I will make music to the Lord*

2005-12-31T21:27:00.000-08:00

Hello! Happy New Year! I am officially stopping this blog. Is there a way too? Whatever it is, i won't be posting anymore entries on this, first of all, i have no time, second of all, i can't be bothered! HAHA.

Thanks everyone for the wonderful 2005 we had, it was great, and i don't think 2006 will be any different. Wishing all of you a happy 2006 and may God Bless You!

Take care =)

Crystal

oh my gosh.. it's over! :)

2005-08-29T19:25:00.000-07:00

Hello! Wow, this term has been a long ride.. an exciting one too! I am so relieved everything is over! I really really really wanna say a BIG thank you to my funky campaign manager JASVIR and to the brains behind those catchy slogans DENISE!and to my class for enduring my nonsense of wearing my campaign stickers everyday and to TESSA who helped me with my speech, and my BROS too! OH! and the wonderful designs on the postcards were designed by none other but MING!!!I am so grateful to all of you! and everyone who helped in their own ways like putting up posters and all. wow, i really meant it when i said "it wouldn't have been possible without the support and advice from my teachers, friends and fellow candidates". Phew! We've been through SO MUCH together, from the very day we got picked to go for the interview. I feel quite bad actually, cause i think we cause quite a lot of worry for the teachers.. hmm.. we'll apologize in the nice little teachers' day letter we'll write! ahaha! :)

I AM SO GLAD IT'S ALL OVER, now i can go for recess everyday! :)

Crys

phew

2005-08-17T22:45:00.000-07:00

Hello! A long time no update... just been a busy term and it seems to be flying pass very quickly! So many events, so exciting so busy... tsk tsk! and i can't talk properly cause i have an ulcer on my tongue like Mr Loh! I sound horrible... anyway, ulcer are NOT good, so when you get your ulcer, IMMEDIATELY put ulcer cream, if not "you'll die a long death". ha! Quoted from someone! :) phew.. i have just been through an experience of my life, scary.. well, gtg now, the ulcer makes my tongue dry... weird...

Crys

yay!!!

2005-07-12T19:03:00.000-07:00

HEY EVERYONE!!! i am really busy right now, but i just have to share this piece of good news!! SINGAPORE YOUTH ORCHESTRA WON CHAMPION IN THE COMPETITION HELD IN VIENNA!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Yup, they are all still in Vienna, but Zhi Wei messaged me. WHOOHOO!! ok, i gtg back to work now. bye!

Crystal

LTC!

2005-06-22T17:50:00.000-07:00

Ok, HELLO!!!!!! This entry is going to be so super long! I HAVE SO MANY INTERESTING THINGS TO SAY, just that i didn't have the time previously. Not that i have all the time in the world now cause i'm so busy BUT i feel relieved cause LEADERSHIP TRAINING CAMP (ltc) JUST ENDED! WHOOHOO.. so sad ok, we had LOADS of fun preparing for it.

So anyway, the holiday was practically packed, had many LTC meetings for the preparation of camp and all. Prefects camp was on the 15th to the 17th, SO FUN! Haha! I was the group leader of WATT, funny group names but meaningful! We had a lot of training sessions and all, BUT many games too!!! :) haha! On the 2nd day of prefects camp, we invited other schools over. I was in charge of SJI, and only a pathetic no. of 2 people came. haha! So, we again had many games going on, and in the night was the concert! Everyone had to put up an item! haha, you won't believe our sec 3 item. Previously BEFORE the camp we met like 2 times for 3 hours each to discuss about the dance, BUT we only got through the front part of one song. HAHA! The funniest thing is we changed song during the camp, wasier mah, and we cheographed and rehearsed it in maybe less than 2 hours? HAHA! Isn't that good or what? We used Spice Girls' "Spice up your life", Mrs Chen said she liked it! hsha! We met our mentees on the 3rd day, my mentee is Erica Lim from 2E! haha! Quite scary leh, Lou's sis. HAHA, but it's Ok! mmhmm, then camp like ended. It was really fun and tiring, i was never so b usy during the camp lah! and why? Cause everyone couldn't fit into their Prefects' polo tee! And i had to be in charge of that, then we found the mistake, last time they ordered Men's size so baggy baggy. this time we ordered woman's size! so very tight fitting. It's quite screwed, still settling it. THEN, we had a REALLY nice camp t-shirt designed by the events comm. There's this periodic table at the back and our names are in it..we were supposed to wear on the 2nd night but HORRORS OF HORRORS, someone suddenly discovered it had more than 3 colours, and we had to return back the shirt to make amendments.. sigh. school rule.

After prefects' camp i had a weeekend before LTC started. It was a BUSY BUSY weekend catching up on stuff and finalizing everything we had. Had worship prac RIGHT AFTER prefects' camp i was dead beat and irritated at someone. So anyway, the weekend was pure torture man, had to do up those LTC boards. Shall explain later.

Run with Perseverance
"Therefor, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. " [Hebrews 12:1]

That was our theme and theme verse of LTC!

Monday, which was 2 days ago, LTC started. I reached school at 6.30am and on the way to school kelly messaged and said it wa 6.45am! whatever lah! haahha, by that tiome i reached school already! So anywy, yup, went up early to paste the boards on the walls of the lecture theatre! So actually these boards are termed "Boards of encouragement", where each person had this paper personalized with her name and the theme verse on it, and every one else could write a word of encouragement in it. And because devotions comm proposed the idea we had to do it. I tell you it was SO tideous doing it.. and i wasn't exactly suppose to do everything but there was communication breakdown man. So anyway, me and Prilaa were student facilitators of group FILASo cool right the group names, i tell you we had SO MANY changes. First it was car brands, then we changed it to sports brands, then we changed it to sports people, and thankfully, finally they changed it back to sports brands man. Imagine cheering for your group going "Go Li Jia Wei, go Li Jia Wei" haha,originally that was my group name, but it's FILA now!we had training sessions from High Achievers. Coach Charmaine was HILARIUOS, i thought it was a GREAT training session! In the afternoon we had station games, and me and Kelly were in charge of the telematch. Unfortunately, it involved starch and water and to get back at us, student facilitators, who poured the starch over them, THEY DIRTIED US ALSO, and it was just really messy and horrible cause we as student facilitators do not bathe at the same time as student leaders. I was SO dirty, but didn't bathe cause had to get ready for the night games. So in my starch coated legs i had to put on my costume for the night game's murder mystery. It was quite a disgusting feeling when you can feel the starch has dried up and it's cracking. haah! We filmed a video for the murder mystery, gahahah, i thought it was quite funny! We actually had 2 filming sessions at my hoouse, utterly hilarious. Originally the doll wasn't supposed to be named Violet, BUT wan pin saw the doll sitting on my shelf and took and said "We can use this doll and it can be named Violet". From that time onwards we were freaked out by Violet, cause when you turn the knob it plays "it's a small world" and turns its head scarily. Brr. It's in my room now. night games were very HARD i heard, many couldn't figure out the clues. But oh wellz, it was quite fun playing the forensic scientist and giving factual information on the death of the girl. Ms kek was at my station with me and i had a good talk with her. haha. She was saying how time passes so fast and i should start thinking about my future, true. After that we had devotions, worship then group reflections. Oh, we had this group journal too, made by my comm (devotions) and log comm :) hahah! FILA was really a good group, they were so united and were open with feelings. wow, me and Prilaa were impressed, seriously. Student facilitators could only bathe at 11 something. We had meeting at the conference room at 12am to do evaluation and discuss about next day's programme. Guess what time we slept? 4 am. haha. During the meeting we ate and ate and ate, so FUN. we kept passing around food, evaluated about next day, had lame jokes by Ms Ho. This is the one thing that i will miss dearly from the camp cause you're not supposed to be eating in the conference room! !! haha! We had to pack for the hike the next day so i carried watermelons up with mr ng and prilaa and carried four 1.5L of water up too, i was practically doing weights. We slept at 4am, woke up at 6am. 2hours. We were dead beat.

I should move on to day 2 now. 6am had to go wash the level one toilet that was still fill of starch on the floor. Cleared up everything while the student leaders were doing 5BX. Had devotions and worship, followed by another training session. We were showed this video called "Brave Hearts". It was to illustrate the meaning of the power of a shared vision. It was so grusome and inspiring also. i should go watch. Training then ended.. while the student leaders went to eat lunch, we went to load the knapsacks we packed the previous night into ms Ho's car. Claire didn't know how to open Ms Ho's car boot with the rempote control, so she just pushed the key into the lock and what happend? THE ALARM STARTED TO SOUND! Me, Claire, and Rachel i think, WERE SO FREAKED OUT. We just stood there frozen with the alarm sirening in the background. LUCKILY, Ms Bong and Mrs Chen weren't far behind, so they knew how to operate the car, phew! haha. So we had to prepare our own knapsacks too, so we gobbled down our lunch and ran to the conference. I think many people were shocked when we said they were going to be hiking from Mac Ritchie all the way back to school. haha! So we made our way to Mac Ritchie in a bus, and we had a speed game there, to see who should leave the starting point first. MY GROUP LEFT FIRST! hahaha, and the knapsack wasn't closed properly, so we dropped the watermelon and it broke into half! hahaha! We kept a steady pace and was leading. One of the activities was to stop at a particular place to break open the watermelon and eat it! That's why breaking the melon at the start was actualkly a blessing in disguise. I was amazed how they all managed to use their hands and dig out the watermelon and finish it within 3 mins! When we student facilitators went on the hike trial 2 times, we finished it in quite a long time. Partly cause we were laughing and laughing and laughing and the teachers also joined in the fun to eat with their hands! hahaha! We lost our lead when we had a toilet break, haha, but itwas ok, and something unexpected happened. THE PIPE TO CROSS WAS BLOCKED CAUSE IT WAS DRIZZLING! haha, we were shocked! Just the last sat we went for a trial and they didn't block it! Everyone ended up stuck at that point so all the groups decided to work on their group flag. Brave soul Mr Ng sinked his feet into the mud to get us across, and with the help of some other teachers and student faciliatators too. From tthat moment onwards we stopped the competition and we bonded as one whole school and the only vision we had was to get everyone safely back to school! It was definitely heartening to see that. We still carried out most of the activities we planned during the hike and the hike really met it's objectives on how we must persevere. Winning is not coming in first, but rather finishing the race. :) We took a rather comfortable walk back to school and bonded a lot with our team mates. It was definitely a wonderful experience. haha! We actually went for this 10km hike 2 times befroe the actual thing to test out the distance and stuff. haha. It was really fun with all the 14 of us plus the teachers! There was once where we saw the monkeys mating, and it wasn't a pleasant sight! hahaha! I was really tired when i reached back to school, imagine walking 10km with only 2 hours of sleep! We bathed and had catered dinner. We served the teachers first, student leaders and finally ourselves. haha. we were so nice, even the teachers were impressed, they thought we went to rush for the food ourselves but actually we were serving the rest first. It was so not enough. The drink had to keep mixing and we all didn't know the ration of the lemon squash to water so we kept doing trial and error! hahah! After that we watched this really old disney movie "Cool Runnings". It really was an apt movie to watch cause it was really in line with our camp theme. The student facilitators sat on the flooe. Claire and prilaa resting their heads on my lap and prilaa's head kept sliding! hahah. All of us were so tired that most slept throughout the whole movie. I was tired that i unconciously dozed off in the midst of the movie for a short while but i got a jist of it. Thereafter the devotions comm was supposed to lead everyone in happy songs but i was definitely not up to it, so I spoke to Mrs Chen and Ms Kek, and they were so understanding! All i said was "Can we please don't sing happy songs tonight", they said "tired is it", i nodded and they nodded back! haha, but i think the tiredness was obviously written all over our faces. haha! One of my classmate came up to me and Kelly while we were warming ourselves outside , and she asked how we managed to look so awake in the morning despite only 2 hours of sleep. And i said, we couldn't show it, if not everyone will feel tired too. Yup. But for all the 14 of us student facilitators, we were tired, no doubt about it. We then had group reflections and reflactions as a whole LTC where the teachers shared their views. The student leaders then got to go to bed, while we had a meeting in the conference room at 12.15am. Mr Ng was so nice. Hw went out to buy noodles, carrot cake , milk and stuff for us to eat cause dinner was so little! Yup, evaluation on the day's program took place, we discussed and talked and evaluated group members, and slept at 3.30am. Earlier than the night before. I just realized it's not even night, we slept in the morning. We slept till 6.20, so about 3 hours of sleep. Can you imagine, throughout the 60 hours during the camp, the student faciliatatiors only had 5 hours of sleep man. haha!

