Friday, December 18, 2009
Hi all! I'm leaving in 2 days so I thought I'd better blog today to keep up my Dear Diary blog (in case I spend the whole of tomorrow night doing my slow packing, as usual). I didn't keep to my promise of staying home for 2 days this week (supposed to have been yesterday & today) so I'm really sad now. Haven't started packing at all - unless you count taking out the luggage as a start - and I'm probably the world's slowest packer so I should really get off the com soon :(
Anyhow, I went for school training yesterday even though it was at 930 AM!!! Actually I woke up at 8 but wasted a whole lot of time wondering if I should go for training (it was raining initially), and if I should go on time or late (early is never an option haha). Think I was just slightly late only because, believe it or not, I was waiting for the rain to subside. Mmm anyway it was quite a good day for training cause it was quite cloudy = no sun!!! Okay but actually there were still harmful sun rays but who cares, I don't think I got any darker :D Shot a bit and did drills... finally a break from the crazy swimming program at Nat training. Had lunch with my sis, dropped by the bank and then went home! So that's sort of one day at home this week :)
Today, got up late (by late I mean 9) and had to accompany my mum to the Isetan sale right after. See, I didn't go to actually shop, just to help my mum do the manual labour aka heaving around heavy household items & queuing up at the cashier. Oh but I did buy some sale items for myself (my mum paid so heh) :D I think we spent forever in that place and my mum came out feeling all sick & nauseous from the crowd so we went over to the Ion for lunch at 230 omg. Had some pretty good Jap food and picked up some doughnuts on the way homeee. Totally died from exhaustion (Chermz & Sal, please don't think sick) in the car.
Rested for a bit before going for training and we continued with the usual swimming program :( Hate it to the max!! Ughhh I would like to think that my shoulder muscles have been overworked and they're so sore that I felt the pain throughout the entire training session :( But on a happier note, tomorrow's school training marks the last training session of the year :D Time to relax and play (not polo)!!! Okay gtg pick my brother up from his friend's place. Till I return next year then!
; mel blogged at 11:50 PM
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Omg I'm so dead tired I think I'll collapse to the ground if I attempt to stand up. Anywayyy I've been going out too much I think :( Ughhh have to start saving money from now on.
So last Friday, I had lunch at Vivo with Chels & Mich :) Too bad Serena couldn't make it though :( :( :( We ate at the "high-class Swenson's" (in Chels' words) so there was a salad bar which looked quite delectable. Chels & I shared a fish & chips meal which came with a salad buffet so she took the salad while I took the fish. We split the cost after that so it was actually cheaper than expected. Mich got a scoop of sorbet cause she'd already eaten lol. Mmm then we walked around Vivo for damn freaking long, can't really remember what we were looking for. Oh I know we stopped by Toys R Us and felt nostalgic over the old cooler version of Polly Pocket. Went for training after that. Second training since forever and I was practically drowning in the pool :(
Had school training on Saturday afternoon right after brunch. The weather was sooo horrible I got back my lousy tan line :( Some of the RG swimmers came down as well and they're not bad :) Probably better than how we had started out! Just did a hell lot of drills and didn't get to play game ):< Cleared my locker after that and got home around dinner. What a way to spend my Saturday.
Then on Sunday, the kids drove out to meet the relatives for lunch at Sakae. Went to the library after to walk around, did some grocery shopping, and headed home. I think I like it more when my parents aren't around haha. Left for training almost immediately after I got home cause my sis insists that we reach 30 min early. It was game day and I almost fainted playing 2 games that lasted 15 min each. Really swam like some snail :(
Lunch on Monday with Chermz, Tzekang & Chenxuan. It was so much fun! We were supposed to meet at 1157 and everyone was on time except for Cx (expected). Sat at the place for nearly 4 hours even though we finished eating within half an hour. But I really enjoy talking to the 3 of them even though the guys always, and I mean ALWAYS, diss me. The funniest part was when we were talking about driving lessons and Cx went on and on about how he didn't think I could even drive, without knowing that I'd already gotten my license. What a loser haha. I think his goal in life now is to beat my 12 points at the practical test. Anyway we're probably gonna have a team outing (J2s only) in Jan at a prawning center nearby!! So exciting! Tzekang's organizing this time heehee :D
Training at night again. We have this new program which is insanely mad. It was just swimming with and without the ball for the entire 1.5 hours. At least it's less boring than swim training, but I haven't exerted so much energy in such a long time! I guess in a way that's a good thing, finally getting rid of all the junk I consumed over the last 3 months :) Seriously though, the set is just crazy. And it's for 2 weeks omg. Thankfully I'll be away next week!
