go with the flow.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Bitches!

I met up with my bitches for pepper lunch and a failed shopping spree in town last night. We ended up postponing our shopping to tuesday and taking pictures at this really nice wall at the heeren's basement. Pictures tomorrow. It's already 2:26am and I should really be sleeping because I've to wake before 7am to head to school. And I've got choir. And I'm meeting the bitches and the rest of the bitches for dinner tomorrow. My weekend homework is undone, and I love Starbucks' banana java chip which made me poorer by $7.50 just now.

And by the way, life is good.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Eat, breathe, live and shit CHOIR.

Choir has been an everyday affair for me recently. It's tough, mentally draining and emotionally charged, but I find the strength to drag my ass down to practice everday cos of these people (: They make life in choir so much more bearable and worth going through. And I really mean it.

CARLS JR!
(I think this picture's so nice, we look so happy)

It's like whenever you're down in the dumps they'd be there to make you wanna smile. Those shots are damn candid lah, and then there's crazy Charlotte who's just crazy. Oh and I found out today that the both of us love plucking grass to de-stress. I swear it's therapeutic. And Charlotte and I have nice ~~bimbotic~~ tshirts!

Today choir practice was at sscc. It started out all happy and nice, but then by lunch time the tension was crazy (hur what's new everyday there'd be some drama in mj choir) I think like it's damn hard to work well when leadership is haywire. I mean, people are angry and pissed when things go wrong, so it gets really tough to work things out. Sigh. Nevermind I should just be glad I'm not involved. Either way, we bitched a lot today and it made everyone feel better so yay (:

And and and there were tonnes of funny moments today. Like when Charlotte broke the miniature playhouse (the kind we used to hide in in kindergaten!) because she stood up inside it and the roof collapsed! Okay more pictures, we stayed back after choir for a bit and we took photos with our vice-president and president.

Ding ding ding ding!

Friday went well. The last day of the week finally came and we had lessons till 10:25am because we had to leave for choir rehearsels at vch. It felt really good to sing inside vch again. The sound, the lights, the people. I remembered that this was what I signed up for and so this was it! I thought we sounded better there, and so we sang for about 2 hours and then headed back to meridian to continue singing. We sang sang sang until everyone became really cranky and restless and then choir finally ended around 6. Uh, and I finally agree to the incompetence of a certain someone.

After that Jonathan, Charlotte, Brandon, Louis, Martin and I went to MOS burger for dinner. Garlic and lemon mussels are really yummy and I am looking forward to choir at sscc tomorrow!

Friday, April 27, 2007

Me updating myself.

I bought a copy of 1984 today. It's cover is sexy as hell and I know I am on my way to loving lit and wanting to score well for lit.
I love Death Cab. And I say this again, I love Death Cab. They've got such fantastic songs!
I had irregular meals yesterday. Oily fried noodle thing for breakfast during break and then sandwich and cheese crackers during lunch break, and then hotdogs from ikea for afternoon tea (yeah right, I had to finish up 2 of those during the 10 minute cab ride home), popcorn and fried chickenlets for dinner during the movie and beef horfun for supper.
I (and Sam) can't wait for our lit trip to London in july! We were checking London's weather during pw lab lesson today and it's gonna be summer, about 20 deg. and did I say we can't wait!
I am looking forward to seeing my bitches this weekend, hopefully, for another wonderful pigout session we've coined a new term for, FOODING.
I will be going to Vietnam with my family during the june holidays! Want to try crossing a really busy road slowly but surely and see if I actually survive!
I learned a lot during lit class today about how people use the power of language to deceive, and that actually there are many things in this world that I struggle to come to terms with.
I am relieved that there's no choir today, somehow or another.

The Good Shepherd

Hello hello school was so boring today I felt so much like running away from it. I don't know why but today I didn't feel like mixing around and being my usual crazy self with the rest of my classmates. Maybe I am missing all the old faces, and that it's so strange that I'm trying to get used to all these new faces? I stoned through everything and during Compass I just blasted Death Cab in my ears and did my own thing. My mood got lifted quite a bit during pe though, somehow. I think Mr Foo is a really cool pe teacher and I'm glad we got him cos he's always such a respectable person, unlike some other teacher. Oh yeah and he made us count our heart rates after running and mine's at an unhealthy level :/

Anyway, I arranged to meet Karen to head to Ikea after school so that I could have something to look forward to whenever I had nothing to do except stone. And so I thought it was a short walk, judging from the route my mum takes to school whenever she drives me to school in the mornings, but it actually took about 15 minutes to walk.. and Karen and I took the long way out and we were sweating like pigs by the time we got there. I think we only spent 15 minutes max inside Ikea because I was rushing for time. We went to grab a red dustbin for Karen and then two hotdogs for me and an ice-cream for Karen. And then we jumped into a cab and headed home.

