PSB Night was fantabuloustest.

It seemed like just yesterday I was at leadership camp writing those acronyms that would possibly determine my sec 2 fate. I'm glad I picked the one with 3 letters:D

I'm gonna miss PSB 2008. Even though I know we'll still have great people for PSB next year, it won't really be the same without red-name-tag SPSLs. Not that blue name taggers aren't equally awesome, but SPSLs 2008 were like the first batch of SPSLs I got to know, and in a way, they're my PSLs right?

And like I said to Ting, even though people have this fixed mindset that J/S/PSLs are permanently on high, if there's one thing I learnt about SPSLs, I can say that they're some of the wisest people I've ever met. Not in the Confucius (Johnny Kong!) way, but they're wise in their own SPSL way. So thank you for all the help, advice, MGMs, GMs etc. etc. :D Especially JoHo and Yen Yee for taking care of 109 PSLs!

And whoa I totally experienced this strange Deja Vu when JoHo said to be a good PSL. Because I can still remember exactly on November 3rd 2007, Sharon said to be a good JPSL. Freaky how time flies. Every GM since somewhere halfway into this year, I've been wishing time would slow down :( And I missed farewell GM!

Rawr okay I'm whining again. Back to PSB Night. Haha a KNIGHT in Shining Armour fabulous! Sorry JoHo and Yen Yee for the strange song I half-composed! And I'm sorrier for screaming the lyrics, not singing them. Poor Xin Ping was all limp after land training because her coach was a "freaking sadist". Thank you Leena for guest-starring in our performance I totally owe you one! Pris Chew and Carey had the most sentimental performance of the night and everyone was like "Awwww!". So sweeeet. OH YES AND THANK YOU PRIS, ELAINE, CAREY, PSB TEACHERS FOR PATCHING ME UP after that dumb accident! And also thanks to the people who asked, "Are you okay?" and Nadia! Pris stayed back to entertain me with her guitar and I secretly felt SUPER DUPER jealous. Like Xin Ping. It's just fascinating watching her fingers move. I FEEL INSPIRED. It shall be my latest goal in life to learn to play the guitar. After I'm done with piano maybe.

Photos courtesy of Elaine Lau :)

LOVE PSB!

No one's coming back to visit. But I don't blame them. I dumped the wordpress for a month already.

Ooh tomorrow is going to be a mad rush.

1. Stand up speak out
2. Random class stuff like hanging around doing rubbish
3. OBS checkup(?)
4. Taiwan briefing
5. PSB NIGHT!
6. That's for me to know and for you to find out :D

It's gonna be fun and busy and fantastic and laught

I don't feel like going to school. It's supposed to be fun and stuff but somehow I have grown to taking a liking for my loser routine life. I'm hesitant about having fun. I feel weird at the thought of interacting with people I ALREADY KNOW. It's like I turning into some sort of loner.

I want to go. But I don't want to go.

It's super freaky how when you think life just goes on like that, whether you like it or not, your subconsciousness begs to differ. And then some strange dream to the likes of Frankenstein's monster comes and upsets the artificial balance.

This is going to take some serious thought.

Now I'll get dumb haunting deja vu moments whenever I use Yahoo! Mail. In other words, every day. Why YAHOO?

Hey

This has been a horrible post-eya. Last year, I remember we went to Novena, Plaza Sing etc. but guess what, I went home for piano today.

Okay, so it wasn't exactly anyone's fault except for mine. I knew piano was coming anyways and I really need improvement. Somehow I missed the announcement on inet about the taiwan vaccination postponement and ended up stuck in RGS which was like a ghost town cause everyone escaped withing half an hour. Only this bunch of sec ones hanging around and sec fours practising for net carn were left. That's it. So I sort of panicked and went down the the dance studio to check every half an hour or so, and read New Moon in between.

Right so I finally gave up and decided to check inet one more time and guess what? It struck me that I'd given up Angela's offer to watch House Bunny and Trina's offer to celebrate YuQing's birthday to stone in school! It was kinda late, so I went home and wasted another half an hour following my mom to NTUC. So by the time I was actually home it was 2.15, 15 minutes to piano. So I waited patiently for Ms Pauline and GUESS WHAT, I fell asleep. It was already 3 when she finally came cause she gave a time range, so technically she wasn't late, I was early.

Ms Paul is actually a pretty interesting musician. It's like lit to her, or something. She goes really dramatic sometimes and says stuff like "This song is like riding a boat" and then she picks my wrists up and make them do rowing movements.

Besides the point. So piano ended at 4.30 and I spent half an hour digging out the DVDs to bring to our unofficial movie marathon and searching for YuQing's gift and trying to put some life into my zombieish, tired, outer shell. Finally, when I called at 5pm, the marathon had ended and everyone had left.

But later I found out that cineleisure's House Bunny started at 12.50pm, which means that even if I went, I wouldn't be able to watch it. And maybe it wasn't too bad getting some rest from late nights mugging. Plus, this isn't like the last day of school or anything.

But I'm still extremely guilty for being too slow for YuQing's birthday. ARGH.

Hey

I'm into wordpress right now. Don't know if I'll ever come back. In the meantime,
http://www.paintedpavements.wordpress.com

See you:)

30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play
And it was FUN :) The last time I acted in front of an audience was during Drama Night 2007 when I had that ONE line as an orphan kid. ("Hey Charlene! Let's play!") But this time it was like WOAH, 2 hours. And Huifei is afraid of coming into contact with other human beings! Just like Mei Jia I guess, but they really shouldn't let other people know. In Huifei's case, we are going to make it a tradition to give her a constricting group hug after every performance. Cool eh?

Alright back to the point. THANK YOU to everyone who came to watch and I'm really glad that we could put on a play that lived up to our reputation (I hope!) in such a short period of time! Special thanks to VIOLE(N)T-LEE for taking over me during comp. I know I've said this a gazillion times to her already but I don't think I can ever thank her enough for that.

Rehearsal lunch breaks are deadly fun.

Have you heard the joke about the ocean?
It's too deep for you.

Have you heard the joke about the cradle?
It rocks.

Have you heard the joke about the blunt pencil?
There's no point.

And FPS was fun too! Lin taught us the one word game, where you have to answer all the questions people direct at you with the same word, and not laugh.

Shao: Everything King Midas touches turns to gold. Everything Jasmine touches turns to...
Me: BANANAS!

Lin: What do you like doing?
Amanda: Jaywalk

Lin: What's your boyfriend's name?
Amanda: Jay Walk

10 reasons not to make a list

1. Lists suck.

2. There's no point, Santa still thinks you're naughty.

3. If you should ever get carried away making a paper one, you'll get one so long it wraps around you and suffocates you like a boa constrictor. Not cool.

4. You may make a list of relatives, which could lead to you trying to make a list of your ancestors, which could lead to you researching on your bloodline, and you just might find out something truly shocking like you're actually related to your scary P2 teacher Ms Grisworld, and you may fall off the chair in shock and knock yourself into a coma.

5. If you make a shopping list, you'd probably lose it right before you go shopping. It's the way of the universe.

6. Because lists make you look organised. And should you be in the "We are disorganised and proud of it" club, you'll find yourself losing membership. And the goodie bag that comes with the membership.

7. With Adonis Lee in this world, you may, in your state of fangirliness, make a list of things Adonis looks like, such as a bowl of cereal, a plate of lasagna, or a ticket to the world cup. And if anyone finds that list, you'd better get your wig, sunglasses, and one-way ticket to the Bermuda Triangle ready.

8. Aunty Gladys insists that lists are for weak-minded people who cannot bother to remember things. And you have to obey her. Or else.

9. Your older sister once told you that you're allergic not only to sharks, pianos, and Swedish accents, but lists as well.

10. You may feel the urge to put it on your blog, which is totally uncool.

Watch out for part 2: 30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play, to be performed in the KS Chee on the 25th (7.30pm) and the 26th(2.30pm and 7.30 pm) of July. Tickets are free at $10 each

Comp is over once again. Thanks for the chocs/hugs/notes/lip gloss/food everyone!

Yay RGS RSG and our good friends from IJTP RSG! I think everyone did really well, whether you were danrens, jitis or optionals :)

RGS RSG: B Div champs for the don'tknowhowmanyyears running! Thanks for doing the math, Mrs Wee. And indiv 2nd! Which is really really awesome considering that Mel, Hazel and Cailyn were never indivs before. Dajiti 1st! And they only trained for 2 months, too! Glad and Jolene were great as usual too :) Xiaojiti didn't win, and it's partly my fault for freaking out at the first pao, but ahh well, we did our best. Vivien and Yilin won for all the optional apparatus. Well done RGS RSG:D

IJTP: I can't really remember what all of you all won so I will just do a thank-you message. Thanks for being our Gym mates! Even though we're not in the same school and all we still cheer for each other and help each other out and I think that's really cool :) Well done for everything and catch you guys some other time!

You know what? I don't think I should've made a wishlist. I shouldn't even wish for stuff. It's not very nice because there are other kids out there wishing for non-abusive parents. So yeah. I shall be *happy* with what I have and NOT think about stuff like beanie babies. Even though it's human to want stuff. But that doesn't mean you can't try to forget. Oh man I don't know what I'm saying. I want beanie babies but I don't want to want them? I guess?



