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2010-01-06T19:30:00.000+08:00

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2010-01-05T21:36:00.000+08:00

SRGCE SHANGHAI 2009

2010-01-05T10:05:00.005+08:00

Day 7 - Shanghai

We visited Fudan university and baosteel factory. At fudan university ,we attended a economic lecture by one of the professor there, the lecture was in english with regard to shanghai 's economic.

Fudan university

bicycle 's culture ;P

At night, it was our last shopping in shanghai @ nanjing road

Day 8 : Shanghai - SIngapore

We visited a bookshop in shanghai which was 6 levels high. The majority of the books sold there was in mandarin but the books were very cheap, compared to the price sold in Singapore. I mananged to get 3 books , 2 of which is by 'ji mi' one of my favourite literature author. The books cost around less than $10 over in shanghai, but in singaproe, one book can cost up till $20++= or $30 +++ .

HEaded for lunch and pudong airport. We took the 4.30pm flight and arrived in Singapore at around 9.50 pm plus.
Well, this trip was a good learning experience for me to see how fast china is changing,especially shanghai ( the financial hub of china) . I will miss the cold weather as well as all the fun that I had with SRGCE SHANGHAI people. The 6 months worth of effort and preparation was worth it.

2010-01-05T09:58:00.005+08:00

Day 6 - shanghai

Visit to shanghai museum and back to hotel for Internal presentation ;) And before i forget , on one of the days, we visited Shanghai urban planning centre too.

Shanghai museum ( 5 levels )

Shanghai urban planning centre

2010-01-05T09:19:00.008+08:00

DAy 5 ( suzhou - shanghai)

SRGCE shanghai group is officially out of Suzhou and back in Shanghai . In the morning, we went to Zhou Zhuang and visited two wealthy men s' house built years ago.
Zhou Zhuang was known as the 'western venice'. Houses were situated on opposite sites of a river. The scenary and the weather was great :) I learned a lot from what the guide of the day told us. Every single items in the house had a meaning to it. For example, the young mistress of the house cannot lean back against the chair and there is a hole through the chair. This means that the young mistress is not married and do not have a '靠山'. Whereas for the mistress of the house, she can lean against her chair and there is no hole through the chair. This indicates she is married and have found her '靠山' already.

Then there was this stone which could be used to forecast the weather. If you touch the stone, and feel it's a bit wet, it means today will rain. We touch the stone, and indeed it was a bit wet. At the same time, it was drizzling.

After viewing the house, we started our shopping. I must say we are good at bargining ;) Teachers included ;)
Thanks to the purchase of a scroll by some of us, we were delayed by 1 hr + and the tour guide and the bus driver was a bit piss off. Sorry about that, but on the scoll there was a poem writen based on one's name. Therefore the writer must think before crafting out the poem based on the name.

We got back on the bus and return to shanghai for lunch, before proceeding to the shanghai world financial centre (which was finished building in dec 2008) and the pearl tower ( most significant building in Shanghai). Next up was dinner on a boat. SOme people got giddy as the boat was slanted to the side. We were almost late in catching the cruise along huangpu river. The ride was great as we get to see the night view of shanghai ( pudong and puxi). There were a lot of photo taking as well ! Except for the fact that towards the end of the ride, it was raining and the weather was super cold with the wind blowing onto you.

Shanghai world financial centre

Waiting for the life and inside the lift...

Pearl tower

quening up to take the lift up the pearl tower...

Cruise along huangpu river

2010-01-01T13:04:00.005+08:00

1) Suzhou Industrial Park

- We visited the Cultural Centre and saw the milestone as well as models of buildings of the entire SIP. The flats in SIP were modeled after HDB flats from Singapore. But yet they looked more like a condo to me. Also only in SIP do you find simlar scenes from Singapore that you would never appreciate back home. There were trees on both sides of the roads and in the middle of the road, flowers were grown. This reminds me of the expressways in Singapore.

- NExt up, we visited a garment factory as we witnessed the process of making cotten and turning it into clothes/ cloth.

- Lunchtime was great as we tasted Singapore food such as fried rice, curry chicken and fried noodles for the first time in 4 days. I finally get to experience how it's like to miss food from home and how touched you would be when you get to taste food from home in foreign country. Everyone were happy during lunch that day :)

- Third stop was at zhuo zheng yuan ,a residence built by a rich man in the past.

- Fourth Stop was Suzhou Silk Factory where we saw how silk was collected and the uses for silk. Our teachers bought pillows and some other silk products while the students ( us ) did not buy much. It was considered quite expensive for us.

-After dinner we proceed on to our hotel ( zhouzhuang). On the way, we witness the beauty of Suzhou as it was lighted up. This scenary was different from the buildings and houses we saw in shanghai. Over here, it was more of lakes and bridges, reminding me of the chinese saying: ' 上有天堂,下有苏杭'.
On the way, our poor bus driver lost his way for three times as the roads were dark as we entered the '苏州古城' where houses were similar to those we usually saw in tv drama. Our hotel was horrible in the fact that it looks eerie and creppy. Almost all the girls were scared our of our wits when we entered the hallway to our rooms. At the two ends were corridors which was very dark and our rooms were just in the middle of the two ends.

Khairiyah and jeevita s' room was dark while chloe 's room was slightly dark too. So fast forward to the end of our story : All 6 of us sleep in my room , shared with hui yu. We even moved one mattress from chloe 's room and carried the chairs over. In the morning we shifted everything back to where it is. It was a fun and COLD NIGHT ! The hotel do not have heater and everyone was freezing cold. The gloves and socks and three layers do not help . Being scared, we even left the toilet door open when we bath and dared not looked into the mirror while bathing. One of the guys ' room had a blackout and they cam running in the hallway. Everyone can't wait to leave this place and we were grateful that the hotel in shanghai was way better.

Pictures ~

2010-01-01T12:44:00.003+08:00

Day 3

We visited Asia pAcific Breweries where we shown the ingredients of making beer , the machines as well as those above 18 years did have taste of beer.
There was a presentation by one of the Singaporean working there. I have learned that the beer industry is actually considered Perfect Competition. SIngapore's beer industry consists of mainly Calsberg and Heninekeen outdoing each other. I have also gained more knowledge of the beer industry in China and learned that although China 's demand for beer is increasing over the years, the profits made is still lower compared to european countries. The reason being the Chinese s' aim to keep the price of beer low. So it doesn't mean that as the consumption of a good increased , the profits will increase too.

Next up was Parkway Glegeagles Health centre, after lunch at Mcdonald. We learned more about the private healthcare service in China and how it caters to mostly expats. They even have an operation centre as well as wards for patients to stay in after their operation. The Q & A part was fun and it provides us with greater knowledge of the private healthcare industry in china. All the questions for internal presentation popped out as each speaker started to post their respective questions to our guide of the day. She used to be a dentist but switch to being an adminstrative manager.

The day ended with dinner with businessmen from Singapore working in Shanghai. Our group met up with a lady who was working for DBS in Shanghai and she filled us with her own encounters and experience living in Shanghai. Almost all the Singaporeans we met told us that if one do not go after a luxurious life , it is actually considered quite cheap to live in shanghai. After which our group went over to Team content 's table and had a chat with a Projects Manager working in Singapore-Shanghai international school. He turned out to be quite humormous and filled us with details of his own life experience. He is currently studying for a degree ( when we met him) and now he had gotten his degree.

I was thankful to our teachers for arranging for us to meet up Singaporeans working or studying in Shanghai. It feels good to see fellow Singaporeans in a foregin country. They told us that indeed they miss home, especially the local food such as 'Chay guay tiao', chicken rice and hokieen mee. They told us that if given a chance or opportunity, one should grab that chance given to go overseas to experience a different lifestyle and culture.

2009-12-16T11:23:00.004+08:00

Day 2

We visited Shanghai High School, an elite school on par with Singapore Raffles Insititution. However the students we interact with were humble and nice. One boy told us that he had visited Singapore in 2005 and like Singapore. The SHS students bombarded us with questions pertaining to our country and school. We were quite taken aback (I guess). They had obviously done research about Singapore and SRJC and prepared questions to ask us. The questions they asked shown that they had put in thought to be able to came up with the questions. We managed to answered their questions. Next we spilt up into 4 different groups and the interaction begins. We found out that to get into university, chinese students had to take an entry exam which will determine their future. University was divided into 3 levels. 1st level : Univeristy , 2nd: Something similar to Polytechnics in Singapore ,3rd: Something like ITE in Singapore. The 1st level was what the chinese students were striving for. Competition was intense as everyone work hard to achieve their goal. This was similar to us, SRJcians. Next year we would be striving hard, competing with top notch JCs in Singapore to get into the 3 universities in Singapore, especially NUS. At that point of time, I felt that SHS students and SRJcians were the same. We had to work hard to get into the university of our choice.

The SHS students also shared with us that Chemisty, English and Chinese were compulsory subjects to be taken. The rest of the subjects were sometimes not what they want but had no choice but to take it, for the sake of the entrance exam to univeristy.

we sit in for 2 lessons namely math and english lesson. FOr maths lessons, functions were taught. We observe that the SHS students do not have lecture noted but a notebook instead for them to take down notes. Moreover the teacher explain to them how the formula was derived. In Singapore, we were lucky to have good and passionate teachers who were willing to go the extra mile for our sake. LEcture notes were well prepared with solutions. IN SHS, the scene was different. The students were fully enganged as they do not want to miss important points the lecturer had said. No one was sleeping, chatting nor looking out of the window.
This was something that Singapore Students could learned from them. Subjects were taught not with the aim of achieving good results but also the aim of deveoping interest and passion for the subject itself. In singapore, we were brought up to view academinc to be extremely important than all other factors such as our interest in the subject. All we know was to do well in the subject. Who cares whether you like it or not.

SHS has a conducive environment for the sutdents to sutdy with the huge garden they had. Imagine studying there as each season changes.

( taken from yahoo )

For dinner, we had interaction with NUS students who were studying and working at the same time in shanghai. For my table, we had joyce. She was a 3rd year student from NUS who is working and studying at Fudan University.She told us her experience and what she had learned in Shanghai. We also displayed the 'HABITS'valuse which is to ask questions.

2009-12-16T11:00:00.003+08:00

Well, I am officially back from SRGCE SHANGHAI 2009 ;)
The trip was trully an eye-opener which allowed me to gain experience and learned about China's culture.

DAY 1

I woke up at 3.45am and arrived at the airport at around 4.55am. Next we waited for everyone to arrive before we check in. This is my second time taking a plane after so many years. I was nervous but at the same time filled with excitment. SO 30 hunks and babes, together with literally 6 teachers ( 1 from Xinmin Secondary VP and 1 teacher from North Vista Primary school joined us for this trip ).

First thing I was greeted with was a strong smell coming from people smoking right in the airport. This was something that you couldn't find in Singapore Changi Airport. Well, this is just the start of the 8 days journey surrounding the 'Smoking culture of China' (Barry's theory ).

We were greeted by our tour guide for the next 8 days. She was really a nice peron and is from Hangzhou. She bought us to put our luggage in the bus as we proceed to the airport for our lunch. The weather in Shanghai when we touch down was cold for me. Lunch was great and cheap ;). We proceed on to take the Maglev Train which was pushed forward from the last day to the first day.

Maglev train was super fast, able to travel up to 430km. It was a good experience for all of us as we would never be able to find it in singapore due to limited land capacity.

(taken from yahoo. Pictures taken by me to be uploaded on facebook)

NExt we arrived at XIN TIAN DI. A palce which was home to poor people, renovated in the 1920s ( If don't remember wrongly)and turned into houses known as SHIKUMEN with the merger of western and eastern culture. We tour around the place and learned from our tour guide that XIN TIAN DI was a place where westerners living in Shanghai like to come at night to have a drink at the bar. Locals do not usually visit XIN TIAN DI. The weather was then Super cold and night falls in at 4.30pm.

( taken from yahoo)

Dinner that night was horrible as team publicity found out food filled with some strains of hair and the food did not taste good. We headed to our hotel ( EXPRESS BY HOILDAY INN ) at PuXi ( Old shanghai), greeted by a heavy traffic jam. Many fall asleep, while i look out of the window. Roads in shanghai were now undergoing renovation, preparing for EXPO 2010. Every corner in Shanghai was taken over by the EXPO 2010 mascot ' Haibao' as well as the banners telling people to be gracious and the theme for EXPO 2010 : Better City Better Life.

Learning point: Singapore Youth Olympic Ganes is going to be held next year but yet we seldom see any banners nor advertisements showing the spirit of YOG 2010. The atmposphere in Singapore shown nothing of passion and excitment for YOG 2010. Unlike Shanghai, you would find shops selling sourveniers for EXPO 2010 and signs of EXPO 2010 was seen everyone. I find that Singapore could actually learned from the Shnaghainese,to shown more passion and excitement for YOG 2010. It was not easy for Singapore, a small country with no natural resources and limited land capacity, to be able to win the bid. So I urge all SIngaporeans to shown concern and to be proud of Singapore. The Chinese authorities are trying their best to change the bad habits of the people by putting banners everyone telling people to be more gracios. This coincide with the goal : BEtter City Better life.

2009-12-04T09:58:00.005+08:00

Hoilday is finally here , after a month + of hard work and anxiety.

1) A-level H1 chinese exam
2) Project work Oral presentation + Q & A ( Op = My best presentation in 17 years of my life )
3) Re-exam
4) 2 weeks of supplementary lessons (In fact is a full school day)
5) NExt year our whole class will upgrade to 2A07 :p except Emma who is going to 2A04 due to different in subject combination. I guess the class will miss her together with shafiqah, glenda, nila & annissa.

Hoilday Hw [ lots and lots of them ;( ]
- Maths tutorial chapter 17 & Intergration
- GP articles
- H2 Chi Lit hw : I got to read through the entire book on '雪山飞狐'. Why don't they choose something nicer . I rather read '射雕英雄传', '神雕侠侣' than '雪山飞狐'whose storyline seems boring to me. Mom study it before and she claims that '雪山飞狐'is boring to her too. Well, in order to complete my homework, I guess I have to read throguh the entire book.

- H1 geography : GOt to revise through 3 lecture books and completing the Graphic Organiser.
- Econ : Revise through 3 lecture books and complete the entire tutoril in Market failure and prepare for test when sch re-opens

YEAR 2009 last chapter
- Shanghai and Suzhou trip
-meet up with besties
-Going out for a movie with yi ting
-Meet up with altos ;O
-meet up with primary sch besties
-Christmas

YEAR 2010 : A-level exam
When Sch reopen, it is going to be a hetic year just like the whole of last year . Filled with TESTS TESTS and MORE TESTS + NAGGING and Reminder from teachers constanly + REVISION DAILY 24/7 if possible.

PAST
PSLE = most important exam to me back in P5
O-level = the one exam which determine where you end up in for the next 2-3 years and most likely affecting your future too

PRESENT
A-level = Most difficult and hardest exam on EARTH for the past 17 years, and it is going to be the one exam which really determine your future .

So anyway people, happy hoildays !!! Stay cheers

for chocolate lovers

2009-11-22T10:39:00.006+08:00

PART I

Came across this at article asiaone/health matters today.

