Sunday, October 7
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-
Thursday, September 20
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-
Wednesday, September 19
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.
take care everybodyy...
Friday, August 24
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-
Wednesday, July 18
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?
Monday, July 16
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.)
Tuesday, July 10
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.
Wednesday, June 6
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!
Monday, June 4
Friday, April 6
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.
Friday, March 30
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 =)
Thursday, March 22
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.
Tuesday, March 20
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.
Sunday, March 18
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
Sunday, March 11
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:/
Sunday, March 4
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
Thursday, March 1
Thursday, February 15
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...
Tuesday, February 6
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
Wednesday, January 31
(because inez is the one who uploaded this photo, it actually has a border -feels smug- )
clarinet polka on the tuba!
Tuesday, January 23
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..
Monday, January 22
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
Sunday, January 21
Saturday, January 20
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..
Thursday, January 18
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
Wednesday, January 17
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!
Friday, January 12
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!
Wednesday, January 10
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
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.