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

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 =)

hello everyone. i miss all of you =(

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!

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.

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-

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-

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...

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-

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?

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.)

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.

... 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!

exams start tomorrow!

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

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.

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 =)

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.

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.

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

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:/