lols, i slept right after chinese tuition today. rather, napped. so when my relatives arrived, i was still on the sofa, dozing D: but, nevermind, we're quite close anyway. i'd definitely say im a whole lot closer to my mother's side of the family. so, well, they came today, for a round of mahjong. the older half of the round&flat brothers and their father. i've decided to be real nice to their father, seeing as he'd tried to engage in a conversation with my cousin(: changed my first impression of him slightly, which is to say, extremely bad. but it's getting better, i really dont want to entirely hate him. but, lols, too bad, only half of the round&flat brothers came, &he settled himself rather shyly on the sofa, stoning/watching tv/tapping furiously at the keys of his PSP. hais, whatever, he didnt give me the chance :x but now, without his other half, he seems more toned down, shy is definitely not the word to describe him when his flat half is with him. nuh-uh. but thinking about it again, he's patient. that i definitely have to commend him on(: his father is there playing mahjong since 2.45? and now it's 6. not bad at all for a guy :D

surprise again! my cousin is coming over with my cute little nephew! heh, he was supposedly coming tomorrow, but he changed it last minute, at 3+ this afternoon. whee, weijin is such a cute little thing. he's active really, too much energy in him. &he only knows the names of animals, in fact, almost all animals. he recognises them pretty well. his daddy&mummy says, he could become a zookeeper when he grows up :D he likes the twinkle little stars in our room! hehe, abandoned my tuition homework for a little while to play with him. now they're outside playing with sparklers&bomb bags, can smell it in the studyroom since the windows open towards the corridors :P

chatting with miaoyu again. she's another cute thing. okay, haha, shouldn't use that, she's a sec2 student already, i have to get used to calling their batch, secondary 2 students(: but, aww, they're still younger than me! ahaha.

*screams&aqueals!
this makes me so damn happy(:
http://www.god4u.jp/bigeast2009/295/index.php <3jae :x

the class is getting somewhere(: unity is coming along, with everything slowly falling in to place together with the stabilising of the class spirit. this is the class i've started out, not really expecting much. but coupled with esther fong& jeffrey ong, i think we're going somewhere. we can't totally say esther fong is nothing, can't do as well as jeffrey ong or whatever, it's just porbably, jeffrey ong has a stronger hold over us, he has this 'special' ability to make the class sit still and listen. but, without esther fong, the class wouldn't be the same. maybe, if we'd just treated her the way we do towards jeffrey ong, who knows? treat others how you want yourself to be treated. i want to thank the both of them for being the support of 3A1'08/4A1'09. jeffrey ong for the huge number of things that he'd done for us, really, and esther fong for being there for us during the night hike, encouraging us, pushing us forward when it was the final stretch at 4.30am in the morning. she was felt unwell in the afternoon, &was better at night. but still, even if she might have felt unwell along the way, she pushed us along, as we staggered through the journey. i know both of them will be there for us in the O-levels, fighting alongside us, encouraging us, pushing us along, sharing pain&happiness.

we'll set the standards for the 4E this year. I want the cohort to follow in our footsteps& remember, remember that this is the graduating class of 4A1'09

had tuition yesterday. surprise was waiting there. heh, home tuition for me, so Serene came and started. she didn't turn her phone to silent, probably expecting a call or a sms i guess. blah, blah, blah. i knew that a p-school friend, Benjamin, was having her as a tutor as well :D much of a shock to me. i seriously didn't expect us to exchange a few sms-es just because we had the same teacher. (:

who would have thought that i would be gossiping about something together with jos&jac? never would have thought. i've always seen her as someone up there? just 'cause she's rather smart :x

little miaoyu(: cute ah! will talk to you more often, come ask for advice! :P

much happened since the last time i blogged. lols. this was an extremely busy week, what with CNY celebrations that had just passed.

stupid internet connection was down for a freaking long time. ok, so it might have just been a few days or so, but, it was hell for me... no fics, no star news :x
monday as usual was dance practice, but there was CNY rehearsal, so quite slack-ish. tuesday was orientation, CCA. had to perform, then rushed off for dental before the selection of sec1s. braces are finally taken off! saturday is date for collection of braces, much looking forward to it(:
wednesday was free, spent time working on my english i think. my brains rusty, can't remember much of the week already. thursday, had rehearsal AGAIN. stupid thing. gathered in the dance room at 3.30pm, did homework in the canteen while waiting to assemble. rehearsal till late):

