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2007-07-03T23:20:00.001+08:00

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hi, I'M BACK!

2006-12-16T16:06:00.000+08:00

sorry everyone! i know i haven't been updating in a long, long while! well, i'll be leaving for australia tonight and i will only be back on Christmas Day! so i guess i'll be spending part of christmas in australia as well as on the plane? hopefully there's something exciting in store for us then! well, at least i know that something exciting is in store for all sevenone peeps, whether u are or were part of sevenone during the first 3 mths! seems like it's gonna be rather interesting! all thanks to the organiser, huixuan! sigh, too bad i can't join u guys nxt wk, if the malaysia trip is confirmed. haha, actually i'm secretly hoping that the response wouldn't be too enthusiastic or the least to say, overwhelming, cos den it'll be held nxt yr and i can go!ah...but i know that's pure evil and selfish! cos i heard that some of the guys may not be able to make it nxt yr due to army posting i think. anyway it's just i thought la, hehe, i will not entertain it. well, hope u guys have a thrilling time at Malaysia, and hopefully the guys will play bodyguards and offer the girls the sense of security that will need!haha!

ok, let me back track a little to prom, since i've not been updating! well, prom was rather fun, albeit quite nerve-wrecking cos i was running for the ms body beautiful title. we (there were 3 contestants in all including me) had no clue as to what we were supposed to perform on stage until we were backstage awaiting the host/emcee on stage to call us upstage. i was fortunate though, that what they called upon us to do was what i love to do - dance! but i was still feeling a little uneasy. thanks to u guys though, i managed to cool myself down and tried my best. thank you all the sevenone gals who came to the front of the stage to cheer me on! thank you all the chi dancers too who came forward to give me your support! i really appreciate what all of u did. i doubt i would have the courage if not for all the moral support all of u lent me. thank youu!!! :D
haha, so basically half the time spent at the prom was devoted to photo-taking..what else? nothing much to say abt that. well, den after prom we adjourned to the room we booked at ritz-carlton. we didn't stay there long though. soon after we got changed into comfortable clothes and shoes (some of us came to comprehend the pain and suffering behind bound feet) before leaving the hotel and walking abour aimlessly in the empty streets. acutally we weren't wandering around, we were attempting to make our way to esplanade, which was apparently supposed to be nearby. however we took an interminably long time before we got to our destination, cos we took some roundaout way! we felt absolutely cheated when we realised that esplanade was just opposite (if i rmb correctly)! we didn't spot it cos whoever in charge of running the esplanade decided to be economical and stinge on the money forked out to pay for the electricity bill! the place wasn't lit up and we couldn't see it against the dark night sky. so the long walk got some of us hyper (ppl like kq and shimin) and some of us groggy and yearning for the soft touch of a bed.

when we finally reached the esplanade, it was early in the morning. the post-prom party was still on and the music was still pounding in the club. well, we resolved not too waste 16 bucks just to enter the place, so we wandered arnd yet again. and we began to experience how delinquents felt, roaming in the streets late into the night. we met ritz there and kq kept harping on him trying to act paikiah when he's not. haha. oh yes, i missed out a brief but frightening encounter on the road before we made it to the esplanade. there were some guys on motorbikes who seemed to belong to some gang. there sped across the road and hooted and cat-called at us while we were crossing the road! we were all scared that they'll try to do something funny, so we quickly ran off. luckily nothing unfortunate happen. phew!

ok, quite a long entry i have here! i've to return to my packing...make sure nothing is missing! the cab will be arriving at nine. i'm hoping that i'll get to view the movies i've missed out in the theatre! like stepup :) pls pls show stepup on the plane! bye for now then! :)

details for CIP

2006-05-30T20:39:00.000+08:00

hey sorry! i forgot the password to the class blog. so i'm posting all the details here.

there are a mainly 2 projects you can participate in: funfair and sale of pass-it-on cards.

1. funfair
when: 18 jun 06(sun) from 9am-6pm
where: SWAMI home (take to sembawang mrt den take a bus there)
what: -you can be one of the 5 volunteers needed to help man the stalls
-or you can set up a games/food/services stall. preferably games stall.
how: in order to set up a stall, you will have to draw up a proposal, latest by this sat, 3 jun
things to include in your proposal
-wat u plan to do
-wat u require
-your cost price
-how much u plan to earn
-how many ppl u will need
-how much funds u require (the home can provide abt $100-200, but all money earnt will be channeled back to the home)
*your proposal may or may not be accepted by the home, so make sure u come up with a good and substantial one

2. sale of cards
when: 15 jul 06(sat), should be a whole day affair
where: i'm not sure. it's supposed to be an island-wide sale. similar to flag-day
*no limit to the number of volunteers. i think they need lots of ppl at the moment

so pls get back to me asap if u're interested in any of the above projects. i need to get back to my fren asap! thanks! :)

melancholic

2006-05-20T23:34:00.000+08:00

today i visited the blogs of some ppl in our class.

i didn't know nigel had a blog. i realised how little i understand my classmates. i realised how disjointed our class is. it's a class tt has been coercively pieced together, like a jigsaw puzzle tt doesn't fit. i guess i perceived this much earlier, it's just tt i've been avioding this fact and have been unwilling to accept it. until i read those blogs. those words which i share the same sentiments with are laid out before me, and i can no longer not be honest with myself. i must say i am not very happy in my class and i think many others agree with me. and the worst thing is tt the dance studio (ok, college studio) is not a place where i can seek refuge in whenever i want. unlike nanyang. it's like wat ritzley said: he will feel lost without vball. so will i without dance. now u know why all the more i feel so frustrated abt how the chi dance society is being run in hwa chong. oh noo. i dunno why but i suddenly feel like crying. ok, actually i am alr cryin.

i can't believe that almost one and a half years have passed and yet i have hardly spoken to some ppl in class. nigel's right. (i read his super old entry) it's more like having friends and not a class, honestly. yet it's so ironic that we lack class spirit and bonding but we share similar wishes of reverting back to our sec sch days. and since this is not possible, we all can't wait to graduate in order to get out of this cage, where we are pinned down, our movement hindered, and our joy suppressed. i can't wait to be released, can't wait to fly free, away from all this crap, where i can be myself - fully and comfortably.

don't get me wrong. it's not exactly the people who are bad or mean, but some how all of us come together and happen to not be able to click very well. Sometimes i wonder wat i'll be like in another sch. will i end up a different person? will i have better prospects and opportunities in their dance society? will i be able to form very strong bonds with my class and hold these close to my heart? or does the problem just lie with me? is it only me who's the antisocial one? is it only me who feels this way? but no, no. others feel this way too.

i'm confused. i don't know what to think. good nite.

