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

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!

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!

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!

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.

hey guys it's japanese graffiti V



O_O

hope everyone's doing well =)

greetings from hiroshima!!!



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

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!

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!

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!!!

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-

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

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:/

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?

"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...

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

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!

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..

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

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

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..

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

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!

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).

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!

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

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.

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 =)

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!

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..

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-

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

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!

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

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!!

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 :)

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 :(

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..

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-

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~

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 =)

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

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*

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!

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. =)

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-

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!

heyhos. couldnt get down to work. dunno why. apparently no haze today. it's quiet. but i just cant get concentrate. i'm not even on msn k. have been so guai lately. (maybe too guai liao :p) decided to blog.

i miss shopping with xy too. haha. i STILL need clothes. but the matter's not as pressing. besides, too bz and far away from civilisation to go shopping. and then again, there's the problem of not being as moneyful as ever. no more income :( no more money to spend and eat good food, and i HAVENT eaten at changing appetites, neither have i eaten at mushroom pot. yet. oh man. see what happened. i'm craving cheesecake now :( talk abt food right.

ehh. you all ah. since i'm being guai right, i've mostly been having proper meals k. and i've a tonne of fruits with me :) biscuits are my breakfast and my snacks.. how could you deprive me of them?!! heh. havent had chocs in ages tho. too heaty to consume too much :(

oh and sl's room looks nice.. the furnishings look nice and woody. haha. ur place looks much better than ours. only i wldnt wanna have carpeted floors.. imagine spilling something on them.. it'll stink :s i guess you dun haf a choice tho, you'll be living in a cold cold environment. haha. i gather the accomodation with the attic room is the one that was being renovated when you landed over there? it looks cosy..

oh and i hope chong is well, apart frm her leaking roof.. i gather it's mended alr? wads it like to experience a typhoon :x

sighh. i shall try to get back to work. sch's an ass. i'm feeling weary. bahs. see the rest of you guys on sat for rwinds k? will be able to attend pracs this month :D

hello my dears :) i'm feeling super uber bored so i thought i'd drop by and say HIII :) and that i miss you all so so much :( hee i overslept this morning so i didn't go for my first lecture :D -feels happy- and tse min is having a discussion now and then will have a lesson and will end when i start my next lecture so i can't have lunch with her :( -grumbles-

where be nic and liu rui? and ahhh.. :( i miss chong, shun, nic, liu rui and xin!!! :( -HUGS- i have just been stoning around my room for the whole morning and i'm soooooo bored. bleh. i think i'll go eat my lunch soon then come back to my room to stone again. life is so boring.. and inez has already moved out so i'm all alone in a super deluxe single room.

shun ling! your room looks very pretty.. :) so.. british. hee hee.

ah i'm crapping. and yes i agree with xin yi.. tse min stop snacking and paula stop surviving on chocs.. although.. we probably could ;)

aww love you all!

heyy everybody, unlike nic and rui who haven't been updating the batch blog since they've arrived (hah!), i'm here again =) okay, maybe cos i'm really free today. i only haf jap tutorial and jap lecture, and since it's beginner's class, i'm still way ahead of my class. AH there's a squirrel outside my window! the squirrels here are really cute, they have such bushy tails =) like the cats here, they have so MUCH fur it scares me. and the doggies here are really cute too. there're many daschunds around, and i love to see them waddling down the pavement. i once saw this bulldog panting and huffing after its master (who was only walking btw but the ppl here walk so fast so...) and they are so obedient it's amazing =)

anw i really miss u guys. the only thing i can look forward to is like meeting shun in dec, and meeting rui and nic?? during easter holz. i miss huiyan! huiyany huiyan.. i miss shopping with tsemin and not buying anything (haha!) i miss everyone! i saw this choc fountain in this shop down some street and i thought about our last batch outing at nic's house and the gorgeous choc fondue we had =) i haf the photos in my laptop. err i'll upload it sometime ok =)
yay. i uploaded my uk photos alr.. somewheree. i'll link it to our batch blog =) yay. so everyone can see how pretty uk is =) everyone take care!

ps i hope tsemin stops eating biscuits and paula stops eating chocs.

hello everybody! i just listened to the mickey mouse song. do you all still remember we used to sing and hold it on the bus everytime we came back from some performance? i was thinking how this tradition came about. maybe it's to train our breath! haha..anyway, i miss singing it and i miss all of you.

