Friday, January 16, 2009
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8:07 AM
.: Week 1 and it feels like the holidays still! :.
Week 1 of my 'A' Level year just went past! full of undone tutorials and early mornings! I miss the school holidays! It was so fun and relaxing. Although there was like the stressful band meetings and practices, it was nevertheless enjoyable! DARN! The past 5 days have just been days to tune me back into the 'I should study' mode! One thing good however, is the reuniting of the ever wonderful class of mine - 08S64. Going to make this year more fun that last yah!!! :D
Went to ikea with gillian to get some band stuff and travelled all the way to town to meet my mum and brother for shopping! I rarely shop with my parents for my own personal things but this time with my mum and brother, it was shopping like never before. Bought a shorts from this VOL.TA shop just now. Looks like my 45 mins train ride all the way down was not wasted! It was enjoyable because I did not have to pay at all! :D
CNY is coming and every fortune thingy or whateve you call those things that predict what's going to be good and bad etc. for the year says that those born of 'goat' are going to have a REAL bumby road this year like financially, problems blablabla... Hope it's not THAT THAT accurate!
Band tomorrow!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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7:46 AM
.: HELLO 2009... what a late post! :.
it's been long since I updated! haha! 2009 has come, 2008 has past. The year full of outings, late band practices, countless trips to parkway and marina square, most number of sleepovers I had in a year (6?), great concerts, New York Trip, Esplanade performance, quartet performance, sleeping in lectures, piles of homework, first time failing one subject, stressful exam days, chinese A level, EXCO member in band, unglam moments, feeling fab day etc. ALL IN VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE! What a year has passed and I just can't believe how time flies! Would 2009 be as eventful and fun amidst all the stress and school work? I just can't wait to see! Hopefully yes because this year would be SYF '09, OGL, 'A' Levels and all!
Past week have been busy practicing for SYF in band! Choice piece is so technically and musically difficult! Practice, practice, practice!
School's going to resume tomorrow... am i excited? DEFINITELY! just saw my timetable and I end lessons at like latest 3.05pm on one day only! That would be the best news of the start of school term since last year I had lessons till like 5plus which totally sucked! However, i've not completed my homework and hopefully, I won't get scolded :P
ALL THE BEST TO ALL 2008 'O' LEVEL STUDENTS! Hope you guys would get what you want and enjoy your day!!! (I remembered I was able to sleep soundly the night before my results were released... weird)
Just thought about posting this up as well! Can you see these in the people around you?
The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath, Sloth, Envy, Greed, Pride, Gluttony, Lust
The Seven Holy Virtues: chastity, temperance, charity, deligence, patience, kindness, humility
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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6:07 AM
.: Post NSSN! :.
Merry Christmas all! okay this post came abit late for christmas wishes! anyway, as the title suggests, its time for post NSSN updates! NSSN has passed but not the activities and outings! had NSSN chalet last week. BBQ, picture taking, cycling and cards! These are the events going on during the chalet! Almost all at the chalet, about 30+ of us went for midnight cycling - an experience to be memorable and to some, ugly! Cycled from East Coast Park to Changi Village at 12midnight! Verntured out and to only come back at 5-6am! The whole cycling route was like super far and at some points, it just felt that we were cycling with no direction, on and on until some road came into sight! Despite the butt-aches and cramps most of us had, it was fun and memorable! haha! Talked alot with some J1s and we were talking about really funny stuff with code names.
Then we had NSSN outing again on 26th Decemeber where the band, about 50 of us went to vivo to watch 'Bedtime stories'. We basically occupied 5 rows and of course, booked the tickets beforehand. Suddenly felt like being at New York City because there was some sort of plan. Like shopping in your sections from 1-3pm then meet at rooftop and we head onto movies. After movie was dinner where all of us randomly bought food and met at the rooftop to eat together. Ended off with playing games like 'chop chilli chop' and 'whacko' etc where we became rather AA because everyone seems to be looking at us!!! Nevertheless, it was fun! :D
Photos up next time! :D MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY RECEIVING PRESENTS :)
Monday, December 22, 2008
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7:29 AM
.: A SPLENDID birthday!!! :.
