6th March 2014 // Thursday 6 March 2014
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07:41
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I wanted to blog about the suntec city mass dance during orientation but I never got around to it. That was about 4 weeks ago so I'm not even going to bother trying to recall what happened that day but what I do remember is that is was really great!
ANYWAY. Orientation is long over and lessons have already begun. Today was a really great day because 1. I was in a super good mood the entire day for no apparent reason. 2. I didn't fall asleep during lessons (ok apart from that 20 minute nap during geography but after that I was really alert I swear) Yeah that's about it haha. Today was the first time this year I actually paid attention/didn't fall asleep/was actuallly interested in chemistry lessons! I actually felt excited to learn. I'm not even sure if I've felt that way before but today I was hardcore taking down notes and every single detail Dr Chan mentioned. This is a stark contrast to when I complain daily about how much bullshit he churns out during lessons. Like really. You won't understand how lame and long winded my teacher is. You should see my notes today man, there was notes scrawled all over the page when yesterday my notes were empty and unread. I had hockey training today! Wow now that I'm in JC plus I'm in a sports cca, I exercise more than ever. Monday it's hockey PT in the morning, Tuesday training, Thursday PE + training, Friday it's PE + tennis at night! My skin on my index finger tore today during training :( it hurt so badly I don't know how I'm going to play tennis tomorrow. Everyday I ache but it's a good kind of ache (most of the time) because I know I've exercised. Except that it sucks when it aches to bend down. VJC's pretty good. I like my class, the school culture and my cca. I've also made some pretty good friends (: but I still miss my secondary school friends! (If you guys are reading this this is the part where you go aww) I'm usually a really chatty person but there are times when I find that I just have nothing to say to my classmates. It's not like in secondary school where I can exclaim "EH YOU KNOW AH, YESTERDAY I blah blah blah" you know? Making friends is tough work man. I miss seeing all the familiar faces in TK and walking past classrooms and always having people to smile at. Here there are hundreds of unfamiliar faces, people I probably would not even get to know at the end of two years. I miss having that comfortable, familiar environment you know? (P.S. I will share a funny story with you guys since I think now maybe only Clara and Adele reads this blog. I had this pimple in between my eyebrows a few days ago and being the idiot that I am, I went to scratch it because it was so painful. And it left this scar which is in the shape of a heart. Like literally a heartshaped scar between my eyebrows. People kept asking me what happened/if it's a birthmark/did my friend dare me to draw a heart on my face. That goodness it's gone now because it was really shit ugly and so bloody obvious) Goodnight! |
V-I-C-T-O-R-I-A // Thursday 6 February 2014
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05:29
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Hello! Had my first day of school today. Im so glad Adele and I got into VJC!! ANYWAY, today i had planned to meet Adele in the canteen at 7.15! But i ended reaching early at 7 so I asked my mom to drop me outside school so I could take my time to slowly walk in. I was walking around like some lost puppy cos I was alone then i saw someone that looked like Jordan so i ran up to him (it was not Jordan sigh). But then i saw Glenn Ji Cheng and Eric!! Thank goodness. All the TK people came one by one and we all sat together in the morning. There's like 30 of us and a lot are from 2G/4B!! As I looked around the canteen I realised most of the students were VS boys and CHIJ girls.