Day 3. Today. We all were seriously drained but tried our very best to seem not. The conference room wasn't open, i went to look for mr ng in PE departmenrt, he wasn't there. Went down to home econs room, he was there but didn't have the key i wanted. Went up again to check if anyone unlocked the room. Don't have. I walked down to look for Mr Ng again, he said one of the campers had the key soi went to find. Shu acompanied me. Walked up, key couldn't unlock door. Walked down, looked for Ms Ho for the other key. Such a tiring morning. This was practically equivalent to 5BX. Had worship and devotion then our groups were designed our task for the next semester, and FILA got the most difficult project to do, cause it's something new. But we can do it! :) haha! Then we proceeded to do cleaning up, and we found out we had a lot of snacks left so we all split up the load and brought them home. Had prize presentation, FILA got MOST ENTHUSIASTIC award! whoohoo! We sang the theme song one last time together wiuth the actions. Still remember the time where we were sitting round the meeting table early this month and we out of the blue thought of these moves for the song. wow. And zoom. the camp is now over. SO SAD. We spent so much time preparing. It was REALLY an enriching experience. We had photo taking and the student facilitators took a photo too. I forgot to mention that Ms Ho was teacher i/c for me and prilaa's group, FILA! she rocks man! Had a short debrief after the whole thing ended. We gave all the teachers baloons with their names written on it and we gave Mrs Chen and Ms Ho a card. I really really really enjoyed myself a lot. I bet we all did. Haha, I'll definitely miss the late night or rather early morning conference room meetings syrrounded by food, and the fun times we had as student facilitators preparing for this camp, the funny and stupid things we do, the hikes we went on, the jokes we crack, the bond we had with the teachers and each other. It was really amazing. The teachers gave us this crayon smarties thing, and they said very touching stuff. I wonder if they actually say that to every student facilitator after LTC is over, but i think it was true, i mean they can't lie about these kind of things. hahaha. Ms Ho said we were inspiring and we touched lives and Mrs Chen also said we were amazing and all. When we all heard that, we all felt so .. touched, so accomplished, felt that the whole month spent on preparing this 3 day camp was not wasted. It was awesome. I really hope they enjoyed LTC as much as we did. Somethimes we really exeasperate them quite a bit! haha! Especially it's 14 of us against 7 of them.

We did the final packing up for another 45 mins and left for KAP. Had a nice lunch there with 5 other student facilitators. So so tired, but i just had to blog about this. LTC was great, and definitely a memorable one. :)

Crystal

MEP camp!

2005-06-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

HELOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Long time no blog! hmm.. holiday is here, but no holiday for me though.. busy busy! haha! MEP just ended, was today and yesterday! Wah, it is the best man! I felt quite apprehensive towards it at first, BUT everything just fell into place today, despite the horrible day yesterday! hahaha! yay! Theme was musical theatre, something my brother would definitely enjoy! Yup, i was in Group 8, group leader (which ms tsien picked and never told me), we were quite quiet yesterday during the brainstorming session, and the boys from this particular school arh, have this sense of arrogance in them. BUT thankfully everyone contributed some ideas and cooperated today. YES! and Ms Kang was our teacher in charge. Dun know what school she's from. Ms Tsien extra extra come to my group and follow us everywhere. You won't believed she 'taught' us how to dance the part on how to point your fingers up and down. Quote "Must put your hands on the hips and shake butt.." SHE EVEN DEMONSTRATED!! i obviously couldn't help but LAUGH!! hahaah!I'm so bad. So anyway, we did "Staying Alive" from Saturday Night Fever! We had plenty of different ideas, but we settled on the farms and chickens idea. So the farmer wants to kill the chickens cause they need to stay alive, and the chickens run away cause they want to stay alive! haha! Is that creative or what! Kudos to Cheerio from TKGS! mmhmm, so we changed the lyrics and danced and did other stuff which was funny! AND our repeated practises did not go to waste cause we executed it quite well! hhahah! We got a prize! "Best ensemble, teamwork, song and dance" yup! :) I really enjoyed MEP camp, made many many new friends!! But unfortunately, probably won't be able to see them again.. as in seldom lah, cause where can we possibly meet, MEP stuff? haha! But it was a GREAT experience!

Yup, the past week has been just a total hectic one. I have so many interesting things to blog about cause they are about LTC BUT unfortunately i can't cause all these things have to be kept under wraps till the camp comes! haix haix... ok, i shall talk about school. I really do not see the point of certain post exam activities cause they are plain useless. But oh wellz, the teachers probably just want to keep us busy by doing something. and, Sunday was our school's fund raising concert at Jubilee Hall, which probably not many people know cause one ticket is $100!!!!!!!! So 10 of us were ushering in the hot hot school blazer, it is so thick! And i took MRT wearing it (w/o the jacket first), and everyone kept asking "what's the occasion... competition arh", so embarrassing!!!! So we all met for dinner first had it at burger king, then we headed for Raffles Hotel. Haha, me and Jolyn had to stay outside where there was no aircon in the full blazer to sell merchandize, can you believe that? But it was quite fun lah, haha, Mrs Yap and Mrs Chen was there selling stuff too. haha, MGS has lots of things to sell, the MGS bear was popular. We had a little supper at starbucks, and then went home. It was really quite fun getting together like that to do ushering, really really fun! :)

yes, i better stop here before i start rattling on aboutr LTC stuff. YUp! See ya!

Crystal

longggg weekend

2005-05-23T23:26:00.000-07:00

ah! the long weekend is finally over, not that there's anything to look forward in school tomorrow. What are we going to have?.... PHYSICS lesson.. sigh. I dislike physics, but i have made up my mind to try to listen to Ms Cheong and not switch my mind off when she talks. That is if i can do it, sometimes, it's just too boring! *yawn* Which reminds me, my dad has been hurrying me to get a physics tutor's contact... shall go hunting tomorrow.. well, it's not that difficult to find cause i presume a number of my classmates have physics tuition!

Ok.. enough of physics. Yep, saturday we had flag day! I was taken aback by some reponses from certain people. I mean if you don't want to donate, you can politely refuse, but some just stare at you with their piercing eyes and walk away! how rude is that? Yes yes, maybe some find it really irritating, which coincidently i read in a newspaper article today.. hmmm.. oh wellz! yes, so anyway, flag day is over! :)

And, i made my i/c already! hahah! I had to wait so long to have my photo taken! But i finally got everything done, i should get it at the end of Jun or in July! ahha! Yeh.. so back to my weekend, i spent quite a bit of time on LTC stuff... yup, research and all. Gosh, it's quite taxing but really really fun! Looking forward to my busy but fun-filled June hol! whee...! :)

I ordered a book from Kinokunya! yay! haha.. the author is Ayelet Waldman! I read one of her books "Nursery Crime". It is Fantastic!And the funniest thing is i bought it when i was P4 at a book fair cause of 2 stupid reasons. It was extra cheap and the cover of the book was super attractive! So at that time, i probably didn't understand what the book said, but i read it all over again, and i love it! haha, so anyway, i think i have finally found a passion for reading! yuyup! Hope it won't die down!

Yes, and i finally did finish my 3 questions of math! haha.. i took a really long time figuring out the steps Mr Ling did, but i finally figured it out! yay! hah! One of the neatest piece of homework i ever did i feel.. haha.. cause i did it super slowly!

I was supposed to go Ming'ens' house today.. but i had my homework to finish. haha! Oh wellz! There's always another time! anyway, it totally slipped my mind that i haven't given Ren Jean her tickets to sell yet! Oh Gosh.. i better find her tomorrow! Luckily i tidied up my file today and found the stack of her 10 tickets, if not i woulf have totally forgotten about it!

haix.. ok.. i should get going now.. it's pretty late.. and actually my hair is still really wet cause i bathed quite late.. so i shall just idle away and wait for air to evaporate the water droplets in my hair! hahah! Sounds like i'm answering the primary school science question "Why do you use hair dryers to dry wet hair"? hahaah yup! Good Night!

Crystal

my birthday!

2005-05-18T19:42:00.000-07:00

Hello! I am 15!!! haha, today's my birthday! yup, it was a great day today! Thanks everyone for the many presents and birthday songs!! ;) We got back some papers today. First of all was E math paper 1. I was so happy! haha, the best i ever scored for math, 67/80. not FANTASTIC but i'm satisfied! ha.. as usual i made STUPID careless mistakes! eg.(15-6=6???!!!!) We didn't get back paper 2 cause there was no time! haix. Then we went through english but didn't get the paper either... like that how to check for mistakes?? haha! We went through elective geog and it was really a pleasant surprise. After the exam i thought it was hard and i would score badly, but haha, it wasn't SO bad after all! I got an A2 on the dot! haha! But my CA will pull me down drastically! :( ok. then the WORST of all. Higher chinese. i got 67.25! i never get so low for chinese ok. I was so shocked actually! How could i get a B3, i was sort of expecting an A2. haha! oh wellz, there are good and bad marks all the time! :)

Anyway, yup, i always seem to be really busy in school on my birthday.weird. last year also. After schooll i had to rush to Mrs Chan's office to help her key in stuff.. then I had to go for LTC meeting which was supposed to be 1 hr but dragged to 2hrs. But it was REALLY FUN! hahaha.. man.. so cool! Then i was very late for ensemble! haha.. which was until 5.30pm. THEN, i had to keep chairs and tables, when i was SO hungry cause i didn't eat my lunch!!!! haha.. well, came home then cut cake, opened presents! Thanks everyone!

