rgssbee batch 2003

2010-10-31T17:02:00.001+08:00

i know you guys will love this, so i'm posting the link here!!

http://inbflat.net/

(actually, when i click play, i hear G. My brain still thinks I play alto clarinet -.- )

2010-10-06T19:56:00.002+08:00

WRONG. actually the last time we met up was at banana leaf apolo at racecourse road (=
and also, i'm in the uk, shunling is in uk, huichong is in japan?, isabel is in america, iris is in australia, liurui will be in the uk soon but for 2months only.. is that it?

i watched the les mis 25th anniversary concert at the o2 stadium over the weekend. it was incredible! the moment the first chord opened i was like OMG. and the horns (and sometimes the trombones) were the best ones i have ever heard in my life (maybe comparable to the studio ghibli concert at budokan, but they had something like 10horns, whereas les mis had 5-6?) i tell you the entire orchestra was just a surfer riding on the massive tsunami-like wave that were the horns. the oboe solos were also dam dam nice (altho at one point i swear he was just quivering on going flat). they changed the orchestration for the concert so it was a bit odd, like too much of the melody was being carried on the harp i felt, and no windchimes for on my own was like a big hole! but you can get used to it i suppose. and i guess also cos normally the pit orchestra doesn't have much, so now they zenged the bass parts and i think maybe the cellos and double basses couldn't really keep up with the intensity, or maybe cos i was sitting in the nosebleed section the acoustics weren't that great. but it was amazing anyway! when they started do you hear the people sing i just kept thinking of all of you guys (= and marching in the sun and all that. (= i'm going to get the dvd so at our next gathering we can watch (=

2010-10-06T18:03:00.002+08:00

OMFG. this blog is so defunct x.x
the last post was mine and that was (very)nearly a year ago! ow.

we don't meet so much nowadays I guess. nic's still in the UK. but the rest of us are in Singapore right? RIGHT?

to recap, last we met, if i recall correctly, was when nic dated me to butterfactory though she didn't attend. and we were all at raffles city. ate at the sushi tei there. at a lovely private cornerish place with fake curtainy things. and we ssampled mooncakes. much.

we should meet up.
AND revive the blog.

2009-11-17T05:31:00.002+08:00

woooooooooooooooooooooot~

I miss you guys :( Reading all the old posts :) And laughing at hy's new post. What? Have we all become aunties already? :) Hahas.

Wanted to post the other day. Cos I dreamt of the rg band peeps. All in Europe. Haha. In a snowy kind of place. Guess we were holidaying or something. And it was like kind of an adventure climb or something. Cos we were all clambering over some rocks covered with snow. And as usual, the sporty and brave people like Rui and Inez are like shooting ahead, and disappearing into the white wilderness. And like me and most of the gang (HAHA) were like panting and trying to get ahead. And then trying to call them (the people ahead) back cos we found a shelter for the night and didn't want to go further HAHA! Well weird dream but quite cool.

I am doing my dissertation. I'm such a boring geek these days. All I talk about or do is my dissertation. Lala~ Went to London for the Halloween weekend. Londoners are so not adventurous about costumes. Bleh~ And went to watch Avenue Q cos Wicked (which I thought was a great Halloween thing to catch) was full. It's so funny. Haha. I just laughed and laughed. I don't know if there's a youtube thingy or whatever. But go watch it. It's quite cynical and yet hilarious. I do think it's the kind of thing we like x.x (Do tell me if I'm wrong)It's about how screwed up life is basically. And quite true it is. Maybe that's why it's funny. There are some explicit muppet sex scenes (which I found highly disturbing) and quite a bit of vulgarity. But it's all in good fun. I do recommend it if anyone's bored and sick of life. It makes you see the funny side of things :)

Well - before I write a bloody long essay - tata~

2009-08-29T21:58:00.001+08:00

while i was looking at the menu in front of some food stall today, a primary school kid came up to me and asked: "auntie, are you in the queue?"

kids need to be more educated nowadays!

2009-07-17T13:03:00.002+08:00

hey! i'm home early today. lessons end 2hrs early on fridays. so we dont have to go back after lunch. so i decided to blog (when i saw cin's post yesterday, so dont gloat)

first things first, i nv go travelling with them because.. they didnt wanna travel last weekend. and wanted to go to the mall.. which was kind of boring.. because i'd been there many times. and i didnt really wanna go to the mall just to take purikuras anyway. so i went to this place called inuyama. and it was really small. but nice. only i was on my own and didnt have much time to stop pple to take photos for me.. so its just pics of the scenery. snap and go kind. but as cin knows. i like to have people in my photos. so that was abit.. regretful. it was really tiring though. left house at 8am and returned at about 9pm. popped by nagoya on the way home to grab a hrc pin for my father..

this wk they're off to kyoto for the gion matsuri. but i'm not going because there will be too many people i think. may be off to matsumoto. but its kinda far and i'm feeling lazy. but i know that if i dont. then i most probably would not. so.. it'll be a super expensive trip as well. maybe next week we'll do something as a house, like make a date to go eat the giant parfait or something.

caught the gokusen movie though! didnt understand half of it and it was rather expensive.. but it was fun just watching a movie that had just come out and stuff. besides, the storyline is always similar.. so cant really go wrong. it was fun.. 4 of us watched it in all =)

and how was badminton today then? i hope you all ache alot after that hehhheh. but it also shows that you had a good workout =)

and i dont forget you guys whilst travelling. keep thinking that.. so and so will like this. i wanna show this to.. whoever. kind of thing. but travelling alone's really nice as well. and i've managed to get by with very mediocre japanese.

good job on the research! how was the concert? i miss mr oura =(
no more band, no more mr oura as well.. i miss my trumpet too..

you guys shld have bought him ferrero rocher for the concert! only i doubt you'd have gotten to see him..

ehh which korean guy were you drooling at? i dont like the korean hyd guy too. but i'm not sorry :p nahh. kidding.

and today.. well. it was a long story. i kind of feel bad.. so i'm going to write it here. our blog should really be locked. i dont think anyone will find it.. but hrmmms. dangerous.

so to cut a long story short. i've been having lessons from 9am to 240 in the afternoon with a 50 min lunch break. then i had private lessons. computer sessions 3x a week where you do exercises on the computer and the tcher corrects them. and then i was super bored at computer sessions so i changed it to private lessons 3x a week (more expensive) so frm this week i'll have lessons til 340 3x a week.

my private teachers are damn cool! the woman teacher has family in singapore. and shes like.. really nice. she gets amused easily.. i get scared when she starts laughing at what i say.. haha. the male teacher is even cooler! haha. cause he asked what i wanted to do.. like particles/conversation and stuff during private lessons.. and like.. various questions. and then i brought up the fact that my housemates and i watched some variety show together..and went for the gokusen movie.. and he was like.. thats good. pls try to watch some everyday! hahahah. i mean, its gd to learn this way and its common sense.. but the way he said it was really funny..

i dont know if i told you guys that i got placed in a class lower than my abilities. so i was like really bored for the first week. they kept emphasizing that this is a conversation class and that my abilities were kinda below par.. which is kinda true. but after warming up for a few days. i requested another placement test to move up. thats esp because the book that they use is the same and that the materials are similar so its like really really repetitive and boring. and like.. motivation was slowly seeping away from me.

geee. so i kinda did pretty ok on the test. or so i thought. and i asked around and supposedly i shld have been able to move up. so today when i looked at the class allocation lists (that are changed every friday) i was not able to jump levels. i was in the same class albeit halved because the others didnt do well on their test (which was different from the placement test that i took) so it was just essentially the same class with people that are able to progress to the next part of the curriculum. theres a test weekly to see if they can continue with the syllabus for you, if not you have to repeat it for a week. and theres a huge test once every 2 weeks to see if you can switch classes or move up to the next level.

so they told me the next class didnt have vacancy and i cldnt move. and i swear you cld almost see steam emanating from my head for at least an hour. whilst the teacher was talking i was like.. concentrate, concentrate, concentrate! and i was just so pissed off. was thinking like.. did you give me the test just to placate me knowing that i cannot move up.

the people are here for varying periods of time and commence study differently. so its like. every thursday.. the program ends for a number of people, and pple leave, so there should be vacancies opened up. so i didnt understand why no vacancy in the next class. so i was fuming and i think my housemates were shocked that.. tm cld be so.. i dont know.

because theres this jap major in my class who is also my housemate, and she is better than me at jap.. learnt it for 2 years, but she didnt do v well on the written test. so she accepted that she couldnt move up. and i just.. couldnt accept it. because i think i got the requisite marks from both the written and spoken tests, and no vacancy is not a valid excuse. esp if you keep advertising the fact that if there is too many people in the class, they usually will try to split it up and then keep class sizes small. if you make the claim, then you'd better substantiate it, was what i thought.

so i went to see the teacher in charge of the program and he said ok. see me after lessons end for the day and i'll ask the teacher of the next class to interview you to see if you can move up. and thank goodness for me, the teacher is a nice one.. from what i heard, and i think it kinda facilitated me moving up. so i start a new class on monday! and from there on, it'll be difficult and challenging cause things will be moving much faster than usual. and i'll have to read to catch up. but its definitely something i look forward to.

but at the same time i feel bad, because they did it in a really nice way.. and i was just like.. super bummed out from it i guess they could tell. like your motivation sinks lower than it already was. at that point in time, i kinda understood why this guy in my class (who left yesterday) kept skipping class. i was so bummed out i just wanted to walk out of class immediately. well, its just me and my violent tendencies and emotions at work again -shrugs-

so. i think. us rggirls are maybe a little aggressive huh.

so thats the end of my story. teacher was like. dont pull a long face all the time, i understand where are you coming from and i dont doubt ur abilities but this is a conversational course and not academic. implying that well the chapter you're at doesn't really matter.

and i swaer i never pull long face all the time. AND i was just thinking that its no use practising slowly things that you've learnt and practiced before if the context and the stuff you learn and practice are the same.. like you dont get ahead. esp if you dont have enough vocab. so yeah. was emo about it. but then in the end i cldnt express my gratitude to them for allowing me to move up either becasue.. well. i asked it was ok for me to speak in english. and the tcher expresseedly said cannot beacuse this is a jap sch even though they all understand english perfectly fine and speak the language perfectly. they hardly let us catch them speaking english or give us the option of speaking english because it is a jap sch.. unless you need help from the international office that is -.-

so i have come here to rant. and i'm sorry this is like my personal blog. the posts are long winded. eeeeeps.

2009-07-16T23:56:00.002+08:00

i told u it was my blog haha~

cl, nic and i playing badminton at sengkang tomorrow 4-6pm. (just to show off how fit we are)

i just want to say
MR OURA IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!
he makes me want to join band. haha~
i need to start a mr oura fan club.
i bet mr. oura misses our ferrero rocher.

2009-07-15T14:24:00.003+08:00

omg tm! i'm so glad u're doing so well. and i -for once- have been going on msn VERY often but i NEVER see u. like never. like never never. (don't tell me it's the time difference haha). and i'm glad u've found many friends and that your housemates are so friendly - why you never go travelling with them - surely they'll like to see the city more. and it'll be fun to go watch gokusen the movie with them cos at least u won't be the only one strugglign to understand. i totally cannot make it watching without subtitles. it's like when they come to the emoemo part where the people have soliloquyss (OMG I CANT SPELL IT) have long thoughtful thingies or when they have lengthy explanations about how the victim was killed i totally give up.

and i am keeping up the weekly badminton thing. i'm SOOOOOO proud of myself (for organizing somethingg and for keeping fit). woohooo~ we're going this fri afternoon - and tm, we'll think of you! hahaa~ don't forget us while travelling HOR.

and the research. i am doing today! yay! after like 2 weeks' break =( i know i'm very lazy. i felt so lazy yesterday and guilty and stressed out. so today i woke up early (as in like 9.30am + some snoooze time) to study. except i ended up watching some drama while eating breakfast and googling the handsome (actually not handsome but i like him nonethelesss and i'm not going to say who cos everyone's gonna laugh at me GRRR like i laugh at hy for liking the koreann hana yori dango boy - i'm evil, sorry hy) boy. and then i started work at 11am, but i've been chatting to cl and lynette on msn and uhh googling from time to time. but i'm nearly done with my 15th pg. except i'm not going to make it on time to finish the book AND vacuum and mop the floor AND iron all the clothes AND shower and get ready for the concert tonight x.x so exciting. i can just imagine all the feelings flooding back. of the smell in the esplanade. of the music. except this time i won't be sitting amidst the instruments and in front of our beloved mr. oura. this time i'll be sitting comfortably(?) in the audience, one of those anonymous faces i've always wondered at while sitting on the stage in the first few tense moments before getting lost in the musicccc~

and tm, no way is this going to be YOUR personal blog. more like OUR personal blog ok. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

2009-07-10T19:24:00.003+08:00

hey pple -waves- i'm still alive!

so very sorry. it's been almost 4 days.. was gonna blog but various things just ate up my time. and cin.. i'm so sorry that you were scolded cause you went home late!

anyway. i'm ok! i miss you guys too.. greatly. this summer was so short. and i dont know. i'm still adapting to life here. the pple are friendly and the accomodation is nice. there are 11 rooms in the house, previously only 4 pple lived here. then this whole new batch of us came in and we have like what.. 9 i think.

