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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
7:44 PM
WAHAHA, CSM today! i realised that when you're in council, these kind of activities mean much more to you. anyway, cheered our hearts out today! and by standing below we actually get a better view of the races. haha. i would say everything went quite well, except that STNR was quite messy. but then the teachers and students were really enthu so it was FUNFUN! (it was even funnier when HCI got the hawaiian girl costume ^^) as usual, NANYANG ROCKS in staff relay race! every year teachers come and go but we never break our tradition of clinching champion! ^^ mr kaw ran, surprisingly! haha! and although shyam the national record holder is gone, we still have other pro tchers! i would say, you can never judge a teacher by his/her looks. =) anyway we got really high at that point, inclusive of mad cheering, jumping, screaming and hugging. i'm just sad that CSM wasn't spent with 312... and our class lunch supposedly dissolved into thin air?after CSM, had batch lunch and then went to j8 cos there was third lang. (it feels very heartbreaking to part with $10 on just ice-cream) from NY to j8, i listened to my piano piece, and realized Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata is 20 minutes long! and that is if you play really really fast. !!! inferiority always kicks in. third lang was a crazy session as usual, and i really do treasure these times of madness. i love our third lang ppl, we are UBERcrazy! we should really put our stuff on youtube! i really think we need some kind of control, cos we're very slack in third lang. but the thing is, cos we all have alot of interest in jap, so we really listen and apply during lessons. =))finished my A-lit essay, FINALLY! i dun really love MND, i would prefer individual passages actually, cos MND is just too broad and long for nice deep analysis. left with bio 5.2 and abit of math! i'm gna make full use of my public holiday tmr and CHIONG out everything. =) and i should really start on my CLEP and AMES if i don't wanna spend my time in japan doing hw. WOOHOO. i love CSM, CSS batchmates and third lang!
highness does not last for long, but it's these kind of days that you treasure the most.
chiongchiongchiong!
shiyun.
Monday, April 28, 2008
10:44 PM
i officially don't like my life, as to now.THANKYOU.i'm looking for the garden that brushed past my childhood, not knowing that i'm still in that garden, but it is just that, i don't see it as a garden anymore. RARH.i was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if i just be someone mediocre, someone average, someone who achieves not many things but accomplishes small tasks, someone whom nobody views with deliberate (or not) expectations, someone who basks in the natural sunshine rather than in the spotlight?wouldn't it be nice if the world was just made of Cadbury chocolate.the feeling which you get from eating really starchy food again and again, sick, and a dull discomfort. what a nice pessimistic post. to God my father, these are my burdens, surrended. shiyun.
Friday, April 25, 2008
11:50 PM
term2 sucks. my jun hols are gna be TIGHT. cos there's THREE weeks jap immersion and council camp. i think overall, i'm left with less than a week to chiong everything. and everything includes like 2-3 SIAs, AMES, CLEP story, and more stuff that the school will probably throw at us. anyway, chem SPA today was... okay. just that i didn't test for gas for the solution S. cos i think i couldn't be bothered to. and uh, i guess it was okay. 3 years and screwing all my SPAs, i think this one was fairly ok. went to watch debate finals with estee and sandy! NY vs RI. and NJC vs. HCI. well, sad to say that RI won the thing, but i kind of predicted it cos they were really not bad. if i was a third person i would probably side with RI, but then... anyway NY jiayou!i'm lacking jap shows... nice ones. -.- i miss nodame cantabile. and i wanna watch zettai kareshi (absolute boyfriend!) but the whole thing is not out yet. it's gna air until june. and i dun like waiting. oh well. iwantcheesecake.shiyun.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
7:37 PM