[contd; 25.01]
friday was the actual thing. had to reach school extra extra early(: so woke at about 5.55? lols, then preparation was minimum, cause i already finished packing last night :D more time to laze around. daddy woke up late, lucky for them, my sis went in their room for dental floss, or i'd be really late. rush, rush, rush :P the performance was really not the best we could give. there's lots of room for improvement.



rushed to vivo, after i collected clique watch from kaiting, and removed the makeup of course. but the eyeliner loves me too much, it stuck there till i got back home at 3+
trained to outram with rujun& peiwei, xinchi, jiaxian, baby brother plus jingyi. xinchi was going home, the rest were heading to weile's(:



lunch first@habourfront. pasta@pastamania :D had prawn aglio, crave for oil-based pastas recently ever since the trip to sunset way where i had oil-based prawn spag XP




down to first floor to buy pressies! went into Montique(?) as there were loads of accessories in there. bought a necklace for myself, plus necklace&bracelets&earring for my sister's birthday(: rujun got herself a pair of earrings if i didn't remember wrongly.




walked till we were kinda tired, then headed up to chill(: sat there for i don't know how long, talked about crushes, lols. rujun, stop it le ah!
one guy came up to us& asked if we were from CTSS, regconised him, he was an ex-student. weird though.


saturday is here! lols, collection of my braces. there's a list of instructions about care for your braces(: chose a PURPLE box. because: RED+BLUE=PURPLE! which equates to dongbangSHINEE/ dongbangSUJU :P then to walk around at orchard. wore the wrong shoes for walking. heels for goodness sake.


mac for lunch. this is the first time in AGES i've had fastfood for a main meal. felt really good :D
back home to do abit of POA, then to westmall to buy movie tix for a midnight show(: & market for last-minute new year stuff. homed& packed up the house abit more. lols, we're taking soo long! late dinner due to the packing. bath&changed. tuned in to okto for the movies portion. there was a korean star :x

26th is going to be JAE's birthday, as well as new year. here's wishing jae a happy birthday!

i find myself rather sick. as in, there was night hike from 9pm yesterday till 5am this morning. walked all the way from mount faber, habourfront MRT back to school at clementi. slept for barely more than 4 hours, then woke up for 'lunch' (ate breakfast when we were back at 5am before sleeping). gathered in the ISH at 1030, did abit on reflections& just tying up those loose ends. night hike was also like a game, so there were points calculated. &guess what? 4A1 won! woots! lols. release was at around 11+, 12 and I reached home, maybe at around 1? yep, &up till now, i havent had any rest. AT ALL, other than the 4 hours of sleep... took a bathe immediately upon reaching home. I didn't bathe in school, cause there was too little time and we were too lazy also la, haha. dirty, but think about it. after night hike, do you think you even have the energy to walk anymore? so i took the longest time ever to bathe. 30minutes. (ok, it's really long for me already. usually i'd just take less than 15.) brushed my teeth, wash&condition hair, body, warm water for my arms &feet to help alleviate the sores & scrub my feet! quite fun(:

dayONE.
first was abit of settling in, it being the first day and all. then one round of ice breakers. briefing about the rough outline of today's programs then a little break. social dancing was up next. lols, had to partner up with guys, but it wasn't so bad, in fact, i had loads of fun. the dance wasn't that difficult. i think, probably, the dance background i had helped out a little?(:
the guys had to keep rotating, so i was beside alicia the whole time :D [ps. ali, maybe you should really join a dance group. heh] totally had fun together, kaitingyixiu was somewhere more to the back with charmaine, the guides one. did quite alot. i ignored the fact that i was dancing with a guy, so it was much easier to enjoy. there was a short break in between, and alicia, being all hyped up about the dance, was asking me to dance with her! :D
lunch was up next. it was so-so luh, quite dry actually, but i shouldn't be grumbling about the food. the main point of the camp isn't the food(:
public speaking workshop next! i liked it! it wasn't like any other workshops. when you think of workshops, you'd link it with boring, right? but this is the exact opposite! our coach was isaac, loved him alot. the way he presented was cool, adding slight bits of humour&of course, little bits on his personal experiences. there was a group presentation& a individual one. i did the group with alicia, kaitingyixiu& jiaxian. we did a 'commercial' thing on jx's obsolete(sp?) phone :x
i didn't do individual one. only a few people did, time was not on our side. (i didn't mind, lols.) really funny things happened! lols, kavin&ock talked about O-levels. luqman just reiterated everything that isaac said. ha! even the examples given were exact!
de-brief&reflections. then home-d. but stayed back abit to ask isaac about the formal wear we were supposed to bring& change into tmr. he's quite observant, i must say. within the short 3-hour session with us, he managed to catch jx&ock's characters quite, correctly. lols. we were ecstatic when he said that he'd most probably take us for the social etiqutte workshop tmr(:

daysTWO&THREE.
carried lots of things to school. there's stayover tonight [or should i say, tmr morning :P].
CIP first. briefing& then back to class for prep. headed out for queenstown to give out the food packs. alicia forgot her ez-link... i shall leave it up to your imagination, what she did(:
didn't go too well for my group. i was with siongtuan& justin. the unit we were supposed to go to, the lady only spoke dialect. &none of us in the group knew how to. ok, so i know how to listen, but nope, cant speak a single word. got help from our classparent who accompanied us there. (there were very little girls in our class, so all the girls had to split up, in case anything happens. we can help the guys, &vice versa. something about the people there with uhh, some problems. they might think the guys have molested them or something. teachers dont want that happening, so there, the reason for our grouping.)
lunch after the painting of the class flag, all thanks to sam! lols, ok, so the base was done by peiwei&the rest who were there to help. but editing is thanks to sam! i got myself all nicely painted in blue by the end of the session. had a mini session on reflection, then it was social etiquette course. but nope, it wasn't coach isaac, it was coach julian instead. i hated him to the core when he first stepped in. he looked like those dao kind. then, he said he didnt like the layout of our classroom, so we had to move all the tables aside, leaving the chairs in the middle, like conference style. we were all talking about isaac, cause he said there was a huge possibility that he'd get us for this lesson. &coach julian just had to say he didn't care about isaac or whatnot. he's here to teach us so he only cared about us. looks mild enough? mind you, tone plays a huge part. so his tone was totally harsh, bleh him.
enough about the bad part. he's nice, period. about as nice as isaac, though more strict. ignore whatever i've typed right up there, interacting with him for the next 3hours or so changed my impression of him completely. didn't change into corporate wear. guys were asked to model. &he was there to critique. & err, taught us girls how to dress our guys in the future? lols. he said girls had better fashion sense than guys, so guys should get girl's opinion when shopping for clothes :x
went around to other classes to see how many people in their class wore corporate wear. saw isaac! lols, he got the 5NA classes, i suppose, since he was on the other block ):
assembled in the hall for water parade. had to dump at least 500ml of water in our stomaches, they were scared we'd get dehydrated i guess? night hike was later, & we supposed to trek about 6km? i drank like 800-900ml of water in a go? i was totally shocked when i finished my bottle. cant cheat with mine, coloured-seethrough plastic. they'd ask us to overturn our bottles too, so yeah.
dinner after changing into aspire tees& briefing for the hike later on. finished dinner pretty quickly. had to rush from hall to classrooms quite a number of times& also to the toilet. dumping at least 500ml of water into your body has its side effects. resting time from about 8 till 8.45, after which it was a more detailed brieifing on our trek. MRT challenge from 9-10.30. we had 3 clues& had to figure out which station we're supposed to drop at. didn't have to exit, so less damage on our ez-links. it was all on the history of singapore, so we were totally lost, except for one, where we'd have to alight at queenstown. didnt manage to rush back into the train after alighting& asking our facilitator if it was the correct station. so, we made full use of the 6 minutes before the next train came. we rushed downstairs& asked the MRT staff at the control station about the other two. much thanks to them! all were correct answers! we even tried to ask the passengers on the train. &much thanks to them for not grumbling about the high decibels we were producing. lols, kaitingyixiu fell again, so was treating her wound from clementi to queenstown. thanks to our facilitator for the MRT challenge, shengkai(sp?) for being lenient with us(:
the other 2 stations were raffles place& kallang, then to habourfront, the start point of the actual hike. i think we were rather smart(: asking the MRT staff& the passengers onboard the train. one group from B1, whose furthest station was only lavender, got to habourfront later than us. cause they got 3 incorrect answers. so, yepp! :D
gathered at seah im carpark, which is at the base of mount faber? night syndrome ON! lols, highness overloaded for afterseven and those who were sitting infront with us(: what with jokes, 'shooting stars' & just pure bantering :P
thanks to peiwei&jiaxian for staying with me through the hike up mount faber, especially jiaxian! then HIGH again, singing of songs which are totally RANDOM. chinese new year songs, christmas, yue liang dai biao wo de xin &etc. high all the way through till we reached kent ridge park. imagine how tired we're supposed to feel then. was close to 2 already, but the mood kept us up(: lol at ock with his 'flying'. we were the first group to reach, since we set off first. so we settled down for a little chiding from darren. well, i think that woke us up(: settled down for abit of class bonding time while waiting for everyone to gather& set off for school.
walk back to school was mostly quiet, since we were going to be walking through residential areas. so, everyone was pretty low. like, no singing, almost close to NIL talking. everyone was tired already. but, lols, i went high when we were close approaching school. then, the rest were like, almost dead, well, except for alicia. if im not wrong, we were the first batch of graduating students who took this hike? it almost seemed impossible, considering the time we took the hike& the mere length of it. who thought that 16/17 year olds could acocmplish this feat? we had no prior training of whatnot, we accomplished it with just perseverance&determination. im proud of myself, &proud of 4A1(:
in the hall, where we were having debrief, everyone was like, in knockout state already. again, with the exception of me&alicia, we were still moderately high. breakfast at 5+, then lights out at 5.30am. we took longer to washup &change, so only turned in at around 6. woke at about 9+, slept abit more, then woke for 'lunch'. assembled for the final debrief at ISH.

