay. i'll have 3 days to relax before results. thank you God (:

ok i better go before the principal walks in and accuses me of wasting the school's lan resources. heh. relief teachers do have their perks after all.

2007-02-22T16:42:00.001+08:00

there is something wrong with blogger. i can't seem to log in although i have switched my account to the new gmail version. thus, i'm using gmail now to blog. how interesting. once again, i feel like a frog in a well.

well the chinese new year period has come and gone once again. jia han and i were talking about how there is less visiting as we grow older..and it is largely due to the fact that our parents are getting older or most of the elderly have passed on. so less people = more slack for us young ones. *a warped kind of happiness fills my heart*. oh dear, i'm turning into a rotten person.

the past few days, however, have reminded me of how important family is, and how little time i have set aside for the most important people in my life. the same people who will love me unconditionally and accept me for who i am. my cousins and i were playing 'have you ever', a sort of tell all game and we realised how disgusting everyone was and also shared some personal issues. that was how i found out how kind and loving they were. haha. especially after i had cleaned out some skeletons in my closet.

life does pass you by rather quickly and pretty soon we will all be in and out of uni and working to make a living. it does feel good to live off your parents (for now). heh. i'm a total bum, i know. so anyway, i have decided to make a list of everything that i would like to do before uni.

1)try wakeboarding

2)go rockclimbing in singapore

3)go on a holiday with my friends

4)have a lot of sleepovers and movie marathons

5)develop a proper work out routine

6)learn how to cook

7)read more books, particularly christian books and classics

8)buy an acoustic guitar

9)(overseas) community service

10)get involved in missions

2007-02-12T21:50:00.000+08:00

my blog is beginning to look a little bare.

thus, i've decided to add some photos from last year, mostly from my trip to Australia (:

oh and i've stepped out of my cave recently and downloaded picasa. so i took the liberty to edit some photos.

yay.

solution pools (once a geog student, always a geog student. heh.)

part of the great ocean road. taken from a helicopter. (yes! i got to ride in one!)
a lonely stack.
how come every time you come around my London London Bridge wanna go down?
a nice beach.
an arch (:
another shot from the helicopter.this photo is gorgeous. heh.
yes, aussies do love their alcochol.whee!!

my sister. haha.

i think these were seals. or maybe sea lions. or seals. or sealions. i'm not sure.

even dogs enjoy starbucks.

i took this shot!! i think it's emo. heh.
yay (:

and last but not least,

all i want you to do is be my love.

2007-02-05T23:49:00.000+08:00

i think that my life is awfully boring these days. it's like how it used to be -- school, home, school, home, school, home. minus the dreaded tuition classes and *cough* CCA, which i will not mention. and of course, minus all my crazy 2aa2 playmates. haha. wai ling says that word connotates too many suggestive meanings at this age. but really, i mean it in the most innocent of ways, because everyone in 2aa2 was a kid. the word child-like doesn't even come close, i believe we were more like childish. heh. and now, without all of you guys, 19 suddenly feels a whole lot older and maybe, wiser.

sigh. having dinners at least once a week with old friends from sc and ac does make life a lot less monotonous but still, i miss sitting in the canteen and just chatting about the most useless things in the world and laughing about the silliest things. i miss running around the ac track and cracking jokes with mark ng. i miss the quirkiness of all the random ac teachers and jumping up and down in the NL after school, pretending to be rock stars and film stars. i even miss assembly because of the weirdest videos that were put together and i miss sitting in front of 2aa3 and 2aa1 and interacting with random people in the arts fac. i miss all these and more.

so rumour has it that the A level results will be out in one or two weeks time. and just as unprepared as i was for the As, i feel once again, completely unprepared for this.

p.s. i hope none of my students find my blog.

2007-01-23T22:50:00.000+08:00

so the new year has begun. a lot of new things have begun. i am no longer a school girl. raaar. in fact, i now have to teach school girls. how ironic. it's funny how i remember feeling too young to take the As and now suddenly i feel like super old. like prematurely aged. this is what exams and war lit do to you.

in a very brief summary of all that has happened since, december was a fantastic month. finally, i could breathe better and feel more carefree (whenever i think of that word, i think of the brand of you know what. and 'whisper' does that to me too. who thinks of these names for such things!!) anyway to put it simply, the trip to australia was really good. a good time to catch up with the family both the immediate, and the one in australia. plus, the checking up of unis in australia and the daily feasting. i promise, it was really feasting. like a HUGE meal every single night i was in melbourne. although strangely, i did not put on weight. i tell you, it's been ac food that has been fattening me up. boy am i glad i'm not eating that food everyday now (:

i must say, i do miss schooling. yes nutty, i do!! it is definitely not easy being a teacher even if it's only for a couple of months. i would much rather sit down in class and be chatting with my classmates or doing something sneaky under the table like messaging or passing notes or playing bingo. sigh. those were the days. you know what! now i really feel old!! i thought only parents said those were the days. actually the reality of aging really set in when my students starting calling me Ms Lim and my juniors started greeting me. i was so irked by it that i had goosebumps everytime it happened for the first week.

anyway this year, i have decided that with more time on my hands, i will try to be more involved in church activities and step up in my commitment to God. the future is especially uncertain now, with uni ahead and the pending release of the A level results. to be honest, i am dreading the day when they are released. i think i lack faith in myself. so i guess, the best thing i can do is to entrust everything to God and to leave it in His hands.

2006-11-01T19:47:00.000+08:00

i haven't updated in a long time. hmm. but then again, who ever said that i had to update regularly? makes you wonder if you update for people to read or if you update for yourself. and if i don't want to update for myself then so be it. ha. this is retarded why am i arguing with myself.

anyway so i've decided, since tomorrow is the start of the A levels. yes, THE A LEVELS (it's here!! nooooo...) i shall blog since it's probably significant enough a milestone in my life. sigh, my very short 18 years of youth and i have to face this? somehow i don't even feel half as prepared as i was for the Os. now i wonder, is it because of the sheer amount of content that i have to cover or because i just didn't study hard enough. and if it is the latter, i really wonder now, what will happen if i screw up the As and don't end up going to uni. i'll be worse off than a poly grad who has a diploma. argh....no....

but one must face up his fears and yes tomorrow i shall take on GP like it's my 2nd prelims. but then, everytime i tell myself that this little, annoying voice at the back of my head goes "if you screw this up, you screw everything up" and then again, the As aren't necessarily the end, as a teacher once said during chapel. they are in fact, a very small part of your life. well, ok maybe in 15 years time after i first survive the As.

and so tomorrow is GP. argh, GP. does it have to be so hard? it's a breeze for some people but for me, the stuctured questions always get me. somehow, my brain isn't able to read between the lines. why!! i know i'm not stupid..i mean i got past the Os pretty easily..hmm. my sister asked me today, "GP is like english right?" and i said, "no!! it's a lot harder" and it made me think about english. life was much easier then, when it was just english and essays didn't have to be 1. thesis statement 2. example 3.explain 4. evaluate. since when did we need a formula for an essay? i thought formulas only existed in science.

hmph. ok enough rambling. life must go on and i must go back to studying oh yes, the 'general paper' that turns out to be rather specific and structured.

all the best to me, and most of all, i know i will have to depend on God for this one, just as with everything else of course (:

2006-08-30T22:04:00.000+08:00

i cannot stand it when people don't bother to ask me out in a nice way.

if you want to ask me out, at least ask nicely, and i don't demand this because i think that i'm super important or something. it's just common basic courtesy. you don't ask people out like you're asking them because you have nothing better to do. and you most certainly do not ask them out like they're your shopping bag or an accessory you must have whenever you go out.

moreover, i cannot stand it when guys whistle at girls like they're some animal. it's degrading and it makes us feel cheap. so what if you're a guy, you should have the decency to treat the opposite sex with some respect, even if you do something as shameless as squatting by the roadside to check girls out. haha. cheekopek.

so much for a ranting session! i'm not feeling that angsty. i think i just needed to let some heat off cos my skin is burning from the sunburn! :(

serves me right.boo.

2006-08-28T20:07:00.000+08:00

yay! prelims are ending prelims are ending prelims are ending!!

one more day to go and guess who already had pre-end-of-prelims celebration!!

haha. went to sentosa with jamie and angie today!! had the most awesome time ever....felt like we escaped to paradise for a day in the midst of our crazy exams (although too much credit can't be given to sentosa for being a paradise). heh. so yup we soaked up the sun, did synchro swimming, waded a lot in the water and drank some disgusting sea water, crossed over to the 'southern most point of asia' to make stupid videos and then crossed back to mainland singapore and SMACK back into the exam mode. haha. not really. but well technically exams are more or less over cos only e8 is left and you can't really study for it. haha.

i can't wait for prelims to be over!! raaaaaaar. freedom here i come! (:

this is how we all looked before we came redder than tomatos!