i've been "feeling like" doing some things recently, for some apparent reason. 1) i feel like playing my piano all the time. REASON? i dunno. maybe it's because of church choir. maybe i'm kind of feeling the pressure to play WELL. hmm. i like it though, its just that i screw up alot of times, bah. and usually its quite unnoticeable cos everyone sings really LOUDLY the piano is kind of drowned out. or maybe, its too much of nodame cantabile. and with that i wanna say I LOVE YOU CHIAKI KUN! and nodame is SO retardedly cute! ohmigosh i love the part where he hugged her near the sea at sunset. so romantic! back to topic, maybe their overly pro playing of the piano has influenced me in some way. so, i suppose its good that i still harbour interest in my piano, even though i don't think i'm talented in it, and for some reason i survived EIGHT grades, working towards diploma, still can't sightread properly, still stumbling over my notes, probably sounding worse than a sixth grader, but still... playing on. 2) i feel like blogging alotalotalot. and i don't know why as well. okay, maybe too many things not said in my head... ?3) i feel like going shopping! i wanna replace my old and SHORT clothes. bad thing if you're tall. everything's like short. and i need nice shorts, those that are casual and you can go out in. i either have really those home-ish shorts, FBTs or long pants. -.- anyway, (i think i rant alot, contrary to my usual public self, i RANT ALOT)ANYWAY, finally chem SIA experiment is OVER. i hereby conclude that jam tastes weird with gelatin. its best with just fruits and sugar. =) and zephyr tried to make JELLY out of it, but it uh kind of turned out weird. ohwell, its an experiment anyway. i finished that stupid baohuludemimi movie review! i got sick typing baohulu. -.-i'm left with disgusting chinese compo. rice prices going up blahblahblah. i still got to emphasise my thoughts that i really really HATE such compos. composition is from the word "compose" which means to PRODUCE something, and not copy from newspapers. =D chemSPA tmr. too bad i missed the last chem lesson! =( i was choreographing at m4. NAPFA 2.4km. bad... i don't like my timing... i got a stomachache since the 3rd round! =(( lesson learnt, empty your bowels before a strenuous run. i must jiayou for 5 items. standing broad jump shiyun, pls jump further. i have big problems passing that!CLUB JACKET! yayay! although its like BIG and baggy and makes ppl look fat. but its still a club jacket and everyone in the club has it! =)) i will contemplate whether i wanna wear it over an already baggy council shirt. okay, calls from the living room for dinner.shiyun.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
10:48 PM
SCARLET!!! pictures first. =)) too bad my camera died on me, cos it was not charged! -.- but still managed to take some... oh well. send me if you have, ppl!
delena + bimbosteph! =)
Steph + helin. helin looks so cute here! ^^
hyo lim's curled hair. zephyr wanted to take this cos she DID it. okay, this is evidence that our dear zephyr is a very very gd hairstylist. (give her the credit she wants =) amanda looks very comfortable there.
hyolim + me! and melanie is trying to catch unwanted attention back there. LOL!
so, Scarlet is finally over and i gotta say although this is considered quite a SMALL performance, it was still big enough to give me post-performance blues. and audience was pretty good that night! it was definitely more that 50! yayay! hyolim amanda rachel and i were like peering earnestly from the second level... many many teachers, NY ppl. =)) audience response was not bad i would say, just that they didn't really know how to move until the last parts. and when i came down for my scene and walked to the grass patch, no one moved away! -.- and there we were, standing at the grass patch IN the audience and i was like thinking how we're gna continue the scene. and i could see lingo smiling at me, cheryl jessica... and they were like "shiyun!" but i couldn't respond could i? haha, but overall it was NICENICENICE! the rose petals were prettyyyy!
at the end of it they popped sparkling juice and then everybody had a share of it! and atmosphere was so high!! teachers came up to say some high stuff, and then one by one we popped the champagne. highhighhigh.=)
A BIG THANKYOU TO:
203ers:
amelia, lingo, tabby!
312!:
cheryl, jessica, sylvia, chongmin, loyee, ysabel, lanxin, sandy, yilin!
TCN seniors! batch 06 (yiming) and 07! [i've learnt that dear vanessa has become bimbo!]
AV (although i don't know your names, thankyou yall put in alot for this!)
and lastly, my DEAR THEATRE CLUB MATES! ^^ 1st instalment--down! batchmates, we'll definitely have a chance to take our batch photo, WITHOUT being disrupted. =)
this is NOT IT. i mean there is still more to come. so... i guess we'll be seeing scarlet for the next few months!
(i learnt that dressing up and make up takes really really long... and fake eyelashes are somewhat gross, and jumping around in the mud isn't a very happy thing to do, and that there's actually such thing as a temporary hair straigtener and curler(ok i'm quite dumb). i'm amazed how real models can actually sit for 5-8h just to get that few minutes or hours of glamour on the runway. WOW.)