Yesterday, I went to play on some water slides at Jurong with Daphne and Carrie :) :) :) It was quite cheap I guess and we were early so it wasn't really crowded either. Then we had a slow lunch and talked about a whole lot of random things. I'm glad we can still hold such a long conversation despite seeing each other about once a year - at School Nats lol. Anyway it was quite fun and worth the arduous trip there :)
Went over to Sentosa after to join some of the 409 kids (Kevyna, Sal, Alicia, Ro, Siyi, Eileen, Lydia) although it started drizzling just as I reached :( So we took shelter near the monorail station and played bridge :D Haven't played it properly since orientation that the game felt entirely unfamiliar to me at first. But I did win quite a few games! At any rate, I'm def better than Siyi, who can't tell which cards are Clubs. Coincidentally, it was her birthday that day, but I couldn't see any difference between her in Sec 4 and her now, still quite a noob lol. Oh yes, and Sal the noobcake went to tell everyone that I went to play on water slides in the morning ):< But she gave me some of the sausages she cooked (btw who in their right mind would wake up at 7am to cook sausages?!?), and luckily they weren't spoilt or poisoned, cause nothing has happened to me so far.
Headed back to Vivo for dinner at Thai Express where I won at drinking the most water! Walked around the shops for an excruciatingly long time that I sat down wherever possible. But the best part was at Esprit, where we bought our stuff and proceeded to sit in the shop for the next 15 min, talking rather noisily too. Finally after 10, I took the train home with Eileen cause the others went on the Green and Red Lines.
Today, I shopped solo in town :) Managed to get what I wanted even though I had to walk sooo much just to find the right item, from like Forum to every single building all the way till Cineleisure. Met Kat to pass her some stuff and ran into Anzhen... I always meet people I know in town. Walked a bit more before I went home and had to rush off for training :( Swam freaking lot again, what's new. My shoulder hurts and my legs are starting to ache :( But it's okay, pain is good... right?
Anyway I will abstain from leaving the house (except for training) for the next 2 days and start packing for my trip :) I also need to get a card. Ughhh I initially wanted to write Christmas cards this year but somehow got too caught up with going out and being unproductive :( Oh well. Training again tmr morning!
; mel blogged at 11:38 PM
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Hiiii! I think I could get used to life the way it is now. Apart from the fact that I can feel my brain cells degenerating day by day, not that I had a lot to start with though hahaha.
So yesterday I caught New Moon after a Jap lunch at the Cathay. The show wasn't hard to understand at all (contrary to what Marie had told me earlier) even though I hadn't read the book before. Oh but my goodness, I somehow forced myself to read Twilight last week!! I'd sworn that I would never do it but I did, unfortunately ): I guess that's just another one of life's surprises - having a sudden change of heart, doing the inexplicable, even when the opp cost is pretty damn high. Anyway I just have one thing to ask about the show: Why does Taylor Lautner look so chubby onscreen?!
Headed to Daiso after to pick up a few items and then started to make our way back to the train station. As fate would have it, we ran into some dear old classmates of mine, namely Serena, Joel & Leech (he might as well be considered so), who invited me to join them for a pool session. And to which I agreed to. Anyway the idiotic shopkeeper totally insulted us, saying that we, I quote, "cannot play" & "cannot pay" and hence initially refused to let us use the bigger tables. What an ass right! We later planned to pay him using a $100 bill but that plan didn't really materialize in the end haha. But honestly, we weren't even THAT lousy, at least in comparison to the other people at big tables as well. All they did was to act like seasoned players - the only factor preventing them from playing the part was their dire lack of accuracy, which completely gave them away. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, this went unnoticed by the aforementioned imbecile.
