Hello potato has become my signature greeting, I think I picked it after Hello banana was dismissed. Hello potato rhymes better.

Typing in HTML is weird.

Meh watched New Moon with Lek, Dong and Bebe on Thursday hahaha it wasn't very good, maybe too slow for my liking. It was seriously the slowest full length I've ever watched. At the part where Bella confronts Jacob and they're both standing in the rain trying to form coherent sentences I couldn't help myself and burst out laughing because the melodrama was killing me. :D Good thing I stifled it or I would've ruined the scene for everyone else whoops. Haha so Bebe who was beside me heard and went "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING?" but I was laughing and couldn't answer properly so she joined in(: Awesomeness ttm!

Bebe got a nice fringe she looks really cute now! But it's only gonna last for December. After that it's back to neat Nan Hua plaits and pinned up fringes):
P.S. Phoebe Yip if you're reading this Lek and I have found some blackmail-worthy pictures of you in your house when you were out, and muahahaha.

TI'10 is nearly over! Reading Germ's post made me remember how we all felt when TI'09 was over and I remember all of us in the hallway outside our dorms and all the sec 3s hugging Ben and getting chased back into our rooms by Hong Laoshi and all finding our luggages too small for our stuff and how when we finally got back to Singapore the first thing we did was organize a mass convo which I had to leave because I was burning hot from the sudden climatic transition (if that's a way to say it). So anyways nothing really ever beats TI'09 for real (:

1. I like Scrubs. It's not super funny, but it's... nice.
2. I wanna go back to Christmas Island someday. Maybe see if I could stand living there for a few weeks. Drastic change of pace?
3. I miss living in Suzhou. I don't get why I didn't miss it as much when I first left, but now I really do.
4. I should go to sleep now.
5. Every point before this one was written starting with an 'I'.
6. I think that means I'm self centered.
7. There goes another one.
8. My to-do list isn't of much help.
9. I have 2 films and 2 montages to complete before the holidays are up.
10. I'm being a horrible RICE deputy. Been gone for too long counting crabs in CI, so Evan's been doing a lot D: D: D:
11. Goodbye.

Hello internet I am back from sleepy little Christmas Island. In comparison to that place, Singapore life is a never ending mad rush. Goodness and we see the same people everywhere because there are like 1504 citizens or something so people can hold 3-4 jobs easily. Plus no stress. Everything closes in the early afternoon for lunch, and everyone knocks off at 9pm. Ms Tan said she'd go mad living there for more than a week because life there is too slow.

I counted three people in CIDistrictHighSchool with glasses. Three out of a possible 250. And 80% of Singaporean males aged 18 and up are myopic. D:

I love that place and it's simplicity (: Except for the gazillion Aedes mosquitoes, poor Glace Rim is spotted all over from bites! Yeah and living in the lodge was quite awesome haha singing Mamma Mia/Don't Trust Me/New Perspective with Grace till late at night, playing Tap Tap, crashing Steph and Lynn's room, buying Aussie candy, camwhoring etc. AWESOME :D

And 27th November is officially Two-Ponytail Day! I think we should start a two-ponytail fad sometime and drive the nation wild :D

PSLTC yesterday (: I don't feel like giving details because I'd end up typing another ridiculously long post, and I hate chunks of text. So all I'll say is I hope the J/PSLs did learn what we set out to teach them, and I hope they're excited about the coming year!

Christmas Island in 31 hours! I haven't started packing. Sheesh okay I'll do it... later tonight.

I love classic Disney movies. Not Camp Rock or stuff like that, just the normal 2D animated stuff. Of course the new movies are great too, but nothing beats the stuff from the '90s, especially the music.
Aladdin was just on Disney channel! Lek was over while it was on, she says it's only her second time watching it, I practically know it by heart. Janne says Jasmine is the hottest Disney girl. I disagree, I think Megara is the hottest and Jasmine comes in a close second.

A roll of char siew chee cheong fun is only 65 calories. Remember that.

I've never watched Scrubs. But this song I stumbled upon from My Musical (the episode where this woman who ends up in the hospital sees everything musical-form) is so nice (:





Now I think watching Scrubs would be a fabulous idea.

Hello I am back again because as you may or may not know, I tend to write very long posts so to avoid having ugly big chunks on my blog I split my posts. Yes so anyways, after (a)parallel and Meg's "I'm not good at anything" speech I have been thinking about fortes and how it seems most people know their fortes quite well (if you watch HSM you'll know what I mean). Like how my Grandma can sing well and my Grandpa can do business stuff well and my cat can sleep very, very well.
So then I was thinking, do I have a forte? Then I thought maybe not, because I do not have a fabulous singing voice, I cannot run as fast as I would like to, I am not particularly charismatic, and I certainly do not rock at blogging. So I decided to settle for trying to be good, which is...good enough. Or I could be good at being average, if that sounds better. :D

So today me, Giwon, Julia, Persa, Amanda, Verna, Cat, Charm, Chanel and Yufei turned up for school. (That sentence is grammatically unsound but whatever.) That's 33.3333333333...% of 307.
Hooray!
Uhm so the school day was composed of Malay dance, violin and guitar duets, cute Australian song, bridge, Chanel's creative bidding strategies, clay, koping food from sec 2 ACP, screaming, CCA photos, singing aloud and well, all the usual. Life is pretty good.

Oh yes RachelTan and I went to meet Andy again love love love his office yay! And we got Juan Foo as our film mentor! (If you don't know Google him:) Spent an hour and a half reviewing our entry and talking about how to re shoot certain scenes, tidy some stuff up and I got goosebumps watching that piece of work again esp. when Juan un-muted the music because there were so many obvious flaws. I am pretty glad that we get a second chance at this thingum.

My blog is boring TTM so I will say something exciting. HAORONG AND HAOYU ARE COMING TO RGS. Yes, they are. I BET YOU DON'T KNOW THEM. Okay I phail at exciting.
I will say something else that is exciting. I WORE A PRETTY DRESS TODAY. Gawk and gasp all you like, people. Okay fine maybe I'll give up exciting and continue being boring.

Hello so a lot has been happening lately and most of it fun (:

Yesterday was fun! Had PSB Night practice in school at 11 it's gonna be awesomeeeeee and I will NOT bust my shin this year. Oh choir concert was great too, I can't sing like those kids can. They totallaye deserved a GWH!

OH AND AFTER THAT I MET MY MOM AND DONG AND LEK AND BEBEYIP. Dong, Lek and Bebe were swimming at Safra when I arrived and we drove to Seletar Country Club for Brendan Lau's birthday. Imagine a one year old having a birthday banquet in the ballroom complete with blown up banners of himself and WAITERS running around refilling glasses. Cool eh? And guess which crew turned up wearing shorts and T shirts? Nobody seemed to really care, at least.

Then after that drove to Sembawang park where we did monkey bars and the swings plus volleyed a green balloon from the party. Bebe and Lek got addicted to Oven Break on my phone.

Today went to Changi Airport to send the TI people off but guess what I was late so only Germaine was still outside the departure gates ): Well at least I didn't go for nothing! HAVE FUN IN TAIWAN, PEOPLE! GERM REMEMBER THE SARSAPARILLA AND TELL ME ABOUT THE OTHER TI KIDS SO I CAN FB STALK THEM ALL.

Jiayun, TZY, Ben and Ryan were there too, but Ryan had to leave. So I followed Jiayun to the foodcourt to watch Ben and Zhiyuan eat their lunch. Ben says the strange guy who asked me to be his friend the day before was a perv who made the news before.

Jiayun: Different people have different interests. Mine are eating and sleeping!

Dodgeball was fun today! Was supposed to ref but we didn't have enough players so the refs played too. Haha it's like slacking and laughing and screaming and throwing and jumping and more laughing. Awesome IHG. If nobody organises it next year I WILL COMPLAIN (:
And Richardson owned IHGs yay! But I guess it was kinda more for fun this time because it's only among sec 3s so haha just hope everyone had fun today. Winning feels goood though :D
Took some pics with housemates. You know I Never Knew Wanshuen Was In Richardson whoops.

Netcarn tomorrow we're (again) unprepared but can't wait! Netball is fun.

Karaoke was pretty fun. Smrithi was awesome as MJ and Alanna's beatboxing was super cool! Aha and we didn't prepare much but at least we went up there and finished the song?

The less you eat, the more you gain!
Yes, dude, there is a grain of truth in there. So today I made myself eat lunch in an attempt to un-screw my screwed metabolism. I think most of the stuff we do (or don't do) is habitual.

Argh this foreign number called and I accidentally rejected the call and was blur enough to call back WITH MY HANDPHONE only to find that it was some (assumed) person from China who called the wrong number D:

Emily, Gloria and Zi En are at AMK hub eating durian pancakes haha.

Okay I admit I have nothing interesting to tell the world as of now.

HELLO BLOGGER. I AM BACK!

For those who don't know, I went on a blogger/msn/fb ban before the EYAs. To end on November 1st. So here I am (:

Oh dear it's like November already aren't we all getting old? I was in the car the other day and I concluded my childhood was prematurely and forcefully ended with the onset of something called SECONDARY SCHOOL. RARR.

Yeap so Penang was pretty okay but since mom was there playing property agent I didn't do anything much but mooch around and provide free labour. First step to taking over Eunikem haha nah kidding. Oh and Jillian is cute TTM! Her favourite words are Mama, Papa and WHEEE. Like when we're sitting in the car she'll randomly go WHEEE. And once she put a wool scarf under one foot and discovered how slidey (not a real word) it was to walk like that so she went WHEEE while tottering around the house. And everyone says I looked and acted just like her when I was 2 too haha.

Me: She's such a happy little baby (: (:
Mom: You were like that once, until you turned into this tired old lady.

Aw.

Julia is 6 but she wears the clothes I wore when I was 10. Oh and she's smart, you can tell she learned how to speak watching Playhouse Disney because she says things like "There you go again!" which is pretty funny-amusing.

