Clock is Ticking......

2009-04-19T09:24:00.002+08:00

here's a quiz from fb, ie a desperate attempt to revive this blog.

''My life is 72% Perfect"

[x] You know someone that cares about you.
[ ] You have a boyfriend/ girlfriend/ fiancee/ husband/ wife
[x] You have your own room.
[x] You own a cell phone.
[x] You get good grades. (err haha)
[x] You have an ipod/ mp3 player.
[x] Your parents are together.
[ ] You have more than 2 best friends.
[x] There is a swimming pool in your backyard. (in my backyard?! I’ll count the one in my condo:D)
[x] You live in a house/apartment. (noooo, I live in the streets)
[x] You have received a valentines card
TOTAL: 9

[x] You dress how you want to.
[ ] You hang out with friends more than once a week
[ ] There is a computer/laptop in your room.
[x] You have never been beaten up
[ ] You never cry more than twice a month (considering I cry every time I watch a movie…)
[x] You are allowed to listen to the music you want to.
[x] Your room is big enough for you. (guess what. I only use my room for sleeping-.-)
[x] People don't use you for something you have.
[x] You have been to a concert.
[x] You laugh more than twice a day.
TOTAL: 16

[x] You have over 100 friends on facebook.
[x] You have pictures on facebook.
[ ] You have more than 200 wall posts on Facebook. (?!!)
[x] You get allowance. (haha I ask for as much allowance as I want, but of course, I have a CONSCIENCE:D)
[x] People don't make fun of you to be mean.
[ ] You look forward to going back to school. (haha oops)
[x] You don't wish you were someone else.
[x] You play a sport.
[x] You do something after school. (I hope I had nothing to do though…)
[x] You shower/bathe daily.
TOTAL: 24

[ ] You own a car
[x] You usually don't fight with your parent(s).
[x] You're healthy.
[ ] You've never had a cavity.
[x] You are happy with your appearance.
[ ] You aren't self-conscious at all. (who’s not self-conscious?)
[ ] You have never gotten a failing grade in your life. (:D)
[x] You have friends.
[ ] You have so many inside jokes with friends. (not THAT many)
[x] You know your parents care and love you.
TOTAL: 29

[x] You know what is going on in the world.
[x] You care about many people.
[x] You are fully happy with your life.
[ ] You usually aren't sick. (maybe at home, yes, but I cant take care of myself when I go out)
[x] You know more than one language.
[ ] You have a screen name.
[ ] You own a pet. (used to?T.T)
[x] You know the words to more than 5 songs.
[x] You don't have any enemies. (I think)
[x] You are happy you're living.
TOTAL: 36

Now count up the numbers and multiply by 2. This is how perfect your life is. 72%(:

2009-02-01T21:48:00.008+08:00

i feel so sad for federer=( i've never seen him cry before. =(=(=(
but its about time nadal won the australian open. 7-6, 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. if i remember correctly. i think he's crazy, running like mad around the court for 10 hours within 2 days. yay for him(:

this is so funny.
nadal: *looks at federer and wipes his eyes* "sorry for today"

2009-01-31T16:28:00.013+08:00

i hope you all are exhilarated to see that i have finally decided to post something due to a sudden burst of inspiration. and also due to certain ppl's lamentations that i have not been keeping my blog healthy and alive. o.0 i shall put it in point form, because i jsut happen to feel a need to be organized today.

1. i spent the first day of 2009 on the plane. and its not very enjoyable when you are afraid of heights. arizona's a nice place, but it is WAY too cold and dry, i was feeling sick the whole time i was there. it was a great experience nevertheless, i spent most of time awing at the other (other category) contestants. yeah anyway, i got 4th.

2. 311'09<333!(: i think that you all are the awesome-est people in the world!(: haha moi being your lovely secretary (for the third year running o.0) will try my best to keep the attendance stuff neat and tidy and to always rmber to run up and down with the register! ahem TRY.