the first few days.. dinners were 4 hour affairs where we just ate sushi/cooked at home and sat at the dining table and talked. that's why my nights have been so happening i havent posted! then i come online to talk to pple. and die early in the morn. i was fine the whole of today despite sleeping late last night, and erms. just flopped onto the bed to nap at 6pm. thank goodness fridays are shorter sch days.. i've private lessons so i end an hr later everyday. but all's well i hope. my placement is pretty much lower than i hoped. but i cant complain because my housemate who knows like more terms and such as me got placed in the same conversation class -.- anyway.. just had dinner :)

so how was badminton? i miss badminton playing. at least i can pretend to feel fit. been doing alot of walking around here. but i havent taken pictures of the town. nothing much really. just a really quaint and quiet one. havent visited the local sights apart from this huge mall like 30min away from where we stay. its not like we shop much cause the stuff are so expensive.

i've been pretty confused lately. and its like cultural differences at work. plus i think i'm almost at the time where i'm supposed to be emo. so i have no idea. today was teh first day of sch following the placement test and orientation. i realised i could have left singapore tuesday night instead. but at least i had time to get used to teh place, shop for stuff and like settle in with the housemates..

but being the only asian here is weird (a little) because its cultural differences. but yeah. i was so glad when this long term study taiwanese girl came back frm her little summer break yesterday. she can understand eng, but cant speak much.. so i've been practising chinese with her :) and shes like really really hospitable. we've been shoving each other milk tea from our secret stashes. haha.

i see you're keeping fit cin! good job.. how's the research going? -winks-

i think i'm travelling tomorrow. alone. i still dont understand what pple are saying but from what i heard, the transport's ok. as in relatively convenient. so i shld do it. instead of not. i wish to know more abt the city and the surroundings rather than go to the same few places everyday. which have pretty much been the case actually.

and you know what. not only guys make vulgar jokes.

and we're potentially the bitchiest girls around because we wont accept anything less than an rg girl =p

i've ranted on and on. and this is ALMOST my personal blog already. i'll post soon, maybe during one of these days when i'm having brekkie and have nothing to do. got homework to do every day.. so it wont be that free. and potentially i'l be watching gokusen the movie at the mall on sunday.. no subtitles and my jap is so bad i wont understand it. hopefully it helps with the learning though.. the story line just cant go wrong i think..

so yeps. talk online to me if you're on msn! i'm online a whole lot more than when i'm back home. in btwn trying to catch live telecasts of some shows on tv in my room, and wasting time doing stupid stuff on the internet and hw.. i hope i'll be free enough :) if i dont waste too much time doing stupid things. time to be more efficient!

take care people

2009-07-09T18:35:00.002+08:00

my darlings~ this blog is dead again. despite tm's promise to write often in nagoya where she supposedly has nothing to do at night. tm, u alright?!!! we miss u. and hy and i (hopefully) are playing badminton tomorrow at yck stadium :) i tried calling the bllooody place since ONE pm.and the lady picked up and said 'telephone bookings start at 2pm' so fine. since 2pm i've been calling at 15 minutes' interval till like 6pm when i've finally reached home after supposedly atttempting to do the tree-top trail except it RAINED so we just ate at a coffeeshop till like now cos i have to come home to eat dinner. heeding hy's advice, i got myself an account at the iBook thingie to book myself a 'sports facility' and managed to book 'Court 1' except i can't 'Pay by Credit Card' cos I don't have one nor is the option 'Pay by Cashcard' valid, so I don't know if that's considered booked x.x Omg i'm so long-winded. Oh well, but hopefully i'll get to play badminton with hy tomorrow and then do the tree-top trail later in the afternoon before dinner with hy and sending iris off at the airport.

IRISSSSSS. i miss iris. and i've met her like twice only so far =( during the very short 'Ants in the Pants????' outing and the rather short ice-skating-turned-bowling outing. i really won't mind ice-skating if we want to do it again. bring gloves and socks! umm and don't go at 12pm or 4pm or 7pm when they are resurfacing the ice. and mann luckily bowling is cheap cos i'm just wasting my money sending the bowl(?!) into the gutter. but meeting everyone was great. and laughing insanely and making lots of noise and cheering each other on felt wonderful. i love girly outings. i hate it when guys get together and make VULGAR jokes that are totally not funny. i mean, think about it, shouldn't the swear-word-fad be over like a few years back?! it's not like i don't swear when things go wrong or the like but swearing every three words is a bit over the board and swearing at girls is just unforgivable. ahh i'm bitching again.

2009-07-07T01:44:00.002+08:00

i don't understand the video post! (though maybe cos i play it at barely audible volume cos it's 1.44am and everyone in my house is asleep and i just pissed off my mom coming home late and don't want to piss her off by waking her again in the middle of the night x.x)
and how come it doesn't say who posted it!

it feels weird being scolded for coming home late when it's only 1am after getting used to returning home at whenever i want in Edinburgh...
i must try to remember to get home early next time -.-

2009-07-01T22:30:00.003+08:00

hello! tsemin asks me to post so i shall. =) and my every post here seems to be a youtube video pimp so this one is no exception XD

Forbidden Colours by David Sylvian & Sakamoto Ryuichi. Hope it makes your world brighter, especially since many of us are worrying about the future~ or you can just laugh at the music video, it's quite lolarious. But i totally want to buy Sylvian's album now (.__. )

... it'll be corny if i say everyone should follow their dreams right?

2009-05-29T14:49:00.002+08:00

i'm back =)
and will be gone soon with huiyan hee!

met up with the band boys and tm, peixi (for a short while :( ) and hy (for a wonderful GSS shopping spreeeee and i bought new shoes for my japan trip. which reminds me hy and i haven't actually planned fully and i'm still worried about getting lost haha but all will be well. i always have the travel jitters the day before. i couldn't sleep last night x.x stayed wide awake till 4am) i digress. it was great seeing hy and tm and peixi (though i didn't get to talk much to peixi :( ) good luck for the exams dearrr~ though i'm sure u'll do perfectly fine - u always do *smiless* i love to shop with hy cos we always buy stuffff! YAY! and talking to tm was great =) there's always so much to talk about.. and it just makes me looooong to see all u girls again :( hopefully i'll be seeing chong in japan (as soon as she replies to my fb msg grrrr)

and i was reading my past posts.. and i was talking about my 'virtual' bf. haha we broke up and i have a new 'virtual' bf (mann i know u guys are thinking - omg she's like how old and she's still thinking about her virtual bf x.x haha! sorrry *duckss cl's rotten eggs*) he's like 17 and he's from the uk x.x (abit too close for comfort) and he's like this gangster who sells fake weed - 4 rolls for a tenner (he sprays grasss that he plucks randomly with disinfectant or something and pretends it's weed) and sells sugar as fake drug x.x and whose buddy got stabbed recently by this 'guy he knows' who fled the country and got dissed by his parents. haha how surreal. this is so irrelevant. =) but at least it's not emo *looks pointedly at tm's essay* =P ok everyone wish hy luckk, her results are coming out in like a min's time =)

2009-05-22T10:48:00.002+08:00

hrmms. i'm back! was thinking if i stayed away til june.. cin can possibly claim the whole of may! it's only one more week to go. anws cin, i think you'll only see this when you're back in singapore.. possibly on the flight home now? sorry, hy mentioned a date.. but i cant rmb exactly when! we'll try to meet at least once before you guys jet off to japan k?

ok i've been mia cause i've been emo-ing (again). and as i told cin, i didnt really want to make this a sad place cause.. well, if you look back to 2006, i think i was whining in here quite alot. or at least that's what i remember doing all the time, when uni just started and adjusting wasnt easy.

i guess for the issue of playing an instrument again, the topic is already closed. i think most wld know by now that i skipped auditions for the competition, and will not be heading to netherlands anymore. and so the jinx of not being able to travel with a band for a competition still continues. haha. i had a choice this time well but chose otherwise, and felt relieved instead.

It gets really frustrating though when people think that you're running away because you're scared. Admittedly, my trumpet playing.. though slightly better, is still nowhere up to par with the others. But there came a point where.. there wasnt anything worth auditioning for, even if i wasnt up to mark. I know the way the above is being phrased sounds very drama, but that was how I truly felt. Now I kind of understand what cl meant when she says that you shldnt be needing to explain things to pple. Somehow it still frustrates. I shant go into the details here, because, whilst our blog was very stagnant, and prolly not read by others not in the know now, it is still a public one, and I should err on the side of caution.

Does cl still read the blog? I think if you read that line, you'd scold me again for taking things out of context.

and yes, cin. the thing about music. i think paula has mentioned it before, we still appreciate it and all, but i guess.. few will perform again. haha. but one thing i will NOT do regularly will be to touch the piano. i guess with the absence of music making, the piano would do. but it is incredibly frustrating to play (for me). you need coordination of both hands, and you're playing by yourself. just different.

and on about caffeine pills, my goodness. i've never heard abt them before. is it just me? -sheepish look- but that's really bad! and yeah cin. i dont know about fessing up. but i think it's good? like we all now, like you put it 'know what you are thinking normally' oh btw, i read abt eurovision in the newspapers awhile back regarding the norwegian winner. but sadly.. been too lazy to open that link.. will do soon k!

on a completely different note, however, just wanted to share that i've officially graduated. exam results came out today. contrary to what i should be feeling, like happy or excited.. i'm just like. okay. wow. i really can't believe that 3 years have passed (though I wldnt wanna stay in sch for another year) this time round, results wise, as with the bloody "A"s, haha. it is bittersweet as well. i bloody got my 2nd lower, so i shant complain. i barely made it through this sem somehow (hy you were wrong about me not completing that last 20marks!) i barely passed that module, which would spell loads of trouble. gee. i really really hope my current/potential employers will not see my results and dismiss me before i even start work :x

so that's all for now. it's been a long entry. and i hope the emo-ness has been watered down. i cant help it. but yeah. that's what i've been thinking normally for now. and abit. haha.
zhun and the rest.. i think you guys are still having exams? in any case, if you do read this, hang in there ok?

meet up with you guys soon.. i really really cant describe how much i'm looking fwd to the golden week :)

2009-05-19T01:37:00.002+08:00

ok i'm lousy at this and i don't know how to link a video -.-
well, watch THISSSS, darlings :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBykhFyy-ZE

despite the rather dodgy ending to the link - it's the VERY newest song that ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER has composed together with DIANE WARREN for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 PLUS in the finals, both the singer (Jade Ewen) and ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER performed - he played the piano *swooooons* and i have fallen in love with the song - though it's a tad hard to sing -.-

psst and if anyone, at all, is interested in the eurovision song contest, continue reading - if not, ignore the rest :) check out the winner - norway, alexander ryback, fairytale - and the runner-up - iceland, yohanna, is it true! i liked both songs :D compared to the second runner-up turkey -.- with a fat shakira-wannabe - ok not fat, but not sexy. i quite liked the third runner-up - azerbajain (don't know names) always - i actually jz really like the girl. and uk came in 5th :D

i am officially obsessed with eurovision~~ ahhh..
i wish i were that talented - most of them are amazingly talented - though some just try to use lots of gimmicks like fireworks and dresses that don't cover anything - check out germany - they've gotten a leading cabaret dancer for the act (not to sing of cos) and she wears like what? a corset??! and that was AFTER she was asked to revise her costume cos this is a family show x.x

2009-05-04T03:28:00.002+08:00

ahh.. i just watched some bbc documentary thing on the malvem hills, where edward elgar was born - i wasn't really watching, but i heard a familiar music and i watched on xD anyway the point is - he composed a piece 'for a choir to sing in the open, while admiring the countryside' which suddenly struck me as such a wonderful and beautiful idea, and ... if i could sing (and if i had the piece), i want to go out into the hills and sing to them :)

2009-05-01T09:23:00.002+08:00

my dear tm, and don't say u regret it, who know how long - but a long post from xinyi at 2.20am - bad time isn't it? *shrugs*

well - i think i've said enough about the playing an instrument, and the rg thing :( and i think it just gets us upset - so i'll skip over it xD though i can't emphasize enough how much i miss and love u guys, and how i always think about the things we did - jsut teeny weeny little flashbacks i get at times :D seems so strange - i look at myself in the mirror sometimes and i look exactly the same but so much has happened since those days! and to be honest, i hate growing up :) i do.

first, there's the losing the temper thing. i think i had a phase like that - though i try not to do it so much now. in fact, i don't think i've ever done it since err a certain 'samantha' left my life - i think only huiyan will know who she is - but it was a bad time and i think i lost my temper every other day - and then everything kind of just blew up in my face - and then i moped about it for a few days - and then it seemed like it never happened. but i think i know how u feel, tm, that accidental? outburst of something harsh, something overly rash, and the moment your ears hear it, they send warning signals all over. you see those hurt eyes, and you feel that immense guilt, clashing with that innate anger? irritation? that got you saying something you don't mean to say. you don't want to apologize because you're fuming inside, and that guilt just eats at you. the whole day. and it never goes away. never.

but just one thing about the music that i want to say.. i think... maybe, just maybe, i still have that passion for music with me. i love going for concerts, the music, the ambience, i don't know. and i do love going home in the summer and trashing it out with my piano. i love to sing (in the shower - oh dear) and when i jog by myself (that's why i don't end up jogging a lot - wasting too much breath singing) - omg i can't beleive i just revealed that but that's me :) i do love it. and maybe i can't ever play it professionally or all my life but i'll love it always. and you know what, i still have that little urge to perform one day... maybe it'll be in a small place, maybe in front of my stb colleagues for a party, maybe i'll just sing, or bang out chords on the piano or bob along and pretend to sing.. and i'll treasure that spark always.