What I know now is that I don't know the meaning of going on a hiatus. (Not in the literal sense.)

Jasmine wants:

1. A pair of white clubs
2. That famous Broadway musicals soundtrack (I think it's called Mama Mia?)
3. XJT GOLD OR SILVER
4. A hug :)
5. A hello-happy-birthday-dude!
6. Dried cranberries and an apple for a nice healthy lunch
7. To get that ink stain off my pencil case
8. Beanie babies or any other soft toy
9. Nice yummy books like Feeling Sorry For Celia
10. A guitar. Just for fun.

for her birthday. Though those in bold will do, since the rest are material items and it's no good to be too materialistic. Yup and all these are fulfill-able things, or I'd wish for everyone to have a nice day or something, but you can't really do that, can you? Okay please DO NOT spend your money on the stuff here because I do know they are expensive (to me at least). Number 5 and 4 will do. I'll just mail this to Santa to see if I've been a good girl.

My mom says the sores on my tongue means I'm getting HFM disease. Ick. This is probably the worst time of the year to get an infectious disease. SO if I'm absent for a long time, you know what happened. Meanwhile, I've been posting too much. So I will go on a 2 week hiatus. Also because I have a lot of stuff to do. Adios :)

Alicia Tan's making me do this. (See tagboard.)

1.Do you like your present school?
Yeah :) But I feel like killing myself when I see all the PTs due this month.

2.What do you want the most now?
The remote Adam Sandler had in one movie that enabled him to stop, pause, etc. time.

3.What type of ice-cream do you want to be?
If I'm lemon sorbet or Cherryberry gelato, I can lick myself. Eww gross. Maybe I should be a flavour I hate so I don't lick myself. Maybe I just shouldn't be an ice cream.

4.Do you hate your friends sometimes?
No. The most I get is secretly irritated. Hate is too strong a word :0

5.Name something annoying your friends do that annoys you.
Talk to me too much at assembly sometimes. Call me a killjoy, I'm not used to talking at assembly.

6.What is your goal this year?
I've got many of them. The most obvious one being become a PSL :)

7.Do you forgive or forget or both?
I forgive all the time and I try to forget but forgetting isn't something you can really control right?

8.Do you believe in eternity love?
Its not "eternity love, its eternal love" And yeah, why not?

9.Have you ever done something for a crush or boyfriend/girlfriend?
No. Do I look like someone who has a boyfriend? Sorry, I'm too feminist right now.

10.What do you enjoy doing the most?
Conducting PSL sessions.

11.Have you done anything for your admirer?
No.

12.Do you like your CCA?
Yup :)

13.Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
I'd hate to lose any friend. Does that answer your question?

14.Who would you probably spend the rest of your life with?
I have to idea. But like Alicia says, ME. Duh.

15.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
People.

16.Do you find life meaningless?
Not really. But I have a crazy theory that actually I'm living in a miniature playset belonging to some people and everything is just made up. Like the black hole and WW1 and YOU.

17.What do you live for?
I don't know. I just live. For the rest of the world, I guess.

18.Who do you talk to most in school?
I have no idea. I talk to a lot of people

19.Who is the last person/people you've talked to on msn?
I don't MSN. I sent a file to Violet on MSN a few weeks ago. But we didn't talk.

20.What do you crave to eat right now?
I'm really full and there's a horrible sore on the tip of my tongue so maybe a lemon sorbet can numb it?

Tag 8:
1. You.
2. You.
3. You.
4. You.
5. You.
6. You.
7. You.
8. Cause what's the point of doing this when the person I tag might not read it? But YOU're reading this so HAHAHAHAH!

This is totally unfair. They can totally just arrest undercover agents for invading people's privacy then. WAKE UP WAKE UP WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT HERE, PEOPLE? Arresting the people selling whale meat, or arresting the people reporting the crime?

Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a whale meat embezzlement fraud in Japan -- Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki -- have been themselves arrested -- for allegedly stealing the whale meat that they turned over to police as evidence.
Demand the Japanese government free the activists

This is the backlash. We've uncovered a scandal involving powerful forces in the Japanese government that benefit from whaling, and it's not surprising they are striking back.

What is surprising is that these activists, who are innocent of any crime, would be arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers. Theirs are, to date, the only arrests that have been made in the Tokyo public prosecutor's investigation into the embezzlement we documented of millions of yen worth of whale meat.

This was not a police action -- it was an intimidation tactic by the government agencies responsible for whaling -- and the kind of harassment of whistleblowers that a modern democracy should not allow. Our first news that an arrest was imminent came from Japanese television stations. Someone leaked the information to ensure images of Greenpeace activists in handcuffs appeared on news reports in Japan.

More than 40 police officer raided our offices and the homes of the activists, and spent 10 hours seizing cell phones, documents, and computers, despite the fact that we had documented every step of how we obtained the whale meat, turned the full dossier over with the evidence, and made ourselves available to police to help with the investigation at any time. A simple phone call could have brought Junichi and Toru to the police station. Instead, the government made a public spectacle of shutting Greenpeace down.

Don't let Japan shut down the truth. Demand the release of Junichi and Toru and demand an end to the whaling programme in Japan. The corruption of a few bureaucrats who profit from whaling should not be an excuse for harassing those who have exposed it. The domestic and international shame which this scandal is bringing on the Japanese agencies responsible for whaling is just one more reason that Japan should stop its sham scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean forever.

Please, take action now and pass this message along to your friends. Let's get Junichi and Toru back with their families, and demand the real criminals go to jail.

Thank you,

The Greenpeace whale team

CLICK HERE: http://www.greenpeace.org/tokyo-two

Talent vogue was SO MUCH MORE than fantabulificent. I don't think I have ever been to a better school concert like WOAH. And I'm so glad I bought the tickets early. It's fully worth the 8 bucks and I betcha next year's tickets would be snapped up in 3 days.

Thanks performers (and guest performers)! You guys were awesome and sexy and TALENTED. And congratulations! Yupp. The Bballers won first prize. I haven't seen that much moshing since me and Cailyn's air guitar thingy we made up at gym chalet! Anyways you guys were fantastic and hilarious and enjoy your BANANA republic, MANGO and APPLE merchandise! (Plus the basket.)

Thanks TALENT TEAM! Thanks for the fantastic hosting, effort and for shamelessly plugging every Thursday. Thursday is the only day I look forward to assembly. Please keep the ads going! Hah but that's a dumb suggestion cause that would be pointless since the show's over.

Yay I love how RGS is crazy and exciting and funny! And HEY XJT'07! I want US to perform next year! We can act bimbotic. WITH APPARATUS. That would be cool but insulting to the sport of R.Gym. But still!

Quote of the day:
"They have such tight butts. There's like no flab at all. Laoshi would love them!"

Weirdest conversation of the day:
"Hey! You told me she could sing, you didn't tell me she could mosh!"
"I told you she could dance."
"(Pause) Okay never mind, that was an unfunny joke."
"Yeah. I don't get it."

Howdy

So, what is this mysterious cabbage-like thing hmm? I discovered it while attacking veg to feed Rabby. Apparently if you cut the end of the xiao bai chye (yup, that's how they spell it) where the stalks meet, you get this cute rose pattern. Cool eh?

So well the first day of school was kinda slack and fun. The new History teacher had to go for a photo shoot so we were left in class watching this video but it only lasted 10 minutes so we just hung around for the remaining 50 minutes. Bio was... weird. I'm not sure what we did. It was more contact time-ish. So the rest of the day went on with people going MIA on account of the CCA/leadership boards photo shoots. And I discovered while running down the spiral staircase that the best way to run in court shoes is to run on tiptoes. So that way the heel won't get in the way. The dancers were still in stage makeup at the time of the PSB photo shoot so they looked scary in a nice way :) LD (I don't really like ED. It's like Health Ed.) photo shoot was kinda sad. And SORRY for wearing my culottes and PE shirt!

Oh yeah and PSB applications are out! But I discovered that lots of people still have the impression that a good PSL is a hyper-laughing-smiling-never-frowning person. In my humble opinion, PSLs can come in all colours and flavours and just by being hyper doesn't make you a good PSL. Quote Rachel Miao "Being a PSL isn't about being bubbly and enthu. It takes a lot of patience to be a very good PSL." Gosh, I can remember that from before Sec One Orientation 2008. I think she said it in Pre-Orientation Training? Yeah so anyways, I do notice that PSLs like me tend to be very high and stuff during PSL sessions but we're doing this to keep the mood happy and stuff and not because it makes us better as PSLs. THAT WAS AN INSIGHTFUL INSIGHT FROM JASMINE AND GOOD LUCK FOR THOSE APPLYING :D

Whoops I gave too many clues away. Sheesh. Fine so there are only two things to do now.
1. Give the recognition.
2. Scream and complain.
I'll do #1 first:)

CONGRATULATIONS MS NURUL :) WE(jasmine) HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE A SHOO-IN TO WIN THIS CONTEST ANYWAYS!(Well, not really haha.) WELL DONE! WHOOHOO! AND YOU WERE SMARTER THAN MS CHENG LYNN WHO THOUGHT I LIKED XMEN 3! YOU HAVE PROVED THAT YOU HAVE GOOD MOVIE KNOWLEDGE LIKE TOTALLAYE SO WELL DONE!