Finally went back to the pool this morning for the first time in at least a month. Haha I think Mr Lee just realized that my siblings and I all go to the pool at different times and sometimes also by different modes of transportation. Like today, for example, my bro cycled, sis walked, and I got sent haha lame right? Needless to say, we all reached like 30 min apart of each other lol. Anyway felt sort of jaded and unmotivated at the beginning but it became progressively more fun cause we got to play a 3-on-3 game :D :D And then Tom came to help out as well so there were 4 of us playing against the 5 juniors. There were quite a number of counters and I must say I've never worked so hard in such a long time. Even so, it was so much fun!! Oh the guys' team also joined us for a while for a mixed game after their training so we played a full court game for a few minutes haha. The only thing that would've made the morning better would have to be a less sunny weather!
Heh have another lunch arrangement for tmr :) :) Judging by how my week has been so far, and neglecting that little run-in we had at the pool place, I'm sure I'll have rather pleasant days ahead :) This time last year, I was desperately willing the hands of the clock to move faster. Despite knowing then that the new year would only mark the start of the craziest year of my life, I couldn't wait to get to 2009. Just to see you. This year, time has been passing so much more rapidly with your absence. Which is a good thing, I think. But maybe I don't quite want this year to end that quickly, because everything has an expiry date. Except for perhaps the one thing that is starting to cease to exist between us. (This is illogical... but I'll settle for it.)
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Hello there. A's are finally over!!! So last week, Chermz, Sal, Kat & I met at 1207 at the Somerset station for lunch. Those 3 idiots were praying that I would be late but thankfully I appeared from the platform at exactly 1207 (: (: I don't think I would've been able to live it down if I'd been late by a mere second, so phewww. Anyway we walked through the newly-opened 313 place and headed straight to Billy Bombers, or should I say "Billy Bompers" lol.
We sat there for about 3 hours and talked so much rubbish (as usual) but the blame is on Sal, the not-so-discrete elitist. Kat & I learnt about Chermz's cute grandfather ^_^ ^_^ They (Chermz + Sal) are both associated to weird people. Oh and since Sal revealed to us about the existence of this cute grandfather, I shall also expose (in Chermz's defense) Sal's secret to reusing prom dresses by wearing different shawls.
Kat: Oh shit I think I shouldn't eat so much, if not I won't be able to fit into my prom dress!
Sal: Me too! Mine is my Sec 4 dress!!!
Sorry Sal ^_^ Omg but there was this really super retarded incident that happened while I was in the process of ordering my side-dishes. The 3 very helpful people kept offering me suggestions ALL AT THE SAME TIME. So I thought I could pick anything from the list of:
1. Rice
2. Fries
3. Salad
4. Potato salad
5. Potato
But actually, it was just either potato salad or fries. Totally confused me ): So not my fault, you have to admit! And then they kept gawking at me for the next whole minute ):< Anyway Kat had to rush off after a while so Sal didn't get the chance to give Chermz her unlimited ice cream treat ): What a pity.
Had prom on Saturday night at the Swissotel. I thought the entertainment was quite boring, except for the dance part, cause everyone was just walking around and minding their own business anyway. Ughhh was so terribly tired by the time the whole event ended at 1130, I just wanted to flop onto the bed and sleep. But that would've been such an anti-climax to the night so we went back, changed into more comfortable footwear, then cabbed to Clarke Quay.
Had Turkish ice cream there again :D :D Then we just walked around the area for a bit before heading to a bar for a drink. Watched the Man City vs Chelsea game for a short while too. Ughhh got slightly woozy after 2 glasses (at least that's what I think) so Jw had to finish the rest of the bottle and he ended up being kind of high for the rest of the night. Also dropped by Macs for a bit of food cause we didn't really eat that much for dinner. Ran into some of the floorballers there too. Actually, there were just a lot of RJ kids around. Like everywhere.
