leonjared

2006-09-06T16:27:00.000+08:00

to those concerned: stop coming here if you know i don't want you to. you know who you are.

2006-09-01T13:28:00.001+08:00

ah there are so many tags i don't know how to reply all of them. hello everyone!

xtine: thanks lots for everything! oh anyway, i hate trix. they're like all sugar and colouring. XP

zhihui: thanks and rock on!

dii: ah yes. hope she liked the card we gave her. i wrote lots of nice stuff to her. (=

leanne: i don't know... we have to go try that corner shop one day. i still have not had the chance to play the sims since last year! o.O

fang lin: why hello there fang. thanks! you take care too yeah. (= and HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY! today's the real day. hahah

cleaven: oh well it was, i guess. most welcome. and congrats to your class! great job everyone.

simran: hahah yes. A SIM A DAY BRIGHTENS YOUR DAY! XD haha you're funnie, cute and sweet too. thanks again!

jastine: ah ohhkay. welcome!

jom tang: hey hyper one! don't people who are at an excited state tend to be unstable? you played a part too, so thanks for that! XD

ra: thank you clara! (=

lis: hey lis! i try. square-smile! [=

wuyue: yeah, thanks. cheers!

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[edit]haha. i realised that a lot of people i don't know have been reading this blog and even some who have been talking behind my back. hate it when these people snooping around. like the only and only D-O-double-G.

you know imma mobbin with the D.R.E.!

2006-08-18T21:57:00.000+08:00

been feeling rather down lately. what with the school work and all. that aside, i guess i've been having too many thoughts to be able to think straight. manage to let some things out today talking to wingyan. didn't have electives today so we took the chance to play vball during that hour XD

well i'm glad we finally ended inv!gorate today. got to play in the floor ball match against 13 for the third-fourth placing. glad to say that we won by one point. congrats to the 11 girls team who came in first for floorball. great job girls XD would like to thank a few people for making inV!gorate 2006 a success, especially darren and jomaine. not forgetting the other ct reps, nicole, subra, jolyn, deejee, lisabelle and le-anne. AND all those who participated and came down to support. for those concerned, the prizes would be given out next week during ip assembly.

i would also like to thank those from 05V13 who gave me a thank you card today. really made my day XD xtine simran michelle nicole laura mark shanshan zhihui and also subra and desmond from 05V14.

bleagh. so many things happened this week.

one thing, i hope that as a class we would start treating the teachers better. there are some of us out there who constantly take them for granted like they owe us a living. i really sympathise with certain teachers who have yet to get used to teaching us. we're not the only ones getting shit everyday you know. they too go through tough times and not everyday's a smooth sailing one. how can you expect teachers to be (more) understanding (they may already be) when some of you don't even try to put yourselves in their shoes. always demanding this, complaining about that. all that adding up just gets on my nerves and i can't imagine the teachers trying to cope with the stress we're putting on them. it's depressing and hurtful to them you know. the untactful things some of you say without actually logically accessing the situation before hand. they are losing their patience with us and unfortunately i feel that their attitudes towards us lately are justified in some way.

argh i just lost my train of thought. damn. arh i think i'm done with this post. get well soon eka!

2006-08-13T11:18:00.000+08:00

good morning ppl. and here's wishing a HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY TO ATHENA TAN! the smart/pro/no.13basketballer girl from rg who loves death cab for cutie/poetry/chicklit/photowhoring/music. ahaha. i wish you and eka all the best XP mhmm yesterday was a good day. slept in till abt 12. got dressed and went down to orchard to meet jastine. spent the whole afternoon walking around. had to resist to urge for impulse spending. aha lots of the stuff were just freaking nice man. esp some of the 37degrees tees. i got some accessories too. looking for nice brown leather cuff bands. most that were being sold had this shiny metallic part which was not that nice. some stores still were having sales even after gss. hotstuff. it rocks to have a good shopping partner around. went down to bugis after that. didn't really get anything from there though. we met normen later and jastine left for dinner with his family. he was going for the jbj play after that. went to look for wingyan and we used a train to plaza. caught the lakehouse. the show was touching. even though it's a remake of a korean movie i thought sandra bullock and keanu reeves looked good together. if you enjoy love stories, then you would definitely love this modern day fairytale. the art direction, the low key acting, and the total romance in the lake house. it's enchanting. haha. i thought it reminded me of the notebook, one of my most favourite movies. went to holland after that for a while, spent some time talking. it was getting real late so we just cabbed back. got home around one something. dead beat. feet were just killing me after the whole day of walking. zZZ

how's your sunset? it's perfect. i only wish you were here to share it with me.