According to some researchers in Australia - A small bar of dark chocolate a day can keep stress at bay .
Well, that may signals a good sign for chocolate lovers, especially those who adores dark chocolates like me to eat it, without a sense of feeling guilty.

Dark chocolate, which is rich in a variety of bioactive compounds, also partially corrected other imbalances in the body related to stress, making it a natural way to ease stress.

But a gentle reminder: Choclates are high in fat and too much can lead to weight problems. Well, all food should be consumed at a suitable pace and limit, too much will definetely lead to health problems.

Humans know it but well, sometimes we have the urge to try food that we know that might cause harm to our body like KFC fried chicken. We 'll just have to try to control the temptation :)

PART II
I went to Bras Basah, Suntec City and Marina Square with ying xuan yesterday. We managed to meet Beverly, wan tian , sally and Yi hong ( secondary school friends) For me, I met one of my jc friend too. I was joking with ying xuan, 'if only i get to meet my primary school friends' then my day would be completed. Anyway, the reveal of the 2010 youth olympic mascot took place at Suntec City where the camera man caught a glimpse of me. Yeah , I was on TV for 10pm news on channel 8 for a split second. Well, at least they caught a glimpse of me.
We had some Q & A session where we managed to answer 3 questions pertaining to youth olympic and won some prizes. There were free balloons too. Ying xuan got a purple one while I got a blue & red one for my 6 year old cousin . He was so happy when I gave him the balloons.

BAD thing : All the kids were staring at me when I walked around with the 2 balloons ;)

On the other hand, at Bugis there was a SEA games'booth. People would give their well wishes to TEAM SINGAPORE, which ying xuan and I did. There was a lucky draw and she gotten a notebook, while I a fan with the words ' I love TEam singapore'.
This leads us to thought of Liping who was a devoted fan to Singapore and loves everything about Singapore. SHe was indeed a true singaporean. We joked that she would do anything but to rush down to Bugis immediately just to sent well wishes to TEAM SINGAPORE for SEA games 09.

After that , both of us went to visit the christmas and electronics fair where we met sally, wan tian and yi hong. They were there for the ANIMA ASIA thing. It's been a few months since we last saw each other.

AT marina square, ying xuan & I watched the Winx club stage performance. The fairies look well, emm, a bit bimbo according to YX. But the trix looked much better than them though.

Reference

: http://sg.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=dark+chocolates&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-101&fr2=tab-web&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=19&ni=18 ( for chocolate picture)

: http://health.asiaone.com ( for the article)

2009-08-17T12:18:00.000+08:00

PArt I

Time flies and soon, Promotional exam would be starting from 23rd sept with GP in the lead.
Very worried about many things. First time in my life I am worried about being retain. I wouldn't allow that to happen but things doesn't go your way some times.

CHoir practice would resume this week on wednesday and friday after our 'break' from the SLO performance.

The combined performance with SLO and 2 other secondary schools was a blast. Went through many first time and last time.

1) FIrst time entering the backstage of ESPLANADE, which would be the last time.

2) First time performing at Recital Studio and last time as well

3) First time singing with the whole SRJChorale outside school, without wearing the SYF costume ;p

4) First time performing for our seniors.

Photos are up on Facebook. So i wouldn't upload here ;) The backstage of esplanade is a maize. You would be lost if you were exploring it alone. It does resemble a hospital look but well, never mind.

So after SYF was this performance which took away my saturdays for 2 months. Now I do hope we could take a rest and concentrate on our studies again .

PArt II

I was at the floating platform viewing the NDP 2009 for the first time. I managed to get 4 tickets, so went there with my parents and yan ting. It was fantastic, the atmosphere was brillant. Every year on this day, somehow when i recall the years singapore had been through to what we achieve today, tears would well up in my eyes as I sang the songs.
Once again, HAppy birthday singapore and may everyone live in peace and harmony ;P

The national day rally was good and I take my hats off PM lee. He managed to talk from 6.45pm , if i am not wrong till 9.45pm, with short intervals in between. He sort of memorise the script I think. He shows us that a good presentation need not consist of only the talkings but also the showing, which he did. I love the video showing the future in which the whole marina would be transform into. It will be a nice hangout for many singaporeans in years to come.

I salute MM LEE for what he had done for SIngapore.Without him , singapore wouldn't be what it was today. Even though I am not born in that era, I am grateful to him and all others who lend a helping hand in the MAKING OF SINGAPORE.

2009-08-17T12:12:00.001+08:00

PART III

Currently at home. Gotten a 1 day MC. HA hA whenever i have any MC in the past few months, i still came to school for lessons and skips CCA only.
My stomach hurts from last night till this morning all because of something silly which i did.

I had thai bee hoon for dinner yesterday. Mum instruct the lady not to add in chili into the bee hoon. SHe knew I can't take the spicyness. Well, the lady didn't but she place chilli looking flakes similar to the ones u put in for spagehetti. I thought it was and never dream that those little flakes would make the food so spicy. Not even drinking 3 cups of cold drink would help.
I didn't want to waste food so I finished up the entire plate of bee hoon.
Then my stomach started to pain.

This morning i thought everything was fine and I went off to school. When I reached school, the pain returns. HAd no choice but to call mum and she wants me home to go and see a doctor. SO end up I went home when people are walking into the school.

So went to see the doctor and gotten 1 day MC. I don't know why, whichever doctor i see would only gave me one day MC. Anyway i miss one lecture and 3 tutorials today. Got to go for counsultation tomorrow.

2009-06-21T11:57:00.005+08:00

SRJC chorale after SYF

OUting with besties ;P

2009-06-21T11:29:00.002+08:00

A lot of things happened within these two months ...

1 ) Choir Syf 2009 --> We achieved a bronze award. We must be the first school being so happy when we received bronze award. It was better than nothing. It was good enough for me for the hard work we put in and the bond we shared is what matters.

2) MYE --> Badly I guess? But i will buck up during june hoildays and make sure i do well for EYE

3) Learning to let go of memories and life in secondary school. LEarning how to adapt and face changes in life.

4) Meeting up with gals during june hoildays. I miss them a LOT ;P ( applude for me if you guys see it ) Without their presence in school is so weird . JIa ping mention this : ' Shouldn't have let me meet you guys. Now I got higher expectations on the new friends I made . Why they are not like you all '

Well, I say this means good and bad.
GOod thing is, in your life there are many people who appeared in your life. BUt who really makes a impact on your life and leave behind footsteps in the sand that tells the story of you life ?
For me , is entering CBSS.
Mrs ng asked ying xuan and I this question before : " DO the both of you regret choosing CBSS ? "

OUR answer : "NO" .

ALthough CBSS is not a 100 % perfect school with perfect students and teachers, it holds a lot of memories for me.
It was there that I realised * the importance of studies ( didn't study hard during my primary school days ), there that i made * friends who impacted me a lot . Seeing them hardworking to strive for good results promote me to do so too . And I hope they can continue to appear & impact my days ahead, * The teachers who gave in a lot for us and we only truly appreciate after we graduate. Teachers whom I will never forget , * values that were taught ( PRIDE ) and the character I am shaped into .

To conclude, 4 years there haven't been wasted as I learn a lot of things and had fun during the years spent at CBSS. It was truly memorable and enjoyable. If I were to choose again , I will still choose CBSS.
JUSt think about it, if I never choose CBSS, would I be able to meet ying xuan they all and all the teachers who taught us well ?

So which people leave behind footsteps in your life ? THink about it ;P

2009-04-07T18:27:00.003+08:00

I went back to CBSS last thursday to collect the o-level testimonial and certificate. I WAS SOOOO HAPPY to be back at SCH !!!! BUt sadly my schoolmates and classmates were not there anymore. SO it feels weird going back and everyone was sort of glazing at YIng xuan and I who are in a different uniform from them. THe security wanted to follow me to go in to take the cert and wanted me to go out of the school , after collecting. I managed to sneak into the school and went straight to library to find library auntie. Ying xuan and I complain that she 's the best librarian ever who communicate with the students, back at our school, the librarian can't ne comapared to her. Then we chatted for a while.

HOW I MISS THOSE DAYS WHEN chun hui, jia ping and I slack during our duties , how kirti, ying xuan , jia ping and I used to go to the library to study. ANd the time we spent in the library with our classmates and schoolmates before proceeding to the hall for o-level papers. THe library may not be that fantastic but yet,it's the best library in the world.

NExt stop, hall where the speech day rehersal is going on. MAngaged to talk to ms tan and she told me that chi literature had to be memorize .Then MRs Kwong came over to ask about my subject combination. Say hello to ms verona and mr yeo.
YIng xuan came down from band room and we proceed to find ms ang .

We had a longgg chat with ms ang . I asked her about GP and she told us that she wasn't very good at GP as well. SHe said she was better in narrative writing.... ANd so was ying xuan and I. We complain to ms ang about jc life ( although I complain more ) and how we sort of regret choosing jc.

MS ang told us that some of her friends who went on to university, regret not choosing jc. I understand that jc is preparing students for university but the stress level is very high. Life is busy with work , you feel tired everyday. My sleeping time is the only time I can relax and I miss everything about CBSS from teachers to canteen food and ESPECIALLY 4E1 ; though it's been 2 months at SRJC. MS ang told us that once we get pass this 2 years , everything would be fine . Same thing as what mrs ng and mr wong said. But well, saying is easier than doing.

I feel as if happiness had disappeared from my life. THe thoughts of going to university and the thoughts of my 4 gals and teachers are the things that helps me to survive a day at school.

I know I still got a long way to go... I choose this route myself and I got get through it by hook or by crook. I have no other choice , do I ? Others are proceeding on with life and I have to get myself to adjust to my life now. No matter how much I hate it , life still goes on.

Hopefully kirti, ying xuan , siew kiang and I can survive through... All the best to us ;)

2009-03-15T10:21:00.003+08:00

Hoilday = No hoildays
What are hoildays for ?
Out of 5 days, I am going back to school for 4 days or choir practice and choir camp ; 3 days of lectures and tutorial.
SO I am left with only one day which is use for gathering with friends. Finally we can see each other like after months. We are celebrating kirti 's birthday in advance. Just the other day, Yi ting was telling me how she met up with her friends like once a week , then I went ' i met up with my friends once every 3 months'. The reason was because it just so happens that our birthday falls somewhere near the hoildays or during hoildays, so we can only met up once every 3 months. Another reason was because ying xuan , kirti and I are in jc; so we are extremely busy. IN another one month's time, it wil; be chun hui and jia ping 's turn to be busy as they entered poly.

Soon, I will be so caught up with homework, tests and PROJECT WORK which will lasts for around 8 to 9 months. I will have to do well for all subjects so that I will be able to get into a local university where the competition is very intense..
Well that's life in singapore. Everyone you go, there's bond to have competition. COmpetition may be good as people can improve themselves from there. However, I am not thay type that really enjoy competing with others.

How I wish my time could turn back to the past, but well unless someone invent some time machines, my wish will never happens ;)

2009-03-10T18:25:00.002+08:00

Life is eh...okay so far. i just hope that the bond between my classmates and i will get stronger. But afterall I still missed 4e1.

Events updated so far. I have got a series of tests coming up, starting from economics and mother tongue H2. Not forgetting tons of homework.

I went out with ying xuan last sunday to ( I don't know the name) CC near her house which is on the hill leading from ang mo kio mrt station. We were there to study. We officially stop studying at 6pm + , and I went to her house just to take a look on her economic lecture book. It was simplified unlike mine, full of words.
Then we chatted in her room about the good old days and present experience in our junior college.

Upcoming : march hoilday = nothing
That was because I had to go back to school for a series of lectures and tutorials. On top of that I had choir camp which is intensive training ( preparing for syf). Hopefully like what the teacher in charge said, we could have a BBQ , that's nice and it would be fun. By the way, we had 3 BBQ pits in our school.

So that's my life for now... until project work starts after the hoilday , i will have no life at all :o

2009-02-17T19:32:00.004+08:00

LECTURES and TUTORIALS official start ...

YEsterday had Pe, MOther and Lit, GP , maths . FIrst thing teachers talk about = expectations and what the subject was all about. My pe teacher is the nicest. She's an ex-srjcian and won 2 bronze medals at SEA games for canoeing. She called us to take a class photo so that she can remember our names by looking at the photo. Maths teacher was a man . He's nice and a jokes around sometimes but you can better not mess with him. Yesterday had 3 and a half hour break in total including lunch. School ends at 4.30pm.

Today , first thing in the morning had maths lecture. Learned about binomial expansion this time , working with negative powers ! I seriously need to go through my a-maths textbook again... then is mother and lit , maths tutorial ( quiz on partial fraction . I score 9/10 ( counted for CA ) , econ lecture (the teacher was quite funny and reminds me of mdm how ) and geo tutorial ( only one from arts steam taking H1 geo and only one from my class . Weird. Everyone was in groups ). My general knowledge wasn't bad. At least I can tell from Africa and Europe; and all the 7 continents and 5 oceans.
School ends at 5 pm today with CT period ( Assembly in the hall ). School did a attire check on the entire J1 cohort ( more stict than CBSS trust me) . HEre they spent a great deal of time on cultivating us on character and values. Exactly like CBSS. So I must say CBSS really taught me a lot of things.

1) how to study hard for what you want
2) Character and values ( PRIDE ) . SRjc is ( ASPIRE)

Fallen sick again...arghhh I have a bad sore throat and it hurts when I talked. THe doctor gave me an MC for tomorrow but I guess I will still go to school. Don't want to miss any lessons.

YIng xuan mention about an uncle selling ice-cream and ... ( check her blog out)
I AGREE WITH YOU GIRL ! I hope that uncle comes to my school. Sadly to say, our school's security guard is really good and alert so no trying of escaping from school.

JC is similar to poly except they get to go out during breaks ( we CAN"T ) Especially for arts students , like me. The science students had lesson all packed and a break or two. I like it here cause after pe , there's an half an hour break for us to cools down , change into uniform and get prepared for next leassons.

That's all i have for today... Ying xuan and kirti if they are reading .. let's mugged together. WIll be thinking of u guys when I am in the library mugging.

( LAst day of orientation in LT 2 )

2009-02-10T17:05:00.004+08:00

Today was officially my seventh day at Srjc. We were splilt up to different classes yesterday and the games orientation begins. My bond with my OG group had just grew stronger when we had to spilt up into different classes. Beckloo was in the same class as me ; while mirjam, angeline and athlea was in a class and emmila was with cecelia. The rest were spilt up. Kind of miss them cause they are fun people and they crack jokes every now and then.

Now back to my class. It was TOTALLY FREAKING WEIRD. I guess it's all my fault for choosing H2 mother tongue. So basically my class ended up with a lot of people taking Malay as H2 as well as tamil at H2 ( get what i mean ) and the number of chinese taking H2 mother tongue were VERY VERY SMALL. So far only 5 !
Next only 2 boys in my class, the rest were girls. I 've heard that there's a science class which are exactly like my class. All girls , only 2 boys. Then another science class was all BOYS with only 6 girls ( CAuse the subject combi was PHYSIC, cHem , math . Normally guys take up this subject combi ) . Weird right . Is like uneven gender in the class. Gosh , I had no idea how I am going to survive for 2 years. Looks like I had to use studying as an excuese to get pass 2 years.