3. i think all my teachers are really not that bad this year. i got ms tan for chem RA (now i know that you can get a reputation for being the fiercest yet nicest teacher). i cant believe thats the most slack subject so far o.0 i dont recall doing any hw for that. ms ning for physics (a teeny bit err lame but still pretty okay), mrs prama for bio, mrs chew for math ra (ahemphew!ahem, she teaches really well) and...i shall not go on.

4. i lost my phone on the bus on the way to the SMP talk, which happened to be extremely boring so much so that the people around me were all dozing off while the speaker was still animatedly delivering his speech-.- anw, i will have to get a new one soon.

5. lessons at yst have resumed! dr hech'ts lessons are still as inspiring as usual(: and ms hahn came back to visit! and she loaned us her nice puddy (the dough-like thing thats supposed to make you feel the bottom of the keys more) again! oh yeah i got my new nus card! which entitles me to 20% me off subway at nus(: but i must say the picture is hideously disproportioned. the picture, not my face:P

6. i am sick of the SIMO and theory lesson clashing thing. frantically waiting for buses and running around the NUS campus is not good for my health. (ok maybe it helps me exercise) i think i'll just go for half of each every time. haiz.

7. i just got my wonderful first booking. i dont know how in the world i didnt hear my alarm clock ringing, or maybe i woke up and smashed it until it stopped ringing.

8. i finger is bleeding because of badminton. a huge chunk of skin came off and now i cant bend or stretch my finger properly. this is NOT good. at all.

9. liverpool is gonna top the table. i dont care.

10. angbao money's decreasing every year. great example of financial crisis taking its toll.

11. i think this is my longest blogpost so far. not bad(:

12. oh yeah. june, huiyi and i were playing with microsoft word when we were supposed to be completing our mep PT. basically we wrote something and replaced every word with one from the 'synonyms' that microsoft came up with.

this is the 'synonym' version:
I reflect to facilitate my symphony be dreadfully eerie-conference furthermore does not craft whichever sagacity by the side of every bit of. accordingly you container a moment ago not nuisance en route for pin your ears back just before it for the reason that it is subsequently exceedingly faultily cool, calm and collected with I depleted a extremely squat occasion accomplishment it.

this is what huiyi thought it was:
I think to help my music to be very scary and does not make whichever sagacity next to every tiny piece. Like you box last time not irritating on the way pierce your ears behind right before it because it is next, more, wrong relaxed with me got rid of a very sit event result it.

and this is what it was originally:
I think that my composition is very weird-sounding and does not make any sense at all. So you can just not bother to listen to it because it is so extremely badly composed and I spent a very short time doing it.

ROFL. LOL. GTG. BB.

tag replies:
[alan] your new year resolution is fulfilled. haha lol.
[jonathan] sure, who wouldn't want a steinway for free. i dont get u, why r u getting an upright?

2008-12-05T10:27:00.000+08:00

finally an update!(: another quiz koped from fangying.

Leave a comment here and I'll..
1. Tell you why I befriended you.
2. Associate you with a song / movie.
3.Tell a random fact about you.
4. Tell a first memory about you.
5. Associate you with an animal / fruit.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7. In return, you must post this in your own blog. Not some erm, LJ blog. Isn't really nice to insult blogs ain't it? :)

1. A really nice senior.
2. Wieniawsky (pronounced in that weird way of yours) violin concerto.
3. You like screwing up our polar bear games(:
4. You seemed like you couldn't keep your mouth shut during strings rehearsal.
5. Apples.
6. How do u develop ur pro emo-ing skills?

1. We were in the same class in sec1, and you turned out to be a really nice and fun-loving friend(:
2. The song that u always play and we always ask u to play again. :P yeah, THAT one.
3. You're scandalous.
4. Very smart and responsible class chair!
5. Honeydew.
6. What's your relationship with ^^ahem..?