MAD over dance

2006-05-14T18:12:00.000+08:00

ah...i've been scolded for not updating :( okok, i noe i've been lazy. it's a wonder how time flies! it's may now and i've not updated in a month.

looking back, quite a number of things have happened since i last blogged, and many are to do with dance. the month of april and early may was a time for concerts - lots of it. i went for 'burn the floor', vj dance nite, hc strings concert, and rj dance nite. i must say after attending the concerts, i was left feeling depressed. and when this feeling of depression sort of wore off, feelings of resentment and anger rose in me. i was resentful of being in hwa chong, where little respect is given to chinese dance. the school also places little emphasis on dance, as we've limited funds. this poor reputation of chi dance is not entirely the fault of the school, but also, i will boldly announce, our teachers. we lack a committed dance tr as well as a tr-in-charge who is willing to push for changes - change of tr, fighting for more funds and a better studio tt can be called a dance studio and not a college studio. a studio that is the very least clean, with rules prohibiting anyone and everyone to step inside with their shoes on. i'm not even asking for a more spacious studio with more mirrors or air-conditioning or a nice parquet floor. i just sincerely hope that one day there will be a place called the dance studio in hwa chong, where the privileged use of the studio goes to the dancers and not anyone, for PE etc, where everyone steps in with their dirty shoes on. i'm sorry if i sound harsh (ok, i'm not that sorry), but it's after this month tt all my discontentment towards hc dance, accumulated since last yr, have culminated to such a pt tt my feelings of indignation are beginning to spill out. i can't seem keep it in any longer. disputes and complaints regarding costumes, the type of dances we're dancing, the type of performances we're performing for, the state of the studio in which we've to hold practices in, the availability of this pathetic studio have been extremely frequent since J1. i think i've to force myself to stop here, before i begin spewing out all the pent up frustration i feel rite now in a curt manner that i will have to be liable for. u can say that i regret joining hwa chong dance, and that the only dance that i find acceptable is our cny 2006 dance. the costume was the only one that to me, was tolerable.

i still can't believe that we're not going to have a dance nite and will never, throughout our stay in hwa chong, when almost every other jc is having, or have had a dance nite, and hc MAD is also holding a dance nite and we're not.

okay, i guess the only thing worth rejoicing about, pertaining to dance, that happened last month was the joining of salsa class with shiyan at studio wu. we've joined one lesson so far, and i think the tr's not bad. she's very pretty, hot and humorous too! :) can't wait for the coming class this fri! alr missed one last fri due to vesak day :(

to all those out there who do not share the same kind of passion i have for dance and are wondering what's the big deal i am making out of this, do pardon me. ignore what i've said, but do not ever scoff at dance. to those who share the same passion as i do, as well as my dancemates, i hope u all understand what i am feeling...

pics from cny 2006 performance

2006-04-08T15:30:00.000+08:00

dropping by..

2006-04-08T15:12:00.000+08:00

haven't blogged since blocks started...sigh, cos well, my results were very depressing, and i didn't feel like blogging about it.. well, i deserve it anyway. shall treat this as a form of punishment for being soo lazy during the hols!

another reason why i didn't blog was because there were some problems at home too. but everything's fine now, and i am glad :) after an episode that happened earlier this month, i feel that our family is even more strongly bonded together, and i earnestly hope that this feeling of unity will continue. (not that we weren't well-bonded as a family before this, but i guess perhaps it wasn't as strong?)

i also sense a greater depth of friendship between me and some of my friends..some of my friends (actually maybe only one more la) seem to confide in me, and that makes me happy. cos i realised that many of my friends don't tell me their problems, we just laugh and talk to each other. we're more like fair-weather friends - friends who only come together to have fun. i guess that's because i don't socialize enough and speak to them often? so they don't feel comfortable telling me much. that's sad, but i guess nothing much can be done.

on a brighter note, this coming mon, 10th of april is my sister's birthday! i guess we'll be celebrating tmr. maybe have dinner at some hopefully fancy restaurant :) ohoh, and i got a new phone quite recently. actually i got it during the march hols, it's just that i haven't blogged about it yet. it's a pretty common phone: sony ericsson k750i.

okayy, i've been online for a rather long time alr, and i'm going out later! byee

guess what is this?

2006-03-19T10:30:00.000+08:00

guess what's this queer-looking fruit? it is a hairless capsicum-like mini kiwi! ate it that day during lunch. it's called...a 'kiwi berry'! so cute right? it's pretty good too. it incorporates the best of both worlds - the sweetness of the berry, and a tinge of refreshing sourness of the kiwi. yummy! but it's expensive though. my mum says she bought it so that we know that at least we've tried something like it before, even if we don't ever buy it again.

blogging before blocks..