(i know i went firstly.. so i should be going secondly.. but ah well, heck xD) and paula dear, caffeine is bad for you, whether in the form of coffee or tea, or caffeine pills (that are very popular with my friends here) or walnuts. it's just bad! as you grow old, you've got to take care of yourself. i feel worried for paula that there's the swine flu and there are cases in canada :( and there's this thing about mortality. you know until like i was seventeen or eighteen, i thought death was a sort of myth, you know, like it only happens to ancient people, and death is sort of far away, and you don't see people dying, not in modern Singapore. Death is a clean affair, a packaging of the corpse, a crematorium fire that burns away all emotions. not until shuxian.. i don't think i've ever even discussed this but i think about it all the time. everytime i hear a certain song i cry cos it reminded me of the photo album her mom showed us, of her lying there, or of the ambitions that her mom so proudly told us about. and all of a sudden, death's so close. you see it. it's not a pretty sight. and it leaves scars and dangly threads. it leaves snapshots of images and endless tears. it makes me cherish life more i suppose though at times i wonder why God would claim such a pretty, smart girl and torture her family so - and why I have been left here in this world, and what am I supposed to do? maybe that's why it's quite hard for me to grasp the concept of religion?

i don't know what's with me and fessing up. maybe cos paula was saying how tm and i were updating each other on life. maybe cos it's nearly 3am. maybe cos tm was being emo too. and thankfully i haven't been drinking. or i'll be even worse probably.

on a happier note, i'm studying for my exams. i've picked feminism, marxism and postcolonialism (so if u want to chat about it, welcome) and neorealism, EH Carr and the Cold War. and i've been playing a MMRPG game :D and i've a virtual bf who's 15 years old and comes from norway (or something like that). time to feel young again ~ i miss having a 15 year old boyfriend xD lol. actually i just miss being 15 years old, and making all the mistakes in the world, and feeling great about it. :D may we always be 15!

2009-04-20T21:28:00.002+08:00

ah ok i seem to be perpetually on this. just had a paper today. so i'm having a mini break! am pretty much too tired to do any work anyway. haha.

so do walnuts help keep you awake? haha. i've loads at home! mum uses them in her bread all most of the time. but i wont be needing them for long.. one more paper!

ah paula i hope your essays are done! the deadline shld have passed by now, right? hope all's going well!

and.. hahah i'm not going out to work all THAT soon. i've.. 6 more months now. they just pushed it back to october. and yeah i realised that adults.. generally are more serious but they never really lose that childish side of them. so yeah.. as long as there are people around to goof off with, i guess that childish side will always come out :)

yeah i want many meetups too. it's never enough. like last year it only happened.. once? twice?

what about the rest of you guys? when are you coming back?

AND after talking to you briefly online the other day, paula, i realised that my plans are screwed cause i dont know about them. will prolly be in singapore all the way til like june. then the rest i can only confirm after the 16th of may. if you refer to emo post number 1 that started the long 'essays', you'll find out that i was emo cause.. i was all set to not go to netherlands in july. and i still dont know if i'm gonna be able to go. but if i'm not going to the netherlands, i'll prolly jet off to japan for 6 weeks with an option to extend for another 1 or 2 more, if they still accept me. been dragging my feet about handing in the deposit.

ok this is abrupt. but that's all for now.

take care people. drink more water! esp the people in singapore (if you read this!) the weather's scorching hot!

2009-04-16T15:55:00.002+08:00

hello dears :)

ah being psychic is good! it means we share a special connection from the bonds that we all have.
i'm so tired but i'm still working on my paper - and my roommate just told me that walnuts are nature's caffeine, so if you want a natural alternative to coffee, eat walnuts! (i'll tell you if it works when i finish my paper)

i've been working on this paper for 4 days (i scheduled only 2) so i'm a bit stressed that the backlog of work will come and bite me! but i guess things will work out in the end, they always will :)

hope everyone has been doing well. at times i stare out of my window and think about the good times that we had, especially that sleepover at nic's house with her hol(e)y shirt and all that eating and silly photos. those were good times. even as some of us *ahem* tm go out to work, let's never lose that child in us, the silliness in us that keeps us young, and close.

can't wait to see all of you again! i vote for many dinners/lunches/teas/sleepovers!

when is everyone coming back? and is anyone flying away for the summer? i'll be back end june!

paula :)

2009-04-13T23:12:00.002+08:00

sorry for the spam pple.

haha paula! i swear you're psychic. was just thinking that i havent talked to you in ages.. and lo and behold! i see a post on the batch blog.. haha.

i was gonna randomly post that.. i havent worn our batch shirt in ages.. and i'm gonna try to locate it after the exams. it's somewhere in my cupboard and i kinda miss seeing it.

when you're bored mugging you think of random things, old times, studying times.

will write a proper post the next time (i'm longwinded)

in the meantime,
hy. pls dont get too stressed with school!
paula: do cheer up! i miss you too! catch up soon..
cin: WHERE'S MY ESSAY?! haha. kidding. hope you're not too busy :)

the rest: WHERE ARE YOU?!

-end of insanity-

2009-04-13T16:34:00.003+08:00

hello dear :)

my lent resolution was not to read blogs or watch tv online, so that's why i haven't been keeping updated with the batch blog. but it was really nice to see all the posts online, and xy and tm - keep updating each other here! facebook is a bit too public now.. i don't feel very secure posting up stuff, unless we do the message thing.

i heard about rgssb from hy - and i was shell-shocked. i have no idea what to do. and a few days later it was ri, and i was just like 'what?!' it just seemed incredible i think.. like i never thought this would happen. it made me emo for very long. i guess tm is right, we haven't been keeping in touch with our juniors - i guess sometimes we mourn about the loss of tradition/discipline, but aren't we the ones who are supposed to keep the flame burning as well?

and about putting the instrument down - i can safely say that i'll never play the saxophone again. and i think i agree with xy, that i don't think i can imagine myself playing in an unfamiliar environment, having to learn the different mannerisms and take on different habits. rwinds was already quite a stretch, if you guys weren't there i wouldn't have joined. i guess i blogged about it before - making music in life is a phase that for me is completely and utterly over. i don't know what happened, i just felt like it was. i admire all of you who continue playing, whether in rwinds or in the different bands that you all are at - i wish that passion for music had lasted a bit longer for me, that i could have become better and more disciplined at practising.

but i guess i believe that there are some things that happen in life for a reason, and then these things have to come to a close. and that was band for me - what's stayed is the friendships, and i'm so happy that i've met all of you.

exchange in Canada is good, but i'm feeling stressed now because i have loads of work to finish. and i miss you guys so much. the past few days there's been some skirmishes with the people i hang out with (i'm not involved) but it just made me miss the good ol' times when we were together. everything just seemed more.. real. but i guess we all are placed at different places for a reason! :) and we'll see each other soon.

take care everyone :) -hugs-

2009-04-02T18:49:00.002+08:00

ah i was gonna blog cin (and everyone else of course) an essay a few days ago, didnt have time. and argh yesterday cropped up and.. i decided i had more than an essay to blog. so here goes. i swear it's gonna be my personal blog alr.

wrt nez's post: yeah, i wasnt there, but i heard thru sms. and i was just holding the sms and i was just.. stunned. didnt even bother to ask how they played or anything. was just like.. why didnt we go down to see them play (not like we have time) but wld have wanted to see how they played for myself. and so this person came by.. and her sec sch band got gwh that morn and HAHA-ed in my face abt how it was true (i forgot april fools existed actually) and how they got whatever they got. in all fairness, she usually talks without thinking first. but erms. sorry the shock and all.. like just minutes before, expectedly, i snapped at her.

i glared at her and said 'it's not funny'. and now SHE was stunned. and i felt bad immediately aft tt esp to pple not used to the use of this phrase. i havent given anyone the look in ages. but like whatever. the insensitivity and all. she apologized like a few hrs later aft being kept on tenterhooks (i think) by my seeming bad mood, which had already dissipated by then. i think i stunned myself also. like. omg. that phrase. i doubt we've used it much since we left secondary school. and looks like despite the fact that i work very hard to rein in my -yes, infamous- temper, it's like.. always lurking around somewhere huh.

ok and i promised px i wldnt think so much abt it and erms we'd talk when we meet up (in approx 3 wks or so when i finish running the final race).. but i came home slightly early today and decided to poke around online. ah this batch is united. that's all i can say. chanced upon their batch blog. it's like amazing. and like. nth much has changed despite our perceptions? i still cant fathom why we're like.. not in touch with the band anymore or the like though. like. we dont know who exists and all. gg back to sch w/o seeing the band and all, it's just familiar and nice and potentially very safe. but reading their accounts of life in the best place ever.. ahh thats different. it triggers so many memories and more nostalgia than i've ever experienced in ages. haha. thats called opening a can of worms. backside itchy ask for it.

and on a side note, after not going down for about 2 weeks because of some.. issues and the supposed exam break. i went down to prac for a trp sextet yesterday. was potentially rather disastrous considering we're due to perform in sch next week, and i wasnt there last practice..but.. twas gd to be back in the band room again. haha. music take control indeed, cin! the band room has always been something like a sanctuary wherever we went, and always the nice to practice in i guess. the house sucks.

and you DONT have to do prac crit to see the meaning behind those words! haha. ums. i kinda forgot what prac crit was supposed to be like.. heh. think i wldnt be able to dissect/analyse anything anymore :x BUT one thing for sure: i can definitely see the contrast between tm the housewife and rui the fortune's top 100. what's up with that?! tsk -feels indignant-

and yeah. we'll never find enough time to meet up.. so the moral of the story is.. try to blog more essays? haha. we're all too busy to. i guess we only blog essays when we get busier huh.

ok la. i think this essay was not really an essay anymore. more like an emo post :x
apologies people! didnt mean to be depressing.. i realised i havent written something like that since the transition to uni life. but yeah. just wanted to.. talk abt it.. and my guilt at kinda losing my temper. eeeeeps.
ah wells. back to readings! essay due sat 2000 words :x

2009-04-01T23:23:00.001+08:00

shit are you serious? omg..

2009-04-01T23:09:00.002+08:00

gosh. you guys probably already know this, but I'm still in shock. RGSSB scored a silver for SYF this year. Apparently they were pretty good and this batch has potential, but their tuning was a little off. Were any of you there?

2009-03-25T04:19:00.003+08:00

i love the 'I MISS YOU ALL DAMNED MUCH' bit. so true. and if i were doing prac crit, the capital letters say it all :D and i deal with it like almost my whole long year here. sometimes i go out with like this bunch of girls and have fun, but it's never the same. maybe it's cos i'm always thinking that i'll never see them again in like about 1 year's time and there's no point forging a close bond with them, or maybe it's just cos they can never take the place of you guys in my heart. no matter what. no matter if we've changed, or tm becomes a housewife, or rui gets on Fortune's top 100 next year, it'll always be tm the tpter and rui the flautist to me :D it'll always be clarine lying on her belly, ponytail, homework on a chair, and scribbling frantically in the mornings, or a stealthy shunling dozing off by the timpanis, or arlin and maomao sitting by a house of cards she built, grinning proudly... no matter if chong marries a japanese boy and forgets how to speak english or if huiyan becomes a saintly grandma with tons of blissful grandchildren, i think the memories would stay the same. and i'll always miss you guys xD after getting used to seeing everyone like every single day of my life in secondary school, i don't think we'll ever feel that there is enough time to meet up.

haha but i'm glad we're all sharing the woes of being last-year students - or for me, 3rd year honours student - which means everything counts!- feeling like we should, before we graduate for good, at least pretend to be a good student. i was quite consistent this year, till yong jeng came over, and being lazy, i ponned like all my classes last week -.- except the one where i had to give a presentation. work hard and take care kk... (i must try to remember i'm not writing an email for tm only - though it feels pretty much like it now haha)

let the music take controll :D

2009-03-22T19:02:00.002+08:00

EH game again? so how's the work coming along? haha. i get what you mean. but for me, i get distracted no matter what. i talk to my sis, i walk up and down, i grab snacks. i cant sit still for even 30 minutes. so having the computer on wld be a HUGE distraction. haha. i take very long to settle down. and then once i do.. time to slp! hahhaha.

dun fret xy! havent you been doing fine so far.. apart from like a paper or two.. the last time you mentioned? you're not useless! not at all!
i think it's the final year in sch syndrome? like i keep feeling like i'm running out of time to do this and that. and how i should try my best to be an ideal student.. though it's not exactly working out very well.. what with all the issues that are on my hands now.. and i swear it's cause i backside itchy consider too many things that's why cannot solve! ARGH!