1. Same class in sec1 again, and you're pro, funny and cute!!
2. the cute strawberry shortcake themesong(:
3. You rebonded your hair...2 times?
4. Person who can take bus with me home everyday!!
5. Kangaroo! (esp in pockets)
6. How did you make the little trees and bushes in your history pt?(:

1. You're really funny and lame in msn convos.
2. Chopin black key etude.
3. You keep denying the fact that ur pro.
4. One of the guys who were mugging and really intimidating on the plane to changchun(:
5. To avoid being super obvious, i shall not say.
6. Why are you so PRO??(:

1. You liked math, I liked math, so we became friends.
2. Lizst Hungarian Rhapsody no...13??
3. You're random.
4. You..err were in front of me during SMO presentation.
5. some sort of ape. (i have no idea how that came to me)
6. How do u stand yourself being so random??(:

1. A nice guy.
2. Saint-saens violin concerto (giveaway)
3. Your mum seems to nag alot(: kidding.
4. A magician who could jack ppl really well during simo camp
5. Jerry in Tom and Jerry(:
6. How did you scare me off with your wonderful playing? (ahaha)

1. You're a zooper-dooper wonderful friend!!
2. The elf-y song!!
3. You play alot of instruments really well.
4. Super intelligent kid in my primary school(:
5. a CERTAIN type of noodles >< (sry i know this isnt an animal or fruit)
6. How can u balance ur time, being propro??(:

1. Cute, fluffy, puffy, boppy, poppy friend!!
2. Phantom of the opera (dunno why)
3. cute *your name* is an alliteration!!! yay.
4. smart, and a very interesting (:P) person
5. a cute moose.
6. How can you say ur not cute??! hmph.

2008-11-02T14:32:00.004+08:00

IWYMIC08

As seen from the title, this post will be entirely dedicated to stuff IMC. And I shall not be the last person to post something about it (: I shall give a recount of either the interesting, retarded or funny things that happened (and pray that my memory will not fail me)

Basically, I went for the IWYMIC08 held in Chiangmai, Thailand from 25th-31st October. This is the second time I’m going for this competition. I agree with Barry, this time it was definitely more fun than last year’s. Last year saw me trying to put on my best behavior in front of the host family and we didn’t get to do random stuff. So yeah…

Reaching Chiangmai
Nothing much happened on the first day except the plane flight. Basically, we took off to Bangkok at about 12 pm, and the four hour transit there was mostly spent wandering aimlessly around the airport, window-shopping, looking at mengshi splurge on books, playing truth or truth and cards. Oh, just when we were about to board the plane to chiangmai, this South Korean guy spotted me and went ‘hey I know you’. So, I gave him my most brilliant and knowing smile….

The hotel was fine, pretty good for a three-star actually. It was damn hilarious when Fangying and Mengshi got a double bed room at first. The prospect of them sleeping on one bed amuses me greatly (:

Games!
1. Cards
I am completely sick of cards now, after playing what 100000 games of bridge, taiti, donkey number 1-10, and other “lame games”. I swear, I’ll puke if I see another deck of cards. Oh, there was this one game where Mengshi and I could have played 7 No Trump!! Which means we won all the tricks. *laughs with glee*

This was the quote of the day:
Alan says after every game that he wins: “This is a fun game!” o.0

2. Truth or Dare
Mengshi:
Tell Keven why she is seriously in love with him. She begins: “Oh Keven, how you look like a monkey…”
Tell the television why she is seriously in love with it. She says: “Oh television, you fill the room with light, making my life ever so bright…” or something like that I can’t remember.
Fangying:
Do the Indian Dance!! Which she has yet to do…
Stand on the chair and sing Home completely off key. She goes: “THIS (around middle C) IS (two octaves higher) HOME (makes a growl like a barbaric cavewoman)…
Cat:
Arm wrestle with Alan. Fight with Alan.
Keven:
Propose to someone. I was the unfortunate victim.
Alan:
Stick his head in the refrigerator and sing a love song with emotion. Wonder how his head doesn’t freeze.
Beg Mengshi to let him into the toilet. I swear he repeated ‘please’ 30 times and kneeled down 5 times while she happily enjoyed her prawn crackers inside the toilet. Damn amusing…
Zhanxiong:
Propose with the most sincerity to the toilet bowl. He kneels down, clasps his hands together, looks at the toilet bowl with pleading eyes, and says…’Will you marry me?’