SCARLET!
shiyun.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
10:25 PM
i lived through 11h on one peanut butter waffle. -.- on fried food day some more. typical stereotypical predictable days are so easy to come by. GREAT. i forgot to hand in my bio quiz. what, marks are gna be slashed into half?! and i spent my precious sleeping hours doing it!!! teachers LOVE slashing marks, like somehow, a "minus" sign seems to be easier to write than a "plus" sign. tell me the rationale behind minusing FIVE whole marks for not writing THE TITLE. ohh yeah right, the REALLY IMPORTANT TITLE. i am so so so pissed with that certain someone. there is no reason behind this?! its absurd, stupid and more ridiculous than the Chinaman in "thrillers". LA: got back compre results. i don't do very well for compre usually, so the mark i got was OKAY. i suppose. A-LIT: time trial. just crapped out 2 1/2 pages in one hour. i think i repeated points and stuff... but nvm i'll just see how much sense ms birchwood can make out of my crappings. MATH: alpha and beta just makes our life more complicated. as if A and B is not enough. but, ok, i have come to a point where i really need to listen, process and apply. not like how i just rush through all the examples, get the answers and be happy. CHINESE: as usual a wasted lesson. supposed to read how many freaking pages of ya zhou zhou kan and newspapers on rice inflation and olympics stuff and do a COMPO on it. give me a shu qing wen anytime, i'll do it gladly (and nicely!) for you!
LUNCH: bought my one and only precious WAFFLE, had a few bites, went up to M4 for CCA stuff, then went back to class, had a few more bites, and then went for bio lab. -.-
BIO: nth special... realized there is SPA next wk. how last minute. i can't do SPA! something always screws up suddenly.
CCA: spent bulk of time dressing up doing hair makeup +++ we only had ONE rehearsal. -.- and we're gna do that again tmr... on friday too.
i can sleep anywhere nowadays. like on the benches, in front of the comp... i am so deprived...
2.4 tmr! just pray i don't get sick or some weird morning nauseating stuff. and i just wanna get a C, thats all. sleep early tonight.
TWOTWOTWO days to scarlet!
shiyun.
2:43 AM
whoots. shiyun is still alive and kicking at this obscene hour. ok maybe not kicking... i am.being.tempted.to.sleep.gdnight.shiyun.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
6:17 PM
HELLO! this wkend is a much better one compared to last week, which is not necessary to bring it up again.STRINGS CONCERTmet up with cheryl, estee, jessica at coro for dinner and flowers first before heading to school! and my dear estee got so scared over TAPPING HER EZ-LINK CARD. well, what do you expect from someone who hardly takes the bus?! you know, i believe the sensor of the tapping system is sensitive enough to pick up your ezlink card so there's no need to be so afraid of it not being able to read yr card or anything! but ohwell, it's estee, so i'll let it pass... =)anw, went to NY audi, met with loyee chongmin, yilin, lanxin... with chenying and wanting upstairs doing AV. like a mini 312 reunion! haha. strings concert was not bad, considering it was solo performances, so the impact is not AS great. but the last performance was SO cool it was jaw-dropping! it's the kind of performance that makes you go "oh-my-goshhhhhhh" and almost makes you hate the person up there. whoever that is, I SALUTE YOU! okay, during intermission we went to give ysabel flowers, who alr obviously was showered with love and all... haha. i'm so proud of my lab partner! =) she had this super big softtoy from her parents which made everyone kind of envious that ysabel, you have the perfect family! and a cute grandma too!after the concert, cheryl estee jessica chongmin and wanting and i went to "the place opp beauty world" for supper! and throughout the whole journey we were kind of stalking yingci... ok maybe only estee. poor yingchee! so we went to this noodle shop, got drinks and food and sat down to TALK. right, so talking isn't it. haha. but it was nice "bonding" or crapping session, we couldn't get enough of it. wanting and chongmin have cute parents!!! =D so it was a nice break i would say. =D my life is back! although not for long.TODAYi was out for almost the whole day