Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:46 PM
11.46
its been a long time since i've eaten dinner with my family. today was the first in abt a month already since i last ate together with the whole family. and i realised how much they've changed.
my mum's the only one who hasn't changed.
my elder sis hasn't changed in her character or what, just... grown up. i can't get used to the fact that she's working. i mean, she got into NUS but its different. she's supposed to be suffering WITH me. like as in, school. i never imagined her to be so much older. 2 years isn't supposed to be a lot, but it sure seems like it now. can't swallow the fact tt she's working already. and i'm still stuck in school.
my dad showed his other side today. i mean, i saw his other side. my dad under normal circumstances [2 months ago] would be strict and restrictive, no-nonsense and stuff like tt, but today i saw him like laughing and joking with my elder sis abt some monk which he deals with during business being gay and being attracted to my dad and crapping and talking rubbish and stuff... and i realise that my father actually cares for us a lot, like a normal father, but i guess tt he cares about our future and tt once he feels tt we should be on our own and tt we know what we're doing, then yea we really are on our own and he can relax when he's around us.
my lil sis has changed for the better. she's super quiet now. i don't know why but i' m not asking. its good for my ears.
and i realise i changed a bit too. i don't know when, but i know how. i've become less um materialistic i think. like, when my sis was buying a laptop today, i was remembering how much i wanted a laptop just a few months back [december or sth] and i realise that now i don't really want it anymore cause... i don't need it. really. the amount of time i spend on the com now is like less than the amount of time i spend on my homework la. most of the time i just leave my com on and siam. i think spending time with friends personally is different and more important than spending time with friends online. yea so i don't need a laptop. if i don't need one, i don't have to get one. now tt i think of it, i don't know why i wanted a laptop so badly. i just wanted it. and tt's what was wrong with me. i didn't think.
some things never change though. today on the way back home my parents quarelled in the car again. over some dumb topic. money. and its weird. my dad was telling my mum tt she was too frugal and tt she should stop taking hand-me-downs home from my ah-ma house. and tt she should just spend more money and start throwing away stuff. his point was tt if you aren't using sth, just throw it away. if you need it sometime later, just buy again. and they just had to quarell over stuff like that right.
because cider is the elixir of life
12.28pm
shoot shag marry @ island creamery hahahahahhahahahha. details can't go out though, sensitive ahhahahahhahaa.
band chalet + slack slack CSM on monday. can't wait. f kkh is going though. wth.
PI to be edited and handed up on monday, chem lecture test on wednesday. hrmph!
because cider is the elixir of life
Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:28 AM
22 April 2006
12.28pm
today is the 1st anniversary of the 06 outdoor assesment syf.
thinking back, i miss those times in high school. chs life was so much more care-free then what it is now. i didn't have to care who i talked to, what i talked about or why i was talking and stuff like that. i didn't have to study at all. my studies weren't in such deep shit. i didn't have to do so much thinking about non-academic stuff. life was so much simpler and straightforward compared to what it is one year on. argh.
let's compare.
life 1 year back was all about:
> owning other schools in outoors syf
> how to make mrs ke and chen lao shi even more pissed
> wrecking the classroom
> thinking of new stuff to do during class time
> wondering what to do with all the ya zhou zhou kan stuffed in the lockers, cupboards, drawers and everywhere else in the classrooms
> who to play cards with after school
life 1 year later is so much harder. you see:
> trying much harder to get a gold for syf this year. (just a gold, not to own)
> trying to no avail to study
> getting good results without studying
> having to be wary of backstabbing ppl and who you talk to
> having to mind your language and topics covered during conversations
> trying to manage time between band homework and slack time
> still missing S60
> still trying to fully assimilate into chinatown and S6J
> dealing with various teachers on my academic disaster
> meeting ppc over me slamming some teachers on my blog
> monetary woes due to escalating phonebills
> practicing for syf
> how to form a compromise for everyone's demands
> trying to get more motivation to do important stuff. like mugging and lessons
> trying to keep awake during lessons
> trying to balance my social and academic life
you see?
so much less stuff to worry abt. and now i've got to figure out some way to pass my physics test tmr and absolutely own my maths class test on tuesday. if not i'm screwed.
and i suddenly miss the time i spent with 07S60 a lot. as in A LOT. i was trying to find my notes hidden somewhere on physics and i just chanced upon this stack of old term 1 worksheets all
i don't really like life in jc anymore. its so much more stressful. i don't know.
sometimes i feel as if i shouldn't care so much and do stuff like break my already strained relationship with some ppl in my new class (i think) and just heck it but i'm not sure if its beneficial for me. i just don't know anymore.
i'm not so sure of myself now, and if i'm not showing it then uhh yea i'm less assured as compared to last time. i don't know if i'm making the right choices sometimes. um like i play and slack with people during school time, but they study when they go home (i'm sure this time.) and i sleep when i go home. so i'm not really sure if i should play and slack during lessons. its not beneficial for me, but its what i come to school for. not for lessons, but for friends. school would be pretty meaningless for me if i were so disciplined.
i'm less confident of myself this year, maybe its because of this new environment shit and stuff like that, but its different and i just don't like it.