i havent gone for band the past week. so i guess i'm not enjoying pracs at the moment. haha. but i kinda brought the trp home.. so i'll see how. haha i understand the rationalism thing! makes sense :)

anyways. sunny days are happy days only in edin! hahhaha! sunny days are humid days here :( i wldnt mind if it was sunny and windy! haizz. but yes. okok. i shant give you THAT look. i DO have happy... moments la. thats why I MISS YOU ALL SO DAMNED MUCH! even though i'm thankful for certain things and people on this side. our batch really hasnt communicated much or met up for AGES. anyone rmb japfood last july. so long ago :(

2009-03-17T08:24:00.002+08:00

yay :D haha, this blog trashes fb anw...
i think i'm going online more cos i'm playing this mmrpg game xD and well, cos i have work to do. i'm not the kind who can stare at a 20 page article and finish reading at one go. i need to read 2 pages and then do something else for like 10 mins then come back, so it always takes me very long to read. if i actually combined the time that i spent reading, it might well be less than an hour -.-

i feel a bit worried cos it's 3rd year, and like i desperately feel like i need to perform, and there's always this bugging feeling that stb will kick me out cos i'm a useless bum. but yeah, i'm working on an essay now :( and a presentation on thurs.

but anw, enjoy pracs while u can! now it feels so far away i wonder if i ever knew it.
and about the rationalism thing, i'm doing this course called 'Realism in International Relations'. the lecturer was saying the real world (realpolitik) is very complex and nuanced, and unpredictable, and emotional, and subjective and contains many truths, so using science/rationalism to dissect and understand the real world to try and find the ONE truth...is like using a spoon to cut bread i.e. using the wrong tool. lol. hope that makes sense :D if not, it doesn't matter. haha!

anw, hope that was just like one gloomy day out of the many happy sunny days u're having :D haha don't give me that grumpy-who-says-i-have-happy-days look kk.. sunny days are all happy days. *hugzzz*

2009-03-15T11:39:00.002+08:00

omg cin. now the blog has become our personal message board! hahahha!
didnt expect to see the next post so quickly. was ranting cause i thought no one'd see it til this thing blows over kind of thing. was just popping by again seeing as this is a sun.

ehh. the thing about being rational is that it would save you alot of heartache next time if you made the right (but difficult) choice instead of following your heart, which can be reckless sometimes. but yeah. i know it's hard to do so. it always is huh. but erms. i dun see the link between the spoon and bread thing and how it links to rationalism. which module was that? haa. that's interesting. though i'm a lil more receptive to what i'm learning now.. it's still rather dry and boring in comparison!

and i didnt realise it was friday the 13th. heh. dont notice such things anymore :x

eh and i guess both ways we look at the playing thing.. makes sense? it was indeed difficult to adapt to the different styles, people, discipline and all that. anger ruled/still rules most of the time when the frustration mounts. but still.. time with the instrument helps make the week more interesting and at times (especially in the past) bearable.

sometimes for me no matter how busy i am, i cannot pon a practice because that has been ingrained in me since a long time ago. and though i CAN pon technically, it just feels wrong. and pple just do it without batting an eyelid.

BUT don't be emo abt not playing anymore! you'd hafta get a new instrument to join right? and that'd be expensive. and your environment's completely different from what i have.. at least there's mr o, and mr i's nice.. like sometimes he'll talk abt familiar people and things during tutorship sessions. and though i'm like in a somewhat culturally different setting, yours is vastly different.

thats why i think that the exchange student from ur sch who joined us for our concert is v brave! like he'll join us for outings and meals before pracs even though he doesnt understand why we do stuff, even if the section isnt receptive to his comments, or even if he doesn't understand the mandarin/dialect that we typically lapse into. but i think it takes time to settle in too, so yah lor. both ways are difficult. haha. was just thinking the other day that it wld be nice if our batch cld just play together again. with this being the comp season, you start thinking abt things and pieces like dear giantrobo again. haha.

have you been busy? you seem to be constantly needing to rush essays (still?) last semester as well right? suddenly cin pops online and posts so often!

2009-03-14T01:29:00.002+08:00

my darling tm

don't worry about being rational.
if my lecturer were here, he'd say: applying rationalism in real life is like cutting bread with a spoon. he has said it 7-8 times (the spoon thing and this American ACTUALLY went to try it) since the semester started (cos we've had about 7-8 weeks worth of classes o_O) humans are complex, and it's just inappropriate to be rational all the time xD i'm twisting his statement awfully but hey girl, we all need our emo times. PLUS it's fri the 13th today. i began to be emo since 12am today o_O when i spilt a cup of water all over my bagss and books.

about the playing thing, i thought the opposite. i thought it was the people who picked up their instrument, despite knowing that everything is different - the style, the people, the discipline, the mood, the practices - and despite knowing that it's so much easier to put it all down and run away from it, those are the people who are brave :) i feel horrible when i chose not to join the band here. i couldn't bear to see the difference. the attitude. if i were to fit in, i'll have to be like them - throwing my clarinet everywhere, and drinking alcohol during breaks. but somehow, i persuaded myself that i'll have to give up anyway, that i can't play anymore.. but inside of me, it feels like i'm lying to myself and that i'm giving up cos i can't drag myself out to band pracs that had familiar songs, but no familiar people; a familiar set-up but a different environment.

Applause for the people who continue playing till today.
Somehow I feel hypocritical calling myself a band girl still...

SEe, emo-ness.

2009-03-13T22:57:00.002+08:00

HAHAHA next post is almost a month later! so obsolete or not? hmmmm i wonder...

eh cin.. i dont really notice fb much, cause im not playing games on it anymore. haa. and i'm the opp of you. the more i need to check, i'll check obsessively to ensure i dont miss anything. but on prac days.. it's like.. i dun check anything for an entire day and i get paranoid the next day that i miss sth.. this semester it's not so bad.. but when we have projs to do.. it's really bad! you have to check like a couple of times a day! haha.

and talking about practice.. actually i came on to rant because i didnt really know where to put this. i think for the people who have stopped playing for so many years.. i think that took alot of courage. even if you miss your instrument greatly now..

dont know how to put this. but erms. 3 years ago it was like. i was sick and tired of being bad at the trumpet and all and was ready to retire for good. and then i picked up the trumpet again. and was still bad at it and carried on. if i were to give it up abruptly now, it's like. i'd be lost. haa. maybe i shld have stopped playing back then. it was easier to stop.. heh. but then i wld have missed out alot on uni life on this ulu pok campus..

guess what. rmb the last time we bawled in sec sch cause it seemed like our last band prac was like the end of the world? today, abruptly, i wanted to start bawling again. haha. being in the final yr really seems like.. the end of the world to me. stop playing? too busy next time? shelf life on trp has been extended for some time now, despite the love hate relationship with it and all. how do i stop?!

have no idea why i'm being so emo. but erms. need to rant. havent been ranting on the blog for some time now.. haha. i rmb all the emo posts made when i was still in year 1. you must be alarmed. dont be. i just need to find a way to be rational and erms. wean myself off the trp? haizzzz.

2009-02-26T03:18:00.002+08:00

whee! not obsolete -
and by the way tm, i'm one of those ulu people who don't really log into fb like very frequently! haha xD i'm so terrible. especially when people create events and ONLY put on fb without like msging me or like telling me personally - i tend to just miss it and then get a call saying 'omg wth are u still at home?! didn't u see the fb event'
but i think moving this to fb might just work..
i think i'm just being a recluse these days - refusing to check my emails or fb inbox cos i'm scared of seeing things that i have to reply to... i think i'm beginning to have internet-phobia.

irrelevantly, i watched 'he's just not that into you' - i love it!!!! whee - not sure if everyone will though HMM. i think nic might, paula might, px might, hy and rui probably might, chong might, inez might?, not too sure abt like tm or clarine HMM. it's sooooo sweeet! and like totally true! so if anyone secretly wants some tips on guys, go watch it! HAHAHA! well, i think it's a really good movie even without that - it's hilarious!!!
-- so everyone, go watch a crazily funny movie and be happpppy -- before we step into the deep dark world of WORK o_O

2009-02-04T17:55:00.002+08:00

haha inez! in final year cant get instep alr la. 2nd sem alr leh and i dont wanna dabao. and in any case i happily got rejected thrice. as i said i'm trying my best to be a good student at last. it's like not exactly the last set of exams that i will take ever in my life, but i guess it's pretty much kinda the last time i'll be a full time student in at least for awhile so i'm trying to work hard no cause of deadlines like projs and essays but erms consistently.. after errr i wonder how many years in the education system.

why will you be knee deep in trouble? havent settled internship yet? all will be fine! enjoy ur remaining time in japan though!

gee as you can tell i'm kinda checking on the blog from time to time and i kinda had a 5 hr break between lessons and practice. listening to online lectures got futile after awhile. man i'm so sleepy!

2009-01-31T12:52:00.002+08:00

hahaha and now I'm posting again! I'm rather embarrassed. the last few posts of the year were all made by me =O

I'm not on attachment yet, I'm still in Japan ^___^ two weeks left, I'm counting down. ohyes cin! I ordered that song in karaoke the other time and my jap friend was like OMG MY PARENTS ARE FANS OF THIS GUY o_O wikipedia says he pioneered visual kei, so i guess it explains the pants and sparkles. also, last night we were watching the top 200 songs of the past 50 years on Music Station and I just realised japanese graffiti is secretly a crash course on showa pop =P

tm you're on your final year now right? jiayou!!!~~~ I think i'll be knee-deep in trouble when i get back T-T i'm scared i may have to retain, but exchange is worth it. try to get instep!

2009-01-27T20:05:00.002+08:00

omg cin.. you posted! in response to your question.. yeah possibly the blog is really obsolete. i only noticed it today!! and i was super surprised.. havent popped by in ages.. but anyhow

happy chinese new year everybody!

that day i was just wondering if shifting this to a closed facebook group would work.. just to 'move with the times' haha. then i realised.. possibly not eh. everyone's so busy.. and though we log into facebook more often.. i doubt we'd really post on a thread or anything like that (or at least i'm pretty inactive on facebook)

inez shld be back by now doing attachment.. right? how is it?

there seems to be this great big japan craze to me at the moment, or so i think. many pple around me are thinking of learning/are learning the language. and i'm pretty tempted to at the moment. ah wells.

hope everyone is coping well with whatever they're handling. i've been pretty much a hermit and havent been catching up with anyone in sg or abroad. think about you guys quite a bit though.. i hope you do check back here and see this message. post if you've time!

2009-01-16T22:34:00.002+08:00

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this blog -is- obsolete (as tm commented)

omg inez, i'm so jealous of you.. i wish i were in japan too, applied and got into waseda but then i couldn't go in the end, it was such a huge disappointment :(

AND OMG, the jap graff vid is so .. um, weird! haha. wth is he wearing, leather tights?! and he's a guy ya? why is his top like so umm girly. ARGH. and his dance moves.. umm. haha!!! reminds me of the times when we were playing jap graf V though.. ah so long ago, and now we're all so old.

2008-12-11T17:39:00.000+08:00

hey guys it's japanese graffiti V

O_O

hope everyone's doing well =)

2008-10-14T18:31:00.001+08:00

greetings from hiroshima!!!

this is near my dorm. =P hope you guys are all doing well!!

2008-08-28T18:58:00.002+08:00

Hey all. decided to drop you guys a note here. Nobody's been posting of late.. is this blog obsolete as of now? I still pop in here regularly! Miss you all alot! I mean we're all busy and everything but I think it's the longest period of time that we havent met up in ages. Haha. Of course, I may be biased, cause I say that ALL the time.

And since hy's facebook thingum isnt eliciting many responses at the moment.. I assume everyone's crazy busy. And I only notice because.. I'm a little more free at the moment.. heh. Anyways. work hard pple! I know hy's super busy these 2 wks! I'm kinda swamped with group work too. But yeps. Let's meet soon!

2008-07-28T23:18:00.002+08:00

Symphonique 2008!

TJC symphonic band alumni!

7.00 Victoria Concert Hall!

2nd August! Saturday!

we're playing stuff like James Barnes' Fourth Symph, Pirates of the Caribbean (at world's end) and Saga Maligna and Count and Monte Cristo among other stuff. Tix are $12! sms me if you want to go, k?

come come come!

2008-07-17T17:33:00.002+08:00

hey!

err... i pressed something on the settings or layout page accidentally and stuff kinda disappeared from the blog! tried my best to replicate the original based on what google's cache displayed but i think i could not get back the shoutbox thingy. i hope i did not wrecked too much of the site... sorry!!!

2008-04-21T04:12:00.003+08:00

that brought back a lot of memories inez! (and im jealous that your exams ended!)

sl, lr, nic, xy and i had an almost-one-third batch outing in the uk recently. we miss the other two-thirds of the batch a lot.