Karaoke tomorrow! Oh dear. Aha have very little prepared but last minute work is always the best. At least for me. 307!

EYAs coming soon!

Oh no physics physics physics = die ): Hopefully can scrape through with a 2.8 at least. It's not that awesome but it's okay considering the state of my physics grade right now.

If I didn't go for TI, I think I'd hate Chinese, but I did so I don't hate Chinese. I mean, isn't it better to like something you're struggling with than hate it? :D

Haha went to extra at the TI'09 meeting at the flagpole (: feels good to be a generation ahead. With the backpack, too.

Credits to Ryan Seah for nudging me to update.

OK I know I've been ignoring this blog (:

IHG cheer cum dance was awesome! RGS Cheerleaders are cool. And and you can really see they're enjoying themselves up there despite the smallish audience.

Lynn: We are BOOMZ dynamite
We are not RAD, or KHAKI, we are BLUE

Haha, Lynn (: You're a great capt even with your evil plans and stuff! Oh yeah and Richardson had a good crowd! Plus I think the biggest house comm. THANK YOU ONE AND ALL FOR COMING<3


And today on the 980 I met Shen Laoshi. I was like trying to remember the last time I saw her, and I realised it was LAST JULY. JULY 11. GYM COMP. Wow.

She said hi and stuff and asked me how I was and I struggled to gather my thoughts and express them in borderline-understandable Chinese. I was half waiting for her to tell me I got fatter since last comp (because I think I did) but it never came and I was strangely disappointed but then realised Why would she even say that in the first place?

And I really really really miss all the gym people that I haven't seen for so long e.g. awesome IJTP gymmers ): And I remember I thought Shen Laoshi was scary the first training with her in E block but of course that never stuck (:

Today was a good day

Ah gosh just came back from j8 where we attempted lit PT (: Key word: attempted. Hey at least we tried!

And I'm gonna leave the house in 15 minutes for piano at CCK oh man I can't believe exam is Monday and I'm not freaking out.

And I'm a wreck right now all because I didn't cool down after running yesterday. Like my feet were burning hot and I had to stick them in ice water. And my hands were trembling at dinner. But it's all good now. Almost (: I don't wanna go for piano. But I must. So bye.

Today was a good day (:

Met the TI kids again but this time there were only hmm 9 of us? So spent most of the day at Bishan Active where the guys played basketball for most part. I got 2 blisters from the monkey bars. One is broken and ouch it hurts like crazy now. Not to mention how gross it is. AND I NEVER GET BLISTERS FROM ROPE. Wow. Did a bit of practice shooting. Phail rate was like 95% whoops gotta do something about that. Oh then Jiayun came.

jia yun is awesome (:

Jia yun says: (8:42:20 PM)
u are too of course
jasmine says: (8:44:00 PM)
yay!

And then Yinxin came some time later on so Jiayun and Yinxin and I talked a lot. YES HAHA JIAYUN YOU ARE AWESOME (: AND YINXIN IS ALSO AWESOME (: And oh yes it was freakishly hot today. Like now my arms are a little red, but not burnt. And I stubbed my toes against the walls of my sneakers a lot so now they hurt too. Lousy sneakers D:

Sooo later on went to J8 to eat. At this point in time Yinxin and Jiayun decided to pangseh me and Zhiyuan joined in. And Marcus got his present! That giant plastic milk bottle thing with a monkey inside (:

Uh okay so after that we split.

edit:
Jotdan wants to be awesome too so Jotdan is awesome! Haha kidding I know it's you, Jordan. How on earth did your finger slip to the T on the keypad -.- Anyways since you (indirectly) asked for that
YES, JORDAN IS AWESOME TOO(:

Oh and just so everyone else (who is not Jiayun or Yinxin or Jordan) doesn't feel left out
YOU'RE AWESOME TOO(:

Holidays! As expected, the to-do list has been growing and growing at a healthy rate (: Or maybe ):

I don't know. Both?

So I have a lot of math to catch up on considering I missed another all-important lesson (aren't they all?) on Thursday and I spent most of Friday's struggling to copy all the worksheet answers down (the relief teacher writes amazingly fast on whiteboard). Yeah and doing rubbish with Emily and Zi En like going "I UNDERSTAND! HAH!" and then finding that the time you had taken off to exclaim your ecstasy significantly set you back for the next question. Emily says specs make me look intellectual.


And and I hate that I ran so much today but I don't feel accomplished AT ALL because I could've gone faster and as a result of my slackness I don't even feel like I ran at all. In fact, I think I just let myself jog most of the time ): Shall go read Pearl Izumi's Running Preservation book for motivation for tomorrow(: http://www.wearenotjoggers.com/home#/book/
That's really good stuff.


"A long time ago, I was on the verge of committing suicide when a guy came to the roof to have lunch. He saw me climbing over the railing and asked me to share his lunch with him. After receiving my puzzled look, he explained, “everyone should die happy. or at least with a full stomach.” We celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last month. GMH."
Wow.
In case you're wondering, GMH=Gives Me Hope (http://www.givesmehope.com)


I love how Motion City Soundtrack can actually perform lyrics that wouldn't otherwise have looked like lyrics. And make them really good. So much better than Breaking Free, which couldn't really hide the strange lyrics as well. I mean, it sounds good if you don't pay attention to the way the lines don't really flow like how they're supposed to but if you do it's pretty ...
So anyways I liked Hold Me Down by MCS. If you look at the video on YouTube the comments section has become a breakup advice help forum haha which is pretty cool. And which also proves how great MCS is at writing songs.

I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down
You'd think I ought to be used to that by now
Save for a few of those late night episodes, missed opportunities, And I don't cares; There's not a lot that I feel obliged to share or talk about
I'll have my brothers stop by this Saturday to pick up my things
Just make sure you're not there
This may sound bad and don't take it the wrong way

I mean, does this LOOK like a song to you? And yet it sounds sooo good! Or maybe just to me (: Now I finally understand why breakups make for such great songwriting material. Separate Lives, Goodbye Love etc. all great breakup songs.

Haven't seen my SPS friends for such a long time. Saw SIX of them today (: Beckham, Dillon, Jason, Jiaqing, Rachel and Wenxiang (in alphabetical order!). We went to Causeway and stuff. The movie couldn't play so now I have 2 free tickets wheeee! Maybe I'll go watch Up cause Yao Yuan said it was awesome. Who's with me?
Yeah so now all the guys are taller than I am. Sad, right? But if it was the other way round it'd be even sadder. But everyone's pretty much the same. Rachel says I've acquired an accent. And my Chinese is still weird as ever haha actually I think it got worse since I went to RG.
And Beckham lost her iPhone! So we went back to the empty theater to look for it thank goodness iPhones don't have silent, only vibrate! Dillon felt the seat vibrating and pried the cushion off and ta-dah there it was. The epitome of awesomeness. Don't we all love happy endings (:
Apparently I'm already pretty tall for a girl and RGS girls are not accurate gauges for girl height. But I still have to catch up with Nerd and Jordan at least! 4cm more!

On Wednesday, a bunch of Zien's debate juniors decided I had the dao look and that it was likely that I am a basketballer.

HAHAHA IT'S OKAY GO AHEAD AND LAUGH I LAUGHED TOO (:

Seriously, nobody's ever told me I looked like a basketballer in my life! Plus, I bet the fact that I was wearing a black hoodie influenced my dao factor significantly. But then again, it was a PSB hoodie with a big pink heart and a pink girl in front.

Whee I'm actually bothering to update!

School has been pretty good and I haven't been on MC for more than 4 weeks :D Cool, huh? But then again I've never been a sickly kid and this year's MCs were mostly used to cover for a certain mental hiccup. I promise I am sane now. I think. Well at least saner than I was 4 weeks ago, I guess. And I slept for 13 hours last Saturday! Before that I was too tired to even try to look alive when everyone was eating those funny Japanese desserts at MOF. I sat there biting on a metal teaspoon and stoning.

People are stealing my running route! I'll be nice and share. Anyways it's for the greater good (:

Be Yourself Day is coming up! Theme for this year is AMBITION. Well, when Dong was still in Wellington and the theme was AMBITION, she went as a cute little witch -.- She still has a badge with that photo on it. HAHA so cute right. She was p1 then I think.

Anahi Sosa is so cute! Haha random. She's my height. And 4kg lighter.

I like Mr Tan's blog. He writes really well, and I always appreciate good writing. (: A talent I have not acquired/developed thus far. Oh well (:

I tear big(ger) sushi apart and eat the rice grains in little bites. Something I discovered on Saturday at Nihon Mura. Oh and Spritzer vitamin water is too sweet for my liking plus it contains like 35g of sugar which made me go !?!?! And it made me thirsty! Which is sort of a good thing I guess because water is good.

Disclaimer: All that is written below is purely In My Humble Opinion (:

This makes sense.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html

My ever supportive (cough) sisters Nerd and Dong were telling me how disgusting it is that I have more muscle than they have (but in truth that's not a lot of muscle anyways) and my mom says girls were made to be soft but I say I can't stand it when I'm on the bus and I see these soft-looking skinny girls because I'd be thinking "Weak. ". And even my dad decides to side with the rest of them and he says there is nothing wrong with being feminine if you're a girl but I say there is a Difference between being feminine and being soft.

And there's no fun in there being alive and healthy if you can't run fast, can't jump high, can't play hard etc. etc. (: But then again maybe those skinny girls are secretly really strong! And maybe some other person on the bus is looking at me and thinking "Weak.". Haha.

Yay so today was a good day like I predicted (:

National day celebrations were fun and messy and stuff and nobody actually followed the seating arrangements in the end luh 'cause we were too busy playing mass volleyball with giant inflatable beach balls thrown at us. And I screamed at Amanda Low so much I'm sure she's going to say Huh? a lot on Tuesday haha well SOMEBODY has to make her wake up! Uh, not that it really worked because Amanda is a stubborn kid.