"hwachong institution military band - DISTINCTION."
because cider is the elixir of life
Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:05 PM
crayons suck.
11.06pm
i am tired. guess why.
crayons are the begining of all destruction.
today i went to my ah ma house. and then. my small cousins were doodling on the floor of the corridor. ya and they draw until damn hiong, draw until reach the stairs there. worse still, they finish already they faster siam.
knowing the complains tt'll flood my ah ma, we nice good peace-loving considerate responsible young adults forsaw the catastrophic consequences and hence decided to do What Was Right and help them clean up their shit. and ugh, we regretted it after a while cause it was like, damn tiring argh. crayons wtf. shao water-resistant ah. a bit easy to clean off...
aiyah, but it was beneficial for us in a way cause we in some way trained our arm strength wow and yea our stamina. by the time we finished we were drop dead tired and sore and we already had neighbours complaining abt the noise we were making washing the floor. the cheek of them to actually scold us when we're being so considerate to help them clear up the mess.
but i believe that, what comes around goes around; what goes in must come out, and go in again. hence next time, when they're all teenages with better things to do, and when we're middle-aged working adults we shall like doodle on the floor and leave the mess behind for them to clean up. so there. leave them in a pile of utter tiredness and sore muscles.
to add to that, in the morning we bandits had to join in shueli's slimming program and go join her run a few rounds of the track with her as punishment cause we were late for band prac. and then we went to kap for breakfast and promptly gained the calories we burnt. after tt heh went back to high school and while some went to have sectionals/individuals a few of us slackers went to play bball for like 2 hours which killed all of us. and although we had a bath at salt center we were still dog-tired after tt. to compound matters we had 4 hours of band prac after tt. physically tired, mentally boshed. wow. and i still have to start mugging for physics and maths tests next week. ugh.
i feel tired just thinking about it.
i think i'll just go to sleep.
all in all,
crayons suck.
because cider is the elixir of life
Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:53 PM
burn out.
9.54pm
i passed my auditions. wow. i doubt they were going to kick anyone out of syf anyway.
i'm exhausted. burnt out. wasted. finished. geegee-ed. whatever. i've been sleeping lots, but i think its not physical, but mental. i need a long break without work or worries. wow. i'd like that. really.
maths monday test hasn't realy helped much. and i haven't started studying yet! hahaha. i need to stop procrastinating.
if only one could replenish one's mental health as easily as physical health.
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on a side note - there are people whom i don't know reading my blog! lots of them too! oh no! hahahaha.
because cider is the elixir of life
Friday, April 13, 2007 1:51 PM
taxis. wow.
8.51pm
somebody doensn't like what i'm saying here. then don't read it. doh. where's the brain.
i just banned him and deleted his posts. :D:D:D
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today ahahha. friday the 13th wasn't actually so bad after all. that is, after school.
went to one of shawn's mum's saloon to cut hair cause ken yeow said my hair was too long. hehehe we went to the noobest barbers shawn's mum had and it was in TANJONG PAGAR. weeew. true to his word, shawn gave us (me and eric) the noobest of noob barbers and we duly got our shitty haircut. now my hair looks like a pile of shit. but better still is the next part.
after dinner at BK eric didn't want to board the MRT with his head looking like shit so he whined and begged and we eventually cabbed home. NOW friday the 13th took effect, and it must have wanted to make up for lost time, cause it hit us really hard.
taxis. argh. first, there was this few nice people standing in front of us, and they kept trying to kope our taxis. with no avail. cause the taxis were ALL BOOKED OR OCCUPIED. argh. we started flagging taxis when they finally got one cause we were just too damn lazy to walk in front of them. here the nightmare starts. the side where we were on had sparse traffic. and lil taxis too. when we finally caught sight of some taxis, we got dao-ed by 2 taxis. rejected by 2 (partly cause we wanted to go to payer lebar marsiling and bishan and partially cause its time to change shift).