We got settled into our groups after that. Im in Fyros 3!! The theme of orientation is Arcane 2014 which supposedly stands for the mysterious unknown. Lol i thought the OG names were names of diseases hahaha cos there were groups like Viridius and Izenheim. Sounds like a disease right?? At first it was hard to make friends cos my group is really quiet + the hall was super noisy + i was just assigned to the group so they all knew one another. Then we had this really boring talk on subject combinations and scholarships. It was like 3 hours long wtf i was dying. Cos the scholarships were mostly science scholarships you need A1 for 2 maths and 2 sciences or something like that. I didnt qualify so i really didnt give a shit about that talk. The first friend i made was a Cedar girl! Her name is Yi En. Shes pretty quiet though. We also went to the hall to ask about the various subjects offered. Ive decided on Hybrid stream - Geog Chem Maths Econs (BUT I CANT SUBMIT MY CHOICES DUE TO HEAVY TRAFFIC. hence the blogging) I met a few other girls from my OG - Jamie, Hanny and Ying Liao (hahaha isnt that drink in chinese ok nvm luckily you didnt say that to her face) I was so worried I couldnt make friends at first lol my group looked so nerdy and quiet on first impression (sorry Fyros 3 i love you guys) plus at first our OGLs were supposed to have ice breakers with us and play games. I love my two OGLs but at the start the two of them couldnt be heard and werent super enthusiastic about games like all the other OGLs. I almost wanted to takeover and lead orientation for my group wtf cos everyone was just so quiet and heavily lacked enthusiasm. We played Whacko at one point and I really struggled with remembering names cos there were only 5 people in my group with english names. And the chinese names were so hard to pronounce. Like theres a Hor Onn and a You Ren. Then we had mass dance! The first dance is super cute haha its called Whiney Whiney and the moves are so easy and fun to do. Theres this move where you go to the right and shout WHOOO then left as well. I was all hyped up then the second dance ah... damn hard wtf! I had no idea what was going on so I just waved my hands and jumped the whole time. And it was so hot and tiring and so much jumping and i was so thirsty. So yeah wasnt as enthusiastic about the second dance. Lastly, we learnt the VJC cheers!! The cheers are super fast and energetic and they have moves and a drum playing as well. I was super hyped up during the cheers (: We also watched this "fashion show" which was the different ccas and OG mascots parading down a catwalk. I was so so so impressed it is such a unique way to present and introduce the ccas!! Way more interesting than a simple dull powerpoint presentation. Wah they put in so much effort into the orientation planning! Theres even a story behind the 6 OGs haha theres this dark lord who returned (sounds like voldermort) and the 6 warriors represented different elements (fyros is fire!!) It was damn cool when the OGLs walked in with their costumes it was like.. You know in one part of Harry Potter there was a girl and guy school that came to Hogwarts for a competition? When the schools walked in with their music and everything. YEAH IT WAS LIKE THAT. I CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW COOL IT WAS. Yay im so happy to be in VJ and excited for whats install for me. I know I'll have to work really hard cos a lot of people in my cohort are 6 pointers and there are soooooooooooooo many china scholars. (my OGL has 16 people like 6 of them are china scholars) I dont want to lag behind everyone :( It feels like im entering the bottom of the foodchain here in VJ. I miss my TK friends as well. Its hard finding people that have a similar personality as me. I want to find people who are enthusiastic, make lame jokes, not afraid of speaking out, take initiative, arent too nerdy, people who have common interests as me. People that I can be myself with. Yes i am describing my TK friends meh i miss you guys :'( |
Slack day // Tuesday 4 February 2014
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07:57
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Today I went for a BBQ with my clique at chins place! It was a pretty inpromtu outing. My friends aren't the planning type, usually it's 11pm the night before when we finally decide on a place. In fact, I think today was supposed to be adventure cove/gardens by the bay day but instead somehow a BBQ popped up. Wah I tell you ah! (I usually break into full-on singlish mode when I have something to complain about) this morning we were supposed to meet at nex at 11am but the M1 service was down!! We planned to meet at nex but it's such a big place.. When I got there I had no signal so I couldn't call my friends :( so I waited around the mrt entrance hoping for someone to turn up. Thank goodness Aziel showed up soon after la! If not I would have sat there like some loser for who knows how long. So we went to NTUC to shop for groceries (: Everyone was grabbing their favourite foods and throwing it into the shopping basket. I like sausages and chicken and satay and Adele likes.. ..tofu.. Like what the shit who eats tofu at a BBQ. We thought the food wasn't enough but actually we bought too much food!! When we were buying drinks I headed straight to the soft drinks section (cos I like soft drinks plus BBQ usually have soft drinks what!) but all my friends were looking at the non-gassy drinks section. I got outvoted 6-1 so it was apple tea and ice lemon green tea for drinks :< but ok la it was pretty good. Then we headed to chins house! We sat around to prepare the food before heading upstairs to the rooftop (: lol Hannah was late (she's always late) and cos of the m1 breakdown she couldn't call us and didn't know where we were. HAH WONG YOU DESERVE THAT WHO ASK YOU LATE. Everyone has this stereotype girls can't BBQ food since usually guys are the ones doing it but I'm proud to say our food turned out pretty good!! With the exception of one burned plate hahaha oh Chinyue. We made the crappy decision of having our BBQ at noon which really was the most bloody hot timing of the day.  