Cabbed back after that and promptly fell asleep after a shower. But I swear I was gonna die trying to get rid of all the hairspray in my hair. I washed my hair 5 times with shampoo but there were still some traces of hardened hairspray left ): By then I was too tired and needed to crash sooo badly that I just went to bed haha. In case anyone thinks I'm being dirty & disgusting, let me say that the first thing I did when I woke up was to wash my hair again, so there! Mmm then we packed at noon and walked over to Marina Square for lunch at Sakae. Went home after that and watched tv for like, forever.
So today, I woke up at 830 and went back to sleep, only to get up at 11. At that time, I was supposed to have already reached Dhoby Ghaut, all ready to meet Kat & Lucas ):< Yeah so I rushed like mad and got there half an hour late ONLY (if you consider the time I got up)!!! Went to play pool (: (: That had to be my favourite game in 2008 haha. The company was really awesome, except that Kat decided to sit out of the last game and watch Lucas & I kill each other. Schadenfreude.
Mmm had lunch after that at Astons where Lucas gobbled down his food in a matter of seconds so he had to sit around for an extremely long time while Kat & I enjoyed our food slowly. Preparing for BMT, he said. After lunch, he had a horrible idea - let's go play lan! Okay fine, I admit, maybe I was a tad curious to find out about Left 4 Dead, but I can't believe I gave in to temptation (or curiosity) so easily! After a good 2 hours of staring at a stupid computer screen, I came out feeling completely drained of all energy. Never. Again. Shall. This. Happen.
Gonna watch New Moon tomorrow. If it sucks, I'll never listen to Marie's movie ravings again. Oh and maybe I'll watch Zombieland & The Informant, both highly recommended by the 3 very helpful people as mentioned at the start of this entry. Plus I just got a class email about some night cycling thing. Everyone, go for it okay?? Okay bye!
; mel blogged at 10:57 PM
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I was looking through my Econs stuff today and I remembered there was once I got Yongsheng to write down some notes for me.
"However, if the recession drags for too long, policy would be ineffective as govt pocket not so deep."
Okay, so maybe it's not that amusing. But I'm already half-mad now so pardon me. And I miss class so much! I'd rather be waking up at 7 every morning and going for no-break Thursdays than be having exams. Ughhh I'm driving myself insaneee, I swear. I desperately need someone to talk to but everyone's so busy ): Damn, I should be busy too.
Oh but I really really really can't wait for the hols!!! :D :D There's so much stuff I wanna do before next year comes. I should stop looking so far into the future & focus on the present (which isn't really a pretty sight considering how the one person whom I thought would be there to tide me through this is, well, basically non-existent in my life right now).
; mel blogged at 11:07 PM
Saturday, September 26, 2009
So... Prelims are finally over and it's time to catch up on some much-needed sleep. Anyway right after the last paper, I went straight home!!! Cause my mum said I had to if I wanted to go out for the night :( Okay so I went back, was a good kid - had lunch, watched Friends, read a book & slept for a while (ughhh why is my life so mundane, plus this is becoming increasingly diary-like by the minute which is definitely going to draw flak from some picky people).
Anyways caught The Time Traveler's Wife in town, ran into about a hundred other kids from school. The storyline was so awesomely nice and sweet (& sad) and the visual presentation was much more vivid than in the book, which I suppose is the case for most film adaptations. Oh and I thought it was much less confusing than the book cause it didn't jump to as many different time periods and it was somewhat simplified to make the connections between events more obvious. What I really wanted to say is, you should really watch this show, that is, if you haven't already.
Then met Sal, Chermz & Kat for our post-exam meal. Sheesh, Sal & Chermz were so adamant on proving to us that there was an entrance to the ION via the second level of the train station that we had to follow them up an escalator at the station. True to their words, there WAS an entrance (albeit a much smaller one as compared to the direct entrance from the station). Plus they are such
losers winners. Upon stepping into the ION, we were met with yet another set of escalators, to which Sal responded by declaring that we take the escalators back down to the station level. But since they pointed to us along the way that "Mistri" was on a missing persons poster, I shall not comment further.