Yay then after a pretty long but enriching meeting I bravely set out into the Great Perhaps of Bishan. Not that Bishan's hard to get around. So I met Tok Yin Xin the lost sheep at the platform of Bishan MRT and we went up to the bus stop and, while awaiting the arrival of our other acquaintances slash friends, talked about gym training and stuff (mostly hers because you know...) and how the ex-artgym coach would look right at home with the mafia. And random stuff I guess.

After having gathered and wandered about Bishan for half an hour, we ended up back at RI where it all began. Yeah so spent about 1.5h there playing bball. And I fouled like 10489284375982 times 'cause I completely forgot about the rules and stuff and treated the whole thing like Netball (and they are very different, trust me). Haha so as I (very) slowly remembered what we learnt in sec 2 PE everything started to seem so starkly embarrassing :O You can tell that bball and I aren't exactly close friends. More like some random kid you see on the bus every once in a while. Yeah. Sorry everyone who had to put up with this ):

And I think the guys were good (:

The sec 4s were all on one team and it was pretty cute you can see this routine developing like Mabel-->Cuier-->Lin-->hoop (:

Poor Yinxin was feeling listless so I told her to eat a banana and peanut butter sandwich because I had one for breakfast. (SEE FRIENDS I ACTUALLY EAT!)

So the sec 4s left and Jiayun came along only to have me and Yinxin abandon her despite her efforts at keeping us here another hour by somehow convincing us with a picture of a little kid and a stuffed toy or something. Aw poor Jiayun ): But we really had to leave you.

Haha so on the MRT train Yinxin and I mass smsed everyone who made our day happier with bball (: Yeah and today I decided bball is actually more fun than netball. (For now at least!) Weird huh. But I'll probably change my mind again tomorrow anyways.

Oh yes and I Must stop saying "SHOOT!" every time I try to score and fail because that's just unneccessarily bimbotic.

So thanks everyone who made my day from 7.20am to 3.15pm haha (:

So this week's been pretty okayish except that I haven't been running at all. Not even like short-sprints-running-ly running. I fell asleep yesterday when I was supposed to be running ): This is baaaad and I'm publicising this stuff so I can't slack off anymore or else the whole wide world wide web will know and go ORHHOR.

Yay tomorrow will be a fun day (:
Off to philo

202nd post (: How appropriate.

Okay so I just logged on to iNet and I HAVE TO POST THIS:

GO FOR TI'09. SERIOUSLY, YOU WON'T REGRET IT(: Plus 3 weeks sounds like a really long time, but last year ours was 4 weeks and it wasn't even that long because you're so busy (life in Taiwan is really interesting:) time just whoooshes by. Don't let this opportunity slip through your fingers! I almost backed out now I'm so glad I didn't. And don't worry if your Chinese is rubbish (like mine) because the classes there are actually quite fun!

If you're a sec 2/sec 3 Chinese/HCL student from RGS, here's the iNet link:
http://inet.rgs.edu.sg/school/students/Lists/Student%20News/DispForm.aspx?ID=1598

And if you don't believe me, read my archives I think there are a few posts I posted when I was in TI.

Uh, ignore the parts about me being stressed out. I was overreacting and I think I was the only one like that?

GO MY FRIENDS. SIGN UP.

Yasmin Ahmad is gone ): For those who don't know, she's this Malaysian director and IMHO she's really really good. She made that funeral commercial (the one with the Indian woman) too. Search Tan Hong Min In Love on YouTube that one's cute (:

Meanwhile here's another good commercial if you read the YouTube comments everyone cried watching it. I didn't though (?)

Back to math.

You know, this bio PT should be super easy for a Greenie like me because everything about climate change and environment's already ingrained in my Greenie brain.

But putting it down on Pages is a different matter altogether I guess. I could stand in front of the panel and argue to the ends of the earth but I can't make a dumb little propaganda pamphlet now how sad is that.

On the bright side, Fearful Symmetry's final performance was FUN (: But I've been missing so much school (because of my mental-physical health saga, tech rehearsal and the actual performance) poor Parisa has been keeping all my notes and worksheets and I have a LOT to catch up on. Not to mention campaigning.

But OPTIMISM is the way to go so I can do it(:

Hey(: Sorry I daoed so many people today or stared at you all but didn't respond or anything when you said hi. I was feeling pretty horrible today morning and still a bit mad a myself for getting myself into this state of mental health.

But I feel. So much better (: Yay! Sleep is awesome. So I shall sleep soon and wake up really early yay!

And you know that Doberman wasn't rabid, in fact it was sleeping and curled up in the corner but I just HAD to go to it and stick my finger in front of its nose so it bit my finger and now it's chasing me and whattaya know when it stops I'll probably do the same thing all over again.

Sorry I've been whining to everyone, life is perfectly fine and fair I guess to most extent, I am too, just not to myself. (: Ah. Well.

AHHHH LIFE IS CHASING ME LIKE A RABID DOBERMAN and I have a thermometer stuck in my mouth even though I'm not sick and I'm crossing my eyes trying to read the numbers so I just typed a post without looking at the screen.

Okay now I'm looking at the screen and I have no idea what's happening to me :O Oh yes and today I got my first major migraine hooray! It lasted approximately 9 hours too. So when Vic was telling me all her amusing RGPS stories I was clutching my forehead and laughing at the same time. Laughter kills (:

Haha shall stop feeling sorry for my little problems GET WELL SOON BEN AND RYAN! 

AHHH SHAO AND RACHEL ARE RIGHT I AM A FREAKY PERFECTIONIST! Aw man if I weren't I would've been asleep by now.
(but not all the time because i only get perfectionistic over things worth getting perfectionistic over)

Uh. No sports fest ): (LONG JUMP LONG JUMP LYNN STEPH DO YOU HEAR ME?) Aww but the poor cheerleaders have been working so hard until H1N1 came in! Today I got to experience the exhilaration of bringing a plate of noodles out of the canteen and eating it in the Koi Pond right next to a prefect (who was also eating) since now the tables stretch all the way there. Life is just getting. Weird. As in I understand why we're doing this but it's just strange.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=106347901916&ref=mf

And yes, it's true that I'm now Freaky Fifteen (: Haha wow. Life moves soooo fast. Last time I woke up, I was like. Five. But this year's birthday was pretty full of awesomeness <3

Haha so it all started with the insurance agent cake on Friday. Then I met Germanium at NLB at 10.30pm that night because we were really nice and decided to go join Jor at his reading marathon thing. Haha I think I'll just start koping excerpts from their posts (: But Germ's blog doesn't show her older posts ): Oh man.

"after that went to NLB where two AWESOME FRIENDS were there haha jazzy and gerMEANIE hahaha x) they were like there to support me haha cool right? EVERYONE ALL JEALOUS SIOL XD" 

HAHA yes we're totallaye awesome right.

So me and Germ spent the night (or morning) MARATHON STONING! Like walking to 7 eleven and getting nothing, talking rubbish, trying hard to concentrate on Math and Chinese but failing miserably. Not to mention Germ was a little drunk for a while there. 

Ahh so that ended at about 7.30 am and the three of us stumbled our way to Bugis Junction again. Took a trip to the mrt station then turned back and went to Starbucks! At this point Germ got high and started laughing at EVERYTHING me and Jor said. HAHA and I suggested we go ask the caucasian people at Starbucks for the way back to VEGAS! Too bad they left before one of us could do that. Jor and Germ were calling Rachel for some Urgent Matter.

Then somehow we ended up in Cathay but everything was still closed! Including the escalator. So we stoned around the escalator for a while 

"than jazzy go crazy and threw her purse around xD until e security guard scold us :P"

Not really like SCOLD us, more like GAVE US THE LOOK. Oh yes and it was a hp pouch.

Then we stoned around the empty fountain "waiting for Ben & Jerry's to open" and I got pretty restless and went hopping around the basement/trying to do double pirouettes and failing (duh)/doing lit/watching my friends morph into daylight zombies/wondering what on earth was actually going on and why Germ seemed to know something I DIDN'T!

Haha then we took the lift to the cinema and by that point, all of us were completely drained and zombified. Me and Germ flopped down on a couch and the TI people JUMPED UP BEHIND US and Germ screamed like super loud! HAHA and she knew they were there! I was kind of. Stunned. Because my brain wasn't really functioning I guess haha so I didn't scream until after I put 2 and 2 together and realised what was going on. AWESOME RIGHT (: (: Watched Duplicity which was pretty sick and spent half to movie laughing at everyone screaming at Rachel whenever sick parts came up. HAHA IT'S OKAY RACHEL THAT WAS FUNNY (:

Then Jor treated me and Germ to B&Js as promised (: (: (: Gosh B&Js is so super duper sweet but also super duper awesome! Everyone ended up in PS and had an escalator picnic like the hobos we were. HAHA had a brief episode of supermarket searching with Germ then my zombie friends had to go home ): After that Huiqun, Sarah, Rachel and I hid in Marks and Spencers from the guys. Poor things haha! Then I had a present presentation ceremony in the middle of PS haha thanks guys! AND SARAH... X) But I was kinda glad to go home soon after that because staying awake for 33 hours straight is seriously no joke. 

TAIWAN IMMERSION KIDS AND GERMAINIUM ARE AWESOME (: (: Really really didn't suspect a thing! Haha special thanks to Jor and Germ for putting up with my rubbish for 33 hours!

THEN THE NEXT DAY JOR SMSED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY. HAHAHA IT WASN'T MY BIRTHDAY FOR ANOTHER 2 DAYS X) 

Birthday yesterday was awesome I don't remember there having been so many birthday wishes for all my other past birthdays thanks guys you're awesomenesssss! VERNA is soooo sweet I tell you awwww loved your gift and card thanks! And and YUFEI MANDY ZIEN GERMAINE chipped in for a gift too thanks! And my fabulous darling 105 and CLASSICS!!!!!!! Haha that was CLASSIC, Nisha and Jo-Ann luring me downstairs to "meet yimin" and Minchih "losing her wallet"! YES I'm using the awesome wallet you guys gave me love you all you're the coolest sec one class this year I insist (: And my darling deskmate Parisa giving me a note telling me that I can feel free to tell her to "SHUT THE **** UP" whenever she asks too many Maths questions haha Parisa I think I ask more questions than you lah!