You know what? I'm even gonna buy you something from stall 1 just cause I feel like it :) Well done! So you see, reading Jasmine's blog does pay off!

Right, now for the screaming and complaining.

That was not the least bit fair guys! First you guys complain that I don't give clues, and now I give too many clues and you guys guessed the movie in like 2 weeks! You guys should have known that I'm a horrible clue-giver. Did you see the clues I set for my sister when we were playing treasure hunt? Fine, maybe you didn't but URGH! (Proceeds to sulk in a corner.)

Ok fine it was my fault! I'm not REALLY angry :D

Hello my adoring blog readers! (HAHA)

Since no one has made any guesses yet, I will make it much easier by providing all the clues I can think of in one shot.

1. It was in cinemas in 2007.

2. (Forget about the previous clue #2 cause it doesn't help much) There is a hot actor in it that had many RGS girls fangirling for some time! Well actually it depends on perspective, but some people claim that this other actor was also worthy of being fangirled.

3. It came out in May- June (?)

4. It is the third movie of a series. And the most successful one so far, too! (I can't call it a trilogy because I'm not sure if there's another one coming up.)

5. It is not horror because I never watch horror movies. Neither is it animation. (Not that I don't watch animated flicks.)

6. One of the main characters is a struggling theatre actress.

7. The hot guy dies.

8. A quote " ...wouldn't want us living one second with revenge in our hearts. " If you paid attention to the trailers, you would be able to remember this one!

Yup so there you go. Happy guessing! I can't give too much away cause you get 3 guesses already. Use them wisely.

I don't know why, but I feel like deleting my blog, or moving to xanga or something.

Science Investigative is driving me nuts. The proposal is too SHORT! Something must be wrong I betcha. Plus, the rubrics are for the REPORT right? Right? What is missing I HAVE TO PUT MORE STUFF IN and submit in 13 hours but it just doesn't feel like enough yet and how am I supposed to get enough types of simple sugars for the experiment since some cannot be bought from supermarkets all pretty in plastic sacks? I mean, galactose is present in milk but how am I supposed to get it from the milk? Milk the milk?

Argh forget it I'll skip the galactose then.

Dear feet,

My ballet shoes are getting small. Please stop growing.

Thanks
Jasmine

CLUES to the movie-guessing contest!
1. The movie was in cinemas in 2007
2. I don't watch a lot of movies, so I pick carefully

Aha, what could that mean?

Hello

I'm doing up my Integrated Science project proposal now, so you can start heaving dramatic sighs of relief cause I'll make this quick and non-philosophical. Which actually means kinda superficial, but it's a nicer way of saying it.

OW. I ACHE ALL OVER.

That's all for now. I'll go back to doing my work and hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I fall asleep unglamorous-ly on my pretty computer.

NEED FREE RECOGNITION?
Then this contest is for (points at your nose) yes, you!

Simply be the first to guess what Jasmine's favourite movie is by 1st August (exactly one month away). It's that simple! Plus, if you're from RGS(S), you will even be congratulated personally by Jasmine herself!

Contest rules:
1. Leave all your guesses on the tagboard.
2. Every participant will be entitled to three guesses.
3. The management will not be held responsible for any injury or loss of life (or worse) suffered by participants during the course of this contest.
4. Prizes may be subject to change. (There may be a mystery prize!)
5. This contest is only for fun and we strongly advise you to NOT spend too much time (or money) (or sleep) in trying to think of movie names. You never know.
6. Any foul play such as blackmail, phishing etc. discovered by the management will result in the participant losing eligibility to participate in this contest.
7. I thought no one read contest rules.

Hmm

I'm ranting on my blog a lot. And most of the time I don't wanna give everything away so everything's vague that makes people think I'm emo or took too many panadols or something. And if I'm not complaining, I apologise a lot or publicise or (in the rare event) talk about events or something.

SO I'm gonna do something different. I'm gonna do one of those blog quizzes which aren't really quizzes cause you give answers but there are no CORRECT answers. Actually I've done one before way way back like on May 11 2007. This one's from JoOu's friend Fik's blog. Thanks, even if I don't actually know you personally. I only remember this name cause you're the Richardson sec 4 level co-ord, aren't you?

It's harder than it looks! Copy and paste to your own journal, erase my answers, and add your own.
Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And Have Fun With It!!!

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Jump (What I do a lot.)
2) BOY NAME: Jay-Z (Hah!)
3) GIRL NAME: Jamie (I like that name.)
4) OCCUPATION: Jumper (Not the supernatural movie kind, I was thinking more of, long jumper or high jumper?)
5) A COLOR: Jade (I had to look up wikipedia for this because my range of Colour Vocabulary isn't what you'd call impressive.)
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Jumper (Again, not the athlete or movie kind. I was thinking more of a sweater.)
7) BEVERAGE: Juice
8) FOOD: Jalapeno peppers (Not that I eat those.)
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Jelly soak (The stuff you can buy from Robinsons that comes in powder form and turns to jelly when you put it in a tub of water.)
10) A PLACE: Jurassic Park (Or Jamaica.)
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Jam on the B.K.E./ C.T.E./ P.I.E./ any other jammable place
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: JUMP!

What is it with me and jumping? Thinking of inter-house long jump too much? Probably. I NEED TO TRAIN. I'M GETTING UNFIT. And reading Feeling Sorry For Celia isn't helping either. Elizabeth (the protagonist) trains like 10km everyday. And she came in TOP 5 in the Forest Hill Half Marathon. Like woah. I really admire her. It's like the first time I've ever found myself admiring a fictional character who never does her homework. But then again, even if she doesn't get an education, she's already adequately smart enough PLUS she'll probably end up becoming a long distance runner anyways. I really love the book. Read it after I return it to the Deborah Tan library.

A FEW MINUTES AFTER I PUBLISHED THIS POST

GASP. I can't believe how similar my answers are to Jo's! But not a lot of words start with J anyways.

I love GMs :) I love GMs :) Open house was fun :) Laoshi thinks we're getting better :) I'm actually READING again :) 30 reasons not to be in a play :)

I hate my url now. Maybe I should change it. Again.

I bought a swimsuit last week. First time in 8 years. For some reason, people just love giving me swimsuits so I don't have to buy any.

Hi, Wen Jia Ying. I am not an emokid. Life just bares its cruel pointed ugly teeth at me. You don't understand. Nobody can understand. Life hurts? Hah! An understatement, don't you think? Fine, I'm joking.

LAST LAST FRIDAY

Me, Maria, and Ting went for lunch at NYNY :) Had an aggression session with Janne at the bus stop first and that turned out kind of weird in a funny way.

Maria: Alright, imagine Jasmine told some horrible lies about you that got you kicked out of PSB
Me(looks appalled): Hey!
Janne(in a sad disappointed angry tone): Jasmine how could you!!

NO(!!) I'm not the evil kind even though Ting suspects me of having secret evil intentions. She says I look like I'm hiding evil intentions inside my evil brain.

Anyways it was great fun :)

PHOTOS!


Before and after

110th post. How ironic.

RAWRRRR

Not emo, just frustrated. And a little disappointed. Such a pity, cause I had a lovely day today sitting at briefings, scrubbing the class, GOING OUT WITH MARIA AND TINGFANG and SL-ing. Shall post about it when I'm done with the PSB video.

My posts get weirder and weirder. Go for Pangea Day!

Pangea Day is a global day of film that aims to provide viewers to see through the eyes of the other. In a world torn by conflict and opposing views, the creators of Pangea Day have thought it to be immensely important that people should understand the worldview of others, and that film would be the best medium to achieve this objective. On May 11 at 0200hrs SGT, official Pangea Day sites in Cairo, Kigali, Los Angeles, mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and london will be connected through a 4-hour live simulcast featuring a program of powerful films, visionary speakers and uplifting music.

RJC will be hosting a screening of Pangea Day on May 12th, Monday as well! So come on down after your exams to relax and just enjoy award winning films and listen to the stories told by people around the world!

Venue: Hodge Lodge Time: 2-6pm!
Come on down to RJC's very own student's lounge and enjoy the movie in our mini theatre! Promised to be a comfortable and relaxing experience =)

Venue: Canteen Time: 315-715pm!
Enjoy a refreshing drink as you watch the movies in our canteen! Enjoy the films in the company of friends!

Venue: Amphitheatre Time: 315-715pm!
Sit with groups of friends in the amphitheatre, you can even play a game of Monopoly or other board games while watching the movies!

This screening will definitely be an eye-opener, so come on down after your exams and just...chill out!

For more information one can go to:
http://www.pangeaday.org/
http://www.pangeaday.%20sg/

Forward this email out to all your friends! Spread the news about Pangea!

This post is for everyone, but especially for my 202 mummy Alicia Claire Tan, also known as ACTooby.