2006-03-19T09:49:00.000+08:00

ah...blocks (excluding the gp paper) officially begins tmr! heeelp...i don't feel prepared! tmr i've math and econs! sigh, TWO papers :( and on wed i've chem. bio's on fri, and bio spa skill A is on the following monday. boohoo. i haven't even started on bio yet..quite dead. oh noo. and i was just watching "peach girl" vcd yesterday..and, and the day before! couldn't resist :( :(

okay, i guess that's enough whining for now, if not i'll sound like kaiqian! i didn't know kaiqian whines quite a lot under stress! haha! anyway, it was my mum's birthday yesterday, but we didn't celebrate, cos we had a nice dinner together the day before. yup, cos my parents had some dinner and dance last night. i was home alone yesterday night...my parents went out for their function, my sis went out with her friends since morning, and my bro went out to play pool. so i was all alone at home :( so i got my "peach girl" vcd to keep me company..that's why i watched two!

moving on. my sis left for malaysia this morning! she's going there for one day with her friends to visit the melilea company there. my sis recently joined the company. organic drinks as well as facial products. me and my sis are using the products at the moment, and they seem quite effective! i think we'll continue using the products for quite some time. oh yes, and of course since my sis is there, she'll be doing some shopping as well. you know, singaporeans. i'm hoping that my mum will permit me to go over to malaysia for a day or something with my friends one day. hopefully this year! then can visit huixuan! :) haha, and play mahjong at her house cum gambling den, hee! :D can't wait! when i see how much fun my sis is having, i can't wait to get over with A levels!!! rawr.

oh yes. another piece of news. good news! i finally purchased my brand new handphone on friday! yippee! the only undesirable outcome is that i've been fiddling around with it since friday. there are too many functions la. so fun to play with and explore :) actually the phone's pretty common la. it's the sony ericsson K750i. it's truly a worth it buy; the functions are aplenty, and for a price of 338, it's very reasonable i must say. i don't regret buying it at all! now the next thing is to get a pouch to store and protect my handphone before it get's scratched and it's too late! i've asked my sis to look out for pouches while she's shopping :)

oh, and last thing. i just went for a run just now, then headed for the gym thereafter. this lady working out at the gym suddenly asked me for my weight then height! i wonder why.. but she seemed pleasant and friendly, so i told her. yup. she's pretty young i think. perhaps early twenties? hmmm, i don't think i've mentioned this before. more indians have moved into our condo, i think because some indian school had been set up within the vicinity not long ago. well, anyway, they've formed some sort of a yoga group. i saw a group of them gathered in the function room, equipped with their yoga mats! so cool right! hehe. the function room has clear glass panes as its walls - i didn't peek la. i wonder how's yoga like. haven't tried it before. but i think some poses that i've done in gymnastics and dance are similar ya.

all right, i've got to stop here for now. sikhi has moved house, and i'm feeling rather impatient - to visit her, that is. itching to zoom into her house and mess up her room. haha, no la. i'm not so mean! but she hasn't invited us over for house warming yet, i think cos everyone's busy with tests. so after blocks visiting siqi is on the agenda, so is hc chinese dance outing! i wonder whether we're gonna have some chalet or maybe bbq or something. hmm, how about the class? are we gonna have some class outing..?

class tee and poor mandarin

2006-02-23T18:21:00.000+08:00

yesyesyes! the class tee is out! i just collected them from queensway, i'm praying very hard that the class wouldn't mind it! i think it looks okay, but the problem is that there's this pop-out effect for the words 'seven one' on the back of the shirt. the words are supposed to be coloured scarlet red, but it looks more like a peachy pink after the embossment, cos of the expansion of that area. so i really hope that the guys wouldn't mind too much...

ahh...really worried that the class won't like the shirt! i certainly won't want anyone feeling like they are forced and obliged to wear the shirt or something...that will be really sad :( i guess i've to wait till tmr to find out wat the class thinks.

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today's tiffany's birthday too! happy 18th birthday girl! hope u had a great time with your secondary sch frens! sorry for not being able to celebrate your birthday with u today! maybe this weekend ya? i'm glad u liked your birthday present! we were rather worried that u'll find it too plain, but u seemed to like it a lot! yay! all the worrying for nothing! :D

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today was speak bad madarin day. chelly and kaiqian were trying their very best to converse in the chinese language. It was an extremely hilarious conversation that made the authenticity of chelly's 'A' and distinction on her O level chinese cert highly questionable. allow me to cite a few examples. Madarin - the chelly version:
1. "oh, shit!"; translation: "阿, 粪！"
2. "she was breathing down my neck"; translation: "她在我旁边呼吸"
3. and the last one, "i received an 'A' for my chinese"; translation: "我的华文成绩拿优"

haha, the last one is like how ironic! oh, and there's a final contribution by shimin. here goes. "i'm going to the left wing". translation: "我要去左翅膀"!

super looong entry! :) :) :)

2006-02-21T21:09:00.000+08:00

a month is flying by and i haven't updated yet! oops! haha, felt really lazy. anyway that's not record-breaking yet, hee!

well well, you could say that for the whole of feb so far i was in sort of a dilemma. and i'm still in that dilemma right now! sigh. i think i'm really fickle-minded. i don't know whether i should joing the mad dance night...it'll be held on 20th may, which is before block test two. i know i should be concentrating on my studies since i'm J2 now, but the dance night is just so tempting! there will be a large variety of dances, ranging from the usual hiphop to jazz, contemporary modern dance, and even salsa! that's soo cool!! i wanna learn salsa! shiru has begun her first salsa practice, and she said that it's really tough! but i'm still keen on learning anyway. however, the problem comes in when i've to go for one additional practice per dance that i join - that's if i decide to participate in the dance nite la. hmmm, if i do participate, i guess the max i'll be dancing is two dances? cos i've chi dance practice at least once a week. that means i'll arrive at a grand total of three practices or perhaps even four practices per week! that sounds quite heavy. the only good news is that the mad practices are relatively short - usually one hour plus, as compared to chi dance practice sessions which can last up to 5 hours plus, especially on saturdays!!

i wonder how long i will take to sort out my thoughts and come to a final decision...i don't have much time anyway. maybe by the time i arrive at a decision, i can't join the dance nite alr, cos i would've missed too many practices...sigh :(

