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.

Hey

I'm in Taiwan now. Go to facebook if you want to see photos:)
It's so much like China here. I don't think the Taiwanese want to hear that but yeah. It's so much like China here that I miss China again. But I won't cry or anything. I hope.

We're sort of grounded right now so we can't leave the building. Grounded for a week. And now we still have more than an hour until we have to go downstairs so we're sort of doing rubbish on the computer now. And CmPS. I'm waiting for Debs to send me the edited SOW cause she forgot to attach it. Okay maybe I'll just do it on my own SOW so we can merge the changes later.

I like my group :) Pearlynn is a nutcase. In a good way. But I think I'm getting a bit flu-ish. Or maybe I'm getting sinus problems like Nut.

202 ROOLS

ACP was fantastic. Haha fantastic seems to be my new favourite word! But it was. Even though I'm not exactly the most graceful or coordinated person in the world, but whatever. Sorry if I scared anyone with my temporary bimbness, I was just high and stuff.

You know, even though everyone got frustrated and tired and stressed during the last few days before ACP, I have to say that it's worth it. And I really did mean it when I said that my doubts about 202 had cleared over that one event. Yeah, so we have cliques and we're not THAT bonded and I really thought I couldn't survive the year. But what's the point of being such a loser pessimist anymore? We're leaving in 9 days, might as well make the most of this time to have fun and get the class together than worrying. I know 202 isn't perfect or really what I hoped for at the start of the year, but what I learnt from 109 is that you can't really compare classes, and you can't have a fixed mindset over what an ideal class is, cause we're all different and nobody's perfect. So we're all winners in our own special way.

And 202, I couldn't really say that you guys aren't a fabulously fun and shameless class with a knack for spotting innuendos :) I think we had THE most fun throughout this whole ACP, what with all the karaoke, air guitar, mad dancing and Mr De Souza videos. Like Rash and Yihui said, we don't have to win any ACP prizes, we've already won.

Let's make the last days of 202'08 the bestest ones yet! And no matter what, 202 still rools!

Happy birthday Trina!
I know everyone likes bullying Trina because of her lame sense of humour, but we still like her just the (lame) way she is :D
& Cailyn!
I'm glad I didn't get cheated into buying that $10 LeSportSac eh? Good thing for Alicia Tan. Don't get sick of gym, dude! Alright so you can't help it because they never change the routine, but eat more peanut butter sandwiches and you'll feel better!

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.