then since the other side had more taxis, we decided to cross the road. aha. then after crossing, this empty taxi pass by and we forgot to flag it. argh. then got dao-ed another time, and rejected another 2 times. then this asshole of a car decided to park right in front of us and covered us and we duly lost a half a dozen cabs cause they couldn't see us. then the supply of taxis sudden'y stopped. and the other side of the road (the side we were formerly from) suddenly had this influx of taxis and hence we decided to go back hehehehehe.
got dao-ed by another taxi driver, got rejected 1 more time and the coup de grace came when this mercedes taxi had his taxi sign on, but when he saw us flagging his taxi e faster switch to busy and scoot away. oh myyy. the bai lei aura of the 4Dians finally came back to haunt us and we all zi high by the roadside. hahahahaha. but we zi qiang bu xi and finally got our taxi, driven by a friendly bangla.
final count: 3 daoed 5 rejected 1 uber daoed (busy sign) and 1 let slip. all in 30 minutes.
on the taxi we were damn bored la, so we played daidee and bet the taxi fare. and in the end we were even cause eric had a damn imba hand the first round. so we each won 1 set before we reached my house. so aha. 10 frickin $ la. all because i'm such a nice friend who accompanied shawn and eric on the taxi. but it was funnnnn.
parents day today. right at this moment my mum's prolly talking to june yang and listening to all the bad stuff i've been doing. oh no. hahahhaa. we'll see how later.
till then then~
because cider is the elixir of life
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:56 PM
silver
11.57pm
just back from home. today was an awfully sombre and sad day.
on this fateful day, 11th April 2007. HCIMB got a silver for syf07.
not like its their fault, they played well, maybe even better than we did 2 years ago, but the judges were helluva strict and didn't give us the gold.
tuesday 10th april 2007:
the snrs went back to visit the band to give them some pep talk and try to motivate them. we were all still going gold with honours (gwh) gwh gwh and although most of us knew tt it was an unrealistic target, its what we've always aimed for, and will be what we aim for. in the past, we worry about whether we'd get gold or gwh. this year it was between gold and silver. the line was awfully fine la. results from the first 2 days scared us lots. school bands which got gwh for syf05 ended up getting silver, only one band improved, the rest deproved. quite disheartening, but at that time we were still hoping for a miracle, praying for the best. to add to that, the band stayed over at salt center. although this might seem as a shot in our foot, the teachers in charge somehow let, no ASKED them to stay over for the night. and ya we know the results. they got abundant sleep ah.
wednesday 11th april 2007
8am:
band gets ready, boards the bus. on the bus most of them sleep. the rest talk rubbish. i mean, when you're really really nervous, you start crapping. really. on reaching singapore conference hall (SCH), us snrs leave them to warm up and stuff, and we go eat breakfast. met the nanyang bandits there too! sylvia andrea cheryl chung yan yu min ai wen and other ny seniors. went inside SCH at abt 9.20am
9.30am:
HCIMB goes on stage. played sunrise and invocation and toccata. seriously, it sounded good la. i mean, much much better than when i first heard it, and certainly somewhere between silver and gold. we had the chance. nanyang went 2 bands after us, they played safari and jericho. and it was awesome. i mean, they owned the high school side la. i actually enjoyed safari for once. the difference between samantha chong and rim rip hua was evident for all to see.
11am:
lawrence siao ( outdoor instructor and ccab guy and the announcer for today ) gives us inside info. he says "you all played well, but i'm sorry." enough said. the other bands sucked. break time.
11.45am
we packed up and started leaving. didn't want to lose face in front of others yar. we figured we had to prepare for the worst and it wasn't really nice to break down in front of others.
12pm:
reached salt center once again. by now our silver was already 90% confirmed. some started crying. chan-lam tried to give a speech, but she broke down when she reached "you all must be strong". how ironic.
1pm:
silver confirmed. our nightmares have been realised. omg omg omg. now people really started crying. over at ny, they were celebrating. they had every reason to. they were the only band today to get gold. other bands like scgs anderson fairfield all got silver. shitty really.
its something to see the leaders, the teachers even rim rip hua, cry. its even worse to see the whole band crying. all but 2. aik hwee and eugene were being asswipes and laughing for hello-what-reason. damn insensitive can. even the seniors started crying. i guess i was close to tears as well, it took lots to hold back. you know how there's this deadly silence after a hydrogen bomb drops? well now its the same, just tt it gets broken by sniffling oh-so-often la. majors made emo speeches, teachers tried to console the brokenhearted, everyone was trying their best to console one another, to no effect. it prolly added to their sorrows. after tt the teachers had to close the band room so they went to the old band room to lag instead, and when i say lag, i really mean lag.
