oh, just read someone's blog and realised i forgot some stuff. for the overseas exchange thingy, i think our band shldnt go coz if the band goes, the band must be very ready for it which includes high standard of playing of the numerous concert pieces and a certain level of maturity.
the concert date seems to be getting earlier and earlier... which means i dont think i can perform but ms chong says all sec4s have to play for concert. but i dont think so if we are not well prepared enough since 'o' levels end on abt 19nov and there will be only a few band pracs we can go before the concert day. however, i want a BAND CAMP!!! last yr's band camp was so fun :)
zzzzzzz... i slept at 3.30am and when i woke up at 7am, i felt like i had only fallen asleep a few minutes ago. but didnt feel sleepy during chem, maybe tooooo cold. chem ended at 11.30am so lynette, shiyun, mich and me were late and the whole band was waiting for us. didn't have time to change into band-tee.
the handover finished in only half an hour. mingwei and jianing very childish, playing with the folded stars. shu-en sort of criticised my gelled up hair again and told me not to gel it, made me so sad although she's the only one who said that. then i clipped it up. the other ppl like my classmates who commented on my gelled-up hair either gave positive or ok comments.
then supposed to spend the next 1 and a half hours with our individual section. i gave out my presents then had nothin to do... the blabber girl talk with the blabber gang as usual. Some things can never be changed. our farewell present was an arm float for children "aged 2-6". ew, copy us (we gave the previous sec4s baby stuff too), no lah, nvm. they wrote our names on them except for "kok laolao" and "blabber girl", haha
yushan sucks. she didnt even join our section 'bonding', she joined the trumpets but when she finally came over for just a few minutes after dont-know-how-many minutes with the trumpets, she saw presents around and when she asked for hers and was told that she had 2 bars of kitkat, she xian2 qi4 them! what the h***! i felt like rolling my eyes at her and 'diaon' her! its better than nothin ok, since she dont like i rather get them back! u dont even consider clarinets section ur present section yet u expect a good gift! u were in our section for a shorter time than the sec1s and u dont even know me personally yet u just take it that u deserve much better than 2 bars of kitkat! eat s*** lah! eat what chocolate. how can u expect gifts immediately when u see that others have them w/o even thinking on what basis can u get gifts! no one has the right to expect gifts! u are just to receive gifts with thanks when u are given! that's why they are called 'gifts'!
sorry for being so vulgar but i'm really pissed by her attitude
after 1hour the blabber gang finally decided to go have lunch but they cldn't decide where to go coz there was an anti-coro grp so wasted some time again. finally, we went beauty world. the whole section including sec1s went except jiayun, mingwei, shu-en and elise who didnt even come at all. i was holding michelle's hp then yumin thought it was mine (plus bcoz of my little harmless lie) so she saved her hp no. in, haha. actually i thought she was going to sms sth naughty to someone. michelle and yumin played the scissors, paper, stone and slap hand game and after less than 5 rounds, their hands were totally red. *ouch* then xinyi repeatedly shot rubber band at michelle and she didnt even get angry. why do some ppl have such privileges of not being dislike for sth bad that u are doing? *jealous*
to my surprise, there were quite alot of ppl at the food centre in beauty world and it seem like there was alot of nice food coz there was nice food smells all around. i sat at with jac and yumin, very gd :) initially, there were 5 seats per table then they filled up 3 tables expect for 1 seat at yumin's table but there were still jac and me who didnt have a seat so jac sat at another table and i followed (cant be she give up that last empty seat for me and i let her sit alone right?) then yumin came over to join us. haha.
later everyone said that it didnt seem like a section lunch since we were broken up into 4 tables. the 3 of us at fried kway teow. some beauty world food centre stuff were still priced at the rate of at least 5 years ago so very gd coz only 2 bucks. after i ordered, i realised that there was fried hokkien mee that seemed quite delicious...
yumin and jac started telling me stories of stuff that happened to them and they were playfully trying to irritate each other, haha, i'll miss that. i really envy them. though they irritate and compete with and do all sorts of naughty things to each other, they are still very very good friends but the sad thing is this type of friends wont cherish each other till they part.
jac acted serious again and it always seem so real that i get cheated and get a little scared. told her not to do it again... coz really scary. her playful attitude is much better than when she acts/is serious coz i repeat, its really scary
yumin said that a guy from dunman band likes me and i kept saying "like real" coz i didnt even see them much and i didnt go for the esplanade thingy. so rubbishy. she lou4 chu1 po4 zhan4 when she said its jason and jac asked if it was the handsome one and yumin blurred.
then i already felt a bit sick of the oily fried kway teow before i finished eating. hmm, this proves that i have made the right choice by making fried kway teow a food that i wont really consider eating eversince as far as i can remember.
i think sec1s quite matured in a way which is both good and bad. the good part is that they know how to behave and not play a fool in the public. they also ordered food and shared so that they could eat a variety of food instead of getting sick of the only thing u are eating on ur own which is what adults around me but never my fellow friends did. the bad part is because their sec 2 and 3 seniors can be very childish so they start criticising them behind their backs. i overheard gua khee saying on the bus abt them being a nuisance on the bus. although in a realistic way this is true, a sec1 junior saying this out is very bad. although i may dislike a senior in some way, i will never criticise them and talk bad abt them coz its irrespectful and may cause the r/nship to turn sour!
the boy at tuition "farted" alot today... totally smelly... he told mr bala he ate onions. the first time he "farted", he bursted out into hysterical laughter and made everyone else laugh too. then we kept laughing coz really very chou4! in the end, he revealed the "farting" device, a bottle of "fart" smell he bought from holland village. actually quite fun but u urself will be suffering as well so not very gd.
i think aquarians spent alot of time on choosing gifts, coz today i shopped with jiayun for a present for sam and 3 same one for yumin, yasi and yihuang (triple 'y's) and she couldnt decide easily, took abt an hour in all, but quite ok. huiling also told me she shopped from 4+pm till 8/9pm for the 8 teachers' day gifts. and me i have already mentioned yesterday and we are all aquarians!
my eyes are really tired since 1+pm... and i didnt sleep at all...
i still cant decide which present to give to which junior... and still need to wrap up the 8 presents and write a little msg. bye
yoz, i'm in sch lib now. 1st time blogging in sch. jiayun and linyan are studying german, so i just heard 2 friends communicating in a foreign lang, quite interesting though i dont know what they are talking abt :)
teachers' day celebration this morning was *many thumbs up* good :) the performances were especially fabulous! one dance was so absolutely professional despite the fact that not all of them are dancers (i think) and a 3/9 soloist singer so pro also! it goes to show how talented ppl are :) *jealous* all the performers are really great! *clap* *clap* *clap*! they really put in loads of time and effort so each performance went really smoothly. i think can shu2 zui4 for last year's lousy 1-hour show. though we had to sit for 2 whole hours on the floor, the high standard of the performance made the 2 hours not seem that long.