Today was quite sad. Cause Mrs Diana Goh, my elec. geog teacher told us she was leaving!! although it's only going to be one semester as she's going on course, BUT IT'S SO SAD. and she might not take us when she comes back next year. She hopes to. She gave us chocolate. I dunno if it's just me, but she seemed kinda sad when she broke the news to us today! gonna miss her hands-on lessons where we eat in class the diff vege and raisins! haha! :) Oh wellz. So sad right. haix.

So anyway, hmm.. today was full of ups and downs! Tomorrow will be getting back A math, Bio, Physics and SS. A math.. is a K-I-L-L-E-R, apparently half of the B band failed. die die. And today i couldn't stand the teacher who went over math paper 2, she kept going "you A band girls... A band here, A band there" hiyoh.

Yup. tmorrow, tomorrow. Have masterclass. haha. hope all goes well! yep. better gio now!

Adios!

Crystal

healthy sat

2005-05-14T22:36:00.000-07:00

hellooo... so today is one of those days where i consider it the most accomplished. cause i did a lot of things! whee...

First of all i woke up really really early and went for violin group to help all my juniors. Yes, it was an early morning and spent like 4 hours at my teachers' place, BUT it's pretty fun being surrounded by all the kiddies that are just so adorable and cute.. makes me think of myself at that time.. i probably was so clumsy and muddle-headed carrying my short and stumpy legs with the tini-weenie violin in my hands. ha, how precious. ok, so i came home after that, and i settled down in front of my comp.. so what's new? ahahah! Seriously, there's nothing else to do. OK, then i played guitar. Practised my piano!!! and i did sit-ups and crunches at home! haha, and Tessa motivated me to stretch that day, so i did stretch today! ha! Thanks Tessa! haha, oh, and i did the pilate thing that Tessa taught me that day, but let me tell you i probably did it all wrong! hahaha! Then, i walked over to Yihui's house and borrowed a bike, and we cycled along the jogging track nearby. I haven't cycled properly alone in AGES, ever since my fall in 1998. hah! But i managed to get on the bike and though wobbly as though i was jelly, i managed to cover distance! haha, but paused a lot. But patient Yihui was nice and waited! hahaha! :D

Yes, my morning and afternoon was productive. Then i sat on the couch to watch tv. Watched this really good movie "Golden Reciever" on channel 5. It's so cool! I love these movies that involve sports then they finally win that kind of thing! haha, one example, "Mighty Ducks"! haha!

ok.. i am just lazing around now after my exciting saturday. hee..

Good Night!

Crys

post exam mood

2005-05-13T22:13:00.001-07:00

ok. First day of no exams. hmm.. it was quite boring. But fun, at least i could laze around in bed till the sun shone. HA! I dun get it, when it's exam time, you yearn for a holiday, now exams are over and you have the hol, you feel bored. Haix, people's feelings can never be explained. haha!

So anyway, i woke up really really late today. I wouldn't have awoken if not for my dad who called me down for lunch! haha! After lunch i just sat on the couch and stared at the tv screeen, i haven't watched tv in ages, and i watched the "Contender" for the first time. I felt sad for Anthony (is that his name?), he got up, but they counted that as a knockout! It was only 30 secs more, if only he could hold out, he would have won! How sad.. but sometimes i think these reality tv series are kinda rigged. haha, OH, and i chanced upon a show. I think i was fated to see it. I clicked the remote control to "56" (which i don't usually watch) and i saw this Jap looking man sitting in front of the grand piano on a stage, looking solemn. Then he raised his hands, and set them on the keys. And GUESS what music came out. THE SONG YOU ARE HEARING ON MY BLOG NOW! oh man, it was the Jap serial Yee Lin told me about! It's called--- Long Vacation--- i think, Gosh, it was the ending, SO TOUCHING, so this song is staying on my blog now, it's not going away, never! haha, i wish they'll replay the whole series so i can watch! aha!

Haha, i find it quite hilarious that me and Nureen have been counting down to our birthdays since like a long time ago. Nureen writes on her diary "38 more days... 37....36...", and now it's like less than a week. ha! SO fast! my dad keeps asking me if i want to have a barbecue or some sort, but dunno leh! hahaah! oh wellz, i'll make up my mind soon! :p

I did nothing much today, except i had violin lesson and i took this free day to settle some stuff. I can just imagine how busy my june hol is going to be. hmm... yup! I really can't wait for the weekend to be over so i can go back to school to see all my friends, but then when i go back to school, i'll dread seeing certain teachers. ha! oh wellz, you can't get the best of both worlds! :)

Good Night!

Crystal

post exam mood

2005-05-13T22:13:00.000-07:00

finally

2005-05-12T19:53:00.000-07:00

yoyo, people in the house, exams are OFFICIALLY over! WHOOHOO!

So anyway, we had to go to school for only 30 mins today for the listening compre. haix. HAH! it was supposed to be 45 mins, but it ended early, so while we were waiting for the exam tio start, Mr Ling swtched the radio to Class 95 fm, wah, it was SO FUNNY! hahahaha!

After the exam ended, we figured it was still breakfast time, so we walked down to Kap to eat breakfast. I ate hashbrown! (by the way Juls, Kap is KING ALBERT PARK). hahahah! I'm surprised you didn't know that?! Then, we left and went to orchard! AND WE IDLED THERE FOR VERY LONG cause NOTHING was open. gosh. it was boring at first.

I punched a hole in the watch my bro gave to me for my bday, haha, then we were so irritated at the stubborn shop that refused to open at Heeren. dumb. So we walked over to Orchard Cine.. walk walk walk walk. Cheryl and Tessa were all hype about finding their shirt! hahaha! Tessa got orange slippers in the end, though she wanted this $23 topshop shirt. Cheryl got a black shirt and a metal pink hairband, and the sweetest thing of all, a chain for her mum! :) haha! Zw bought some accesories and stuff. ahaha! oh well, my legs were really tired. ANd the day seemed so late, but it was actually quite early then. hahaha!

Haha, oh wellz, tomorrow NO SCH! yes! finally! can't wait. can have aloooooong sleep!

Crystal

OVER...

2005-05-11T11:10:00.000-07:00

WHOO!!! exams are FAST, but tomorrow i have to go to school for LISTENING! hiyah... so fast ya. One semester is almost over! Imagine: 3 more semesters and we graduate as the class of 2006! haha.. fast!

So anyway, today was HIGHER CHINESE. the compre was hard, the cloze passage was hard. haha! The rest was OK, BUT my stupid chinese teacher lah, ask us to make sentence with a word that is NOT FROM THE BOOK, how? hahaha! So we all just crapped up something! ohwellz, MEP harmony was ok lah, i thought perception was much easier, mdm ong set the paper SO WEIRD, so diff from our previous papers. haha, she's a weirdo, but a nice one! :) and of all the HORRORS, gosh, guess who was our invidulator for MEP? Of all people, it had to be my form and co-form! so weird lah! usually is MEP teachers... hahaha, Mr **** looked bored... jhahaaah!

We went to Kap for lunch and hang out there, haha!It was hilarious lah, taking pics and videos. Nureen was happily letting Eliza take PIctures of her! hahaha! :D SO funny! After that, Ming'en's dad could only take a few people, so me, Cheryl, Ming and Dee took Ming's car. The rest took Tessa's. AND haha, the funniest thing happened, they got lost for 1 HOUR and 40 MINS!!! We were all so anxious, and flipping through the street directory frantically, Dee was talking to Tessa over the phone and giving directions, and we were searching the map! haha! Quote Cheryl "THis is FUN!" haha. So anyway, haha, finally we told them to wait at wherever and Ming's dad came to the rescue! haha!

It was a really relaxing time. Some played pool, some waded (though not allowed to), we had nice talks! OH, and Tessa taught me Pilate... was trembling!! hahaha!!hahahah! So ya, I WAS THE ODD ONE OUT, wearing this RED hawaiin shirt and black knee-length shorts with blue hawaiin patterns! hahaha, looked like i was all ready to go tan in Bali! :p oh well, it was COMFY! hahaha. We ordered pizza, stupid me thought two 14'' pizzas were too much, well, it obviously wasn't enough! hahaha, but we all just junked and everything! Haha, then there was this cake smeared with marshmallow cream to celebrate Nureen, April and my birthday! haha! N we all were saying that if ZW were there, she would have blown out the candles with her saliva! hahaha! Then Muriel's dad sent me home, we waited for him for pretty long too cause he got lost! hahah! My dad rocks, he knows how to get there safely and back, hahaha, but he couldn't fetch me cause he didn't have the car! hahahah! Aiyah, cause my dad also sent my bro there for tuition many times that's why. Muriel's dad is really funny! :)

Haha, came back and slacked and watched TV. haha! For the 1st time i actually watched in dunno how many weeks! Watched a bit of American idol and AMAZING RACE! yay!! the joyce and achennon group won! SO happy! So touched when they won, and they had a great attitude and heart, making sure the taxi driver got paid before running to the finish line, they could have just ignored it and dun beg people for money and just care about themselves and run through, but they didn't! :) hahaha! What nice people!

What an exciting day, tomorrow is HCL listening compre! haha, had GREAT fun today, ha, what a relief exams over! hahaha! yupyup, tomorrow's HCL listening will be used as ZW's one for O levels, haha,cause she's going for SYO trip to vienna, hope she does well! yupyup! Better go now, so late! hahah, bye!

Crystal

these few days

2005-05-10T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hey! haha, haven't updated since the last week. So anyway, Sunday was MOTHERS DAY. haha, yup, me and des bought mum this little pocket book that says "If mums were flowers, i would choose you" and it was put in a nice paper bag that said "To a special mum". ahaha! i paid for it! :) so anyway, the past weekend was another mugging one, had to cram in elec geog and higher chi and Physics.

Yesterday was Physics. Wow, i found it worst than A math, gosh, it was horribly difficult, i dun think i'll pass, and even if i do, it's very borderline, but oh wellz, I TRIED MY BEST! :D thanks to Chia and Michelle who gave me this Physics crash course on sunday which went 4 hours straight! I think i would have failed trmendously withut their help! Thank you, thank you!

So ok, today was Elec geog, and again, i screwed up my mapwork, which is the ironic thing cause it's the thing EVERYONE can do.. and the structured qestions were equally bad, haha, i kept writing and cancelling. and i studied SO MUCH on PALM OIL but i didn't do that question causde it was HARD. But the wet rice one wasn't any better, haha, hiyah... it's ok, again I DID MY BEST! :D actually, as long as you do your best, it's good enough! Mep perception was after Elec geog, mmhmm, i thought it was pretty ok, but as always, i always will make a FATAL mistake in the world musics section. haha, i failed the section on world musics last year you know, hahah, but somehow still managed to pull it off! SO anyway, ya, i got wrong for the Indonesian music! haha, and Ms Tsien played Mendelssohn concerto in E minor first movement as one of the extracts! Me and ZW were laughing cause before the exam i told ZW "If mendelssohn comes out i'll laugh man", i mean it's SUCH a familiar tune! ahaha, and she let us listen to it b4 in class somemore.. haha!