2006-08-11T23:56:00.000+08:00

shock shock horror horror. guessed who tagged? XP hahahaha

yao homies. just came back from jastine's house. had to walk through some dark park to get home 'cause the lights were all off/not working -_- damn freaky i might get mugged or something. and like as if things weren't bad enough he had to remind me about hungry ghost fest (though i don't celebrate it and all) ahah. did sip today! damn glad we were quite productive. we're about 90% complete! dig that man!

had project reeeeeewwiiind meeting today with the other rewinders. by the grace of some higher authority and my wonderful luck, i have to put up with someone for the rest of this project. oh how i love thee ways. i can foresee ~~my impending doom~~ us having a great time working together in the coming future. yeah how we should celebrate diversity and our different styles of thinking, different artistic direction and all. in light of ndp. how apt. (oops so sorry do i sound like i was bitching?) so anyway on the whole we're making some progress and getting started. hope it would turn out fine. (=

jastine took me to stonegrill for lunch. ahah it was damn cool lah. true that it's just a novelty but it's also supposedly a healthier alternative 'cause it doesn't use oil and stuff to cook. you get to cook the meat yourself to your own liking on this volcanic rock thingy. i had this teriyaki chicken thigh for main. the whole lunch promo comes with soup of the day (we had corn soup today) plus a drink (COKE!!!). all for the price of $8.90. not bad indeed. oh but that was where the 'healthy' part ended. we couldn't resist the temptation to indulge and got ourselves a brownie + icecream and an apple strudel<3 aaahhh it was damn nice. thanks man.

diane is so funny! oh how we all love the song one by U2 feat. Mary J. Blige. go check out the mtv on her blog! heh i just publicised the SONG and your BLOG! thank me. (=

yadayada. we're going shopping tomorrow! retail therapy. hah. kk that's about it. damn tired now. nights ppl!

2006-08-10T21:52:00.000+08:00

ah don't you guys just love my new blogskin? wow it's damn nice man. i quote eugenia, "yan3jing1tang2guo3". ahahha. self-praise does wonders. =)))

2006-08-09T16:29:00.000+08:00

waddup ppl. happy birthday to my dear bro jason and ruiqi on 8th august! wishing you two a smashing sixteenth birthday! gahh. i know i haven't updated in a long while. haven't been touching the computer lately. at least i'll be able to get some rest finally (i hope) during this national day break.

i was about to pon school yesterday but it was quite hard for my absence to go unnoticed. had lots of stuff to do. so i did the right thing and changed my mind in the morning. the 'celebrations' in the morning were (in my opinion) just quite pathetic, at least when compared to last year's. as expected. no, i'm not saying that performances like those by harmoc or that the house comm video were bad. (e.g. i know the harmoc ppl in my class practised very hard) so anyway, kudos to those who were involved. mass dance followed at the end around 10plus, but most of the class ran away, as usual. still had fun though. danced friendship with aunty clara! she's so funny man. (= can't believe i actually managed to dance through all 6 dances with the moves roughly there ><

had rewind meeting after that. poor jiayi was delayed by half an hour 'cause of ms tooty (ask diane if you don't know who) she didn't allow jy to answer her phone and what she said to them was not really justified. but anyway, we waited for her and cabbed down to kino@ngeeann. we spent about an hour just browsing through books, supposedly to gain inspiration. but seriously, i can't and i don't work like that. but since it was mr koh's idea, there would have been some rationale behind it i guess. went to starbucks to discuss with the other 7, mrkoh jy xiaoxian chunhan nazri mark yx. came up with ideas for the general concept and design. which i can't tell you about 'cause it's top secret.(= wrapped up around 2 plus.

jy and i left to look for a card for beeleng who's from MILK. to thank her for assisting us in the project and all. used a train to simei. bought a mini blackforest cake for ruiqi at eastpoint. headed to sarah's house after that. we were supposed to wait for this shuttle bus to savannah condopark which came every half and hour but had to wait for around 45 minutes -.- argh. went there, worked on presentation and poster for this saturday's exhibition. everyone was there except for wuyue who had vball. sarah's parents are really nice. ahha and during dinner, they bought so much food that 7 of us had trouble finishing it. worked on the project late.. mum only came to pick me up at 12 midnight. was already half asleep by then. Zzz

oh well i slept in today. only woke up around 12 plus. haha. sorry to sihui's sl group! :( couldn't go down to help you guys with the sale today. and sorry to other peeps from class, i just couldn't drag myself all the way down to go watch click with you guys. bleh i really hate to pung-seh people and all. :( but anyway, later we'll be going to visit my british cousin and her portugese husband. they're working in a bank and they both just got posted here to work for the next 2 years. how cool is that! i'll get to see them more often now. =))) k that's about it. ciao ppl.