-hy hugs everyone-

2008-04-20T23:23:00.001+08:00

SAY YES.

omg... i miss this song so much T-T

hope you guys are all doing well. good luck for the exams!! mine are over already heeheeehee

2008-03-09T07:16:00.002+08:00

haha oh man i haven't been here for so long that i kind of forgot how blogger looked like! so when i read the post again, i was kinda shocked by how blue our site is. haha!

anyway, unfortunately i am drowning in my essays and presentations and am attempting to swim out of it. but it's gonna be break in a week's time so i'm really looking forward to that.

hahah how's everyone? tsemin you wrote such a long entry but didn't exactly say how you are! haha. and iris, thanks for your postcard! speaking of clarine, i actually wrote you a rambling letter after doing one week of hellish reading about critical theory in international relations cos for some weird reason, the readings reminded me of you. don't ask me how clarine fits into the whole idea of an emancipatory intent. HAHA. i unfortunately can't find the letter now cos my place is in a mess (i just dump my papers all over after an essay is done) so i probably mail it in 2 months' time or something. haha.

that's a lot of laughing. but if you're reading this, i just hope that all of you are doing well. :) oh man, so fun, we can add labels for the posts? :D

2008-03-05T02:34:00.002+08:00

i miss everyone loads.
esp after reading tsemin's post
and after chatting to paula..

sometimes i don't think about it, like rushing about in my everyday life, dashing to school, chionging essays, and all these rubbishy events, cos i see huiyan and everything seems normal.
but when i see the box with the little piggies that u guys gave me at the airport 2 years back. it's amazing, isn't it? it's been 2 years! i do wonder how everyone's doing? like how slim and fit clarine is getting (and chiooo.. *ducks before clarine smacks me*) like if tsemin got a boyfriend HEHE. and like if paula is still munching chocolate (sorrie dear, but chocolate biscuits are still chocolate kk). i wonder if huichong got used to waseda and speaking japanese and wearing the most pretty fashionable stuffs that she puts pics up on her blog.

sometimes i tell myself it's ok, maybe one year i can stay here for summer, go travelling when the weather's glorious and make the most of my time here. but everytime i think about u guys, i do want to come back and meet up with all of u.. honestly, last summer was rubbish, i felt like i barely met up with any of u o_O and this summer, i have internship.. but i'm definitely going to try to meet everyone more often so i won't miss u guys so much when i finally go back again. ahh. mann and i won't even haf huiyan next year =(

on a brighter note, huiyan and i have decided to go to the gym at least (we say twice, but it's so that we'll go) once a week. hehe! we went err once so far.. but jsut wait till next weeek =)

2008-03-02T07:21:00.000+08:00

hello everyone. i miss all of you =(

2008-01-28T14:39:00.001+08:00

hey everybody!

hello!

havent been hearing much from you guys either in THE email or in here. so much for cin's attempt to spark off a new series of posts. i miss you guys loads!
i know this is pretty random. and actually i'm wondering if anyone still visits this place from time to time. i know i do. but no updates! heh. everyone's busy.. me too actually. but i'm not in the mood to do much work at the moment. been procrastinating. so i decided to make an entry :) no school today :)

i just reread ur xmas email. and you guys sounded like you always do back when we still had a batch diary (very hyper!) and people were making mulitple entries. I was going to reply to the email.. don't know when though. so i shall see who reads this :p

anyways. update. been in hibernation. hah. not coming out soon. peixi says i shld since spring's coming. we'll see in spring then (not like I know when exactly spring is) i hope everyone's doing fine. hy seems to be having a fine time in edinburgh. but she always sounds so upbeat.. so i dont know if she's stressed at work! i hope zun and cin are not drowning in essays and getting too stressed. if you are, swim out of it!

to everyone both in Singapore and abroad, i haven't seen you guys in ages. time flies. argh. i can't describe it properly. will try to express myself properly if and when we meet up. Don't kill yourselves in the meantime ok. i swear most of you are workaholics. tsk. must take care!

2008-01-01T03:44:00.000+08:00

haha clearly it's important to try to spark off a new series of posts after writing in the email that we should revive this blog =)

heard from px that coda wasn't too bad =) so much for all the worries. somehow it always works out, doesn't it? =) i do miss everyone LOADS. and the weather of cos. and i can't believe hy is in the uk. in fact she's with zun now in london, potentially about to watch new yr eve's fireworks; while nic's with me in edinburgh, about to have dinner, dress up, have a few drinks then go for hogmanay =) and i can't believe, after years of hearing tsemin complain abt having to wear braces, go to her very busy dentist, rubber bands breaking, metal wire popping out of place, tsemin is not wearing braces now and i can't see it!! horrifying. feel so outdated. and her post was like what a few months ago. it's nearly 2008.. 5 years since we've graduated. how amazing. i love u all lots. i do.

2007-10-07T13:06:00.000+08:00

harrows my darlings :) how have you all been? hope that school is treating you well and that you are all enjoying second year. i'm 2 weeks away from the end of my first year -laughs- and 5 weeks away from my exam, which i haven't started studying for. but ANYWAY, I just wanted to pop by and say that I miss you all a hell lot.. seriously a lot a lot. I miss the times when we could just rubbish together and lounge around the band room and do absolutely nothing, play bridge, play chess (hahahaha) or do indiv and all the wonderful rgssb things :)

hahahah tsetsemiff.. i can't wait to see you without braces and with nice nice teeth.. like shun ling! muahaha. ok i'm going mad today. -hugs- i hope the people who flew back to the uk had a nice nice flight. keep warm ok? i heard it's very cold there. don't fall sick!

just wanted to send my love to you all and I'm thinking about all of you and iris misses you all -hugs-

2007-09-20T17:16:00.000+08:00

hey BABES! wrong gender la!
anyways. cin.. thanx for the concern. but ttm wrote the post in august. think you all know abt it alr la. was just... getting emo. no one pushed the post down so i guess it stayed! hahahaha! oops. how alarming.

no need to secretly email you la. you were in spore then. guess you wld have heard of it. shall not discuss it here ok. the web dont have walls. worse than walls having ears.HAHAH. ok nvm. this is called paranoia.

anyways. cin. i noticed ur like errr.. rather active on facebook again! hahhaa.
and i believe what you say! really. misses everyone loads. and nic zhun and lr are going back soon!!! haiz. yah. ttm is doing damage control. things are RIGHT ON TRACK!!! i think. at least trying to shift things back on track la. see ur son so capable.. do last min work. but owells.

am in a damn good mood today. like really really really. how rare eh. must be ur well wishes cin! but that's also cause I JUST TOOK OFF THE DAMNED METAL THINGS LIKE A FEW HOURS AGO! hoho. after 3 years. am treating myself extra nice today.. though it doesnt seem like a legitimate reason. heh. i'm spoiling myself!

take care everyone, esp iris and cin! miss you loads -hugs-

2007-09-19T19:17:00.000+08:00

heyy babe.
what happened to tsetsemifff =(
how come i dunno anything? someone secretly email me?
anyway whatever happened, tsetsemiffff, we're always here for you kk.
ok, maybe we can't solve anything. maybe whatever we say or do won't help matters abit. but whatever you choose to do, or whatever happened, we'll always be behind u. right behind.

*beeeeg hug*

and it's not about u asking for reassurance.. we want to reassure u, hug u, comfort u, listen to u. i know this sounds so gay and rubbishy. but it's true. i love u!! (huiyan gets jealous here...) duno if u haf time to read this or if u'll be in the mood to. but i'm going to send my blesssingsss and well wishess across the big oceannn. may everything go well. and if u think nothing short of a miracle will redeem matters, may a miracle appear like NOW.

take care everybodyy...

2007-08-24T15:21:00.001+08:00

just decided to come online to post a random thought. but i gather this place is kinda stagnant now that everyone's facebooking away.

just read something in my textbook (have the time cause i happily ponned today)
it said 'organizations that do not have a heritage of mutually accepted, shared values tend to become unhinged during stress'. maybe that's why we could stay together as a batch and work on things. caused we were rg-fied? maybe i'm trying to fit whatever i read/do into what i think is something familiar i face.

i've majorly screwed up this time. dont get me wrong. i'm not asking for reassurance from you. i just dont know how else i can solve my problem or reverse things. sometimes i ask 'how wld peixi do this' but apparently i dunno well enough.

somehow i wish things could be solved by just shouting 'sorry i made a mistake' as loud as possible. sounds childish and immature.. i know. it's time to grow up eh.
cant help but wish i cld still do footdrills with you though.

i'm not trying to depress you guys. but yeah. cant help but put this down somewhere cause 'sorry i made a mistake' and 'excused? no.' keeps popping up in my head. am thoroughly grateful that you guys are coming down next wk to support. thanks so much. and i really really wish to see you all soon! -hugs-

2007-07-18T10:03:00.000+08:00

haha. yes yes i'm proud of cin. it seems that only pple like us sitting on our bums at home have the time to come here to post. haha. and i saw the pics you uploaded on facebook. tm has been a hermit she realises. too bad i'm free when no one is. and i'm busy when no one is either. which brings me to the topic of whether you guys still wanna go chomp chomp to eat. pls raise hands! now only the trps have their hands up. hahaha. but thing is, will be hard to coordinate since i'm working wkends. anyone fine with wkday nights? or too busy with work. preferably before sch starts la. sch's a pain i tell you.

and oops sorry to iris. first tm doesnt go see her off due to work. den now blatantly planning outing without her. i'm really really sorry. hope ur exams went fine!! yeah.

and tm has pride and prejudice if cin wants.

and i realise i havent seen you guys since the slpover like over a wk ago. hope to see you all soon.. i'll try to plan a batch outing (for the first time) so i hope sth comes outta it. now do reply! hy ends work this wk i think and paula next wk. so when's convenient?

2007-07-16T21:07:00.000+08:00

i read it. haha is tm proud of me?
and i've been diligently uploading photos too =) hehe.
though uploading on facebook is seriously too much. first u hafta do it one by one (or dun u? o_O) secondly u hafta tag ppl. ok u dun hafta - like huiyan doesn't.. but AHHH. i dunno it's like how i dun hafta name every single photo i haf but i do even if i end up naming them like this: 'err dunno', 'some church', 'me doing sth', 'errr..', 'this is watever it looks like to u.'

i miss everyone ALREADY. esp iris....
best of luck to iris (since i dun need any sitting on my bumm at homeee.)

2007-07-10T14:01:00.000+08:00

heya. i wonder who will be reading this. haha. the blog has been stagnant for pretty long. tm's bored la. yeah. but it'd be quite sad too if this blog were to die. it's been arnd for so long!! yeah.

sleepover the other day was pretty fun. was a pity i conked out so soon. heh. yah. ehh. whose pride and prejudice was tt? can i borrow it? i think it's easier than reading the book all over again. (and the father is so cute!) ahha. owells.

am gg to be horrendously random here. yeah. but yah. i realise sch's gonna reopen soon. (dont give me that look. 3wks is not v long). lets have another gathering when it's convenient. or a meal or such la. everyone's strapped for time. our batch has only met once! like wth.

and though i gave up on planning our dear food trail idea, i suggest we go chomp chomp one day just for fun lor. the weather's horridly hot though. or does ssato INSIST on the zoo still ;) we can go as an RG batch.. yeah.

2007-06-06T22:28:00.000+08:00

... by request of chong =)

fatty in a skinnyland
- singapore 9 months after -

the heat is unchanged. the humidity more pronounced. but all the better to bring out a healthy pink glow in me. (and copious sweat - but the unglam shall go unsaid) old familiar house; old familiar people (in trendy new clothes - but these things change). day 1 was unexciting.

new look at orchard, stifled in construction, eager rebuilding to constantlyconstantly upgrade. shops relocate. shops appear. shops disappear. hardly worth the mention i guess? a little strange to see village replace marche. the old marche cow remains - with two new cute companions =)

AND maybe it's just me. but since when did singapore become repopulated with skinny, chic girls dressed barely sufficiently, showing sleek tanned muscular limbs. when! do flabby arms and wobbly tummies not exist anymore in this country! was there a law against fat young girls! xin is highly indignant.

PLUS dey moved the bus stop (with the bus that goes to my house). haha.
oh and xin has a very new haircut.
xin has failed miserably to describe the new singapore cos actually i've onlly been back for what- 2 days? and err hasn't visited vivocity (planning to). i've eaten bah chor mee though. i've seen the new AMK hub, which is huge, messy, and not very neighbourly. and did i mention they relocated the market and hawker centre near my house to ... well, near my house, just somewhere else.

xin misses the rgssb ppl veryvery much now =(

i'm back!

2007-06-04T06:01:00.000+08:00

exams start tomorrow!

i am dead. )= just looked at a past year paper and i don't know how to do ANYTHING. )=

2007-04-06T18:35:00.000+08:00

hello everybody! =)
this is tm and hy.
happy belated birthday xinyi!
HAPPY EASTER! (in advance)

we're vaguely high but we're not -.- (this looks like lr)
and tm wants to say tt she just saw lr's video 2wks ago. like finally. and she thinks their school is nice! and so are their rooms :) ours are so basic :(
hy is pigging at tm's house. (irrelevant)
tm is tired.
we are stoning.

anw, who wants to have another chalet? raise your hand!
probably in late july. so can u all post when u r coming back and when u r free? thanks!

tm might be going japan! but she'll be broke after uk trip.
ok we r going to pig! jia you for exams! tm says she'll post soon again. =D
and hy keeps silent. and shes logging off now.

2007-03-30T21:48:00.000+08:00

HELLO EVERYONE!! -waves-

My project group is selling t-shirts to raise money for the the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. I'm sure you guys already know about it; the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty aims to promote the concept of real beauty: qualities such as inner beauty, self confidence and self-acceptance.