our class prepared way too much food for the class party, enough for another class or 2. the fried beehoon and selfmade biscuits were delicious :) but i didnt eat the selfmade jelly. there was alot of ice too so we drank nice cold soft drink in class :) *shuang3*
have to hang around till tuition at 6.30pm... jiayun ask me to go along to coro coz she need to buy presents for her junior librarians. think i may go but muz do my tuition hw. *a bit worried*
i think i'll reach home at abt 9+pm like the previous few times. still have to wrap the 8 presents for the juniors and write a little msg. hope i wont be too tired out. there's still chem lesson from 9-11am tml followed by band handover at 11am.
my friend just told me she's applying for the UWC scholarship! i was so surprised, coz its overseas studies when u are only 16/17!
this morn, i reached sch at abt 8am though supposed to report at 11.15am for chem prac coz wanted to study in sch. then abt 8.45am, i saw someone holding the chem prac briefing notes and was totally shocked! i forgot to bring mine (with lots of notes written on it)! argh!!! prelim chem prac and smart me forgot to bring the notes! but i didnt really show my true feelings coz in the lib and got other not close ppl around... the last time i looked at it was on monday (so already forgot what i wrote) when ms lee was going thru it in class and i took down quite a bit of notes. then i borrowed from mich her copy but i kept thinking abt it for the nxt half hour... haizzz... came up with some not-very-good ideas to retrieve it...
then weilin came and after awhile, i didnt feel like studying so went to play the IQ games at the corner. also played chi chess with weilin. she won. i think she quite gd but she said not.
shan't talk abt the prac itself.
yeah! time to go on the happy happy thing! half of 4/10 went to jurong point today! (jurong point rocks! its so comprehensive! (did i use the appropriate word?) so many things around! esp great place to buy presents expect for the crowd due to ppl getting teachers' day gifts which caused me to get crowdzphobia, fear of crowded shops)
yiling, yiyun, xiuxia, ruyan, sheena, yuhshin, liming, kim, amanda, huilin, shiling, fervin, lisa, mich and me took bus there together! actually lisa, mich and me had originally yue1 hao3 to buy teachers' day gifts somewhere then when waiting for bus, the rest of the gang came so decided to go with them :) so shuang3! after they bought their gifts, they were even going to amanda's house to make cookies, sushi and stuff for teachers' day class party for tml!!! so fun, so many ppl! (yeah! our class so united :) despite prelims, 4/10 rocks) i wanted to go too but need to buy presents for juniors, but never mind since there are already so many ppl, surely they can handle everything :) a few of them were are even staying overnight at amanda's. so cool!
when we were shopping, we met zhixiu, xuechen and weilin there. that adds up to exactly half of the class!
We shopped from 3.30pm to abt 5+pm after eating kfc for lunch. then mich and lisa left while i continued shopping for my presents to the juniors till 6+pm coz only found 3 while shopping for the teachers' day gifts. bought myself a stress relief spongy die, there's also a very cute tomato but quality not good. i was so exhausted coz walked around from shop to shop and back and forth shops and had to squeezed thru crowded shops with the danger of knocking down fragile stuff that are extremely common in gift shops for 3 hours!
then when i finally finished choosing the last 2 presents and were already at the cashier counter, i found that i didn't have enough cash (lack of 1+bucks)... argh... that's the 2nd time in the past month and also the 2nd time in the past 16 years which seems to be telling me that its now time to get an atm card coz that shop only had nets but not cashcard... the cashier was rather kind and asked if i lived nearby then i can get the item first and pay back tml but of course not since i live so far away so had no choice but to leave in embarrassment. then i called my mom to meet me at lousy sun plaza to buy the rest of the presents since i'm broke...
on the way home i decided not to be so wu2 qing2 to the rest of the teachers whom i had intended not to give anything so at sun plaza, so i shopped till 8pm. wow! i think i had never shopped this much in my life! from jurong pt back to sun plaza; from 3.30 to 8pm. so now i am never this broke in my life. spent more than 40bucks on all the presents (excluding the 10 over bucks mom paid for me at sun plaza). just borrowed 20bucks from mom with much pleading and also got 10bucks extra after explaining that i had been paying alot of funds and stuff. haiz... this mth i haven't even saved a single cent though i had saved hundreds of bucks from mar to june. so ironic.
yeah! after much arguing, i don't have to returned mom the 20 bucks :) muz try to save like b4 now.
aiyo, its already so late. better go wrap the presentsss now.
prelim bio prac exam today... shan't talk much about it... i couldn't answer the theory questions... i think i also flopped some of the practical part...
oh yah, during the quarantine period, ms ong and ms ng showed us "wallace and gromit: a close shave". its the 3rd time i'm watching it. everyone found it very funny and the whole LT was filled with laughter. didn't find it so funny when i watched it previously. maybe watching stuff with a large group will make u find it funnier.
ok now the happy happy thing :)
mom got orders for mooncakes from band for me! yeah! 17 boxes!
and a quiz
You're George W. Bush... Wait I mean Sandy! You're Sandy! You're very red-neckish, but unlike "George Bush" You actually care for other people.
last night, the weirdest thing that can happen to someone asleep happened to me. i had stomachache and had to get up to poo... actually i already had stomachache after x-country but didn't expect such a thing to happen
oh, forgot to blog some stuff last night. i had pizza for lunch! yeah! fervin called the canadian pizza during recess so we didn't have to wait very long for the pizza to come coz we told them to send at 1.20pm (coz fervin was scared that mrs wong wld drag on her lesson). after we received the pizzas, i went to wash my hands then saw jac and yumin so i "show off" to them that i had pizza :) but they went wacky as usual and even splash water on me. hai4 my smelly (bcoz of the smelly cupboard) black camp-tee become wet! but never mind, like that is better than a boring life. yeah, be positive!
after we finished eating, another group of classmates came along with 4 boxes of pizza! i was a bit irritated because in the morning when mich told yiling to ask the class (coz i thought more ppl cheaper and more flavours), their response told me "siao ah! eat what pizza~!" but now its like almost half the class in all. then mich explained that perhaps early in the morning they still blur blur so don't blame them. but i still a bit angry coz they can eat so many flavours then we only had 2. still, we are 4/10! 4/10 rox! so don't bear any grudges! ... tryyy my best to...
for x-country, i ran alone coz I have my own pacing and i didn't want to be restricted by others but alot of big groups ppl slacking and blocked the way, so selfish and irritating, hai4 ppl behind them who want to run cannot run but there were still some who were more considerate and gave way. i had to squeeze my way through those inconsiderate ones... poor laura was stuck behind some bunch of inconsiderate slackers for the whole forest part and could only run for the roadside part. i knew she cld do much better, at least she has her mother's gene (her mother was a tracker)
today's bio timed trial was horrible. my hair kept irritating me, should have gelled it up. my eyelashes were also irritating my eyes... and i kept falling asleep (of course very tired, used up so much energy, reached home at 9+pm and only slept for 5+ hours and woke up with stomachache in the middle of the night), and it was uncomfortably hot. and i didn't even really study for the timed trial so cldn't answer alot of questions.