Jasmine

One thing you have to know about this person, is that she may seem very emo sometimes, which is very unlucky for Trina because she's the first schoolmate she talks to (or ignores) in the morning since she takes the same school bus as me. Anyways, we said MAY, because in actual fact, 80% of the time she's just very tired and can't be bothered talking to anyone cause she has to conserve her energy in order to not fall asleep in class in a rather embarrassing posture on her desk. For the other 20%, she's just complaining about her life in her head, about all the things she missed out on or about how she never gets enough time to engage in activites like play with her neglected soft toys. (Sometimes, she'll even complain on her blog.) Therefore, do not worry about her too much because she's soon to try to get everything sorted out, and before you know it, she'll be happy and non-emo again! :)

Hello everyone

MYAs are over. Sad. You know, it's actually been the second-best week I've had so far this year. Sleeping early sure makes a lot of difference to my mood and my level of zombieness. Plus it's cool going home early and getting to take really empty MRT trains home! They're usually so crowded I can hardly breathe. PLUS I realised I can enjoy mugging :O Call me weird.

Oh wow this is my SECOND MYA already. I'm growing old so fast.

I suppose I should stop thinking and saying that I had a bad time in SPS. I mean, yeah, there were a lot of things I didn't like about the school, a lot of uneventful happenings, a lot of other things I wish I could forget about. But there were still people I regarded as my friends, teachers I liked, and some fun times like Sing Singapore and P6 Inter-class Games.

Presenting of scripts was good. I like speaking to an audience. Even if the audience is like my class and I'm making an announcement. But the sec 2s only got to do one piece cause of that NSW International Science Competition that made us late. I liked Tiffany's "Flopsie". My monologue was utterly boring. Maybe I should try another one and email it to Michael Corbridge if I have the time. Thank you to everyone who came to watch!

"When I heard the scream, I came out of the cupboard and slipped on something wet, then I fell on mom. I thought she would catch me, but she didn't. She didn't." - Flopsie

I really really don't mean to be high. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad. It's bad cause sometimes I'm not controlling it and it makes people think I'm not to be taken seriously.

I have a lot of nice sensible things I want to say. It's just that I don't always find the premise to do so. That's why I like MGMs I guess. It keeps my high down, and it's keeps my good talk UP.

I'm sorry about GMs. A lot of people= Jasmine forgets to shut up. But really I did mean the teddy bear rubber band thing. And the tape up the homework cupboard thing.

And I just get happy when I'm with the board. I just get very very very happy, cause I love what we do and I love my job and I love everyone.

Sorry world. I will try HARDER to not get too happy. It's annoying, even to me.

The yearbook is super thick. It's inspirational reading on its own. I mean, look at all the awesome award-winning people inside. And look at all the conferences and overseas trips and conventions they send all the pro student leaders and people to. It's kinda funny cause the most inspirational people aren't just those famous ones like Jane Goodall, but fellow schoolmates. Also known as seniors. People who study in the same classrooms as us, cheer in the same amphi as us, and sleep on the same desks as us. It kinda makes you think. There's more to being in this school than just being a student. There's so much more we can achieve, like these people did. And it's not just the leadership positions and awards, it's the differences they made and the legacy they're continuing as RGS girls. Wow. I feel like we have a lot to live up to. One day those people in the yearbook will be our very own batchmates. Wow.

My headache is coming back. Ow I thought it was gone. My mom says I'm gonna get sicker if I don't stop sleeping so late. I hope concert goes well.

Hello everyone. I'm sorry for emoing so much nowadays. School's just been kinda weird.

ORA ORA ORA TOMORROW! BUY PSB JELLY COCONUTS THEY'RE REALLY YUMMY! Trust me :)

OR

OM OM OM GO SUPPORT! The OM people worked really hard so MUST SUPPORT IF YOU CAN ok?

Goodbye long weekend. Goodbye June hols.

OHNOOO I feel like my life is screwed again so WATCH OUT GINA cause you'll be sitting next to a crazy emokid tomorrow if I don't stop whining soon.

It's not worth emoing. It's not worth emoing. It's not worth emoing.

Maybe I should go talk to a sec 3 and listen to their complaints. Then I'll learn to appreciate my life better.

#1 JoHo and Yen Yee can really rap :D

#2 I throw my rope best when I'm thinking about everything BUT gym.

#3 I'm zombie-ing through my life. It's like I'm there but I'm not there.

#4 I'm turning into an emo kid. Just ask my deskmate.

#5 I love my house. I love my house. I love my house. I love my house. I LOVE MY HOUSE RICHARDSON.

#6 I love 109 and 109 i/cs a lot a lot.

#7 I have PFT tomorrow.

#8 I have no confidence in my IPU any more. Just a gut feeling.

#9 My leotard is now my sole reason for living. And my jazzpants.

#10 I have no idea why I numbered everything.

Last PSL session today. I was kinda sad but I didn't cry. Wow. I'm still impressed. This is the second time this year when I was prepared to cry but didn't. Which is a good thing :) I mean, can you imagine me crying in front of all my niners?

PSL session was good, but I missed the discussions. Discussions were actually my favourite part of PSL sessions last year. I like discussions, I love MGMs and stuff like that. I just don't show it cause I look very dead as compared to when I'm hyper and crazy. That's my getting-seriouser look, NOT my bored look. I don't smile when I'm thinking too hard. I mean, who does?

But PSL session was still goood! I loved them last year, I love them this year. And most of all, I LOVE MY SEC ONES! They're an absolutely fantastic class, and the reason why I haven't become the petrified forest of Singapore. No, make that the petrified tree. I'M REALLY PROUD OF MY NINERS. REALLY REALLY REALLY. And they're soo sweet! They gave me this cute hallmark mug and stuffed it with notes! I added them to my note collection. (Seee, I keep all your words of encouragement okay!)

Food twister was the highlight of today! Try putting your hands in a jar of peanut butter, and your feet in a jar of kaya, and you see how it's done. Argh but it's so messy cause we forgot to put newspaper below the food! I think I would've been super freaked out if someone made me play too, because I'd hate to have to try to get rid of all the mucky stuff stuck onto me. But it'll still be fun I guess.

It was also good cleaning up after debrief. I think we (109 i/cs) really bonded while mopping the basketball courts. Like, what a way to bond! But yup, it was fun. MGM was good too, even though like I said, I look very blur during discussions. Just something I noticed today.
I WANNA JOIN PSB :)

Yay I finally got my new leotard and jazz pants! I wanted the one Ting has but they ran out of those in my size. Argh. Oh well, but mine is pretty too! Once again, COME WATCH GYM CONCERT!

What a nong nong post.

Sports Fest today! :D :D :D

And sports fest is fun, okay, Yu Jia!

Hmm well actually I wished everyone was louder and that my throat didn't hurt so much. But still, good job everybody! Whoohoo Richard got second! Just like last year. But it doesn't really matter what we get for overall, cause we know that our house spirit is there and it's super strong and VERY LOUD. Watching mass dance was kinda funny. I mean, the dance was nice but it makes you wonder if you looked like that last year. Like "Woah, people could see me all the way over there?" But still, well done sec 1s!

I'm super proud of my fellow Richardsonians for showing so much house spirit! I was kinda afraid that you guys would have become un-enthu but you all DIDN'T! And I'm super proud of the sec 2s and Dharani for going for house dinner. Sharon said that house dinner was usually a house comm- sec 1 thing, but TRADITIONS CAN CHANGE RIGHT? (Think The Whale Rider).

It was great seeing the JC 1 house comm people again. Brings back fond memories of us when we were sec 1s. I MISS HOUSE PRAC. We should be allowed to go for fun, wouldn't that be great? But the poor house comm :( Ada was totally disgusted by the oneohonenians's sick comments and jokes. I don't blame her :) but I'm used to them.

Thanks you house comm! Yesterday was fantastic!

And the only thing that matters,
Is climbing up that social ladder
Still care about your hair and the car you drive
Doesn't matter if you're 16 or 35

If you didn't know, that's from Bowling For Soup's High School Never Ends.

I guess RGS is a very different school in the sense that you don't see so much of the problems the heroes/heroines face in chick flicks. (Where there are these evil cheerleaders and geeks who wear their pants up to their armpits and rebels smoking.) But we face a very different set of problems.

No prizes for guessing what.

I remember that day Irina (I think it was her) said that when you're Sec 3 you just feel like your whole world comes crashing down. And Shze Hui says that sleeping at 1am is very normal. And that answering every question in the Maths paper is Mission Impossible 4. And a whole bunch of other stuff I hear Sec 3s talk about. I feel like I have no right to complain about workload anymore. Can I just stay Sec 2 forever?

Right now I'll just enjoy being a Sec 2 while it lasts.

Thank you 109 i/cs :)
You guys are awesome, like Rachel would put it.

PSL session was good even though everyone was all mass danced out and I was all gymmed out. Well not really, I only did one complete routine. And the synchronisation was all sala.

It was great today during MGM. We got to talk about problems PSLs face and it's good to know I'm not the only one who has sudden emo attacks. I like MGMs. They're like casual serious discussions. Thankew T & D!

JoHo is afraid of Mas Selamat but I don't think she's in danger cause she's so much taller than him anyways. Oh man I hope they catch him soon and put an end to all this drama. And so I don't have to see his face on posters everywhere I go. It's kinda freaky knowing there's a terrorist on the loose and Singapore ain't that big so you have a pretty high chance of meeting him. Not that it's a bad thing, because then it's easier to catch him. But everyone says he's already outta Singapore. You know, he's actually become like the laughingstock of the nation as well as a threat to the country. Just take a look at Actooby's tagboard.
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After MGM I went to eat ramen with Pris Chew and Jenny and Irina and we had a long conversation over lunch. Not boring but sane and interesting. Long and normal discussions are good. Random lame discussions get too lame after a while.