Recently we've been shocked by reports of models dying of malnutrition. Daily, we're bombarded with images telling us what is perfect, what is ideal, what is beautiful. Sometimes, we even forget that beauty really is subjective.

k. Shall talk about the shirts now! they're actually quite nice =) white, black words, three designs, comes in S, M, L. The slogans, if you can't see from the photos, are

1) MY BRAND OF GORGEOUS ( lol i came up with this one )
2) PROUD OF WHO I AM (short, simple, self-explanatory )
3) YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL (yeah, honestly! )

so anyway, they're going at just $10 each. Help us help spread the message of real beauty! (oh mannnn that was one corny sentence -_- )

to order, email me. my address is inez.tan [at] gmail.com

support us K! =D thanks so mucho =)

2007-03-22T23:29:00.000+08:00

hey you all how are you doing?

haha oops i was still thinking of going to cambridge next tues but since nic is now mia.. i will roam the grass instead. (if that even makes sense)

anyway, i'm supposed to be doing an overdue essay now.. and in fact had progressed quite well before i made the mistake of taking a break. seems like that break is not gonna end anytime soon!

yeah tm i get what you mean abt the moving of instruments... i can't remember the feeling of moving them anymore. in fact i looked at my arms yesterday and saw a concentration of fats and was kinda appalled. man i feel like i'm getting really old. some things seem like so long ago. anyway, i have concluded that being in a band is a lot more fun than being in a choir. you know how when the phantom of the opera or les mis or whatever music comes up, people will sing the lyrics to the songs? haha we band people tongue the notes or imagine us playing instead. so you hear the random parts like the bass, or the counter-melody instead.

ok i think the cold is getting into my brain or something. haha there was a drastic drop of more than 10 degrees here over the weekend which kinda shocked my friends and i, cos we were taking out our spring coats and such already but the weather suddenly plunged back down to 2 degrees. to top that off, it was even snowing (which we have kinda accepted is quite rare in london. well, the snow wasn't the beautiful, dreamy kind but more of the white kind that disappears into water the moment it touches the ground). i don't even remember being this cold during christmas! haha i have no idea what's going on with the weather, and i don't think the plants do too cos they were starting to bloom and grow last week but most of them suddenly died this week again. i certainly hope the weather is less erratic in singapore.

and more importantly, work hard for the exams! i hope that you all are not suffering from inertia like i am and am actually spending your days productively. on a side note, can you believe that it's nearly the 3rd anniversary of this blog's existence? haha we should throw a party to celebrate or something.

2007-03-20T19:05:00.000+08:00

HEYS! the pple abroad seem to be having a fine time. though this is a lil late.. enjoy urselves!! haha.

just signed into blogger to drop a random thought. haha. i think over the last few yrs, been too dependent on guys moving perc stuff (become too lazy evidently) rmb those days where we carried anything and everything up the lorry. will someone pls remind me how we did it. i cant rmb. i just rmb that everyone helped out, and we did it!

anws, yday we had some operation move out. and so, as you can guess, we had to move loads of stuff with relatively few guys over qt a long distance. haha. i certainly give thanks for our dear wheelchair friendly school last time. aft a night of shifting the stuff.. i'm aching! ARGHHH!!

haha. but it felt great la. so heres to GIRL POWER! haha. yeah.

study hard pple. exams are coming :( miss you guys loads.

2007-03-18T01:35:00.000+08:00

hello everybody! this is nic and rui!! we're in my(nic's) room! haha i'm leaving for worcester to do some lambing tomorrow, so will be completely mia for 2 weeks with no contact with the outside world except via my phone so i hope there's reception. i hope everybardy's alright at home!

heyyyy this is rui! i'm going to wales next wed for a week for a field trip! we miss you guys lotttttsssss!!!!!

and i wish you sunrays and saturdays
perfect starry nights
sweet dreams and moonbeams
and a love that's warm and bright
sunrays and saturdays
friendships strong and true
oceans of blue and a room with a view
to live the life you choose

2007-03-11T00:26:00.000+08:00

Hey everyone!
This is just a short post on behalf of Huiyan, not me...
Huiyan is looking for people to go with her for the NUSWS concert on Sunday, 18th March 2007, 5pm at UCC (in NUS).
Huiyan is very excited about the concert, because they will be playing the following pieces:

1."Merry Wives of Windsor " (classical-sounding piece)
2."Immen Kleimer-Always Smaller" (something interesting is going to happen to the solo clarinetist's clarinet)
3."The Sound of Music" (I like!)
4."Soaring over the Ridges-the impression of the North Alps" by Satoshi Yagisawa (I like too!Singapore premiere)
5."Silverscreen" (this piece sounds very cartoon)
6."Poema Alpestre" by Franco Cesarini (Singapore premiere too, and it's also about the Alps. And it has a very nice French Horn solo, and some really nice parts)

I think it'll be quite an enjoyable concert, the repertoire is really nice, and Mr Tan(the NUSWS conductor) has done a lot of work on the pieces...
Tickets are selling at $10, if you wanna go, message me okay?
Cos I'm helping Huiyan get tix.
I'd love to sit in the audience with Huiyan, but unfortunately I have to be somewhere else at that time.
So please go! Don't let dear Huiyan be alone!

Sorry to the folks overseas! Thanks Xinyisssssss for the birthday wish:):):):):) And Shunling, I find your post very stressful:/

2007-03-04T14:37:00.000+08:00

hey everybody! nobody has posted in ages. haa. i was wondering if everyone was getting intimidated by zhun's intellectual quote at the beginning.. and then dear ssato posted :D

wanted to post yday. but i was kinda tired aft prac. then i dreamt of our batch meeting up again last night. the dream was so clear. i had such a great time in the dream, we were having such great fun. i wonder if i'd really laughed out loud in my sleep. now that would be kinda freaky wouldnt it. haha.

yeah. i've many many things to say, but i cant seem to string my sentences together properly. must be the ill effects of being a hermit. we've been having bandprac yet again.. to raise funds for our overseas trip if possible. and so they decided that since its comp year, might as well play old pieces.

so first up down the walk of nostalgia lane was paganinivariations. i rmb playing it with px in sec1, esp on sats after indiv (where we only held long notes). we liked it so much. hahha. feels different this time round. during yday's prac, mroura made us play merrywidow and the jap rgs05 comp piece. i suddenly felt very old.

i still rmb the time we were in sec4, and having our rehearsal at vch. mroura was shouting at the ri trps to up their bell. and we were stunned by how fierce he was to them. i rmb random things like our jokes about 'solos' (do you all still rmb? -winks-) i also rmb how the piece was so cheery and yet the slow part was so nice.

i rmb ponning sch to watch comp05, and how our jnrs played with feeling. and how we rose to give them a standing ovation. and you 6c pple went to sch before rushing over to watch the comp. some of us walked to cedele for breakfast/snack before the event.

haha. time flies doesnt it. its comp year again. and now we've been phased outta the system. actually i was wondering about how people would feel when they heard others play their comp piece. i mean, the piece would mean so much to them, right? does it mean that they've succeeded in making music when people like them so much that other schools wanna play those songs. or wld it irritate them because they feel that the feelign that they got out of it can never be replaced.

this sounds selfish. but as much as gr sounds nice, i'm qt glad that there werent so many people rushing to play the piece. it'd sound too.. different.

we tried out old set pieces too. errr. not very memorable la. haha. esp since we din play the vers we played in 01 and 03.

yeah. and heres the end of my very very long post. am not ranting this time. but i think i tend to be super long winded. haha. oh yes dear zhun. if ur interested in global warming.. YOU SHLD HAVE TAKEN GEOG A LONG TIME AGO. i can still lend you my alevel geog notes shld you wanna know more (or feel like you've lost out on sth) :p hahahha!

yeps. i'm going back to my horrid essay due this wk. dunno wad the hell i'm doing. but i shall try to bring back the days of being an essay churning machine. take care people. dun study too hard!

half a sem to go :D

2007-03-01T21:58:00.000+08:00

woooohooooooooooooo i can post! haha okay so not all is lost. (= how's everyone doing everywhere around the world?

2007-02-15T07:18:00.000+08:00

"being among the world's privileged, you and I have a special obligation to think and act as a global citizen, to be a steward of whatever power we hold, to contribute to the transforming forces that are reshaping the world. The future of human society, of our children, depends on each of us." - David Korten

haha some of you will probably just think that i'm becoming one of those overambitious nutcases obsessed with these kinda stuff. i probably am. anyway, just chew on it (and berate me on the tagboard if you want) for a minute and haha who knows? maybe you will be the very person at the forefront of the world to change it. :)

ok while i'm at it, i might as well take it a step further and encourage you all to save our environment! or else all of us will be at serious risk in 20 years' time (according to my lecturer and those environmental forums out there). in fact the weirdness of the weather in singapore and everywhere else in the world might be a consequence of this global warming phenomenon that is threatening our very human security. :( though the question is i have no idea how we can save it other than lobbying against all those countries giving off a hell lot of CO2 emissions... use less toilet paper? haha maybe one of you will find a solution to this.

ok that's the end of my preaching. actually, i just wanted to say happy valentine's day! i wonder how many of you have gotten attached without me knowing... hmm...

2007-02-06T06:11:00.000+08:00

HAPPPY BELATEDD BIRTHDAY to arlinss.
i was going to emaill arlin on the 4th but i was trapped in a place with NO internet connection.
spent a politics weekend at the burns house, which is this gorgeous place in aberdeen.
pretty river, and stream, and hills, and grass, and woods.
fireplace with crackling fire. creepers along stone walls! reminds me of frost. as in robert.
wish u guys could seee..

anwss, i haven't boooked my returrnnn! so i can go a-traversing with my fav pplsss =)
so what's the plann? i feel abit lost cos i thinkss i shld start booking my departure tixxx like very soon. haha. wheeee~

bloggie. bloggie. everyone must blogg! and picturess of.. the infamous loch ness. do u see the monsterrsss? haha!
Zunpop in London huggging treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The famousss Scottish Highland cow.. mooooooooooooooooooooo

2007-01-31T17:18:00.000+08:00

hello! everyone else at this table asks arlin to blog but she says she doesnt want to type on my laptop because her hands have germs on them >.< she says it is because she is sick, not because she is a dirty person.paula thinks huiyan's sweets are very nice. maybe i shall take a photo of them. iris says hi! arlin says that she will conquer the programming textbook!!paula thinks arlin's programming textbook looks like greek. and she reailses this is the first time we don't understand each others' textbooks HAHA

(because inez is the one who uploaded this photo, it actually has a border -feels smug- )

clarinet polka on the tuba!

2007-01-23T15:15:00.000+08:00

hello darlings :) hee yes the ntu concert was really nice! :) well done tse min and inez! :) but your repertoire was seriously killer :) but you sounded good! and tse min, don't bluff, you dance very well :) how come you never told us you had this hidden talent? .. -hides from tse min-

hee px.. ah neurons can. AH. :) tse min! ntu is on the other side of the other side of the world :( ok that doesn't help, but personal experience :) i want to see you all again soon.. hui chong! come back soon. hm i shall tell you about my very boring life. -hears groans- :) basically it can be summed up in one line: Iris is a bum who does nothing but eat and sleep and get fat. :( hee done. that's my life now. and since px wanted photos, i don't know whether any of these are here yet, but i'll put it here k?

hee ok take care my dears -hugs- missing you all a lot a lot..

2007-01-22T23:09:00.000+08:00

heyos -waves- havent had time to visit the batch blog til today. and i was surprised to see so many posts!! yeah. just wanted to say thank you properly to you guys. thanx for coming for the concert. it was nice knowing that you pple were in the audience. and being so supportive and all (if not i'd not have sold my tix and i'd have no frens coming on sat) haha. but yeps. i had a gd time this wkend. and i was glad to see you pple again. always seems like ages.. when it really isnt.

and now, time for me to murder hy -GLARES- i dint dance at all ok. make it sound so.. frivolous. it was gimmicks. no dancing involved. dun listen to hy ok -frowns-

anws. you all blog more k. i always get the feeling tt i'm really anchored on some island, and not in touch with the real world :s looking fwd to the next time i see you guys. and hc! come back soon!!

and xins. i dunno how often you check this or ur blog.. but looking at the dates. how abt pushing back ur departure date by a wk? have you booked the tix alr? oh man. this discussion long distance is like.. very unproductive. haha. owells. we're all busy :s

all you pple take care. i'll see you guys soon :D

2007-01-21T13:43:00.000+08:00

hello everybody! some of us went for ntu band concert yesterday! tsemin actually wore a long skirt and she even danced a bit! (ok she's going to kill me now) haha but too bad we didn't take any photo or video. and inez played a wonderful solo! and mr oura is still as cute as ever! =D

2007-01-21T11:25:00.000+08:00

hi everyone =) i agree this blog is becoming sad. we can't let it become sad ok... as in rant and all but must include happy stuff and crazy stuff as well.

Yup more importantly, now that we're like evrywhere, it should be a place for us to connect. CONNECTION =) like neurons. =P haha as in like write about our lives and say hello to each other and muse from time to time.