This year has been a wonderful year! and my birthday celebration is at its maximum! Thank you guys!!! EVERYONE that celebrated my birthday with me, made and gave me presents and sang for me birthday songs! not to forget, those who wished me 'happy birthday' like at 12midnight, different timings of the day and at the last hour of the day... ohoh! and those who exceeded and wished me 'belated birthday'! all of it would be remembered and THANK YOU GUYS! :D
Thank you VJCSB for giving Yanzhu and I a surprise by bringing out that secret recipe cake, singing us the birthday song at the chalet! That's like 40+ of you! haha! Anyway, thanks everyone especially melanie and those who made the effort to get the cake and setting it up! Thank you my wonderful horn section for getting me that box of shirt, card, photo and my most wanted MOUTHPIECE CASE! now i can save money getting what I have been wanting to get for like 4 years!!! Thank you all the Sec4s who got me things like clarise, springfield, roslyn, (your cologne smells greats!), matthias, samuel, (your zi lian package rocks!), ignatius, christopher, joshua, leeguan for that nicely drawn shoe! and also yanyao for your wonderful, sincere and full of thought and effort present! THANK YOU GUYS!
Next, Thank You 08S64-ians too! Going for movies, having the surprise birthday cake and all and finally ending off at Liu Kun's house playing mahjong, pool and foolsball was a great day! Thank you arthur, buddy, krystal, jason for your wonderful presents! Alyssa too! although you're like in Paris now, your the first one to give me my present which is also like the nicest of all, on NSSN day! THANKS! Not forgetting, liukun, lydia, jianwei, patrick, changhong for joining us in the celebration! not to forget all you guys who wished me and apologized for not coming down! haha!
Dinner at Parks Hotel in Orchard Road made my birthday much more lavish and splendid! Buffet with family on a birthday is anyway, always a custom but this one was great cause of the atmosphere! So nice!!!
Sentosa outing yesterday with Xiangyi, Elizabeth, Carin and Xiangluan where Ms Elizabeth made me a super nice board with pictures! Thank you Very much! anyway, one thing was that we went to sectosa to get tanned but didn't get tanned actually! SO IRRITATING!
Anyway, thank you each and everyone of you who wished me, sang birthday song for me, gave me presents and wrote on my facebook wall! Thank you! Year 2008's birthday of mine has been most memorable thus far! Thank you GUYS!
Shall update on NSSN Chalet and put pictures up soon!!! :) The season of giving is finally here! Next few days would all be like christmas outings and exchanges! COOL!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
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12:00 AM
.: Not So Silent Night (continued...) :.
PICTURES ARE UP!!!
NSSN '08
EXCO + TAE = TAECO
EXCO with Mr Tan
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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10:10 PM
.: Not So Silent Night 2008 :.
I finally have the time to blog and be sure this is going to be a super long but meaningful post! NSSN '08 was a blast! Now that it's over, it feels empty all of a sudden! All the hard work the EXCO + TAE + J1s + Sec 4s + Teachers and Mr Tan have put in the past 1 month plus concluded on the night of 12th December 2008!
The preparation was intense! EXCO spending a few hours talking about what we need to include and the delegation of jobs and all! Thank you EXCO for being so co-operative with helping me in the task I’m being delegated to do! Working with Gabriel, Gillian, Alyssa, Sean and RouHui on a major project like this for the first time was really great. This EXCO is filled with so many talented people, natural leaders and great thinkers!
And for the first time in my band life, I was so busy during a concert. This concert was not just practicing my instrument, playing the music! Half the time I was in school was not because of band practice but because of all the admin stuff I had to do in preparation for the concert. At home, switching on my computer = typing our deadlines and reports! Ticketing was such a stressful YET super fun thing to do! Being in charge of all the ticketing, money and receipts is what a treasurer should do! Sometimes it gets so messy that I would just stand there and try to calm myself down! Dealing with thousands in cash is no small deal!!! But I would not be able to achieve the full house and overflowing, crashing audience without the help of the J1s and Sec 4s who helped to sell the tickets so willingly (although they gave me a heart attack when ticket sales were only like 16% 3 weeks before the concert!) haha! And not to forget my ticketing committee – Shu Han, Hidhir and Amelia! Although 2 of them were in TAE, busy with their skit practice, they still willingly helped me out! And Shuhan who went without lunch with me for a few occasions! Thank you guys!!! This is an experience not to be forgotten! Majestia next year would be no different! The feeling of members sms-ing me in the morning of 12th December, our concert day, to ask if there was any more tickets left and I had to say no was great! Because I know it was full house to the max! Also, the gifts committee who came up with really super nice gifts! Thanks for following the deadlines set and coming up with so much nice presents! With all your hard work and effort, I believe the teachers, Mr Tan and Dr Goh are happy with the gifts!
NSSN and the skit was fun! Although the skit just involved me doing 2 dances, and comments were that it was hilarious and I can’t dance, BUT NEVERMIND! Haha! Because the super long hours and many days we took practicing the skit, perfecting the scenes and making the dance look great was all memorable! At least I entertained which is the main point! Even if getting people to laugh would entertain them than I have played my part in the skit! However, dancing with Yanzhu was great! This dance partner of mine always never fails to want to make us great couple dancers and would always practice the steps we’re not really sure of! Not being able to grasp our hands properly and all! Haha! Waltz was like so super super fun! Lifting her was not difficult but when they video and how us! Omgosh I can’t believe we can do it until so nice! At leat we had fun!!! And TAE worked like a whole lot for the skit so kudos to TAE!
