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