ALthough the school 's a nice environment but still it can't be compared to CBSS. I seriously miss ying xuan , jia ping and kirti s' quarrels and the boys ' lame jokes and 4e1's super active spirit. The teachers too for doing their very best for us. I miss CBSS 's canteen food. The food here wasn't very nice. The cafe's food was slightly expensive.

Made a few new friends so far but I hope as time pass we can really click with each other and help each other in school work .
I hope to make more friends in CCA.

To all 4e1 guys and gals ... all the best
To ying xuan and kirti ( if you are reading )let's mugged together for 2 years
TO jia ping and chun hui...don't slack in poly ;)

2009-02-02T18:53:00.002+08:00

A totally whole new environment ! It's complete different from going from primary to secodary . Now it's moving from secondary to junior college. I am pondering whether I made a right choice in going. Or is it the same as going to a poly. This very morning the principal had a talk with us about the percentage of people going to jc which is lesser than the percentage of students going to poly. He also askes us why did we chose a jc education. Is it because we wanted to enter university ? He then told us it doesn't matters which jc we go ( or where we go) . At the end of the day it depends on us. He's right and I agrees with him. The school's not bad. Environment quite good. But I can't click with people from my OG. They somehow clicks on well with each other, chatting away. But I somehow can't really like fit in with them. IS it because this is only DAY 1 ?

Meet up with ying xuan . SHe also can't click with her group ( only in Cjc they call it IG - Index group , but ours was OG-oreintation group)
Well , I guess we really miss each other + CBSS + teachers and lastly our dear class 4E1 !!! I seriously miss the laughter and joy we shared as a class. The bond between us stregthen even on the 1st day of school 2007 as we come together from different class. CBSS is really a sheltered home and you can find that jc is not. I hope that my bond with my OG will be stronger and I can click well with them.

ADAPT TO CHANGES !!! That's my motto for now. I really need to get used to this whole new environment and believes more in myself that I can achieve something extrodinary .

2009-02-02T06:43:00.002+08:00

in half an hour's time , I am reporting to an entire new school. No longer will I be a secondary school girl but a junior college school girl. It also means being one year older. I am so nervous. But luckily I had adeline and jia jia as accompany. But we are separate into different oreintation groups. I wish that my groupmates would be nice and friendly. I am so nervous and I seriously miss my classmates and my friends. I miss my teachers too. FIrst 2 months in CBSS also like that. I miss my primary school. Now I am missing my secondary school. Time heals . Hopefully that's right.

All the best to ying xuan and kirti too in their jc.

2009-01-12T08:23:00.002+08:00

In another 5 and a half hour's time, I would be getting the long waited resutls which I dread receiving. For the past one week, ever since I get hold of the day the resutls would be released, I haven't had a good sleep. Keep thinking of the worst marks I would achieve and I keep having nightmares . FOr example, of mrs menon handing the results slip to me and I open it and saw L1R5 : 20 and the next moment I ended up in an unknown school which is nameless.

Jia ping told me that she had a dream that the results were released in a MRT . That's totally unbelievable. But anyway she describe that everyone in our class had scored very well getting 1 point and 5 points for L1R5. And she had somehow did not do well.

NERVOUS NERVOUS NERVOUS !!!
Will I do well or will it be really bad.
The scene of Mrs menon talking about how the sec 4 of 2008 batch fare compared to national level and all the other things she is going to talk about keep flashing in my mind.

So crossed my fingers and pray hard that all will be well. jia you le 4e1 ...
hopefully I can stay calm throughout the whole process.

2009-01-06T15:50:00.002+08:00

This week , ended up working night shift. Yesterday was my first time working night shift. Quite okay . I chatted with Auntie Ivy and jason ( Only when there are no customers ) . Customers never fails to visit us even though it is already 9.30pm ++ and almost half the shops are closed ( if you think that people will simply get out of the shopping mall , half an hour before closing time, then you are wrong) . Some even stroll in at 9.30pm ++ ( Those that just get back from work ) .

I thought that almost everyone should be at home catching 'The little nonya' last episode on tv but still there are a lot of people out there shopping. Maybe they were not fans of it.Personally , i am not really a fan of the show. This show is nice because it potrays the history as well as the culture of Peranankan, nothing else.

Anway results should be released next week ( that's what I have guess and heard from ms ang). I met her and the library auntie when i was waiting for bus to go to work. Ms ang is the Form teacher of Sec 1e1 ( if i am not wrong). She asked about where I worked and how the others are. She mention that she's worried for us and asked whether I am nervous and where I would like to go. HEr advice is Jc as it is the easier route to university. FOr the past 1 year, This is my biggest headache. I do not know where i want to go. My excuse was 'Depend on my results'. Hopefully I can make up my mind and wouldn't regret my choice.

Good luck to all Chongboonnites and to myself , that we will all do well for the exam.

2008-12-31T08:15:00.002+08:00

Today is the last day of 2008. Pretty soon in just ....hours , 2009 is here. MAy 2009 be a smooth year for my family and I as well as my friends. And the next next day is 'sch reopen day'. Suddenly I feel quite sad that I wouldn't be returning to CBSS again, seeing my friends and teachers and the new faces of the school. No more teacher's nagging and the principal 's long speech of the year. How I miss that : )

Four years ago when i stepped into the school, I felt that four years is too long. Now I feel that four years had passed way too fast. Before you knew it, another year had gone. My advice: Enjoy the years spent in lower secondary.They are the best.

2008-12-29T20:54:00.003+08:00

Tomorrow going back to school to collect Eagles award with yx. First time in my life being awarded this award. Actually I am keen on getting the GOod improvement award but never mind, having is better than not having. AS for the scholardship award, this year the venue is back to Rosyth where i collected edusave award 4 years ago. How time flies, 2008 is coming to an end . And if I have guess correctly, the O-level resutls should be releasing in another 2 weeks time. Feeling nervous about the release of results. I hope I did a lot better than prelim but it's hard if you see the bell curve. One good thing everyone can look forward to is chinese new year is around the corner. Hopefully , the financial crisis would not affect everyone's mood for the festival. Hope that this crisis can pass quickly and never returns.

2008-12-19T09:58:00.005+08:00

currently at chalet at east coast. This morning woke up at 6am to see sunrise. Unfortunately, the sun was covered by clouds and I manage to take some photos which does not turn out as I want it to be. Headed for breakfast with daddy at the cafe there. The breakfast was buffet style but it disappoint me. The breakfast consists of hot dogs, scramble eggs, baked beans, toast bread ( DIY ), potato puffs ( hashbrowns version ) , popian, cerals ( one -type) , watermelon, honeydrew, butter cake ( small slice ) , coffee, hot milk , cold milk and fruit punch. The food varieties was very limited. GOing to have bbq tonight and later going to go cycling. Haven't cycle for years... Here's the photos ...

2008-12-19T09:38:00.009+08:00

2008-12-17T08:49:00.003+08:00

Yesterday, went to Marina Barrage with my relatives. That place is awsome. The wind is really strong and the weather was just nice. A great place for people who wish to mediate or realx themselves can go there. Some people were even having a small picnic there enjoying the breeze and the scenary. We walked around and took many photos. Unfortunately, having a short-term memory means that I don't know where I had placed my camera pouch. One minute I was holding on to it and the other minute it was gone. I walked back to all the places I had been to and can't find it. Who would want to take a camera pouch. It justs disappear like that. It can't have fallen on the ground. If it have , I would be able to find it.

When we were about to leave, then it started drizzling. We headed to Kallang Leisure Park, the 'new' shopping mall. Not a lot of people were there. Basically there is no mrt that could reach there except for some buses or if you wish, you can take a shuttle bus there, if I have not mistaken. We had a short tea break at 'THe coffee bean" . My cousin and I shared 'Pure chocolate with whipped cream" and I had Chicago cheese cake.AUnt treated us to it as she had a voucher. The cheese cakes was slightly sweet and the taste of cheese was strong. After that headed home to rest.

2008-12-16T09:18:00.005+08:00

Had been working for four days already.There's a lot to learn and a lot of things to remember. Working do seems different from studying. Thinking back, now I know why my cousin despite graduating from university, went on to continue studying. Studying is better than working. Trust me. When we buried our heads in books, we think that studying is tough. But when you are working, you will find that to be able to study is actually a good thing after all. Despite having to go through homework and exams.

What I can be sure of is, I am really going to study hard no matter where I ended up next year, after the results are released. I am going to find a job but not a job in sales or as a waitress and etc. These jobs in F& B is tough. You will have to stand the whole day and talk , talk and talk. But who knows? Now with the financial crisis going on, one have to be thankful that they got a job. It's hard on everyone, and now everyone's motto is "SAVE and SCRIMP".

CHristmas is coming and I can't wait. My christmas wishes :

1) L1R5<20
OR EVEN BETTER <12

2)Everyone I know to be happy , healthy and safe.

3) Singapore to remain peaceful and safe

4) Global warming to stop

5) World Peace

2008-12-09T08:50:00.004+08:00

Today is 8.55am in the morning. In another 3hrs +++ , will be starting work at...as a sales assistant.I will be working alone. First time working with no working experience. Hopefully everything will goes well and my boss would be rather kind and so will my working companions. Will update as soon as I got home from work.

2008-12-03T17:30:00.004+08:00

After weeks of hard work of searching for jobs, I finally got a call at around 10.30am in the morning on monday. I was so happy. Call up jia ping immediately and found out she got a call too. Both of us including ying xuan went for a job interview, to try our luck. Didn't expect that they will call us up for the job but they did. Ying xuan was in Malaysia so she didn't receive the call. Both jia ping and I went down to their headquarter to sign a contract. First time there and we miss a stop. Ended up walking to the shop which wasn't that far though.I was to start work from 8th Dec all the way to 24th Jan which was Chinese new year's eve. Jia ping couldn't work on weekends so she had to wait for a call to see which outlets she is posted to , to work from only monday to friday. IF not she will do packing at the headquarters form 9th Jan next year. Hopefully she can get posted to the same outlet as me. Both of us could then accompany each other.

2008-11-24T09:37:00.002+08:00

Been looking for jobs recently. Manage to find one but due to long working hours , had to give up the job. When I say long it means really long from morning until night which is pass 10.30pm. So I am back to square 1. Currently waiting for calls form the various jobs I had apply to. The feeling of waiting is not nice at all. Same like jia ping. SHe's been awaiting calls but none came at all. Hopefully I would be able to find a job. A job that would allow me to gain some experience of working and to earn money for future education if I were to enter university as the fees would be a bomb, and I can buy some decent gifts for my parents.
Waiting and waiting ...

2008-11-14T19:46:00.002+08:00

Went to watch High School Musical 3 : senior year with sin yee and adeline. Watching the show reminds me of my classmates and schoolmates. We have officialy graduate from secondary school. THe feeling of being separated, how I wish time really stops. I hope that we can continue to keep in touch with each other and have an annual class gathering each year till we grow old ! ( PS: IS that possible ? ) I will miss my teachers too. Graduation day ended yesterday. All of us were presented souvenirs and heard speeches given by teachers and class representive. Due to the rain and heavy storm, we played only one game and that 's it. Although it's not what I expected as I want to take a lot of pictures but it's still okay as almost everyone were there. The last time we are going to be together as a cohot except for the release of results next year. The only difference in HIGh School Musical 3 is that when they graduate , they get to wear the clothes and hat but we don't. PArt 3 wasn't as good as the previous two but still okay as it's really the end of high school life for the east high students. JUst like us and those PSLE students.

2008-11-12T21:03:00.002+08:00

O-level IS OVER LE :) Although I am glad that it's over, but I can't help but feel scared and worried. I hope that my result would be less than 16 points , better than prelim. The chances aren't high but I hope if I could , less than 16 points for L1R5 and if possible 12 points.

Went out with Ying xuan to bugis today. Turn out that we had no sense of direction. Ying xuan was busy counting the likely points she would scored when we miss our stop at CIty hall. Got out of the MRT at Raffles then took the wrong train to Tanjong Pagar. Changed another train back to city hall. From there, we then took the right MRT to bugis. Went for window shopping and we didn't bought anything. Throughout the window shopping, I felt hungry even though I had my lunch and 4 pieces of sushi. We headed to KFC when I ate a set meal. Then we set off to Novena to meet ying xuan's mum. Her mother quite cute and nice. She accompany us to TOYS R US , the shop that sells hello kitty stuff and ...Ying xuan lent me her Nintendo DS ( If i am right ) and i played the cooking game. The game seems simple but yet it's slightly difficult. You are supposed to cook any dish you chose and following the steps given to cook it . I failed a couple of times . Well, I am just not so good at games. Waited for her brother to finish tuition and we headed home together. Met with Peak hours which is terrible. I can't imagine in 6 or 7 years down the road when I started working I had to squeeze with everyone else in the MRT and on buses. Like chun hui say, go and get a car or find a boyfriend with a car so you don't have to squeeze with everyone else and get squash like sardines. But still the same. Will meet with traffic jams for cars.

Tomorrow's graduation day at Labrador PArk. Can't wait for it. I want to take lots of pictures of my classmates and schoolmates for memory keepstake....Hope tomorrow will not rain :) will upload the photos once they are done ...

2008-11-02T08:20:00.002+08:00

alright . Left 3 more papers to go. Seriously, I felt that I didn't did up to my expectations and I feared that the results may be worse than prelim. Well, the only good thing I can say is I did try my best. But still, there's this feeling inside you that tells you that you did not do well for the papers. First, I hope the exam ends off quickly and I really wants the results immediately but well, I will have to wait and be patient. But when it's time for the results to be reveal, suddenly you will feel that you don't want to see it at all. I really hope to be able to do well this time round and not let history repeats itself just like 4 years ago. That really makes me regret. Moreover this is a turning point of my life and sort of determines half of my future. I want to enter tertiary institutions with my friends and not alone. Neither do I want to disappoint my parents and my teachers.

After the exam, I would say I will definetely missed my friends , teachers and my crazy bunch of classmates. I miss my classroom and the fun we had during lessons time and on trips. 4 years passed quickly. It do seems to me ,as if yesterday was the first time I stepped into the school. Into the 'yellow'classroom with yellow chairs , tables and yellow boards. The classroom that I find so small compared to primary school. The classmates whom I find weird looking and them , thinking how am I going to befriend them. And whether we would get along well together.
Then 2 years passed, time for streaming and got separate into different classes. This time, I had the accompany of my 3 good friends. Again I looked at my new classmates thinking the same old thing again. But this time it turns out to be much easier. The 2007 Growth camp bonds us together . Coming to 2008 , the farewell bbq party turns out to be great and fun. Soon it would be graduating day and we really graduated from the school... Well, I hope that we would graduate with laughter and happiness and return with smiles when we receive our results next year. All the best to everyone ...

2008-09-10T15:53:00.002+08:00

Went to Hougang mall with chun hui and jia ping. We ate at PEPPER LUNCH and the food turns out to contain many pepper. JIa ping and I who don't really take spicy food ended up going to take a cup of cold water and gulp down on our drinks. She's worse. She added in HOney and... sauce + Salt into her food.Anyway there's a napkin like tissue provided for us. Out of fun, I took it and put it over my T-shirt like a napkin which prevents foord or anything else from spilling onto your clothes. Got a 'warning' from chun hui to take it off. Turns out that chun hui simply hated people doing that. So jia ping and I joked that next time she go out, whenever she sees someone else like that she will go up and slap them.
Chat and chat and chat till we are ready to leave. So we went from one level to another, going in and out of shops. Together we bought a few hairclips which is quite cheap at $0.30each. LAter we were fascinated by one shop which sold some weird things like invisible ink, a thing that can make a 'fart'noise,a miny chinese chess, a thing when you put in water will become an animal, glow in the dark nail polish and .... Went trying out every single thing. BAck then, wer really like little kids that were amazed at the single slightest thing they see.