Then Leko came over and we had classic birthday camwhoring and cake (:

And and yesterday having yet another semi-philosophical completely-random convo, I came up with the solution to all rhetorical emo questions: the only way to stop asking yourself rhetorical emo questions is to MAKE an answer. And -POOF- there you have it (:

Now I will attempt to answer your emo queries HAHA:

Q. What am I doing here? (variations include Why am still in this world, What is the point in me being alive etc. etc.)
A. Answer it yourself. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Are you here to help people, to sing to dance to live life, to learn and pass on this knowledge? DON'T WAIT FOR THE ANSWER TO FALL FROM THE ACORN-SATURATED SKY. (Quote from The Suite Life: You are the pilot of your own life!)

Q. If I'm gone, will anybody even care? (variations include Nobody will care if I'm dead, so why shouldn't I be, Why am I here taking up precious space I should just be gone etc.etc.)
A. This one is trickier. But so far the best answer I've come up with is that You Wouldn't Know. I mean seriously, you wouldn't know unless you faked your death or something. So instead of pondering this one over, a better use of your time would be to go out there, and make someone happy. You'll be glad you did, and you'll understand why this question is simply unanswerable. To make your life worth something to others, you have to show others their lives are worth something to YOU(: Make someone else feel valuable, instead of worrying over the value of your life.

Yeah so you get what I mean.
Instead of asking yourself all these questions, ANSWER them yourself! It's your life, anyways (:




So now I'm sitting at the dining table with my parents and an insurance agent who just bought me a birthday cake HAHA cool right!

Okay I guess I should get to work now.

And the sad thing is that people who are crazy don't know they are crazy or maybe they're not really crazy just that everyone else thinks they are crazy but they don't know it. And that maybe it's the people who think other people are crazy who are really the crazy ones and that the people they call crazy are really the non crazy ones and blah blah blah

I don't wanna be fifteen. I don't want to remember the date. I don't want anyone to remember. But maybe I'm just like that today and I'd change my mind tomorrow.

Germaine and Jor want to crash my house next week (: (: (: Germaine's still in quarantine oh well poor kid.

Doing open house feedback forms. Because I know if I get it done I'll be super happy and it'll totallaye make my day. (Is it day if it's 3 in the morning?)

Anyways I'm proud of myself for having gotten back into running after being such a slacker for goodness like 4 months (tsktsk) PLUS I found a better route that takes me to that 3M building that's supposed to be on the road to Woodlands. And the path isn't as ugly and big and bare as the one at the hardcourt where we used to rollerblade. Only thing is that I was worried I might get bitten by killer mosquitoes but ta-dah guess what, I came back bite-free :) So while the rest of Sembawang is either running at the very boring hardcourt path or getting carbon monoxide-ed running round the blocks, I'll be the smart kid running the longer-but-cooler route to the awesome 3M building so HAH!

What reeks is that I still have to go through the hardcourt path on the way back because it's actually also part of the route if you wanna complete a circle.

I wonder how long I can keep this run-almost-every-evening thing up. Until I get H1N1 or something, I guess. THE SPANISH FLU IS A STRAIN OF H1N1 :O Yeah and there are 454 cases now and we're all looking forward to many more in the coming term how lame is that. Mortality is super duper low at least. But still.

MSN is a powerful thing:

Thanks Ben for the feedback form tips and EMPATHY :)

And thanks Claw for your jiayous. We really must get that Claudia pizza for your before we graduate!

And thanks Fang for motivating me to start chem :D :D

And thanks Jor for amusing me while I'm up doing work when people should be sleeping!

Ahhh Michael Jackson is gone Michael Jackson is gone. So surreal it's like how you know an earthquake happened in Sumatra but just sit home and watch the news and stuff and go Oh, Okay.

Uhh I don't know what to think of this. But at the same time it's like Anna Nicole Smith dying in 2007. Like Oh, Okay.

But somewhere right now someone dies silently, and nobody even bothers thinking of that person. I guess fame makes people you don't know feel like they know you, and they miss you when you're gone.

Still, to those that the world misses terribly, and to those the world doesn't miss, goodbye.

AHHH WHAT DID I JUST POST. I don't want to live in a HIV community! And I don't think anyone deserves to live in a HIV community! Get that straight. It's like staring in wonderment at WWII if you get where I'm coming from.

Aww man I'm confusing myself again. Over a movie I have not watched.

"This is Calcutta. Bohemia is dead."
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!"

You wanna play?
Let's run away
We wont be back
Before it's Christmas Day
Take me out tonight

Ahh i'm like ADDICTED to Out Tonight from RENT! It's so ironic this no lifer in the Practically Perfect land of Singapore is so fascinated with bohemia and everything associated with it. But you know, maybe it's these broke drugged artistes that are more human than anything else. Uhh okay maybe I'm just sick of everyone being too fortunate for their own good.

Oh wow look at the time.

How do you compose Bhangra music with GarageBand it is infuriating how they only have western instruments here. Uh but then again how often does the need for original Bhangra music arise?

HEEHEE GERMAINE WE SHOULD RENT RENT RIGHT? Haha :) Uhh but I think it's NC-16 I saw a copy in Sun Plaza some time ago I think. Haha would my mom rent RENT for me? It's PG-13 in the US :( But I can get the soundtrack I guess. Mom couldn't find it in Vietnam aww.\

But that's probably a good thing because I change tastes all the time so getting the soundtrack won't satisfy me for more than uhm 1-2 years? The other day I was listening to my iPod and I skipped 50% of the songs because they were lame like The Corrs and Kelly Clarkson both of whom I've gotten sick of long ago but didn't have the heart to delete from my playlist hah.

Haha on the other hand, I've been listening to RENT songs faithfully on Youtube for two days now while doing other stuff.

RENT is rock opera genius awesome songs (: (: (: Too bad it's NC16/M18 I don't know and plus it's not really what people call blockbuster cinema. I don't remember the movie making it to Singapore in 2005 even. Even though I remember something about Karen Mok doing Mimi for the musical asian tour and they came to Singapore some years back.

Ughh GarageBand is weird to the max but no choice cause we're not allowed to use copyrighted music and I don't think we can compose Bhangra music on the piano now, can we?

Ahhh I feel evil today I feel evil today I feel evil today I feel evil today

GUESS WHAT. THE "DEAD FISH" ISN'T REALLY DEAD. IT'S BEEN STRUGGLING FOR A WEEK NOW GO FISH GO DO OTHER FISHES PROUD! 

Wow how do you survive without food. In any case, I'm mighty glad it's not dead and the other fish isn't eating it.

You know it's the 21st century when people have virtual catfights:

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:03 PM)

hehe

the real jasmine says: (9:23:09 PM)

what's sho funny huhh

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:12 PM)

haha

the real jasmine says: (9:23:14 PM)

wanna fight?

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:18 PM)

nothing =D

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:22 PM)

bim fight!

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:27 PM)

*slap*

the real jasmine says: (9:23:33 PM)

*claw*

the real jasmine says: (9:23:36 PM)

RARR

Haha yeah even the glory of catfights is replaced by verbs sandwiched in between apostrophes.

:(
It's so painful watching an animal die.
There are two angelfish in the fish tank now. But one is dead. So I got the net and tried to fish it out so I could flush it away but arghhh I couldn't stand it so now it's still lying there like the dead fish in NTUC. Except I'm not afraid of going near NTUC fish because they weren't from my fish tank.
Rarr okay I guess I have to bring myself to do it somehow if not the other fish will eat the corpse and it'll get even harder to go near the fish tank. :( :(
I think it's more SIGHHH than EWWW. Aww but fishy had a good life. It had a long life too :D
R.I.P. fishy hope you find a nice longkang or river in heaven where you can swim around again. Sorry for daoing you a lot. Have a nice afterlife with your fishy friends.

Homg it's like birdy. Poor birdy you were recovering so well and then you just died.

birth. day.

I
don't want
my birthday to
be a big deal anymore.
Because growing old
is just
sad.

But
last year
my birthday was
right before gym comp
and my bestest XJT mates
gave me a surprise
and I thank
them for
that.

But
this year
I think I'm
way too tired to
even think of
celebrating
my

Birthday.




HAHA I'M A GREAT CONCRETE POET. Whuteverr.

But seriously, birthdays are fun and stuff yeah, but you reach a point (or age lah for that matter) where you're too busy to remember it.
And I came close to that last year. I almost forgot. Hahahaha until I looked at the calender and I was like HUH TOMORROW'S MY BIRTHDAY. That was very sad wasn't it. Hahaha but sho funny.
Eh but I can't believe people can actually remember! Like I remember that Su Yun gave me a pretty note and a Toblerone and I remember because I thanked her at training (we were sharing the hall that day cause of COMP). HAHAHA.
IF YOU REMEMBER MY BIRTHDAY, YOU SERIOUSLY ROCK. :D

I don't feel like my birthday's coming in a month because
a) still feeling extremely extremely cheated over the holidays
b) already got my present last last month or something :D :D :D
c) because Munaya remembers it. and I don't. so. doesn't feel right, right.

I feel like I don't have a birthday. Maybe I'm just tired lahh today so a bit incoherent and I realise I say lah a lot nowadays and I don't really care because lah or lahh or lahhh is true Singaporean languange lah so yay me!

And what really stinks is that the less you sleep, and the less your eat, the slower your body metabolizes fats. Or something like that.

HAHA OMG DONG IS FREAKY

About 15 minutes ago she called and the conversation went like this:

Me: Hello?
Dong: HEEHEEHEE (high pitched giggling)
Me: HELLO? HELLO?
Dong: hello-HEEHEEHEEHAHAHA (high pitched giggling)
Me: OMG OMG STOP IT STOP IT AHHHHHH!!!!
Dong: (to mom behind her)She's screaming! (MORE high pitched giggling)

At this point I was half convinced it was just Dong and half convinced there was something freaky on the other end.