its quite scary really, to see men (or boys?) really break down and start wailing. crying their asses off. those who haven't got hit by reality were stoning with a sort of stunned look in their eyes. everywhere there was dead silence other than the muffled sounds of sobbing. its really something to see the band so awfully quiet for once.
this experience certainly made me look at our own syf in a new light. its just 1 more month away. 1 more month to figure out what the hell the judges want of us, and fix it. 1 more month to figure out all our parts and to do whatever can be done. i think at least, some good have come out of this disaster. for one, mr lim is on his way to the graveyard. his head is on the chopping board, knfe poised and ready to strike. for two (hehehe), this has made me even more determined to get a gold for our syf. in the past i sort of took it as a given that we'd get a gold, but this hard truth has made me realise that nothing is garaunteed in life. suddenly i want the gold really badly. for the juniors who've tried so hard to get what they wanted, yet couldn't get it.
for sure, they're tried hard. the last week they stayed back almost everyday, until late at night at abt 9+ pm to finetune their pieces, but i guess it didn't work out for them.
i don't want to go through this traumatising experience again. i don't want to get a silver. if we seniors are feeling that bad abt them getting a silver, what would they feel? we can't even begin to imagine what they're feeling right now. if i'm so close to tears when they've got a silver, i can't think what i'd be like if we got a silver. i think i'd cry badly. serious. it'd be my last syf. i don't want to screw this one up. i've never gotton anything other than a gold before, and i don't want this to end. like doh.
i'm pretty confident abt the juniors getting back the gold in syf09. the sec 2s now are a dedicated and hardworking bunch, not to mention pretty talented too. so yea, they should be fine. honours again!
i want that gold so bad.
because cider is the elixir of life
Saturday, April 07, 2007 4:59 PM
band band band
11.59pm
it is easter in 1 minute. let me hearby celebrate this joyful occasion by telling you the joyous tale of a band member.
monday - band [prac 6pm - 9pm]
tuesday- band [section tutor 7pm - 8pm]
wednesday - band [prac 6pm - 9pm]
thursday - band [ww sectionals][which i ponned.]
friday - band [outing! 2.30pm - 11pm]
saturday - band [prac 9am - 1pm][saxa + flute outing 1pm-6pm]
sunday - band [rehersal @ SCH 2.30pm-?]
wow!
band pracs are mundane, but the outings after band pracs more than make up for it! like um good friday!
me ernest sean da xian chin seng weeliang andy sheng heng rujun jessalynn.
hahaha met @ city hall, supposed to be at 2.30, but ppl slowly trickled in, most came at abt 3. ate beard papa. played pool at marina square. wanted to go bowling, but bowling alleys were FULL. so we put down auntie durai's number and den went to eat. chose jack's place after comtemplating pariss, thai express, pizza hut, yuki yaki. 7pm at jack's place to commemorate the dying of jesus. the 11 of us sat down on this long table, reminiscence of the last supper. this would be the perfect scence from the da vinci code. we had 10 men and 1 women! mary magdalene aka auntie durai. missing 2 ppl though, and like the last supper. we ate good food, drank good drinks, ate GODLY american cheesecake, and screwed the nice cosy restaurent ambience as per normal. ernest and chin seng got scammed by the waiter of $10! after they paid, he turned back for a split second, then turned back and hey presto! $10 disappeared! hell of a magician, better than harapan santoso ong mannn. the bowling ppl called to tell us tt got lane liao but we dao them.
after tt walked around esplanade and saw ppl pimping and PDA-ing and again we couldn't resist the temptation and crashed their nice romantic moment. awwww...
went home at abt nearly 12 cause i TOOK THE MRT WITH BEARD PAPA when i had a direct number 10 bus home. jahjahjahgahgahgah.
good friday really is a good friday, though i broke my fast. at least it was worth breaking the fast, if i die at least i'd died with a smile on my face, knowning i'd died for a good cause. as in good food la. 1 meal [ dinner ], 1.5 meals if you count the beard papa.
because cider is the elixir of life
Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:12 PM
movie
10.12pm
i suddenly feel like watching mr bean or 300.
don't ask. i don't know why.
because cider is the elixir of life
8.21pm
some extract taken from the 04S60 blog made by their CT:
I got to attend wedding lunch that day. Will miss your all.........Really.
Yes. Will miss you all But please remember. Dont make too much noise and laugh too loud. I dont like to hear young people laughing......
And......Remember my dears, intelligence is measured on a log scale. Ar best it is zero at worst it is negative infinity.
While there are limits to intelligence, stupidity has no boundaries. Good night!
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wow. godlike.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:45 AM
(:
9.45am
ok. i'm back to blogging. heck teachers/backstabbers. i've got plan b now.