after that mr tan gave a combined lesson at the new conference rm (last minute prep for nxt tuesday's prac exam). halfway through, my section's juniors started playing outside... they kept squeaking, sounded like the sec1s but later on they improved so maybe it was a mixture. mich, me, jj and roch were laughing but when they played better (still with lots of squeaks), jj praised them abit :) hopefully the next time i hear them, they will amaze me with a stunning improvement without much squeaks or even none at all :) *please!!!*
*pray to all the mighty powers high up there*
i wanted to tell them to reduce their squeaks when the lesson ends but they left quite early and mr tan talked for a very long time... till about 12pm (from 10am)... so cldn't tell them...
x-country! yeah! i did my best and sort of sprinted all the way at the last part and got 101th! not bad for my standard considering that i'm not a sports person and i haven't been exercising much for the past few mths :)
my belief for running :
the more you push yourself, the better you can do.
i really pushed myself and when i reached the finishing line, i couldn't even talk. my mouth was totally dry yet other people who said they did their best could already yak away. after some rest, i still didn't even have enough energy to say one long sentence.
maybe, i might have been able to do a little bit better if not for the burps i had along the way. they were somewhere stuck in the oesophagus or don't-know-what and made me feel rather uncomfortable. but have to be grateful that i didn't have stitch. only very little bit for awhile. so sort of averaged out.
oh yes, i have to thank those people who encouraged me at the last lag of the run. the 1st person i saw was sheena coz she went rather front, i think she was the furthest supporter from the finishing line. she was 5th then she didn't do her own stuff and went alone to support the rest of the ppl.
geraldine ong! top 20, wow! so amazing! never knew she could run so fast, beat so many sports ppl! i really admire u :)
my head was a bit dizzy/headache... and didn't have appetite to eat
so tired but still had eng tuition. abt 15 min late. have some career guidiance abt scholarship and getting to ivy league (first tier). did a part 2 essay, magazine article.
wah, already so late, better start studying for bio. timed-trial (tomorrow 7.30-10.30am!) ah!!! haven't even started revising... surely die... and bio prac prelim exam next tues!!!
ahhhh...... 'o' level eng oral is finally over..... when i went in, i said 'good morning' and the caucasian examiner replied good afternn so i was like even more nervous... and what's worst was that my friends had already told me that they did that and i had already 'practised' saying 'good afternn' a few times....
the passage was about cycling and its advantages... i stumbled over the words in like almost every sentence... really nervous although i wasn't scared of the examiners... boo... the picture was also about cycling, the examiner prompted me twice... the conversation question was : in the passage, David said cycling one of the ways to reduce pollution, what are some other ways to reduce pollution? or sth like tt... boo... i'm not a geog student... but when i started talking, i felt like one... i think i was too technical... so the examiner asked me what i had done to reduce pollution... then i was sort of stunned coz i didn't really do much so i didnt answer for a while... greeeh .... then i thought i cldn't remain silent so i sort of repeated what i had said b4 going on... then he prompted me again about what my school has done to reduce pollution...(haiz huiling had already given me tips to talk about social, family, school yet i forgot and got prompted about it! boo!!!) so i said there's a green club in my sch and the caucasian seemed to be rather interested and wrote sth on his paper.
ok... its over now...
alot of hw and revision to rush... spent the past few days preparing for oral... mon and tues went for practice with mr bala... finally a heavy load off my back... how i wish i could know my marks now
why do stupid things always happen when i play badminton? yesterday, after bio lesson, i played badminton in sch and hit the shuttlecock onto the beam not once but twice! haiz... me so stupid... and hai4 laura and kaiyun climb to 2nd floor and have to use a floor wiper (or whatever its called, the thing that ppl use to push the puddles of rainwater to the side) to push the shuttlecock down. that was the first time.
then the 2nd time, the shuttlecock was further away from the railing of the 2nd floor but my arms not long enough to reach it though the floor wiper was already very long. even attracted qui jun and yuh shin who were having eng oral practise. they were rather amused and quijun tried but instead pushed it even further from us. then she suggested that yuhshin use her shooting skills to shoot the shuttlecock down but still cldn't. quijun suggested again to push the floor wiper at an angle to push the shuttlecock down with the floor wiper but laura pointed out that it may break.
then kaiyun tried again and really stretched herself out but still cldn't reach the shuttlecock so quijun also stretched (the 1st time she didn't) and managed to push it down! gao1 ren2 jiu4 shi4 gao1 ren2
so we moved to another place to stop me from repeating the stupid thing again...
i just came back from tuition... and there's still bio extra lesson tomorrow at 7.30am... anyway, its the first time i've gone for proper tuition since i moved to sembawang (which is like in p5). so i had to take some time to adapt to the tuition system (it was sort of a 'cultural shock'). the group was quite small, only 3 other people: louis (sji sec3), charmaine (sec4), mich and me. mich was the one who told me about this tuition conducted by mr bala (tchs's hod! cool) so i joined in. i think its really quite gd, and the materials given were suitable and very helpful. we practised reading and mr bala corrected us. he pointed out that i couldn't pronounce the 'l' sound well like in 'owl'. should have joined earlier, not just 6 days before my 'o' levels oral...
back to what happened earlier in the day...
we had a sec4 band meeting on the official hand-over during recess. the bm and dm and sc problem... there's just no sec3 suitable enough to take up the bm post is sort of the summary of the whole meeting. (ha, i had already said something like that when we first discussed about the temporary hand-over which was more than a few months ago.
they are just too immature a batch. some of the sec2s are even better... the bbb even jokingly suggested closing down the band for one year which i think is actually quite suitable for the situation considering that there's no sec3 good enough to lead the band and keep everything right and well and disciplined. but of course, this is impossible. haiz, so troublesome!!! we sec4s have been wasting alot of time and thought abt this issue, this "unsolvable problem".
we have to think from the point of view of the sec3s and 2s about who they want as the bm and also think in a mature way about what is really good for the band and also think from the point of view of the person whom we are going to choose to be the bm (if she wants to and if she can handle the role well). and furthermore we are quite an indecisive batch because we think too much. it has been so since we were sec1s when we had to decide on the farewell item for the ex-sec4s...
another thing that happened was something silly that ms lee did. we were going through a worksheet on organic chem using the projector but the covalent bonds were not draw so ms lee used a marker to draw them onto the projector screen. then she starting saying that it could be erased but later, apparently it couldn't.
she used tissue and water... failed.
she used normal eraser... failed
ink eraser... failed
so she asked us who the next teacher was. it was mrs wong. she asked if she used the projector. mrs wong almost never used it.
then she went to the staffroom to get her ethanol. some people suggested going to the bio. lab or chem lab. then as usual, she started crapping that its the same having to go down to the bio lab (1st floor) and then climbing up to our classroom or climbing up to chem lab (3rd floor) and then coming down again. so she decided to go staffrm because she already had ethanol there.
so she used ethanol... failed....
finally, some people suggested using correction tape... still passable.