today... boo. after watching a whole lot of pro ppl play yesterday, i realized my piano is BADBADBAD. oh goshh. prac more prac more! i dun really have a big flair for anything... i just moderately know how to do quite alot of things. scoured thomson nurseries for bio SIA potted plants and artificial flowers. FOUND THEM! =)which reminds me i need balloons as well. came back and spent the next hour eating nian gao and reading newspapers (the lifestyle section of course!)irritating stuff currently weighing extra pounds on my mind:-chemSPA. if the prac is smth very free and asks you to do your own experiment, i can be prepared to fail. which is quite common cos i do not do well in practicals. -JAPsakubun test. this will die as well. =) i will use really simple and safe sentences.-CLSIA. irritatingirritatingirritating!!!-Chinatownthing. i dun care. its just oral marks right-math. i looked at the questions and shut off immediately. blahh. i need to have a nice summary of my hw every now and then if not i lose track. just like how i really dun like it when science tchers jump from one place to another when they're teaching and i don't know how to write my notes. in the end i squeeze notes everywhere and they become very messy and i lose interest. stuff like bio and chem and math, CANNOT have discussion style lessons. i won't understand anything at all. but LA LIT and IH is a diff story. okayokay. i'm at a loss of what to do next. 5days to SCARLET!shiyun.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
12:36 PM
SATURDAY! thank God for no CCA, and i had the privilege to sleep in till 9+. I MISS SLEEP! i think i slept altogether 11+ hours. =) which is like probably, 2 normal days of sleep added together. anyway, friday was slack-ish. no maths, no chinese. =) and we only had LA, IH and PCCG. yayay. i like it when tchers decide to kind of abandon us in class alone. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS WEEK TO BE OVER. =DCCAwatched sec1 performance. not bad for a first performance, considering the fact that their batch put up a show by THEMSELVES. like i don't think our batch ever had that kind of privilege. they're pretty cute, i would say. but i'm hoping they would soon join the rest of us after their performance cos we're always split up! which makes bonding hard you know. back to scarlet. firstly, the halter top dress looked really cheap, and bad, i don't understand how it would be appropriate for a model. ? but we have to SACRIFICE FOR OUR ART right, quoting tang... oh well, me and amanda were like complaining upstairs while waiting for our scene. i actually quite like Scarlet, which means the 3 women scene and the classy music and the atmosphere and all, but "when you're immersed in some really emo-ish or classy mood, you have to go up and give a super fake smile and pose" it spoils the atmosphere!!! but anw, i shan't spoil it for others. CYNTHIA YOU MAKE SUCH A SHUAI GUY!! <3
YINGCI YOU MAKE SUCH A GAY GUY!! xDi never believed cynthia would ever be a guy. well, now i do. and so we stayed up till 8, and i gotta say when the sky was dark and the lights came on it was really pretty. so i would say the music and lights make the show. i'll probably get alot of laughing for my scene. -.- OFF CCA now, i'm still thinking what to choose for sabbats. i'm quite glad they have this random scheme thing, so no one will flood the com labs or have this super paranoid state. but, i really don't like prioritizing choices. ohwelll...THINGS TO DO THIS WKEND:get logistics stuff--raffia string + artificial flowers
get bio SIA stuff--9 balsam seedlings
study chem qualitative analysis--the one that i have to keep referring to cos i can't memorize! and i don't fully understand it either
study IH--ok read thru at least, luckily its open book
study JAP compo--can't really study actually, BUT my sakubun is reallly bad...
CHINESE SIA--we are dead. thankyou.
chinatown prj--we are not THAT dead but still bad...
booo....
i really hate it when you know ppl just come in, and NAG. they don't say anything else. they open the door and the first kind of ppl, they come in and not even a "hello" and start nagging. the second kind, they come in EVERY MINUTE and nag. the third kind of person, they sit down and NAG for whoknows how long.
can't ppl just have a normal conversation?