So anyway sometimes i feel like putting up photos. you know how like when you're packing your table, or albums or cupboard and whatnots and then suddenly you come across a photo. or a note. and like this wave of memories hit you? like majorly! almost flush you down the toiletbowl =P and you NEED to share it with someone. But there isn't anyone around to? so can blog it =) like publish the silly photo or present or anything.

So... well.. mmm... i need to learn how to publish photos. okokok i know i sound really IT illiterate here =P but that's ok i can sound silly to you all if i want to. just cos it's you all. yup so anyone just post on how to put up photos. xie xie. haha.

and cheer up everyone! even if it's rainy outside. or snowing even and it's gloomy everywhere. -group hug all around-

Take care always,
PX

2007-01-20T00:09:00.000+08:00

hello my darlings :)

wanted to pop by to say hi because I realised that I haven't been here in a while. I like Paula's and hy's post. :) It's so cute and so.. us. full of rubbish.. and food. We must go out and eat again. hui yan! you're not going mad :) aww -hugs-

hope you all are doing ok dears -hugs- tse min! good luck for the concert tomorrow! -waves flags and cheers tse min on- ok don't kill me :) but really, jia you!! -hug hug-

hee i met paula for lunch today and we both decided (this is probably not new news) that everytime we meet up, we're all eating non-stop. like really eat and eat and eat and eat. and it's so NICE! :) that familiarity and comfort we have with each other.. that understanding accompanied by food. aww I really really really miss you all. and I want to see you all again!! Like tomorrow when we go for the NTU band concert!

ahhhhh LOVE YOU ALL. I feel like being antisocial because I know that I'll never find friends like you all again. Even if I do make friends, there really is no comparison to you all. :( Iris misses you all and wants to say that she loves you very very much.

Sigh. Want to give you all a big hug..

2007-01-18T16:53:00.000+08:00

hellos. i've been reading the posts. and i really liked the combined posts. reminds me of the stupid things that we always say/do. was tempted to post then. but i kinda postponed it. and yeah.

you all sound so sad. and i feel.. helpless. but i know how you guys feel, cause sometimes things strike you hard somehow, and you start missing the batch loads. but i kinda refrained frm posting here online cause well, i din want it to be my ranting space. i think i rant the most here :s and you're bound to see even more entries here during hte exam period.

oh wells. hy you arent turning mad! when i eventually change my plan (and my phone) you can call me ok. cause i've become even more antisocial this sem. i hope no one i know reads this. but yeah. so tiring to even try to be friendly. i mean, since when was i friendly. y do i hafta try to be nice and friendly when i'm actually a grouchy shit. i dunno anyone in my classes cause i changed timetable. and so far i've been attituding them :s oops.

and i dunno how confirmed the trip is -waves to cl and peixi and xin- cause xin din say when she was gonna fly back! dun worry hy. no one gets sick of les mis (i think.. or is it just me) haha. so yeps. you've still got exchange waiting for you there! can watch then =D

yikes. haf prac later. and i havent done tuts for tmr. i just wanted to say that i'm really lucky to have you guys around. (and i think peixi is almost telepathic, but tts a long story) see you guys sat :D

2007-01-17T23:38:00.000+08:00

hello everybody. the blog seems like a sad place now. the last time i blogged was on 4th October 2006 (not counting the recent combined one with paula). so many things have happened since then. anyway, i went out with iris today. i was telling her that i think im going mad cos i have been talking to myself at night. guess cos i don't talk much in school since i don't have many friends in uni and im taking different modules from them. and also, the pple whom i usually call and talk to at night are overseas or will be going soon. i hope i don't start talking to myself in the day too.

i don't think im joining you all on the trip! =( cos i'll most probably be doing an internship and also, i'll be going there next year. hope the uk pple don't mind watching les mis with me again then. ok i really miss everyone. take care!

2007-01-17T18:56:00.000+08:00

hello
why does no one post at all?
wo xian zai bu kuai le.
i am not happy now.
to echo the words of px last year,
life sucks without you all.

(to compare this post with my previous one, so...opposite).

2007-01-12T14:20:00.000+08:00

hello everybody!
this is hy and paula, reporting from the NUS business library :D we are here to revive the blog! we had a great meal just now, eating some starch at the business canteen with very sweet soursop juice :D oh we also had some yogurt with fresh fruit, see we are eating healthy! starch is carbo by the way.
we think people should blog instead of tag! if not no one will blog and everyone will tag :D (we sound retarded) haha!
hy says tm is a good salesperson, actually both of them are quite low down the list but the difference is hy is old and tm is new :) (do you understand that?) :p anyway if you all want to buy/renew your subscription for magazines, look for paula who will direct you to the two salespeople mentioned above. maybe they will split their commission with me :D
we are really talking rubbish.
the aircon in the library is very cold, paula complains.
hy is too busy looking around and she doesn't understand why people are studying now.
paula feels deprived cos kentridge is so much bigger than bttimah and has better food.
hy is still wondering why people are studying now, 'it's the start of the sem!' she exclaims.
we think clarine will kill us soon cos we just gave her two big virtual hugs.
we terrorized everyone's blogs.
hy asks if anyone wants to date her on tuesday or wednesday, cos she has free days (paula: -.-) she wants to watch movies! she says the last movie she watched was 'the departed' and she thinks it's abit sad. she wants to watch eragon but it's not showing anymore :(
well, the last movie paula watched was curse of the golden flower which she found very entertaining, although maybe there was not enough cloth to make the costumes for the females. but gongli and chowyunfatt are fantastic actors, jaychou cannot act though. jaychou was the reason why hy didn't want to watch curse of the golden flower. see, one bad actor can prevent so many potential moviegoers!
okay we are really mad.
hy just asked paula if she thinks business has more cute guys than law. paula says uh, maybe it's cos business is a bigger faculty. but the girls are quite good looking haha. maybe NTU has better looking people, does tsemin want to say anything about that? :D hy just told paula what a little boy at work said to tsemin, if paula puts this here she will really get shot. so paula will tell you if you are nice to her and ask :D
hy has to work later :( but today is submitting orders so only two hours of work :D then she and tm will get money and maybe we all have a free lunch coming up :D
but hy has no orders so far :( maybe all the names are tm's haha!
either way we still may get a free lunch :D
hy has to go for work now :(
paula is going back to hall too :(
byebye everyone :(
we love everyone :D
and we hug everyone too! :D especially clarine
HAHAHA
-hy and paula run for cover-
byee!
and blog!

2007-01-10T10:49:00.000+08:00

hello my dears :) aww nic that was sweet :D and no the blog is not dying!!! :) anyway hello dears!! (again :)) i've been cutting paper for the last half an hour for something for chuch so I thought I'd pop by here and write an entry :) I can smell my mom baking something.. ahh.. the rejuvenating power of food.

Anyway, how have you all been so far? Hope this new year is going well so far for you!! :)
Chong!! I'll get to see you before I leave!! -feels happy-

-hugs- i miss all of you a lot! just wanted to say that :) and that i love you all alot a lot

2007-01-10T10:13:00.000+08:00

i hope this blog isn't dying!!

this is for you alll!!

now i know: 'spanish harlem' are not just pretty words to say.
i thought i knew, but now i know that rose trees never grow in new york city.
until you've seen this trash-can-dream come true,
you stand at the edge while people run you through.
and i thank the Lord there's people out there like you,
i thank the Lord there's people out there like you.
while mona lisas and mad hatters, sons of bankers, sons of lawyers,
turn around and say, "good morning," to the night;
for unless they see the sky, but they can't,
and that is why they know not if it's dark outside, or light.
this broadway's got, its got a lot of songs to sing- if i knew the tunes i might join in.
i go my way alone, grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in new york city.
subways no way for a good man to go down:
rich man can ride, and the hobo he can drown.
and i thank the Lord for the people i have found,
i thank the Lord for the people i have found.

2007-01-01T09:54:00.000+08:00

Hi my dears, Happy 2007! May the coming year hand out lots of goodies and life's lessons to all of you =) and may we grow stronger as a batch.

"Drink with me to days gone by
To the life that used to be
At the shrine of friendship, never say die
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
Here's to you and here's to me"

Drink With Me -- Les Miserables

2006-12-30T01:33:00.000+08:00

hi babess~

merrry (belated) christmas and a happy new yearrrrrrrr!!!

guess who =) it's xin in shun's room in london =) and guess whatt.. being in the very festive mood, we've come up with a batch christmass songg. well not really batch, err band christmas song. haha. oh welll here goess:

on the first day of christmas, my true love gave to me..

a r.g.s. band teeeee

on the second day of christmas, my true love gave to me..

two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the third day of christmas, my true love gave to me..

three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the fourth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the fifth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the sixth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the seventh day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the eighth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
eight tubas booming
seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the ninth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
nine saxes singing
eight tubas booming
seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the tenth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
ten oboes piping
nine saxes singing
eight tubas booming
seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the eleventh day of christmas, my true love gave to me..
eleven drummers drumming
ten oboes piping
nine saxes singing
eight tubas booming
seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.
six trumpets tooting
five golden flutessss
four euphoniums
three french horns
two clarinets
and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

on the twelfth day of christmas, my true love gave to me..

mr. oura smiling

eleven drummers drumming

ten oboes piping

nine saxes singing

eight tubas booming

seven trombones blar-clar-blar-clarineeee.

six trumpets tooting

five golden flutessss

four euphoniums

three french horns

two clarinets

and a r.g.s. band teeeeeee

*yayzzz*

well anwzz.. we miss everybodyyy =)

and everybody better tel us your address so we can write a batch contact list againnn =)

2006-12-28T17:12:00.000+08:00

dear all,

hui chong will be officially returning from the land of the rising sun to the land that the sun never sets on the 10th of Feb

now note that down in your calendar!

2006-12-25T19:40:00.000+08:00

hey babes.

merry christmas!

it's the festive season. and i'm spending it with nic and shun! yays! we had a chocolate fondue and boy do we miss u guys! so much! so much! we'll have had a lot more fun,yelling christmas carols, pulling crackers, popping poppers, recalling silly band storiess, humming band songss!

i hope everyone's doing fine, and feeling happy and bubbly this xmas! i don't really like a london xmas i've decied (maybe i'll change my mind after boxing day sales tmr) but in general it's cold and pretty miserable. i love the christmas lights, but i don'nt know i haven't seen any fantastic christmas light ups like in edinburgh or in manchester.. but hyde park is gorgeous as is st james' park. and we heard a brass band and a drum and fife band marching out from buckingham palace.. mann if only u guys were here.. what fun we'd have!

miss u lottss..

2006-12-21T00:17:00.000+08:00

hello my darling darlings :)

I haven't been here in a while, and when I read xin's, chong's, tm's, px's and shun's entry, I just want to give you all a BIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG HUG because I really really do miss you all so much and just wanted to say that I love you all a lot.

I agree with px.. life really was so wonderful last time when things were simpler when we had the corridor, the band room. I think I was talking to tm one time, and we were saying that we should all just live in one big house with 18 rooms or 9 rooms where we can share rooms and just live together and it would work out because we all know each others' idiosyncrasies.. however it's spelt.. my spelling sucks.. and we'd all be happy even though we'll definitely have our squabbles :D and life would be so perfect.

hc.. -BIG BIG BIG BIG HUG- dont' be sad my dear. We shall provide you with scotch tape/cement/glue/double sided tape to make sure your heart doesn't break ok? muacks.

I miss the times mugging together with you guys. not the mugging itself.. but mugging with you all around. whether it was at a library, in rj not just at a levels.. but even like in secondary school. ok maybe we didnt' really study then.. which is why secondary school was so perfect :D and yes shun, i remember that deepavali you came to rj and we all went mad.. i miss going mad with you all

i was listening to this song.. and i thought the lyrics were really nice. they go something like:

don't you ever wish you were someone else..

you were meant to be the way you are exactly

don't you ever say you don't like the way you are..

when you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far

and I hope you always stay the same, because there's nothing about you I would change

aww i miss you all a lot. so here's a big hug from me. :) -BIG HUG-

2006-12-03T23:19:00.000+08:00

oh man haha although the blog is blue somehow i feel a very bad vibe behind it! hey you guys please hang on tight!

when i saw the px entry i was like woah. especially since it's the first time after a very long while since i last came and read everything carefully. then i proceeded to read some more and woah! haha we need some form of relief!

i dun really know how though.

but hc and xy and px! yeah hc dun break your heart too early else you'll have no more hearts to break for your boyfriend or something. and xinyi! haha i really haven't spoken to you for very long cos i hadn't the time to go msn. but i hope that your ir course isn't as crazy as mine. i'm getting tired of all the pessimistic realists and the never-ending struggle between states for security in a world of anarchy and what not.

haha yeah tm i miss studying with you guys! haha i still remember last deepavali when i went over to rj to study with you guys, and clarine was reading that shakespeare play that i suddenly can't remember for the life of me. i think i was doing stats and hy was doing physics and i cant remember what xinyi and paula and iris was doing. px was hiding in a corner somewhere in rj and suddenly appeared around 4 plus (man speaking of which i miss seeing the evening sun at 4). yeah tm was doing geog. haha i can't decide if i miss those mugging days or not. i mean i dun think i want to

2006-12-02T19:43:00.000+08:00

life sucks without you all.

i miss my mafia.