3. Whacko
Yes don’t roll your eyes. We were sian enough to play whacko. Alan kept getting whacked, I dunno why. I mean, having the whacko standing menacingly right beside you with the plastic bottle in his hand can’t be putting you at that much of a disadvantage right? (: (: (:

Ok enough of retarded stuff

Night Market
The night market was interesting though. Seriously, I think shopping in Thailand is much better than shopping in Singapore.
7: Ms Ha says, ‘We will meet at the temple at the end of the street at 8.30 sharp!’
7-8.15: Shops around for random stuff.
8.15-8.20: Decides to be guai and wait at the first temple I saw. Let’s call this Temple #1. I assumed that was the one.
8.21: Sees no one and decides that this was the wrong one. I went on to Temple #2.
8.22: Same pattern, now Temple #3.
…….
8.29: Temple #10
8.30: I decided this was too much and asked someone if there were any more temples along the street. She says: ‘I think you go right, you will see a few more temples, then one big temple, surrounded by about 6 little temples.’

I felt…o.0! The rain did not help at all either.

Oh yeah, I sortof fell sick): it wasn’t serious or anything though. Thank you to all who took care of me and especially fangying who insisted I take panadol every four hours, take a really hot bath and said it wasn't hot enough even though it was scalding my skin (:

OH WAIT I completely forgot about the competition. Which is supposedly the main purpose of the trip,…right? xD well, anyway we did much better than last year. Congrats to the ’08 teams and good luck for the ’09 teams in South Africa!! (:

I shall stop my randoming right now and prepare for chem RA selection test and duet concert rehearsal tomorrow!! Argh. For everyone’s information, there will be a duet concert this Thursday at YST Concert Hall. I’ll be playing a 6 Hands Rachmaninov Romance with Dr Hecht and 4 Hands Italian Polka with Jonshin.

That's all.

(on a sidenote, I’m going to chang my blog because a lot of people have been complaining that they cant see my posts and tagboard. )

RGS Team (catherine, me, mengshi, fangying)

RI Team (zhanxiong, alan, keven) and ziyang who left for CWMO

the singapore team! and our two tour guides oii and

tumbloon (sorry i have no idea how to spell their names)

me and fangying

us at botanic gardens

another group photo. if ur wondering, the banner reads

'mathematics is both the present and future of mankind'
dinner at some restaurant

me with my medal(:

2008-10-11T10:11:00.001+08:00

ahh for the first time in eons i shall update(: *shouts**cheers**standing ovation* what a great way to celebrate the 2-month anniversary of the hiatus...xD

ok im doing this before theory lessons at yst so i better hurry up. ohyeah talking about that, we're doing modified bach chorale project now! its basically this thing where u can modify some of the basic elements of music of a bach chorale, and make it into ur own. quite cool, except mine sounds...bizarre to say the least(:

oh and...eoy's over!! wait not yet, still two more math papers to go. the other papers were ok i think, or i hope. i cant wait till all the papers are over and i can go back to my usual habits of lazing around (or sleeping if u prefer)

october is officially the choked-full-of-stuff-to-do month. ahhh. eoys over, but now i have to prepare for the Piano Extravaganza Concert this coming tuesday! its at yst concert hall at 7.30, and everyone's welcome to come! i'll be playing chopin Fantasy on Polish Airs op13, which is a supersuper nice piece with probably all the highlights of chopin's sonatas, concertos and other pieces(: oh and its a concerto concert in preparation for the concerto competition at yst (which i cant make it for cos i'll in thailand!! ahh). and theres gonna be dress rehearsals on both sunday and monday. i better start practising and rehearsing like siao(:

and right after that we'll be having a 7-DAY intensive training for the thailand competition. i wonder if the last-minute mugging will help at all...

ohh right yesterday i watched "connected" yesterday! its damn nice, u (yes u) should go watch it! the plot is exciting and suspenseful, and hilarious at the same time (and theres this hot guy inside><)... the same day i was wandering around this jewellery shop and i saw this young girl having her ears pierced. FOUR times on each ear. i told myself not to look but i think i just ended up staring with my mouth open. i admire her bravery man...

ok i realize this is an utterly random post. im not thinking straight nowadays(: ah wells i shall stop here. oh wait im late for lesson. noooo...