Went home after that. But the bus really is slow and we waited for more than 15 minutes before it came

2008-09-04T17:31:00.014+08:00

Another year had past and I had grew older by one =)
Can watch NC 16 movie and if I go USA , I am allowed to drive a car . Interesting . Anyway today isn't my b'day. The actual day is tomorrow =)

Went to singapore flyer today with mum, aunt, uncle and my two cousins. It was about to rain so the pictures taken wasn't that nice ...

F1 track...and the seats

Saw a model of the future Intergrated resort when the ferries wheel is coming down...

2008-08-11T17:28:00.002+08:00

Spent one hour and 5 minutes clearing up the mess I made. I accidentally spill the pumkin soup Mummy cook onto the dinning table... In the end had to spent so much time clearing up the mess. Just realise how hard it is to clean the whole table and the pot. Worse the pot for keeping things warm can't be washed by water. So had to take kitchen towel and tissue paper, dip with some water and clean the whole pot.

Jsut learned my lesson, never be so clumsy

2008-05-19T06:30:00.002+08:00

My heart goes out to those people in the crisis region : both Myanmar and sichuan. The articles published on the newspaper are so touching. Many parents dies while trying to save and protect their child. That was how much a parents is willing to give and to sacrifice for their child or children. The sad news was many of those who died were children studying in school when the buildings collapsed. Imagine one was studying in the classroom when the school building collapsed. One minute one was alive and the other minute, dead. It makes me feel how lucky I am in Singapore, which probably would not suffered from any natural disasters. But still there is one thing singaporeans needs to be reminded and be vigilant and prepared. That is MAS SELEMAT is not yet to be caught and one day he 's not caught, he still acts as a threat to Singapore. May god bless the world to be free from disasters both natural and human, and to bless my homeland to be forever peaceful.

2008-04-19T20:41:00.004+08:00

Today is our school 14th prize presentation. I received two prize. One for best in chinses and one for CCA award. For CCA award, I had to bow on my own, so weird. ANyway the speeches were quite boring and I almost fall asleep. The concert was nothign special. Maybe because I had watched it for 3 times already. After that went down to canteen to eat and waited for ying xuan. Then went home with jia ping. Around 3plus, changed clothes then go meet jia ping at AMK hub. Together we bought presents for tian tian , hui hui and jia wen. We felt a bit weird if only buy tian tian's present cause jia wen and hui hui would be there. It wouldn't be nice if only tian tian received the present when hui hui and jia wen's birthday was last three weeks. Both were a bit surprised when they received their present. Personally, I felt a bit weird when i go out with them. Maybe because we are not that close to each other and have nothing much to talk about. Anyway eat at Long John Silver. People keep coming in and disappearing. Saw Zhao fa, bernard and jie wei they all. Cbss percusion were there. After eating, walk around for a while before jia wen, beverly and kenneth went off. LEft tian tian , hui hui , me and jia ping. SO we walk around before going to the arcade to play. Played Basketball. Ha Q! A little more to go before jia ping and I reached 50 so we can continue playing .But sadly, we didn't managed to. Played the driving game. I came in 3rd with hui hui 2nd , tian tian 4th and Jia ping 1st.

On the way home, jia ping told me that bus 156 can reach home and we took it. But half-way through we realised the bus did not go the right route and we got off the bus. Jia ping then found out that the bus she took to earlier to meet me was bus 159not bus 156. Thank God the bus -stop we alight had bus 159, and we got off bus 156 earlier, if not like what jia ping said , we will end up in clementi .

2008-03-26T19:09:00.018+08:00

Growth camp was fun this year !

Our class was divided into two groups A and B. But throughout the camp, we didn't call ourselves that. A group was called 'Huat' and B-group called 'Ai-zhai' . So in the end we combined them together to be 'Huat Zai'. The instructors said we got to be the most 'Zai'( steady)class cause we had 3 instructors while others got two. Same as last year. LAst year we had 3 instructors cause one of them gotten ill. They are Wen jie (lame jokes + gay ), Ephraim( MP3 cause he 's always teaching us songs and keep singing ) and Jian Feng whom we called him 'Iquana'.On the bus to Jalan Bahtera adventure campsite, the instructors taught us the hungry song which we are supposed to do before each meals. It goes : Hungry HUngry ( clap clap ) Very Very ( clap clap ) Hungry very ( clap clap ) Very Hungry (clap Clap) Jilakaya bi yeh bi yeh (repeat twice ) jiat ( eat in hokkien) . LAst year one was the 'chewy chewy chewy chewy om ba ba . CHong chong chong boon here we are .... '
HUi hui and tian tian keep laughing when the instructors said 'jiat'.

The first thing everyone thought was the campsite was a bit rundown as compared to last year one at Changi. Of course, CHangi 's campsite was a much newer one. The girls in our class shared one dorm ( a.k.a hut) . The hut was quite clean compared to last year. But we had to leave our shoes at the staircase in order to keep the hut clean and to prevent wild dogs from taking away our shoes . The first activity we had was team bonding . We had to do a flag. FOr our group, we played the game 'Ouch Ouch Obit Obit'. Quite fun when you get to hit people 's lap. Then we did our flag....

The other group ...

Combine...Nice ?

Then was LUNCH ! Followed by our 2nd activity ...Kayaking

We kayak for only around half an hour ( don't know whether got half an hour or not ) . The rain came so we had to stop. Then we return while some people followed the instructor to swim under the kayat boat. I didn't knew how to swim so I stayed on land. Then it was bath time and dinner. Followed by self study. The sec 4s did maths while Sec 3s did chemistry. Reflection and bed time

DAY two ...

Land expedition
Lunch
Belay school
camp prepartaiton
Rock climbing
Bath time
LAst minute preparation
CAmP FIRE ...
There was an instructor and camper contest where each had to copy what the other is doing and freeze there till the camp chief allowed them to be clear.
A-group choosed chia hao and wen jie . They are exactly like brothers and look a bit alike . B -group choosed zhao fa and jian feng. Although both didn't managed to win but they are great !

Belay school ...

2008-02-29T16:20:00.002+08:00

Finally can blog. Recently, Life had been busy for me. Stress from all the work and 'sweet advice' from teachers. Anyway , I want to wish Adeline a very Happy Birthday to you ! May all your wished do come true.

Today, during chinese lesson, we had a 'friendly' debate on whether inner beauty is better than the outside beauty. Our class was divided into half. One will take the stand of 'inner beauty is better than outside beauty' and the other the oppposite of what the other group had take. My group took the stand on inner beauty is better than the ouside beauty. Anyway at first the debate wasn't that fun and nice. But as we proceed to the second round,all of us started to think of what to debate or to rebut the other group. In the end I think all of us did well as both groups had its own strength and weaknesses. Anyway , it's a friendly debate so it doesn't matter who wins. But I think that through this activity , I actually find it useful for learning and writing Chinese argumentative essays. Maybe for english we can do the same . It will be fun and a good learning experience for ourselves.

2008-02-21T19:22:00.002+08:00

WAY to Go ! SIngapore wind 2010 youth Olympic Bid ! That's good news for us considering the fact that singapore is such a small country, we were actually given a chance to host the youth olympic. This shall be a great boost to our Tourism. With that economic growth will increased as well. The best thing is youths could participate in it.

So once again COngratulations to Singapore , my dear country. Boy, Li ping would be so happy about it.

2008-02-15T15:14:00.002+08:00

Today is our school 10th Annual cross country meet. This year, it was being held at Bedok Reservior instead of the usual Macritche Reservior because the latter was under construction. I went there via Jia ping 's father car, together with ying xuan. The whole journey took around 20-25 minutes. When we saw the reservior, we were happy because the reservior was unlike Macritche. The jogging route was rather sommoth and straight, not like Macritche which was going up and down, with stones on the ground.

When we arrived there, had a short walk around the gathering area. Then Tian Yi came. He told us he was in a rush and forget to bring his number tag. He was not the only one, some others had forgotten too.

Lower Secondary Girls ran first, followed by Lower Secondary Boys. The Upper Secondary had to wait. Meanwhile jia ping and I, swopped with BEverly and Jia wen. The two of them became running as a team and as a indivual; while jia ping and I ran as indivual. Soon it was own turn. Thought they were going to get us to do warm up. But they didn't. Instead we walk a distance before reaching the starting point. Jia ping said she 's running with tian tian and the rest, I thought of doing so. But straight when the whistle sounded, I was running with them; however, I can't. Soon they were far in front. So I ran alone. Thought of giving up on the way and walk. But I forced myself to continue running, although I did stop twice for a few seconds. While running, I felt as if my whole body was burning. My shoes feel heavy and I felt like I was going to faint anytime. I wanted Water ! but I didn't bought alone mine.

Towards the finishing line, I ran as fast as I could only because all the teachers stadning there said' There's someone behind you. Hurry'. So I did.
How glad I am to have finish the race. First time running for cross crountry as a competitor. My number tag fell when I received. Thank God, Jia wen helped me to pass it to Brandon for the recording. Wanted to sit down, but ying xuan wouldn't let me.Then I found out I was in the 14th position. That's good enough for me. Beverly was 1st, Tian Tian was 3rd or 4th ( can't remember ) , Hui Huiwas 5th, Ying xuan was 6th and Kasturi was 10th. As for the boys in our class, only two came in the top 10. VIncent was 3rd and Daryl was 8th. Our class won Team award for one of the boys team. The girls won two team awards, although we didn't know how it ended up as two team; for we thought we only had one team. Anyway everyone 's got a medal and that 's makes the days special for us. LAst year in participating in the cross country. WHo knows, maybe I will try up for Sports day ( MAYBE =)

2008-02-12T18:53:00.000+08:00

TESTS TESTS AND MORE TESTS. At least 2 test per week. NOw my days were spent doing the same thing over and over again. GO home after commit, bath, have dinner and then it's homework time; all the way till 10pm +++. Sometimes even till 11pm. Then it's bed time.

Seriously, I am a bit stressed out. Sec 4's life is the hardest period of my life, which seemed worse than PSLE.I missed sec 1,2 and 3; Especially during the years in lover sec. Carefree and fun are the words to describe. Now its Stress , headache and Stress. Hopefully I throughout all these stress, at the end of it,I can have good results. That's all I wished for...

2008-02-03T09:08:00.000+08:00

One week had passed. A week filled with tests and tiredness. Tests, homework, tests, homework, commit. It's been last this sine school reopen.Now I am seeing last of my y. Eveyday when I got home, it's always 5pm+++. Maybe even sat had to return to school for chemis lesson. I don't mind so long as I can improve on my chemistry. I am aiming for a B3 for Chemistry or a B4. If I reached this target by august, I am seriously grateful to Mr Dinesh and to all the gods in heaven for making my wish come true. Same goes for Physic.

Just had a haircut to make it thin. Singapore's weather is getting hotter so i will definetely not have long hair. Yipee ! Chinese New year coming . 4 days of hoildays. Can finally relax a bit. But of course, got to study for upcoming physic and -maths test. Why is life so miserable ? Study study And study. All around SIngapore , all sec 4 s would be facing the same problem as me. But thinking twice, studying is better than working. If you are working, you would have to live under your employer's face and the backstabbing of some collegues, worried about money and blah blah blah.

So studying is the best. ALl you does is to study and get good results.
All I want for christmas ( 08 ) is good o-level results.

2008-01-28T20:05:00.001+08:00

Yesterday went to esplanade to watch the play 'Above us only sky'. The show was quite okay . The script was well written and the three actress were great.Their acting was perfect. But overall the show was a bit boring. Looks like I still prefer watching musicals that have singing and dancing. Some were about to fall asleep while some others have already fallen asleep. After that , I went with gals to marina square where kirti bought some fries and drinks . Then we were deciding where to head for dinner. In the end , we decided to head to Bugis for dinner for jia ping want to go there to buy new year clothes. So then we were walking around searching for the right way that lead to suntec city where we could go by City Link for MRT. At City link, kirti wanted to buy diary but in the end , after some time, she decided not to buy.

I had omelette rice with bacon for dinner while ying xuan and jia ping had noodles. Had some jokes and laughter during dinner. Head to bugis Street. Saw hui hui and tian tian, they were going home.On top of that, we sae jasmine, yet wah too. Bugis street was crowded with people , mostly youngsters in mid 20 + and 13 +++
Went browsing and browsing . I saw a T-shirt but in the end decide to save the money for Class tee . That one more important =)

JIa ping saw a nice clothes but the price was a bit expensive $20 ++ . We tried to bargin for a lesser price but the lady refused. In the end , she decide not to buy . But we did not left empty handed. Jia ping and I each bought a watch. There's a sale so we bought it for $5 .

Shop around till 8plus before heading home via MRT . Too tired, so I called Daddy to come fetch me at AMK bus-stop . Actually it's night so I am scared of going home . It's not good for a girl to go home alone at night too.

Sadly , the next day got school ...

2008-01-11T17:03:00.000+08:00

( highway ...)

( fountain at suntec )

HEre are some photos frm last yr christmas ' eve and the DHL balloon I took last sunday . Enjoy =)

2008-01-09T19:04:00.001+08:00

Fallen ill again. Actually , the cough didn't really go away for a month. Old illness. I used to have asthma when I was three and from then on , thank god, asthma stop. But once and then , when I cough , I will get a bit breathless. Doctor said becasue of air passage. Scolded my mum that I should have gone and see the doctor yesterday, but I thought if I took the old medicine from last month , should be okay. But no. And this morning I took the cough medicine that will cause people to sleep. Great , so I almost fall asleeep during lessons and during the assembly talk by Mr yip. Feel terrible for the entire day, yesterday too. Now, my nose is red. Due to the Tissue Paper. Can't really concentrate today in class.

After school, had to rush home for tuition till 5.30pm. Then I go see doctor with mum. Hope I will get well before chinese new year. Don't want to miss out the goodies !

2008-01-06T20:45:00.001+08:00

Went to take DHL hot air balloon with aunite, uncle and ridley. We got there late because my parents and yan ting had HAnan CHicken Rice for lunch . This one was different because the rice was roll up in a shape of a ball. They waited for 1/2 hour for the chicken rice to came. Turn out that the lady took the wrong table number. Then it was our turn to go up. I was scared at first , the balloon went all the way up , about 40 storey high. I was afraid of height as we had to stand in the balloon without any seat belt.

Everything was so small when I look down . Saw esplanade , suntec tower and Marina Madrain hotel AND the Sea wtih ships on it. Later went to Bugis to shop. I bought a pair of new shoes for $??? .Quite expensive but no choice, my feet size was small that even a size 4 ( smallest size of all shoes )can't even fit. ALl the shoes I saw , which I liked and within my budget are OUT . Course I simply can't wear it. Same goes for some clothes. But in terms of buying clothes , slightly better than buying shoes. Yipee , now all my new year 's clothes have been settle.