The Secondary 4s were a great bunch of people! What would NSSN be without them seriously! Although it has only been like 1 month, but I feel that the whole band has bonded together with the Sec 4s and that we are really starting to feel the post NSSN feeling – the missing of people, missing of band practices and skit practices and all! We wish that all the Sec 4s would come back to VJC!!!
My horn section!!! Elton, Estee, Stephanie, Ridha, Peter. These 5 Sec 4s were really different! Have the one who always suan people but is a pro player, one that is really enthusiastic, one that is quiet but bites when he talks (oops) and 2 girls who are really quiet! So much colour in the section right! The 4 quartet J1s horn seniors, us, of course got interactive with them and kept talking to them! And we 4 got closer too! I love my horn section! Thinking of all the stupid names like ‘Eston’ haha and the stupid moves for our encore, Copacabana! It was so much fun!
The biggest part of NSSN I would really miss is late nights we’ve had at burger king, parkway etc! The NSSN week was really hectic. Reaching school at 8am everyday, having no lunch because of ticketing, practicing pieces in the morning followed by skit in the noon and than heading to parkway for dinner and gossip and talking and buying gifts and all only to finally reach home at 10plus pm! I guess that’s when we all bonded together as a band, as a happy family! It was so much fun! All the laughter resonated at burger king and staying there for hours must have made the workers like remember us! KFC even switched off some of their lights to chase us out when it was too late! Lol!
NSSN night itself was a blast! It sure is! How we played through the pieces happiness and sadness, how we acted out the entire skit, how we totally choreographed our moves for Copacabana which was totally messy but fun and how we dedicated the video and song for Mr Tan! It was a night full of emotions! To make it better, receiving all the flowers and chocolates and potato chips and famous amos and gifts from friends was just a happy feeling! Thank you all those who came and all who gave presents – 08S64 peeps, Elizabeth, gino, Yvonne, xiangluan, Rachel, xiaowei, my horn section, jiajiun, Chun yuen, Darren, Lorraine, lixin, Samuel, Nicholas huang, Nicholas chew and Kenneth, Aloysius, shanhui, liling and anyone else I missed out! Really thank you guys! Hope you all had a fun and memorable concert! Thanks for all the j2s coming to support too! :)
With all said, NSSN would be an event I would never forget! Not just that night but the entire process of making NSSN a success! Post NSSN activities coming up! Can’t wait for them! As usual, pictures up the next post! Which is very soon!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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5:59 AM
.: First week of holidays! :.
08S64 class chalet was on Monday and Tuesday. Held it at some bungalow in Pasir Ris Park and it is only $85 for 2 days 1 night. It has 4 rooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, own BBQ pit bla bla bla and is really well furnished! I think it is a great deal! The only bad thing is that it is in a rather remote section of Pasir Ris Park so might be difficult to locate and all! However, its just a class chalet thus so long as anyone who needs to be there is there, then everythings fine! Anyway, had a blast at the chalet too! This is probably the first time we as a class stayed over together and 21 out of 25 of us turned up! So it was fantabulous and great! We all rented bicycles overnight and did midnight cycling and all. Cycled to downtown east at 12 plus and literally sneaked into E Hub and sat on the floors of the quiet mall only to be chased out by some security guard who is probably working midnight! Had a great laugh though. Haha. Chalet was fun! Almost all of us stayed over too and we even played blind mice in a really small room (the guys) and it was just much laughter etc. It was like having orientation all over again with all the singing, dancing etc we need in such a carefree way! Pictures would be up soon!
Band had really officially started and there are so many things to settle! But what can one ask for if you want a full-house and present a great, memorable and a fun performance! So whoever wants to come for VJC's concert, do contact me! haha!
Next year's orientation is sounding fun! Been selected to be a Orientation Group Leader (OGL) where I heard orientation is going to be 7 days next year for the freshmen. Which also translates to 7 days of no lessons for the OGLs and 7 days of fun and games everywhere in Singapore! haha! Victoria Junior College's freshmen are going to have a blast next year!
It's so funny how almost 1 year is going to be over and it's going to be one year since I left BV and been in VJC! So many adjectives to describe what I'm feeling now. What a roller-coaster ride. Okay, i think this post sounds rather not-here-not-there. Probably because I don't know what to write so, Pardon me!
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