So anyway, i studied finish my higher chinese this whole afternoon, even revised already! So i'm just staring blankly into the screen doing nothing much cause everyone is so busy studying and i dun want to disturb them. Toorrow is higher chinese and Mep harmony, then it's REJOICE TIME. haha, still have to go back to school on thursday for HCL listening exam paper, haha, how spastic! oh nvm. :)

So anyway, my dad came back from Hongkong and he bought some "folding clothes" thing, so was folding my cupboards clothes this afternoon too with him. haha! The little "gadget" is cute, but looks "perishable" haha! anyway, it helps your clothes to be folded neatly and make it as thin as possible, occupying the least amount of space in your cupboard. hahah! :D It was fun!

i hope time passes faster, then i'll get tired and go to sleep. anyway, haha, my friend sent me this MP3 of the Winnie the Pooh song yesterday, gosh, it was my FAV disney song in primary 3. haha, rekindled some childhood memories "...tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff..."...

So anyway, haha, i was kinda bored so went to do this quiz on your b'day. Got it from Phoebe's blog. haah.So anyway, people born on 18th may are:...
Your birthday on the 18th day of the month suggests than you are one who can work well with a group, but still remain someone who needs to maintain individual identity. There is a humanistic or philanthropic approach to business circumstances in which you find yourself. You may have good executive abilities, as you are very much the organizer and administrator. You are broad-minded, tolerant and generous; a compassionate person that can inspire others with imaginative ideas. Some of your feelings may be expressed, but even more of them are apt to be repressed. There is a lot of drama in your personality and in the way you express yourself to others. Oddly enough, you don't expect as much in return as you give.

hahah.. so is it entirely true, i really dun know, what do u think? haha!

Julian:" juls, i dun think youneed to listen to the song everyone's talking about, cause it's quite bad i must say, i'm sure your ears tuned to the 'high arts' will not be suited to such songs that comes from jap serial?! hahahah.. hw was Berlioz symphony fantastique, heard the piano transcription, one word: hard. haha, say hi to Jia for me and Hui Yiang too! Study hard! DO well for exams! God bless you! :D"

yup, shall stop here.

Bye!

Cryssie- (hah, the first time i was known to this name was in 2m)

E math and Bio

2005-05-06T23:23:00.000-07:00

hey! The week finally comes to an end! But there's still exams next week so have to mug. I envy those who don't take physics and need not come to school on monday, lucky man! hmm, today was E math paper 2 and bio. And boy was E math difficult, my brain was cudgled up! Bio was ok, but i really wished i had listened to Mrs Lee more attentively in class cause apparently she went through some of those questions! hahaha! :D Oh welllz! Must move on..

Monday is Physics. I don't even want to touch my physics textbook nor look through the worksheets. But i know i HAVE TO, no choice, i dun want to end up failing cause i gave up before the battle even started. At least if i studied, i know i have tried. Ok, i can do it! :)

Today was a day of relieve. When Mr Tay said "pens down" after the bio paper, i sighed with relief, thank goodness, only 4 more exam days to go, great! i believe it'll pass as fast as this week! I had violin lesson today, took taxi home. I seriously think the cab driver had physcological disorder. and why do i think so?
1: He kept mumbling to himself
2: He could not drive straight, even on a straight road, he wobbles left and right
3: He doesn't slow down on humps and enjoys bobbing his head up and down vigourously when he goes over a hump
4: His screen that every taxi driver has to tell them the destinations to be at was OFF!
5: He suddenly speeds up for no odd reason
Thus, i have a reason to believe he is not fit to take passengers. Do you know how nervous i was during that although short but DANGEROUS ride? I forgot to take his plate number down. haix, just hope nothing will happen to any other passenger.

So apparently if you fail 4 subs in the mid years you have to go for some study camp.. haha, i heard it from Elvina, you have to study from 9-5pm. Is that true? cause i never knew! :p

*yawn* Really tired, haven't slept this late for the whole of this week. I am beat. Can't wait to snuggle myself into bed. Going now.

Good Night!

ZZZzzzz

Crystal

chem and e math

2005-05-05T21:57:00.000-07:00

Whoo! I discovereda shocking fact! actually not really shocking lah.. haha... the date today is 050505! isn't that just totally cool? hahahah! Today was E math paper 1 and Chem. Well, since E math paper was ok.. i guess E math paper 2 tomrrow is gonna be difficult! hahaha.. oh wellz, it's always like that..! Chem wasn't easy but it wasn't difficult too... it was just very inferential. And the MCQ got problem lah! Sn is 2+ what.. it can't form any of the equations there properly! haix.. so i anyhow wrote one ans down, maybe i am wrong also lah! maybe the ques is correct! oh wellz! Tomorrow is Bio and E math 2. Bio bio bio... gosh.. so much to study! I can't believe we actually have to study the tests for food, bleugh! But i found Bio Chap 6 on Nutrition in Mammals the most interesting thing to study. I just realized that we learnt a lot of simplified things in science last year, but if you think about it, what we're studying now is probably ALSO simplified, so the actual things that take place in your body is far more complex than we think! ahah!

ANyway, found out from my friend yee lin that this funny song on my b log is from some jap serial about this guy who aspires to be pianist but cannot make it cause he doesn't play with enough emotion. Then his roomate's girlfriend clinged onto him cause she got dumped by his roomate on the day of their wedding. hahah... then you know all those love love story lah... they fall in love... blah blah.. hahaha, then at the end, he plays this and thinks of all the things that happened! hahahah!

So ya, exams finish next thursday, it seems long.. cause it's a week away, but if you think about the number of days you really have exams, it's 4-mon,tue,wed,thu, not including tomorrow! hahaha, can't wait for it to be all over. I have to mug this weekend again, too bad it's not a 3-day weekend, so i have LESS TIME! hahaha, physics is on monday, i have decided to find physics tuition after this mid year, gosh, i think physics is really hard! haaha! ANyone wanna find tuition with me? ;)

haha, i cannot wait for this to be over.. hahaha! Actually next thursday not really counted as exam day cause it's HCL listening compre.. why not they consolidate it on wed? i dun mind staying back longer, rather than going back to sch for a while only on thursday! hahaha!

Ok.. when everything is over, i can finally say "yay, next week is my birthday!" and slack around in school having weird post-exam activities that will only make me think of 2m even more. hahah! ok, shall stop here, good night!

Crys

long long

2005-05-04T21:49:00.000-07:00

Oh wow! how long have i not been here? Well, it's been AGES, but i've been really busy with EVERYTHING. How ironic, exams are supposed to be the busiest times, but i think it's more relaxing then my normal days. Haha! Yes yes, lots to study, but you get off from school way earlier than a normal school day!

So far, i have taken Eng compo, Higher CHinese compo, English compre, SS and A math! A math was a bummer. Everyone came out so sad, and Mr Ling said "It was EASY" ?!?!?! But not to me, haha, my math isn't very good. But oh wellz, I did my best. I felt i was in quite good form, casue my mind was thinking quite clearly till the end, when i sort of gave up when Mr Tay said we had 10 mins left. hahah.. oh well, it's only a mid years! SO dun worry everyone! SS was ok.. structured was pretty straightfoward, but the source-based was really eally funnY! hahah... well.. i didn't really have much time to think.. just wrote what came into my mind! yup, have been studying for chem and e math paper 1 tomorrow. How spastic can i get, was reading E math HEYMATH animated lessons online! hahahah :) it was quite funny! I love chemistry, even if the paper will be hard, i still love it out of all my 3 sciences.

Friday is Bio and E math paper 2. Actually, i'm quite ready for all the exam subs this week, but honestly speaking, i hacen't really started on next week's ones yet. you see,i didn't really start studying for the exams till LAST WEEKEND, and thankfully it was a 3-day weekend cause of labour day. it was really productive.. YAY! hahaha... thata's why i can actually afford time to sit down in front of the laptop to type this entry:)

"EEps.. sorry Juls, haven't been updating and never replied your letter. I recieved it! hahaha.. so much for the small 10 pages and big handwriting, that probably if you combine it all, it would fit into one A4 size piece of paper. But it was really fun reading it! haha.. all the best for you exams!"

So much has happened in school lately.. so many events.. oh yes, last wed was SYF.. we got Gold! haha.. well, there were others who got Gold with Honours, but i guess we worked hard and gave it our best! i thought it was quite an achievement that we reatained our gold despite playing without a conductor! yay! :D That marked my last SYF in sec school.. cause it's only once in 2 years. hahah.. oh wellz, there's always JC! haha!

Things are moving so fast, can't believe it's May already and we're in the midst of having mid-years. Gosh.. everytime i think of exams and post exams, i think of crapbaggers, i guess it's cause of all the funny things we did and our "traditional" praying.! haha.. anyway, i guess i'd better stop here. God Bless everyone for the paper tomorrow! Do your best! :D

*yawn* i'm beat. A math paper killed my brain today, haha, i need to rest it now. Bye!

Crystal

long long time ago

2005-04-02T23:09:00.000-08:00

hello! a loong loong time since i updated! Term holiday was really fun, although it was pretty busy with all the ensemble practises and stuff, but i had a whole lot of great fun too, especially since my bro came back for easter hol, but he left today already! hahahah, so fast! went out during term hol and discovered a great drink! hahaha, you see, i haven't been drinking bubble tea for a long time since the craze went out, haha, but i drank it again, and the great drink is ALOE VERA PASSION FRUIT WITH PEARLS!!!! aha! it's so nice.

i wrote that paragraph on Monday in the library, but vanessa needed the comp, so i let her use it and saved this. since then, i didn't finish it, shall continue now. hahahaah!

Anyway, yes, exams are up in 4 weeks!! oh gosh, it's really fast, last time, there used to be so much time to study after school, but now, once you finish school, it's so late already! hiyoh.... exams must be over soon! My ensmble SYF is on the 27th of April, so fast right! Choirs is next wed, even neaer! hahahah... oh wellz, i hope we'll do well! Yesterday was swim meet, it was so hot! and cause i was doing reception, i had to wear the sch u with my tie! I was suffocating! hahaha!! anyway, it was pretty fun to do reception, cause seeing some teachers eat is just hilariously, There was this particular teacher mr/ms ***, so greedy pig! Take the food, pile the whole plate, when taking also eat on the spot, hahahah, it was funny! anyway, yay~! Olson did quite well! We won for division 1 and B div, but overall champion is Jackson, oh wellz! hahahaha, it was pretty hot!

ok, i gtg now. bye!

Crystal

busy buzzy

2005-03-10T18:14:00.000-08:00

Hello! Wow, it seems weeks since i blogged! Been so caught up with work and everything, but thank God term break is starting on SATURDAY! But if you carefully think about it, it's not really a break for me. There's so much work and i'm going back to school on monday, wed, thu and fri! haha! Mr Loh just piled us up with a lot of chemistry hol homework today! At least it's better than math, just hope that Mr Ling will be merciful and not load us with tons of homework!

Anyway, i was super blur today. When we went to the chem lab, i forgot to bring my practical file down. When we went back to class, i forgot to bring up my textbook! hahahah, it was quite funny. Mr loh reacted funnily lah! and he was playing ELMO SONG and C IS FOR COOKIE and RUBBER DUCKIE...etc.. while we were doing chem prac, hahaha!