(omg i just realised i blogged in paras today.)

2006-07-30T09:26:00.000+08:00

gd morning ppl. special shoutout to shannon diane marj wuyue fang althea jomtang charissa xtine and jastine! hey everyone thanks for dropping by. yesterday was college day. i was meant to do some work during the ceremony but ended up being very unproductive talking to wingyan and qianyu. >< mrs chan mentioned our MILK sl group during her speech and i thought the photo looked weird. but the projection was blurry anyway so i guess that was why it turned out that way. we won the silver award! woohoo not bad man. diane dragged me to go watch a movie with her after that. went to marina where we had dinner at bk. leanne joined us and i got really confused during their gossiping session. aha. she left to join her parents for dinner after that and we went to the theatre. it was a nice movie lah. well i'm not supposed to talk about it but i can just say i rated it 3/5. wasn't exactly what i expected it to be. bahh gotta chiong the dumb IndiE-Venture thing now.at least i completed one already. gonna look for roses now. sayounara!

edit: who wants to go for RGS dance night Espressione II at Victoria Theatre on the 4th of August! tell me NOWWW. tickets are running out.

2006-07-26T20:21:00.001+08:00

watashi no higeki na owari.
sometimes i think too much about the future. somehow i always think that things won't ever go my way. something/someone will come along and change the way things are. why is it always so difficult for me to imagine a happy ending? sigh. currently listening to piano song by the juliana theory. and it's a really nice song. makes me feel much better. still suffering from some sore throat and flu. ah but at least the fever's gone now. today was the 3rd day of the helmsman week. another long day. had some talk about grooming. then some sharing by four people on their careers and pursuing dreams. it's all about having the courage to take risks. ended the day with a sharing by david hoe. this super zai guy, he was from the em3 stream in primary school, and did the normal(tech) course at secondary school. however, he did exceptionally well in sec 4 and got transferred to the express stream the year after. had to start again from sec 3, but what was important was that he knew where he wanted to go. he was determined to take his a levels, do well and go to university, and to become a teacher. damn cool man. shows that nothing is really impossible. just wait. and things might just get better.

2006-07-25T19:45:00.000+08:00

sigh i think i'm going into a state of depression again. too many things to think about and it really doesn't help to have people getting on my nerves. sorry but i've been really irritable of late. i'm okay as long as you take the effort to understand me and leave me alone. really don't have to bother about helping me. you might make matters worse. it's taking a real toil on my health and mental state of mind. so sick today i just had to go home halfway and rest. take a breather. away from all the stressing forces. ahh all i need is strength. Father give me strength. a million voices fill my ears, polluting my mind with noise. i really can't take it. why does it always have to turn out like this? i'm really sorry if my attitude bugs you. just ignore me please. thanks lots. i'll try not to be angsty okay? i musn't 'cause people won't like it. yes i should always think of others and put them before myself. that's THE way to go! yeah i'm alright and cheerful 'cause everything's really fine! and smile like i mean it. (= 'cause in the end, i always somehow manage to tide over things all by myself! yeah i don't need you.

2006-07-23T23:27:00.000+08:00

good morning people.well the past week has been okay i guess. tests, work and all.sigh. inV!gorate was on friday. i'm sorry everyone for the way things turned out. didn't really go as expected. oh well. on another note, thanks dj for updating me about reema. relieved that there were no fractures or anything serious. hope you get better by monday! would like to thank all those who gave me their support by being so co-operative and helpful. everyone kinda left at the end, so had dinner with jastine and normen at PP after that. kinda pungseh'ed the two girls 'cause they didn't want to join. sorry. my fault lah. heh. promised my parents last week that i would be a good boy this weekend and stay at home. and i did >< no partying or moshing or whatever. booze is bad okay. i shall abstain at least for now. and all that coke! past two weekends got wasted on coke. went to jastine's yesterday to discuss langarts SIP. we're doing something on class and identity. imma go borrow some movie later 'cause we're gonna analyse it at some point. koh wants the proposal in by today. dang. went to church yesterday, and there were some things said that got me reflecting. i think sometimes i take my friends for granted. i mustn't miss the opportunity to tell people how much they mean to me. it's like, acquaintances and friends come and go ever so often in my life. and if i don't take the chance to tell them how much i appreciate them and how grateful i am to have the around, i may never get another chance in the future. you looked right through me, walked right through me. and now you're saying that you knew me? thanks a mil. i can't believe how it was possible for me to talk to someone yesterday. someone i've hated so much i've not talked to for more than a year.