Me: (screams for Leko) (screams some more) STOP IT STOP IT SERIOUSLY I'M FREAKING OUT STOP IT!
Dong: (giggling fades away) Um mama wants you to turn off the soup gas.
Me: STOPPIT STOPPIT DON'T DO THAT EVER AGAIN SERIOUSLY YOU FREAKED ME OUT!

And Leko was there going: Haha what? What?

Dong should be a voice-over in a psycho movie like The Machinist. Or Harper's Island. SERIOUSLY (:

Did you know it takes less than an hour to get from my house to Harbourfront?

PHYSICSISSTILLLOVE

1. Put your music on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
It's Hairspray - James Marsden
Yeah, I'll try that sometime.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
想飞 - 任賢齊
I like flying only when it's bumpy.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Sexy, Naughty Bitchy - Tata Young
Right.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Addicted - Enrique Iglesias
Hmmm.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now - Ricki Lake, Marissa Jaret Winokur & Nikki Blonsky
To grow up? Last thing on my mind.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Run and Tell That - Elijah Kelley
They think I'm a messenger or live telegram?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
No One - Dave Days
That's sad.

WHAT IS 2+2?
Till Kingdom Come - Coldplay

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Me and Mr Jones - Amy Winehouse
So my best friend is Mr Jones...

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Even If - The Corrs
What person I like?

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Some Unholy War - Amy Winehouse
WHOA!

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
(There's Gotta Be) More To Life - Stacie Orrico
So I'm gonna grow up and lead an unfulfilled life.

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Fields Of Gold - Sting
I don't like this song. It's very old and very boring.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Start Of Something New - High School Musical
Nice :D

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Wake Up Alone - Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse songs have such sad titles.

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Step In The Name Of Love - R. Kelly
Haha, dancing?

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl
YEAH. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
好时代 - 任賢齊
Umm, that's nice. But I've never actually heard that song. It's just rotting in my ITunes.

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
So lots of bad things are gonna happen because I'm No Good. Or I'll turn into a gangster one day.

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Big, Blond and Beautiful - Queen Latifah
Big, Blonde and Beautiful people do not make me cry!

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The New Girl In Town - Brittany Snow
Now that's just weird. And mean.

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Walking Away - Craig David
Gosh, yes.

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Fear - 周華健
I don't want to die afraid! D:

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
It Takes Two - Zac Efron
That's a nice song. Especially for this question.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
We're All In This Together (Graduation mix) - High School Musical Cast
Who doesn't want their kids to GRADUATE? I don't understand the We're All In This Together part though.

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Sorry Anyway - Tata Young
It's like Sorry, but NO.

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
You Found Me - Kelly Clarkson
I don't want people to find me?

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
True - Ryan Canberra

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY, WHEN YOU MEET YOUR BOSS?
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse
Yeah, let's just be friends, boss.

Ooh wow I sound like a dorkus ultimatum talking about equations like that.

An Abundance Of Katherines is cool. Books with extremely smart people as protagonists (like in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In Night Time) are generally cool. Okay I take that back. Bindy Mackenzie was the first fictional character I wanted to murder. Haha ironic right, then in the end it turns out someone was plotting her murder all along and at that point she's become less annoying and you think "ohhh noooo run Bindy run!".

Anyways, An Abundance Of Katherines is cool. It's such a quotable book. John Green is brilliant. And Colin is brilliant. Anyone who draws graphs to predict relationships is brilliant right?

"Monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting"

It seems cheem but it's actually very easy to read. It makes math fun. There, I said it. The maths part you can pretty much skip lah if you don't care to know the Theorem but I read it all and if you can't understand math theorems like me there's an appendix at the back.

IT'S over!!!

I feel sooooo relieved okay now finally I can get some sleep and clear my inbox of the hundreds of messages. Yeah I'm super OCD about my inbox it was the first thing that came to my mind.

SARAH SMRITHI WEITING YAY THANK YOU FOR BEING SOOO HARDWORKING AND SORRY I NEVER SEND IN DOCUMENTS ON TIME. ANYWAYS WE DID WELL DIDN'T WE?

Anyways, the deployeeeees (haha) were the awesomest people ever okay.
Hear that?

Yeappp RGS girls are seriously so helpful I don't know what I could've done without them man. And it was like we were SEARCHING for problems sometimes, but everyone was too free (because of Nanyang OH?). Oh but sometimes people just SWARMED in and everything/one went kinda nuts. (Like after Nanyang OH ended.)

Yeah and the number one questions parents ask:
Are the classrooms air conditioned?

RARRR. Whatever happened to eco-friendliness? Hahahaha. Yeah but sure, nobody can resist air con right.

Heehee and I mistook this girl's bro as her DAD. SO EMBARRASSING. But they thought it was quite funny and they were nice people so thank goodness. Oh and their older sis was Hadley captain 1996 how cool is that eh? They wanted to end the tour at the notice board so they could find her name.

Having PSB/PB juniors is awesomeee. Now I know why Violet liked talking to us smaller people haha! After everything was over and we were slacking in the Dry Lab Wanyi and Louisa tried to guess my CCA. Goodness gracious they don't know my CCA and I've known theirs since? Well they got gym right because they said I LOOKED like a gym person. But they kept guessing squash probably because the poster spams by squash penetrated their subconsciousness or something like that lah.

And the PITs are such funny people! I hope I didn't scare them too much because I'm not always this drunk!!! I think OH drove me a bit weird and alcohol fermentation occured resulting in the sugar in my blood turning into alcohol or something which resulted in me screaming RARRR at people randomly and singing Anything You Can Do which is a very very catchy song by the way.

(Starts screaming like the bimbo I am not)

Seriously, I don't know how one IHG can mean so much to me. :D

STEPH SIOW! CHENG LYNN! DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU GUYS BETTER NOT PANGSEH/PON OKAY? (Just kidding, I know you all won't!) HAHA. WE CAN DANCE WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER AGAIN IF YOU WANT.

But this year we're gonna be up against all those pro sec fours tooo! Maybe we'll just cheer to death and hope everything turns out alright? Wheee yay this is gonna be fun :) Just like in sec one and two!

And and the date's real appropriate too (hint hint).

On a different note, I'd like to declare that my hot and cool friend Germaine Teo is the bravest little girl everrr. Because she tries her best. And because she'd rather eat ice cream like Ms Choo said than commit suicide. (Right?)

(Cheesiness ahead) You go girl! <3

Hello world

I'm up late again for the millionth night in a row! Not that I'm proud of it. But at least I'm not trying to keep awake by eating chili or Tabasco sauce or something like that.

Happy birthday uncle chin chow! You're a good host and so is your mom.
Vera's right. We've sorta split into RGS sec 3, RGS sec 4, and RI sec 3. But it's okay, everyone's still weird as ever!

Yay I really missed our gatherings and stuff. It's nice to have a bunch of people who don't fit into any social category (like CCA, clas etc.) but are still good friends. And I've realised that some people are so SLOW at getting jokes. I tried using the classic Joey Tam one:

Me: (slaps Rachel's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Rachel: Huh...

Me: (slaps Lin's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Lin Wen: Yeah...

Me: (slaps Ryan's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Ryan: (blank face)

At this point, Jordan and Marcus start laughing like hyenas (in a guy sort of way) so they obviously got it.

Me: Let me show you the APPROAPRIATE reaction.
(attempts to slap Jordan's shoulder) Hey don't you-
Jordan: (ducks prompty)

Like I said, SLOWWW

Yeah then a bunch of us stayed back to watch the Machinist, which is truly a psycho film for psycho people. We looked away at the -ahem- inapproapriate bits, of course. Well, most of us. Heehee and Marcus thought the Ivan guy was hotter than Brad Pitt. (Who isn't really hot anyways.) And Ben says Megan Fox is actually a guy.

NO SHE IS NOT. YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS hahaha!

Okay we'll end with a
Thank you Vera's dad for sending me and Terry to Bishan :D

WHO IS THE GENIUS WHO WROTE THE SS ESSAY?

I can't believe I just logged into Blogger to write that, but the essay is really. Really. REALLY.

Good.

http://www.abc6.com/news/41131932.html

I NEED TO GET OUT AND TORTURE MYSELF UNTIL I CRY (or come close to that at least).

You know in sec one, training was like NS (according to Christine). Hmm I can't say that considering I don't know how NS is like. But it was like almost every single training, before we start I'd be thinking I can't do this. DIE. DIE. DOOMTIME. even if I didn't say it out loud.

But now I feel kinda weird. Like I need to be tortured. Like I WANT TO DIE TRAINING. And on the gray tombstone they'd engrave:
Here Lies Jasmine. Who died when her lungs burst while she was skipping/running. Rest In Peace.

I sound like a sadist. Sorry.

I think I'm just restless. Really restless. And feeling pathetic about not running for SOOOO long.

And I think IHG Bronze is now just some weird fantasy.

SYF IS OVER but that hasn't really sunk in yet.
Shall not say what WASN'T supposed to happen just in case an SYF judge finds this and we're dead meat.
Heehee but I'm glad we pulled it off despite having only practised about 5 weeks.

Went for training on Tuesday. I didn't train, just commentated/helped Carrissa pull her leg up/watched.
I THINK THEY WILL DO WELL!
I was really nice being back at Potong Pasir even though the new coach must've felt really confused or just annoyed cause she kept looking at me. Not like she was mad or anything, just curious.

I still love rhythmic gym a lot :D

Okay I have calmed down. I am a germ factory. Now where haven't we heard that before?

Ahha and I only told Celine Chong after she gave me a big hug! Not on purpose. Anyways I still went to school for rehearsal. It was pretty good and we sang I Want It That Way 234876 times with Sarah Actions. I bet we have permenantly established the reputation of LD girls as Noisy Singing Screaming Drama Freaks. But there are RATIONALES behind being crazy! It's called voice projection, people!