After that, some confused soul, by the name of Sal, led us around the basement in search of food. That was the biggest mistake of the night! Somehow this food-hunting in ION landed us at Wheelock so we didn't have much of a choice but to get out of Wheelock and wound up crossing the road to Lido. Then headed in the FEP direction... until we realized that wasn't going to lead to anywhere, hence promptly turned right back around and walked into Lido without a purpose in mind. So after a while of nothingness, we had to cross back the same road to Wheelock, back into the underpass, past the station... and the story goes on. I think we walked about 3km across 3 buildings!!!
Later on, we finally decided upon dining at Billy Bomber's where I made my own burger because I didn't like any of the menu creations. And then we proceeded to sit there for the next 3 and a half hours. If that was Survivor, we would've accomplished all 3 goals of Outwit, Outplay & Outlast. We broke our record set after CT2 at California Pizza Kitchen (: Anyway at the end of the dinner, we were all feeling really bloated cause they kept refilling our glasses and we unwittingly consumed about... 10(?) glasses of water each. After talking much nonsense about anything and everything, we headed home to bed. End of story. Bye!!
; mel blogged at 12:40 PM
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sheesh I haven't blogged in such a long time! But I guess since I owe Kat one, here goes! Mmm the holidays went by really really quickly and ughhh I didn't really have a lot of fun :( Exams suck!!!
So during the hols, the class met up for a CIP activity at SILRA like we did last year. We made wantons this year! But it was so mega hard to make it look... edible, to say the least. I mean, some people (not mentioning who!) were trying to squeeze way too much meat into the small piece of wanton skin, which eventually resulted in the wanton having multiple layers of skin. Quite fail, I must say. Regardless, I don't think that really made a difference in the taste of the wantons because they all taste the same when cooked. But this year, I also talked (more) to the old folks (kind of) there (: I think it was because I was too busy making & eating the pizzas last year. Anyway, Claire managed to get Shiyang & I to accompany her to talk to some of the elderly. Then halfway through a conversation with this guy, we realized that there was a lonely lady sitting a couple of seats away. She was sort of eating I think, so I didn't know if she wanted to talk :(
Nonetheless, I went over to talk to her!!! But it was soooo horrible at first. Shiyang & Claire kept laughing!!! ):< Though I wouldn't exactly blame them seeing as how dumb the conversation started:
Me: Hi! 你会不会讲英语?
The old lady：不会.
Me: Oh :( :( 那你会不会讲华语?
TOL：不会.
Me：HUH??? 可是你刚刚不是讲华语?
I swear I was so bewildered and the two lousy people (Claire & Shiyang) were gonna die from amusement I think :( Ughhh but the conversation went well in the end cause I found out a lot about her :) Go me!! And then when Shiyang came over after Claire & the first guy left, he got tricked by my person who used my trick on him. Cause Shiyang tried to pretend that he couldn't speak in Chinese when he already did once he sat down. Okay, it probably doesn't make sense here... but it does in my head. Oh and I was quite bummed out that we didn't get to take the elderly out for a walk due to the H1N1 situation :(
Then it was the last week of the hols where I think I went back to school every day and studied with Kat, Kevin, Jw, Sal, etc. At least that made studying less painful. Especially the last Sat! Where I think I was most productive. Heck, I probably did more in that one day than I did in the entire hols! Then there were the CTs, which aren't really worth much mentioning.
Mmm right after the Physics paper, the class went for lunch at AMK Hub. Okay, not the whole class but people like Yongsheng, Chenxuan, Serena, Yande, Qiwei, Jiwei, Tan Joel, etc. Leech joined us too! Ate at the teppanyaki place at the food court which was not bad (: For once Cx made a good (& cheap) recommendation haha. And then the guys somehow convinced me to go LAN-ing with them. Like, what the... I know!! But anyway I just played cause it'd be so loser to sit in the computer shop and do nothing. Serena left for a while for a haircut :( So being the only girl and noob at the game, everyone naturally ganged up against me for Counterstrike ):< Okay, not everyone. But about 3 others named their characters "mel" and Cx's was "im gonna kill mel"!!! Damn evil :( Anyway Leech was quite a good teacher so I didn't die as much in the later part :D Had dinner after with Jw after that :) :)
The day after CTs, I went out with Sal, Chermz & Kat!! :) We met at exactly 12, then had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. The food was quite good and we sat in that place for at least 2 hours. Loser Sal was complaining about how little space she had because she claimed that Chermz was taking up too much space on the sofa. But I secretly think that (okay, not so secret anymore then) Sal was just too afraid of Chermz. Probably too traumatised from the time she got cornered in the toilet hahaha. Too bad I wasn't there to see it, but I'm quite sure it will happen again someday :D Mmm then after seeing countless other customers come and go, we decided to make a move out of the restaurant. But I suppose it was mostly due to the fact that we were freezing in that shop.
Proceeded to walk aimlessly down the entire stretch of town. We must've walked for about 3 hours or so, only to stop for drinks at 7eleven and ice cream at B&J's. I was so gonna dieee. We were actually walking at a pretty decent pace at first, but once we got to around PS where we got our drinks, our walking speed decreased. Exponentially, might I add. It was that tiring. Oh and also because at some point, Chermz had to carry two Big Gulps in the side-pockets of her bag. She looked like some energy freak who needed 2 liters of sugared water to stay alive. And then as we were prepared to run through a flashing green man near Raffles City, something retarded happened. Courtesy of Sal:
At a junction, the green man was blinking so we were ready to make a dash for it.
chermz "STOP! I cannot."
kat "oh yah the drink."
-light turns red-
chermz "okay NOW! GO!"
And then we really ran for our lives. Insane people. Chermz later met her friend (or should I say, "friend", seeing as she forgot how the friend looked like) to hand over some books, after which rendering her bag useless because she ended up carrying an empty bag around. So after circling Raffles City for eternity, we finally left our "home" (so says Sal the elitist). Initially planned on walking to Raffles Place, another one of our numerous homes, but we decided that we had enough of walking. Some day out. More like an entire afternoon of exercise to burn off the pizzas!
Then I caught the train to Newton with Chermz to head over to CCAB for some combined schools' game against the Sri Lankans. I got smacked about twice in the face by the center-forward's super high back shot ):< But I guess seeing as we hadn't had any team training before, we weren't too bad. We won :D
The following Monday was a Youth Day holiday so the class went out to Sentosa!! :) I was just 10 min late. And I have to say, the Circle Line makes traveling to Harbourfront much more convenient :) Mmm waited for about 10 min for the rest before we went for breakfast at the hawker center across the road. There was Ys, Serena, Arjun, Weiliang, Jiwei, Qiwei, Tan Joel, Bryan, Xiaoxiao & I at first. Cx & Lionel joined us shortly after straight at the beach.
Anyway we played soccer at first! It was super tiring but I scored a penalty against Arjun haha :D But Cx came later and evened the score :( I guess beach soccer isn't that bad after all, just that the guys are way too violent for my liking. Ys got his wound exposed 5 min into the game and Tan Joel got sand into his eye during a dog-fight in the sand. He sucks at putting on contact lenses!! Arjun, Serena & I all tried to help him but to no avail haha. He was insisting that he could only do it in his toilet with a mirror. What a nubby! Most of the guys then went into the water later to swim. Wait, not swim. Float around, more like. So Xiaoxiao & I stayed on land to play some ball games with Yande, Bryan & Jiwei. Had a lot of fun :D
In the late afternoon we finally left Sentosa to eat at Pastamania. Some apple crumble looked like a miniature pizza ):< So I owe Ys a drink ):< Took the train home with Cx after that. He blasted my ipod volume cause I was ignoring him. What an annoying kid!!! Then I slept for a while at home before I got sent for training.
Mmm back to school now anyway, which totally sucks!! I can't wait for this year to be over ):< Oh and Shiyang is finally back in class from TSD. Now we can go back to waving at the cooler F4 of 6K haha.