hey pple.. it's oct! nothing interesting happening tho. just decided to mention tt cause our blog was feeling/looking dead. i think i'm much too 'free' for my own gd. i'm just blogging for the sake of blogging cause i'm too stoned to do anything. as you could probably infer by now, I JUST HAD STATS TUT :( and i come out feeling bloody retarded, and i dun understand half of wad the guys saying and he likes to skip questions. and i tried to catch up on tut til 2am to no avail :( i'm like THE model student. haha. and i walked back to hall smelling of cigarette smoke cause some bloody idiot decided to smoke in the stairwell at sch. i came out gasping for breath can. stinkos. and so i'm feeling smelly :( ok i'm ranting. thats obvious. and cl for ur information i'm having RICE for lunch today OK. i'm NOT subsisting on biscuits :P yep. btw. i think the air has been horrid recently. i need a proper mountain to live on :s

bye everybody. i will really miss you all. )=

okay i'm crying already and i'm not even at the airport. )=

hello this is clarine. at Yushof Ishak House Canteen with some stupid brown cow called sl. sl says Moo. arlin claims that one day she will blog. arlin has switched seats with sl so she can see the screen.

arlin says sl says Moo.

cl: Arlin say something
arlin: something
arlin: (timeout) is my favourite chocolate.
arlin: thanks for telling the whole world

We ignore sl because she is brown (brown t-shirt which she claims is too small) and saying ridiculous things.

arlin suggests that sl take this opportunity to do all the things she never dared to do because she was afraid of the consequences.

arlin: sl is bashing me up.
sl: do I need to face the consequences

hui yan comes back from the dentist

hy: let's go to the student lounge, we can play pool ....
sl: let's get this opportunity to record down her secrets

sl wants to say something in her defence

arlin claims to want to blog over the holidays.

everyone is complaining that i'm typing rubbish but they don't want to type it themselves.

sl has amnesia because she obviously cannot remember what she is saying.

sl thinks the world is against her. sl= k in kafka

clarine needs coffeeeeeeee.

hy: hy went through the table to say hi
arlin: sl wants to marry a pig

we ignore sl whom we currently detest.

[insert much more rubbish]

arlin: sl stands for stupid loser.

sl possesses a mickey mouse bag.

now we go to view hy's ppt.

hellos why is tm so depressed! cheer up oks. study! i don't feel all that inclined to read my books and stuff in my room, not when i've finally gotten my internet set up, but hey girl, let's study, just a few more years =)

the people here walk VERY fast. and i know why. cos all the girls dress damn skimpily and it's cold. the wind is so strong i get blown off the stairs, like literally ok, luckily i was holding on to the handrail. ok i guess i wasn't really paying attention and the gust of wind caught me just as i lifted one foot to move down. anw, back to my point, so you gotta walk really fast to gain heat. maybe clarine will be relieved to hear that i've started walking faster too =)

yeah, and i will err soon, err set up a blog. yeah. in fact i'll start looking for a skin like now. i promise.

everyone SMILEE! and be happy.

heyos. i'm posting today not cause i've any exciting stories to tell. havent been climbing any hills/mountains lately, unless you wanna talk abt my daily pilgrimage up some hill every morning. but here's a piece of bad news: tm's feeling whiny :( and of course you all are unfortunate to bear the brunt of this, both in the real world, and in the virtual world.

i've got more free time now. but i just dont feel like doing anything. and so, this stupid girl keeps winding up at the batch blog.. like 500 times a day, cause i've nothing else to do.. dont wanna study, dont wanna do go lect, dont wanna do anything. but no one else has posted! so unhappening -sulks- and i keep going through archives. damn sad can. i think everyone's like super busy, and i'm wasting time away.

this sounds vaguely like the way hy used to post just before prelims and a s last year. only she kept posting and supposedly didnt do work. i keep coming here and really havent been doing any work.

bahs. was thinking abt footdrills on the way to school today. i miss it. i finally realise why i cannot stand the way certain people walk. thats because their gait is downright sloppy, to put it in ly's words. dont know why i didnt figure it out earlier. it suddenly clicked today. haha (yah i'm slow) but yeps. i think even if we tried our best to do footdrills now, it would still look sloppy due to the lack of practice :(

yeah. i wanna climb a real hill too ok! xy said she was scared to death. i think my life lacks adventure. how boring. sighhs. school stinks.

hellos.

i climbed a hill the other day, like climb, like rockclimbing climb, part of it anyway. i was scared half to death okk. if i had slipped and fell, i could have rolled all the way down the hill, not funny at all. all because we took a wrong turn and went into this narrow, non-existent path which ended at a cliff and the guys insisted on climbing instead of turning back o_O at least the cliff wasn't high.. like about 2 or 3m? i don't know. i'm terrible at estimation. but i hate climbing. but the view is gorgeous up there with mist rolling about the grassy patches of the summit. literally on top of the world.

rui is in stratford now! she says she took photos wif statues of shakespeare, hamlet and lady macbeth! haha.