2008-08-12T17:04:00.017+08:00

Germany was such an enriching and fun experience! As Dr Hecht said, competitions give us a chance to meet datelines, build up repertoire and play with other people in an international setting, so I shall be glad I was even given a chance to participate. Ok lots of interesting details which I’ll specify in my next post (which hopefully is sometime soon=D)

Sad thing is, I’ve been gone for 10 days, and I missed 4 major exams, the Olympic opening ceremony and the National Day Celebration. Ok not really the Olympic one I sort of watched it in the hotel there(: hehe. Omg a lot of exciting things are happening now, premier league started already! Ok BUT for the next few days I have to work hard to make up for my exams. SIGH.

ok time for tag replies:
[yunan]: thanks a lot!=D (this is belated sorry)

[strawbarry]: thanks! you got top 10 for smo senior hor=D congrats! Okay I think everyone expected it lor.
[Nick Syn]: no, I was not. Mdm heng talked about me, really? omg I’m so honored xD oh and HELLO ur from rise right.
[yiheng]: ahh but he has a right to show off lah, he probably deserved it.
[law]: yeah I just checked the results. I think there is sth veryvery wrong with my 2nd round though haha. Ok nvm. But my open results are not that bad, I think. hehe. oh congrats for getting 13th position! anyway who got 1st ahh?
[elaine]: hi DARLING=D thanks a lot. i did my best lah(:
[yinyi]: hi!!!<3 man="D">
[huiyi]: thanks! yesyes, no need to remind me lol. okok cant you see im hurrying haha=D

shi wenting.

ye zi. damn pro guy who is said to play better than langlang=D

shi boyang. xu xiaoyi and hanni liang.

2008-07-30T20:15:00.000+08:00

Yay I’ll be flying off to Frankfurt this Saturday!! for the 11th Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists together with Jonathan and Clarence. I will be back on 12 Aug. I can’t believe that I’m going to miss 4 exams! (I feel like strangling the person who came up with the idea to put all exams on the same day). And loads of lessons too ohno ohno.

Argh I feel damn tired nowadays, like I have a thousand and one things to finish. Now my schedule is loaded with lessons, run-through recitals, blahblah. Argh. I shall appreciate the encouragement from Dr Hecht alot. I think he’s a very inspirational teacher(: haha

Now I have two empty suitcases. really humongous ones (ok maybe not). I think I should start packing now, in order to avoid the last-minute frenzy (which is usually what happens xD) Ok and I realize that I’ve been tagged by people to do their quizzes, but I guess that will have to wait=D

2008-07-26T18:50:00.002+08:00

Fangying’s quiz. Again=D

1. The person who passed you this quiz is...
fangying(:

2. Your relationship with her is...
friend, nice senior

3. Your 5 impressions of her...
extroverted, talks a lot, veryvery nice, smartypants, funny

4. The most memorable thing she has done for you...
gave me prezzies from italy. oh wait maybe that’s the most recent thing and I have a short term memory o.0

5. The most memorable words she has said to you...
cant remember.

6. If she becomes your lover, you will...
that’s not gonna happen

7. If she becomes your lover, things she should improve on...
-.-

8. If she becomes your enemy, you will...
I dunno do stuff that she hates? Irritate her(:

9. If she becomes your enemy, the reason will be...
she finds me too annoying=D

10. The most desired thing you want to do for her now is...
…

11. Your overall impression of her is...
what? a really nice friend and person.

12. How you think people around you will feel about you?
I dunno. Depends on which person u r talking about.

13. The characteristics you love about yourself are...
i love everything about myself, even my mistakes. (that sounds too ego)

14. On the contrary, the characteristics you hate about yourself are...
…I don’t hate myself

15. The most ideal person you want to be is...
myself?

16. For people that care and like you, say something to them...
thanks! I love you! Muackz! O.0

17. Pass this quiz to 10 persons that you wish to know how they feel about you.

1. yunan
2. huiyi
3. fangying
4. mengshi
5. leevoon
6. shanjee
7. alan
8. barry
9. lawrence
10. yiheng

18. Who is no.6 having a relationship with at the moment?
shanjee? I wouldn't know

19. Is no.9 a male or female?
male.

20. If no.7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?

no it would be a disastrous thing.