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okay, let me talk about something less frustrating. oh yes, i meant to blog about valentine's day and all, but in the end i didn't! guess i was lazy and busy. oh well. valentine's day was pretty fun! i received presents from my angel (kaysiong) and mortal (alicia), and also some short messages an sweets from my classmates and dancemates! alicia gave me a necklace and a package consisting of sweets, lip gloss, nail art stickers and other small items, and kaysiong gave me this white roxy handbag with purple trimmings as well as a very interesting watch cum bracelet accessory :D thank you for the wonderful gifts! i hope u all liked the gifts i gave in return :) not to forget, me, huixuan and shiru gathered at my house for two cookie baking sessions on the sat and mon before valentine's day. our two batches of cookies differed a lot in terms of size and shape though! so we gave everyone in class one from each batch, wrapped them in very pretty napkins and secured them with gold ribbons and attached a happy valentine's day message. and we made shimin give gerald his cookies, hee! i think gerald was really embarrassed, so was shimin! but wat is there to be afraid of, since he already managed to pluck up enough courage to personally give shimin a pair of peilini's silver earrings on valantine's day, right? :D ha, and i heard kaiqian received a mysterious gift from an anonymous fellow. a certain fellow we believe to be from the opp bench..?

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i realised that lots of things happened last week! that's why i've so much to blog about. last week was the official busy week of feb. monday: we sat for bio spa - a paper i thought was quite poorly set..the instructions didn't tally with our apparatus; tuesday: VALENTINE'S DAY!; wednesday: cross country; thursday: econs timed assignment - wonder how i faired; friday: dramafest; and finally sat: JTS!! okay, so u can see that my whole week was packed!

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cross country: yep, i got my exercise but no prizes (duh!) i ran under the competitive category together with mingtse, tiff and xuanyi. came in number 64. i deproved! :( but i don't think i was in the best of shape anyway. oh! i know that alicia and xinyi also ran for competitive and they were pretty good! i think they were in the forty something positions, way to go! aiyah, should've just joined the mass run category...there'll be a greater chance of winning a prize! limen came in seventh for the mass run category! and the stoopid girl tried to trick me! of course i was not to be fooled! she attempted to cover the horizontal stroke of the number 7, and told me to see what she got. ha, didn't work! qingtan, my junior from chi dance, who was all dressed up for the x country run with her pink sweat band and all came in 5th for the competitive category! what a surprise! good job anyhow.

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on to dramafest. we entered the LT late, so we only got seats on the steps, but the view was okay, so i don't have any complaints. ares was really good. their plot was good, and i thought the script was written very well! the play was about a murder story, and they arranged the play in such a way that the audience gets bits of info from the diff characters. the characters are being interrogated by the investigator, and they all provide differing accounts. the final and correct recount of the events are then given at the end, and suddenly everything comes into place! i was truly impressed :) as for apollo, the acting was not bad, but the form of entertainment it provided was a bit too horny for my liking. basically, the horny jokes are all related to this guy called dick. words and phrases such as "up and down", "penetrate deeper" are peppered throughout the speeches of the characters in the play. so u get the idea... as for athena, they presented the play 'Beyond', and 'Beyond' is absract as its title. artemis was the weaker of the facs because their storyline wasn't exactly strong. but anyhow, good job hongli! u really looked like the old woman u were supposed to play! :)

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and finally, JTS! we had our dinner at nooch. was supposed to have it some place else, but there wasn't sufficent seating for a relatively large group, so we settled for nooch. the setting was nice, but the food was quite disappointing. we basically talked loudly, laughed loudly, took lots of pictures, and left the place empty and messy at around 9.45pm. it was quite fun. at our table, someone (i think yuming) started to say that the waiter looked like huixuan, and we all began scrutinizing the poor waiter who was trying his best to take our orders over the din that we made. he looked increasingly uncomfortable as the message passed down the rather long table - more and more of us took turns to glance at him and then back at huixuan to make the comparison. my conclusion: only his eyes and eyebrows looked sort of like huixuan's. that's all la. and then after that, there was all the picture taking. scandalous pictures were taken! such as that of ritzley with rebecca, haha. oh, and there was ritzley's unusually smiley pic too! oh, haha, and after that kian wei was also trying to take smiley pics with shiru. it was quite hilarious, cos his smile seemed a little forced. but hx managed to capture one in which he was grinning - naturally. and we also bought a delicious choc cake for shiru, as well as tiff. too bad everyone was very full and many didn't try the cake.

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so that was it for last week! it was a rather long week, i must say. anyway i'm considering changing my blog layout soon, so watch out for it :)

chinese new year's flying by...

2006-01-31T20:52:00.000+08:00

happy chinese new year everyone! i must say that this chinese new year was quite an enjoyable one for me, cos firstly, the holiday's longer than usual, and secondly, we got to skip quite a bit of the borring visits, heh :) if u're a chinese, u should know why. i won't be stating the reason here, cos it may not be auspicious to talk about such things during the new year?

better usher in all the luck u can get this new year! the cny holiday will be over by tmr, and there will be no more holidays until after our first block test :( boohoo. i was just checking my diary, and i realised that block test 1 is only about a month away...it will be held in early march. sigh.

let me talk about something less depressing! class tee design! yay! i came up with a design over the long cny holiday. really hope the class will like it. if you've any feedback, do tag. i'm praying hard that the class won't find it girly or cutesy. i didn't put up any slogan or anything, cos no one seemed to be able to think of something appropriate. i was thinking of a white or perhaps cream coloured class tee. oly problem is a cream-coloured one may not match very well with our school u. can't stand our school u colour! it can't seem to match other colours very well :x

this is supposed to be printed on the front of the tee, in the middle. the colour scheme is tentative, but i quite like these colours. the base colour is dark brown, and the flower is a pale orange.

okay. this is for the back of the shirt. it's supposed to be printed as a relatively small logo on the top, below the collar.