ms lee's so funny and crappy, but at least it keep us more awake during the boring parts of chem theory lesson, which is much better than us dozing away
then later mrs wong suddenly pushed the overhead projector to the centre so everyone started giggling so she thought there was something weird with the ohp but of course there wasn't. then when she pull down the projector screen, she realised what we were laughing at and after we told her what happened, she just said as if it was an ordinary matter that she also did it before in 4/2 classroom.
i just saw the star search sg male finalist on the mrt while on my way home! i think his name is wang shi yu if i remember correctly. he's quite tall, at least 10cm taller than me but he's not really shuai4. just like how he looked on tv. but when i saw his profile, i think his nose is quite sharp, not like the front view.
the band standard...
has dropped alot since we sec4s left and it has not improved although its already been 19 days. today's national anthem was really lousy, the intonation was lousy, the feeling of a national anthem was not there, and the whole thing was so draggy... a sec4 chi orchestra person even said sarcastically to her friend, "zhe4 yang4 ye3 ke3 yi3 na2 gold ah" or sth like that...
already given them 2 chances liaoz... and i don't think they think that they are so lousy and need to put in effort to make the national anthem sound better. i think they think "oh, we got a gold, we are a gold band liaoz so anything else doesn't matter, anyway got enough cca pts liaoz so can heck care abt band loh". so pissing...
there's really no discipline... it was already very bad when sec4s were still around and w/o us, its even worse... but i think even if some sec4s go back to scold them, they will just roll their eyes and forget abt everything the nxt moment. to think they were so happy when we got gold as if they really love band. now it seems that they were happy just bcoz of the glory and the cca pts that they value most.
i know that they are capable of playing well, otherwise we wldn't have gotten the gold. but its just whether they are willing to make the effort to play well. haiz... what can i do?
Wheeeeeeh!!!!!!!!!! I WENT TO WATCH NDP @ THE NATIONAL STADIUM!!!!!!!
Wheeeeeeh!!!!!!!!!! I WENT TO WATCH NDP @ THE NATIONAL STADIUM!!!!!!!it ended at 8+pm but i just reached home coz my mom and i walked all the way from the stadium to city hall mrt station via merdeka bridge (i think is nicol highway), suntec and citylink. we walked for abt 1 hour...
when we arrived at kallang mrt at abt 5pm and were going down the stairs, it was really funny coz there were like hundreds other ppl also coming down from the stairs opposite almost all wearing red!!! so exciting!
i took alot photos (but not very gd), i shall put them on some webpage when i have the time. ok today i shan't talk abt everything that happened since it also happened to thousandsssss others so i shall go bathe and have my dinner (or rather supper) of cup noodles
the things that happened today were different from what usually happens and that is what makes me have tonnes of things to say! so let me begin!
today we had national day celebrations. (we were for the 1st time encouraged to wear red t-shirt but still many ppl just wore sch u) after the standard ceremony, we started to sing the national songs then after the 1st song, novella passed by me and asked me to join the band "train" (i think band was the 1st to start a train but later everyone copied us started forming their own trains). we form an extremely long train by holding on to the shoulders of the band member in front of us and went around the whole quadrangle through the rest of the ny population so there were many sudden stops and i had to slide to a stop each time with the 'resistance force' from junjia who was in front of me so i kept pushing her to make myself stop. (i think she very bu4 shu1 fu2 so i shall apologise here : sorry, jj)
then after many rounds, many band members were either tired or wanted to join the singing so they broke off the train but a few sec2s still went on and went along the drain. there was some water there so i slipped and fell and was so embarrassed and some more we were in front of where the teachers were sitting (luckily they didn't come and scold us for playing and causing danger) but also luckily it was at the end of the quadrangle so i think not many ppl noticed it... boo... so my enthu mood was decreased and some more there was no gd enthu friend with me (as I have said a few days earlier, most of my closer friends are foreigners so they cldn’t enthu with me for my national day, haiz) so later on when the band got separated into 2 grps (coz half of them went to in front of the stage to sing and later on don't-know-go-where and the other half stayed at the side), i had to sing the national songs sort of alone so i was quite sad coz got no one to sing with me. then when abt to sing the 2nd last song, i saw my class so i decided to go and join them but geraldine and laura also didn't really sing out loud (i think all the enthu and active ppl already go and find their buddies to feng1 together, so i this usually quiet but some times (like this celebration) can be enthu and active person only left with my totally quieter friends...)
the celebrations ended quite early, abt 9.45am so i went back to class to continue doing my phy paper 1, asking ppl and finally decided to not think so much and put down an answer that after a bit explanation seems sort of logical. then i started doing the a math revision ex. 6 hw until i felt tired and got stuck at a question and decided to call my mom to see if she cld meet me for lunch at novena sq and shun4 bian4 collect my new specs (yeah!). she said yes which was surprising coz it was only 10.50am. i went back to tell yunshin but she wrote on the board that she went to the library so i had to go there to search for her and tell her which resulted in me being late in meeting my mom which in addition to the delay caused by the need to shorten my new specs further resulted in my being late in returning to sch to meet yunshin and linyan (who had to do phy timed-trial). so i hurried across the bridge back to sch only to find the side gate closed so i had to walk/run a big round in the strong afternn (1pm) sun to get back to class. then to get to linyan's house, we had to cross the bridge again (i so stupid, should have brought my bag along and asked them to meet me at tchs bus-stop).
on the bus (the stupid 961, always make me sleepy or always full and make me stand till so tired), i fell alseep though it was only a short 15min ride then when yunshin got off, i still dozing and linyan had to call my name, so diu1 lian3 again. but they got off 1 stop earlier and furthermore we had to cross the bridge again so i really tired (actually the walking is fine with me but i hate crossing bridges, esp when its the third time within 30 minutes so my legs were really tired but later they recovered).
linyan lives on 2nd floor at hindhede (pronounced as hindi if i didn't remember wrongly) walk in springdale. her younger brother, linxiang, was at home. they really look alike. displayed on their piano were their plaques that recorded their achievementsss. they really very li4 hai4, have so many awardss, and linyan still so humble when i praised her (she topped her class in sec1 and got 2nd in sec2!, i didn't even get anything). then, i used their toilet coz i niao4 ji2 but when i wanted to wash my hands and tried to turn on the cold water tap, it 'squeaked' so i didn't dare to turn on for water to flow out. i tried a few times and it kept s
i just dozed off... really tired after a full day of active activities...
squeaking so i finally decided to turn on the hot water tap but the water that flowed out wasn't hot so i felt so of cheated... nvm. then linyan was going to fetch kaiyun from the bus-stop but while we were wearing shoes, kaiyun was already downstairs but she cldn't get in coz she needed the security pass so she told linyan to throw her pass down then linyan replied that she cld use the intercomm and that ppl don't throw passes down, they use intercomms. this whole episode is so lame...