For dinner , went to food court to eat. Then I saw a disguised scene. People were coming in looking for places to have dinner AND THERE THEY WERE , SOME INCONSIDERATE PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY FINISHED THEIR FOOD ,SAT THERE CHATTING, SLOWLY DRINKING THEIR DRINKS . WORSE, THESE PEOPLE KNOW OTHERS ARE WAITING FOR THEIR SEATS , AND THEY SIMPLY TURN A BLIND EVYES AGAINST THEM AND CONTINUE THEIR ''LITTLE CHATS''. EVEN WORSE, TWO LADIES WHO DIDN"T EAT ANYTHING OR DRINK ANYTHING SAT THERE CHATIING , HOGGING THE SEATS. AND THERE WAS THIS TABLE OF SIX WHO ALSO HOG THE SEATS AFTER THE CLEANER HAD CLEAR UP THEIR DIRNKS AND FOOD!

ARE OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT BAD? OR ARE TEACHERS CONCENTRATING TOO MUCH ON TEACHING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO TEACH TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR EXAMS THAT THEY DIDN"T TEACH THE STUDENTS THE BASIC MORALS ?
OR ARE PARENTS NOT TEACHING THEIR CHILD THE RIGHT THING. SOmetimes I even see parents doing the wrong things and not corrcting them . Their kids would then think whatever their mommy and daddy had did was right and learned from them.

IN A SHOPPING MALL , I SAW SOME PARENTS WANTING TO FEED THEIR KIDS MILK OR BREASTFEED NEW BORN BABIES. SO THEIR NEED A SEAT. BUT YOUNGSTERS JUST SIT THERE PRETENDING NOTHING HAD HAPPENED AND IGNORING THE POOR COUPLES LOOKING FOR SEATS TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN. IN THE END THEY END UP STANDING .

MRT AND BUS : GIVE UP YOUR SEATS FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED IT MORE THAN YOU. PEOPLE JUST TURNED THEIR EYE AGAINST IT. PREGNANT WOMEN HaD TO STAND THROUGHOUT THE RIDE WITHOUT ANYONE GIVING UP A SEAT FOR THEM.SAME GOES FOR ELDERLY. IF FORGINgERS OR TOURISTS WERE TO SEE IT , WHAT WOULD THEY THINK OF SINGAPOREANS ?

Thank godness not all singaporeans are like that. SOme in which I came across give up their seat for others. THank god my friends and I did the right thing when we give up all 3 of our seats for a pregnant lady . But I do admit that not all times I did the right thing.Sometimes I give up the seat for a person in need, someone else who come snatching the seat away .OR the person in need was far away from me that I couldn't give up the seat. If I do , others who came rushing for the seat. It happened before.

PS : No offends. The above is based on my own comment on what I've seen. I may not be 100% off guilty but not all singaporeans are like that. I belived there are some who are not among the black sheeps that spoiled the image of singapore.

Seriously , not wonder Singaporeans go overseas get dispise by people there by their behaviour.

2008-01-04T20:06:00.000+08:00

2nd day of school. Get to know who 's teaching us what subjects. Chinese lesson , the class was spilt up according to our PSLE score and 2007 SA2 score. I was in the 1st class with chun hui and jia ping. Misses Ying xuan and kirti. ANyway we gotten Ms tan Bao Jun as our chinese teacher. Then the big news came. SHe said that if we did not get an A1 or A2 for our exam which is in May , we have to retake the paper. Rule set by our school. After that she went on a bit about briefing for the content of the Chinese paper and gave us a list of words we could use in our composition. Having a spelling on monday.

3rd day of school was okay. Turned out that Mr Adam Chan was now I think the only geography teacher in the school. So While our class and boys from 4e2 study geography , then those in other classes are studying Social Studies. Hope the school can get another teacher as soon as possible. Chemistry lesson: Class spilt into 2 . One taken by Ms loh , the other Mr Dinesh. I am in Mr Dinesh class together with ying xuan and kirti. But we do misses jia ping. SHe's in Ms loh class.

SO far so good. Commit programme starts next week. Hope everything goes well ....

2008-01-02T15:57:00.000+08:00

Today is the first day of school. I don't even feel like returing cause it means facing reality . But one good thing is I will be able to see my friends.

Same form teacher as last year, and the last last year. Boy am I glad to get Ms ang .Co-form teacher change to Mr Dinesh. But the classroom for this year is at the far end corner of the school and it's rather dark with some trees outside. Not as good as last year. When we frist entered the classroom , there was no electricity and the clock was spoiled. But later mr lee came and switch on the main switch so we can 'cong jian guang ming'( see light again) . Did some admin work and filled in survey forms . And it's recess.

After that had a briefing in the hall regarding O-level of course. Seems scary upon hearing it. It may be the truth but teachers just had to constantly remind us . The more they talk about it, the more nervous I will become. I don't want to face it but yet in less than 10 months I 'll be taking the major paper that determine my future.

Then return to class for sitting arrangement. Maybe we are growth up that MS ang alowed us to sit in pairs in whichever way we want. I ended up in front with ying xuan. Jia ping and kirti are beside us. Thank godness. I will miss them if they are somewhere else in the class.Had a class bonding game which Mr dinesh thought of . the murderer game. Same version as the hunter and polar bear one in which we played during growth camp last year.

Then it's going home time. Lessons starting tomorrow. Hope everything go well ....

2008-01-02T15:49:00.000+08:00

Out with the old, in with the new.
2008 is here .
It's so soon. I feels like yesterday , when I first stepped into the school without knowing anyone, and now I had made many friends and out of whom I had 4 close ones.
It's a critical year for me as well as many others. I can't deny the fact that I am not scared. I am . I am not prepared yet I had to face it , face reality . It's the same feelings just that it's more worse than 4 years ago when I took PSLE. The only thing I remembered being afraid of was being separated from my friends. Thank God, I had chun hui and cheris entering the same secondary school as me , so it's fine.
But I am afraid that I will go to post tertiary schools in which non of my friends are there with me and I had to made new ones. Some of them may have already know each other and I may seem weird if I just blurt in.

Another thing is I am afraid that I couldn't get into a JC or Poly. There are so many people in Singapore fighting for the place and it's really getting competitive as the years passes. Look at the number of university places . Singapore's education system may be good but sometimes , came to think about it , you might find it scary.

Countdown...I have only 10 months left to prepare for the big paper. SO it means so little time, so many things to do. I just hope that my sciences and maths would be good. These are my weak subjects. Ans I have to buck up on SS, Geo and Eng. Maintain my chi .

2007-12-25T09:05:00.000+08:00

To think I am sick on christmas'eve and christmas day. Have been sick since last friday and thought I would be able to get well but no . First fever, then stomach ache all because of the antibiotic the doctor gave me would cause stomach pain.SO I had to stop eating it at once.Then on sunday followed by cough and now running nose . CHristmas !

As a result I can't eat much during yesterday night BBQ at auntie 's house. Ate a bit but not much. Took some photos . Will take some time to upload.

Sad , tonight got any christmas party. This time is paternal side. So many food . HEard got Turkey , ham and .... Some I can't even eat !!!!!!!!!

Hope I will get well soon before school reopen . This year also like that. Fall sick on the 2nd day of school. Just when all the subject teachers came introducing themselves, the subjects that are new to us and to tell us that expectations and rules. TEachers ....

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!! AND A CAPPY NEW YEAR

2007-12-23T20:04:00.000+08:00

Today , went to SIngapore Duck tour. The one that cam go on land and in water.The tour guide was nice. A malay guy. He told us about some of the historical places that could be seen near the Padang and some facts that even some singaporeans did not know. For instance,Kallang river is made up of seawater but in a few years' time , it is going to be transformed into a freshwater reservoir. We also saw the colourful float perform for this year NDP and the work of the IR as well as the Singapore Flyer. The whole trip took almost an hour.

Beside that , I think on NEW year day , I am going on the DHL hot air balloon and the HIPPO tour. It came as a package for all three.

Recommended for tourists !

2007-12-21T16:58:00.000+08:00

Wednesday 19th Dec , woke up early in the morning at 6.30 am and followed my parents to Whampoa MAkan place to have breakfast before going to my grandfather 's house. Daddy is helping 'Gong Gong' to repaint the walls and the ceiling of the house. Soon after that , auntie , uncle and ridley came . Uncle helped Daddy to paint. SO the workload was lesser as there were 3 people painting including mummy. Yan ting and my job was to keep an eye on my 4 year old cousin. My mum's brother came and so the workload was even lesser.Together the job was 3/4 done for the day . As for the doors , well it had to be done tomorrow.

SO on thursday which was yesterday , the painting of the ceilings of the rooms and doors were completed . Not by me though. We went to the bookfest at suntec again and shop around before going home.

A good news . Congrats to HARDY MIRZA for winning ASIAN IDOL for SiNGAPORE. WAy to go ! aND To TEAM SINGAPORE , for winning the medals for singapore

2007-12-21T16:49:00.000+08:00

MOnday 17th dec : went to collect spec lenses , me and yan ting . Then went to KFC to eat before going to Evergreen farm now known as Microfarm. It was a mushroom farm. Actually viewing of the mushrooms are available on weekends only. We thought of buying the mushrooms only but the kind lady bought us on a tour to view the different kinds of mushrooms. SOme mushrooms live better than human beings.They live in air-conditioner places while some could live well even in humid places. We bought a few boxes of mushrooms.

Then we went to a nearby fish farm. It was more of a goldfish and seven coloured fish farm. Not much to see except fishes swimming in tanks. Then we proceed on to Animal resort . Mum was afraid of dogs and animals so she stayed in the car, While auntie , uncle , ridley , yan ting and I got off. Immediately we sae gooes being let loose walking about on the pathway and a turkey. Poor Turkey, thinking of it being ended up as a X'mas dinner. We also saw some dogs and cats being locked up in their different places ( resort) when their owners are overseas. Also saw many tadpoles in the pond and cute little 2 months old puppies . These puppies are waiting for the vet for their injection .

To conclude, had a great time except for the fact that it's raining. Well , can't help it, December ( monsoon season for singapore ) sure rain.

2007-12-17T09:51:00.000+08:00

Yesterday , went to Bookfest at suntec city with mum. Quite a lot of people . I went to view the books at HARRIS while mum went to the Chinese section. Had nothing to do after looking through the books so I wandered around until the main stages says there is going to have a magic show but Pinky the magician so I found myself a seat and waited. The MC played a game with a few children before the magician appeared . HE does some magic tricks which include swallowing fire and a balloon. Tricks . Just can't be . How can a person ever swallow baloon . Fire maybe he bought it to his mouth than he blow it out.

After the magic show , was a cooking lesson ( demostration ) on how to cook curry chicken and thailand dessert ( red ruby ). Then went to find mum . Couldn't find her , the place is too crowded with people and too big. SO called her . Too bad, handphone running out of battery . Luckily , enough to find out where she was before it ran out of battery.

Paid for the books before leaving the Bookfest.Mum and I wandered around window shopping before going home to watch ' star award 2007 '

2007-12-17T09:39:00.000+08:00

Last friday went to 3 farms in Lim Cho Kang with auntie , uncle , yan ting, my cousin and mum . On the way there, I finally know where NTU/NIE is at. The road we are diving on is part - time runway for SAF aeroplanes but mostly used as a road. We also passed by the Civil Defence Training centre and SAF training camp i think . Went to Bolloywood farm first. The farm was opened by a rich businessman and his wife after retiring. There we saw a lot of different plants or trees growth by them. Bananas trees , BAlasm, Lime tree, 4'0 clock tree and lots more , for just entrance fee $2 . For those people who are lovers of mother nature , you can go there. But for me, Although it is fine but I simply don't like the insects on the ground while walking to view the plants. Ants, spiders ...
ANd the sun is scorching hot such that we had to held on to an umbrella or wear a hat .

After the viewing , we ate at the small restaurant. The food there are home-grow and are organic. I like the vegetables served with ' balamcham' .Not too spicy but taste great. The salad of the day- papaya salad was great too. Can't stop eating after one mouthspoon. The aloe vera drink was quite cooling. They also sold pandan leaves , lime , lemon , bananas ( all home -grow) .

The next farm we went to was the Hay-daires farm. They were about to close when we arrived so only left 5 minutes to go visiting the goats. The older goats or rather adults goats were all resting or slow walking around. But the baby goats (known as KID ) was running about , galloping and going 'mee' A few seemed hungry though , wanting to eat so we just pick up some of the hays left on the ground for them.

The third farm we went to was the frog farm. There we saw a lot of 'tian ji' and a few frogs. Only different is that 'tian ji ' can be eaten while frogs can't. Also saw baby tapoles and soon to be frogs .

At the end, mum and auntie each bought 4 'tian ji' at $10. Much cheaper than outside.

2007-12-14T18:14:00.001+08:00

Last friday , went to VIVO city for a show at the rooftop theatre. It's on tickets based. SO if you spent $50 and above for that day , you are supposed to get either a pair of tickets or just one ( can't remember) .So I ended up with 4 . Yan ting had tuition so Mum had to stay at home, Daddy had to work so I went with yi yi , xiao yi zhang and my cousin. We meant to watch the 7.30pm show, but couldn't get there in time cause of the 'cars jam' at Carpark one. We waited for 35-45 minutes and we still couldn't get into the carpark. Quite piss off actually. And all the cars behind us were horning and people were getting out of the car to enter the carpark first .SO finally after much waiting , we got in. Yi zhang let us down first and we went there only to find out the show had ended. Luckily the guard said we could still catch the 9pm show. So we walk around and I saw the display for the winning competition of the NDP bag . The one where people are supposed to draw on the 2007 NDp bag and sent for competition.

The show was quite okay but mostly people singing . The 3 ladies who sang were very good. One sang saprono ( very high pitch ) , one was more of a live and hip-hop version and one was soul singing ( singing with feelings, but not sure what it's called .maybe I spelt wrongly) . Then went shopping around cause got late night shopping and ate at Long Jones Silver .

The next day , which was 8th Dec ( sat ) , went to Science Centre again with my aunt , uncle and cousin. Oh my gosh , never go to anywhere on sat , sunday and friday night. There were a lot of people especially with little kids running around and you can't even viewed the exhibitions in PEACE. We went for the juggling show and that man who performed was great. Then went for the DAT exhibition. Quite okay but not much of surprising cause I thought it might be something great using future technology but not quite. Ate at macdonald and went for a show at the other part of the science where they showed shows ( forget what's the name for the place ) . Watch the Hurriance Katrina. The place was quite nice cause you sort of lay down and the screen is all around you. The effects was quite good.

SO HEre are some photos....

2007-12-06T19:11:00.000+08:00

Today went out in the morning with daddy, mummy and yan ting to have breakfast at S11 before proceeding to AMK library . On the way , I was walking here and there, trying to find my way to the library AND IT"S RAINING. Luckily, I met up with chun hui and we went together. Jia ping was there and after a few minutes , ying xuan was there too. We intend to search information for the english hoilday homework but couldn't . Except in the end, jia ping borrowed a book on the Great Wall of China. THe rest of the time was spent on reading books and chit chatting . Unfortunetly while chit chatting, maybe we were too loud , a guy in th table opposite of us sort of told us off. FIne . We kept our mouth shut. But he kept looking at us every now and there. As if to make sure we would n't make so much noise. So what do you want us to do ? Keep quiet and say nothing. How are we going to communicate with each other. We tried to keep our noise level down . But honestly, by doing that , I couldn't heard what my friends said. Have a good mind to told him off if he kepp staring at us, or rather monitoring us.