COUNCIL ELECTIONS TODAY!!!
and i ponned cause at first i wanted to go one. then cause of the super sian band prac ytd, i got home at abt 12 and went to sleep immediately, w/o switching on the alarm on the clock. so ya, overslept loh. (: woke up at abt 8, heard unsavoury comments on the elections, so decided to pon and sleep in. (:
i think i'll go later for econs lecture and sectionals with derence leng at 7 zzz.
lots of stuff to talk abt since i haven't been blogging for like, 2 mths. yaaa back then i was still with 60. ):
1. demise of 60.
14th of march 2007, 8am, class bench. no more 07S60. 07ex60. wtf. they claimed it was due to : admin error / lack of teachers / timetabling problems but its all damn retarded. later word got out tt dennis yeo said our class sucked in studies so they disbanded us. we're still going strong though, dennis yeo can go fuck himself for being such a zhai CT.
2. 07S6J
wah. at first hor, ver depressing when i tio 6J la. can rmb, was friday 16th march, abt 1pm, at band room, den marcus called to say i was in 6J and i was like wtf. prc class again nia. map class. like i dun haf enuff of prcs in 3D and 4D. wah tt time ah, damn depressing la. great depression part II. as if breaking up 60 wasn't enuff, the fked up admin placed me in this totally alien envorinment alone, with no one from 60 following me, and chock full of prcs. AHHHhhhh!!!!
but now its better la. i realised the locals are just as anti-prc as me! they mugggg, but they're crappy too! and there's AN AWFUL LOT OF POLITICS going around in the class. crazy.
3. teachers.
good thing abt 6J is tt they're teachers OWN. ken yao is legendary la. his maths teaching absolutely PAWN ego yeo's. at the rate i'm going i'll ace maths in promos. i actually understand stuff you know. i don't know my chem tutor's name, but anyone can own my former chem tutor. physics we got tanks the mad scientist, who might be schizophrenic (sp?). this one alvin low is much much much much better la, but this is the only one. gp we got JUNE YANG! who owns. she is 038729384 better than llama ong la.
but the lecturers are zzz la. chem we still got HOLY. yeaaa the last time we had lecture she spoilt the mike with her zomg soft and demure voice. maths lecturer really sucks. i have no clue at all on functions. physics lectures....? i really have no none at all recollection. really. so you get the drift hurh.
4. band prac.
is getting zzzz. everytime during band prac, leng will take us for warm ups, tuning, den do stuff for brasses while the woodwinds slack. for a few hours. and i'll either run to da xian and his psp or laptop or guai lan with mj or clean my flute or play phone games. a bit interesting ah.. and band prac is ------- late la. they now have night pracs REGULARLY CAN. like this week we have band prac ytd from 6-9, den today have sectionals with leng from 7 onwards, den tmr have band prac from 6-9 AGAIN. and thursday to friday got some imaginary band chalet, but its too last minute so i dun think many will go. saturday got 80% chance tt there's band prac in the afternoon from 1-5, den sunday there's rehersals for syf at the syf venue in the evening so omgwtflalala.
then tt time the j2s thought we ver slack cause shueli one day just random spot check only see a few ppl having individuals, den wtf they hold the j1s back on saturday after band for 1hr + to give us some
wah but i think it did have an effect on me la, i'll go down for individuals more often, mainly due to the fact tt i CANNOT STAND BEING FORCED TO LISTEN TO 1HR OF THAT SHIT ANYMORE.
5. council elections.
i love council elections! hahahahaha. the gimmicks they give out is 1337. everyday got free sweets, got free milo/lemonade/liang teh/just tea/corn cup. and they prvide other stuff too! like this paper tray for holding doh paper. and pillow from apollo cause we're sharing the class bench with 7F the new class. though we kick them out sometimes. and table cloth from lin chen. and stickers from scribble! and deo from lin chen's grp. aiyah, mainly council elections is zhai cause of the freebies la. but the candidates this year i think cmi la. no pun intended. no impact whatsoever on the audience.
6. frisbee!
we broke our 5th frisbee this year. going to get the 6th. we won games day for athena! hahaha. the whole team was 60 except for wanjing and lydia from 68. ahaahahah. we're going to win FOS too! for 60 la. it'd be catastrophical if we don't get to play as 60, cause the frisbee champs will go to some other class who hasn't broken as many frisbees as us, played as much as us, entered classes drenched after breaks as many times as us and got chased out of the central plaza as many times as us. which is SAD. so yeaaa we're going to play as 60 whether or not they let us i think. who cares abt the fked up school admin. rawr!
2 more hours to school. (:
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