i hope everyone will like the design! if anyone has any strong objection, do voice it out! okay, i've got to go! there's school tmr, and i haven't completed my work!

oh yes, tmr's the day we're gonna meet our juniors for the first time for their very first cca meeting. yup. hope it'll be fun! :) bye~

blah blah

2006-01-22T09:22:00.000+08:00

well well, yesterday was a truly busy day for me! there was chi dance from like eight to three! o.O and then i went to toapayoh to borrow as well as return dance costumes and went for a haircut thereafter at kimage, toa payoh. the lady was quite pleasant and friendly, but she cut my hair really slowly. my mum said that's better then doing it hurriedly and sloppily. so well, i shan't complain. she helped me cut this slight side-parting fringe and also layered more. i requested to keep the length, so she helped me neaten up, and now there's a nice v-shape behind. :) but i haven't washed my hair yet since cutting (cos she helped me wash before that la), so i'm worried without the blowing my hair will get out of shape. my hair loves to curl this way and that, so it may get messy! :(

kimage was quite cool. there was this like oven-like compartment in front of my seat. and i was wondering what was inside. then i thought it was to store my bag and whatever valuables. luckily i didn't open it to put my bag inside! cos after shampooing my hair, the lady opened the compartment to reveal a rinsing basin with a shower, conditioner and some other hair treatment liquids all in place! then she swiveled my chair around, pressed a button, and i was being lowered into an inclined position automatically! quite high-tech, huh? hehe :)

i was visiting tiffy's brand new blog just now..it's simple, nice and girly, just like tiffy. but i thought she'll do something more chic; i mean she loves the chic and glam look. maybe next time huh, tiff? well, i was telling tiffy that day that there is one thing good about her quitting council - she now has much more time with her family and friends, in other words, we've had much more time together to chat and just joke arnd and be lame (and disgusting, esp if kkq is arnd, ha!) it's really been great knowing her better, and she's my new lab partner! to be honest, i thought last yr was a yr that i didn't noe anyone really well (in our class), but this year's a bit different! maybe the problem lies with me, i dunno, but i feel that last yr wasn't that great a year. but i feel more revitalised and charged this year! that's good isn't it? just in time for 'a's. and our class timetable this yr is super! i praying v hard that they won't make any more alterations to the timetable! now i've one 1330 day, three 1400 days and only one late day - fri, when we end at 1600. so please, please, don't ever change our timetable!

okay, moving on...i'm itching to shop! and catch a movie. haven't done both in one month plus alr. and now it's the time to shop, shop, shop, cos there are lots of chi new yr deals out there! i'm hoping my sis will be up for shopping today. she's feeling rather tired, cos she has been out everyday for a couple of weeks alr. she started work (training), jap classes and piano lessons arnd last wk and this wk.

okay, i'd better go do my work now so that later i may be able to go shop! bye :)

i'm back! :D

2006-01-10T08:12:00.000+08:00

i'm finally back! to blog that is. i returned from my japan trip ages ago, it's just that i didn't find time to blog. it's not my fault, really! after the trip, dance camp began immediately, and so i danced my days away till school reopened! yes, there was dance practice every single day at hokkien huay kuan (hkhk), and most of the time we ended really late, like eleven plus at night. looking back now, i don't regret it! performance held at the victoria theatre on the 7th and 8th of jan 06 is over now. sigh. when i went to school yesterday, i just had this empty feeling in me, and i was still in the performing mood. just two days, and in a snap, everything is over. all the hoo-ha over dance, complaining to my mum how it took up much of my time, how long the hours are, and now it's all over. and i want to relive those times again. especially because i've just began to warm up to the rest of the dancers of my class. because before the dance camp lessons were only once a wk (and i didn't attend every lesson), i didn't exactly get to mix around with them. the rigorous dance practices during the hols however, gave us plenty of time to socialize. and now, after the performance, many are leaving - for good. for example, yingqi and yingxian are leving. they are really funny and amusing, and extremely noisy. nevertheless, i'll miss them, and i'm sure the class will too. there will be much less chattering and bantering without them, and less fuming on the teacher's part.

i'm not sure when i'll be discontinuing dance lessons at hkhk, but i certainly will due to the 'a' levels this year. i'm not too sure yet, but the stop should be temporary; i should continue with lessons after my 'a's. i've heard that xiaoyu's reurning for lessons, and liying is considering rejoining the troupe. junying should also be rejoining! hmmm, with quite a number of people back, why shouldn't i rejoin too, right?

oh yes, my teacher has been discussing the possibility of sending our trio dance - "Red Ribbons"/《他们在无意中相遇》for a competition overseas! that sounds really exciting! i'm all for joining the competition if not for block tests and prelims, which will be around july - when the competition will be held. such opportunities don't come by too easily. i would love to grab this golden opportunity, but my studies may be at stake. i'm not very strong academically, so i'm in a dilemma. should i allow such an opportunity to slip by and concentrate on my studies, or forsake a little of my results for the competition? so last night, i was in deep thought over this issue. then i questioned my goal in life. do i want to do something related to dance in future or remain rooted to the usual academic-based subjects. i don't see myself majoring in any of the subjects i'm studying right now - biology, chemistry, math, economics. it doesn't seem right. my passion (or should i even call it passion?) for these subjects are most definitely not as strong as the love i have for dance. being a dance professional sounds good to me, but i don't know whether i've what it takes, and making a living as a dance professional isn't simple at all. such a job entails risk and income instability; it requires taking a big leap of faith and making a huge sacrifice for dance and my love for it. i don't think i'm prepared to do that. my mum had suggested an alternative of taking up business instead in university so that i can realise my dream of perhaps setting up a dance studio in future. i can take up dance as a hobby and go for dance exams to earn the necessary qualifications required to be a dance teacher even as i work in another line. the very last option that i can think of is following in the footsteps of the 'jie jie's at hkhk. they work and join the hkhk dance troupe, which provides them with performing opportunities. okay, i realised that i've coughed up a whole long paragraph on my ambition of pursuing dance. maybe for now i should just not worry or wonder too much about the future. when the time comes, i'll make a decision.