And it's fun, besides the fact. I'm wondering whether we can get booked for over-projecting our voices (i.e. screaming for the fun of it). Janne has a really boomingly loud voice!

I think so far, my favourite Idol contestant is still David Cook because he's a very talented arranger. Yay!

Love is in the air

Let your love take flight! Join thousands of couples in the first ever mass releasing of love balloons at Marina Barrage as they rededicate their love for each other. Come down now and be part of this symbolic gesture and experience the love that’s in the air.

I cannot BELIEVE THIS UTTER NONSENSE.
HOW CLEAN and GREEN can you GET?




9th March
To whoever it may concern,

I am a fifteen year old student who just happened to chance upon a Real Love Works advertisement in NTUC's Lifestyle magazine and I am writing to express my concerns on the Love Is In The Air activity to be held at the Marina Barrage.

Though I have no qualms about the intentions of the activity, I'd like you to consider the environmental impacts of it. First of all, there is no way of telling how far a balloon would travel before deflating and falling back onto the ground. These released balloons could land anywhere, including nature preserves or other areas where they would pose serious environmental threats. Latex balloons are especially harmful to wildlife as animals such as sea turtles could swallow these landed balloons.

I suggest that an alternative activity be planned in place of this. I'm sure there are other symbolic gestures that are just as meaningful without the negative environmental impact. I also understand that this may take extra effort and planning on the organizing committee's part, but it is important that environmental responsibility comes first on every action that we plan to execute. I sincerely hope my suggestions can be taken into serious consideration, as there should be no need to harm the environment in any way for the sake of promoting happy marriages.

Yours sincerely,
Jasmine Liu

24th March
To whoever it may concern,

Heard the couples had a great time. The animals are dead. Too bad.

Yours sincerely,
Jasmine Liu

Koped from Deenie's blog. Because I'm bored.

MY BOY SIDE
[x] you love hoodies (I know lots of girls who love hoodies. Okay, maybe it's just an RGS thing.)
[x] you love jeans
[ ] dogs are better than cats (EQUALITY!)
[ ] it's hilarious when people get hurt (Unless it's on Zack and Cody.)
[x] you've played with boys on a team (Duhhh. Primary school right.)
[ ] shopping is torture
[x] sad movies suck (Not exactly how I'd put it, but I like HAPPY movies in general. DISNEY!)
[ ] you own a XBOX (Never touched one. Sad life, huh?)
[x] you played with Hot Wheels as a little kid (HEYYYY. They're a unisex toy!)
[ ] at some point in your life you wanted to be a firefighter
[x] you own a DS PS2 or SEGA (Not currently. But I used to steal my uncles' haha:D)
[x] you used to be obsessed with Power Rangers (Hmm do they even have it on TV any more?)
[x] you watch sports on TV (Eh, the Olympics?)
[ ] gory movies are cool (Not reallyy.)
[x] sometimes you go to your dad for advice (Yeah like "Daddy, how do I write this word?")
[ ] you own like a trillion baseball hats
[x] you used to/do collect pokemon (POKEMON!!!)
[x] baggy sweat pants are nice to wear (To sleep, yes.)
[ ] its kind of weird to have sleepovers with a bunch of people (But Tay Zhi Yuan does that!)
[x] green, black, red, blue or silver are one of your favourite colours (Right. And those are guy-ish because?)
[x] sports are fun (Yup yup they are!)
[ ] you sometimes talk with food in your mouth
[ ] you sleep at night with your socks on
[ ] you have fished at least once

TOTAL= 13

13 X 4 = 52(unreliable)percent

MY GIRL SIDE
[x] you like to shop (Sometimes. And especially if I have something to drink.)
[ ] you wear eyeliner (Eyeliner HURTS!)
[x] you wear the color pink (And so does Terry...)

[x] sometimes you go to your mum for advice (Like, "Hey Mom can I join __?" HAHA)

[ ] you consider cheerleading a sport

[ ] you hate wearing all black (HEY c'mon, we wore black leotards and jazz pants for gym concert, does that make us un-girly?)

[x] you like going to the mall

[ ] you like getting manicures and/or pedicures

[ ] you like wearing jewelery (I don't really bother.)

[ ] you cried watching The Notebook (Never watched it :)

[x] skirts are a big part of your wardrobe (But just cause ANNETTE LIU dumps all the skirts she can't wear and I can almost wear on me!)

[ ] shopping is one of your favourite hobbies

[ ] you've seen Star Wars and don''t like some of it (I haven't seen Star Wars but I don't think I wouldn't like it.)

[x] you do/did gymnastics (YEAHHHHHH. Hey wait, don't straight guys do gym too?)

[ ] it takes you around one hour to shower and get dressed

[ ] you smile a lot more than you should (Well, when I went to Taiwan Li Laoshi told me to smile more.)

[ ] you have more than 10 pairs of shoes

[ ] you care about what you look like majority of the time (If I can't see me, I don't care that much.)

[x] you like wearing dresses whenever you can (I own ONE dress. But I like dresses, they're pretty and stuffs.)

[x] you like dancing/do dancing (YEAHHHH. But don't guys dance too? Horrible sexist quiz.)

[ ] you like high heel shoes (They generally LOOK cool but I never wear them.)

[x] you used to play with dolls as a kid (Yeah, but I liked soft toys better.)

[ ] you like putting makeup on others

[x] you like being the star of almost everything (It's fun, but sometimes it's good to let others go!)

[x] pink is one of your favourite colours (I like lots of colours. Got a problem with that?)

11 X 4 = 44 (unreliable) percent

THIS QUIZ IS SEXIST. GUYS DANCE TOO OKAY? What about Maxim Beloserkovsky?

Dong is puking from sailing. Sea sickness.

I went to see the doctor today and he was really funny and stuff. But he said that I'm suffering from lack of sleep which explains my swollen gums. Ewww. So what we discussed at MGM last year was true! Dr Chan says if I don't sleep at 11pm, my liver will not get rest and I will become a toxic waste vat.

Then we talked a lot of other stuffs and he told us that the doctors of Singapore are getting squeezed for their services because of all that MediSave and stuff. So lawyers are getting the status and moolah now and people who love moolah should go become lawyers instead. Then he was like, "I've been a doctor for 33 years, you know!" so it was kind of shocking cause he looked 45 oldest and he couldn't possibly have been a doctor when he was 12. He is 61 this year!!!! Yeah so me and my mom were dead impressed that he looked super young for a 61 year old dude.

Maybe he sleeps at 10 every night or something.

In conclusion, RGS girls are going to grow up with sleepy livers and look 20 years older than their age.

Hi people

Neglected this thing for eons already. (Hmm, wonder why I keep using that same expression.) So yeah nothing's been happening, so there's absolutely nothing to blog about. Well I COULD blog about Founder's Day, but I'm still waiting for a Founder's Day video to appear on Youtube cause I couldn't see anything yesterday. But still, wasn't bad. The speeches were pretty good, didn't have any sleep-inducing side effects:)

Oh and I got to see the tall masked people on stage though, cause they were on platforms. But other than that, couldn't see anything. Too bad, maybe I'll get better seats next year!

Rarrr.

It's funny how I detest school when I'm at home, but find that my somewhat exaggerated hatred for school is gone. And when the day is over I feel like I survived and it was a piece of cake and I wonder why I was so scared in the first place.

HAHA SS LESSONS ROCK.

Yeah so anyways, Sparsh just adores her school so much she looks forward to going there every day. I mean, not that I DON'T like my school. I'm perfectly content and I think I have a real cool school. I mean I don't think I like it enough to actually be anxious about going. Maybe I just need sleep. Like now.

Oh yes and even though I've been in uniform since Kinderland, it struck me one morning in sec 2 how MECHANICAL we look trooping down to assembly in them. It's just like plain freaky, okay? And I was like WHOA, I had no idea assembly rush hour made us look like we were from The Island.

Wheeeee PSL session 4 next week!

Can't wait to do our TBC surprise! (Note: TBC= may not happen)

But I'm still sick. The sore throat evolved into cought which evolved into flu. Ick. I'm a germ factory.

Okay, dead blog. I know.

I'm sick again for the second time in a month. It must've been the CNY junk+crazy weather+not drinking enough water after runs. Oh yes, speaking of running, I really am out of shape. Which is why I'm into the new running-every-sunset craze thing. Haha and running is great! (See recent posts) It's really fun and even running slow is fun sometimes.

Sec ones, especially Zeng Yu, this is for you:

Life in rhythmic gym
Training 3 times a week at the very least. Mon, Wed at Potong Pasir. Sat at RI. CCAB on occasion. 3 hours per training. Can be up to 6 trainings at the right-before-comp month :O

Most trainings begin with mat unrolling. This is the part where everybody unrolls mats. And not those teeny blue ones, I mean like CARPETS.

If laoshi allows us to buy bubble tea, we send people to buy bubble tea. Yay! However, laoshi doesn't always allow us to buy bubble tea.

If laoshi lets us play ball games, we play. Yay! However, this only happens like, 5 times a year?

If there's a track where we're training, we'll run. Mostly about 4-5 rounds.

Sometimes, laoshi makes us skip continuosly for a few minutes. We'll do a few sets at a time. Or we'll do conditioning. Abs and back. We do more physical training after comp, I think. It's random luh. Some days you get it, some days you don't.

But a pretty normal training would go like this:
Changing, then unrolling mats (10 minutes)
Run around the mats 10 rounds. (5 minutes?)
Do splits and oversplits, backbends. (20 minutes)
Do kicks and jumps. (10 minutes)
Laoshi leaves you do practice on your own for the rest of the training. Nearer to comp, we take turns doing routine in front of laoshi, with the music.
Then we stop and do cool down splits and maybe light conditioning. (last 10 minutes)
Then we roll the heavy mats up, drink up, change, blah blah and then go home.