MEP ended early today... me, mu, eliza, zw and dee walked down to KAP. it was a nice way to relax, especially since school is ending soon! Then Mu and Eliza said "crystal, next time if you get married, you must tell us ok then we can play and sing song for you! " i was like "WHAT!" haha... that's quite far away you know! Then me and zw were strolling behind, mu and eliza sat on the pavemen t of the slope!! hahahah!! Saw Mrs Raj on the opposite side of the road, me and ZW shouted out to her! I hardly see her around nowadays.. haha! It's so weird, when the teachers are there and then teaching you, it's so different from when they are not teaching you already. Like you can just talk to them like a friend sort of thing. hahaha, so weird!

I still miss OBS. 5 weeks ago at this time we just arrived at the campsite after land hiking, so fun! haha! Today we got back progress report,gosh, i did so badly! I got 13 points man, and that's not good. haha! Mrs Lee says i need to buck up on A math and Biology! haha! Do you know what, mid year is in 8 weeks you know! so fast right!

Ensemble is really fun now, cause the songs we play are so mordern! hahahah! anyway, gtg now. Bye!

Crystal

fast

2005-02-26T22:51:00.000-08:00

haha. I remembered i wanted to blog about something, but i totally forgot what it was!

But anyway, yesterday me and Sarah were walking along the corridor of the sec school hall, then i noticed the neatly arranged rows of chairs with 9 pairs of tables in front. Then i realized, it was for the o level results on monday! I told Sarah, "imagine 3 years down the road, we'd be the ones sitting in there" and if you carefully think a bout it... it's not that long. Think of the years from p6 to sec 3, it's the same "duration". Wow, then we told ourselves, we'll rememeber that moment about thinking ahead, so when we colect our results in J1, we'll be sitting in the hall and reminizcing about the time we were talking about it just out side the hall! wow!

:)
Crystal

hahaha

2005-02-25T16:09:00.000-08:00

Hey! Gosh i am so busy now. Tests are all pouring in at the same time! anyway, i have things to do like the static display, song dedication booth for inkwell, read chinese book by monday, do debate research! hahahah!

Oh wellz, school has been ok... results part is bad for some subjects... hahahaha! Never mind, shall work harder! anyway, today, we ate Swiss chocolate in class for English! hahaha, Mrs Yeo is so nice, we had permission cause she was talking about switzerland so ya..

and Nureen kept laughing during math today! dunno why, but she just laughed lah! and yesterday's mep was so funny! hahahahaha, me and grace thought that mdm ong's blouse was very distracting! ahahahah, it was 100% weird! hahahahhaha!

Haha, we're doing Vesak day for the static display, it's quite last minute lah, we actually haven'treally started but it's due on monday, but hopefully it'll all work out lah! hahahaaha!

Anyway, i gtg now. Bye!

monday blues

2005-02-14T13:39:00.000-08:00

hello. Start of the week, now having free period so am slacking in the library. Eliza and Natasha are playing ALEX 4 again, that stupid crocadile game! hahaha!! It's weird! Anyway, last week was a weird week for school, cause we had school on monday and friday but not tues, wed and thursday. It was a blur week for me, cause i kept wanting to fall asleep in class! hahaha!

CNY was so hot! And according to newspaper reports, that day was the hottest in Singapore since 15 years! Wow, can you believe that? Yup, went visiting here and there, on the second day of chinese new year i went to watch I DO I DO with my family! It was such a funnny movie and the actors and actresses were GOOD! hahahah! It was absolutely hilarious! hahah!

On sat, i went to my friend's birthday party, my primary school friend, YIWEN!!!! Wow, it was really nice to gather together again and reminizing about the fun times we had! hahahah! And i finally leant how to play bridge! hahaah! Friends forever man!

And yesterday, i went to taglin mall to go buy valentines day presents! hahaha, went to collect my OBS photos and you know what?? THE DISPOSAL CAMERA MY DAD GAVE ME WAS EXPIRED----n meaning NO PHOTOS were developed? How sad is that?? ALL MY OBS MEMORIES!!!!!!! Thank goodness we also took pics with nureen's camera! haix! So sad! Anyways, i went jogging with yihui! hahahaha, jogging and talking at the same time is TIRING but it was so fun lah! we jogged, then walked then talked for a long time till she was late! hahahah! My legs are aching now, but good exercise, can build up for PFT! hahahaah! whee!

Today is Valentines day! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE!!!! especially my bro, JULS! (don't say i didn't write you a message on my blog! >.< )I gave out all my presents already! yay! hahaha, i think i'll stuff myself with all the chocs i recieved tonight! hahahah! It's a lot man, going to be fat liaoz!

I'm freezing cold, can't type properly! Better go off now, so Natasha can play the comp! hahahahaah!!! Bye!

Crystal

OBS!

2005-02-04T21:39:00.000-08:00

Back from OBS! what can i say? OBS was fun, funky, exciting, exhilarating, crazy, tiring, cool.... ! AND we had a pretty instructor CINDY! ok, i'll start telling from day 1.

[Day 1]
We arrived at Punggol Jetty early in the morning. I remember all of us looking out into the sea, unsure of what was in store for us. We set off towards Pulau Ubin with mixed feelings. BUT, all turned out well. We were introduced to CINDY our humourous instructor and we started our activities for the first day. I was in AMUNDSEN watch. we were given so much food, and had to keep our own share!! We went kaYaKING the whole day, although we all did it last year at sec 2 camp, we learnt new stuff like "The art of capsizing" and how to get back into your boat if it capsizes in water! haha! My kayaking partner was sara chong, so there was once we had to help a capsized kayak! the capsized kayak was already in the middle of our kayak andCindy wanted me to peddle in nearer as i was siting at the back and was the only one who had a peddle! So i had to kayak with the weight of 4 people and 2 kayaks! hahahaha!! cool right? Yup, we kayaked longer than other people, but obviously there was a price to pay for that, we had to pitch tents in the dark and also had to cook in the dark! our first night's food was quite bad, agagaga, we had canned sardine and maggi noodles! We were very un-punctual on the first day so Cindy was quite pissed la, but she's very nice! So we came out with 5 commandments of Amunsend! "Thou shalt......" ghagagahaha! We got to bathe! the toilets were quite clean, surprise! It was freezing cold in the night i remembered, and i snored! hahahah! Oh wellz!

[Day 2]
Rise and shine! We started off with QT then we interacted with our buddy watch ARMSTRONG by playing stupid games! ahahah! Poor Nureen was the only one who wore an orange shirt that day and we all had to put our armpits on an orange object! so you know what happened...! ahhaah! Then we moved on to play TRUST GAMES, we started by standing in the middle of 2 friends and moved back forth without any control, we had to tally relie on our friend to push us! It was a nice feeling! Then, we had to try and JUMP to reach for a bell that was quite far, but in case you fell, your friends were there with a mat to save you! hahahaha!! Not bad lah! Then the highlight of the day was rock climbing and belaying! hahaha!! cause we spent most of our time there! We learnt a new skill about how to belay, so many belaying calls to do, like "am i on belay""that'sme""Cindy check""falling".... blah and blah! hahahah! After we all tried our hands on belaying we went rock climbing! I suck at rock climbing, but i climbed further than last year, but it's still very low! hahaha! Eliza n Nureen rock lah! They both reach the top! Well done! hahaha! I learnt that you actually need 4 people to rock climb, the climber, the supporter, the belayer and the assistant person to hold the ropes! how cool is that? hahaha! We ended the day with something very exhilarating, THE FLYING FOX, or was it FLYING FROGS?? dunno lah! anyway, it was so scary man, but fun lah! hahaha! Cindy likes to ask radom questions when you're walking up the ladder like "why does your parents name you Crystal"and she tells sarah "rapuntzel, let down your hair" hahahaha! so funny! It was a nice sensation to fall from the air, inthe end, Cindy also did it, coolCindy! hhaahahah! So did Hiap Lou, the instructor from armstrong, hahaha,, super funny, he was like doing stunts in the air! hahahah, then we were all on the grass when rachel saw AN ant, and we all thought what was it cause she exclaimed like it was something big! aggahahaha! Cindy taught us how to cook rice, it was a bad attempt for us, it was crunchy! hahaha! ate it with luncheon meat and campbelle soup, hahaha! We got to bath again! hahahahahah!!Then after dinner, we had a briefing for the sea expedition for the next day then we went to sleep!!

[Day 3]
We did the Sea -ex with Armstrong, Batutta and Cheng Ho! The intructor from Cheng ho NATALIE was super funny man! hahah! Each watch needed a leader so i was the leader lor. I was sweeper during the expedition, meaning to kayak behind and make sure no one is left behind! It was really tiring but fun! When we stopped for lunch, we all were so hungry that we gobbled everything up, Natalie was telling us, "Wah, this is like hungry ghost festival like that! Everyone just take the food and dun care, just eat! " she obviously did it with funny actions that made it so funny lah! Then she went to pick up a teeny weeny seashell and said "come Crystal, this is your ling pai as sea-ex leader!" I was laughing like mad, but i kept the small seashel;l, cause it's super memorable! Our timing was pretty good! We travelled 13-15km on the kayak! wow right? hahah! We reached our new campsite for the day! This campsite did not have toilet so all shitting and peeing ad to be done in the bushes! But although we didn't get to bathe, we got to swim in a freshwater quarry which is collected rain water, super refreshing!!! Our dinner was fab man! It was curry chicken maggi noodles with canned mushrooms and sausages and peanuts! nice!That night it was so dark, me and eliza and sarah wanted to go call Cindy to tell her we'd be late, and i stupidly stepped into this big pool of mud sludge! and those were my dry shoes and i threw away my wet shoes already! hahahah, so bodo la me! agagagah! When we all went to meet Cindy, we tried to call her, forming a dominant c chord, hahaha! Very funny! The floor was hard that night cause there were stones poking all over, but at least we had a place to sleep lah!