anyway, back to the performance at victoria! it was quite a success i guess! thank you for all the support u people have given me! a big thank you to...(take a deep breath)...tiffany, huixuan, pam (and her bf) for the support and the chocs, yanling, wanling, christine, yingying, shiyan, cherlyn, chienwei for being so supportive and for the lovely flowers, and also aijia (she bought the ticket but couldn't make it on that day), and siqi! thanks girl for your moral support, hope u're feeling much better now ya :)

and now, i shall be posting everything to do with the performance!

the 2 'jia jia's: jia ying and jia yin!

a group of us without the heavy make-up

say cheese! with jieying the goalkeeper :)

"Flow . Stay" / 《流. 留》dancers

me and yingxian in our 《乡情》costume!

xiang qing mei zi!

top: ziling and meizhen in shui xiu, bottom: yingxian, me, jingyi and yingqi in dai zu wu costume

jie mei hua :D

san ren wu: me, shu hua, shu ji and jenny :)

me and lois in our disco outfits!

wu ge mei nu! :D

chien, me and cher! boo..no sikhi :(

heyhey, me and rhino and a bunch of flowers sticking out :P

hc chinese dancers rock!

red power! liying, me and felicia. pity i didn't manage to catch xiaoyu and sheila..

programme booklet

our new dance tee, front...

..and back! i like the back! it looks cool :)

flowers i received! they wanted to but me a bouquet, but it didn't look v gd and was quite ex, so it was cher and chien's ingenious idea to buy a flower each for me! it's cheaper and it looks better :) (i'm giving credit to cher here, hehe)

..and finally, lots of chocs from tiff, hx, pam, and jackson

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!:D:D:D

going away!

2005-12-09T08:27:00.000+08:00

okay, i know i haven't blogged for a loong time. been really busy with dance lately at sch as well as hkhk. hehe, and i've also been busy the past few days going out with my frens (siqi, chien, cher) and my sis :) oh, and also with packing my luggage cos i'm leaving todayy!!! yesyesyes, going to beautiful japan which is a six hour flight away. i'll be sitting SIA there and back, yay! but today's flight is at 1am though, which is rather terrible, cos by the time we reach tokyo, it's 8am japan time, and we've to start the tour immediately! sigh, so i'd better catch some sleep during the flight. i guess no movie watching for me :( nvm, i shall watch as many as possible on the flight home.

for my birthday i received a few wonderful presents from my wonderful and tasteful frens. i received a pretty fox jacket from huixuan, tiff, pam, and supposedly from kaiqian too (but she was asking me wat they bought and how much it was!).

cool sweater ;)

and i also received a colourful tank top from realm and a pair of hoop earrings with coloured beads on them from cherlyn, chienwei and siqi. thank you my good pals! :D ha, chienwei even a took a photo of the tank top cos she thought it looked too nice, she felt reluctant about giving it to me.

pretty earrings!

rainbow tank top :)

oh, and shiyan and yingying also gave me a very cute frame with my name on it!

forever friends..

i'm in high spirits today, but my mood is a little dampened by the thought of coming home for an almost ten day long dance camp and having no time to study for the bio test and complete my work! sigh, i think i'm quite dead. bleah. by the time the dance camp ends it's alr christmas, and there are still additional rehearsals after that. oh yes, at this pt, i must do some publicizing. come support me!

SINGAPORE HOKKIEN HUAY KUAN ARTS & CULTURAL TROUPE presents...
"Yesterday's stage...TODAY" 《舞之思忖 --- 辗转舞台》

7th jan 06 (sat) 8pm AND 8th jan 06 (sun) 5pm
at the Victoria Theatre

tickets priced at $12, $15, and $20 (i think if 20 or more students watch the performance, there'll be a 60% subsidy. which means, if you but the $20 ticket, u only have to pay $8!) isn't that worth it?

okay, i'll have to go finish up my packing! byee

my seventeenth birthday!!! :D

2005-11-27T22:36:00.000+08:00

well, my birthday didn't turn out as bad as i thought it would be, but also not as great as i thought it would be. okay, i know i'm confusing you. hmmm, in short, my birthday was fine, plus we got an ipod nano (white)! :D:D:D hee

okay, the day begun with almost six hours of dancing from 8 to arnd 1.40pm in sch. well,i was beat after that, and my mum had not confirmed whether we were even going out as a family for lunch or something after that (evening was definitely out cos my parents had a function). so i felt pretty disappointed after all the fantasizing on my part (and also my sister's part). my bday had sounded so wonderful with a whole day filled with fun activities! my sis had said that we could go ice-skating in the morning, den go on a shopping spree after lunch to get her prom stuff and of course to buy any other thing (haha, if my mum would allow) that we fall in love with while window shopping! but it seemed that all hopes were dashed when my mum told me of their function, and when i remembered that there was dance for at least 5 hours! when my mum later added that we may not even be able to go out for a meal, or at the most, have lunch downstairs (at anchorpt), i was rather crestfallen.

but in the end it wasn't too bad! even though i ended dance late, my family was nice enough to still go out on a special lunch date with me :) my bro didn't go though, cos he went to play billiards with his frens. so we went to funan, cos we had quite a bit of vouchers (collected earlier on when we bought a new laptop for my bro), which had to be spent by a stipulated time. yup, so we made our way to swensen's and had a pretty good meal there, used up the vouchers and...(yes! there's still a follow up! :D ) we went to purchase our very first ipod - the ipod nano!!! although it's only 2GB (cos our dad only agreed to that price range), me and my sis were still estatic :)

now, i shall promise not to ever ill-treat our ipod, whether conciously or unknowingly, in anyway. of course i've not mistreated my zen micro on purpose, but i certainly caused its permanent impairment..sigh :( so now i'll take extra extra care of our precious ipod!

thank you everyone too for the birthday wishes! i'm really appreciative of the gesture! :))) i should be anyway, cos i tend to forget birthdays :x i'll do my best to remember them though, now that i feel how great it is to have ppl remember and wish u a happy birthday even if some may not be your closest pals!

oh, and of course, happy birthday to angie and liu qin too! happy 17th bday! (yesyesyes, they've the same wonderful birthday as me. heehee :D )

one day away!