STRINGS CONCERT!
shiyun.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
12:29 AM
i shall sum up my day, which isn't really very interesting to read, but... oh well, what's a blog for.MORNING: came to school, dropped my bag in class, rushed to GO, chopped posters, got CD, found ppl to help me paste posters, pasted posters, rushed for assembly. all this - in half an hour. it seems like every second is valuable now. LA LECTURE: our class ppl got this canon guy came to talk abt photography today, which i thought it was quite cool (well at least his ppt were all pics and no words) at first he wasn't in the LT yet then natalee went up to introduce him and then there was this other guy there so we greeted the wrong guy! haha. he was like "erm i'm not jino, he's not here yet" very sheepishly. and ah, although i didn't really understand camera terms, pictures were nice though. we came up with amazingly intelligent questions =)) much to the tchers' amazement. well, until Jingzhi asked where to get some (i dunno) camera and the person said "penninsular" and she went "ISIT IN MALAYSIA??" then the guy was like -.- "its at city hall, looks like you don't travel often". and the whole lecture theatre burst out laughing. jingzhi, you rock at such stuff.A-LIT: MND again and again... nth much.RECESS: mad rush again. haha. set up booth, settled music, blew (and tied) lots of balloons. MATH: graphsgraphsgraphs. no comments.CHINESE: spent one hour stoning. he spent one hour talking. we spent one hour doing nothing.LUNCH: more balloons sold! grabbed chewy junior's from band at the last minute. yay we should have these kind of things more often.BIO: the whole class was super super dead during the first half. it was amazingly and scaringly quiet. even mrs lai came in and was like "WOW your class is really quiet when the tcher is not here huh." well, what do you expect, when firstly, its after lunch, and secondly, almost everyone failed bio ws. but after that things got better. it just takes someone to say smth crazy and the whole class awakens. well, i still think bio is relatively fun, if u wanna compare to other subjects...THIRDLANG: normal stuff. but jap is always more relaxed than school, and there's always craziness in class. we shall go japan and speak really flowery english in this american accent, chinese in the china way, and go there and speak nonsense jap. =) we shall try that in harajuku xD. HOME: tried my very best to do chemws, but realized i didn't understand a single thing, I REALLY DON'T! so i fell asleep all the way until 853. i wasted time away again... tons and tons of projects are waiting for me, deadlines are all on the same time, assgn, SPA, tests... care to tell me the rationale behind this? if you realize, it should be given in small tasks one at a time so that, according to the surface area to volume ratio theory, we can absorp better. i hate this word called SIA. it is evil, pure evil.and i'm sleeping late every night!!! >< SAP seminar tmr, wellll... i think this time should be better used for like project discussions, or sleep.shiyun.
Monday, April 07, 2008
11:42 PM
have been stressed out all weekend. one of the worst ever. have you ever gotten this sickening dull pain that is constantly weighing like a thousand pounds in your mind that you can't get rid of? and because of that i've been looking at food with no appetite, but rest assured i still eat, and i have been neglecting my bed and rest. so, maybe, i'm just one who is more paranoid than others. according to sec2 DISC test, people see me as an I-S, i think i'm an I-S, but when i'm under stress i'm an I-S-C. that C, pessimistic, pays extra attention to details and somewhat introverted. like how i don't like to talk to ppl when i'm stressed and i'm just thinking abt work work work everytime. eew, nonono i don't like C i must go back to my I-S self, which i perceive as the best combi to have! of course, i know i'm never a D. i can never be a D. okay, what am i doing, analyzing my stupid self.anyway, school passed in a blur today, probably cos i was to caught up with IFD. chem: read qualitative analysis PLEASE cos i can't rmb a single thing. A-lit: whee more comedies to read! Bill Bryson and his American food fad. or Odgen Nash and his literal metaphors.Maths: was too stressed up to really listen. tmr coord geom quiz. die. luckily its open book, and luckily i did the ws today.Assembly: not too bad this time. teachers were hilarious. hmp mini concert was, again, making me inferior to my nondescript piano skills, the juggler was just amazing (it took my mind off IFD for a while)3rd lang: normal normal normal.realised there is compo test next monday!!! and test on 28th April. my sakubun is gna dieeee!i'm quite happy that at least me skipping tll today was worth it. at least, i'm not feeling too bad now. at least, i'm crapping and thats a gd sign. but still, the real thing is not until tmr onwards so i will がんばってね! 絶対できるよ!信じて!self motivation is key.a little publicity here: Theatre Club presentsSCARLET 1st installment18th April, 1900@ NY eco pondF-O-C! of cos there's limited number of audience cos its only... well, ecopond. so COME and see for the first time, an outdoor performance at night. try smth out of the audi shall we? jiayoujiayoujiayou.shiyun.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