2006-11-29T14:28:00.000+08:00

hey all. havent been here in a few days and you've all blogged so much! ehh my dear ssata and ssato. you all have tagged so much you pushed everything down.. now i dunno wad you all were talking about before this -.- gahhs.

heh. i've finished with exams. and i think we're all suddenly so nostalgic cause studying alone doesnt feel gd, at all.. oh wells, at least i did when i was cooped up in my room and didnt have gd company.

jiayou everybody!

sigh. xin and chong, dun feel so sad leh. one sem has whizzed by (almost).. just a lil more patience ok. then you'll be back! and we'll set aside time for fun! cheer up! -hugs-

bahhs. i wanna give you two a real hug (now yapzhun dun snigger ok) but yeah. cannot. sometimes it was those hugs tt made a terrible sch day better. now even if i wanna give a hug, there's no one tt i wanna hug spontaneously. you guys must be honoured ok. hahaha!

HANG IN THERE PEOPLE! you'll make it through!

2006-11-28T21:23:00.000+08:00

i just suddenly wanted to write this. i really miss all of you...

i hope it doesnt sound like im saying it just because everyone is saying it
and that it's so easy to just type it out without feeling it
but it's true
i really really miss everyone.

and with the added distance and everything...

and xin is right
i just want to say what i want to say
even though people can speak and understand english as well as i do
it just doesnt feel right

theres nothing that can replace you all...

God help me make it back in time to see you all before my heart breaks

2006-11-27T05:16:00.000+08:00

heyy everybodyyss i miss u guys lotss. i was listening to a josh groban song that clarine sent me and suddenly i miss u guy so much so much!! i miss the comfort zone tm was talking about, how we could all just sit together, talk, scream, or just stay silent and yet be equally comfortable with each other, just because we love each other so much. i miss band lots. i miss ponning school to go to the band room, instead of ponning school cos it gets dark at 4pm and cos it's freaking cold and rainy to stay out. i miss practising my clarinet, fingers getting tangled up, tongue getting tangled up.. i miss giving anyone i feel like a great big hug and saying jsut anything i want, knowing that i won't face a violent confrontatino just cos the people here don't think the same o_O i hate filtering the things i want to say. and i love u guyss..

take care kk.. i think ur exams will finish before mine starts =) andd err paula!! i've been eating so much chocciess, everyone says i'm fatter o_O erps. but i can't resist it.. haha!!

2006-11-25T13:46:00.000+08:00

hello everybody :)
haha i've emerged from hibernation! haah i'm halfway through a take-home essay examination about the Singapore Legal System. and sadistically i'm finding it quite interesting :p i have 3 essays to write and i've currently finished 2 outlines so i'm taking a break :) (excuses)
anyway! i have a confession to make. i've been eating loads and loads of chocolate :( like seriously truckloads!! cadbury is my best friend now :( maybe next time you all will meet a gigantipaula. but no worries! i'm eating regularly, breakfast, lunch and dinner (and no, they do not consist of chocolate :p). so this is why i think i am going to ballooon up in size after the exams. how :( haha. i still must try to maintain weight so that we can go for all those food binges together! cheesecake! waffle! icecream! chocolate fondue! food in general!
ooh i can't wait for the exams to end :) let's organise batch outing ya?
okay now back to my exam, (and slamming -ahem- p.ap)

jiayou everybody :) -hugs-
we'll make it!
and take care, don't be like me, eat properly :p

p.s. tm, i do think i drink more water than you.. maybe 3 litres? but that's cos of all the chocolate i eat so it sorta evens out la :p haha!

all my love, paula :)

2006-11-24T09:25:00.000+08:00

HEYOS! haha. i'm back. finished one paper yday. and i'm having my breakfast and i refuse to look at books whilst having it. next paper's mon, so i slept early, had a great slp, and i'm feeling better than i did last night.

congrats iris. and jiayou inez! hah. i bet its ur last paper (n us pple pls dun kill me) just chiong lor. haha.

incidentally, i read the line about iris saying that she was listening to dynamica, i was listening to macchu. den cause it was in my thumbdrive, i got the double deal of listening to stars and stripes again (do i hear groans frm the batch) haha! dunno leh. the end of stars and stripes is so.. happy. and i'm blasting everything into my earphones. i'm almost transported into a world of my own. haha! i'm qt glad my roomie's not arnd, i think she'll think i'm mad.

but owells. i think i'm going quite mad doing stupid things. yday i got so cooped up, and though my door was open, i started jumping up and down (thankfully no one walked past) haizzz. haha.

yikes. back to breakfast (i'm eating properly see.. and i drink at least 2.5litres of water a day k, bet only paula can beat tt) and then i'm going to take a look at my best pal: stats :(

2006-11-23T09:18:00.000+08:00

hello darlings :) how have you all been? hee i just passed my driving test! :) -feels happy- but ahh.. hope you all are doing well :) preparing for exams and crappy stuff like that. aww.. i'm listening to dynamica now, and i was just thinking about you all and how much i miss you!

i agree with tm. i've been spoilt by you all. there's a very different feeling when i'm with you all and with other people. the other day, i met some people going to australia with me, and i don't feel that level of comfort like i do with you all. i think about how we used to stone in the corridor, the band room, lido.. heck everywhere come to think of it.. and we could just enjoy the companionship. blaaaaahhhh.

anyway, in view of the upcoming exams, please drink more water, sleep early and study hard!!!! :) which i'm sure you've all been doing! and don't eat too many cookies and biscuits -looks pointedly at tm- woman!! i tell you, with every biscuit you eat, must drink 1 litre of water. :) hee just kidding.. of course this is coming from someone who hardly drinks water.. i'm a camel. :) anyway, take care darlings.

just wanted to say that i miss you all so much..

2006-11-21T11:13:00.000+08:00

hey all. in the midst of exams. but i cldnt resist the urge to blog.

let me type a keyword here: disparities

maybe we've been too long in our comfort zone. known each other for too long. understand each other quite well. because now i'm increasingly intolerant of certain things around me. new things/people. ha. or you might say, perhaps i wasnt very tolerant to begin with.

maybe i was just spoilt by you guys.

haiz, sometimes i wish people knew just when to shut up. yes, they may wish to fill any void in the conversation. but sometimes i tire of small talk, of listening to inconsequential things. esp when it hasnt been a gd day.

i dont bloody need to start talking abt the exam again (when i haf stopped) just because the people in front of us are doing so. i also dont bloody care if people frm my current sch do actually chance across this wadever we call it, though i know its damn public. i dont bloody care if they know who the dao one is. bloody bloody bloody hell.

i think i'm being bloody harsh on people who might have good intent. but i need to expel those thoughts before they fester in my mind. then i'm going back to mugging, which has been unproductive this morning.

take care everybody. and jiayou for exams! sleep early and drink more water ok. dont fall sick. and i look forward to seeing you guys soon -hugs-

2006-11-12T19:13:00.000+08:00

thiss is xin again, pretending to be nic so it'll seem as though nic has posted a lot in the past few dayss.. i dunno why nic doesn't blogg. she says she has time to do many stupid thingss. well i guess blogging isn't categorized as a stupid thing so she has no time for this o_O nic and ian are having a silly arguments about making beds o_O i don't make my bed usually. haha~ my room is in a perpetual mess. haha.. nic and rui are relatively neater i think.. rui definitely is, but she says she cleared her room cos i was going to come. haha~ i think it's a hostel thinggiee.. why is everyone not bloggigng? where has eveyrone disappeared to?

nic has a frisbee in her room! i miss playing frisbeee!! imiss huiyan. huiyan is my ultimate frisbee partner. as in huiyan is my ultimate ultimate frisbee partner. if u get what i mean. ok this is silly. in microsoft words they will squigglify the ultimateultimate cos it's a repeated word o_O ANW. i shalllll end heree before i fill the blog up wif more crap.. byeee~

2006-11-11T17:53:00.000+08:00

heyyy. this is xinyi not nic =) i'm in her room with ian & nic getting ready for breakfast! rui's at class on a saturday morning!! i swear that's a crime. i can't believe i'm in cambridge. i feel so at home o_O guess it's cos i spent my first four days in uk in cambridge and i'm actually pretty familiar with the roads here, like i can find my way back to newnham by myself. haha! we had a really great di (nic says hiii and nic says she misses everyone and xin wonders why she doesn't blog then grr but the cambridge ppl are mad muggers o_O i thought it was a general uk thing to slack but apparently it isn't o_O) -nner here at fitzbillies, expensive, but wonderful nonetheless =) it's so nice to be here for nic's birthday, i feel at home. like when we dressed up again yesterday, it was like we were going to the esplanade (cos in signapore, that's like about the only place u can wear posh clothes to and not like spend a bomb).

we're going for breakfasttt.. after nic has finally decided what jacket to wearr. haha =)

2006-11-07T17:24:00.000+08:00

hey arlin lied! she said that she's gonna blog but she didn't! somebody scold her for me!

2006-10-30T17:37:00.000+08:00

heyy cheesecakeyy tuesdays sound gd. and waffley tuesdays. mm.
ahh i miss going to yummy eating places with u guyss. haha sakae buffets, and imperial kitchenss, and changing appetitess!! even swensen's.. haha. i miss gorging on earthquakee. i don't htink the ice cream is -that- good. but it's the fun of everyone gorging themselves silllyy. HAHA. i'll err go to the gym and get slimms and then eat a lot with u guys when i come back.. i want to go to the mushroom potttss! the mushrooms here taste gross.

i love huiyany huiyan! *hugss*

2006-10-26T17:39:00.000+08:00

heyos. i guess everyone's pretty busy. xin dun stress! i'm confident that your english is up to par. really. i should be the one fretting about the level of MINE. i know the situation that you're in is entirely different, because you're taking a different course. but still...

your experiences all sound so unique. but you shld be glad that you're safe! why are you hankering for little 'adventures' like that?!! btw, the yellow leaves sound nice :)

was dying to rant yesterday. but that feeling faded away. today, i'm almost done with my presentations for the semester. and something struck me. we always knew that we were different from others, the way we do things, the way we view things, and the way we answer to things. but somehow the difference was even more apparent today. and i was kinda irked. and i couldnt air them. cause no one wld understand anyway. so i just wanted to say that rgssb2003 rocks! totally!

looking forward to saturdays. and cheesecakey tuesday. i wish i could make that plural. hah. but all the same, do join us!

2006-10-25T06:05:00.000+08:00

heyaa i miss everyone. i've been diligently reading all ur entries. but i'm too lazy to write mine. HAHA. especially since i've been thinking about my essay. thinking what i should do. thinking how i should start. thinking who i can ask for help. never actually thinking about the question o_O hehe.

chong's roof sounds alarming o_O how's ur accomm like?! haha. earthquake sounds exciting. i was reading lynette's blog abt it. haha! oh there was apparently a typhoon nearby or somethingg. like near edinburgh? which explained the sudden influx of rain like a few wks ago. but err ya i didn't even really know about it. so ya.

the leaves are turning yellow. and i was struck by how much i miss u guys yesterday cos i had a dream last night. not that i can remember the dream, but i woke up, flooded with emotionss. mann i miss u guys. strangely my english hasn't really improved. i'm quite worried for my essay. esp since there's a line underneath tt goes: if you need help with your writing, get it. it is impossible to do well in th study of politics or international relations unless you can write well. and i just saw it. and i was like ERR. how nice. sighh. i think my current essay will rank about C at most =(

take care u peeps. =)

2006-10-23T11:42:00.000+08:00

iris is back :) yay! hee hi my dears :) hope you all are doing well studying for exams and stuff! and don't stress out too much k? like nic's water bottle last time that i think she got from taiwan.. DUO HE SHUI! :) so yes.. the weather is very cranky, so you all must rest well, eat properly and drink lots of water okay? :) cannot fall sick.

hui chong!! you must get your roof fixed!! :( what if the rain comes again then how? and be careful of earthquakes!

ahh.. i've been listening to the les mis CD and the phantom of the opera cd and i was thinking about you all and was feeling so nostalgic! ahh.. -hugs- i really really miss you all..

i miss liu rui
i miss ling wei
i miss xin yi
i miss hui chong
i miss paula
i miss inez
i miss pei xuan
i miss tse min
i miss bird
i miss hui yan
i miss clarine
i miss marlin
i miss pat
i miss sarah
i miss nic
i miss shun ling
i miss isabel
i miss mr oura!!!

yes and xin and paula! stop surviving on chocolates. :) and tse min stop surviving on biscuits. :) tse min! must go to changing appetites on a tuesday! :) 50% off all cheesecakes!! oreo cheesecake.. -drool- ok ok hope you all are studying hard my dears. love you love you!!
-BIG HUG-

2006-10-17T10:27:00.000+08:00

wow this is a RARE entry lolol

i finally finished renovation and updates for my blog
so yeah
if you are dying to find out what japan is like
you can go there!!------------------------>
or here if you dont know where the link is lol

i have no classes today~~
i always have no classes on tuesday btw because i arranged my timetable that way lol
but not good cuz it gives me the chance to sleep in
and i overslept today >.<
so i missed breakfast waaaaah

my roof is well now
but noone came to fix it though
it just stopped leaking cuz err... the rain stopped
and there was a earthquake near tokyo a few days ago
but i didnt feel anything
what a pity

i tell you all again when i get some violent vibration here!