so we walked to the badminton court and when i saw it, i thought, this is such a gd condo... near sch and there is even a badminton court (usually condos only have tennis courts) and this is a single court in an enclosed building so its totally private and we can play w/o being affected by natural wind and there are fans around so wldn't re4 si3 and its only for ppl living in the condo so wldn't have to fight so much for usage so gd!
but the door quite difficult to open and its quite narrow. i cldn't even walk str. in, have to turn my body coz can only open half of it (its a double panel door but total area is only that of a standard door). a while after we started, linxiang came to join us. yet another embarrassing episode took place about 45 mins after we started. the second after a serve was made to linxiang, he decided to stop playing so i wanted to return the serve but it went over me so i turned around to hit the shuttlecock with both hands on the racket but linxiang actually wanted to return the serve so i ended up hitting his racket. since i was using both hands, i applied a much larger force than him resulting in me hitting his racket off his grip with such a loud 'collision' of the rackets followed by the racket dropping on the floor that everyone bursted out laughing like mad.
haiz... i think i too long never play with boys liaoz (almost 4 yrs so must yuan2 liang4 me) so cldn't anticipate their actions thus resulting in this embarrassment... third one in a single day, 'dotsss'
summary of the 1 hour badminton session...
- i missed quite many times when i tired to hit the shuttlecock at high speed (whatever the proper name is) which was quite weird coz usually when i do this, i have enough confidence to hit the shuttlecock but today, i kept missing... don't know why...
- but the 1st time when i did hit the shuttlecock with my high speed stroke in return to kaiyun, linyan responsed 'wow' in a way that meant that i was too aggressive so i was sort of worried that i stunned them so i asked kaiyun if she was ok and tried to stop myself from using it again (they were not strong players so i shld not have used such strong strokes... i think i was like yi3 qiang2 qi1 ruo4... sorry... but i prefer strong players coz i used to play with mom and uncle cj who were strong players so i can learn from them and use any strokes i like although i wld be criticised abt my weak pts, anyway its a form of learning so still ok lah)
- after the embarrassing thingy, linyan and i played against yunshin and kaiyun, and linyan encouraged me to use my high speed stroke again coz we were losing... linxiang was counting the scores but those drop shots i did (drop shots are my favourite coz i have not much power so can't hit far and high) were not counted... i think they thought that the shuttlecock have to land within the service area to be counted for points but as a more experienced player, i knew that the service area restriction was just for the service stroke and not the rest. for the rest, the shuttlecock just has to land within the opponents' half of the court ie also can count pts for the area outside the service area but still inside the court. (ok... i know i very technical now so i shall here)
anyway i didn't tell them coz i thought i didn't have the 'power' to coz i can't even serve properly unlike linyan and linxiang whose serves produced the cool sound that professional players produced although they also often missed the shuttlecock. i think with some proper training and practice, they cld be really good players.
back in linyan's apartment, after changing out of my stinking shirt, i watch the others play piano and nintendo for awhile before trying to play the piano myself, i played a few notes of mononoke correctly only because i played it in band before and linyan made a positive comment liao, but i know i very lousy as compared to her, but she's so reasonable as to compare me to a beginner instead of her. i don't think i am able to do that but i shall learn to, hopefully. then kaiyun tried to help me learn to play the piano but me this lousy person cldn't use her help well. i think i'm just not the music type of person... ppl help still can't learn... so she took over the piano while i tried out linxiang's guitar (he lent kaiyun before he went out for lessons). after strumming the guitar, just producing noise without making any music, i sat on the sofa to watch the nintendo game. linyan went away so after yunshin finished her game, she offered me to play.
its the funniest game i have ever played. played on nintendo gamecube, super smash brothers melee was a game with TOTALLY FUNNY characters and the graphics were fabulous!!!!! the funniest character was Mario when i press down and he squat down and did some funny actions that my lousy vocab doesn't allow me to describe. have to see it know how funny it is. there are also others like a shadowlike man, pikachu and many others but i didn't like the battle arenas where my characters easily drop off and die. i laughed until linyan was laughing at my expression but the others didn't laugh so much. for linyan and yunshin, maybe its bcoz they have already played it many times but for kaiyun, who laughs at almost everything, maybe its bcoz she doesn't really like this type of games.
the game is designed in such a way that when u press pause, u can zoom in on the individual characters to see them better or to see where they are. so whenever the pause button is pressed and we get to see the zoomed in graphics, its really cute.
once, yunshin was trying to get her (favourite) character, ‘link’, to do a show off action so she paused it to show the close up and then i warned that a car was coming (coz i saw the signal just before she paused) but link still got knocked down then they kept laughing abt it (and kaiyun kept repeating that i had just said “there’s a car coming�). later on, in yunshin's father's car, while he was sending me to bishan mrt, yunshin started laughing again when she thought abt it.
actually just b4 link got knocked down, kaiyun's character kept getting knocked down until everyone cld already expect when it wld happen. so it became so funny.
after kaiyun left, linxiang returned and was surprised that we had not left. then linyan, yunshin and i teamed up against him and managed to beat him but when linyan stopped playing, linxiang was too good for us to handle and we lost despite being the majority.
lin yan and yun shin kept saying i very gd but actually i think i wasn’t really that gd (quite a bit lousier than them) but i think they were praising me on the basis that it was the 1st time i was playing it yet i cld control the characters liao
summary of super smash brothers melee session...
- when i first started playing, the arena was a place where my character had to keep jumping up to survive but i was so lousy that yunshin was so excited and had to keep telling me jump up.
- the 2 more experienced players stuck to their few human characters (link, zelda, marthe fr final fantasy) while we new players hopped around the others
- for almost every character that i chose, yunshin and linyan wld say that it was a gd choice (thanks)
- yunshin kept saying that marthe looked gay. she was also very angry that her link cldn't beat marthe individually.
- linyan was very analytical abt the characters' abilities, like their speed and attack power, unlike me, only press the buttons and anyhow kick other characters around or jump off the platforms in the midst of kicking others and zi4 sha1 (that's why i didn't like arenas that have short platforms but they did coz they found it challenging so i kept quiet, don't want to shao3 xing4)
- kaiyun just went around doing funny things like what she usually do
yeah, finally finishing...
reflections...
i really like it when it’s the 1st time i'm doing sth coz ppl just expect nothing much so when u do better than expected, they will be amazed and praise u (like what happened today) but if its sth that u have done for a long time and ppl expect u to be gd at it, if u do well they will giving those sickening comment that which makes u feel as if its ur fault that u do well and that they will only let u feel better if u didn’t do as well (eg in academic work)... ok, maybe i'm also guilty of such behaviour... i shall try to change (but just my behaviour towards nice ppl, i shan't be nice to bad ppl)... erm... is this right? erm... nvm... i shall go to bed now...
oh, before i forget, i sort of learnt a new word today - deja vu. sense of deja vu
the definitions:
1. Psychology The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
2a. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu. b. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.