I was rushing because I only had one hour to go home bathe change and then head out again to meet mum at The Cathay. She had tickets for an exclusive preview of The Good Shepherd, this movie that won't be released in Singapore in the end due to strict movie regulations. So I guess I am really lucky to be able to watch it. It was draggy, with tonnes of dialogue, and not the kinda movie that I will go and watch, but I thought it was good, the twists and turns and the lies and deception all played out nicely.

After the movie, mum and I did some shopping and I tell you I cannot stand my mother because she bought two pairs of brazilian praia (sp?) heels from num just like that. Two pairs of the same thing, but in different colours. Haha but I don't blame her lah cos I got a tee also (: Some really bimbotic tee with bimbotic words. Can't stand the bimbocity but it's really funny!

Okay so today was a not-bad day afterall. I love night outs with my mum!

Monday, April 23, 2007

Happy Birthday Samantha!

I lurve my Emo Bimbos (:

C A R L S J R

Hello, I Miss You.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Hot Pick

Hello hello. I am sitting at Han's at the NLB now and I've just submitted the 3rd draft of my PI. I ended up here at Han's today because I had to go to the bigass Popular at Bras Basah to buy all my school things. I thought that they'd have better nicer things here but I was wrong! There are sure many many things here, but the variety to choose from is lousy lah. Okay I better run now because the battery of this laptop is running out soon. Dinner tonight with mum and Cheyenne at some Shanghainese place which serves wonderful xiao long bao! Bye!

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Speaking about karma...

Fuck rah.

The 6 goldfish that Dad, Cheyenne and I own died today. Some bloody infectious fungi thing started to infest them, and one by one they started to float on their bellies, gasping for air and finally having no energy to swim anymore.

It's so amazing that that evil thing that ate them up inside attacked within a really short span of 3 days. So quick, and so lethal. I am in mourning now, someone tell me what to do with an empty tank. I think Dad will be really shocked and upset to see an empty tank of water when he comes home tonight. Sigh. And they said fish were the best pets to keep!

And yknow, the cough is back. Yes, the one that makes me cough until I feel so much like vomitting. I don't know why, but the phlegm is clogging up, the throat is sore, and everything's going haywire right now. And so I don't think I am going to school tomorrow. I need to catch up on rest and not stay out so much, and save my voice. I need it to let me sing properly.

I feel so guilty now. I shouldn't have shared the 20 nuggets at Macs with Hidayah that day lah. And I still dipped it in all kinds of sauces somemore. Shit lah I hate it when I am sick lah who likes it right ok bye.

What Goes Around Comes Around...

Monday was off to Carl's Junior with Carl's jr. It's sucha coincidence that the bunch of us have names that spell out Carl's jr yknow. It's Charlotte, Andre, Roy,Louis, Sylvia, Jonathan, (B)randon! Hahaha, although we had to change Brandon's name to randon, it's still so coincidental!

We were our usual bitchy selves, and the train ride was really interesting because there was this woman who told us off for stretching our legs out. I mean, the thought of it is simply ridiculous lah! She had nothing better to do and insisted (rudely) to me that we should not do so because people are boarding the train. At the point in time, the train doors hadn't even opened at tampines, and there was an abundance of space in the cabin. I was trying to explain this to her politely, when she suddenly snapped back at me with a Say that again? I was momentarily stunned by her response, and then Jonathan and I exchanged weird looks with each other. And then I picked up my bag and went Um, guys, dyall wanna move to the other cabin? Let's go. The bunch of us went over to the other cabin, and that woman even stood up to watch where we were heading. Along the way, Sylvia joined us and we kept bitching 'bout her from the other cabin. Haha we just went on and on about how she looked because we were so pissed about her telling us off.

Then we got off at City Hall, and she too, and that was where all the real bitching started. There was a confrontation, and Jonathan and Sylvia and I really told her off before we parted ways with her. She was so strange, firstly denying her impoliteness and then threatening us, and then passing off some really odd racist comment which we didn't even understand. (cos like we are chinese and we didn't know what she was trying to get at?)

The best part was when she threatened to make a complaint and I went Yeah, you look like the sort who can complain really well. Love to complain about every single thing, sucha typical Singaporean. Then after that she said something about India (?) and we didn't get it. And then she said Still dare to call yourselves jc students! And then this was when Sylvia, Jonathan and I stood in a line and said Thank You very much, bye! , complete with wide grins on our faces and waves of goodbye to her before we walked off.

Then it was Carl's jr for dinner and telling Charlotte how much bitching she'd missed cos she joined us later from school. Then we headed off for Esplanade... and none of us were expecting this mega huge surprise that was awaiting us at the concert hall...

We went through the security check, up the escalator, and then... in front of the door we were supposed to enter at was the same woman who pissed all of us so badly on the train!!!