[Day4]
We all ate oranges for breakfast! Like the norm, we had QT and journal sharing! Then we had a super inteersting activity! we had to build a raft and every group crapped up something when advertising it to the instructors lah! hahahah! But AMUNDSEN's raft worked best ok!!! hahahaha!! It was super fun! and the male instructors are super disgusting man, they suck up water and spray it at you! hahahaha! To make our way back to our original camp site, the one we slept for the first few days, we had land expedition! Nureen was navigator with addy and Pei shan was sweeper! hahah! I was at the back woth her cause i couldn't walk so fast carrying that whole heavy bag of ponchos! We always missed the check point and had to turn back, but it was good exercise! i felt so accomplished! The sole of my shoe was on the verge of coming out totally so i kept tripping and Cindy kept laughing! hahahaha! When we reached back to the campsite, i felt so accomplished!!!!!!!! gagahahaha! W all stood in a circle and massaged for each other, wah, Cindy's massage was so good man! i happened to stand in front of her! hahaha! I went to get duct tape from Cindy and she help me tape back my shoe, so funk man, i took a pic of it! hahahaha! Dinner was THE BEST! we had klots to eat and we had orange juice too! It was too good! We hadto do the stores and pack the stores so things were quite rush, but we managed to do it! We could bathe again! hahahahah! sleeping was cold, hahahaha. I was thinking about everything that happened during obs last night, i couldn't help feeliung sad that we were leving the next day... hahaha.. saw nureen and rachel "bicker" about where to light the mosquito coil and that was like an expected thing to happen every night, so saddedning... :(

[Day 5]
Actua;lly i typed day 5 already, but it got erased, dunno why? Anyway, we had morning activity, had to walk through this tunnel blindfolded. We all had communication breakdown, Nureen was suppose to knockon the door not knock open the door! hahahah! She opened it, and cindy was actually sitting right above it! Sofunny, f only we all were there to see how funny it was. While we were walking inside the tunnel, mosquitos were feasting on Cindy's blood, poor thing, she had so many bites after that! Then, Cindy went to check stores,i had to clean this particular mess tin cause its sides were so dirty lah! haha, after stores were all checked, we did an evluation form. Then, we got our photos and certificates, Cindy was so sweet, she wrote a quote and a small message behind everyone's photo! We proceeded to buy souvenirs. The sole of my left shoe was beyond rescue so Cindy told me to yank it off, hahaha, and so i did, and she ended up laughing again!hahahah! So funny, felt weird and funny walking like that, but the shoe is till with me, it hold too many memories and can't bear to throw it away! haix! So sad, we didnt get to see Cindy before we left, we were suppose to see her at the jetty to take photo with her, but she didn't come, probably too busy lah, can't blame her, but SO SAD OK! So we left, arrived at the punggol jetty in time to see the arrival of mr ong, mr ling, mrs lim, ms cheong.. etc. I stood and faced the sea, exactly the same spot where i stood on the first day. The feeling was different, everything that happened during the past 5 days flashed through my mind. so sad. The journey back to school was "heavy", everyone was tired and sad, i looked out of the window only to see tall buildings, taxis and car, not rocks, not sand, not the sea. 5 days is indeed fast. I really will miss OBS, you could stay there forever, it'll take your mind off school work and everything, the power of nature! haha!

I really learnt a lot from OBS and these can be applied to daily life. I learnt how communication and cooperation is so important especially when working with a big group of people. Understanding too. This can be used to pull the class to gether, to understand everyone of them, talk with them. Perseverance and patience are also very important. You musn't give up when ever you do something, like when solving a problem in school or something... hahahah! Lastly, don't underestimate yourself, you won't know the outcome of anything if you don't make the effort to try! hahahah! yup, so much learnt, actually if you carefully think about it, everyone knows all these, it's just that you don't know the power of it unless you've experienced it, like in OBS.

OBS rocks, CINDY rocks, AMUNDSEN rocks, hope can go OBS again in the near future!

Crystal

upcoming OBS

2005-01-30T09:39:00.000-08:00

OBS IS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!! hahahahahaha.... our watchname is some funny amendson, or however you spell that! hahahaha.

Anyway, another busy week has passed, yay, it's gonna be a long holiday ... after OBS we have school on monday but tues to thu we have NO school! YAY!

I'm so glad the 4 tests are over! Phew, they were all so tricky or not hard.... hiyoh! And wow, i have to say something, i've discovered, some people or rather teachers take a while to unfold so we see how they're really like. Some we think ain't so bad at the start but are really horrid now and others we thought were strict and everything, is not so now. wow, you really need time to understand people!

And our whole class was super pissed with this certain teacher man, ms ***** (better not write it out. lest the police come to my door and arrest me) hahahahah!!! anyway, she is so UNREASONABLE! "a1, i have high expectations of you all, i give you all the instructions, but you all can't do it, even the normal academic students can do!" she goes on... blah and blah! Then she says "a1, i have very high expectations of you all, if i don't, i'd be looking down on you all, do you all understand?", i dun know why all teachers think a1 is best and all, when in actual fact it's not really, cause mgs groups classes according to COMBINATIONS! so if a3 is hist elec, a4 is lit elec, and a2 is sports class, the rest will be dumped to a1.. so it's not fair! Gosh, mgs should change into a more orderly system! anyway, from monday to friday, my classroom is outdoors where there's fresh air and sunlight! WHEE!

Gonna to do last minute shopping today, getting eliza's torch and some stuff i haven't gotten! hahaha!! See ya in a week!

Crystal

buzzzy

2005-01-23T21:28:00.000-08:00

Hello!!! Gosh it has been a busy week and it's going to be even more BUSY next week. There's 4 tests! Bio, Chem, Chi and MATHS!! EEKS! Math is a horrible subject! hahahahah!!

Anyway, i have been buried in homework for the last few days. And i missed some classes cause there was prefects' installation reherarsals. Haix, it's not very good to skip class cause you have lots to do when you come back.. OH! on wed and thu the sec 3 pb sold stuff to raise funds for tsunami victims. It was pretty sucessful i must say. Haha, i remember i took SO LONG to make those 100 waffles at home, but it was quite fun lah, cause i kept spilling and sqeaking! hahahah!! And I'M SO HAPPY because our ensemble is improving tremendously. I wonder why? but i'm sure everyone plays they're part by practising! ;) So exciting!

I'm so glad it was a public holiday on Friday. I seriously needed that day to recharge myself! The weekend was busy.. had to mug and mug. Yesterday i went out with my mum to buy my new years' clothes and knowing her she INSISTED i buy a skirt cause she goese on and on about how i should be more feminie and stuff... blah blah blah! Yup, so bought this jeans skirt and a white top and a black sleeveless top. haha... and today i went to church and signed up to play for worship. AND my sunday school teacher i just found is my friend's sister! they look ALIKE so i asked my friend! hahaahah... what a coincidence. Then, i went to cut my hair cause my mum says it's really messy so cut lor. And i finished earlier than my mum cause she was doing something, and i went over to tanglin mall and walked aimlessly reading my chinese notes everywhere i went. Ok, GUESS WHO I SAW??? hahaha... i sort of just walked in and wlked up the escalator and i walked and walked then i saw someone familiar in a red jacket! ELIZA! hahahah.. yupyup, so fun! Well, at least it brightened up my day, it amazing how these little things just lift up your spirits! oh.. talking about these things that lift up your spirits, hahah, i opened my notebook yesterday to check on my homework then i realized that like 3 people wrote little stuff inside. no wonder Cheryl, Dee and ZW took so long looking at my notebook during MEP! hahahah, well, itwas really really very sweet. HAHA!

I'm so excited for after next week which is 31st jan. IT'S OBS!!!!!!!!!!! hahahah... though we'll be suffering in the sun. at least we don't have to study! jajaja.. so exciting, can't wait to be tan!!!

Anyway, tomorrow is prefect's installation. Haha, have to be in school by 7am! but actually i'm always in school by 6.45am, so it doesn't matter! yup, matter go off now. Bye!

Cryssie

2005 so far

2005-01-14T16:00:00.000-08:00

Wow! You must have thought i disappeared or something, haven't updated for quite some time huh? Well, if you think i had nothing to say, you're wrong, cause i have MANY MANY things to talk about, except i was too busy!

Let's start with the first week of school! Well, school started last monday, it was quite relaxed and all for the first 2 days! And from wed to fri last week, i didn't go to school! No, i was in school, except i didn't atttend class cause i was helping out with the Sec one orientation camp! I have so many things to say about camp! it was a BLAST! I remember it started with a very wet weather, but thank god we had a back-up plan, everything went smoothly like the LOVING games until the telematch on the first day, where there was a huge human traffic jam.. oh wellz, i guess nothing is perfect! ;) Then, most of the times when the sec ones were having fun like watching "Pincess diaries" and swimming, we, Jepthah were practising in the chapel! But it wasn't a chore, it was fun and meaningful! Hmm, we really spent many hours in that chapel, not only during the camp, but also during the hols!! The first day went pretty well, then the second day started with 5BX, where they played jacob's ladders with BREAD, it was pretty hilarious! Although it was camp, but we all still had to attend assembly and stuff!! Then wehad PE tryouts like normal then devotions, then when they went swimming, we stayed in school with the prefects to go for OBS check up! Then me and Jo joined the prefects in preparing for a dance for campfire, then we also had an item for campfire where JEPTHAH and the prefects danced together! It was so funny i tell you! Every minute we had together was memorable! We had to prepare for campfire, and due to construction, campfire was in the sports complex, with an ingeniously-made campfire with a fan, torches and cellophane paper! CAMPFIRE was great! It was good to see the sec ones screaming their hearts out for their class and friends and having a great time if their life!! JEPTHAH ate finish dinner only after the campfire, pretty late. We and the prefects slept quite late, i guess that's why we all didn't have 5BX the next day cause no one woke up for it! The 3rd day was farewell, we had devotions for the last time, and packed up and there was a prize presentation before we broke camp. Had so much work to catch up on cause we all didn't attend school for 3 days! I was dead beat, but i was happy!

I remember when LTC ended on Nov 20 2004, and we were assigned to do sec one camp, i was like, will we be able to meet the deadline? But i guess we all worked hard, sacrifacing some holiday time to meet up occasionally in school to discuss stuff! It's really good to see the camp being executed well and that all the hard work put in is worth it! Really happy to work with Jepthah, it's amazing how we only knew most of each other for a short 3 days and were able to connect and work so well! Jepthah rocks!

Let's move on to the second week of school, which is this week. Oh, Jepthah did chapel on Monday, cause Ms Cheng heard us during sec one camp and wanted us to do! I was surprised, but we all really had loads of fun together! Well, school resumed officially for me, quite a lot of work especialy math!! grrr. hahahaha, not too bad lah! Wednesday we had a Jepthah debrief with Ms Ho, i guess all of us felt very satisfied, relived inside ourselves, but sad too, cause we all know that the next LTC, we'll be in different groups! But i guess we must learn how to work with different people! Today's friday, have lesson later then going to esplanade to watch a concert!! Better go off now!

Have a nice day!

Crystal

2005

2005-01-01T23:37:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

Wow, this year certainly has been fast, it seems like we all just graduated from P6 ! well, i guess now we can't be the lower secondary sec 2 kid that fools around and stuff, we're sec 3! we're seniors man! But still, sec 2 has been great? why? Definitely beacuse of 2m, CRAPBAGGERS the HCFs and my brothers!

As it's the start of the new year, i would like to for the last time thank the people most dearly to me who have been so important to me for the last year.

To the CRAPBAGGERS and HCFS and 2M
:It has certainly been great knowing each and everyone of you. I'm sure 2m wouldn't be what it was, if it was not for every single effort each and everyone of you put in. 2m, has been the best class i've ever been in in all my schooling years so far. I really enjoyed my time in 2M as much as you all did, so as 2005 progresses, i wish everyone of youa great year ahead and God bless you all!