Most people compete, though I'm not sure how many new sec ones get to. There are group and indiv events, depending on your prowess and height. I was in group for 2 years cause Ting, Zhimin, Sarah, Claudia and I were about the same height in sec 1. (Now look at how tall Claw has become!) Yeah so I just continued that way in sec 2. Groups only have one (longer) routine to practise. Indivs have 3 (ball, rope, clubs) in C Div and the same routines in B Div + an extra ribbon routine. If you win anything in indiv, too bad, you can't do indiv anymore.

Overall verdict: Gym can get very frustrating sometimes, so be prepared to work really hard.
Laoshis will tell you you're fat sometimes! But gym is still a cool sport (more sport than dance) and it's a small CCA so your seniors aren't really very detached or anything. Plus, the feeling of relief and accomplishment after comp is like PRICELESS. Oh and it's a very happy CCA at gym camp and chalet, and even sometimes after trainings when everyone has post-training highs!

Oh and to clarify, rhythmic gym is NOT a performing art. It's a sport. Even though you may think it looks like dance from the Olympics and stuff, to me it's more of a sport than a form of dance. But a very pretty sport!

I feel like going for CCA trials just for fun, so I know what it's like being a no-CCA sec one again. HAHAHAHA:)

I LOVE 105 TO THE MAX LIKE TOTALLAYEEEE

AND I LOVE CLARISSE, JO-ANN, MIN(ce) CHIH(ken), NAN, NISHA AND ZERZER TO THE MAX-ER

AND AND I LOVE SEC ONE RICHARDSONIANS 2009!

AND AND AND I LOVE PSB/PB 2009!

Proper specific updates and photos up some other day!

My life's a complete mess, and my head's a complete mess. My sanity was already long gone, it had a 5-year headstart.

Orientation camp tomorrow! Night surprise tomorrow! House orientation saturday! Orientation concert saturday! OBS shopping sunday! OBS monday-friday!

See? I didn't even bother capitalising the days of the week.

Oh well, on a more optimistic note, GO PreSteLs! We shall pwn night surprise and well, surprise everyone! Grace Lim is going to be SO proud of me living up to my duties as Vice-president of the Bymnastics Association!

Oh yeah and I totallaye hate Leko. Excerpts from lekoburrito.blogspot.com:
"i finish at twelve am and woke up at 6am. i nearly sleep on every lessons."
"Lots of homework....i told dong my school is the school of no homework...ok la...it's not a lot..and 2 to 3..."
Oh, YES Lek, I know your school is the School Of No Homework. And YES, Lek, I know 6 hours of sleep is still not enough for some people!
Argh, I'm gonna kill you the next time you come over!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/347073/1/.html

RGS gymnasts set to compete in 2010 Youth Olympic Games
By Heather Tan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 May 2008 0145 hrs

SINGAPORE: Two 13-year old gymnasts from Raffles Girls' Secondary School are a step closer to flying the country's flag at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

That is because their coach feels they are of the age-group that will make a mark for Team Singapore.

Passion and commitment - that's what drive Phaan Yi Lin and Vivien Ho* from Raffles Girls to dedicate their time to gymnastics. They train for five hours, six times a week.

And these two 13-year-olds - the youngest members of the team - are all set to represent Singapore at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Phaan Yi Lin, Secondary One Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "For this, we will work hard and train so we will not disappoint our coaches and our families." The girls are part of the school's Junior Training Squad in gymnastics.

They train with seasoned coaches from China and the UK, and have been practising various moves, including the front aerial, back flip layout, giant swing, chest rolls and reverse split jumps.

The girls not only excel in the sport, they are able to handle school work too.

Nazyra Suhairi, Secondary Four Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "There's always a time for everything. In school, you just focus on school, and once you come to gym, you just switch off everything else that has nothing to do with gym - you just focus mainly on training."

Joey Tam, Secondary Two Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "Gym has been a part of our lives since really long ago. So we just squeeze in homework anytime we get."

RGS also plans to build its own gymnasium to dedicate more time and effort into coaching the girls. **

Alina Wee, Teacher-in-Charge of Gymnastics at Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "We would like them to train at least six times a week. And with great parental support as well as school support in terms of studies, we have to ensure the scholastic aspect of their life in school is also taken care of while they prepare for the YOG."

Currently, the school's training sessions are held at the Education Ministry's CCA Branch at Bukit Timah. - CNA/de

*GO YILIN AND VIVIEN! Keep on pro-ing and being aweshummmmm!

**COOOOOOOOOOL!

Yup so I realised that my posts are getting kinda self-centered nowadays. (Self-centered meaning all about me only.) SO I have decided that I will do dedications for the new year!

202 08: The QUEENS! I'll miss all those sick jokes, eyebrow-raising moments, legal eating in class for practically every lesson, junk food ordering, and class partayyes! Thanks for all the good unclean fun and we ROCK :D

Rhythmic Gym 08: B'Div champs for the 8th year running! Even though I won't be with you all next year, I'll still consider you guys my wonderful batchmates, seniors, and juniors! Love you guys and I'll pop down for training when I can. <3

English Drama 08: It was really fun and fabulous getting to know all of you and becoming an ELDSer! Thanks for all the laughs, puns, funny improvs, and awesome plays! Seriously the wackiest, p(h)unniest people on earth :D

PSB 08: I don't know what sec 2 would be like if I wasn't in PSB. Thanks to all the PSLs and SPSLs for being great seniors and friends and JPSLs for being part of the coolest, littlest PSB batch ever :D I'll remember PSLTC, all our great GMs, PSL sessions, Orientation, MGMs etc. etc. and we'll still be aweshum PSB 08!

109 08: So you'll all become 209'09 next year :) You guys have been the number one reason for my sleepless nights, no kidding. But it's all worth it when I see you all at PSL sessions, even just around school and I hope you all can grow closer together as a class in sec 2!

Taiwan Immersionees 08: Thanks for all the crazy crazy moments we've had, and all the field trips, lessons, computer classes, shopping, kumquat peeling, cup noodles, getting scolded, crying, laughing etc. etc. I couldn't think of a better way to spend the holidays than learning Chinese at the NTNU with you guys! Keep the gatherings coming on and drink more chin chow!

Yeah and thanks to all those other friends out there who made my year great, even if it's just a moment or two. AND LEKO BURRITO the aweshum 4th sister I have who crashes my house every spare moment she can and eats all my food and sleeps on my sofa and shares my mommy.

And I seriously doubt my family reads my blog because I don't publicise it but they've been really great too :) My mommy who drove me home from trainings in Potong Pasir, my daddy who works like crazy, my sisters who play with me, my rabbit who just sits around and acts cute, my cat who follows me everywhere I go.

Can't wait for Orientation 2009 now :) 105 class I/Cs are really cool peeps. Nandita and Jo-Ann say they're gonna be extra-participative SPSLs! Which means that they'll do the usual job, observing us and stuff, except they won't do it silently in the corner of the classroom, they'll join in all the activities. So I guess we're gonna have 30+ sec ones and 2 sec fours to entertain!

And guess what, Min Chih is taller than all of us despite being the youngest. I feel small. Really small.

In the lift at Far East, Nandita, Jo-Ann, Min Chih, and Zerline suddenly realised that they all live ridiculously close to each other, so they started screaming and exchanging info on the exact locations of their houses. Boo not fair :( But wouldn't it be cool if we could have like a joint sleepover at all their houses? We could travel back and forth and stay an hour at each house!

105 is a RICHARDSON class! Things keep getting better and better!

YAY CCAO :D

Wish I could've gone last year, too. Tour guiding is fun hahahahaha! And surprisingly, the sec ones talked to me. A lot. Alright, maybe it was only like 1 or 2 who kept talking to me and I was sooo glad that they didn't dao me. Wasn't very hyper today because of serious lack of sleep. But still happy :) And I found out how lame Charisse, my fellow 105 I/C, is. Still, no one got close to beating Shi Wei.

Haha it was super fun going round the booths going "Heyyyy! I got a group for you all!" to random strangers or friends. The LD booth was super funny, because everyone was just munching on cookies and hanging around like a partayye. And the best part was that we were the only CCA eating in front of the new sec ones and their parents, so paiseh hahahaha!

And the show the sec 4s put up was really really really good. :D "Ways To Torture Your Teacher" was so cuuuute and me, Karishma, Min Ee, Debbie, and Deenie snuck up to where the spotlights were to get a better view of the performance.

Yays to R.GYM for THE best souvenirs, in my biased opinion. And and and I got to intro the gym booth because Rosemarie was either being nice or feeling shy. You know how much I like "public" speaking. Yay aweshumm! Oh and thanks Ting for the Blue Batch Bangles.

I separate posts by topic, not by day. So that's it for CCAO I guess.

Needs to run. Needs to long jump. Needs to rollerblade. Needs to feel blood in my blood vessels moving. Needs to stretch. Needs to try on my new Adidas.

It seems the older I get, the slower I run. Grahhhh. It's just as well I can't make it to play catching with my Taiwan Immersionees. I'd probably feel slow and unmotivated. And there goes my punctured ego. Serves me right for not having a life.

So I'm back from Penang. And my life is already being tossed around in the washing machine. Heh, I remember back in China there was this giant Whirpool washing machine ad that hung outside the shopping center-ish place I used to go for milk tea. Maybe that was a sign or something.

I wanna go rollerblading! But it seems that all of us are way to caught up in our crazy lives to live like we did after PSLE and at the start of sec 1. Sheesh. Plus, we didn't even have any Aunties outings yet. Hell-o, can we please respect tradition?

2005: Malacca. Well, I don't know if this counts 'cause we didn't know each other well enough to be excited about this trip. If you don't count knowing Leko, that is.
2005: Desaru!!!
2006: Genting!
2007: Genting. Didn't feel right the second time.
2008: Nil.

See? It's like a curve or something.

Zomgoshness the PretSeLs cast me as the bimbo. The bimbo. The bimbo.
Can't wait :D Go PretSeLs!!!!

I'm backk from Taiwan!

Although I will miss that place and living there like CRAZY, I can't say that I'm sad or anything.

I have 37 good friends, a new found interest in Chinese, and lots of souvenirs.

I'm happy. :D

It's 4 hours to meeting time, and nobody wants to get sleep.

