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
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.
The hols are finally here!!! :D So to mark the start of the hols, I had dinner out last Friday! Okay, kind of cheap thrill but I caught a lift to the East from Chengjing after training - who knew the East was THAT insanely far from CCAB! Mmm then ate at the food center with my favourite person, no less :) We got so super drunk (not in the literal sense) it was nutsss.
Went over to the chalet after and I think training gave me too much of an adrenalin rush, much to the dismay of the rest. At 5am they were all practically dead fishes lying around while I was somehow still super energetic and felt so sad when they ignored my pleads to play more card games. I think I scare myself sometimes haha. Mmm got up 4 hours later for breakfast which was... junk food. Played cards again before we went to the bowling alley where I entertained myself trying to dissolve Milo powder in cold water. And it doesn't work :(
Headed home in the early afternoon to sleep, then went to watch RProject with my mum. Hah my brother was quite funny :D After that, went to Robertson Walk for dinner. Had some pizzaish thing which was pretty good :) Then we stayed a bit longer to catch the FA Cup final before my brother decided he was tired and had to get up early the next day.
So I've kind of started studying for CT2 but my progress is really dismal :( Ughhh so annoying. h8 studying forever! Oh but the Marymount station has opened!! So I now can walk through an air-conditioned passageway to school without going past the dreaded bird-infested park :D But I'll probably have to get up earlier cause it's a detour. Still, air conditioning!!!
Anyways Leeqi's back! A couple of us are gonna crash her place ala post-higher chinese O's/end of last year. Just hope we don't overdo it by boxing for more than 3 hours! Oh and while we're talking about breaks and entertainment and the like, I wanna watch Hannah Montana too! :D And 17 Again is one of the best ever movies so everyone should totally watch it!!!
Mmm next week is gonna be so super busy again. Especially since I've got the annoying waterfest-tee coming up. Have to go down to the pool someday for a dry run and redo the lousy dodgeball>:(
On a more random note, I think that I'm eating too much sugary stuff. So if you see doing so me please make me stop! (jw made me put this line in!)
On an even more random note, my sis is coming back home soon. Unfortunately, this mean that I have to move all my stuff out of her numerous territories. Ugh so super annoying:( I guess this just means that I have less time to study:) Hope she brings back cool new stuff for me! (but i doubt it since shes so thrifty :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( )
:( :( :( since im so super sad now im gonna sleep just hope that i blog within the next month!
kthxbye :)
ps. there you go alinaa!
; mel blogged at 11:54 PM
hi everyone! its been almost another month since i've last blogged and nothing much has changed so far. still really behind on all my homework :( and swimming nationals are just around the corner. life really sucks. i think the only good thing thats happened these past few days is the national schools waterpolo competition. and now that thats over, things seem to just become crappier.
anyway, i think i shall just talk about the good stuff for today haha. monday was cool. we had our finals against sajc and although they played well, we were able to beat them by 2 goals to win the championship :)) despite all the bruises, scratches, and nonsense, im really proud of my team! and many thanks to the supporters who came down despite it being a super hot day (i think i got darker >:( ) and also to the guys who came down on saturday (to help us) and made our training more interesting for once:D
after our game and celebrations, the team changed and went to watch the guy's finals. totally different standard, i must say, but just as exciting as our match nonetheless:) and i was sitting in the middle next to james and isaac who were both talking a lot of nonsense about the most random people. eventually we got chased away by some nubby table guy who said that we had to make space:( but who cares cause the guys won 8-5 in the end so double champs yay! hah.
after that, there was prize presentation. sophie and mel were being super annoying, trying to throw everyone into the pool although we'd already bathed. and they took my phone to make it easier and even chased me around the pool! :( but the quick me managed to avoid falling in and even managed to escape getting wet by some of the guys:D both teams then decided to go for a combined team dinner (for the first time!) and after a long deliberated session, we decided to head over to somerset for sushi buffet at sakura.
as usual, the guys were super noisy at the restaurant playing pranks on one another and just being guys. while they were at it, jw and i attacked the sushi and sashimi such that the plates were constantly empty. haha i think i mostly ate jap that night. so can survive on japanese food forever:D the food wasn't that great, although the company was the bestest! took some photos with the team before slowly heading home for a well deserved rest.
too bad days like this only happen like once in forever:(
anyway, ora/rafflesfest tomorrow morning! hope the cookies the guys are baking arent poisonous or anything!
<3 mel & jw!
; mel blogged at 10:57 PM
Friday, March 27, 2009
This is so weird. The last time I blogged was close to 2 months ago right after my birthday. There were so many significant events which happened between then and now, but I guess I never really got the time nor motivation to type it all out in coherent posts.
Anyway, CTs are over and I've got to admit, I only felt a temporary sense of relief. I mean, on Monday, it's back to class again. Not like we're actually gonna get a real break so I have only about 2 days of celebration left. Spent post-CTs having a meeting with the other capts (Tzekang, Chermz, Chenxuan) and we had lunch which was quite an eventful affair. I swear they have zero appreciation for jokes!!! But we talked so much & ended up sitting at Fish & Co for 2 hours. Such lunches are the best but they're so rare because we hardly get these chances to meet up at lengths. They might actually be the highlights of my term!
Checked out Marina Barrage with Jw after, which does have quite a scenic view of... the sea & the Flyer. But can I say, we went at the wrong time when the weather was blazing hot and I was basically melting in the heat. So we spent like 10 min there and then took off. Walked around Marina in the hope of catching Confessions of a Shopaholic but the timings weren't good so we ended up having afternoon tea. Mmm then I headed off for training after a good 1 and a half weeks away from the pool.
So like season starts in less than a week, we are totally unprepared, though I must say I'm very prepared to screw my schoolwork. Technically my season lasts throughout April so I have absolutely no idea how I'm gonna make it through the term without any major scathes. Maybe with a bit of luck, maybe with a bit of optimism.
But right now I'm gonna enjoy the weekend (or perhaps extend it to the entire week because of Friendship Icecream Day with Kat & friend) sleeping, training, slacking and having supper with Shaun :) So I'll live the next 2 days in oblivion to everything around me. But it'll be a good thing, I think.
On a side note, I can't figure out why things keep going awry. It's seriously like some roller coaster ride - unpredictable and scary at times. Ughhh I really don't know what's gonna come out of this ): Maybe all we need is just a break. Or a silver lining to convince us that going through all of this will be worthwhile.
; mel blogged at 11:55 PM
Friday, January 16, 2009
It's just been a week into school and can I say, it really sucks to sleep after 1 every day ): But I'm hoping once things settle down, everything will just start falling into their own places without me having to face the dilemma of choosing this over that. And I realized that in the process of doing things just to please others, I start to lose sight of what I really want for myself ): I remember at Civics class a few days ago, a couple of us resolved to "play hard, train hard & study hard" for the year, and to not lose focus (but how do you lose it if you never had it in the first place?).
Mmm so Open House on Wed where I had like swimming booth, polo booth, training & Befrienders' to handle at the same time. It was pretty fun hanging out with Kwat most of the time and I think I was eating half of the time haha. Anyway the juniors looked like complete strangers to us cause we hadn't even seen more than 3 quarters of them before. But it didn't turn out to be such a bad day, though I think the highlight of the day for Kat would have to be the part where she got a handful of pens from the leftover goodie bags haha. In the end, they dumped all the tons of leftover pens to the Befrienders' (:
After that, waited for Jenwei to finish his P&C tutorial (which I later found out was just a ploy to stall for time!) before we left for dinner at Holland V. Then I had to walk for the longest time, again to stall for time, before getting to the restaurant. Got the hugest (and one of the most awesome) surprise when I got to the place and saw Chelsia, Chenxuan & Yongsheng :D Alina came over after her touch rugby game too (: It was really one of the best surprises ever and I wouldn't have wanted to spend the eve of my birthday any other way. And I'm really touched that they came despite it being a school night & after we'd all had a long day in school (: Oh and I got an ice cream cake so yay! Thanks so much, friends! You guys are the best :D
So on my actual birthday on Thurs, the class gave me the sweetest thing ever in the form of a photo album, in which everyone wrote a message to me on the back of their individual photos. It totally made my day :D My class is too awesome! But anyways we had the worst timetable ever for that day - 6 consecutive blocks till 1+ in the afternoon. So by the time school was over, I was famished and was looking forward to having lunch from the Malay food stall when to my dismay, they didn't have any food left ):< I suspect it's the J1s who snapped up all the food so for now, they are the most annoying group of people in school. Okay, I kid.
Stayed back in school to finish two-thirds of my GP essay in the library. What a sad way to spend my birthday huh. Anyway I was feeling all pleased and satisfied with myself cause it meant that I'd get the rest of the next GP block to complete just a third of my essay. And then here's the part where I get sooo annoyed at no one in particular but at the fact that there wasn't even a GP block on Friday. In other words, we had ONE night to complete the essay at home ): Anyways went home to sleep for a bit before we went to Chijmes for dinner :D
Today was a relatively quick day although there were several sucky moments, but is okay cause I'm over them (: Mmm had lunch out then back to school to study in our homeroom which was surprisingly air-conditioned! Ughhh I took ages to do the Math tutorial and it certainly didn't help that the guys were playing some game which I was so tempted to join in ): But I guess it's a start! Ys completely failed at doing his essay though haha.
Double training tomorrow and then more dates with my homework ): I can't believe how horrible being in J2 is ):<
; mel blogged at 10:16 PM
Monday, January 12, 2009
First day of school today and it sucked quite a lot so the rest of the year is gonna really really suck ): I can't believe we're already in J2! Ughh and there were proper lessons even. Life just keeps getting tougher ):<
Got sent to school cause it's the first day of school so I had time to go to the lockers to dump all the stuff from polo. Morning assembly was just so-so, we're still sitting at the back so I was talking to Chels, Lionel & Serena (who had a really creative way of labeling her planner haha). Then it was class breakfast which wasn't that appetizing so I got my own food from The Canteen. Ohhh and Wanqi's classmate from China gave me duck neck! Surprisingly it wasn't too bad, but I think it's mainly because it was smoked.
Then it was Physics lecture and the only introduction we had was in the form of a lame joke which I didn't catch because I was busy beautifying my timetable. But had a break after, during which we received some entertainment from Brandon so it was kinda fun in the eye-rolling kind of way. No one was mugging too!! Chem lecture after (I am totally lost already omg) and then we had double Civics :D Oooh and we had so much fun eating the jelly beans I bought from Japan. Jamie's expression was priceless when she bit into her rotten egg-flavoured jelly bean. Apparently it felt like she was "eating trash" hahaha. Shiyang was lucky enough to get all the good flavours ): I had like, vomit & skunk spray which were so painfully awful. Chels had skunk spray as well but it was sooo much fun anyway!
After school, had to look for teachers and call up the DSAs who all did pretty well. And I had to prick the lousy blood bubble in my thumb because some supposedly wise people said so. But it's gone now anyway so yay! Stayed till like training and went to the pool feeling like crap so I stopped by Macs to get a pack of large twister fries :D Which I kind of finished all by myself but that was only because there was no one at the pool yet and school food sucks. Had dinner out after training so got home pretty late and now I have Open House stuff to do. And figure out what's going on in Chem though I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna accomplish this tonight (and perhaps in the nights to come as well).
; mel blogged at 10:53 PM