this afternn, abt 5pm, while i was in class doing hw as i have done for the past few weeks, i saw 2 hcjc ppl entering our class from the corner of my eye (my seat's on the other side of the classrm). they stopped at anqi's desk and were talking to her so i turned my head to look at them. just as i was looking at the 1 on the right, the 1 on the left waved at me so i was quited puzzled. i shifted my focus onto her face and stared for abt 2s before i realised that she was my dear senior Jamie! (i think i must have looked quite weird when i didn't recognise her at once so she waved at me for some time to bring me out of my dumb expression, and not the usual 'hi' wave)
then she came over to let me do some survey on erm... i don't really know the main topic... but the questions were for ny and tchs ppl abt some interaction stuff, so that's the reason why hcjc ppl came to ny to do survey and i even ask this stupid question abt why they do survey in ny. when i completed the survey, jamie asked if i missed her. of course, i answered no in the playful way. then her friend said sth naughty to her (i think if i didn't hear wrongly, it was sth like to rebut that i don't miss her, u know, those stuff friends always say in a joking manner). hahaha
ok, so next time i cook spaghetti, i shall leave the spaghetti to boil for a longer time so that it is softer (its really too hard this time). i shall not add salt to the water because the sauce is already saltish and that make the whole thing so salty.
ham... 3 slices for 2 persons. cut into 1 inch slices
sauce... don't cook for too long, just long enough to make it hot, otherwise it will become to thick and salty. oh, i forgot all abt pepper this time
Pasta Carbonara
my ingredients...
- spaghetti
- Dolmio sauce (with Mushroom & Herb)
- ham (1.5 slice per person)
- grated cheese (parmesan cheese)
- black pepper & oil
my steps...
1) bring water to boil and add spaghetti (don't add salt!)
2) cut the ham into 1 inch slices and fry them with a little oil (not too long! abt 3mins)
3) add sauce and grated cheese
4) cook till its hot then switch off
5) test spaghetti if its soft enough and scoop up into a bowl
6) pour the hot sauce over, add pepper and serve
mmmm... i just finished cooking my spaghetti... the taste is good coz i used canned sauce but the spaghetti is a little hard... (raw)...
the cooking experience was "dot" "dot" "dot" the ham got stuck to the pan (i shall blame it on the lousy pan) but i splashed some sauce onto the kitchen wall while trying to scrap up the ham that was stuck... boo... i shall go and continue eating now
greeeeeeee!!!!! i just typed a blog and it didn't get posted!!!!! i'll have to type it again.... luckily its not long... here it goes...
guess what i just did... i used 5 cents from my cashcard to pay for some food coz i only had $8.41 cash with me but i was going to buy $8.45 worth of stuff so i ended up using $8.40 cash and 5 cents from cashcard...
anyway, this is the first time i'm home so early on a sch day since wk2 tues (7/7)... its been a month of long sch days ie more than 10 hours in sch (fr abt 7am till 5pm and even later) ... and i'm home early today only bcoz my classrm is being used for clit test so i cldn't stay in class...
i'm going to cook some spaghetti for myself (that's why i spent $8.45)... hope it turns out good
ah... finally after 2 over hours, this snail has managed to figure out a little more about the javascript stuff so that she changed the scroll bar colour; neatened the side column by getting rid of unwanted stuff; added a link the nycb website (credits: pic by Chrissie); and added her class photo (and a cute little doggie) !
sth not so good is that the class photo doesn't include everyone in my class and i didn't have a section photo on my com. i will try to scan 1 in if i have the time. i've already waste hours on blog so i shall stop now for today.
supposed to have physics study grp after today's chem test... but lynette had jap exam so mich and i ended up going to the bandrm coz i heard some trumpet playing during the test. we met yingxu and aiwen guiding some pri6 kids around but found no one at the band rm so i asked them where the band was and found out that they were warming up at the canteen to play coz today is open house. mich said she wanted to practise so i also took out my instrument but she had to use the old flute which she said was most prob older than her...
1st time i'm playing since SYF... now my tone sux... and my reeds also sux... my playin still sux... we played awhile then yingxu came in and told us that the band is already playing so we decided to go watch. i didn't want to bring my instrument along but mich wanted. luckily i managed to persuade her to listen from third floor. then i heard a familar song and realised that it was 'i will survive' which we heard from the funny alien song clip that mr derek tan showed us. after a while, when the band had paused playin (coz band and string ensemble had to take turns), the jnrs saw us. jaime ran up to get mich down to play and then jac also came to complain about their playin, that ms chong was very unhappy. she told me to go play but i so lousy how to play... so i wanted to play thirds but ms chong told me to play 1st... so i ended up diu1ing my lian3... (actually i have no lian3 to diu1... i you3 zi4 zhi1 zhi1 ming2 one) most of it i didn't even play... i'm so damn lousy... sec4 liaoz still can't even sight read the easy songs... and i sat in between 2 gao1 shou3s... i feel so inferior... boo...
i think my jnrs didn't really welcome me... only mich low seemed to be more ok with me (at least from my pt of view) when i asked her abt my birthday secrets book. she said it was very accurate. of course it is, otherwise i wldn't have volunteered lendin it to her. then i decided not to 'volunteer' going for lunch with my jnrs and leave once i kept my instrument b4 i irritate them even more with my presence...
some reflections ...
i think i get along better with foreign students... since sec1 it was zhenglan (m'sian) all the way till now, then at sec3 came along huiling and fervin (oso m'sians), and now, limin (prc). i just don't seem to get along well with singaporeans... i feel very sad now... tears are somewhere near my eyes, but they are not flowing out coz i have just suppressed them. i don't understand it. there are just so many things that can't be explained.
nvr mind, i can be a happy person... so lets talk about sth happier. my lunch was absolutely delicious. i met my mom at skylight garden in novena sqr. b4 that i wandered around the mall coz i had half hour to spare b4 she arrives so i entered a bkstore where i found cute little bks containing meaningful quotations. the bks were very cute indeed and i wanted to buy all (more than 30) of them if not for their price ($4.90 each and they were only the size of a handphone battery, maybe a little thicker).
skylight garden really sells good food and it was quite cheap considering the quality of the food. $15.80 ++ for a soup, main course, dessert - ice cream (yay, i ordered chocolate :) , my fav) and a drink but there were very little customers though its sat lunch time so i was a little worried that it would close down then i won't be able to eat the good food again. i am someone who appreciates good food (i live to eat, not eat to live ) so i asked my mother to compliment the chef. the soup was hot and the taste of the main courses (dory fish and sesame chicken thigh) was not the usual boring western food type. my vocab standard doesn't allow me to describe it well but what i can say is that it was special and unique in a positive way. it was also quite healthy coz there was some veg cooked in a special chinese style instead of the lousy baby carrots and brocolli that other restaurants offer. there was also sauteed potatoes that tasted somewhat like potato chips. as u know, other restaurants only give french fries or baked potatoes that are so common and easily prepared at home. mmmmm.... its just YUMMY!!!!