Crapbaggers, what can i say? Although we all say we won't ignore each other and still stay the crapbaggers, i guess things will be different in another way. Like April said in her blog, we'll miss out all the fun we'll have going on the field trips together, where we always sit at the back and sing songs really loud! or the times where we just gather in class to play the guitar/ukelele and sing out loud! I guess it's really very special when we do that. But, we can't do anything about it can we? But i just wanna thank youall for making life in class so enjoyable, especially with all the boring classes and frustrating subjects, 3 words, YOU GUYS ROCK!

Higher Chinese Freaks- Eliza, Ger, Cheryl, Ming, Zw. We really did cause havoc during higher chinese class did we? We did have loads of fun together fooling around and making noise in class. I dun think we;d be able to do that anymore, cause upper sec chinese teachers are scary!!! But everytime it's HC, i'd definitely think of you all, and the silly things you all did like climbing through the window ;)!

To my brother, Juls: Although you're leaving soon and spent only about 3 weeks here, i have spent great times with you. Haha, i love it when we fool around and i start getting all hyper-ish and stuff! Like you said, it's very enjoyable just recalling songs and singing it at the dinner table, and probably we're the only weird people to do it, but i enjoy it! I'll be seeing you in 6 months, then you'll be staying in Singapore for 2 years! Whee, loking forward then! :D

To my brother Des: Thanks for being so caring and being such a great big brother. It's nice to have you back home while you're serving NS, so i get to see you more often. You still have another year here! :) Haha, thanks for being my badminton opponent when i'm bored and entertaining me with stuff too, although they're not exactly funny, but i sppreciate it deeply! Have a great 2005!

Yup, 2005 already! hmm, i'm sec 3, kinda hard to believe still. But just to all the people who keep thinking you won't like your class: it's not whether you will like the class, but whether you'll make the effort to like your class and bringing them together! With that, i end my entry!

Have a great 2005 you all!

Crystal

2004-12-22T16:59:00.000-08:00

testing.. testing..

i'm back!

2004-12-22T16:32:00.000-08:00

Hello! This has got to be the busiest holiday ever! ahahahah! Have been busy preparing for sec one orientation camp with my LTC group! It's hard work, but it's actually really fun! I went carolling on monday! We went to 2 childcare centres, st. Luke's hospital and Ms Kon's house! I met all the scholars that are going to be in sec 3 next year! They're really nice, really look forward to having them in MGS next year!

Christmas is in 3 days! The year is ending in 9 days and school is starting in 12 days! Gosh! That's really fast! I can't believe our 2 month holiday is ending soon and a whole new year is starting all over again! I believe it'll be a great year for everyone! Speaking of starting school, i just remembered that i still have one more newspaper cutting to do!

Well, for everyone who visits my blog, just wanna wish you all a MERRY X'MAS and may God bless you all!

Crystal

2004-12-02T15:00:00.000-08:00

Hello! Wow, Taufik won, but luckily Sly gets a recording contract too! I love the new song "i dream" , it's so meaningful!!! Oh, and when Dick Lee went up on stage to perform i was like "DON"T SING THE SONG 'LIFE STORY'(which by the way was the song we sang in music class in school)" and he did, but only a bit of it! hahahahaha!!!

Anyway, i gtg now!! haha!! Byebye!

Crys

whoosh

2004-11-27T14:01:00.000-08:00

ahhh.. just came back from JB.. it was a great camp man.. it's so sad that time pasts so quickly when you're having fun! haix! Anyway, i'm in 3A1!! wow... and there are only 27 ppl?? and my register number is 21.. so unusual cause my no is always thirty something! I wonder who's our form teachera? AND GUESS WHAT? Me and Sarah are the only prefects in the class AGAIN! wah laus! Oh wellz, we're gonna live with this class for 2 yeears so we better work together to make these 2 years enjoyable!!!! i'm so tired, going for a rest now! Bye!

Thanks forn all the tags on the board! I'll reply briefly heree..

Those ppl in 3a3 that tagged ohn my board: Our class are not 2 classes away cause the classes are like 3a1, 3b1. 3a2, 3b2... etc.so it's 4 classes away! hahaahah! Enjoy!

Crys

heya!

2004-11-21T17:30:00.000-08:00

OH MY GOODNESS!! LTC ROCKED BIG TIME!!! JEPTHAH ROCKS! If you're wondering what was that, that'sd my group name! Which also happens to be a character in the bible which ironically none of us knows! hahaha!

Anyway, i made so many new friends!! My group had Lala(prila), Huihui(Chia Yi Hui), Rinne-rinne(Corinne), LynLyn(Jolyn), Titi(Christina), Dradra(Sandra), Juju(Judith Quek), Vivi(Elvina), Valerie and Me(taltal). Guess who thought of the funny names!! hahahah!! None other then Prila! hahahah!! And we won most united group which i really have to agree for our group! Although we got the highest for most of the games but our cleanliness pulled us down which was VERY PUZZLING cause we cleaned until so SPARKLY OK! hahahahha!! Oh wellz! It was really fun! And we are assigned to organize SEC ONE ORIENTATION CAMP! So happy ok! Which means no school from the 5-7th for me! WHEE! But it's gonna be a tight schedult cause we only have around 1 mopnth to prepare! Ok, better get down to serious work!

Oh yes, 2mers, why you all never recieve the link i sent you for the pics? It's here.. go check it out!

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/share/welcome?i=EeAMWLZsxbMm7gg&x=1&sm=1&sl=0

yep! have fun!

Crystal

whoosh!

2004-11-15T19:15:00.000-08:00

I am dead beat! It was a loooong week last week with all the practises and the concert, however, everything just does not end there! I have a long week this week too! OH NO! There's ensemble on tues and wed and leadership training camp from thu to sat and a wedding tea ceremony on sun!!! Oh gosh! Not to mention i have to come out from leadership training camp on fri cause there's a performance at general hospital!! I better tell the teacher soon!

Last week tere was violin practise EVERY DAY!! Well, it was hectic, BUt it was really fun! I mean i got to know the younger ones much better and we did have a great time! I'll be joining them for strings camp in JB this month from 24th to 27th! So that means you frens out there have to help me look out for what class i'll be in next year amnd my confirmed subjects!!

Prefects camp was a BOOMB! It was great! realy, it was so fun! And i'm in the secreteriat comm nezxt yeae! And guess who's the other sec 3 member?? SARAH!! W're so fated to be in the same comm eh? I didn't know she put secreteriat as her first choice too! Gosh, this must have been planned! hahahaha!

Ok, i have to go now! Going to cold storage! Bye!

Crys

wed

2004-11-02T16:23:00.000-08:00

hello. Yesterday was weird.. I woke up to find myself idling around on a monday morning.. just too weird! Well, i went to school today!! Ensemble from 8--1! long huh! anyway, people of 2M listen up!

Class party on the 11th Nov. (i'm not even sure if i can go, but even if i can't you all still go ok?)

East Coast Park, picnic, cycle, fly kite, chat

A day of fun, especially with the company of 2mers!

however, where you all want to meet and wat time?? Get back to me!

i'll try to upload the pics as soon as possible ya! Sorry for the delay! Take care!

Crystal

The end

2004-10-30T12:39:00.000-07:00

Hello! Yesterday was the last day of school as well as Ger's birthday! We celebrated her birthday at the museum, how weird! And ZW was so disgusting as she scooped up the brownie with her hands! The next birthday is Cheryl's birthday! Which coincides with the day we know our classes! (26th Nov). Followed by that, it would be Eliza's already! And that's NEXT YEAR! haha! Fast ya!

The template was so screwed so i changed it back! Hiyah.. WHAT HAPPENED?? it was so cute! So anyway, yesterday was the last day of school. Took many pictures and trying to host all of em on a web, but i haven't tried! Which hoster should i use?

Today's talentime, but i'm not going. But just want to wish all participants especially "Incognito" all the best! Break a leg!

Crystal

2m rocks!

2004-10-27T16:10:00.000-07:00

Ello! I'm so happy! 2M is really a great class! We got into the semi finals of soccer and although we didn't win we made a great achievement ya? and the best thing of all is we had FUN! I must bring my camera on Friday! Our PW went quite ok today, our powerpoint was so lousy, the only thing good is the video! haix!

Anyway, today is the third last day of school! Treasure remaining days! :)

Crystal

RELIEVE

2004-10-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

I'm so happy!! I got into triple science!! And i'm taking elective Geog next year, i finally decided!

Yesterday was Christmas Service! Kinda early huh? Christmas is around 2 months away! But it was quite an enjoyable celebration! Today, was CHINESE WEEK! haha. We won Third!! Congrats! It was quite a shock!! I was telling Ger that it would be a miracle if we won! Oh wellz, all of us had FUN didn't we?

HAPPY BITHDAY TERI AND MICHELLE!!!

Anyway, i just realized it's the 4th last day in school. Just now Ger and I stepped into our 2M classroom we used for the first semester. We sat at the places we used to sit and "re-enacted" several funny scenes that happened. We were alone in that room and it's amazing how the empty classroom can bring back so many memories. Haha, remember the times we goofed around at the back of the classroom during class and chatter amongst ourselves! and the time where i taught Ger to play the guitar and ukelele, haha, she's still playin those chords for "Better than Life" haha! It was a fun time!

Tomorrow is inter-class soccer, let's give all that we've got and enjoy ourselves! Maybe with a stroke of luck we might win again?

Smile!
Crystal

Slack Saturday

2004-10-23T22:29:00.000-07:00

Hello! Let me tell ya how slack today was! I slept till 11 something, woke up and stayed in my pyjamas till 4 and then ran. Was watching tv for practically the whole day! And my parents ordered KFC for dinner cause they wanted to try the new tom yum chicken! I thought they were kidding at first but they really ordered! HAHA!! It tasted pretty horrible by the way!

and my Dad got a $100 dollars starhub voucher so i can get a new phone!! Just need to pay the balance, but haven't decided yet! haha! I finished buring the PW cd! YAY!!! I got "new" clothes today. Haha! It's not new lah, it's passed down from my brothers! My mum was clearing their clothes and it was a big mess.. their fashion last time was quite weird!

Better go now! Bye!'
Crys

Funky Friday

2004-10-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

Ahh!! I just ate ice-cream.. yum! Today was a very very slack day. We got back art and i got a horrid 64! haha! The rest of the day we just went to the audi to practise for our performance on tuesday!

Haha! It's pretty ok.. and i think the front part is super good!! But the middle is like very messy and stuff!!!! hahahahah!! I think it'll be so fun!! hahahaha!! But quite malu and nerve-wrecking too! hahahah!! and Ger was so funny with the bass guitar!!! haha!

The class was like a room today. Almost everyone lied down on the floor tosleep, some read archies, some played ball, others play UNO! hahaha! So slack right?? THen Mrs Raj came in and we were all so freaked out! But she said,"oh, nvm, i'kll keep an eye shut" jhajajaahahah!! scary...

I have violin later.. gtg. Bye!

Crystal

a normal day

2004-10-21T14:35:00.000-07:00

Hello! Haha, school was so slack today and it was boring too! You know why? Cause they made us watch an opera and a very lor sor movie. "Turn left.Turn right". I think the plot was pretty good but it was too lengthy!! And the opera is super boring, i can't evemn here what they're saying!!!