sidenote.
was up&about after camp until 6, which was knockout for me. had those kind of sleep where you had a vague idea of what's happening cause you're sleeping really 'lightly'. woken up at 8.50, where i had dinner. then it was TV&computer till 11.30pm. had a bath then turned in at 12.
woke up at 10+ to answer a 'wrong number' call. then at 1, a morning call from mummy. bathe&packed some things for going out. lunched at the coffeeshop downstairs& headed off to IKEA@ alexander at 3. lols, totally sleepy. came back at around 4? 5? i forgot, but slept all the way till 8+, 9. dinner, then packing the house. boxes are still all over.

no pictures during the camp, not supposed to.

afterseven

kaiting: hey yixiu :D haha, change name le! how do you feel? anyway, hope I didn't burn all your braincells trying to think of a present to buy me. Thanks for being a friend(: You're like really cool stuff, like, err, you don't stop smiling? Emo is like SO not in your dictionary. You're always there for me, &I can always seem to fall back to you :D lols, though i always like, push things to do to you :x paiseh ah~ A chairperson no more, but you've got greater responsibilities being the management head! No corrupted class committee this year, so you cannot stray and become corrupted once more this year :P ah yes! Help people too much le lahh~ think more for yourself sometimes, it's okay to be selfish once in awhile(:

peiwei: Yo, ah blur! Lols, you've been my seat buddy ever since like, sec 3? Haha, also someone that I'd confide in(: I think it was ever since that phone conference, the one with you, me&xinchi :D Although not everything I'll tell you luh, but quite a bit :x Don't worry about your whining, sammie can take it de (though not too much :P) Glad I've come to know you(: Through you& the rest of afterseven, I've become more aware. &Thanks for the christmas gift, though like, I can't really use it. Wake up earlier, Peiwei! Cannot afford to miss school le! Haha, just remember sam is here to help whenever you need it :D

to be continued...

lols, yes! sam is 16 already!