Tadah!! Except that it was really bloody hot and there were like really sudden heat waves from the grill.  Hahaha Hannah and Adele are so cute in the Polaroids they look like they're on a roller coaster :') We played Starmaker too!! Which is a karaoke battle between two people. We forced Hannah and Adele to play since they don't really like to sing aloud and they chose Jai Ho wtf. I warned them it was the Hindi version, they didn't listen. It was so so so funny watching them struggle with the words and trying to be loud for bonus points hahaha. After more cooking and eating we decide to clean up as swim! Wah I just remembered something worth mentioning. There was this short period where Hannah and Chin were damn accident prone. It was like 5 accidents in a row. Spilling a drink, dropping food etc. I was a bit worried about sitting next to them.      Look at joe and i in our matching swimsuits + floats + ray bans!! Don't we look like two life guards hahaha. We played volleyball + captains ball in the pool and we oyapayasom to pick teams. I was teamed with Aziel and Adele haha it was really daunting cos we're the three short ones and the others were pretty tall (except Clara hahaha she's short too I can see you rolling your eyes when you see this Clara) I remember someone threw the ball across the pool and everyone was splashing and rushing to get the ball I think I swallowed some pool water wts. We spent the rest of the day swimming and talking (: it was really a simple yet great day!! I love days like this. Where nothing much is planned yet it turns out wonderful. Good company and good good always makes for a great day.  PS. I really hope I get into VJ with Adele!! I'm sort of looking forward to school (only if I get into VJ hmph) yet I don't want my holidays to end :( I don't want to split paths from my friends!! I don't want days like this to hardly happen anymore. |
Amped + Just Dance // Tuesday 21 January 2014
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20:45
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20 Jan - Amped Trampoline Park
went to trampoline park on monday with whacks!! i was super excited cos this is one of those rare times where all 9 of us in my clique go out together (usually one or two is missing) we were supposed to meet at 11.30 at video world cos our booking was at 12 but thanks to HANNAH, the two of us were late and the rest had to wait for us.. once we got in and paid, the guys started running around and jumping like animals. the girls took a while more to get used to it. but soon everyone was jumping everywhere haha it was so fun!! Aavan and Larry can do flips so easily it looks like theyre natural gymnasts or something. Aziel, Adele and I kept trying to do flips at the foam area but always failed miserably. Apparently you're supposed to keep your head close to your stomach and you'll "naturally spin" according to Keith. But instead of looking graceful and cool, I look like a wounded duck who just got shot, trying hard to flap its wings to stay in the air. After trying a few more times i gave up lol its hard ok!! and also i a bit chicken. Then we played catching!! Keith Gen and Sheng were the catchers wts the place is not that big so its not hard to catch us. 
you know the guys can just jump onto the green block. but the girls... all of us needed help haha sheng and danish had to push us up one by one wts. Aavan kept jumping from the red block!! BACKWARDS. When he landed he looked like he was in pain but he just doing it again and again i dont know whats wrong with that boy.
 
My girls <3333 yay i love them all so much.
After jumping we sat around to rest awhile cos Clara sprained her ankle while jumping from the green block. Oh Clara. (shes the most accident prone one in my clique) GET WELL SOON CLARA I LOVE YOU PLEASE STOP FALLING YOU MAKE ME SO WORRIED. they played songs like Blurred Lines and Applause haha which are Just Dance songs!! Joe Hannah Chin and I know all the moves so we kinda danced there :')
after lunch we went to ecp to celebrate keith and hongrens birthdays! i learnt that guys suck at planning surprises. like really. the guys created a whatsapp group to plan their surprise but they added keith into the group. Then the day before larry just kicked keith and hongren out of the whacks group (which is pretty obvious) so on the day itself hongren ended up buying his own cake. AND the guys lost the candle so they had to blow out their imaginary candle. We found the candle right after the cake was gone. We played games at ecp after that (: like murderer, polar bear, splat and double whacko! It was really fun (: Aavan Sheng and I really SUCK at splat. Its a game that tests your reaction timing and Aavan and I are always the first few to die wts. And there was 18 of us leh!! Wow i suck. Caleb and Zin Htoo were so enthu about splat hahaha youre supposed to shout BANG! but Zin Htoo had a "machine gun" and shouted BAMMMMMM BANG BANG BAM. 
After that the guys went to push one another into the sea (is this a guy thing or?..) it was so funny at first when they were all trying not to get their pants wet and were walking around like so ^
I dont mind going back to the trampoline place even though its pretty tiring.