today i 'visited' band (1st time since last wed's last band prac cum SYF)... i saw mel and roch, i think they were there for band prac, not just visiting and i didn't even step into the bandrm, just talked to my sec2 jnrs at the 2nd door there... i envy mel and roch... mel and novella also went yesterday (found out from someone's blog)... i also want to go for band prac... but there are so much hw (esp a math revision ex.ssss, other people already do until abt at least 8, i still at 2 only) & tests, tml still got chem test (organic chem... need alot of memorising... boo)... otherwise i wld have asked mich to go for band prac today with me after the a math timed-trial...
i'm wondering whether to bring my instrument home to practise... but i don't like practising alone... esp new songs... coz i can't get the rhythm myself... its so much easier to get it when i practise with others... can listen to their rhythm and get it into my brain quite fast. and the feeling of practising on my own is so different from when i play during band, i like band pracs, not individual. band rox! not "me rox!"
i wonder how many more band pracs mel and ppl will be going for... its impossible for them to have so much time to keep on going... prelims' just 26 days from now... the decision on where we sec4s will end up in for the 1st 3 mths of 2004 will be made just 26 days from now (when the 1st prelim prac exam starts) ... everyone's worried... so am i... and 'o' levels eng oral is even nearer...
Have Read
'04 year-end holidays (highest number of books read in a long time)
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (gd read)
-Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky by Meg Cabot (fun read)
-Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (must read - inspirational)
-Slab Rat by Ted Heller (full of office politics and R21 stuff - not for kids)
-The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (makes u want to finish it)
-A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks (simple but meaningful)
-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (can identify with)
-The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (romantic love story with too much R21 stuff)
-Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (even more R21. ugh)
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
-Unstrung Heroes by Franz Lidz (autobiography about his four uncles and father)
-The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (very unique POV of an autistic boy)
-The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (love the breadth of the plot, one of my favourites)
-Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux (alternating between two first persons' view - unique, but don't like e plot)
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (philosophy tb in a story; gets abit dry though plot saved)
-forgot what i read...-
-Working Wonders by Jenny Colgan (story of an urban planner)
-Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (impressive intelligence with bits of great humour)
-Just between Us by Cathy Kelly (thickest bk i've ever read-600+pg, too long for me but not bad)
ha, started a few bks but didn't enjoy them enough to read more.
'06
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel (novel based on true story; a lot to learn from the book - animals, religions,
survival, appreciation of simplicity; marvelous descriptions of both the tangible and the intangible,
such that I could feel their realness; bits of very enjoyable humour; a must read)
-The Complete Analects of Confucius, Volume 1 - Asiapac Comic Series (some good teachings.
didn't read everything though)
-The Parable of the Pipeline by Burke Hedges (lent to me by Shujun; like she said, its a short version
of Rich Dad Poor Dad - good financial tips)
-The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (simple story with deep meaning)
-Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
(hai, doesn't seem to be working for me - cos im not applying..)
-haven't been updating from Jun'06 to Jul'07-
'07
-Take a Chance by Sarah Webb (very interesting twist towards the end)
'08
-A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer (very saddening. made me realise how significant family is in how a child behaves)
-Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite by Paul Arden (refreshing book with many pics)
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Rui Zafon (amazing how people can think of so much plot to pack into one book, wld b a gd tv series)
-The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (the story is interesting but i think the ending cld hv been better written)
-This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes (a bit thought-provoking on relationships but i didnt like e abrupt ending)
-Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (gd knowledge but partly qte repetitive)
-For One More Day by Mitch Albom
-The C Words by Mark Mason (made me keep wanting to read on. light & funny)
'09
-Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (another good read from Deveraux)
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (gosh such vivid descriptions! very well written book. i liked d theme of friendship and the realness of the story)
'10
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (a must-read!! i love the expressed thoughts of the protagonist, esp those about friendships, and the writing style - it seems like she's telling me her story specifically to me)
How to Save Your Own Life by Michael Gates Gill (an inspiring read, for emotional liberation and greater joy in life)
Reading
on hold
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Waiting for chance to get hold of
The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
Gotai Fumanzoku or An Unsatisfactory Body (Translated into English as No One's Perfect) by Hirotada Otatake
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Other Recommended Readings by Marc
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – Few books have had as significant an impact on the way society views the natural world and the genesis of humankind.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – Gladwell looks at how a small idea, or product concept, can spread like a virus and spark global sociological changes. Specifically, he analyzes “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – This is a tale that lingers on the topic of attaining and maintaining a disciplined heart as it relates to one’s emotional and moral life. Dickens states that we must learn to go against “the first mistaken impulse of the undisciplined heart.”
Lolita – This is the kind of book that blows your mind wide open to conflicting feelings of life, love and corruption… and at times makes you deeply question your own perceptions of each. The story is as devious as it is beautiful.
Getting Things Done by David Allen – The quintessential guide to organizing your life and getting things done. Nuff said.
How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman – 900 pages of simple instructions on how to cook everything you could ever dream of eating. Pretty much the greatest cookbook ever written. Get through a few recipes each week, and you’ll be a master chef by the time you’re 30.
Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner – Franz Wisner had it all… a great job and a beautiful fiancée. Life was good. But then his fiancée dumped him days before their wedding, and his boss basically fired him. So he dragged his younger brother to Costa Rica for his already-scheduled honeymoon and they never turned back… around the world they went for two full years. This is a fun, heartfelt adventure story about life, relationships, and self discovery.
Self-note: Tip for my future business =D
give employees reasonably high pay to keep them- otherwise they are unlikely to stay loyal.
treat employees not according to how well they treat me but how conscientious they are at work
(of course, musn't expect them to only do work throughout the entire working hours -
give some breathing space too, we are humans, not machines) Movies watched(listing started on 6jan08)
in cinema from VCD/DVD
1Sep07: "Hairspray" w TK, GH & SH
14Sep07: "Ratatouille" w mom & extended family
28Dec07: "The Pianist" w Jus & Pam (heartbreaking but good lessons; i recommend!)
2Jan08: "I Am Legend" w Sherm (scary! but good acting; thought provoking; i recommend!)
5-6Jan08: "A Good Year" alone (excellent show! i like the acting; funny; good lessons; touches my heart; i recommend!)
11Jan08: "Le Grand Chef" w WLing, JT & Irene (good! funny, very touching, :) nice; watch if like humour+meaning+food)
7Feb08 (CNY 初一): "Ah Long Pte Ltd" w parents (pretty hilarious - but u gotta understand dialects, some teary parts. wells typical of jack neo movies but with diff content)
11Mar08: "The Leap Year" w Sherm (so sweet! :) and apart from couple relationship it touches the theme of mother-daughter and best friends too)
6Jun08: "P.S. I Love You" w Sherm (don't know if its coz we watched it on laptop, coz it didn't impress me as much as it did for him in cinema)
8Jun08: "The Forbidden Kingdom" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (ums..guess i'm really not into kungfu)
8Jun08: "What Happens in Vegas" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (simple,relaxing show)
7Jul08: "我和狗狗的10个约定" w Sherm, his ma & sisters (very simple,touching but actually not my type of show)
10Jul08: "Before Sunrise" w Sherm (hmm maybe watchg on laptop really affects appreciatn of movies..)