2005-11-25T12:03:00.000+08:00

haha, my bday's one day away! sigh, wanted to post my very own wish list sooner, but my troublesome internet was down! :( so well, i'm gonna post now :)

my wish list:
(actually it's just stuff that i hope to get. doesn't mean i want them for my bday)

1. ipod nano! (doesn't everyone want one?)

2. pull over (maybe off shoulder? saw some nice stuff in fox. maybe they've wat i want..? will go check it out some day, hopefully when there's a sale)

3. mascara (hope to replace my current clumpy one)

4. shorts (i could use some casual-looking shorts, or maybe even some denim ones? dunno..will know when i see wat i want)

5. tank top (hmm, i guess i wouldn't mind a suitable one..)

6. thin belt? (i saw an elegant thin white belt at espirit earlier on..it looked quite gd! but i haven't tried it on. maybe some day..)

7. pen eraser (my current one is malfunctioning)

8. file/folder (those w/o much or any pockets, with a zip, and wider than A4 size. i've dissected my campbell bk, so i need a suitable file for me to carry along the dissected parts when needed!)

9. balletshoe-like socks (okay, i dunno its proper name. it's those socks that when worn, look like ballet shoes. i bought a new pair of sporty-looking shoes, and they're v low cut, so i need some low cut socks too)

oh no! realised that i sound v hungry for material goods! :(

anw, i've a very sad piece of news to share...i've got dance prac tmr in sch! that means i've got dance prac on my bday!! sigh. hopefully i still can celebrate after that by having lunch with my family? or friends? and maybe go shopping with my sis to pick up stuff for her prom nite - that's if she's not stuck at the com, playing war craft or sth with my bro lah.

oh yes, my sister was quite sweet yesterday. she bought me a range of artist's coloured chalks (hehe, sounds so gao1 ji2) as well as some fabric paint for me for my bday. the chalks are really nice, and they look rather pro! too bad i'm not some great artist. haha, i can never get my proportions right. oh, i drew a pic using the chalks. will post it up soon!

old and creakking bones..

2005-11-20T23:14:00.000+08:00

my bones are still creaking away since yesterday's dance practice, which lasted for an unbelievable 5 hours!!! oh mann. so i didn't go for dance at hkhk today. far too weary, and one of leg's injured. sighh.

i'm certain that i worked and strained every possible muscle in my body except for my facial muscles, though i don't know how. every nook and cranny seems to ache - my shoulders, back, tummy, sides, butt, thighs, calves, and even, ribs! i don't think i'll be able to figure out how my ribs can end up hurting. hmmm, unless i strained the internal and external intercostal muscles(ha, secondary bio). but that doesn't make sense!

oh, i just realised that there's one part that doesn't hurt - my arms. guess it's becos we did mainly jumps, so there wasn't much utilization of the biceps and triceps. we also did quite a bit of rolling, so i've bruises on my arm and knee too. bleah. i've spent the entire day lumbering feebly around the house.

frankly, yesterday's dance practice felt rather like a gym session; we were made to do cartwheels, handstands and lots of jumps by our ex-senior, who is at least 3-4 yrs older than us. he - yes, he - is the only male in chi dance in hc's history. i don't think there were any other male dancers. anw, back to the practice. he was a little more demanding and strict on the ji4 qiao3 (the more acrobatic stuff), and he made us learn a set of steps and perform them, alone, in front of everyone(when we haven't really grasped the movements and music yet). it wasn't sth tt we were accustomed to, so initially it was a little frightening. but i guess it's good practice - it forces u to perform each time u practice. quoting him: "what's the difference between performances and rehearsals? they're no different from each other!"

whether i like it or not, i/we chi dancers will have to accept and get used to his teaching style - at least for another 1-2 mths cos after he's done with our cny dance, he won't be teaching us anymore (unless we call him up to choreograph another dance for us).

okayy. my muscles are still tense and throbbing, and it's getting late. guess i should hit the sack soon!

i should be back tmr to make a bday wish list! my bday's next wk! :D

mmm...delectable chocolates..!

2005-11-20T15:42:00.000+08:00

those tantalising chocolates...aren't they terribly tempting..? ooh..the smooth and creamy fillings that simply melt in your mouth..savour the richness...

yesyesyes! i've finally revamped and repackaged my whole blog! all thanks to my sis! :)
my sis - the web pro! thank youu! hee. yep, layout and html stuff handled mainly by my sis, aren't they nice? :):) so well, wat did i do? haha, not much - as usual. i did the design of the delicious mosaic, that's all. and the roll over effects - with the help of my sis, of course.

i'm soo glad my blog's finally all done up, except for the two links: links and gjy. not to worry, i (haha, or maybe my sis) will be making the required changes later :)

pls tell me if u like the new layout! and don't forget to try out the roll overs..besides the roll overs for the 'photos', 'links', and 'gjy', there's also a surprise for the last piece of luxurious array of chocolates :D haha, actually it's not that grreat a surprise lah.

i'm just excited, that's all! :)

danced till i dropped!