monday was went rather well(: heh, bus-ed to school since we start late on mondays :D the bus took a wrong turn ._. but yeah, it wasn't too big a mistake. turned back, and smooth ride to school all the way. met sandra at je when i was squeezing up the train bound for clementi.
i love everyone of you! lols, heh, the presents are too nice, now i don't feel like using them... :x







thanks to:
sher, tayHP, rujun, lijuan& sandra for the lovely book looking, well, book :D
rujun, josephine, mingyi for the card/note
josephine for the cookies& mini writing pad
mingyi for the calendar :P
2nd sis for the mass spam of birthday messages ^^
&my sis for the keychain(:

i actually wanted to do small little notes for everyone. like, to be given out on my birthday. but, i was too tired... lols. i shall slowly post it up here then.

on my birthday, i learnt alot of things. &because of that, i've grown more mature in thoughts, i guess. it's not what happens, but how you handle it(:

maybe it's just that. my head tells me everything will be fine, but my heart feels otherwise. the moment you entered, you started lamenting about the hours you spent sitting in the room: questions being shot at you, accusations rolling off their tongues, sensed sarcasm as they put up a show in front of you. &yet again, the truth of the situation is still unclear to me. over this past 2 days, more than 5 times, this question has been asked. however, other than this and that, the case is still shrouded in mist; the clues too minute to piece together to finally arrive at the answer. that sentence finally did it. all of us refused to believe it. one even refused her stay HERE if the result is negative.

maybe, just maybe... would you have told us if we were much older? but still, all of us are pursuing secondary education already. is that still too young for you? i'd understand if we were totally ignorant of the matter, oblivious to it all. but, there you go. feeding us little bits of the aftermath that came sweeping in, scaring me out of my wits with the 'what ifs?'. yes, i know. you definitely want us to not worry at all about this matter, dont want us to abandon our studies. but what if, what if we promised to maintain the balance in our lives& not disrupt it in anyway? would you tell us then?
your daughter is turning 16 already. she's more an adult than a child. won't you please not keep everything to yourselves?

yes, the first 15 years of my life has been nothing but peaceful. &the devil's here to take it away.

im almost 16. &yet, there are things they'd rather not explain in full detail. yes, it might be too confidential, but still. i witnessed the whole scene, watched as those strangers invaded our personal space. you came back, i retold the whole scene as best as i could. when i asked for the lengthy explanation to match my sketchy one, you just shrugged it off. i did as you said, hid one line. &all im asking in return is the full situation placed right in front of me. im no child, but neither am i an adult. i understand some, &gladly crack my head to make sure i come up with an explanation of some sort. questions of which can easily be solved if you'd kindly step in and explained. i know those were just routine, but at my age, i guess, i still needed confirmation&assurance. im sure the explanation would not have been too much for me.

perhaps, just perhaps, i should have gone to school today. yet on the other hand, i would not have known you would lie to cover the whole situation to not worry us.

im just shaken. it has never happened at all, i just needed explanations& more importantly, assurance.

loads of things i would really like to share with everyone (ok, so maybe those who reads my blog(: ) the rest are pretty outdated, so what's the use?

xinchi's birthday is cursed. i came back& got a sore throat right after lunch): finished reading the book i bought on sunday [i would never drop a book until i finish it up], so that I can finally start on my holiday homework :x

napped for a little while. then dinner. revision until i couldnt take the pain any longer? yepp, then to the doctor's. the pills are so colourful! :D

antibiotics (the green capsule), fever (pink round tablets), hmm, & i forgot the rest :x. but, the prescription was for fever, cough, sore throat, blocked nose plus the antibios. first time i've taken that many pills...

messy? lols, it's us (ie, sab&sam) getting down to work on beautifying(?) our organisers. ooh~ i see my sketch pad in the middle of the pile too(: pop-up alphabets were actually for mummy's birthday present, but i didn't quite finish it up(: then big bang stickers :x

hmm, seems a bit blurred here. the black spots are actually my speaker&P2. yes, we love blasting music when we're just... being creative/bored. white patch in the middle is my organiser propped up against the wall, pink letters reads "6th". gave a bit of colour to the white alphabet stickers, so im attempting to dry it up(: