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:/

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

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