haissss such a nice day today...all of us back at rj again..playing sports and games together as a class...AHH NOW I MISS JC EVEN MORE... :'( really..i hate this nostalgia man...i love my classmates...

and i concluded that no matter how many groups i may play mafia/murderer with, i'll never get as much fun and excitement out of it as when i play wif 3m...everyone's so nice and mostly on the same frequency as one another..

pictures another time!!

damn stressed now la dunno how im gonna survive this hols..

i really dowan my friends to leave...i hate this holidays!! :'(
i just realised its 7 of them not 4

i feel so helpless

yayy after my debate (they call it article arena goodness haha) ended today, i felt damn relieved! as though the hols are here oredy..cos i only got 3 more lectures before recess week! so i consider today the start of my hols oredy!

hmm but i also don want the hols to come..cos it'll mean 4 of my friends are flying overseas..i've never really experienced a very close friend go away yet..but this time i guess i will..i know the departure dates are imminent..but somehow it hasnt really struck me that it'll be a while before i can see people like vips and yunhua again..i'll really miss them..or maybe i'm just avoiding it, running away from it..not letting myself really think about it..lowly and chieh are also flying off..hmm i dont see them that often now but there's this old friend bond that will always remain between us :)

i hope i dont cry when i see them off

but ultimately, everyone has his or her own goals and dreams to pursue..and i really hope all 4 of them will have a good time overseas..remember to send me pics time and again hor! especially of you and nice scenery pictures from over there!! :) take care, my friends!!

sheila's coming to crash my lecture tmr! :DDD

and jingxiu is gonna be my new roomie! :)) our hall offices approved oredy :)

school is stressful. im so so glad im done with my 3 presentations for the week.

Anyway

People are often unreasonable,

illogical and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind,

People may accuse youof selfish, ulterior motives;

Be Kind anyway.

If you are successful,

you will win some false friends andsome true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere,

People may deceive you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,

someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness,

they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,

people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,

and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,

it is between you and God;

It is never between you and them anyway.

-Mother Teresa hung a copy of this poem on a wall of the orphanage she founded in Calcutta. Its source is unknown.

found this poem really beautiful..think it teaches us to live life with no regrets..but often enough..its so easy to forget such words of wisdom..when frustration and anger carry us away..disappointment and resentment blind us momentarily from previous good deeds of people..sigh..its difficult to be detached from your emotions when you get disappointed over and over again..but i guess in the end, you just learn to let go, to not let it bother you anymore..

forgive anyway.

rather stressed right now..3 presentations and one test next week..but i know they'll all be over soon..just hope we'll do a good job! i shall be productive from now on! and stop going onto my bed to study! yes!

this is just gonna be a reply to vips/vipsiecandy's (haha! dont you just love the name! :p) blog..cos you removed ur tagboard! out of ur whole purpose of going PRIVATE which u later decided was not all that necessary?? stupid lor! yesyes meet meet meet...hmm this weekend im not that free cos i have a marketing presentation and econs test and econs tutorial and stats tutorial due on monday (DIE) but i really wanna meet you and yk and mavis!! if you dont mind can come to zk's house?? den you all can entertain yourselves wif the playstation while i diligently do my homework at the back! hehehe...and bout ur clothes shopping, there's a damn cheap clothes store around his neighbourhood near the clementi mrt there if u're going low-budget (haha!)..like one pair of pants $6?? hahaha...

and zk's probably only free on sundays now..he's back at his engineer training institute which likes to confine ppl...so i dont expect to see him much either..sundays only??

okieokie i shall go back to being hardworking!

I HAVE A STRONG FEELING MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA KILL ME

haha here are the pictures i wanted to post! :p

yk and vips TRYING to be scary!

our graceful ballet :p

HEHE SO CUTE RIGHTTT!! :D (yk dont kill me!)

playing risk. yk takes on an ultra-glam pose in a bid to showcase her raibow-coloured socks

2 new additions!

anyi's army

classic photo

haha zk and i were supposed to jump upwards but anyi knew our plans and so he conspired wif liow to jump upwards too! but luckily we were smart and jumped sidewards instead haha!

CAMEL!!!!!!

badminton at jurong west sports & recreation centre!

resorting to playing chapteh after our court got taken over. yuensau looks like professor quirrel!
the end!

im blogging from my hostel room now! wanted to take pics and upload it here but haven got a chance to bring my camera here yet cos i keep forgetting to charge the battery..school's been nice so far..though stressful..with a pile of homework even in the first week of school! but im really thankful the new people around me are nice...especially my OG in my hall...and my tutorial mates! i never really talk to the guys in my class, but all the girls are nice and simple :)))

i just hope hall life wont take up too much of my time cos i'll always feel obliged to turn up for gatherings and all..so far its ok..i guess the enthusiasm will die away after a while too..like the OGs in jc...but the lounge is a really nice place to meet up!! and im damn lucky...10 out of 17 ppl in my OG are staying in my block! :D and a lot of my tutorial girls too..its really great cos we can all meet up and go for lessons together...