5:58 PM
The seashell sits, on the bed of soft sand along with his many other siblings. The sea, the wind, the sand, they were all part of their home, part of a picture they see every day. Every day, the sea would cry out its majestic song, its waves conducting the orchestra by shifting and engulfing the sand in a four-part rhythm. "Swoosh... (two three four) Swoosh... (two three four)" it patted, a rhythm repeated over and over again, for a song sung by the sea, accompanied by the wind. It was often a lovely sound that resonated, and the shells sung along with it. They made sure this song was entrapped, kept within their hollow bodies, so that they themselves may be able to sing that song forever. A trance, that has bewitched them. A song, that has kept them singing for the past lifetime. And they were glad to be just, on the sand, bathing in the sun and sea, resonating that one song. They were even more overjoyed when people took them home, and they would play that song in his ear over and over again. The seashells were a little remnant from the sea, a little something that, when you put your ear near its hollow opening, you hear the sea. You hear the seashell singing a song that was originally sung by the sea. The sea, the sea, it is majestic, it is magnificent. It is a limitless body that lets you gaze at its greatness; it composes awe-inspiring songs that fall ever so awesome, so breathtaking, on the ear. We stand in awe at its boundlessness and we say "How beautiful, how amazing, how WONDERFULLY created!" Maybe, and maybe that is the reason, why seashells want to sound like the sea. At least, they yearn to contain a fraction of that wonder. And maybe that is why they are not any shells, but seashells. Now that seashell, that one right at the very beginning, was just like everyone else. He kept the song of the sea tight within his little body and he sang with them as well. But he was starting to ponder on why seashells were seashells and why they had to sound like the sea. People say that is what makes a seashell precious, because they are then able to bring a part of the sea home. He looked around him, the sand, the wind, the creatures... the sea. He realized he was part of a picture, a picture that people had admired for years.A picture, was it only two dimensional? A seashell, was it meant to be only a shallow being?He struggled to keep out the songs of the sea, but it was too hypnotizing, it was too strong for him to resist. For this was what seashells have been doing since the start of the world, and they never stopped. He did not want to sing like the sea, he wanted to compose his own songs. He battled with his soul, yet seashells did not have souls. He wanted to be his own shell, not a symbol of anything, but a shell unique to its own. He struggled hard, and then he sat back in the sand, singing the song of the sea once more.Seashells, they are hollow inside. They are non-living creatures that are meant to be homes for other living creatures. They are discarded, and then used again. They fall into the sand, and are picked up again by people. There are many to be discovered, pretty in their coloured coats, exquisite in their slender twist of the body. They are kept as a collection, accepted by creatures around them, praised for their beauty. But they still remain a seashell, an empty, hollow shell that sings the song of the sea, over and over and over again.
Friday, April 04, 2008
12:30 AM
i'll be keeping my head above the waters, no matter how stormy the sea is. If it knocks me off over and over again, i'll keep standing up.everything is a whirl around me, the menacing sea, the blinding rain, the foggy clouds.and i try to remain a clear mind. i'll keep trying, and i'll steer my boat, i'll make sure it touches shore safely. it's weighing on my mind, it's a involuntary, nagging pain. i'm struggling to keep above the waters, i'mgasping for dear oxygen. keep holding on becausewith Christ in the vessel we can smile at the storm.shiyun.
herbasics
shiyun
14 going on 15
30.09.93
NYGH
DOES:
theatre
english literature
JAPANESE
ADORES:
foreign languages
creative writing
cheesecake!
online dramas
roller coasters
singing for the love of it
music
PEEVES:
disorganized notes
long-winded people
noise early in the morning
alot of homework ALL AT ONCE
too much pressure
WANTS TO CHANGE:
procrastination
being late all the time
wishes
striving for these
- to LOVE my life
- step back, relax and break rules from time to time (IF POSSIBLE)
- keep very close to GOD
- master the Japanese language, then learn at least 1 or 2 more
- to master my piano skills, at least match up to a reasonable standard?
- attend vocal courses (:
- learn the drums
- to be more hospitable
- exercise more!