21 Jan - Just Dance!
today we were supposed to go watch a movie with some of the whacks guys but the girls suggested going to joes house instead! (ok mostly me cos i want to play just dance on kinect again i love that game its so fun best game ever) had lunch with hannah at holland village before going to Joes house! The guys came much later cos they were shoe shopping haha so we played first!! Our favourite songs are Pound The Alarm and Applause we know all the moves now. Joe and I were dancing some couple dance i think it was Turn Up the Love by Cover Drive when the guys arrived. haha at first we were a bit pai seh cos when its just us girls im like super enthu about the dancing and we sing out loud as well cos theres a karaoke bonus!! but after awhile we didnt really care anymore. The guys did open numbers to see who danced first (4 people could dance at one time and there were 5 guys) they did Gentlemen first!! HAHA it was so funny to see them dance. Wee sheng and Danish were the most enthu about it. and Danish can dance leh!! He always gets the highest score among the guys. I think Hongren and Sailesh did a couple dance (the way by ariana grande) haha hong was the girl it was so funny cos theres one move where the guy kneels and holds the girls hand. I remember there was one dance where the guys kept complaining Larry was blocking them cos he was too fat hahaha.
Played card games later on! like Piggy and Snapjack which Chin and I learnt at church camp! Piggy is a pretty complicated game but everyone learnt pretty fast! Larry lost the game so he had to do a forfeit which was a solo dance haha Rich girl by Gwen Stefani which is a really sexy dance. When we ordered pizza and were deciding between ordering pizza or going to Simpang Larry asked for a vote and said "so who want eat movie and watch pizza?" HAHA it was so funny everyone kept making fun of him cos of it. Everyone was so lazy and wanted to watch a movie and i was the only one who wanted to keep playing the game :( So sheng danced with me two more songs just to keep me happy hmph if it was up to me we would have played that game from 1pm to 9pm non stop. We watched a movie called The Prestige while waiting for our pizza. Its a movie about magic and has a lot of interesting plot twists its a good movie!! We ordered pizza at 6 but by 8 it still hadn't arrived so hongren went to complain (he wasnt really angry he was just trying to get free food wtf so auntie) and we got a free pizza and 1.5L pepsi!! I applaud his skills man.
Sailesh kept asking us to upload this photo.
  
Really good past two days (: today (wednesday) is a stay home day for me and sometimes i look forward to days like this where i have time for myself to read draw or whatever. Bye!
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School Hunting // Wednesday 15 January 2014
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18:18
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13 Jan - Results Day
I've never been so happy in my life. For the past two nights I've been having nightmares about O levels - how i got all A2s, how i failed higher chinese so badly its ungraded. Thank God those nightmares didnt come true. I was so nervous on that day I had to watch youtube videos on the way to school to distract me. When we were seated in the hall and all the statistics were shown everyone was cheering. I dont understand why a cohort average of 12.2 was something to cheer about. I only cheered like a madwoman when I saw Physics had 100% passes - now THATS something to cheer about. Soon they were doing this thing where the names of students with 7 distinctions were flashed on the screen. A small part of me was hoping I could be one of those people but as numerous slides passed, I started to feel disappointment and sadness creep up on me. It was only when Si Jia told me "eh kim your name up there leh" when I was so shocked I started crying wtf.
Ok the whole day was a really emotional day for me I cried from the moment I stood up all the way until i left school. When I was queuing to collect my results my legs were literally SHAKING. they were all wobbly and unstable. I bet some people are like "you got 7 distinctions, worry for what?" but it was just like my dream where they were all A2s!! When i took my report card i was still tearing lol wtf i am a gayshit (i dont normally cry this much ok unless its a sad movie or something) At first i couldnt tell what i got - just that i PASSED HIGHER CHINESE!!!! let me just say that i think this is my first time passing higher chinese. ever. i even failed midyears and prelims. I went to the stage to slowly calculate my L1R5. When i realised i got 8 i started crying even more cos i was so damn happy. There were a few parents standing near me and giving me pitiful looks - well, if you saw a girl standing by herself looking at her report card and crying a river you would assume she got 54 points. I wanted to leave the hall to call my parents so i walked out alone, crying so hard. I walked past my two physics teachers I must have looked miserable...
I was so excited to call my parents because I wanted them to feel proud of me. I hardly get to make them feel proud so i was so happy i finally had good news for them! I called my mom first and i was still crying so i couldnt really speak properly. It went something like this "mom! mom! *sniff* i got my *sniff* results" "how was it?" "*sniff sniff* i.. cant.. really talk right now.. how about i sms you instead?.. *takes a deep breath* *tells results*" then i called my dad my sister and tuition teacher to tell them as well (: I know some people didnt do well and arent happy with their results and i cant help feeling guilty i did well. My dad, i know hes proud of me but he keeps telling me about his colleagues whos children didnt do well, and that makes me feel bad.