Example of a random and lame discussion:
A: Haha.
B: Haha.
A: Geog is so lame.
B: WHATever man you're so much lamer!
A: Don't argue with me man.
B: You're so lame you don't even let people argue with you. HAHAHA SEE, YOU'RE LAME!
A: That was lame. SEE, YOU'RE LAME!

See? I like long normal discussions, and I like lame ones only when they're funny.

I'm sorry Yi Hui I still really the blogskin you designed, I really do. I just got bored having the same skin for so long.

But I think you should be happy too cause I used it longer than any other skin I used!

Ah well today was alright. Not too tiring I guess. And I liked the spicy chicken a lot even though it killed my tongue. But I'm just not so happy about a lot of things. PSL sessions are ending soon too. Actually I think PSL sessions actually do as much for me as they are supposed to do for the sec ones. It's like while I'm there conducting the sessions for them hoping they gain something out of them, I seem to be more alive than I am the rest of the week, and it feels good. Maybe it's because when you conduct those sessions, you know what you're there to do, and you really want to do it well, so you give it all you've got and you're naturally more enthusiastic. And I'm glad that I don't speak like a bimbo in front of the class as much as I did in the earlier PSL sessions. It just happens sometimes when I feel really self conscious. Oh no I'm gonna miss PSL sessions so much. It's like even though I'm still their PSL, we don't see each other so much anymore and I'll miss conducting those sessions and everything. I don't mind doing those proposals every week for the rest of the year actually. Plus, I'll be super low without PSL session every saturday. I already missed them a lot when we skipped 1/2 weeks? Ah well but I guess I'm not supposed to be stuck to them forever right? I mean, ultimately it's THEIR class and THEY are supposed to have learnt the importance of class bonding, supporting each other, etc.etc.etc. so they can work together and all and that's the purpose of PSL sessions anyways.

Training yesterday started off terrible. I was all weak from running up and down the basketball court during PE because I have adopted a terribly tiring and lousy strategy of following the basketball wherever it goes. My kua tiaos were horrible, like I haven't trained for 20 years. Probably not even 150 degrees yet. I was FORCING myself to jump but my body was stubborn and refused to cooperate. At least it got a bit better after a while.

This post is for my favourite sec 1 class 109!

Hello niners if you guys are reading this! I'm writing this post because I'm really proud of you guys because:
1. You guys were very enthu and participative yesterday!
2. You guys have BONDED as a class which is fantastic !
3. You're organizing your very own class outing!

Yay yay yay just when I was wondering how you guys were doing (since we haven't had a PSL session for quite a while). I was very very pleased with you all yesterday that you all are very enthu about your 109-ship. It's great that you are all proud of your class because you really should be and I'm sure your other PSLs will agree too! You all have really grown together as a class since your first PSL session and I'm glad.

Have fun at your outing and keep up the good work!

Hello fellow humans!

Since my dearest Ops rotation 1 friends haven't written their tributes to Ops rotation 1 yet, I shall lead by example. (What a brilliant idea!)

My Tribute To Raffles Girl's School Peer Support Board Operations Rotation One (Nice long no-abbreviations-used title)
Operations Rotation One was a lovely bunch of people:) and it was great working with them! Our first GM started off kinda awkward and only four people turned up cause it was held during the December hols. But we've had a lot of fun working together decorating the SLAC and singing together :) and during my time at Ops I had the chance to conduct an ice breaker with Cheryl Gatot which was lots of fun (but then I fell sick the next day and the doctor told me my throat was very red and swollen). So THANK YOU Ops for making rotation 1 lots of fun! And thank you JoOu for the cute shoelaces too!

Danny Noriega's last night on American Idol 7. People think he's gay but whatever I don't need to know. What matters is the performance right? He's out, but I think he's a good performer, like he performs with lots of energy and it's nice to watch good performances right?

91st post. Which shows how little I blog. Anyways SECOND update on what's been going on!

FOUNDER'S DAY!

I think this year's founder's day was MUCH MUCH better than last year's. Not that last year's was boring, but because it's greek themed. Which is super cool, esp all those laurel wreaths. And I think our very ego form teacher did a good job :)

Seriously, what is it about RGS and foreign countries? Our motto's in LATIN, our school song's called from high OLYMPUS (which explains the greek theme) and Athena's at our gate, too. Okay so it's just that our school loves greek stuff, the latin part is started with RI and the Auspicium Melioris Aevi (?).

Back to founder's day, like I said, it was way cool this year, with all the greek statues and togas and wreaths and everything. Actually the statues looked kinda freaky, in a cool freaky way. Wu You is too tall! She was the statue with wings in the pretty dress.

Then it started raining after the opening speeches, but it was just a drizzle. The MCs told VIPs to proceed to the hall but then Mrs Hoo said we can just bear with a little rain because WE PROMISE TO GIVE YOU A GOOD SHOW like it was so cool everyone started cheering and it made me really happy. Maybe it's because it's more fun sitting in the Amphi than watching a live telecast (5 seconds late) in class.

Right I shall just summarise everything in one sentence: The performances were fantastic, the theme was fantastic, everything was good.

But I was kinda disappointed that the Arete cheers weren't scary or fierce like they were meant to be. And the Raffles cheers weren't loud enough. It started raining heavily right after the ceremony (we finished just in time!) and Wen Jun let me have a lick off her yummy Turkish ice cream during the reception cause I wasn't allowed to have any due to the fact that I'm not pro enough to perform and I'm not in PB.

I love my school :) And that's the reason why I wouldn't trade my Rafflesianship(and a lot of homework!) for the free time I had in primary school

Fine Alicia I shall update!

Ahh alright I haven't been updating for QUITE SOME TIME already so I shall start with something that happened QUITE SOME TIME ago.

Inter-house nong jump!

Ok I was kinda mad at myself after the event but I guess it's another one of those times that I get mad at myself for things people don't even notice. Like that time during PSL session when I did the life story of Oprah Winfrey, and I was guilty guilty for 2 days.

Anyways I really really miss house prac and doing RICHARD cheers. Make that really really really really really really REALLY. So I was kinda happy and scared to be doing something for the house again. Me and Lynn were freaking out while packing our bags like kanchiong people. I don't even know if kanchiong can be used in this context but nevermind. I don't know, it was kinda funny seeing everyone in house shirts at the long jump pit again, brings back memories of house prac at the long jump pit at sec one.

Well I was much less anti-social this year, and I talked to the other jumpers and we freaked out together. And I think it was great that everyone cheered for one another regardless of house. And of course it was FANTASTIC to see Lynn and Steph again. Not that I don't see Lynn like almost everyday, but you get what I mean. But Steph doesn't remember me from long jump last year, she only remembers me as a T3SL (she was a T2). Sheesh :D

Poor Steph had phlegm so she sounded croaky and she had shot put too so she was shuttling back and forth. Hah it was really fun this year, with everyone more friendly and all. And then I taught Steph and Lynn the We're All In This Together dance, but now I forgot why. I was super happy and full of house spirit :) and also because long jump is fun! Well, it won't be fun if you do it everyday and train for competitions, but it's fun as an inter-house event.

Yay I think I've jumped a personal best, but it'll be scary competing with the sec 4s next year (hah i'll be competing with the people who taught me how to jump!) and yup I hope everyone had fun jumping!

I LOVE MY HOUSE OF BLOO

SLI was fun :D Formal uniform chokes you and makes your feet hurt but it's still fun to wear it.

I didn't get to watch the wonderful items, esp the cute PSB Peer Support Family one! Oh well i'll wait for someone to put it on youtube.

So coool i met my sis's friend weiling from st nicks. It was fun begging people to take free curry puffs.

It was real fun sitting in the canteen after the ceremony looking at amanda kuan do dumb things with her stryofoam plate mask that she made by poking holes for eyes and a mouth. And yinleng is crazyyyyy about carly's brother. Who is 1 year old and very cute. She is waiting for him to grow up. Well ok her philosophy about age gaps can make sense actually. But still, she'd have to wait like at least 13 years. Ahha but she's soooo funny!

Concert prac is so fun :) i love the dance

You know i realise that i speak like a bimb when i speak in front of a big group of people without a script to read from because:
- When i raise my voice it can go really HIGH
- I say 10 "like"s in every sentence
I DO NOT normally speak like that ok!

Can't wait to get monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday over with. YAY YAY SLI on friday and i get to look tall in court shoes and say "this way please" over and over again :D

Ushering is fun!

Oh but tuesday should be OK too. I don't mind mondays and tuesdays actually. I hate thursdays because 202 has 4 blocks in a row before lunch. There's GM this tues and i like GMs :) Sure hope ____ gets the award!

And art module will be over soooon! I don't hate it, but it makes me feel lousy because i'm bad at art. Oh and i don't think i really learnt much about how to improve either. Most of the stuff i learnt is about other people's art (like Picasso and the greek statues). Whatever, i'll stick to stick figures and doodles and live happily ever after.