Then went to KFC eat lunch and went to 'XIn Tian Di'. Chun hui and ying xuan spent their time looking at comics, while me and jia ping just followed them around. Later , went to AMK hub to shop around. Window shopping .
Ying xuan left first cause she had to go home while the rest of us went to the Arcade . Intend to buy the card and played but in the end , we did not . Not worth it. Anyway the gifts aren't great though.

2007-12-04T18:55:00.000+08:00

Photos taken yesterday ....
Haven't seen ms tan for at least 2 to 3 years , but she haven't changed a bit except well, she rebond her hair. She looks good in it though. Really miss the days in the past...Not as stressed as now. I seriously don't remember being stressed before PSLE but now , sad to said yes . Quite a bit stessed up. NExt year is the BIG YEAR of my life . Worse than PSLE

4 pretty angels =)

2007-12-04T09:04:00.001+08:00

One month 's gone. Today is 4th Dec. Great , and I still haven't finished my hoildays ' hw. Been doing tuition hw instead. Anyway it's quite boring staying at home and doing nothing when I have something to do. Just don't feel like doing.

Yesterday went out with my gals from primary school. Together all 5 of us went to watch Enchanted. That movie was somehow great. I loved the songs and athat CHipmunk. He 's so cute. Wish I could have one for a pet. But it's never gonna come true. After the movie we were having a 'debate' as to where to go next. In the end we decided to go to suntec for we heard from linda that there's a gathering for 6c people. And on top of that Sin yee called Ms tan ( our dear teacher ) but she didn't knew anything about the gathering . SO we sort of invite her to go along and she could make it. Went to the fountain of wealth for a wish and my jacket got wet and so is my shoes.

IT turned out that the gathering cosists of only 9 people . But better than nothing. 3 guys and 6 guys. MS tan told us that she 's quitting from her teaching career. This got me shocked . She 's a great teacher and we have a lot of fun times with her in the old days . She said she's stressed out from her current job teaching in a secondary school. I wouldn't blame her. Nowadays , students are hard to teach. Especially in those in secondary schools. They arugue with teachers, make them angry , didn't pay attention in class and some other acts that would simply make a teacher feel as if she/ he should never take up the career as a teacher. Well, it happened in my school though and I saw it with my own eyes. But anyway whatever it is , hope that ms tan can find happiness in her future job .

2007-11-18T16:45:00.000+08:00

Today woke up early in the morning to see doctor. Though having a sore throat, Doctor says is not that serious and give me medicine for inflammation , running nose and sore throat. THen went home and bath , and off we go to singapore expo hall 5 for the Asian Food fair. Gosh , there were hardly any parking space available. Luckily I was sharp enough to notice an Indian couple with their kid walking towards their car. Which means they are going off and Daddy took their place.

' Oh my god 'was my first thought when I entered the hall. No wonder people said that Singaporeans really loved to eat from morning till night. There were thousands of people or maybe more than that there. People were buying either browsing , buying food or sampling food. But seriously, people who sample food are definetely more than people who bought the food. We bought a lot of things cause Mummy says that the food sold there are much cheaper than outside . Well, not that cheap but somehow cheaper than outside. On top of that , there are new products as well.

The toliet there was also flooded with people . Especailly the ladies ' toilet. How come everytime is the ladies'toilet which is flooded with people. Never seem to come across the same problem as the men's toilet.

Aftr buying and eating the food, it was still early about 2pm plus. So I suggest to go to the Singapore 's Teddy bear show which is held at 'THE ARTS HOUSE, PARLIAMENT'. Seem to have no parking place near there so Daddy had to go round and round in search of a parking palace and we finally found one that was quite near 'THE ARTS HOUSE' except need to walk for about 5 mins.

Teddy bear 's artists from SIngapore , Hong Kong , Germany , USA, Korean and Japan were there with some of their teddy bears on display and if you are interested, you can take pictures of them or buy them. All were handmade except one stall which sold manfactured ones, the ones we sees in shopping mall. They were soooo cute and looks like real. How I wish I own them but they are too expensive. One medium size bear cost about $370 . A man and his wife bought one from 'Mac.Animals ' ( USA stall )
But I didn't went home empty handed. Bought a rabbit wearing ballet clothes in which its head and hand could move 360 degrees. Only if you turn it slowly. The price was quite reasonable. It was the last one or rather I think limited edition , only it is manufactured. But still , it looks nice. A few ladies was eying me and the rabbit with eyes saying ' Put that rabbit down please, I want it' .

When I grow up and had my means I would defintely collect these handmades bears. Currently had one D.I.Y bear bought from mini toons and I am starting on it soon. With help from Mummy , of course . Or it will turn out to look ugly.

( My very own Teddy bear with clothes)

( My new rabbit ....Roselle)

( Postcard )

( Teddy bear T-shirt for yan ting )

( Saw this at the exhibit)

2007-11-16T21:04:00.001+08:00

I am going metier VII. FOr the past three years , I have never been to it.Anyway this is the last year ,this is the last metier that the sec 3 would be performing and on top of that , still got dance and others performances. SO quite worth it to go. Would be going with xiaohui so hope that it would be a wonderful and worthwhile night for me .

2007-11-16T14:54:00.000+08:00

Hoildays is flying past me . For the first 2 weeks , I was busy with bridging and the clean and green carnival activities that I hardly have any time to go out. Another thing is primary school had their hoildays late. SO can't go out as Mum need to cook for yan ting or go school bring her back.

Tomorrow would be going to granny 's house to celebrate her b'day . And on sunday , I would be going to a teddy exhibion . For teddy - bears lovers like me , please refer to the following :

10.00am to 6.00pm Sunday, 18 November 2007
午前１０時～午後６時 | ２００７年１１月１８日（日）

The Arts House
Gallery, Level 2
1 Old Parliament Lane
Singapore 179429

Free Admission 入場無料

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Teddy Bear Workshop conducted by Singapore Teddy Bear Artist,
Ms May Wong

Time: 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Duration: 1 hour
No registration required.

Don't miss the opportunity to learn and appreciate the art of teddy bear making from May Wong, an award winning teddy bear artist who has been creating cuddly bears for the past 10 years. In this workshop, May will show you the essential steps in making a fully jointed 10 inches teddy bear by demonstrating the following:
- Stuffing of a teddy bear body (limbs and head pre-stuffed)
- Jointing
- Creation of the face
- Insertion of the eyes
- Sewing of the ears
- Embroidering of the nose

2007-11-13T18:47:00.001+08:00

2007-11-12T21:15:00.000+08:00

Dates: 5th November 2007 to 18th November 2007

Venue: Drama Centre BlackBox
5th Floor, National Library
100 Victoria Street, S(188064)

Ages: For all ages

Tickets: (Excluding $2 Sistic Fee per ticket)
$22 Adult / Child
$75 Family Package (4 pax with at least 1 child)

Went to watch the show on sunday with auntie and my 4 year old cousin. Although many would think that only little kids like it and it is childish but I beg to differ. It's a very nice musical and I strongly encourage others to watch it . If I had a second chance, I would choose to watch it again. It's simply great. The acting and the costumes are nice. The script was also quite well written.

Wanted to watch Chitty Chitty BAng BAng but the tickets was quite expensive though

2007-11-12T21:07:00.000+08:00

ESCAPE THEme Park =)

2007-11-11T19:05:00.000+08:00

Went to Escape Theme PArk today together with jia ping , kirti and Mr Dinesh. Went to almost all the rides except for the INVErter.I mean I didn't went for it. The other 3 went TWICE ! Afraid of heights i guess and don't have the courage to ride it. I meant it's turning 360 degress. Anyway the other rides were fine, till halfway , I feel unwell , a bit dizzy and felt like vomiting. Must be the doughnut I ate before we went there. But thank GOD , I recovered fast after playing the water rides.After that went to Tampiness Mall to have lunch at PASTAMANIA and then went to Arcade to play. Played racing car games but I came in last. Seriously , think I am really no good at games. My car was like struck then for a few minutes and I didn't knew how to continue playing the game. Toys 'r us was the next stop after the Arcade. Saw many toys that are so cute that I wanna bought them home . But the price was eh .... not very good though . So had to put the toys back. Christmas coming so many parents were buying toys for their kids.

Sad , tomorrow stil had to go to school . NExt saturday is grandma's birthday . SO hereby wishing her a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY =)

2007-10-30T12:56:00.000+08:00

Holidays are finally here. For the whole of last week , we did nothing except to slack in school. Monday : Watch Mr Bean when we are supposed to have inter class . Too bad , due to rain, it was being cancelled ~ Tuesday :Played Monopoly and have the strategic Games competition ~ Wednesday : sexuality talk ~ Thursday: Have the people from dunno what drama company come. We had the so called 'Amazing race' and tried to figure out what do Myths really meant ~ Friday : Receive our yearbook '07 . Fantastic and good for memory keeping. Also the day where we got back our report book. The day where prizes were given out. I've won the 1st prize in the Chinese writing competition for sec 3 level , a so called ' 4th prize ' for the maths strategic games competition . A badge for MS PRIDE and a cerfiticate for being top 10 in level ( actually for good academic results ) .

SO finally the hoildays are here but the sec 3 have bridging programme, in preparation for O-level and to get our sec 3 topics right. Though it's quite boring but for the sake of our benefit , had to bear with it.

2007-10-22T18:20:00.000+08:00

Today was supposed to have interclass but due to the rain, it was cancelled. All sec 3 were then bought up ot the AVA room where we watched Mr BEan 's hoilday . It was quite a nice movie but if the noise level was lower , we could have enjoy it better. People at the back were making a lot of noise until we can't hear. After that was recess and back to the AVA room . We then proceed to computer lab 1 to do maths survey, PE -survey and NE survey . We were then given 1 hr to surf the net .

2007-10-20T21:56:00.000+08:00

Just received news that the Competition held at NEA won us a $50 commendation. Just one more zero and we could have won the 1st prize. But never mind , at least we got won $50 . Better than nothing after all the hard work we have put in.

2007-10-19T20:23:00.000+08:00

This morning woke up then starting packing things needed for the rock climbing and dragon boating . In the end when I went to school , saw some people bringing their slippers and another pairs of dry shoes did i realise that I actually forgotten about it. But it turns out that xuan , jia ping and kirti all never bring so we just have to try our luck and hope for the best that our shoes do not turns out to be wet and bad .

We changed into our pe - shorts while some track pants and boarded the bus to the venue for the activities. We returned to Camelot for the activities . When we arrived there , the first thing we saw was the familar aeroplane flying pass our heads . Our class was first to arrived there and hence we were able to choose between dragon boat or rock - climbing first. Almost all of us chose rock - climbing first. CHia hao was the demo for the rock -climbing and after than we were divided into 2 groups . My group, we gotten the boys to go first before xuan then I . Scared of heights so I didn't managed to get to the top but tried to get pass the red line and I did it. Then sat there , wait for everyone to finish and saw the batch who went for dragon boating coming back, all wet . Soon , it's our turn . Borrowed shoes from pei zhen cause she went down for dragon boating first . We were then divided into two groups and down we go for the dragon boating. Of course with lifejackets. AS usual we hold arms to arms and tried to float before boarding the boat. Sat with xuan . Our boat got 6 dragonboaters so the instructor just briefly taught us how to hold the ( dunno what it's called . it's for rowing ) . anyway we row and row and it's quite fun although i was afraid of falling into the sea or something for the boat was shaking . but it didn't. Were all wet for head to toe and sands were stucked in my hair. We helped Monfort boys to lift their kayat back on land and then everyone lifted the dragon boat on land. Seems hard but with around 30 ++ people , the dragon boat turns out light. Went for a mild bath . No towels , no plastic bag , no nothing. dying to get back home and have a cool bath.

2007-10-18T18:30:00.000+08:00

Today is the first day of our post exam activities . Sec 1 and 2 will be doing Golf for today and tomorrow, while the sec 3 which is us will be doing Archery for today , Rock -climbing and Dragon Boating for tomorrow. Went to Geylang CC to do Archery , which is near the MAlay village there. Was quite surprised when the bus stopped there. The venue was different from what I thought it to be, but never mind , it would still do. First , we were brief on the names of the different parts of the bow and the arrow. The one we are doing today is known as the bare arrow ( something like that . Can't really remember ) . Anyway then the safety procedure and how to shoot . Later we were divided into groups of 4 and each group will take turns to shoot , but allowed only 3 arrows only . It was quite fun though although I am scared at the beginning . The bow was a bit heavy for me, maybe I got no strength and shooting caused me to have muscle ache. We also watch a video of the different between what we are learning and what the olympic style shooting was . There was also a demo on how to repair the flitch of the arrow. At the end of the day , we have a mini competition within the group to see who can shoot down the 4 balloons. DIdn't thought I would win but I managed to shoot down an orange balloon after my third try. To total up , it was a worthwhile lesson . The teachers also took part in it too. \

After returning to school , jia ping , kirti and I went to mac to eat and rush back to school for one last minute preparation for the competition held at NEA ( national environmental agency ) . We were laughing and calm each other down. I think we did not did so badly though and it was quite a nice presentation although the part when it comes to answering the questions was not so good. But anyway we did our best and that's what matters. So once again would like to thank MS ho , Mr Dinesh, Mr Vinott for helping us and Mr koh for driving us there =) hope we would be able to win the 1st prize for our school , teachers- in charge and for our team .

2007-10-17T15:58:00.000+08:00

I don't wanna get back my report book. Did not do well in End of year exam and so it will pulled down my overall marks. But i really wanna get the bursary award. Knew I would't be part of the top 5 % in the level or in class. It should be the same old people as in during the 1st half of the year. But would be happy enough if I would at least be able to get the award for my parents. This award is going into my education fund in which is going to be used in the future for my further education after secondary school.
Starting to get panic and worried about O-level. I wonder how I am going to survive it. There's so many chapters to study and worse of all I really have to buck up on my weak subjects if not by the time O-level come I wouldn't be ready at all . Sometimes really wonders , why people have to study and why singaporeans kids really had a hard time when it comes to studies. Stress from parents , heavy school load plus CCA and projects. It really took up most of our time and there wasn't simply enough time for own personal activities provided if you know how to manage time properly . SO now all the best and keep my fingers crossed for a miracle to happen =)

2007-10-15T08:43:00.000+08:00

Exams are finally over and we have gotten back our results. It was terrible. Some subjects was quite disappointing for me. DId not do well overall . ANd on top of that, I failed CHemis. Okay , that's predictable , course I am failing it throughout the year.But still hoping to pass though and I just broke down and cried when I received the papers. Anyway , I just hope that the results on the report would be better and I would be able to receive the bursary award. Right now , I think it's best to have fun and relax a bit until the arrival of my REport Book.