Im really happy and blessed that i did well. I remember wanting to prove myself to anyone who ever looked down on me. I wasnt one of those people who did consistently well throughout the year, in fact im the opposite. I was failing physics amaths and higher chinese all the time. I was in the bottom half of my class and my level ranking was like 150. And i really really really wanted to make my parents, teachers and tuition teachers proud of me. Im truly thankful i had the opportunity to do so (:
14 - 15 Jan - School Searching
On the 14th i went to NYJC and SAJC open house with my friends! I thought NYJC was not bad, i could see myself at that school. but it didnt have that special feel you know? i think a part of me is trying to find a school that is similar to TK and thats why i havent found a school that really appealed to me. At NYJC open house we asked a lot of questions about the different subject combinations. I asked if it was possible to take H2 Geog and History and the teacher told me it was rare for students to ask for that combi. Last year only one person was interested so they couldnt open up a class. I was also interested in H1 bio but in NYJC you can only take bio if you take pure bio or combined science bio in secondary school which i did not take. so i was pretty frustrated that this school didnt offer the subjects i wanted. i was frustrated and stressed and grumpy the whole day because i was getting more and more confused of where i wanted to go, what subjects i wanted to take and what career i wanted to pursue. i didnt really have a preference for any jc but i guess nyjc was as good as it gets for me. SA was a disappointment (or maybe cos we only arrived when it was one hour before the end of open house) cos it didnt have anything special. the only thing that looked cool and active was their ccas, which was the least of my concerns at that moment. I was so confused even about choosing the jc or poly route.
When i went home and thought things through i realised the only reason i wanted NYJC was cos there was a chance Adele Chin Hannah and Clara was going there. I guess i just really wanted to hold on to the possibility that i could go to the same school as my best friends. But then I realized that it might not be the best school for ME for me you know? im looking for a school that isnt too hardcore in studies yet pushes its students enough to do well. Im looking for a school that has a wonderful culture. so i started to consider VJC cos ive heard many good things about it.
On the 15th i met up with Adele for lunch at MPL then we went to VJC. My senior said he can show us around and answer our questions! Adele and I didnt bother going for the open house cos we thought VJC was out of our league.. i remember saying "VJC? dont want la! i confirm wont get in plus its so damn far!" and now VJC seems like the perfect school, the only problem - distance. TK was already so far from my area (Clementi) and took slightly over an hour to travel to. VJC is even further and can take me up to one and a half hours. I asked my dad about this and he said "distance is nothing in Singapore, no place can be considered too far. Just pick the school that would be best for you" so now im putting VJC as my top choice and praying i get in.
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Happy New Year // Tuesday 31 December 2013
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08:31
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Happy new year! I can't believe it's 2014 now. It's going to be a tough year, I can tell. Part of me wants to stay in TK forever with my friends (ok most of me) but I can't help feeling kinda excited for what's to come. I'm really not looking forward to results day there. I hope they delay it to the end of the month but I heard it'll be out on the 10th :( nooooo. Just let me live my life ignorant and completely unaware of o levels. Right now I'm just pretending o levels never happened. Cos thinking about results will just get me worried. It's like I want to know but I don't want to know if it's bad - you get what I mean? 2013 has been a pretty eventful chapter in my life. What with SYF and Os and turning 16 and all. Even though there were some pretty crappy times, the wonderful moments made up for it (:
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What's up // Monday 9 September 2013
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00:30
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(PS I just realized blogger on my phone got problem and this never got posted but what the heck I'll post this anyway) 2G Running Man / Won Jun's Farewell   He visited us a few days ago (: he has that kpop look now :')  Drama Camp 2013 I'll blog about this in detail when I find the time! (Probably after Os lol hopefully my memory stays)   Adopting Robert the Bird (HAHA)  Yeah my family adopted this fat shit for awhile! Because it was a baby bird who fell out of its nest and couldn't fly or feed himself. We kept this guy for about 2 or 3 weeks? Then we let him go (: I named him Robert cos it's Ro-bird get it get it?? It's punny :P Saw Gordon Ramsey (does this count as an event?)  Love this guy! I watch his show "Kitchen Nightmares" ^^ Hannah's Baptism  Miss Tans Wedding  K doubt my life will be at all interesting since the big Os are approaching. Till next time! |
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