hmmm ppl like vips and huahua are gonna go overseas soon...gonna miss them! haven seen huahua in a long time! must have farewell party ok!! and vips is really one of the best friends to have..i think if he didnt take the initiative to organise all the numerous outings that we had, we'd probably see so little of each other! and i really appreciate the way he doesnt mind hanging out alone with zk and me..it shows that he likes us individually as friends! (haha vips you better not say i'm wrong!) i'll really miss your presence when u go :((

oh ya i wanna upload pics of my badminton outing too! and risk at rj! but lazy to transfer the pics so another time! i need to go study my econs and do my stats tutorial oredy!

and to binbin: dont be stressed oredy you'll always have me around :)
haha this is so ironic cos you're just 1.5m behind me :p

ODACIA 2007

hall camp's over! had fun on the whole..but towards the end i found it difficult to open my eyes oredy haha very dry! i like my group..we're not the enthu, noisy, damn on kinda group..all of us are the kind who'll take quite long to warm up to one another..so it was only towards the end that guys and girls stopped sticking to their own gender and we could talk and joke comfortably among ourselves, and play games when we were not too tired! i hope we'll have OG outings! :)


poor binbin injured her big toe halfway during the camp so she had to go home..it looked so painful lor the bottom of her nail got blood..cos the nail kena jabbed inside! den now its all bandaged..hope it gets well soon! :)


went for odacia last night...felt really really nice to see everyone again..wad i love most about odacians is that everyone's damn nice..and you'll feel safe in their company cos everyone will take care of one another..guess its a quality we developed through going on our numerous expeditions, kayaking, rock climbing..having to look out for one another..really hope that we'll continue to go back for odacia year after year..and see how everyone has moved on with life! like becoming successful in their careers, getting married, having children! so cool right! I LOVE ODAC BATCH 21 :DDD


some photos!

batch 21 :))

yanzhen and charlene!

cute shuting and TALL jason (ahem!)

I LOVE THIS PHOTO!! eating roti prata at upper thomson..with everyone's head popped into the picture! :)))

tomorrow, i'll be starting on a new phase of my life..i'll be attending my hall camp! not really used to the idea of going for an orientation camp all over again..having to meet new people, form new bonds of friendship, and pretending to be enthu and cheering even though u're dead tired! haha i dont exactly enjoy cheering that much..i always think its attention-seeking somehow! hahaa i'm a wet blanket..but yeah..really hope the people in my grp are nice and simple people! :)

haha today's been a messy day..spent half my day at daiso picking up stuff for hostel wif my parents, binbin and zk..the place is so big and ppl tend to leave stuff that they picked up but which they later decided they didn't want around..its so messy! den moved all my stuff to the hostel..really thankful my mummy and daddy took such an active role in helping me settle in..my mummy making a list of what to buy..both of them helping with the cleaning up of the very dusty room which had been left vacant for quite a while..haha i think the part i like most about my room is my pink bedsheet which has flowers on it! i dunno why i like flowers so much...i think they just make a place seem much more homely and pretty...

really really glad im gonna stay wif my binbin! it makes me so much more excited about school life... :)))) and there're so many other ny ppl and ppl i noe who are going to ntu..and many of them in accountancy too! gonna be a mini ny reunion..and clara and wenyan's going too..plus gracelyn! wa friends from my primary and secondary schools plus jc..so cool right!

met up wif angchieh, dory and kwa the other day! so ironic that lowly the organizer couldnt make it! really wish she could though..haven seen her in so long..and im sure she'd make the dinner seem much more lively too (not that it wasnt la haha) cos of all her frank and honest comments haha...really glad to see that everyone's still the same..angchieh's still as cute and simple as ever..and dory is just as warm and smiley!

its strange how we always feel scared that such gatherings wif friends you haven met in a long time are gonna be awkward..and sometimes we feel apprehensive about going at all..but after meeting up we don regret it at all! but the next time we get the same apprehension all over again..i think its special how i can meet up wif gracelyn after 4 years?? and feel as though nothing much has changed between us..i guess as long as we dont change in character and principles, nothing will change in the friendship too :)

oh anyway here are pics from our mind cafe outing the other day..we're gonna meet up to play badminton next week im very excited!! i hope we do go on wif our plans eventually..

playing taboo: yuensau trying his best to describe 'bald head' to zk and zk INTELLIGENTLY guessing the word as BOTAK hello this is an american/british game!

zk was supposed to carry out a dare on the jenga tile cos he caused the tower to collapse, in pretending to direct traffic across a busy road, when another table realised their girl had the same dare! so we made them do it together haha looked damn funny la! :p

our ultra high tower if you all can notice..almost every level is made up of only one tile! so pro right! hahaha

ahh wish me luck for a good start to my school life!

boredddd

haha i cant tag on my tagboard so i shall reply tags here

binbin and engsin: i'm so proud of both of you!! seeing you two riding distances to and fro that short little pathway made me feel warm and fuzzy inside somehow :))) but i think more credit goes to our mo gui jiao lian tyz..really damn funny seeing the way she pulled u all along at a scary speed into grass patches!! nway binbin i really admired how brave u were lor..but u scared me by the way you recklessly cheonged into the grass and always almost crashed into trees! and engsin! u need to be more brave and not so scared of every little seed you see along the way! :p

zit: haha let's go fishing again!! but this time i will definitely smear a one-inch thick layer of sunblock all over my body! i don lik e tennis too much though, but i dont mind sitting by the side and taking pics of you all :D i think badminton's easier and more fun!