Yup, then we had a subject combination talk conducted by Mrs Sim, it was boring too!!! Then after that we ended school... just like that and so much time wasted!!! haha, we were listening to the chinese song "wu zhuang" that we're going to play for chinese week next week! It's such a COOL song!! hahaha, and we have not practised yet, which we're going to do tomorrow!!! hahaha! Oh yes, we have to look for instruments!! especially the electric guitars!!!

Anyway, i am going to Singapore Idol tonight!!!! Whee.. how exciting! Ok, better stop here for now! Bye!

Crystal

Moment of truth part 3

2004-10-20T18:33:00.000-07:00

Hello! Just got back from ensemble! It was pretty good considering the turn up for today's practise. We're going to have practises in the holidays for SYF next yr! I really hope we can retain our gold medal!!

Anyway, we pretty much got back all our marks except ARt which is so totally not important! I am actually prettty pleased with my marks and i'm really happy for Eliza and Cheryl who did really well! Congratulations!

Eliza: Hey! You can go show your mum your strength now! :)

I proven a good point, as long as there's a will there's a way. This is probably the exam that i worked the hardest for, i didn't even work this hard for PSLE! And I guess the hard work has paid off, but of course you know i could not have done this without God!

I really hope with my average of 73% {according to the way to calculate for rank average} i can get into triple science!!!! BUT i just realized it's not counted this way. still have to add in the CAs.. haix! So ma fan!!!

Anyway, i decided about my subject combination, and i think i'll do elective geog, even though my hist scored like 10 over marks higher than geog!!! But i think i'm more interested in geog, and if i study even more harder, i should be able to do it!!! Yep, so I'm doing geog! (hi-5s with Eliza!)

Oh! One more thing, today, Mrs Raj wanted to see Me, Nureen, Cheryl, Eliza, Phoebe, Samantha, Dee, and Ming after school. Me and Phoebe were staring at each other with suspicious eyes!! It was super scary.. we were wondering why she called for us! Then we realized that it was PW groups, so at first i thought she was going to scold us for the group file or something like that. Well, it was not the case! She wants us to present to the whole level next wed!! And why did she choose us? caue she liked the video.. and that's te worst part! It willmaluate all of us big time! hahaha! I have to go loook for the cd now... if not i have to burn in again!

Byebye!

Crystal

Moment of truth part 2

2004-10-19T14:25:00.000-07:00

Hello! We were just informed today that there's ensemble tomorrow!! It's not that i don't enjoy it but can't they just give us a break?? Exams have justended! But i guess we have to work hard if we want the SYF gold next year!

Ok, it's MOMENT OF TRUTH PART 2! First, we went through english again. We got back compo and letter writing, and Ms Chau is super strict!! I only got 20/30 for both! But our final marks are not confirmed yet cause our mrs tan does not know if oral is included, and even if it is, it won't affect my marks, cause it'll still stay at 67. something, a B3, hahhaha, expected! It's really weird, people do well for english and i do well for chinese! I just got scared my a loud thunder! It was really LOUD!!!

Then, we had to do this horrible survey, about pupil's needs and stuff, and the computer logged off itself the first time, and i was in the middle of doing the survey! So i had to redo it all over again... Anyway, then we went through History! I got an A1 of 77.5!! I'm so happy! But my CA mmight pull me down!But oh wellz! I'm just happy!!!

Then we had to check our CCA marks and it was in a big mess!! Almost every one had something wrong, and they kept stating my house as blackmore, it's OLSON! And they owe me 5 points, the computer system in school is reaklly bonkers. Anyway, i got 17 points so far, but if they add in the 5 points it'll be 22!!! Whee, thankfully i dun have to worry somuch about CCA points for the next 2 years!

Yup, tomorrow we'll be going through MEP, Lit, Geog, HCL (again?).. ithink there's somethingelse, but i dunno! hahaha!! I gtg now. Bye!

Crystal

Minggy's obessness

2004-10-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

Hello! I totally forgot to mention how bored Minggy has been lately. She lazes around the comp and says " i want to play gta and sims", and she goes "The new GTA is out!! But Singapore is so slow!" and this leads to "Singapore is so lousy, i hate Singapore" and this further leads to "I like Australia, the guys are so much cuter". Oh, she was going around the class today going "g'day mate!" HAHA! And she gets pissed when she found out that her family was suppose to migrate there but her elder bro didn't want! And she says "I should be there now"! hahaha.. so funny!

Oh and dee was telling me about my primary school friend today! She's really nice, set with her for one whole semester, really smart! Aw man, can't believe it, now she's annorexic and suffers from depression cause she found out her parents were divorced which she didn't know at all. But she found out that her dad was with his other family. In other words, they probably divorced a really long time ago bt didn't want to tell the daughter for fear it might affect her. ooo.. scary man!

Anway, i gtg now! Bye!

Crystal

shouts

2004-10-18T17:33:00.000-07:00

Hello! I spent the whole afternoon doing shoutouts, and they're finally done! You'll find the link when you scroll down the place where all the links are! i'm beat!

Crys

Momen of truth PART 1

2004-10-18T14:41:00.000-07:00

Hey! Ok, today is MOMENT OF TRUTH part 1. And btw, Jean just phoned to say tickets are confirmed for thursday's Singapore Idol. Oh, and campaign for head prefect have started, the final four are Lou, Mag, Kaye and Limin. But i felt that their campaign is not as "rara" as last year. If Lou becomes head, she's super capable lah! Primary school already vice-head.. now if she becomes then it's 2 times in a row! Wow! She's a role-model!Anyway, let me go through this is chronological order.

Yep, we started going through MATH. But we didn't get back the paper, the teachers just went through the answers for paper 2 and we copied it down. I think i would be able to do quite well for paper 2, but i'll only know on thursday, when we get back and go through paper1! AND Mrs Chen was so strict, she went around confiscating paper full of drawings, and she stared at Eliza and Ger... brrrr!

Next, we went through English. BUT it was only the comprehension. and i only got 34/50. A few marks off my normal performance in class, but i may be able to get 35, IF miss wendy Ng will give it to me. I hope she does, i hate those teachers who know they mark wrong but just dun want to give the marks back! like Mrs ronald mcdonald. *ahem* yep, can't wait to see how i did overall for english, especially my compo, which i probably wrote out of point. And Mrs Tan kept saying "I'm glad i didn't mark your comprehension if not i would vomitt blood".. hahahah! I wonder if she actually says that to add humour?

Anyway, after recess was CHINESE. This was the only paper where we knew our SA2 marks overall!! hahaha! I think Lao Shi was super pissed at me, cause i kept going back to her for marks!! I was so shocked at first at my paper's marks, then luckily i found out it was one whole big mistake! She forgot to add 10 marks!!! And i went to chase her for another one mark!! hahahaha!! So i added 11 marks! Whee!! And i did so badly for ying yong wen, i got second in class for zuo wen (surprise) and i got 21/30 for aural! hahahah! Anyway, if i add everythiong, mua SA2 chinese mark is an A1!!!! But it's like a border line A1, cause it's only 75.25. Haix! Oh wellz, i told my tuition teacher and she said that when she was free she would bring me to eat ice-cream, but i joked with her and said "shouldn't it be me who should treat you??" hahahahaha!!! Oh, and Ger got 3rd in class for zuo wen, and lao shi was shocked!! hahaha!! She said in a jokingly manner "wo deng yi xia yao kan ni de zuo wen" hahahah!! We all were laughing!!! So funny man!!

Then, we went to the conference room to go through Geog, but we didn't get back our papers either, we just went through answers. It's so hard to believe it, but it's like when you look at the geog paper now, it's like not that hard ater all! haha!! Probably due to time constraint that we all felt the pressure!

Anyway, this is only DAY 1! Still have 3 more days to go! Just hope the results get better each day! Over and out!

Crystal

nearer

2004-10-17T18:25:00.000-07:00

Since my previous entry, i have been sitting at this computer.. so that equals up to like 3 over hours! Anyway, i'm watching kindred spirit, and so sad, YONG QIN DIED.. actually i know the story cause i watched it before.. but it's really so sad. She sacrificed herself for her son!!

Anyway, I think Ming has been on the comp as long as me!! hahahahah!! And 2 hours ago i was suppose to play isketch with Cheryl. At first i didn't want, but i agreed.. after waiting SO LONG.. she went offline. And she came back on quite a while later and said "oh, I gave up on downloading shockwave." i was like "huh!" SO FUNNY!! and i'm not angry by the way.

Oh and we might not be able to go to Singapore Idol live, yup, probably the weke after next!! Cause DICK LEE went to HK for hol, so he might not come back in time reserve the seats for Jean's mom. I hope he comes back in time!!

Anyway, it's 13 hours to MOMENT OF TRUTH PART 1

sunday fever

2004-10-17T15:05:00.000-07:00

Hello! Just got back from lunch. I went to church in the morning and Maye told me that Ariel invited Chrissy-poo to her house. Apparently they're family frens or some sort. So funny!! i was like thinking, "what are they going to do, just sit there and admire his face??" hahahahah!!!

After that, i went to Great World City and ate Japanese food!! yum..yum.. and i met Amanda Goh and it was so funny cause earlier on i was in church with her!! Then my brother went to watsons and bought this HUGE BLUE DOG PLUSH for his friend's b'day, and i had to lug it for him, if not it would look weird for this guy to carry it right? Oh and as we walked into the shop, we saw this really weird guy and we were trying t control our laughter!! i finally ate my FROZEN YOGHURT after so long!!! mmmhmmm... It was strawberries and oreo flavour!! yum!

So now i'm slacking in front of the computer, sinking my butt into the comfy chair and chatting with Sarah and Ming on msn. Haha! Sarah is so uptight about results, and she's playing solitaire to soothe her nerves. But seriously, i dun see what she has to worry about, we all know that she will do WELL! hahaha.. and Ming is talking about how she longs to go UK and Australia but she's only going to HK. and i keep telling her HK ROCKS! and she envies Claudia as she's migrating to Aus next year, and how she can be surrounded by cute eurasian guys.. , so funny!!! and i was debating with Ming about how HK ppl are equally nice[esp the actors and actresses (:]!! hahahahahah!!

Anyway, i have calculated, it's around 16 more hours to the MOMENT OF TRUTH Part 1.. so let's get prepared everyone!

Crystal

New look!

2004-10-16T21:20:00.000-07:00

hello everyone! Decided to go with Blogspot. I finally changed!!! hahahahaha!!! Doesn't the strawberries just look lovely!! gagaga!! Anyway, my hands are still aching and just to let you know, i have been slacking around in front of the computer for a looooong time!

Anyway, JERRY IS OUT!!! Finally you know! and according to the newspapers "justice has prevailed" I totally agree! And I get to go Singapore Idol live next week! Thanks Jean!! hahahhah!! So excited!!

Oh wellz! About 36 more hours to the "MOMENT OF TRUTH Part 1" aka "SA2 results". I'll keep you posted diary! Hope everyone will be happy with their results! And anyway, we all worked so hard! So.....

All the best everyone!!

Crystal

hello/

2004-10-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

testing if this works.