I'm telling you, dailaoshi is wayy good. She's the face at the end. Dai Yong-Jun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTbt3J4_we0

Hello world

I sincerely apologise for all the reading of emo rants you had to subject your poor eyes and brains to.

Thank you.

P.S I am fully aware that the sentence above is grammatically incorrect. However, due to my lack of pro-ness in the english language, i shall just leave it as it is as to avoid further breaking of grammar rules in the process of correcting it.

I JUST CAN'T LET GO.
YOU CAN TAKE ME OUT OF GYM BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE GYM OUTTA ME
I WILL TRAIN.
SO THERE.

(disclaimer: the 'so there' is not directed at any of you out there. this post is supposed to be for me to remind me not to be lazy and to train by myself. and it's not anyone who took me out of gym, it's me. so i guess i'm talking to myself. weird.)

Happy cny and don't eat too much junk :D

Just back from SPS. Super annoyed.

Same story as last year teacher's day, security guard talks to you like you can't understand a word he's saying, everyone's restricted to only the canteen, and you don't know anyone there.

I found out WHY i didn't know any juniors in primary school. Except for liyana but that's cause she's asyiqin's sis. I actually attempted to ask mei yin's friends what time they were released from school and they IGNORED me like i wasn't there. Super irritated. Attempted again. Got ignored again, so i gave up.

Anyways gym's kung fu fighting was super nice :D I still love gym and i WILL train on my own. In fact, i'm gonna stick to a plan:
PE days: Run AT LEAST 3 rounds round the track in the morning. Unless there's homework to chiong.
Everyday: Yatui, 2 sets of fubeiji AT LEAST
Saturday: Run AT LEAST 3 rounds round the track before PSL session unless there's a meeting or something.
Friday: Go to the gym 45 mins before concert prac to train rope.

And THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the people who cheered me up today! Thanks for all your jokes, encouragement & hugs. Even if i didn't write your names here, it doesn't mean i've forgotten you guys and i'm so glad i know all you wonderful people :)

OHNO I MISS TRAINING :(
It's only been 2 trainings that i missed so far. But i still miss training.
I know i can train on my own now, fujis, beijis, skipping, yatui etc.etc.
But it just isn't the same.

Yelling "ONEOHNINE!!!!!!" is becoming quite a habit now. This is what happened in 202 before chinese today:

(Rashvin starts making announcement on geog trip)
Me(irritated): ONEOHNINE!!!!!
(Rashvin finishing up announcement)
Me(still irritated): ONEOHNINE!!!!
Some other 202er: TWOTWOOOOOO!!!!
Me(realises dumb mistake): whoooops!

See?

This post is to thank everyone that has helped me get through one of the worst weeks of my life!
I've been acting kinda schitzophrenic since last week, and i'm sorry if i gave anyone the what's-the-meaning-of-life look.

Thanks for the free hugs, the advice, the encouragement, the leaf, the listening to me rant on and on about my problem. I really appreciate it and i love you guys loads and loads for being there for me. And thanks for putting up me even when i start being emo or teary.

RGym! I may not be there anymore but i will always be right there in spirit with you guys on the carpety mats doing the fujis and beijis. I will. I'll even continue doing yatui on my own so that when you all get discouraged you can think that jazzy is doing yatui too just like you all. If you need anyone to watch you all, or coach the sec ones, i'll do it. I STILL LOVE RGSRSG LOADS AND LOADS AND LOADS AND I WILL KEEP TRAINING ON MY OWN<3

I think i know the bestest people on earth. Thanks for being there for me:)

What i hate more than anything right now:
HOMEWORK

And everyone is sick now. Except Isabelle Lim. That's what she says.

BUT concert prac is fun! Yi Lin and Vivien have joined THE COOL CLUB :) Which is the name for our 2008 sec 2 and sec 1 batches. That's my favourite part of gym. The freedom to be nuts. Yeah.

EVERYONE COME WATCH GYM CONCERT IT'S GONNA BE FANTABULOUS! But i have no idea when it is.

Oh yeah and some company has invited Blooming Of Spring to perform for some Suntec Rocky whateverthingy next sat. Blooming Of Spring is the name of our ballet concert item, by the way. I didn't think it was that nice actually. Well anyways, that means more stalkers in flower costumes for me. Maybe since it's on a saturday i can use training as an excuse and go late so i don't have to be stuck backstage with them for so many hours.

I miss 101.

But at the same time i'm super glad that 202 turns out to be an enthu class after all! Our argument with Mr De Souza proves that too :) Well actually it just proves we're a funny class but whatever.

Mr De Souza: Ok, for your class motto, "Rule yourself before you rule others". I changed it a bit so that the meaning's the same but it sounds better. How about "Be good stewards of your own lives before leading others"? 

202: NOOOOOO!

Mr De Souza: But "rule" makes you all sound so... power hungry!

202: But we are! We're ROYALTY!

The same thing for the class vision. Ours was something to do with becoming good queens or something, and Mr De Souza wanted to change it into ladies and he says it also sounds high-class anyways. But nope, nothing less than royalty for 202'08 :P

I heart 202!

It's reeeeal quiet without the sec 3s.
I'm sick from all that yelling at orientation.

Orientation is officially over, but i still can't remember everyone's names. I can remember their faces. That's a start.
Well it's kinda funny cause during RI 4 109 didn't cheer very loudly, but then in a matter of 3 days they suddenly became more enthu.
I know there are other very very loud classes but i shan't be upset cause all classes are UNIQUE right?
MOST ZANY WHOOHOO!
And no, for once i didn't cry. (Hear that, joey?) I didn't cry during 101 farewell party either, but that was cause i was only there for 5 minutes. Maybe it's partially cause i know there will be lots more PSL sessions after this.
Me and chat went to dingdei at house prac today. Ahahaha i felt so extra. But it was fun cheering for RICHARD again <3 <3 I love my house. I wanna go for every single house prac and cheer on the amphi steps again. They should make entire-house house pracs. That would be so cool.:)
Yay i love RICHARDSON and 109.08 :D :D

I can't get used to being sec2. It's like when people go "Sec ones sec ones!" it's like they're still referring to me.

W-ell 109 wasn't very enthusiastic today during PSL session & icebreakers. They were kinda reluctant to move and stuck in little groups. But Anthea says that it's cause it's only the first day and they should warm up soon. Good to hear.

R.I. was fun fun fun! I love cheering :D I'm so glad XinEr gave us that scolding last year for not cheering cause in actual fact i really really wanted to cheer but then my classmates didn't want to so i didn't dare to cheer too loud. But after the long long talk everyone CHEERED VERY LOUDLY! So yay and we all lived happily ever after, cheering day by day.

As for 202, everyone is kinda sticking to their sec1 classmates. But i'm gonna have PATIENCE cause high I s lack patience like me sometimes so PATIENCE, girl! It's gonna be tough cause i'm so high today :D

Orientation tomorrow.

GO 109! GO 109! GO 109!

Ballet concert is finally over. So this means no more ballet until i find time to continue. :( Sad.

I had my first experience of being stalked yesterday. The little kids in flower costumes. Ok i regret teaching them the moose song.

I shan't bother to elaborate on the horrors of being stalked cause i have to go chiong a PSL session proposal.

27dec
Today was a fantabulistic day!

PSL session training was great :) T&D did a good job although the part about the mock PSL session was erm, kinda embarrassing but ahha we learn from it. Treasure trove is a super violent game haha. But it was a super fun game as well! Yay well the training was real useful so we know how to deal with bo-chup people and all even though i was a bad mock PSL. Like the time i said: How can you say that? You hurt her feelings! And then i was thinking : Whoops mistake alert!

Butt-writing is a humiliating form of punishment :D But i don't mind

After the training i went out with the JPSLs and SPSLs present while the PSLs were having their meeting. Went to Far East to eat ramen. When we all squeezed into the elevator (with a poor guy squashed at the corner) the erm, overload-alarm went off. Oops. I ordered a Healthy Mushroom Ramen and then i wanted to pay my $4 so i said: Muo Gu De to the cashier person and then my evil batchmates laughed cause they thought the way i said Muo Gu to the cashier was funny. Well it was :)

The SPSLs eat much faster than us. They ordered after us and yet finished like 10-15 minutes earlier? That just goes to prove my theory that as you get older you can eat faster. So haha my dad can't say that i eat to slow anymore cause how can i compare to him? He's 33 years older.

After our lunch meeting me and Nadia and Shao and Elaine and some SPSLs went to Lido to watch I Am Legend. Elaine couldn't watch though. She had table tennis training. So we went to Lido and there was a PRIVATE SALE at Isetan. HELLO IM NERDZ AND IM PLAYING BOGGLE. Then Laura made me stand in front of a 27 Dresses movie poster and let her take a picture of me. Haha.

Sat around for more than an hour before buying the tickets. Then some PSLs came to join us and i ended up sitting in between Chow Yue and Nadia. There were so many of us PSB people wearing the same shirt people must think we're from some sort of tour group. Well it was super fun watching the movie with so many people you know. Then everyone was clutching onto each other and then at the scary parts everyone can gasp and scream together.

And that was why today is a fantabulistic day. :D

The weirdest thing happened at 1am yesterday.