(although you can't really tell cause it's sepia. heh.)

2006-08-18T22:28:00.000+08:00

that's how i'm feeling about PRELIMS!!!!!!!

it's DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!

2 more weeks 2 more weeks 2 more weeks...i can do this i can do this i can do this......

man i just realised that this is only prelims..WHAT ABOUT As!!

woo hooo. i might as well just admit myself into IMH now. wheee (:

and i realise that my previous entry looks like fruitloops.i'm ashamed of myself.i need to send myself to the corner for being utterly embarrassing.

2006-08-04T23:54:00.000+08:00

haha yay i'm 18!! (:

i'm legal i'm legal i'm legal!

and yet, i don't feel 18.

(and yes, i still do feel younger then i should be, maybe it's cos of the uniforms thing!!)

it's officially 10 days before the prelims, and i must say to all my friends, you guys are simply awesome!! cos it's like 10 days to prelims and you bothered to stay up to do stuff for me!! haha you guys rock! i promise i'll never forget you even if i become like ultra-mega-super-duper-kuku when i'm 80!!

haha yup and i received like 3 cakes and a slice of cheesecake today (: the most ever so far so yup i will not only put on a lot of weight on top of my already don't-exercise-regularly schedule but i will also remember all the effort that went into making this day ultra special for me (:

so my friends and family did stuff for me, and i figured at around 10pm that i had to do something for myself. so i trotted off to the nearest 7-11 and bought myself some *ahem* alcohol. and no, i'm no heavy drinker, so it was just raspberry vodka with 6% alcohol for starters. i know that now i look like such a NERD but it was just for fun!! $6.40 wasted on cheap thrill. ha. plus it tasted like cough syrup and i've tasted better. (oops, did i say i've tasted better?)

yay, once again, thanks everyone for making my day and giving me a great start to my 18th year. love you all (:

p.s today i saw a guy who had hotter legs than his girlfriend. ouch.

2006-06-17T15:37:00.000+08:00

wow. it's one week left of the hols and then school starts, leaving us with 4 days of june before july starts, which then leaves us with a month to prelims. AHHH. and then BAM, it's the As. i feel too young to be sitting for my As.

do you sometimes feel like you're not supposed to be 18 yet? like this whole 'i'm 18 and legal thing' is just numbers, but not reality? i mean you watch all these american shows and the kids seem way more mature at 18, plus they don't wear school uniforms, they can drive and they act a whole lot more like adults than we do. i find it hard to believe that i only have 2 more years of my teenage years when i still feel so freaking young.

it's hard to believe that in 3 years, i'll be 21 and in 1 or 2 more years, having my first job. i still feel like i'm just a kid trying to find my way around.

do you blame it on the singaporean system of 'let's all wear uniforms to feel nice and equal til we're 18 and old enough to learn how to tolerate one another without uniforms' or just on the fact that we live in this small, myopic nation that's so overly protected by the govt, hence we've never felt an urgent need to grow up and learn quickly?

i wonder. i really do.

and then again, maybe we just think that the grass is always greener on the other side.

well back to my books then, since i can't see very far beyond my As as of yet and still feel like a clueless school girl.

an evening with friends 2006

2006-05-30T01:14:00.000+08:00

tonight was one of those nights that i wish had never ended

but i guess all good things have to come to an end.sigh.

the concert was so good and the strangest thing is that just when the experience ended, i wished that it had gone on forever, despite wishing many times in the past 5 months that i could just quit and leave it at that.

on stage, it was magic and the best part was that it was not because individuals stood out but because every single one of us gave to the team as a whole and made it worth the while

ah, nostalgia and it's not even officially over but the journey ends here for the j2s and although i look back with many regrets on what i could have done more, i'll never regret being part of such a wonderful team and meeting some of the greatest, most selfless ppl.

all of you have taught me much and i'm truly humbled because of you.

passion/integrity/love (:

2006-05-11T22:21:00.000+08:00

do you ever feel like you're being consumed by the world

and you become less and less of yourself

and more and more absorbed in this aimless hustle and bustle

why do we have to keep doing things that don't matter in the end

i need You take my world apart and make me do things that matter

some stress relief.