It's so fast. THe school year is ending. Can't believe it. It's been 3 years in CBSS and it seems like yesterday when I first entered the school with CHun hui and we were wandering aroung the parade square , wondering where to assemble. ANd there were my newclassmates in 1e2 where Mrs verona stepped in and greets us and we chose the class monitor on the first day itself. Sad to said , 1e2 '05 chose the wrong monitor. Whoosh .... O-level would be here and with another wind blowing by , we would be receiving our O-level results and ended our secondary life. Shall said , I would really miss it. WOuld miss my dear teachers, friends , the school facilities and a lot morre . The best thing I could do now was to treausre the time left in the school and extremely hard for next year and to buck up one my english , maths and science.

2007-09-12T20:26:00.000+08:00

Today around 7.15pm can feel shaky. At first I didn't noticed till Mummy got me to sit still and stare my bowl of soup then did i notice it shaky . Then i got up and feel dizzy. Panic a bit then started calling friends asking if they have feel. Most don't while some thoght they were crazy , feeling dizzy ....Anwaay tune in to channlenewsasiaand watch the news. 2 earthquake in Sumatra. Measuring 7.9 . Tsunami warnings have been issued in the Indian OCean areas such as SRi Lanka and etc. SIngaporeans have also feel the tremours. Especially at Raffles Place , CBD there . People from offices came down to the open area once they feel the tremours. SOme even said the Tv was moving . Hope everything woule be safe and all is well .

2007-09-05T18:23:00.000+08:00

Today was my 15th birthday ! older by one more year =) worke up at 6.45am plus and went to make IC at around 8.30am plus . After that , went to Boon Keng market there to have breadfast cum lunch. After that , went school for ms ang 's english oral lesson . Then rushed down to AMK hub to meet sin yee and adeline to celebrate my b'day. Gotten a stuffed toy and a winnie a pooh key chain from them . Once again, THANK YOU ! anyway we just walk around and around AMK hub . Saw a nice clothes and sin yee saw a dress but we ended up not buying . Ha ha , maybe too expensive le =) After much walking , quite tired. Find some places to stop and chit chat . Sin keep saying she's fat but no she 's not.If she 's fat , then what's a sumo ? Fatter ?

Had a tiring day. MEan to catch some sleep but can't. HAven finished up chemis hw, eng hw , tuition hw and school reopen got oral , physic test and chemis SPA. I 'm so gonna be dead ....AND eny of year exam coming. Wishing all good luck for the exam. Work hard , work smart =)

my presents ....

2007-09-04T20:43:00.000+08:00

This morning woke up at 6.35am and prepare to go for the presentation skills workshop held at NEA ( national environmental agency) located at Scotts Road, a 3min walk from newton MRT station. Reached the bus-stop when 73 & 315 bus had left. Had to call chun hui and get her there. Ha ha , in the end she got a bit disturb as when I called her , she was wearing her shoes and went on one feet to answer my call. sry hui ! anyway , we had to spent the whole day till 5pm plus there. Met filbert , joash , rhyn , jia ping , kirti , kelvin and marcus at AMK MRT. We waited for Triston to arrived but he did not . In the end got flare up, we left. Then many things happended. First Triston came , then JOash and filbert mistaken jia ping's words and went home, rhyn lost his wallet but someone good guy picked it up and called him to take back , We got mad at filbert and joash , lastly filbert came back alone and joash went home. Although I do apprecipate the trainee 's effort in getting us involved and teaching us presetation skills, the course was overall , consider boring. Many schools attend it too. Such as Nanyang Girls high school, AMK sec and etc. At least they didn't starve us for the whole day . We were given 2 tea breaks and one lunch. In the end , every group had ot go up and do a presentation . Each of us were given a cerfiticate and I won the 'BeSt SpeaKEr' award.

Very happy. Mummy spent the afternoon making a lychee cake for me. It's my b'day tmr ! First , morning need go make IC . Then go school for ms Ang 's lesson from 12.30pm-2.30pm.Then Sin yee and adeline going to help me celebrate my b'day . SO sweet of them to remember my b'day ! Adios ~

2007-08-30T20:44:00.000+08:00

I wanna cry !!! Today got back Ca2 results. Very badly done. Under tests , I flunked
3 subjects! Physic , Chemisty & E-maths . All very badly done. Is AA which pushed my results up . In the end I ended up with a C for E-maths and a B for Chemistry. But for overall , I've gotten 5 As , 1 B and 1 C . But just focusing on the tests alone. It's badly done . It relfects the standard of one for exams.
I 'm going to study hard for this coming End of YEar exam. It determines whether I will get the bursary awards. Sec 1 until now gotten it. So this year also must die die take. The money will go into my college fund. Nowadays education is getting more and more expensive. So i 've got to lessen Mummy and Daddy 's burden. I 'm determined to ! So hoe lady luck will follow me and I will passed with flying colours. Although not a A . But a B would be fine for me . I will jump over the moon ! Also don't wish to disappoint my tuition teacher. He 's leaving for further studies next year. So at least must do well in A- maths & E- maths . Jia you jia you ! Must go all the way to the very end . I WILL NOT GIVE UP !

2007-08-24T20:52:00.000+08:00

recently watching the old disney shows make me think of my childhood time. Ha ha, was a disney fan. SImply adore disney. Expecially mickey , minnie, disney princesses and everthing about it. Mum says: ' how old are u ? still disney disney & DIsney ! don't think there is a problem with liking DIsney Princesses or characters. Look at ying xuan & chun hui . The songs are also great ! Hope one day i can go visit disney land =)

Anyway , high school musical 2 coming . waiting for the VCDs or DVDs to be out. dont' have disney channel . Pity or I can watch. So for those who wished to watch , it's on sept 9 , 7.30pm .
But the songs I've heard . Better than the 1st movie. hope this one would be as great as the 1st one.

very stressed...tests test AnD moore tests. Monday gt A.maths and chemis test, then next wk got phy SPA.Hope i can do well in it. COunted for O-level.

2007-08-10T19:05:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was SIngapore 's 42th Birthday. Happy Birthday Singapore !!! Went to yi yi 's house in the afternoon. Jarod arrived when i we were watching Lion King II. We went and played badminton at the court and went swimming, though I can't swim so I just went and palyed with the waters. Then at about 6pm +++ when the NDP started, everyone soon arrived and we watched the NDP parade while eating. Could see the National Flag bought in by the helicopter straight from Yi Yi's house. HEr house is situated near MArine Bay so we could see the helicopter and the RED lions coming down . But the best part was the fireworks. Very pretty and colourful.

Happy Happy Birthday to my dear country ! Remain to flourish as the years goes by =)

2007-08-08T17:59:00.000+08:00

Today is the eve of national day. In the morning, when I came to school, saw a lot of primary school kids and secondary school kids wearing red T-shirt ! I was so envious of them. Remember 3 years ago when i was still in primary school , the national day celebrations was quite memorable. Now , I was wearing my school uniform to school .No red t-shirts or anything. So I was sort of grumbling to chun hui ,sally and jia ping. but recovered after I reached school.
Our school also had the green carnival cum national day celebration. Actually the celebration is nothing. Just the noraml stuff and so. LAter, chun hui, jia ping and I proceed on to the PRIDE GARDEN for carnival . We were supposed to introduce the PRIDE GARDEN to the Lower Sec pupils and let them take a quiz. The first 5 people of each class who got everything correct will get a prize. VEry tired. Stand under the hot sun for about 1 hr +++ and the pupils still did not cooperate. All wanted prizes despite getting the qn wrong. LOwer Sec veru difficult to maintain. SImply don't understand English . Only some really take the opportunity to learn something and did the quiz seriously. The rest, forget it. So if ppl really says our school 's students attitude is bad, I agreed. They never take anything seriously and don't appreciate what activities people had planned for them. They simply take things for granted. Can't believe what our country woule be like 10-20 years down the road with about 80% of SIngaporeans with attitude like that. DOesn't meant to critize people or my own country. I just don't wish to see the price our forefathers had pay for the peace we had today to be gone.

Anyway , went to jia ping and ying xuan 's primary school today .They having a carnival there , with food and games. I played the ' picking up the marbles within 30 sec game'. DIdn't quite managed . The time limit given was too short. In the end , got a sweet instead. Then we go AMK hub eat. Jia ping and I shared the MIni wok .When we carried the food to our table, jia ping was havign tears in her eyes and i was having a running nose . All beacause ofthe fire. Saw a lot of school 's students there. Half day what ... ANd we go window shopping and but some snacks to eat . We were wandering around when jia ping like want to sleep so we went home.

Can't wait for tmr . Going to watch NDP PArade live at yi yi 's house. Going there to play badminton and tennis in the afternoon and watch the parade at night .From her house there, can see fireworks

2007-08-07T20:17:00.000+08:00

just finished watching the video we took in school after 2007 growth camp. all in high mood so we sort of bought our campfire item back to school and ms ang film it. 5 moths ago....really missed the guys. Hope they will be back soon. The class isn't right without them. From a noisy class, now , we all become sort of 'guai' except brandon who create a bit of laughter during chemis lesson todae. BEside that, simply like the class is so dead. For physcis lesson , used to be really noisy . Tian yi , filbert and brandon create a lot of noise. But now, during physic , all u see are people half sleeping , half listening and fully asleep. whole class were liek so quiet.

That day really feel like crying. but only a bit of tears only . so bad . all they ever does was to fooling around and it got them into so much trouble. Anyway , whole class will be behind them ,giving them all the help they need . And i really hope that the school will changed their impression of us. Doesn't meant one wrong act we does, we have to be punished for life

2007-07-31T21:32:00.000+08:00

so mant tests coming soon .This thursday got chinese and social studies test. NExt monday , got CHemis test. Feel like sleeping today during chemis lesson. very tired...went home ,straight went to sleep . sleep for 3hours straight. then at 7pm ,do homework.

Recently, noticed mrs ng very stressed. Can't blame her. she got so many topics to teach us and there wasn't any enough time left till end year and o-level. And she 's got other classes to teach as well who are in the mids of preparation for o-level.

On the other hand, ms loh had to keep reminding us end year is coming . We knew but it's just that the more teachers said it or remind us, the more stress we would get. Homework is a ton now. Don't know how to survive till next year ....

2007-07-30T20:52:00.000+08:00

LAst friday, just had the 1st Chemisty SPA. Oh MY GOD!, i'm so gonna flunked it badly... Already tried my very best and on the verge of crying when MS loh shouted 'stop!' . There wasn't enough time to finish up the work. ANd i didn't do the calculations and the answer to what the chemical are. I just hope that the 'doing experiment part' can help me. But I doubt so .

Skip the topic, next monday got chemistry test. And this thursday got chinese and Social studies test. Don't understand why teachers always left towards the end of the month when they needed to key in the marks then they give test and AA. Maybe they wanted to finish teaching certain topics then giving tests or they are too busy to give.

Less than a month away comes ENd Year exam. Time really flies . BEfore i knew it, half a year 's gone. It doesn't seemed so last year or the year before. MAybe this year, I 'm more busier with schoolwork and tests , exams etc so time flies for me. Soon before I know it, O-level's gonna be here. SO fast. Just pray hard that I could do well in End year as well as O-level .

2007-07-09T21:02:00.000+08:00

Left 10 more weeks till End year exam. This year's end year is earlier than previous years al thanks to O-level being bought forward . Now, teachers were all rushing to finish teaching all the topics and us students being more stress. We were already feeling the tense of END YEAR coming closer and closer. I'm totally stress .Students nowadays had to balance schoolwork with CCA and all the projects . Now they don't want people who have brains . They wanted people who are creative as well as innovative. SO it means working hard.
Lessons are getting more boring and dry. And plus all the hot weather singapore is facing now, it makes us feel more tense and don't wish to stay in class and listen to the teacher talk. NO choice. That's the life as a student.

2007-06-28T15:29:00.000+08:00

Hoildays have ended. So fast , a month had passes ... My hoildays had been spent on attending New South Wales preparation course , projects & homework. OF course , left a bit of free time for going out.

The timetable had changed for this semester. No change at all. Still had to bear through the A.maths & E.maths on the same day. Only this time, A.maths changed to Wed and Thu. THu is the worst. 3 periods of A.maths accompant by 1 period of E.maths after recess. Before recess was 2 periods of physic. But this timetable was okay to me as I like the way the subjects are being spread. But there was an error in the sec 4 's timetable .As a result , our 2nd timetable had to be changed again ! Now , A.maths had return to Monday and tuesday , with E.maths & Physic & Chemis on the same day. Seemed to be a boring day on Monday and Tuesday .

This semester had to work extra hard if I want to buck up. I 'm determined to pass my A.maths & Chemis. End year is coming in 2 months ' time. 26th OR 29th September. SO there isn't any time left till O-LEVEL. DEAD DEAD DEAD! With so much things to do yet so 'LITTLE TIME" . Time 's precious !!! Treasure Time!

2007-06-21T11:39:00.000+08:00

My final Entry !

LAst Sunday , I went to the Singapore Science Centre with jia ping , chun hui and kirti. We arrived at the Science Centre at 10.30am. There were already a lot of people there. Maybe because it was a Sunday , it was during the school hoilday and there were quite a lot of activities. There were an exhibition on the inventions of the ancient Chinese , a video on Qin Shi Huang ( the 1st emperor of China ) and Chemistry week activities. We were there for the Chemistry week. Ms loh , our chemistry teacher wanted us to attend some activities and write a journal as well as showing her photos to prove we were there.

So we paid an entrance fee of $3 and went in. Straight away we went to 3rd level where the labs were located . We went for the Blue Print . Blue Print is when people in the pass had no photocopy machine and hence uses blur print. The advantage of Blue print were that it allows an unlimited number of prints to be made without degradaton and assures highly accurate dimensions on the copies. The resulting prints were also resistant to fading , markings and alteration. Additionally , the blue print process is less expensive compared to a silver based photographic process.

The process of making blue print is quite fun as we were allowed to make our own designs . Jia ping took quite a logn time for hers as she wanted it to be perfect. ha ha =) For me , well , I just didn't knew which design I wanted so I just drew some patterns. The whole course took about 1hr .From 11am-12pm.

After that we went for lunch and returned at 2pm for our second course , which was Designing T-shirt . At first we thought it was just a course of desinging T-Shirts by drawing on it and using chemical effects and etc. But we were wrong. In fact we all the patterns which we want on out T-shirt would spread . The T-shirt Designing uses the concept of solubility . The ink made by the markers pen would be spread using enthnol . So you would get a circle of colourful rings instead .

No choice , but to do something on the T-shirt. Jia ping refused to design on hers so she went to design on Kirti's T-shirt.

After the course , we went to view some exhibits and went home. This was quite a learning journey for us.

2007-06-16T21:36:00.000+08:00

my cousin on rock-climbing

tanker with goods ...

sea

night view of the swimming pool

children pool

sunrise

2007-06-15T18:31:00.000+08:00

My 3rd entry

Home sweet home , I'm back from far out in the massive sea!
For the pass few days or rather weeks , I have been worrying about this and that. Maybe I 've seen movies of ship sinking that I developed a sense of uncomfortable when my parents planned a trip to Superstar Star Virgo together with aunt , uncle , grandpa & my 4years old cousin . But anyway , I kept praying hard that nothing bad is going to happen on this trip. Thankfully maybe I 've been a bit too parnoid, nothing happen and I enjoyed the cruise.