i did scottish dancing the other day. man it's something our batch MUST do mann. it's so fun and mad and exciting, especially if u haf an insanely large group of people and half of them are drunk and are whirling around uncontrollably. it's called a celidh and it involves mad spinning, lots of skipping and confusing change of partners. haha. i hope i remember when i come back to singapore. i think i'll join the scot dance club cos i can lose weight and it's just so much fun.

hello my dears!! :) hope everyone is doing ok!! :) hope you all are not stressing out too much/enjoying orientation/slacking (like me :D) or whatever. :) i just wanted to say that i miss you all very very much!! it's really nice to come back to the blog and just read the posts when i'm feeling down, because it really cheers me up so see stuff that you all write, and so, write more!! (of course, coming from me who hardly writes, but you'll see more of me hereeee!! :D)

it'll be really cool 10 years down the road when we all meet up.. some of us may be carrying babies when we meet up. haha it'll be really funny if we name them after each other. :D ok that was retarded.. but still :D then we can talk and hee if we play gr again, it'll probably be punctuated with squeaks and mispitching and swearing (like oh shit wrong note or stuff like.. what the hell..) haha but that'll be fun.. we must do something like that! :D

just want to give you all a BIG HUG and tell you all that i love you all soooooooo much :) and that i miss everybardy ;) haha i just thought of the "I CAN SEE YOU ALL WITH MY INFRARED VISION.."

i'm so glad everyone is fine!! =D =D next one to fly off will be shunling, and then me, and then next year iris and possibly sarah.

sighhh i hope that at the end of the day, like 10 years down the road, we'll still get messages from like peixuan or huiyan or me or anyone saying like 'hey batch outing this friday meet at where what time okay?' (=

and then we'll meet up with like everyone and see how everyone has evolved. and then on july26 we'll crash the rg band room and play gr horribly but who really cares, really, because as long as it's all of us and we're playing together once more, who really cares?

hey i'm in edinburgh. rui's in the lake district now. there's like no reception. but if you all have anything to tell her, you can tell me and i'll sms her cos it's free till like 31 sept! whee. i'm going to climb arthur's seat on sat with some americans. pretty cool eh? btw that's some HUGE mountains the locals call a hill. like wth man, bukit timah is a hill but not arthur's seat ok. stuff's pretty cool around here. i'm lazy to update more but i'll do tt when my laptop internet connection's up and when i finally upload my pretty photos. tink i'll get a new webshots album wif user name xininscot or sth.. ahha. yea.

there's not much entertainment arnd here (yea there's cinemas and stuff but it's pretty ex, i'm catching a play on fri tho) except clubbing and i dun haf clothes for tt SO. ya. anw it's dangerous, i wanna go wif ppl i trust. so maybe next yr when i haf more close frens, i'll check out the night life and mb bring u all when u come? ever? haha. anw this dec i'll be in london i think for a short while? yea cos my fren's going there before flying home, so i'll hang around wif her so i wun die of boredom in halls. ppl, email me!! i promise to reply. promise!

hey everyone!

and huichong i'm really glad that you're safe in japan now! :)

so all we need are liu rui and xinyi to report their arrival to us. haha i wonder if they have the time to do it man.

and well actually i dun have much to say... except that well, all of us rock together.

haha that's all.

bye hui chong!

hello everybodyyyy!!! i haven't been here in ages ages ages ages!! how've you all been? i've been quite cranky lately.. miss you all a lot a lot. :( -hugs- i was listening to this song the other day about memories and good old times and stuff and i was feeling so sad!! because i miss you all so so so so much. :( hai.. the good ol' days when we used to rubbish around the corridor.. hai hai.. miss you all sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. feeling quite sad... hai. and so many people are going away.. must keep in touch ok?????

ugh i'm in my room now just doing rubbish and rubbish and rubbish and getting withdrawal symptoms.. :( i should crash rj.. nic's lesson :) or crash nus.. anyone care to be a tour guide for a few hours? or for one lecture? :D

really miss you all X infinity...

much much love from iris :)

hello everybody! =D

i crashed nic's lesson yesterday! it was a j1 class and i was wearing a j2 shirt. i had to pretend tt i was doing make-up for a test. anw, i think i gave myself away cos i was trying to talk to nic during e test n i was peeping at other pple's ans n dis girl was like staring at me. but i wasn't trying to copy, i just wanted to check if my luck was gd. e test was on bio! virus! i noe nth abt it la. anw i scored like 5/23. i think i scored e lowest in e class, but i think i was e most diligent student. i took notes thru out e whole lesson when nicole was explaning e answers.

anw, i think nicole is quite a gd teacher! she went like 'oei shut up' a lot. but tt's not why she's a gd teacher. she's quite gd at explanations la. considering im totally not a bio student, n i was still able to understand what she was talking abt =)

HELLO PEEEEEPURRR THIS IS NICOLE.
and huiyan is here beside me haha.
we're in the rj com lab and huiyan is breaking all the rules because 1. she's not a student here 2. she's not a teacher here 3. she's in shorts and she's not supposed to be in the lab. BUT i'm exploiting my position as a teacher in rj so she's not getting scolded or anything (yet).

hello everybody!=D

clearly huiyan is a person of many words.
okay she really got nothing to say already.
but anyway she just told me that my entire list previously was wrong. so we gotta redo it haha oops. and can someone like please make this list permanently on the side or whatever haha i don't know how to do.