We were shocked shitless at the coincidence. She was an usherer at the Esplanade lah. And we could see the smirk across her face man. Maybe it was karma or something. But we decided to just leave her alone because we thought she couldn't do anything to us anymore. But that was not the case. Imagine how graaaaah I felt when I discovered after the concert that she bitched to my SL while he was waiting to enter from outside! Like, get a life?

So that was the really bitchy Monday night I had. I love Carl's jr, as in, both the fast food & the group of choir chums! And Operation aras did work out because we were smart this time. The concert was quite okay. The girls from aj choir dressed up in kimonos towards the end and Martin was hyperventilating so badly beside me he almost died!

Tuesday was screwed up also lah. Some teacher who had had a bad day decided to embaress me in economics lecture, in front of like, 100 over students. My class was passing around a note to tell us to come earlier to school the next day for house meeting because Anmari was gonna leave right after the lecture and couldn't wait to inform us, and the lecturer saw it when it got passed back to me and became really furious. So she stomped up to where I was sitting and snatched the note from me even before I could finish my attempt at telling her it was for yesterday. And she just stomped back to the front and left me fuming mad at her. When the lecture ended, I felt so much like walking down to her and telling her off for making me look like I did something so wrong. Anyways, we concluded that she's got serious insecurity issues and prolly thought that we were gossiping bout her in that note.

Wednesday was equally screwed, not only for me, but for the entire class. Remember I said we had to go to school earlier although it was early Wednesday? It was house meeting, and my class got into deep shit because apparently, "we tried to cover up for a friend who wasn't there". For the record, we didn't try to cover up and only gave the truth of why that friend wasn't there. And all because of that minor thing, we had to report in school at 6:45am this morning.

Bad bad bad days. I need a break from shitty people!

Monday, April 16, 2007

Night of Choir Camp

Charlotte and I being all emo with that hello kitty toy that's been sitting beside the canteen for a week. And before that, random shots with Roy, Brandon, Sylvia, Jonathan, Joseph and Canphylia. Choir camp was a blast because of these people (: And Charlotte's in 55.55% of the photos here because she's the best camwhore in the world.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Mr Smiley

Hello yall.

Life couldn't be better at this moment. Well actually, thinking about it, it'd be much better with one more person who's been absent for a while. But life's still good and happy for me no matter what.

Thursday and Friday I was the happiest person in the world. Friday marked the start of our choir camp, and that night we had choir auditions. Mr Kwei made us sing one by one in front of our sections and him, and I almost freaked halfway through the thing. I was holding on to my nerves the entire time and I was aware that I sounded so different to when I sing calmly. The tone of my voice alone was hjxyupickuerb and I wavered because I was scared shitless.

After the auditions we waited outside and sang crappy songs to pass time and forget about our terrible auditions. And then we were called in and the Syf team was announced. I got in but I didn't feel happy at all after that. The mood was sombre and everyone looked kinda zonked. Then yadayada and we went off to shower before gathering back for movie screening. And we had to get scolded by this teacher who kinda spoiled everything for us. 10 minutes into the movie, Charlotte, Roy, Sylvia, Jonathan, Brandon and I went to sit outside because we didn't want to watch Sister Act 2 (think Whoopi Goldberg circa 1993 in super tight spandex suits and ginormous hair)

The bunch of us hung out playing Truth or Truth (it's Truth or Dare, except you don't get to choose what you wanna do lah), and we had to relocate 3 times just to get away from annoying people who clung onto us like... like... velcro! It was so funny cos we were running around school and it was damn comical when the lot of us had to run across the assembly plaza to hide and not be seen.

Then Saturday we played games and we had this huge water bomb fight. Picture crazy choir people running all over the assembly plaza hurling water bombs endlessly. It was as if the water bombs couldn't run out at all. And I ended up getting hit so many times I was soaked after everything. Then after that it was shower time and then choir practice with Mr Yong. I was half asleep while singing, and he ended early cos he knew there was nothing he could get out of us.

I cabbed back with this new girl I only got to know IN the cab because everyone else who wanted to cab back lived in Tanah Merah and there wasn't space left for the both of us. :/ And then I napped for 4 solid hours and then trained down to Wisma to meet with Raj and Ashley for our Sea Acts meeting. We're meeting later today again to work on our first proposal.

Haha, I just realised I haven't said why I've been so happy. I shan't say it here, and for those choir chums and old friends who actually know, don't tell ah! Haha.

Homework is finally starting to come in. Literature poem essay, reading of Othello Act 1, More's Utopia and Plato's Republic, edition of my PI and some Geog essays which I don't feel like looking at. And we've got Geog and Maths tests next week!

Till then!

She calls me Mr Smiley and tonnes of other names,

I'll call her my girl for the time being.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Seventh Heaven

I'm so happy right now it feels like it's my birthday!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Unglam Gluttons - Exposed!