2006-07-17T22:00:00.000+08:00

hello ppl! been busy lately. anyway here's a rundown of what i've been up to the past week. oh well i guess the final result of the world cup did not really matter to me as i'm neither a france nor italy fan. but anyway, congrats to italy. home of d&g! well so i was half asleep through most of the lessons on monday.

hmm tuesday - everyone thought there was going to be a bio test and we all mugged like mad. but guess what, my class didn't have it. V13 did though. pity those people. our class managed to get our chem and math test postponed from tuesday to wednesday and thursday respectively. oh how lucky we were that the teachers were nice. chem test wasn't that hard, i guess it should be pass-able.

thursday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIM! smashing sixteen! (: sigh. i wished i had spent more time revising math the night before instead of bio. bio test didn't take place AGAIN and as a result my hours of studying did not exactly pay off. needless to say, i think i flunked math. oh well. sigh. watched a malaysian film called sepet during ea. basically, it was about an interracial relationship between this guy called jason and a girl called orked. well i thought it was really nice to watch. the perspective the director took to shed light upon the issues of race and racial stereotypes was no doubt an interesting one. not bad i guess. 4/5 stars. ahah.

friday: lessons passed by real fast. caught pirates with wingyan and wuyue at marina. sigh. wasn't as good as i thought. really draggy, slapstick plot and acting. boo. 3/5 stars. xP well i'm looking forward to a great third movie though!

saturday: went early to school for parents-principal-teachers session. was the ic for ushering, got ppl to help here and there with some logistics before the thing started. bleh. parents saw my langarts/math/bio/civics tutors. well i guess overall the comments were't too flattering at all. sigh. ended around 12 plus and went for lunch with jastine. went to cut our hair after that. finally! after more than 3 weeks. ><

sunday: finished up my homework in the morning and afternoon. (tried to.) baybeats today! woooooohoo. met up with jastine at 6 at cityhall. (oh by the way for those ppl into surfwear, there's an additional 20% sale at flash and splash from now till august! go check it out now!) we watched ETC play for a while before the first act @ the arena. Calerway from down under rocked! their vocalist was not bad indeed. went to eat after that. hokkien mee is steam man. concave scream followed and the atmosphere was just getting hyped up. mainly performed songs from their latest album horizons, so at least i knew what they were singing. haha. met diane's seniors poot meilin and her classmate miranda just before electrico's set. we initially lost them in the crowd but later we ended up moshing with them when the whole crowd just went crazy. moshing mayhem! i think i never moshed so hard in my life. o.O they did songs from hip city, and i realised i wasn't quite familiar with the new songs yet. at the end our shirts were just soaking wet.. so went over to marina to grab a drink. more coke again. gosh i think i overdosed on coke this weekend. originally planned to go back for more but decided that we were all just too tired. got back around 11. haha pro man. finished up SS in time. woah i was still damn high even after doing SS. finally got to sleep at 12plus-oneish.

what an eventful weekend. heh. fun nonetheless. today was okay, probably one of the few reasons why i hate monday is only because of the timetabling. how can anyone survive 2 periods of chinese and 3 periods of lang arts consecutively? anyway di today was fun/boring cos we were busy painting boxes and making photoframes for mrs jay and ms hoo. actually, i spent most of the time looking for paintbrushes with clara. ahaha. the one with paul twohill's hair. ohhkay that's abt it for this long long post. see ya people. nites(:

some pictures:

calerway from down under

concave scream

electrico!

jastine and i

2006-07-08T22:06:00.000+08:00

waddup ppl. today was an okay day i guess. happy birthday fanglin!(: fabulous fifteen. hah anyway by popular demand, i shall try to have shorter posts. woke up late today at like 11. didn't do much in the morning. some ppl came over to look at our house in the morn 'cause we're planning to sell the house. mhmm so it was actually the doorbell which woke me up and not the msg. went to watch superman returns today! met jastine at citylink and walked around marina looking for stuff. oh man i need to start saving! met nick, shannon and yeejek after that at the cinema. well overall it was a rather good movie. i actually kinda liked it. after that jastine met his parents for dinner and the other three went to white sands. went to bugis to look for some stuff and came home. heh that's about it. go GERMANY! goodnite ppl.(:

2006-07-05T20:36:00.000+08:00

well well evening ppl! 4jul. the first day of school after a long break was badd. got lots of work to do and tests coming up. oh but ms low wasn't here today! at least i'm spared from bio test for another 2 days. argh chinese was such a bore! leanne and i were practically talking through the whole of chinese and math. singing songs and all. she claims that she's on a 'music fast' now so she can't sing songs like candy shop, disco inferno, lean back, tipsy and other stuff like that by 50cent or ya some other hip hop rapper. >< we got hooked onto my boo and kept singing it over and over again though. it started when we were younger and you were mineee..(: played vball again, and i think i'm now hooked onto it. anyway so after sch met thad and jason at barker then went to meet cel winner ant jerm germaine pam shaun rhian at holland v. celebrated winner's b'day! aww happy 16th birthday dear! may you and ant always be together(: don't worry 'cause we'll always be there for you. ahh i only got back around 11 plus and i just fell asleep. woke up later for the match though! i'm devastated because germany's now out too!): dang. hopefully they'll at least end up with a third. france better beat portugal now or else >< today was an okay day. by the way i'm hooked onto snow patrol's chasing cars right now! if i just lay here / would you lie with me and just forget the world? / forget what we're told / before we get too old / show me a garden that's bursting into life. i love wednesdays 'cause they're always so short. day just whizzed by. study study study! and now i'm thinking about the lang arts test tomorrow which i'm so not going to do well in. ohh well. whatever it is. i know i'll pull through eventually. whether by myself or with the help of friends(: and so we lived 'ever happily after'.

2006-07-02T18:15:00.000+08:00

oh man this week sure has been a really bad one for me. nothing seemed to turn out right and things just didn't go as planned. in short, life was just haywire. (ever since diane suggested it, i am trying to refrain from using any form of vulgarities. for this month at least.) i am just so so tired. all the wreckage which happened): to a certain toot person, stop whining and making matters worse alright? don't even talk to me about it okay? i'll get over it soon enough without you interfering. arghh. well on another note, at least some good things happened this week. firstly i'm glad for my sis that she got into victoria ip. she might actually get offered a place in nj too but i think she'll choose the former. secondly, i am greatly relieved that inV!gorate went on without much major hiccups and i'm proud of my class 'cause we won captain's ball and came in 3rd for football! thank you everyone who turned up to make it a success. now we have to start planning for the other sports. thirdly, it was actually a blessing in disguise that inV!gorate on sat was reduced to just capt ball and football. managed to go down to ny for their funfair after lunch at thaiexpress with class peeps. unlucky me, my phone died in the afternoon. got lost and couldn't find britt and the rest): ahaha. but later i managed to meet up with evelyn, sarah, dan, thomas, jheng and others. wow it was just great having an opportunity to catch up with friends i've not seen in months. many of them have really changed quite a bit. went to watch just my luck! is it luck or just karma? oh what an apt movie. like i can totally relate to it man. heh. i saw alvin working at borders! man WHAT ARE YOU doing there?? go ask vanessa out okay. and thank you cel for fall out boy(: sigh that's about it for now. my headache's killing me and panadol doesn't work. for me at least. bye ppl<3

2006-06-24T18:13:00.000+08:00

love in new wave / electrico

haha you gotta listen to this! electrico's latest single. we went for ygw yesterday. met up at j8 for dinner before going down to whitley sec with my sis, wingyan and jastine. the concert was good considering the lineup, but could have been better by upping the volume a lil and better acoustics. took a while to get warmed up and all. the crowd was surprisingly not as big as rockforgood@rgs last year which totally rocked. anyway, here are some pics:
ronin! the highlight of the concert!
haha check out what levan's wearing. and for the first time ever, levan played the keyboard live during one more moment!
velvet rose. not bad. notable were covers of sweet child o' mine (GnR) and it's not a fashion it's a deathwish (mcr), among others.
typewriter! featuring desmond goh of electrico fame on bass.
peepshow! ahaha their songs are funny.
this is west grand boulevard feat. new vocalist daphne khoo! check out their songs here at purevolume
my sis and i.
this is lucid vapour with members from vjc! quite good especially with their covers.
wingyan, my sis and i. didn't take any pic with jastine cos we got lost in the crowd. haha and my sis said she looked spastic here.