30Sep08: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" w Sherm (i didn't like it as much as i thought i wld when i saw the ads)
31Dec08: "Yes Man" w Mom (inspiring and funny)
11Feb08: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" w Mom (not as impressive as i thought it wld be)
1Jul09: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" w Yumei, YY & Matt (the best thing was the soundtrack. heh.)
14Aug09: "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" w Joyce (it was awesome! best action movie i've ever watched)
17Aug09: "Food, Inc." w SYL & RuiQ (learnt some stuff abt the American food industry but it was a bit boring and not worth the $10)
22Sep09: "The Time Traveller's Wife" w WB, VanD, WLing, CHL, Irene, VanQ, Mf, Pg (i liked it. having read the book really helps w udsg)
21Nov09: "Gokusen" w Mf, Eva, Tony, Sarah (funny inspirational movie)
24Dec09: "十月围城" w Tony, WLing, VanQ (action action and a bit funny? tony criticised the plot. my fav scene was the running n jumping through the crowd along the five-foot ways w/o cuts)
30Dec09: "Sherlock Holmes" w Irene, Tony, Sweetee (my favourite genre of books made into a movie - what else can be more cool? acting effects humour excitement suspense all in)
12Jan10: "Avatar 3D" w Mom (didn't appreciate the digital effects which everyone wowed about. content etc was so-so. cathay's 3D glasses were too heavy for me)
8Feb10: "The Truman Show" w Ky n sis n Yuhshin (a must-watch. very thought-provoking, funny. reminder to be spontaneous and create your life the way you want, instead of falling into a typical routine
14Feb10: "New York, I Love You" w Mom (I loved it! a good couple movie with meaningful pointers to keep it going. but i think some stories could be more developed)
16Feb10: rewatched "The Pianist" (still find it good, tho i still feel first viewings are the best)
17Feb10: "Valentine's Day" w CHL n WB (laughed throughout - a feel-good movie; liked the fact that the various stories binded tog so well with the little surprises here and there, vs NY ILU in which each story was separate)
20Feb10: "赤壁二" w Addy, Karen, Sharon, SJ (should have watched the first one first cos i ended up not knowing who's who and what's happening and had to keep asking :/ and couldn't pay attn.. if not i think it should be a pretty good movie..)
4Mar10: "Alice in Wonderland 3D" w Mf (i found the 3D effects of this @ CCK Shaw SO much better than Avatar @ The Cathay =/ and the movie was much more enjoyable too! - cheered a sad me up :)) favourite quote - the Mad Hatter: “You used to be much muchier before. ... You have lost your muchness.”)
18Mar10: "Nodame Cantabile" w Irene, Mf (i thoroughly enjoyed some of the orchestra pieces - SO impressive! the expressions of the actors were really amusing :D)
23Apr10: "Ice Kacang Puppy Love" w Mom (funny, touching and meaningful - about love between friends and family. i cried 3 tissues! cos some touching parts i could really understand the feelings of the characters involved)
Inception
Letters to God (very simple Christian movie)
22Nov10: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" w Ame, Irene (they loved it. pretty good, i guess the main problem i had was that im not familiar with HP :X)
13Dec10: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" w Sj (not bad, could follow the story unlike HP. like the meaningful teachings, too long - in a post)
2Mar11: "The King's Speech" w Ame (hilarious, inspirational, tho it doesn't impress me that much to understand why it's the Oscar winner)
Mar11: "10 Things I Hate About You" very funny. silly sweet high school romance. just right for having breaks in between doing homework
23May11: "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides" w Wb Yl Ame Pg (pretty good - scenery, freakish parts, fighting scenes, dressing, humour, bits of Christianity like when the Spanish said "only God gives life")
6Jun11: "Xmen First Class" w Wb Ame Pg (i was very keen on watching it and it was really good! intellectual, makes sense, cool action, some humour)
9Jun11: "Legally Blonde 2" w Irene (seems like some dumb blonde movie but kind of meaningful too - speaking up for yourself and what you stand for)
17Jun11: "Something Borrowed" w Sandy Lisa (quite funny, somewhat meaningful wrt friendships. they didn't like the lack of sense for one part tho)
16Jul11: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" w Irene, Sweetee, Kw (not bad. i didn't understand some parts again but the humour and effects were pretty good)
Aug11 "Horrible Bosses" w Ma (she fell asleep! gosh. the movie was very crude i must say but there was the humour)
25Oct11: "The Three Musketeers" w H (i would rate it 3.5 for humour/intellectual language and 4 for action. it's by the same producer or director as Sherlock! but a bit less awesome albeit a good chill out movie)
5Nov11: "Real Steel" w Hl (action packed but not too hardcore for me. i liked that there was the father and son element and how the father eventually softened his heart and especially the part when charlie was having trouble telling max sth and max was so understanding saying "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me." touching and demonstrates true fighting spirit)
12Dec11: "50/50" w L (adopting her words - a heavy topic put across in a lighthearted way, but not taking away d meaning. most of it was rather hollywood-ish trashiness but there were a couple of punch lines "u can't change ur parents, but u can change d way u respond to them.")
25Dec11: "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" w KY (ultimate action packed! super tense almost throughout the movie, and interesting Tom Cruise made it such that not everything happened smoothly - he would jump and misland and get all sorts of injuries..it's really the courage to jump without hesitation even though you are not sure you'll be alive after that. KY loved d movie and said she would watch it again!)
3Jan12: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" w KY (i love mystery (: and the witty sarcastic dialogues. good level of excitement with the action. didn't understand some parts as usual. i like Holmes and Watson they depict such a true pair of buddies ;D)
23Jan12: "You are the Apple of My Eye" w mom (now i understand why guys like this movie so much - the anxiety of chasing after a girl and the acts schoolboys do to get the girl's attention and hopefully affection. the initial fluttering and the subsequent quarrelling)
22Mar12: "The Iron Lady" w KY (really love Thatcher's sharp words. inspiring and thought-provoking, tho i was still left uncertain of what to do with my life, the movie is definitely an encouraging one)
29Mar12: "Barney's Version" w SJ (a funny movie of a screwed up life of a man who had 3 wives, smoked and drank but very heartwarming at the same time, the relationships with the dad and the 3th wife - quotable quotes!)
27Apr12: "The Hunger Games" w Mom
4May12" "Avengers" w MF n PS (funny, action-packed)
7Jul12: "The Amazing Spiderman"
21Jul12: "The Dark Knight Rises" (fantastic depth, loved the twists)
20Aug12: "ParaNorman" w Mom (simple funny animated movie, heartwarming support)
Performances watched (listing started on 25Apr10)
20Jan10: Patrick Marber's Closer by outoftheBLUE, NUS Science w Pam (
13Mar10: The Rain Came Down Like Pearls the Night I Died... The New Musical - Sing & Tell by Mark Chan w Addy & Jy
21Mar10: Quintessence by NUSCO w CHL