2005-11-19T07:49:00.000+08:00

danced till i dropped - that's wat i've been doing for the past five days excluding wed and thu. had mad on thu, fri, sat, mon, and tue! was supposed to have chi dance on wed, hehe, but i didn't go. too tired la. anyway they didn't do much. sun was gone in a flash too cos i had dance at hokkien huay kuan. oh well, actually some days practices quite slack, but cos i was down with a cold (kept sneezing continuously) and there were 2 competitions and a performance, we ended pretty late on some days.

if u've seen the poster hanging in front of the dance studio, u will know about the dance comp held at youth park. ha, we were trashed anw. but it was a last min thing lah, didn't noe we were going to participate until like thu! yup, so we didn't prepare for it. i must admit tho that the contestants were quite strong, cos the category was the open cat - anyone can join. u can simply set up your own grp. but frankly, even if we were last (altough we weren't - we were 2nd last, ha), i think we should have won the Decent Award 2005. we were the only grp that didn't reveal our midriffs other than one more other grp! many female contestants we wearing tubes and sport bras only. we were considered really underdressed. oh well, it's good experience anw.

moving on to the other comp. it was the clean and green wk comp held at suntec on tue. there were only 2 pathetic participating grps for our cat, but we won second - meaning last. boohoo. i heard that the judge is a modern dance tr at scgs, so i think she prefers the jazz genre. maybe she doesn't exactly appreciate our sort of hiphop dance. but i must also admit that we were quite messy, cos there were a lot of last min changes made. one of our members couldn't make it, so formations had to be changed. also, we had to include props and a little change in choreography in order to make the dance more relevant to being clean and green! our costumes were also changed to white and green for the purpose. we even cut up our tops cos the rules stated that used materials are to be utilized! but i thought it was quite a pity seeing new and proper clothes being snipped into rags.

oh, and on tue itself, we also participated in A12's (if i got tt right) concert later in the evening. their concert was pretty cute, but i only caught the first half, cos later we had to go back stage to prepare. before we made our appearance on stage, me and limen were hiding behind the curtains, watching the performance. it was some piano recital as their class video was being flashed on screen. the music was soothing and touching, and suddenly, both of us felt quite sad that it would most likely be our last time performing with mad. sigh. although it's only been five days of dancing together, both of us had the feeling that we've been through a lot with mad. we aren't that close yet, but i'm sure we grew closer to them. so it's really sad that we will gradually drift apart just after growing closer. initially, i sort of felt that some of them were a little intimidating, but after getting to know them better, many of them seemed very nice and friendly :)

i'll miss mad...

foursome foodtrip #1 :D

2005-11-19T07:19:00.000+08:00

wow! it's been a loong time since i blogged...

haha, actually there's really nothing to 'wow' about cos it's not much of a surprise really.

okayy. first, let me touch on wat i did since last last wk. ha.

oral presentation for pw ended on 7 nov (mon), and we finally completed out pw journey on tue, after handing in our grp file with all our individual pieces of work inside! yeah! op wasn't exactly a success. oh well. and so on the 8th, after submission and washing our hands off increasingly sickening pw, we went on a foursome foodtrip!

foursome foodtrip #1:
participants - huixuan, pam, tiff and me :)
total no. of stops - 5
total no. of hrs - 6 hrs!!!

haha, couldn't believe we had our mouths munching away on food for 6 hrs! okay. not for 6 hrs, but we started our trip at 12 plus and ended t 6 plus! our destinations included: adam's rd, holland v, chinatown, little india, and jln kayu. and we began our tasting adventure with adam's rd!

1st stop: adam's rd
we contemplated on having nasi lemak, but due to the differing taste of pam, we then settled on prawn mee. the mee was a little too dry for my liking, but the soup was fabulous! v prawny and adequately tasty. yum! we also ordered a sugar cane drink, which huixuan suspected was a phoney, ha, cos she hadn't tried sugar cane that tasted like that. but pam verified that it was sugar cane all right. the drink tasted quite pleasant, so we all sipped on it anyway.

2nd stop: holland village
yep! we stopped for a goldmine cheesecake at nydc, but before that, we were approached by a 'tony and guy' trainee hairdresser who wanted to use huixuan as his model! he striked some sort of weird deal - he'll give hx a free straight haircut, w/o any layering (i dun think tt will look gd on hx!) , and subsequently layering, if she desires so, all free. condition is that hx has to be his model i think for a couple of months. and she has to keep going back! (thought it sounded quite ridiculous). his smoking in front of us and the way his lips curled at times as he spoke made his motives even more dubious. so we quickly dismissed his offer. phew! oh yes, back to the cake. the cheesecake was substantial enough (i love the heavy sort), but sadly, the base was not biscuity enough. the relatively large chunks of chocolate hidden within the base sort of compensated for this though.
we met joce at the bus stop as we waited for half an hr for the stoopid bus!

3rd stop: chinatown
i certainly felt like a tourist as we walked along the streets peppered with many small stalls. and we felt like we were in china! haha. we proceeded to yum cha upon reaching, but alas, we were not fortunate enough to have a taste of the delectable dian xins there. sigh, cos of a power failure! once we entered the restaurant, it blacked out! wat luck. ha, but we managed to take a few sips of the fragrant crysanthemum tea and finished a small plate of peanuts :) i love peanuts! having had no fate with yum cha, we left in search of another dian xin restaurant. so we came to lao shang hai. it was rather quiet though. the restaurant at that time only housed another group of customers (a family of 3) other than us. the food was quite nice, but we felt that some dishes were not up to yum cha's standard. certain dishes also weren't heated up long enough. it was warm, not piping hot like it should be.

4th stop: little india
varnakuum! (dunno how to spell) yesyes, we took the mrt to little india, and the pretty overwhelming scents at the station welcomed us to little india! it's been some time since i've been there. the food at the tandoori restuarant was good! we had a curry chicken, cheese naan (generous amts of cheese, i must say), poori, and..and sth else, i forgot. it's similar to prata, except that it's much less oily?

5th/last stop: jalan kayu
we had prata and prata and more pratas. we ordered the usual egg, a sinful ice-cream prata and tissue prata. and also a terribly sweet bandung. we wanted to try the milo dinosaur - luckily we didn't! we were all quite bloated after all the food! 11 dishes in all. (hope i got that right)

so that was the end of the eventful food trip!

*check out PHOTOS link for more pics!