oh anyway don't forget the youth service tomorrow at 10.45 am at the main church! do be there people! jason, nic, jus, germaine, bianca, brandon, nicklim, tim, rhian, van, shaun, xavier, pam, jacq, blahblahblah and the rest of you ppl!<3 haha. see ya. goodnite ppl(:

2006-06-22T12:02:00.000+08:00

hey people(: just woke up. shit man my sleeping pattern's really screwed. sister's friends came over yesterday so i couldn't really get much work done in the morning. uh anyway class bbq yesterday. cabbed to east coast then was told that the rest were only coming later. >< anyway luckily met nat xavier yv and the rest there or i would have been damn bored(: chilled for a while then cycled around with them. went to pit 48 much later around 7plus. most of the people only came around that time anyway. didn't really eat anything at the bbq. talked to some people and played some games yadahyada. became really bored after that so decided to go to lifestylebash party at DXO. it was a bit too crowded though. music was great yeah urban hiphop! saw a few other friends. got on the dance floor but only for awhile cos she was tired. stayed till 1 plus then i sent her home first and cabbed home(: thinking about it now, i should have went for leontay's party at club momo the other day. ah that would have been fun. imagine 4 djs spinning for one party! yeah man. damn i shall try to do some cheena homework now. ahaha. ><

2006-06-19T15:54:00.000+08:00

boo(: ooh the colours just say it all. i'm finally blogging. woke up today at like 11.30. the holidays are like almost over! into the last week now. been reallly really busy.
diane and i at kew gardens(:
DI, uktrip and all. some church stuff too. just painted the banner for inV!gorate on saturday! it looks really nice.
artist's impression
got lots of stuff to settle, teamings and such. ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, AND A HUNDRED PERCENT REASON TO REMEMBER THE NAME! ok anyway it's on 1st July! from 9am to 7pm. hope to see all of you guys down there both playing and supporting your classes. points will be awarded for participation and match support! yesterday was fathers' day! happy fathers' day to all dads! went to a wedding at rasa sentosa. really nice. my dad's french ex-colleague/friend jean came yesterday too. today's quite an okay day i guess. got started on my work. thanks wingyan for keeping my homework and the wonderful homework list! thanks alot for the notes too<3 ahh all the chinese homework. >< mrs wee just called me up to ask if she could use my webfolio as a sampler for the IP1s who are going through their webdesign course now. ahaha i'm honoured. YOUTH GONE WILD on friday! ok i gotta go now. bye ppl. <3

2006-06-16T01:59:00.000+08:00

England vs Trinidad and Tobago.
2 - 0
Yeah! though they left it real late before goals by Crouch(83rd) and Gerrard(91st).
GO ENGLANDE!

2006-05-28T16:57:00.000+08:00

BACK from TENNESSEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
with the greatest group ever! Thanks for everything, the encouragement and support, working together as a team, spastic moments, jokes, laughter, beeping, lala-ing. haha. If not for you guys, this would have never been possible.

Wow the week just passed by so quickly. Going to the global finals was great fun and all. Met lots of people and made a couple of friends. We emerged 18th out of 44 in our challenge highsch/uni category! Not bad i guess since it's the first time Singapore's participating in the global finals. The singapore pins and keychains we exchanged with the other international teams were so hot we ran out in the second day! haha. Don't worry, we'll definitely bring more next time, that is, if we get another chance to participate next year. Really hope so, but probably in a different challenge. The structure held 165 pounds! Kudos to Qianyu and Yvonne our master builders! All those hours of sleep sacrificed and physical health deteriorated while sniffing glue and saw dust wasn't for nought.

Seems like just yesterday when Mrs Jay met us at the back of LT4 to tell us that we were in the same group and briefly explained to us what DI was about. Telling us WHO our other teacher mentor was. Ms HOO! haha. At that time, i don't think anyone of us actually expected to get this opportunity to compete in the global finals. But look who far we've gotten! It's amazing that our efforts have finally paid off. All the blood (yes real blood), sweat and tears, sacrifices made and all. Learnt some important things along the way that i will never forget.

I'd take this opportunity to thank each of you:
Qianyu thanks for being a wonderful group leader. You may have your countless blur moments but you're still as dependable and trustworthy as ever. XD Dye your hair now or the whole world would be able to see your white hair! Ahaha.

Jastine - Thank you for sticking with the group despite all your other committments and stuff. It was tough and stressful at times but we all pulled through! Thanks for being a good friend too and for always lending a helping hand.