Just got a big scolding from Mrs Poon because everyone was being sentimental and having mass hugging in the corridor. I guess she heard us, because she gave us a long talk about being considerate. My roommates have all sorts of funny plans and now Sarah is on the phone with Sam discussing the possibility of sneaking out without being caught.

I love my new hoodie hooded jacket! It's Paul Frank and I have the black while Rachel my twinnie has hot pink :D Zhiyuan went shopping with us because we lost Sarah, Grace and Sam when they went to buy crepes and disappeared. So yeah, but I didn't mind shopping with Zhiyuan and Rachel at all because they're really nice to shop with. Zohmygoodness Jasmine Liu Jia Hwei actually goes SHOPPING? Yes, she does :)

And Zhiyuan loves stuffed toys and jackets like us so we always stop randomly to look at stuff. He's now regretting not buying a Paul Frank hooded jacket to match ours. We were actually hoping laoshi would decide to let the guys use up the remaining 5,500 Taiwanese dollars worth of food coupons on biscuits so Zhiyuan would have another chance to get back to the night market and find that jacket shop. But no, so now we have $5,500 gone to waste. It's about $270 Singapore dollars worth of food coupons.

So I have officially spent almost $300 dollars on this trip. Whoa, Nelly. The LLY is gonna be so happy to know how I splurged on their gifts. And guess what, I even bought my tuition teacher a gift because she's nice and also because I had to cancel a whole holiday's worth of tuition, much to Brendan's delight.

I miss gym. I miss gym. I miss gym. I need to jump. Very badly.

There is Ryan, Terry and Joel at the door now. Probably more illegal gatherings? Sarah and Grace want RI and RGS to merge. I don't mind us being separated. We're still rather close, anyways.

I'm gonna miss this place. Loves OCAC, NTNU, Taipei :D Dedications coming soon, probably :D

Yay and I'm back!

So we had a really good lunch, with like 10 dishes per table? Of course no one could finish :( But I think the restaurant re-serves the dishes. We all suspect it, but we don't really care.

Afterwards we had 1.5 hours to go to the supermarket and explore the campus outside of our isolated little block which we're confined to most of the time. Instead, most of us just went back to our block right after the supermarket trip (where we annoyed customers by getting like one person to buy everyone's junk at one go) and we frolicked around taking pictures and giving each other piggyback rides.

So after that we went for a briefing which no one really listened to. I tried hard to but it just couldn't process in my brain for some reason. Jordan was like "Is Hong Lao Shi sleeping?" and Hong Lao Shi jerked her head around to look at him. Whoops.

THEN MAI LAO SHI BROUGHT US TO THE UNIVERSITY SPORTS AREA! I just looove Mai Lao Shi now. Actually it started out with the guys asking if they could play basketball there, then in the end 28 of us went with Mai Lao Shi. Well, we only had one basketball so I walked around with Linn, Rachel, Pearlynn and Chloe. Linn and I were looking for a trampoline, but that'd probably be indoors somewhere. There is an indoor pool that smells really really strongly of chlorine :(

And as we walked out of the pool building, that was when I noticed the LONG JUMP PIT! Linn and I were hooked onto it and we just jumped and jumped and jumped to no end. Now I have a bruise on my knee but who cares? My love for long jump has been rekindled! That was so cheesy. But seriously, I was happy for a good long while after that and I think I was the fastest girl eater at dinner. I went around announcing that I officially Love Jumping but no one really cared because I was just high from jumping.

After that, POOL! (I don't say billiards.) Joseph (Hoseph) was really weird today and he started standing on the table and whacking the cue ball with the stick like he was playing golf, which really annoyed Rachel who just wanted to beat him seriously once and for all. She won, but she says the game wasn't even serious. I CANNOT aim.

My roommates are AWESOME. We're swapping clothes for our graduation vacation and I get Sarah's favourite shirt and paikia hoodie! Grace gets my ACRES shirt, and Rachel gets my brown and red stripey sweater while I keep the green one and we're wearing them together on Friday so we can be real Twinnies.

Graduation vacation tomorrow. Returning Friday night. Apparently we're going to the last piece of untouched Taiwanese land. Sounds pretty cool, we're going to be doing a lot of hiking (even at 5.30am) and we're going to Ocean Park!

I LOVE LONG JUMP! GO RICHARD!

There's a lot more to blog about here in Taiwan than in Singapore.

Graduation today! Supposedly formal but in fact very emotional. After the goodbye video from the OCAC fu dao yuan people, everyone felt like crying and I sorta felt a bit like that too but for some reason I didn't. I started hyperventilating. It was really freaky because I forgot how to breathe so I was making weird wheezing noises and trying to breathe into my jacket (I have no idea why) while everyone was like "Don't cry!" and I was like "I'm not crying!". It took us(including me) about 5 minutes to realise I really couldn't breathe, and it wasn't just getting emotional.

So my wonderful awesome classmates all went upstairs with Ms Koh to get me some air at the rooftop garden. About 10 minutes later I could breathe properly again, but my arms were still weird from the lack of circulation. Ms Koh says the doctor says it's pretty normal when children get too excited. Eeps. THANK YOU CLASS #1 I TOTALLY OWE YOU GUYS ONE!

So after that we all played truth or dare. Claire had to go up to this woman working out on the treadmill and tell her she's pretty. The woman just smiled and it was pretty obvious we were behind this anyways. Jordan called us to the auditorium to sing songs together. We did some HSM 3 songs and some more bittersweet ones. We all went downstairs 10 minutes late on purpose, partly to see what punishment we would get. I guess the laoshis weren't in the mood to punish us.

Post getting too long. Look out for next post!

I can't believe we're going back this Saturday. Or Sunday. Whatever. Seriously stinks :( We all wish we could be like boarding school students and live like that and I guess we'll all miss all the rubbish we get to do like eat cup noodles every night and kope food from as many people as we can.

Graduation is tomorrow! And graduation trip to the countryside. Sounds cool :D

Hee today I was really impressed by the skits class #2 and class #3 put up. And I'm sure class #1 did well too! We all got prizes. Class #1 was named bravest class, class #2 recieved best presentation, class #3 was named most creative class. Then after the competition we all used the green chalk left over from class #2's horror skit to draw on each other's clothes and faces. My jacket took quite a bit of torture :D Renci's ear turned green and Jordan's face was kept green for the rest of the day for a dare or something.


Speaking of which, I can't believe I fell for this prank played after bed check, when we were all supposed to be in our rooms but people still sneak around anyways:

(Doorbell rings)
I open the door and just then Jordan appears from the stairwell with his bottle and starts filling it up.
Jordan says hi without speaking.

Jasmine: (half whispering)Hey, who rang the doorbell?
Jordan: Huh?
Jasmine: Somebody rang the doorbell
Jordan: Really?
Jasmine: Yeah, just.

Then Rachel comes over to the door and being the smarter of us two, goes

Rachel: He rang the doorbell.

So Jordan doubles over laughing silently but hysterically, what Sarah would call the chicko look, and I pretend to be mad.

So karaoke is over. Everyone's feeling kinda sad about this but me. I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling so much more than fine knowing that there will be no more reason for me to freak out every night any more.

I need to stop lonering. I shall will play pool tonight. I WILL.

Taipei 101 tomorrow night! Bubble tea and shopping on Wednesday during (supposedly) Chinese lesson time!

I bough a Nike shirt at 50% off. 440 Taiwanese dollars (about $22?). AND I just came back the supermarket where my roommates bought like 4 bowls of instant noodles each. I just bought this weird health food thing in a packet and instant milk tea. I don't even know if the health food thing is a drink or a food. I don't even know it's state of matter.

This place pretty much rocks :D

So here I am lonering in my room. I'm supposed to be upstairs playing billiards or something but I CANNOT PROCRASTINATE uploading photos!

It's kinda funny that I'm not nearly as Jazzy here as I am in school. Not enough sleep maybe. KARAOKE IS DRIVING ME NUTS. AND I THOUGHT KARAOKE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY AND SPONTANEOUS.

But the people here are nuts. During computer lesson on Saturday, lao shi was saying how he had the FEELING that we were on MSN and not doing work. Most people were having a mass class convo but I was being nerdy playing this Chinese computer game we were supposed to play but it's SO ADDICTIVE. So anyways whenever lao shi walked around looking at our screens they'd minimise MSN and pretend they were being good. Well lao shi wasn't convinced because this isn't his first year with Raffles students. Later on someone walked over to ask lao shi something and HOLY MACKERAL he was watching the MSN convo from the comfort of his special teacher computer that could show what everyone's computer was doing! Haha so what to do? Spam the convo with endless 老师很帅(lao shi is handsome). He was pretty amused :D

Whee we're going to buy more rubbish from 7 Eleven tonight! I don't think I have ever been so glad just to go to the supermarket or even 7 Eleven. The pens here are like half the price of what they're worth in Singapore it's awesome.

There are cheerleaders downstairs playing He Said She Said and Girlfriend over and over. Apparently they're going for some competition so they have been practising day and night for days now. It's pretty cool and they wave to us when we look at them.

Class in 48 minutes. Wonder if I should just fall asleep here again or join my classmates at the pool table.

My roommates are awesome CSI investigators :D

Life here is exciting!

Eeep.

I don't know what to make of this trip. Most of the time I'm having fun but sometimes I want to jump off the rooftop. My roommates say it's stress?

Taiwan is fun :) Even the Chinese classes, they're cool. I've met the Taiwanese equivalent of Mr Hogan in my class. And the female teacher is also very good. Only thing is that the vocab they're teaching us is super limited, like primary school :(

Inter class karaoke next week! Guess what song we're doing. Right, better not put it up in case someone from another class finds out.

Heee and the people are pretty nice here! And I'm gonna have huge biceps when I return, cause we're all practising arm wrestling during breaks. Inez and Shiwei's match was drawn. Tennis vs. rugby. Whoa. Claire is gonna beat her dad when she gets back to Singapore, she says.

Class starting soon.