We were back from the airport after seeing my dad off and when we entered the house we found Rabby sitting on the yoga mat. So my mom went "Come and look at Ah Boy! So cuuute!" And then we all went and gave Rabby lots of pats and all. But that's not the weird part. Gushing over Rabby is very normal.

Then Dong went and got some of Rabby's favourite food -pellets- and this is where the weird comes in:
He didn't go running for his food.

Nope he just sat there even more gong than Bebe Yip (:P) so we knew something was seriously wrong with that bunny. So mom took the whole container of pellets over and put it right in front of Rabby's face. But he still didn't move. So naturally everyone PANICKED.

The rest of the night (or rather, superduper early morning) was emotional and sad and all. We thought that Rabby was sick or something cause he just kept changing spots to sit in like a dead slug and my mom was the saddest of us all. She even said that if Rabby died she would never get another pet again.

Next morning:

Mom: Wake up lah.
Me: What time is it?
Mom: 12
Me: Oh man.
Mom: Rabby is normal again leh! I checked on him at 6 and he was acting normal. I'm gonna go give him veggies.

After giving veggies to Rabby:

Mom: Rabby is really fine now cause he attacked me for the veggies as usual.
Me: See, toldja he was just tired.

So now that all this drama is over we have concluded that Rabby was just being an emorabbit and there was nothing wrong with him in the first place.

Reporting day was great :) You can see all the sec ones and feel a little better about your height. But still lots of them were taller than me gahh. Walking around in court shoes hurt your feet. The floor feels real funny when you take them off. But it's kinda fun wearing them too :D And they make you feel taller.

I'm gonna be in 202 next year! Actually i think 1/3 of the people in 202 next year are from 101. But it's kinda sad cause i heard that lots of cliques form in sec 2 due to people only sticking to the people from their sec 1 classes. So i'm determined not to be one of them. So slap me if i do.

And i'm a 109 i/c next year :D :D :D Yay i can't wait to see those niners. If i'm lucky, they'll be just as enthu as dear 101. I love 101 loads and loads and loads. <3 And i hope i'll like 202.

*Clears throat* To all 202ers out there, here's to a great year! *Clinks glass with no-one*

I don't know what to blog about.

Tomorrow is reporting day:) i can see my junior from SPS. maybe. She's dong's friend's sister and i played maple with her before. Haha. But i've never seen her. I think this is the first time i'm looking forward to school reopening. Not that i haven't been to school for a long time. During my time in SPS, holidays mean not entering school for the entire month unless there are any camps. Well i haven't exactly been deprived of school this holiday. But i don't really mind:)

Good luck to all people not used to wearing heels for tomorrow! :D

Dead blog.
Well it's back to singapore. Back to reality.
Singapore= reality
Not that there's anything really bad about spore but
Reality= you can't just laze around a naturally air-conditioned house in a foreign country and watch Boomerang cartoons all day
Jordan= laze around a naturally air-conditioned house in a foreign country and watch Boomerang cartoons all day
Singapore= reality
So that's why i say, back to singapore, back to reality

My natural alarm has been disturbed. In jordan bedtime was about 9.30 and i would just wake up at exactly 9.31 every day all by myself. I don't know why, it's just like that. And guess what time i woke up the next morning after i came back? 2.45pm. Then that night i couldn't fall asleep until the time my friends wake up during normal school days. The last time i looked at the clock before i fell asleep, it read 4.58am. I had gone to bed at around 1pm. It's getting better now. Last night the last time i saw the clock it read 3.50+. Haha.

Hope no one falls asleep reading my ramblings about my sleep patterns. :D

I'm dreaming about school all the time. Maybe i'm turning into a schoolaholic.

Yesterday:
I dreamt that for sec 2, i have been transferred to St Hilda's sec for no apparant reason. And then in my dream i also joined tennis. Which makes no sense because how do i join RG tennis when i'm already in St Hildas. And there was also something about Li Lao Shi from SPS and a chinese file and PHOEBE YIP. Li Lao Shi gave us back our chinese files and phoebe yip was sitting beside me. Oh yeah and i also dreamt that i took a bus to a weird clubhouse of some sort on the was home from RGS and as i was leaving i got offered some free autumn festival food samples and there were mooncake rolls (that don't exist) which were really flattened mooncakes rolled up.

Some other day:
I dreamt about training. (!!!) I was half an hour late for training which was held in this really faraway place and i travelled there by go-cart. We did fu jis and i was told by Claudia that there was actually a grading system for training and that TingFang got a D for obedience and i was superduperly shocked, because how can laoshi give TingFang a D for obedience, that's just plain wrong. (And please TingFang don't be sad cause i don't think you'll ever get a D for obedience and who grades students for obedience now anyways?) And then after training i realised that i didn't have enough money to take the mrt or bus or anything home (which was far far away). But the good news is that i woke up so i didn't have to have any money to travel home.

And then there were also some other dreams about school but i don't remember all of them. There was also one about the people who went to genting and kamala was in it too.

We were all in a school concert and kamala was performing. She was supposed to play the piano for one item but we waited and waited and nothing happened. So for some reason i marched up to the stage and i went to the piano which was BACKstage and there was the piano score so i tried to play the song. It wasn't hard but i made lots of mistakes and i was scolding myself and thinking "What are you doing man?" to myself and when i looked down at the audience, there was KAMALA! And then when i finished playing i went to her and begged her to go play that piece again because i hated myself for taking her place and she was refusing and in the end she agreed. But it turns out she wasn't even supposed to play that piece in the first place and she was supposed to do some sort of dance and i was in shock because i made a fool of myself.

Well okay i know my mind is weird.

Hey everyone :)


I'm in my dad's house in Jordan and i wish i had a house like this is spore. :( It's sooo pretty and there's a garden with a lime tree and orange trees cause the landlady loves gardening. The landlord & landlady live upstairs and we get the whole downstairs for ourselves whee. I could get used to this :DDD


Egypt was totally like how suzhou was when i was a weenie little girl! Except i could read the signs in suzhou but i can't in egypt cause everything's in arabic. And egypt is real sandy not like suzhou which is erm not sandy. And the egyptians just look like malays so it didn't feel very foreign country-ish there.

Think the great pyramids of giza are in the middle of a desert far away from the towns and cities? Think again. I could just see them from my the hotel room window, which also means they're in the middle of the town, and not in the middle of a desert far away from the towns and the cities. You get the idea. It was kinda scary there not because of the curse or anything or the smell of camel poop but because of the camel owners and headdress salesmen there. Because of their kinda bad reputation, people are avoiding them like the plague and you can see how desperate they are to get you to buy their stuff or ride their camels. The headdress salesmen will say something like "This is a gift. You make a good arab!" and they'll put a headdress on your head which kinda means like SOLD! and you're stuck. Actually i kinda pity them cause my dad says in egypt the people don't earn much.

I didn't go inside the big pyramid (the giant triangular one) but i did go into the teenie deformed one because the entrance fee for the big one is 100 egyptian pounds = 20+ singapore dollars per person (!!!) and the entrance fee for the teenie pyramid was F.O.C.. The entrance was a tunnel like a slide down but with rungs and it was really steep so dong went down on her butt. Wasn't much inside just a stone room. And N.E.R.D was too tall so she also went down on her butt. WHOO! [And yes, she wrote those last two sentences.] (No I didn't!)

The sphinx was just the sphinx, nothing else to be said. Who says! It was BIG NICE AND SANDY!

I went to the supermarket last night! Gee that sounds weird. It was fun heh.

And last night i had a dream about school oh wow i actually dream about school! HURRY UP WILL YOU I NEED TO DO THE ELLLLLL BLOGSKIN! Anyways it was the 20th of december in my dream so reporting day was on the next day. I was in SPS but chewlin and brenda and jiaying and juliet and mrs wee were in my dream and i don't know why they were in SPS. I was kinda worried in my dream cause i didn't know what to do for reporting day. Chewlin and brenda and jiaying came in when i saw they were in aeroplane with no roof in the concourse and ready to go for an overseas school trip and juliet was telling me that the aeroplane was about to take off so i had to stand behind the yellow line. (Sounds familiar? And the funny thing is that there really is a yellow line at SPS to mark that no food was allowed beyond the yellow line:) After that i ate some rice for lunch from stall 2. As i was leaving the canteen i saw mrs wee and some other JPSLs at the learning circle and it turns out she was giving them a briefing on what to do for reporting day and what we were supposed to do was to wear our vests (which i haven't gotten yet in real life) and those black shoes for special occasions and i was thinking now how am i supposed to get them when reporting day is just tomorrow?!? And then chewlin and brenda and jiaying were waving to me from the plane that just took off. And then i woke up and realised that we were probably gonna be told what to do on reporting day during pre-orientation training and reporting day was NOT tomorrow so i relaxed.

(The writing in red is what nerd wrote.)

Guess where i'm at.
The free internet access station @ changi airport!
Bye:) The plane's gonna fly without me soon.

Did you know that i really, really, dread every single training? I'll be all whiney and sulky in the morning before training, and then during training, i'll be thinking to myself "This ain't so bad!". But no matter how many times i go through that dumb cycle, i still have the pre-training blues. Sad right?

There's one thing stuck in my mind right now.