Clara - Though you become aunty clara once in a while, it's the little things you constantly do that put us back on track which matter most. Despite the mean things you say once in a while, be glad i still consider you a nice friend. Don't always worry too much about things cos you know that they will eventually turn out fine. trust me.(=

Thank you Yvonne for injecting cuteness in the group and infecting me with your funny/random antics that always amuses me. Thanks for being really understanding and listening to my rantings. Little hamster!

Yixiang. For all the funny insults and things you say that never fail to motivate us. Your contagious laughter. All the dancing and the things you always do when you go into your master poser mood. You are a really mean person so i don't know why i'm thanking you but it's really fun to have someone like you around. thanks for keeping my phone bill high enough. ><

Mrs Jay! You're a fantastic team manager because you're just so good at everything! It's amazing how you're always so prepared and organised. We would be kinda lost without your guidance. And of course all the reflection sessions that got us thinking. Seemed like you were more enthusiastic about the competition at times. Thank you!

Ms Hoo. Thanks for always being so patient with us. Like how you always accompany Qianyu and Yvonne when they are building the structure and for helping us grab some balsa wood from chinatown. Thanks for helping us invite teachers to evaluate our structure and stuff like that which may seem little but are really significant.

Thank you Mrs Chan for agreeing to sponsor our trip.
Thank you to everyone in the VIP department. All the teachers for being understanding and accomodating by giving us extensions and lightening our workload.
Everyone else who supported us and helped us by giving us constructive feedback which we diligently worked upon and all your valuable words of encouragement. Thanks!

here's a shoutout to the other Singapore team from RGS!

ok done with my long long post. just unpacked for tennessee. leaving for eukay tmr! to be done: PACK!
BYE AGAIN! see you in the 2nd week of june.

2006-05-21T16:25:00.000+08:00

bye people! i'll be off to hongkong then to TENNESSEE in the USofA in around 14 hours time. thanks everyone for all your well wishes, encouragement and support the past few months! XD we'll do our best at the finals. will be back next sunday, so don't miss us too badly! uk peeps, see you guys in a week's time! sayounara.

2006-05-14T14:14:00.000+08:00

don't miss this chance! lots of great bands will be rocking the stage: featuring ronin, west grand boulevard, typewriter, lucid vapour and other up and coming bands. look for jastine if you want tickets! *by the way, he doesn't get commission.* hahaha. more info

2006-05-14T11:39:00.000+08:00

Watched mi3 with josh on friday at marina. went to bugis after that. shopping! bought a few tops and a pair of new jeans. happened to be walking around esplanade and i saw surreal performing there. it's an indie/rock/christian band. they were quite good esp the drummer.

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Went to sch on sat at 8 for DI. yixiangy totally forgot about the meeting so he had to cab to sch. We told him that mrs jay was angry that he was late.. haha. it worked though. got him to hurry up. qianyu yvonne left for chinatown after that to get wood. clara yixiang went to bras basah for acrylic and paints while jastine n i went to ubi to get bubble wraps and cardboards.

haha we got lost at ubi. got off the wrong stop and walked one whole round just to find the shop. we looked like those karang guni people with cardboards rafia string and stuff. 10cent doughnut balls! haha. Started to rain so we wanted to cab back to school. It was quite impossible to get one so no choice we took 15 to parkway. The bubble wrap was damn big and troublesome it was so hard to get on and off the bus. -_- waited while jastine went to buy food. tried this special blend bubble tea recommended by him. deliciiouus. haha. cabbed back to vjc. thanks jomtang for helping to close the taxi trunk door. hands were all full...

continued rehearsing till about 4 plus.
then went home to change. Took nel to plaza sing. Walked around for a super short while, couldn't find what i was looking for. In the end, i used a cab to vj for chinese drama night cos i was running late.

gosh. bleh. gah. wingyan and i couldn't understand most of the jokes and stuff !@9[;]73@#!#*&^(%#&)/@13*4'36` had to trouble those around us to explain.. sorry. you see i don't normally go watch chinese dramas, unless i am forced to do an assignment based on it. no, actually i was there to support friends in the chinese society. xP

went to parkway macs with wingyan, marge and marj after drama. didn't really eat anything though. it was close to 12 so wingyan's dad offered to send me home.. haha. thanks a lot! XD

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sigh had to wake up early today. had to go to church at 7 as dad was going to play golf after that. haha. oh well. trying to finish my work now... lots of stuff to do this week. >< di t-shirt design is coming along pretty fine. happy mothers' day!

oh and i would like to announce here that talented sandra has got into the finals for iCtalent! (Inter-College Talentime / I See Talent) yaye. she's one of the 4 finalists for the solo category. the other cat is the band one. her sis is also one of the 4 solo finalists. i hope she wins! SO PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO GO DOWN TO SUPPORT HER!
date: 19 May 2006, friday
time: 7pm
venue: SAJC Cultural Centre
do inform her if you're interested to go support her! cos you need tickets (FOC) to get in.

twisted transistor - korn.