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liurui
university of cambridge
natural sciences (biological)
gic scholarship

lingwei
national university of singapore
law

xinyi
university of edinburgh
international relations
stb scholarship

huichong
waseda university
communication

paula
national university of singapore
law
ministry of home affairs (prisons) scholarship

inez
nanyang technological university
business

tsemin
nanyang technological university
accounting

peixuan
national university of singapore
medicine

elizabeth
nanyang technological university
business and computing

huiyan
national university of singapore
business accounting

clarine
national university of singapore
arts and social sciences

arlin
national university of singapore
science (statistics)

patricia
national university of singapore
nursing

iris
nanyang technological university
biomedical science
[changing to monash university
medicine]

sarah
singapore polytechnic
mass communication

shunling
london school of economics
international relations and history

isabel
university of south california
business

nicole
university of cambridge
veterinary medicine
agency for science, technology and research scholarship

hello everybody! =D im back! how's everyone? anw im too tired to continue, just want to say tt i love n miss u all =) i'll post again soon!

HELLO PEOPLE SHAMELESS ADVERTISEMENT:

NTUSB Concert!
26th August 2006
7pm
ACS(B) i think. or (I). i think it's (B)
Mrs Lee somethingsomething Theatre
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yayyyyy please come okay? you don't have to come to support me or inez or livia or christineocta (okay that's all the rg people in there), but come to support MR OURA!!

get tickets from me or inez or anyone else you know in ntusb or at the door.

comecomecomecomecomecomecome!

oh yeah the concert is called: REEL IN! because we're playing movie music. sounds like take off huh haha.

okay yup take care you guys!

hey pple. just came back frm hall camp. was surprised to see so many posts!! our blog is usually so dead.. haha. anws. yah. lets lets all go out on national day. i've missed you all loads! we can watch the show together too, but i think it's boring. and contrary to what ssato says, i wanna watch the drills!! i like drills. i like watching drills. their flowery performance is another thing that i cant be bothered abt. the fireworks are secondary to me. but i'll watch them with you all if you all want to spend the time together.

and yes iris, i'm now officially ms grumps. and not dao one. haha. i think they're interchangeable. so hecks.

anws. it's been a wk since i last saw you all. i've missed you guys loads! it's different with our batch as with others somehow. i feel almost telepathic at times. we know what each other is feeling and what they want, we know their quirks and all. and of course, as xy said, there are no pretenses amongst us. even if we had, i think it'd be difficult to hide la. i heard 'jia' the other day. and i had no one to share shunling's song with. cos no one wld understand it, nor wld they know that changing lyrics or making up songs seems to be our batch's (or shunling's) forte. haha. so i was singing it under my breath and getting mildly amused, but at the same time missing all you people.

sch starts tmr :(

see you people soon. i'm really looking forward to the next outing! haha. and even more so for the unplanned outing to go to london to visit the geps and watch les mis :s oh wells. haha. love you all loads.

hello everybody i miss everyone sooo much!!
the three days we spent together were so wonderful. thanks huiyan for all the preparations she put in!! it's with u guys that i feel really at home. we could sit forever and not talk and yet still feel comfortable. we could grouch, whine, be ourselves and everything is ok cos we accept each other for who we really are. there were no pretences, all guards down. it's with you guys that i can really be me!! thanks everyone for such a wonderful time.. i love u guyss!!

SOOO let's meet up on national day kk.. we haf enough tattoos for quite a few ppl i think.. we haf only 2 caps, 2 small flags to wave about.. we all dress in red and white okk.. maybe we cut out white cardboard stars and stick it on ourselvess.. hurhur! i think i'm mad.. okk. but it'll be fun.. and i want to collect as many memorable moments as i can wif u galsss (and tsemin the guy =P).

HELLO PEOPLE

LET'S GO OUT THIS WEDNESDAY NATIONAL DAY AND BE PATRIOTIC!

xy and i went to ndp preview last sat so we got all these caps and tattoos and flags (well, actually only enough for 2)

so let's go out on wednesday afternoon and go about town being patriotic! since we're all leaving and may never get to do this again (i doubt it actually)

in the evening if we're lazy we can troop back to someone's house and watch the show (although i must say it's not that good, only the fireworks are good)

or we can go to someplace and catch the fireworks. (=

yup. so how?