my future husband after we reach the age of drinking anlene gold (:

2006-03-19T23:41:00.000+08:00

studying can be awfully boring. esp when u have one week and u can't go out cos u're supposed to be studying. blah. thankfully we have the internet (:

what a sad technology-dependent society we are.

hee hee. found this on getty images. other than the cool shots, check out the hot bods :)

2006-02-23T23:44:00.000+08:00

i love old ladies. they just make the world sweeter with their ever-so-slow and gentle ways and sweet smiles. i feel like hugging every single one of them, save for the grumpy and naggy ones.

still. i love old ladies.

and i hate not knowing what to do about friends.

i wish there was a friend guidebook sometimes.

grr.

funorama 18 (:

2006-02-20T01:01:00.000+08:00

it's amazing what a funfair can do to your class, your body, your money and your memories.

but still i don't regret every single bit of it.

every quarrel, every muscle ache, every suntan from painting banners and walking around terrorising ppl,every scream in craiglockhart-for fun and for real,every friend that came, every dart that was thrown, every moment in the stall during the rain, every cent spent on dunking ppl, every bruise from crawling on the floor, every coconut carried,every pineapple that pricked me, every ounce of energy or what was left of it spent jumping on the stage and running around in the hall after the funfair and the list goes on.

btw the 2aa2 blog is up. just go to ilove2aa2.blogspot.com for more pictures and details of funorama (:

2006-02-16T22:39:00.000+08:00

aa2, you're my boulevard of un-broken dreams (:

will you be my valentine (:

2006-02-14T23:24:00.000+08:00

valentine's day rocked this year. i love my class. i love my friends. i love the concept of love (:

haha this is so, um, un-biceps (:

welcome to the happy hut!

spot me.

who's this random couple?

tee hee. wibands!

gold rangers!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!

love is in the air (: spread the love!!

2006-01-31T22:41:00.000+08:00

vainpot(:

playing 'upwords' with my 4 yr old and 10 yr old nieces has got to be one of the most refreshing experiences ever this new year. the words that they think of are hilarious for people their age. for example, the 10 yr old one converted skit to shit by adding a h on top of the k. and then the 4 yr old got excited over forming the word bun and added it unknowingly as an extension to shit. so the outcome was shit-bun. hahahaha. i laughed for like the whole day. and it amazes me how a 4 yr old can say words like 'paracetamol' (which i cant spell now) and 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. wow. kids these days are too crever.

2006-01-30T11:41:00.000+08:00

my geisha kitten

sadly i think she's gone. i played with her once and then she disappeared ):

what a feeling in my soul (:

2006-01-07T21:33:00.000+08:00

ah back to school.

first week over. and i absolutely LOVE 2AA2. the best class anyone could wish for. besides 4GY of cos. i love you both differently and yet equally. yay. we have the bestest classroom ever. we got an NL!! yea. so everyday feels like a holiday cos we're away from the main building and like in our little kampong world (: i feel it's more condusive for learning too. yay. i love it. and no one ever uses it but our class so it's like our 2nd home now! and guess what. we're next to 2AA1 so like SOME PPL can OGLE at OTHER PPL for like one year. hahah. mamamamama lo ki.

last night was campfire night for the j1s. and our class went to sell yummy rose syrup and lemonade to 'refresh' thirsty ppl. ah but it rained!! boo. and just then i thought that our fund-raising idea was dead. everyone got shifted to the badminton hall and we moved to the swimming pool bleachers to sell drinks. business was super slow for like the first 3 hours, but thanks to mr mark ng we got a couple of customers here and there. the best part was, after the whole thing was over everyone started crowding around to buy drinks and they got sold out pretty fast so we had to run to make more!!! whee. adrenaline pumping all the way. yea man. so we went to make more and soon we were sold out again and used up all our syrup!!! praise God! seriously cos like when it rained i was praying super hard that our idea would still work out and it did! better than expected (:

it was fun dancing with the j1s, or trying to dance rather. haha. wish we could have crashed orientation more, like during wet games. and most of all, wish i had been an ogl. boo. if i leave acjc with any regrets at all, not being an ogl could be one of them.

movies watched: pride & prejudice, the hot chick, hotel ruwanda

2005-12-09T11:28:00.000+08:00

everyone must watch pride & prejudice!

it's sweet & heart-warming (:

i like this shot.

it's like we're so famous that we got caught by the paparazzi (:

ramblin' road trip!