went to mind/mind's? cafe wif vips, yuensau and zk ytd...very fun!! balderdash seemed so fun and amusing when i played it wif yz they all so i recommended it to them to play but they din seem to enjoy it THAT much though den i felt paiseh inside hahaa..but vips and zk are damn zai in jenga la damn stressful to play wif them! and yuensau was like losing consecutively for a few rounds! haha! lousier than me! :p

i actually am looking forward to going to school...i miss studying..(im not a mugger! :x) rotting away at home makes me feel bored and lonely..so im really happy that im going to ouou's house wif bin tmr! hope i dont end up sleeping on her big queen-sized bed as usual haha...

ok i better go sort out the US trip photos into the various sizes i wanna develop them in..procrastinated for damn long oredy..but at least i selected those i wanna develop oredy!

tuition tonite....wonder how im gonna cope once uni starts..but i'll see how la..shall take things one step at a time...

ok enough of rambling..

i'm never NEVER going out into the sun for the whole day without putting sunblock again!! im awfully sunburnt now and its damn damn pain..i underestimated my impossible-to-tan-skin! as far as possible (i.e. when i'm at home) i try to go braless..putting on and taking off clothes has become such a painful chore to me!!

but ANYWAYYY, fishing was really fun...i'm serious! what i mean is not only the fishing part of it, but the whole package of going to fish..it's damn laidback, relaxing and carefree..i render now that most people fish not really cos they want the fish itself, but more of a tranquil way to pass a nice sunny day outdoors..fishers either go there to look out at the beach, reflect on their lives, or engage in a heart-to-heart talk with their friends, which was wad zit and i did..reeling in the fishing line was just like a side-job once in a while when we were hoping for a pleasant surprise that there'll be a fish at the end of our line each time! haha we were not very successful fishers, we only caught a crab the entire day! but its a CRAB!! how cool is that! its medium sized, with filter-like hairs on its pincers and legs (which made it damn difficult for us to free our crab from all our tiny hooks)..it could be a HAIRY CRAB!! hahaha ok of cos i dunno i dont study crabs..it was quite badly entangled..we dont think it was actually feeding on our raw prawn bits bait, but rather it just unfortunately swam into our line and got tangled up..

it was very funny cos when zit first pulled her line up we werent actually expecting anything, after our futile wait for over 3 hours...then we saw sth long and shelly clinging onto the line!! then i was like, "wa! is it a prawn! no it looks like a lobster!" and after a while i realised it was a crab!! we were both very excited but we didnt know how to free the crab..and i merely let out a small shriek when the crab first started jumping about which induced zit to bellow an echoing scream which reflected off the whole stretch of breakwaters im NOT exagerrating..haha..and we were being damn losers because we wanted to free our crab and save our fishing line at the same time so we took turns, one of us using an umbrella and a piece of cardboard to hold down the crab's pincers while the other person using scissors to remove the hooks..in the end we gave up and just cut off the line! and we used the end of the fishing rod to nudge the crab back into the water..in the end when we pushed it to the edge of the jetty it jumped in itself! so cute!

and i realised fellow fishers are all DAMN NICE...really..whenever you walk past them they'll ask you if you've managed to catch any fish yet..or when they say they've caught one or two, they'll open their box and show you their catch..there was this group of malay guys near us and they were very friendly! which made our day so much nicer..not the flirty kind of friendly but the genuinely nice kind of friendly..like when we were walking out towards the carpark, one of them was behind us..he caught up with us and chatted a bit with us and halfway, he said he gtg and he RAN off! haha like he was in a rush but still bothered to be friendly to us..and two other old man taught me how to fish a bit too cos noob me was about the cast the line when my weight got stuck in the wooded barrier behind! this is damn loser cos we're supposed to swing our rod from the back and in my midst of swinging the line got caught behind! and i was hoping those two men won't stand there and look at me casting the line anymore!!!

anyway, pictures of our catch!! zit posing with the crab! can you all spot it??

our crab all entangled with our fishing hooks

our freed crab!! :D

scenic view of labrador beach from the jetty :)

pretty picture!

other than that, this week has been about meeting up with many of my close friends! i'm happy that you're fine oredy dear! i know i've said this a lot of times but i really really admire you for being so strong, mature and gracious, especially so for a girl...

swimming wif kwa just proved that i'm destined to stay fair! like when we talked i would be standing in the sun and she'll be hiding in the shade..and after we got out, i hadn't the slightest bit of tanline, which she was chaotah on the back cos her swimming costume had a sexy revealing hole at the back (hehe! :p)

went for med checkup wif binbin too..and submitted our hostel application fees...thinking about it just reminds me that i'm gonna start on a new phase of my life very soon..we all are..i just hope nothing will change very much, though i know that it will...hmmm oh well..

hehe can't wait to teach xiaogui and binbin cycling on tues!! i really hope that they'll be successful lor! :DD

2 more days!!