Failed attempt at replacing melons with chicken wings, my dears. Haha okay inside joke.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Not Looking Forward

Life's all about adapting isn't it?

Finally, theres no choir practice tomorrow! And there's choir camp from Friday after school till Saturday afternoon. Ah, which means no more short walks home till next Monday.

I hope choir camp will be fun. If I crash during my audition on friday night, choir camp would be damn shitay lah. Jonathan and I are planning on sabo-ing people when they're sleeping, with facepaint and toothpaste and markers. Hahahaha.

It's going to be a really busy weekend ahead. Besides choir camp and more choir practices, we've got two tests (which are counted in our total results) next week, I'll have to go for the lit trip interview, ltc meetings, more choir practices and the list goes on...

I am so in need of a vacation right now. Like to some faraway, remote place where noone can contact me so that I can get some time out from this crazy schedule. I wish ah.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Of gluttons, singing in the rain, and a new word: Bitchcussion.

Friday afternoon was spent sleeping due to the moviemarathonlag, and I woke up at 6:30pm and realised that that was the time I was supposed to meet Pras and the rest for our much-awaited Satay date. So I rushed to tampines to meet all of them and then we took some random bus to marine parade and alighted like at the part where the ecp macs is. The lagoon's at the other end, so we took a ONE HOUR WALK all the way to get to our satays. In the end we had a feast - a stingray, bbq chicken wings, sotong mee, and satay! The gluttons within us emerged, but Edwin's didn't, cos he was already one. Haha. Then we cabbed home after pigging out.

(Pictures another time cos I've not uploaded them from the new camera!)

Saturday's choir was not so bad. We sang and sang and sang and then the bunch of us went for lunch at the estate where I used to stay at marine terrace. I had to bang my smallest toe on this concrete pillar and it bled like hell on the way to lunch.

Then we headed back, and we had to walk from the bus stop back to the community centre. It was quite a distance, and Jonathan started to sing all funny and weird, and Martin sang Silver Balls. And it started to pour like crazy cos I think the angels were pissed off or something. And we were drenched by the time we got back. It was really funny cos the 6 of us ran back under the rain and when we got back to where there was shelter, the rain was reduced to a slight drizzle. :\

And so we sang and sang some more and we could finally go home at about 4pm. That night I brought Cheyenne out and we watched Meet the Robinsons together. Haha, some brother-sister bonding in place ah.

Sunday was homework day. I finished up all the stuff due on Monday and then headed to Wei Xin's house for our very first 14th LTC meeting (: I'm like in Sea Acts (with Raj! and Mel!), though I don't know why they put me in that department. Do I look very beachy? Bitchy, yes. Beachy, I don't know.

Today's Monday, and I dread Mondays because we have the most double periods possible. Choir was as usual, and Dani(el) darling cracked me up so much when he was standing beside me I almost choked on my laughter while singing. I am super worried cos the auditions for syf are this Friday night! But going home with Jonathan and the rest of the crazy-fun choir people was damn fun, cos we were in heated bitchcussion on the bus and train about the Sun and the Moon in the choir. So evil lah all of us, but can't help it right?

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Movie Marathon

Last Thursday's movie marathon was good fun! As I said, the hall really looked like a refugee camp. It was like this huge stayover party. There were sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, chips, popcorn everywhere and they played 5 movies till Friday morning. I watched the first 3 and then I went outside to hang out with some others because I knew the last 2 would be boring. So here are the pictures!

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Falalalalalalala.

Choir's been fine. Not fine fine. But just fine. I've been kept busier by practices in the past week, and in the coming week(s), it's just gonna get worse. Practices intensify, and in the entire week, I'm only gonna have Thursday and Sundays free. SYF's in a month's time, it's time for me to work hard.

Last week at choir was tough. I couldn't keep up with what I was already supposed to know (I only know 2 out of 8 songs so far), and there was some kind of internal conflict which made things super intense. People started to tell me that I made the wrong decision to switch back to choir, but I don't know lah. I am just glad that I managed to find a group of friends who're damn fun to be with. Jonathan was apologising to me for bringing me in to choir, but I don't blame him. Haha, I didn't join choir for him!

School's been pretty much the same. We had the movie marathon from Thursday night till Friday morning. The hall was transformed into a refugee camp of sorts and now, my sleeping time is all messed up. I'll blog about it another time lah :D

Oh Mum brought me to this movie warehouse sale yesterday morning and we blew a hundred bucks on vcds and dvds. We bought the first season of The OC, so yeay!

It's 2:39am right now. I've got choir from 9 to 3 tomorrow. Not looking forward, but nevermind. At least I can look forward to hanging out with the guys. And then I've really got to start on my homework. It's piling up already, like finally.

Okay. Ciao.

Only the nice pictures

...from last Friday's dinner at Billy Bomber's after Speech Day.