2005-12-05T13:11:00.000+08:00

vacational bible school ended on fri night. and i must say that teaching a p1 class of 14 kids was no joke. honestly kids are like balls of energy that never get drained. well more so for the guys cos the girls in my class were rather lethargic at times..hmm. and all the children weren't as cooperative, thanks to their hyperactiveness..but thank God that He saw my and my assistants thru' this yr's VBS. woo hoo.

oh yea i thing i learnt was that a bunch of hyperactive children can help u relive ur childhood when u play games like duck-duck-goose and what's the time mr wolf? heh. yup it was a whole load of fun chasing them around esp since i'm bigger. nahaha. and it's always heartwarming to see children so ready to believe in God in their child-like faith and innocent nature.

a grp of us with our the tent in class

me and 2 of the naughtiest boys

3 best friends who preferred to play their own games instead of with the class

zhi en - one of the most charming 7 yr olds i'll ever meet (:

i'm speeding by the place i met you for the 97th time tonight.

2005-11-27T23:52:00.000+08:00

watched angie perform at a christmas carol (alongside judith, ying yi and gwen mama) last night

the play was rather predictable, though largely cos it's a familiar story but in a way that lowered the interest value, if i may put it that way.

but still i enjoyed it cos I WAS SO SUPER DUPER PROUD OF ANGIE

yup angie i am proud of u (:

it was just heartwarming to see u dance ur heart out on stage and ur passion for dance was really evident

i hope u continue in this area in ac (:

today was an amazing worship experience at kkmc.

we sang at mrs wilson's church and i must say sitting thru 2 service does help in driving the msg of the sermon home (:

but on top of it there was just smth special, diff and unexplainable abt singing in church, as part of the service

5 days of choir is a bit draining but for some reason, this time

i'm lovin' it (:

the wreckers: the good kind

2005-11-24T12:37:00.000+08:00

if i rent a vcd and copy it to my com is it piracy?

darn. my friends say if i don't share it it's ok.

i don't know. i have integrity ok (:

anyway i found some nice photos taken on the day before gennamama left for US (:

genna genna banana we must meet up when u come back ok!!! yes and talk abt the good ol' times. darn i feel like an old woman.

movies watched today: a cinderella story

2005-11-22T21:11:00.000+08:00

today i decided to watch a cinderella story cos jamie loved it so much. just like how i watched how to lose a guy in ten days cos she watched it 11 times. and i must say I LOVED IT.

uh oh jamie i think i found one guy that both of us like :x

movies watched today: love me if you dare & mean girls

2005-11-21T21:38:00.000+08:00

yesterday i was at tiff and jabie's party. it was quite fun. haha. cos me and angie got to marinate the meat for the bbq as the other 2 went off to find water balloons. yea. so me and angie pretended to have our own cooking show! (with meer heinz bbq sauces for marinating the meat) when it came to prawns we got sick of using the same sauces for beef, pork and chicken so we used our own secret recipe! and thanks to our brilliant-ness it tasted good. heh. go us! sadly the rain destroyed our bbq and we got bored for bbq-ing so we just ran off to eat prata! (:

when the party started a lot of ppl i didn't know came. haha and radish with his oh no haircut and jevan whom we cldn't stop laughing at. oh yea kudos to tiff for aiming so accurately at jevan's head! GO TIFF! yea and the rest of it was self-explanatory. a lot of running around throwing bombs at each other. oh and yes our failed tug-of-war.

well after the party i learnt one thing. i don't like boys when they are drunk. i mean who does right. oh but when u know them or have heard of them before and see them drunk. it's not a nice sight.

anyway happy 17th to 2 of my favouritest ppl on earth! love you jamie and tiff (:

unfortunately i didn't get to take photos at the party but here's some photos from this year that i've been wanting to put up for awhile:

andrina's 17th! with the class.

hot and sweaty after ac games! go aa2!

pulau ubin with the class. check out our hostage.

the dots posing with a police jeep on pulau ubin (:

new blog!

2005-11-21T12:42:00.000+08:00

haha i've decided to move cos diaryland was getting boring.. and i've given up on html! raaar. plus i can upload photos here (: yea baby.