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!!!!