Wanna guess what it is?

Ok here's a clue

E.

Here's another.

D.

And another.

W.

And another.

A.

If you are as obsessed with the series as i am, the answer would have just popped up in your mind when i gave the E away. For those poor deprived people who HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK *gaspgasp*, here's the answer:

E D W A R D C U L L E N

aka the vampire dude from Twilight. I don't know how Stephanie Meyer could make him so... ALIVE. I mean, people, or girls rather, all over the world are drooling over a non-existent character that only appears in text form. Maybe that's what makes her writing so great. And, try as i might, i just can't even IMAGINE how he looks but just READING about him makes him real enough. So real, yet so fake. As in so unbelievable. So unbelievably perfect.



Anyways i don't know what else to say and i don't want this post to get too embarrassing in an over-obsessed-fan way. So all i have to say is READ THE BOOK! And let yourself act like a daydreamy despo for awhile. It's alright. Me and the rest of the fan club would understand. :D

Guess who's back? Ahh this sentence is getting old.

Anyways genting was ok, not exceptionally fun, but ok. It's partially my fault because for some reason i decided to be super-emo those few days and i was like
h
g
i
h

then

l
o
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and ah well i found the flashing lights all over the place in the indoor theme park both annoying and depressing. Annoying because they were FLASHING LIGHTS and depressing because, like the CMPS people say, they were SUCKING loads of electricity away. Nerd was super annoyed with me for being such a wet blanket on the first day, going : I feel so emo man! and whining and everything. I mean me, not Nerd.

And during the trip, i found out that i have a fear of _____. Maybe it comes with being in a girl's school. AND i also found out that i feel insecure when
#1 I'm walking first in the line
#2 I'm not holding anything
#3 My hair is not tied up and i'm not at home, even when my hair is neat
#4 I'm wearing that pink sweater i wore at PSLTC. Funny how i felt ok then, but not now.
I don't think there's anything seriously wrong with me though, i don't go nut when i'm not holding anything, i just don't feel safe. Maybe like how high S people need security all the time.

This is if i start blabbing about DISC stuff again. When i took the DISC test i was like OHWOW so fascinated so i guess i have to at least explain what i talk about to people who didn't take the test before because i think you're gonna have to bear a lot more of that stuff.
DISC are different personality styles and the DISC test shows you an analysis of your personality. I took one at I.O. and another more detailed one at PSLTC. Nerd took one just today for some career guidance thingy.
D= Dominant, direct, decisive
I= Influential, interactive, interested in people
S= Steady, stable, secure
C= Correct, controlled, compliant
Guess what i am!

12th of november= baking for the children's home
12th of november= facilitating foreign scholar's orientation
12th of november= i won't be able to attend both of the above because i have to go to genting
RAWR
Somehow i just don't wanna go to genting this year anymore. And i don't know why. :(

PSB is love

Someone's back from PSLTC! And it was superduperly fun and enriching. :D

First of all, i just want to apologise to all the peeple i tried to (key word: tried to. meaning not necessarily succeeding in) comfort after the EYAs. Because during the counseling training, Ms Rona Tan was telling us about how NOT to counsel, and i am very sorry to say that i have done a lot of those stuff, eg. talking more than the counsel-ee. Yupp so sorry if any of you guys feel worse after my 'counseling sessions'. I'm really really sorry.

Ok back to PSLTC. Like i said, it was really fun and i still got to learn new stuff. AND i got to make lots and lots of friends! Like my SHIPMATES:

Ship Ahoy

Brenda is the high D in the ship, so she volunteers a lot and lots of times she takes the lead and she is not shy to contribute to the ship! And she sings canto opera really well too!

ChewLin was the sensiblest and sanest person left after SerYee and Sam left. And she is a great emo-er during the performance. "And you, you're just a bimbo!"

Desiree was kinda not feeling well, but she still contributed loads to the ship during the camp and she always has ideas! And she was both insane and sane, and it's really hard to strike a balance between the two, you know!

Janne is nice and very obsessed with Violet! " If only Violet were here, she'll know what to do!" Just kidding, not really, that was just part of our concert item. And her name is super cute. [JAN-NE] Just like her!

JiaYing is very funny esp when there's Nadia or the red crossers around. No offense, i just found you guys really cute when you all greet her :) Not including Nadia, cos Nadia doesn't greet her.

Samantha is very sweet and nice and also a lil' bit shy. And even though she didn't take the DISC test, we think she's a C so yes, we need extremely sane people in the ship like her too!

SerYee, the poor girl was not here for part 2 but after meeting her during part 1 i got to know her as a quiet girl but also very nice!

Ah so that's about it, my wunderful shipmates in a nut shell, but no ship's complete without
Facils
and the ones that are in this particular ship happen to be

Becca is super nice and i think the white specs make her look very cute and now whenever i think of her my brain associates her with GREEN shorts haha. And she taught us the beep-beebep-beep-beep little game!

MeiJia, the funny girl who loves food but is super thin! And she hate hugs, bad move telling us that, because we decided to force her into a group hug during initiation and unfortunately for her she wasn't armed with a badge to poke us with. And she draws well too!

Sharon is superhuman to be able to be the camp commander but still pay us the attention we need. I think she'll make a fantabulous RICHARD capt cos she's so nice! And she's both sensible and funny!

And there are many other PSLs who i have made friends with like duh, and they are all super nice and without them, camp wouldn't be fun, because what camp where there are no people be any fun right? Thanks for being great PSB erm mates! And MOST MOST importantly we have to thank our wunderful SPSLs for organising this camp!!! And Ms Rona Tan for training us in very important stuff that if i had not learnt i would cause a lot of damage to my sec 1 class. (yikes!)

Thanks to JeanHui's tuition teacher's squash toilet story, now whenever i go to any toilet, i drag my sister along to stand outside. Haha no just kidding, but i get this creepy feeling whenever i go to a room with a mirror in it. ~.~

Can't wait for reporting day!

If my blog could talk, this is what it'd say:

What is my purpose of my existence in this world man? Apparantly i'm supposed to be a thing for my creator to use to tell other people stuff, but oh yes guess what, my %&!*&^ creator updates me like, once in a thousand years? And even when she does update me, most of the time the stuff written on me is rubbish. Like this post. Because in case you haven't already guessed, she has no idea what to blog about so here she is pretending to know what i'm thinking. Whatevverrr.

Ok so it's MY TURN to talk.

#1
Last week of school.
I don't wanna be sec 2! I wanna stay in 101. I hear in sec 2 there will be lots of cliques. :( Sad reality.
BUT
Next year i get to make a sec 1 class bonded like how my PSLs made 101 so bonded and enthu! Although i'm not sure if it is possible for another class to be as enthu and ONEOHONE! But i shall try!

#2
BAKESALE!
I get to see my dear t3s again! And bake muffins!
ALRIGHT LISTEN UP EVERYBODY: BUY OUR GOODIES OR YE SHALL GET IT FROM ME.
But seriously, they're super duper yummy.

#3
PSB CAMP!
Yay PSB camp! [2nd & 3rd nov] Although honestly i think Ship Ahoy is still at the 'i know your name' part, not yet at the 'WHOOHOO WE ROCK MAN!' stage, as in, we're still not A GROUP. We're definitely a group, but not really A GROUP. D: Nevermind. Maybe things will get better during part 2?

The picture is cut off, but here's the missing part :I will STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY on 17th October 2007. Please join me. (And then the 'please join me' is supposed to be hyperlinked to http://community.livejournal.com/lacafetiere/2405.html)

It's the day for RGS to STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY! Y'know it's real great that students in RGS organise meaningful events, really.
Yay i'm so proud to be an Rafflesian! (clapclapclap)

Anyways
Yupp i think that it's real important that we bring this issue to the attention of world leaders. The fact that half the world is living in poverty is not to be ignored.

"The promise to end poverty inequality and hunger. The promise to stop children dying from preventable diseases. The promise to ensure basic education for all children, particularly girls. The promise to stop women dying during pregnancy and childbirth. The promise to provide water and sanitation and to protect the environment. The promise to provide more and better aid, fair trade and debt cancellation. The promise to achieve these goals by 2015. The promises that some of them [world leaders] have not kept." (taken from inet)

THE WORLD MUST STOP BREAKING PROMISES. PROMISES LIKE THIS. THE PROMISE TO HELP FEED THE STARVING, MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR THEM.

(Just like the promise should be kept to bring co2 levels down to 1994 standards. But that's a different story.)

So STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY!

HEY GUESS WHO'S BACK???
It's me! Annette!
YEAH RIGHT.

ANYWAYS
EOYs are officially overrrrr! Whee :D This is as good as post-PSLE, only better cos we don't have lessons. BUT there's still training so yeah i can't go home early.
THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO:
1. Netball carnival!
2. Camp!
3. Drama night!
4. I don't know, just the post-EOYs activities?

Woah i can't belieeeve i didn't update my blog for more than a month already. Before this i had a million things in my mind to blog about and now my mind is just -BLANK-. Happens every time, so you see why my blog posts are all so randomish and i-don't-know-what-i'm-talking-bout-just-filling-up-spaceish. Great i shall stop wasting time trying to blog and go waste time on facebook instead.