2006-05-10T21:28:00.000+08:00

went back to school today. wow i was quite lost during the lessons...
oh tuesday. what a great day to miss.

just came back from school, had DI rehearsal again. we added quite a few new elements the play. really funny like some indian dance -.- it's much better now compared to the one we did last month though. gotta be really grateful to have mrs jay as our mentor. she's really good at this kinda stuff. and committed team mates. yep they're the most important in this whole competition.

piece of good news from mrs cheng today: the deadline for the physics project has been extended to next monday! she mentioned to the class that the physics tutors finally decided on an extension after seeing that so many of us were so stressed and stuff. wow. thanks mrs cheng. really appreciate it.

i got my new badge today! haha the one from the comm heads. and guess what, mine read "vip" -.- oh so interesting. the comm heads supposedly thought of nicknames or other things that described us for our new tags. haha but i love it. though leanne hijacked it and wore it for the whole day.

to all the taggers: charissa, ruiqi, wooyeah, lis, genie, qianyu, jolyn, simran and subra. thanks everyone for your concern! i'm really much better now ok.

genie i miss you! haven't talked to you in ages. really. catch up soon. XD

oh and i'm looking forward to my new theatre elective tomorrow!
btw clara i hope you don't get rashes from eating the mash potato. i shall remind you from now onwards that you are allergic to the sauce. xP

2006-05-09T14:35:00.000+08:00

gah. i'm feeling damn sick now. feverish and nauseous. threw up this morning. i don't know what's happening to me. thanks people for your concern! i got 27 missed calls when i woke up. all those who were desperately trying to contact me in the morning.. sorry guys!

sigh missed the council investiture this morning. i feel so happy for the fourteens. i'm sorry i can't join you guys today. to the 15ths who got invested today, congrats and all the best! esp to the IP ct reps, jolyn, lis, leanne, deejee, jom and nicole. hope they have fun at the outing today and the bbq tonight. xP

so sorry to my di team mates and teachers. won't be able to rehearse with you all today. oh btw, thanks jastine for lending me electrico and the strokes!

argh i don't know how i'm ever gonna finish my physics project by thurs. all those pills are just making me so drowsy.

bye.

2006-05-07T21:10:00.000+08:00

hahaha. clara jastine qianyu yvonne and yixiang just went home. i really love my di team mates cos they're really funny and they just brighten my day. lol xP made some changes to the script and basically rehearsed the whole day. oh but not without the many digressions and talk crap sessions along the way. we played 'i never'! somehow i've never played that game before till today. lots of funny stuff happened but i can't and shan't divulge people's secrets here. *cough cough* haha. XD highlight of the day: yixiang singing to pussycat dolls and the click five.

2006-05-07T02:22:00.000+08:00

it's raining damn heavily now.
wondering why i'm still up at 2.22 am.

2006-05-06T23:50:00.000+08:00

this weekend has been rather hectic.

school ended early on friday.
i'm really busy because of the physics project, math project and RM. went to jastine's house to work on our script. i think we didn't have much progress though. esp since some people were being so irritatingly crazy i just couldn't stand them anymore. oh and we happened to watch the music video for bad day by daniel powter. uhm yvonne kept going on about how sad/touching it was and stuff.. yeah but to someone like me who's far detached from these kind of things, it was just another boring mtv.. though i'd rather watch that than shakira's hips don't lie anytime. XD anyway DI people are coming over tmr to really rehearse and get our act together.

cherian george came to talk on thurs about politics in Singapore, how 6 out of 10 people would vote for the PAP, that the press can't report on turnout for rallies, stuff like that. basically he gave us an overview of the political landscape of singapore, kinda apt in light of the elections.

latest: the results of the 10th general election are just out. ~~damn it~~ the PAP are back in power. opposition camp: WP's Low Thia Khiang retained his Hougang seat while SDA's Chiam See Tong has won the Potong Pasir SMC.

so many things have happened this week, but somehow it just seemed to pass by so fast. somehow i just think that i'll never be fast enough to catch up.

oops. time passes so fast. it's already 0014 sunday morning. i really need to take a break from this life.

peace out/leon