We set off at 9pm +++ going to 10pm when we finally boarded the ship.We actually waited for 1 hr +++ for the check in ( getting the cabin key) and another 1hr +++ for the board in ( checking of bags and luggage ) . The quene was EXTREMELY LONG ! and the quene only moved a bit after a few minutes. A lot of people got impatient and unhappy over this. Maybe there were far too many people going or the way they planned the check in & board in was terribly bad.

Before getting onto the ship, at the entrance there were people and mascots standing there , taking your photo . Next , I knew they were going to ask you to buy the photos they have taken .Smart way of earning money . But had to buy for the sake of memory keeping .

Our room turned out to be small . There were 4 beds. 2 by the corner , 1 on the top and 1 on the bottom. There were a short show on TV about what and how to do when there was an emergency. There were an demonstration too and we learned how to wear life jacket. Went for supper at the chinese restaurant at 11pm ! First time in my life eating at 11pm when it's consider not good for health but anyway who cares. Too hungry after the long wait.The food was quite okay and we explore the ship .Went to the top deck which was Deck 13. There were a swimming pool , library , writing room , spa and etc there . The night scenary of Singapore was really nice. At 12 am sharp , the ship started sailing away from the harbour. Was told there were two boats at each end to pull it out of the harbour.
Couldn't sleep throughout the 1st night.Keep hearing the engine of the ship goes 'bot bot bot' and the people next door to us keep going in and out , making a lot of noise.In the end I ended up sleeping for a few hours only.

Day 2 , went for breadfast at the Mediterranean Buffet .Guess the cook didn't sleep well or .... Cause the food was bad. Not all but majority. But the view from the restaurant was nice. We were in the middle of a nowhere but a gigantic sea . There were fishermen 's boats . The fishermen were really great , sailing on a motor boat. The boat was consider small compared to the sea.
Then we went to Mid - valley Megamall in KL . The mall was far bigger than Vivo City .But the shops were similar to what we had in Singapore. Had to report at 7pm sharp or we 'll had to go back on our own. The trip to and fro took 1 and a half hour. Goes to show how big Kl was AND it's only one part of Malaysia .Due to Traffic Jam in KL.
We missed Dinner Time so had to wait for supper before eating . And supper was at 12am . Pretty hungry at that time.
Luckily, the second night , I slept throughout and woke up to view sunrise. The scene was pretty but the wind was quite strong. Almost blew my jacket off.Went to jacuzzi . First time in a jacuzzi in a middle of a big sea.This time round , the buffet served better tasting breadfast . Had to check out of the rooms before 12 noon as the ship sailed back to Singapore.Arrived in Singapore while having lunch .

The cruise turned out great only on the second day. The first day was filled with rush and me , worrying about the ship sinking, ha ha =D

2007-06-11T21:06:00.000+08:00

Today went to AMK Library in the morning to do the mobile work. I reached there at 9.55am and already there were a lot of people waiting outside . Then it opened even before i got there. So all the people were like rushing in for the seats . The library had seats with a table . So everyone were like wanting thoses seats. Those who could not get went to the small cafe next to the library for there are seats availble there.Ying xuan came a bit late N we settle on the couch to do the mobile .Mess around with the mobile N got a bit impatient with it. Then we gave up and decided to go in search of cards with music in them N baby mobile . COuldn't found any . So we walk to Macdonald n share the seaweed shaker fries. Very salthy. Ying xuan put the whole packet in . No wonders...
Ha ha ying xuan recently keep looking at clothes . So we went around browsing which one is nice , which one is not nice. All i could thought of was FOOD.HUngry at that time.Didn't had breakfast . Had some ice-cream and brought lunch home.
Nice day after all . ha ha.
Left only one week to the ending of school hoilday.It seemed so fast two weeks had gone in a flash. Time really flies . Now i truly understood the meaning.

2007-06-05T20:24:00.000+08:00

So anyway, We arrived there and immediately I yearn for ice-cream. Just can't resist myself. Chun Hui accompanied and we bought Sakura Ice-cream. It tastes great. Wewent on to Bugis street where ying xuan saw a full set of clothes and skirt. She asked for the price : $39.90 .She meant to buy it but gave up the idea in the end. SHe bought a massage cushion as Father's Day gift instead . Chun hui bought a cup for her Dad and jia ping bought a Winnie the Pooh cushion for her cousin. For me ,well , I didn't bought anything .
Went for lunch and couldn't find any seats. We managed to find one in the end and said 'XIE XIE ' to the old ladies when we thought they were Chinese. But one instead wanted us to speak English to them . Saying to speak more to improve our language. We found it funny and reply 'THANK YOU' to them and they left. Weird. CHun Hui was quite piss off and say we thought they were chinese then did we spoke Mandrain to them. If it were for Malays or Indians , we could have used English instead .
After out goign round and round Bugis , we took an MRT to yishun except for ying xuan. SHe went home. Chun hui and jia ping wanted to cut their hair so i accompanied them. It was a home salon. The lady was jia ping 's cousin godmother OR rather her father's friend 's wife. Complicated relationship. We searched around for the blk and asked a man instead . Finally found it. Heard the owner got a DOG. Jia ping was afraid of Dogs. The minute we stood at the door, the dog welcome us by barking. It scares us and we screamed . The owner then kept the dog in the room but it kept barking . The process of cutting hair took a long time. I was asleep when it came to jia ping's turn.
Went to Northpoint 's mac to eat the Seaweed shaker fries. Dying to have it since the last time I didn't get to have it.There was nothing much at Northpoint so we went home.

Thinking back , I really found the ladies too amusing . Maybe they didn't knew Mandrain , hence wanting us to speak English to them = D

A day out

2007-06-05T17:06:00.000+08:00

Okay , here 's my second entry .

Went out with gals yesterday to Bugis. We agree to meet at 10am but me and chun hui were slightly early so we went down to the underpass linking the MRT station with AMK HUB cause the air-con there were stronger. We met ying xuan and we went to CHEERS . Ying xuan wanted to buy a drink 'Watever' and we decided to go to NTUC when we met jia ping . She went to the underpass for air-con too. Can't blame us. The weather 's been got lately .

ALL DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING ! I can't help being worried about the effects that Global warming is going to bring us. In school , we studies Global Warming through Geography and we students knew that the effects and consequences of Global Warming is dire. God knows what will happened 50 years later. Just some days ago , I have read the Straits times. One of the articles showcase a mountain which was rather tall covering the sky in the 1960s and now , the mountain is no longer covering the sky but the top layer of it , had melted . So you can see the consequences of what Global Warming had in place on our environment. If our environment is affected , somehow, it will too indirectly afftects us. Only now, did people from all around the world had been trying to reduce Global Warming when the effects it had was a bit dire. WHY AREN"T PEOPLE CONCERN ABOUT IT IN THE PAST ? Places like NTUC and etc , had been advising people to bring their own bags instead of using plastic bags and if they want to use plastic bags instead on specific days . they would had to pay for it. I think this is a great idea. But not many people are using this idea. So far, I 've only seen a few doing that. In other countries, this had started a few years back and you can see on TV that people bought their own shopping bags when going out to buy grocery and etc. I hope more SINGAPOREANS would kindly bring their own bags out when doing shopping . The idea might be weird but it will certainly do good to our environment.
I would also like to suggest using more of public transport and not cars as they gave out CARBON DIOXIDE . There are many ways a person could help the environment but people 's character are being LAZY. I wouldn't deny that myself as something I , too am being lazy . But we had to do something or else what on earth is going to happen in the near future ?

2007-05-31T21:16:00.001+08:00

Okay , this is my first entry which is part of my English homework for the JuNe hoilday. So, today was Vesak Day.As usual, I woke up at 6am and together with my parents, we went to a temple . We arrived at the temple at around 7am plus and there were already a lot of people. Daddy says "The atmosphere here is consider okay. If it is at 'Si ma lu ' there that temple or elsewhere, sure got thousands and thousands of people".
So we enter the temple . While my parents were buying joss sticks and other stuff for praying , I went to 'bath the Buddha'. Don't get me wrong. What I meant was to scoop water from the little well and pour it over the buddha 3 times. After praying , we went to a place next to the temple and had breadfast there. Food were free considering : one table had to had 10 people before they served the food and no food is to be wasted.In Buddhism , it is believed that food came from farmers who work hard in the field all day long. So if one wasted food, it is as good as wasting the farmers ' effort in cultivating crops .
Food include Bee Hoon, Peanuts, Curry, Tau Pok & Char Siew.To obey the rules , all of us sitting at the same table had to try and finished off the food even though we were quite full. Mummy then bought some Bee hoon and Poh Pian( spring rolls) for Grandpa.

In the afternoon, we decided to go out. We came to Plaza Singapura . There I came across a matter which I felt so unfair of.
We were getting hungry after walking and shopping when we decided to have a quite meal at a shop which sold Toast bread . Somewhat similar to 'Ya Koon' . It was a rather small place and quite squeezy too. There were no availble seats for us , so we had to wait. Luckily for us , we managed to get seats in a few minutes. While we were waiting for food, other customers came in and wanted to eat but there were no seats. AND THE WORST THING WAS THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SEATS AVAILBLE BUT SOME INCONSIDERATE PEOPLE SIMPLY REFUSED TO GAVE UP THEIR SEATS ! Why did i Said that. WHile I noticed that there were 4 guys seated behind out table. They came earlier than us and had finished their food BUT THEY JUST CONTINUED TO SAT THERE CHATTING ! ANd there were 2 ladies too. They purposely left a small piece of bread to show they hadn't finished their meal and sat there too, chatting along . WHAT DO THEY TAKE THE PLACE FOR ? IF THEY HAD SO MUCH TO CHAT , GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. WHY CAN"T THEY GOT UP & LEAVE SO OTHERS COULD HAVE A CHANCE TO ENJOY THE FOOD. There were 2 empty seats next to the lady and her friend . In the end, the waitress there had to ask her if anyone was sitting there before asking a couple to have the 2 seats. DESPITE KNOWING PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR SEATS YET THESE PEOPLE CAN SIMPLY SAT THROUGH CHATTING AND TURNING A BLIND EYES AGAINST THINGS AROUND THEM ! I JUST CAN"T BELIEVE IT. WHY ARE THERE PEOPLE LIKE THEM EXISTING IN THIS WORLD.

PS : Whatever I say is out of my own opinion ,of things which I have witnessed with my true eyes. If you have any comments , please leave a message on my tagboard . Thank You . No offends =)

LAst day of school

2007-05-25T14:08:00.000+08:00

Hurray! After 5++months of hard work n tolerating , the long wai of hoildays is finally here. I was ever sooo happy when Mrs Menon finished her speech and wished us a HAPPY HOILDAY ! I was clapping my hand together with others. Today, Mummy came to school to the parents-meeting session. Ms ang show her my report slip. It was not that good. I was 6th in class and 8th in level. Worse than last year. I 'm ever soo disappointed. So intend to work hard during the next semester and starting from this June hoilday. But too bad, still got the CHinese project , E.maths project , physic project N chemis AA. On top of that still have to return to school for the 1st week and last week of school & last but not least homework.
Anyway, wishing everyone a very happy hoilday ! Enjoy yourself and work hard at the same time !

2007-05-18T21:46:00.000+08:00

This time , I 'm utterly disappointing in my results . They were really bad and far from my expectations.It took me exactly 3 days to recover. I shall say no more about it.It just brings back unhappy moments.Thank Godness I have my friends with me. "SIn yee' a BIG thank you to you for cheering me and motivating me up , we shalll work hard together. Yan ting 'biao jie' THANK YOU to u too. And not forgetting my CBSS gals. Thanks a lot guys.I 'm feeling better now and 50 % of me had return to original shape.
Anyway putting that aside, yesterday, Library Club had a farewell tea party for sec 4 seniors who are stepping down and to welcome new committee members. I was made the president of Library CLub , SUsanna , the vice president n yi hong , chun hui , jia ping ....were made committee members. Congra to all. Although it's a bit late as that was months ago when the decision was made. The food was great. I loved the chocolate buns although I had only one , it got me wanting to have another. But can't . Got to think of others who did not have and there were only a few. Beside that , there were also curry puffs , seaweed chicken and others. Had games too . Although it's quite boring , but considered good enough. Went home at around 4.30pm.

Today , we had a heritage tour to Malay Heritage Centre, Chinese Heritage centre & 'Tian Fu Gong ' at near chinatown. Fall asleep when on bus to first destination. The air-con are not strong enough.The other classes had strong air -con on their buses. JUst walk past one and you can feel the air-con. The malay heritage tour was okay although we did made quite a lot of noise. The visit to the temple was quite short. Everyone were like going to pray to 'KONG ZI' a.k.a Confucious ( can't spell ) .Anyway , I join in too and donate some money as a token of respect. 'KONG ZI' was well known to be a teacher and good in studies. So if yiou wished to excel in your studies, go prayed to him. That was being passed down from generation to generation . Chinese heritage centre was okay. We saw what it was like in the past in which the people lived and stayed in . The worst part was there was this fat guy who shown us 'black face' for turning up late and mad at some people for eating ice-cream and delaying the rest. He 's right but then he brought up the topic of tourists complaing about SIngaprean kids behaviour . That got me mad.What right has he got to say that. ISn't he a kid once too ? Doesn't he behave like us before ? He reminded us not to make noise and bang on the stairs & disallow us to use the lift. This got us mad and soon , people were banging on the stairs. The trip was rather nice and I 've learn a lot of things and appreciate what I have today.

2007-05-03T15:06:00.000+08:00

Today is the start of mid -year exam. This year , is completely different from last year. The papers were more difficult and hard to understand. Take today 's paper . Quite hard especially Paper 2 .Though I understand the passages but don't know how to answer them. For paper 1 , the questions for free writing were hard. I choosed Qn 5 which says "millions". Jia ping and chun hui wrote that too. Ying xuan and Kirti choosed Qn 2 which says 'an day where everything gone wrong". I mean to wrote about that but found the storyline I planned to be a bit too common hence choosing Qn 5 . For Qn 5 , I think I wrote a bit out of point. This time I 'm sure I will flunked my english . Everyone is class were like this paper 'sucks' ( no offends ) and 'so hard' . True it was really hard. I almost cried when I saw so many questions which I don't know how to answer.So can only hope for the best now.
Tomorrow will be Mother Tongue Paper. Hopefully it doesn't came as hard as today 's english papers. Good Luck to everyone =)
Drenched a bit in the rain . Not only me , jia ping , kirti & ying xuan all never bring umbrella. Ying xuan changed a different bag hence she didn't bring . For me , I thought that it wouldn't be so unlucky that it rains so I didn't bring . Everytime I bought my umbrella it didn't rains. When I didn't bought it , it will rains. As for jia ping , well , she never learned her lesson. Each time it rains , she will shared with Kirit or Chun hui. Walk home with them. Went to 7-11 , jia ping & xuan were like 'you eat then i accompany you eat' . In the end, jia ping ate noodles while xuan wanted to save money so she didn't eat. We were watching jia ping and feel like eating too. So we teased jia ping about eating slowly and blah blah saractisely. Ever so happy to see chun hui at the bus-stop. She lent me her umbrella so I didn't get drenched in the rain !
My ' jiu xing' ( saver ) !