21. How about no.8 and 5?
how about them? They probably don’t know each other.

22. What is no.2 studying?
the same thing as me.

23. When was the last time you had a chat with no.3?

a few days ago.

24. What kind of music band does no.8 like?

ehhhhh. I seriously dunno.

25. Does no.1 has any siblings?
nope

26. Will you woo no.3?

no thanks.

27. How about no.7?
ehhhh. I dunno.

28. Is no.4 single?

most probably

30. What is the hobby of no.4?

reading, studying, playing piano?

31. Do no.5 and 9 get along well?
maybe.

32. Where is no.2 studying at?
rgs.

33. Say something casually about no.1.

lao zhao!!

34. Have you tried developing feelings for no.8?
haven’t tried. Haven’t succeeded either.

35. Where does no.9 live at?
no idea. I don’t go to his house.

36. What colour does no.4 like?

I KnOW!! Red and black=D

37. Are no.5 and 1 best friends?
yupyup! Good friends lah.

38. Does no.7 like no.2?

umm maybe I should have picked ppl who know each other -.-

39. How do you get to know no.2?
sec1 same class. Sec2 also=D

40. Does no.1 have any pets?
not that I know of.

41. Is no.7 the sexiest girl in the world?
wrong gender man.

42. Do you think its possible if no.4 and no.5 date each other?

if the sky falls down.

43. Say something more about no.6...
really nice friend!! Plays piano really well and smart too=D

44. What is your relationship with no.9...
Same primary school.

45. List all the schools that no.1 to no.10 are in and originally from.

1. yunan: rulang - nanhua - rgs
2. huiyi: concord - rgps – rgs
3. fangying: rulang - rgs
4. mengshi: dunno- taonan - rgs
5. leevoon: chongfu – nyps -rgs
6. shanjee: rulang - rgs
7. alan: nyps - ri
8. barry: nyps?? – ri
9. lawrence: nyps - ri
10. yiheng: nyps - ri

46. What would you do if no.10 hates you?
try to fix that.

47. Which of the following are in a relationship?

dunno.

48. How did you first meet no.3?
um strings, then math I think.

49. How would you react if no.3 and no.10 are together?

very hysterically.

50. Last question! What would you do if no.4 tells you she is pregnant?

now? i’ll give her the ‘I’m not THAT gullible look’(:

2008-07-13T20:04:00.015+08:00

I'm back once again, after one whole exhausting week at the Summer Piano Institute Camp!

Can you believe it, I learnt how to speak thai! (a grand total of 11 words). I had to, I wasn't going to stand there like an idiot staring blankly at the thais ramble on and on:)
hello- sawadika
i am beautiful- chan su-i
i am handsome- chan lor
i love you- chan ruk ter
you stupid- be ngor:)
one-to-ten- neng, seng, sam, si, forgot, ha, forgot, bpa, forgot, forgot. (sorry short term memory)

Anyway, my science experiment is screwed. I had to put oil at 100C into a measuring cylinder and drop a teeny weensy bead into the disgusting and gueewy oil. So I, being as muddleheaded as ever, put the entire measuring cylinder into a pail of hot boiling water, instead of pouring the hot oil into the measuring cylinder. and what happened? The entire base dropped off, and the glass shattered all over the place o.O then i wanted to buy another (ahem preferrably more heat-resistant!) measuring cylinder at some shop right, and found out that measuring cylinders aren't available at all to prevent bad people from making certain hazardous chemicals (to blow up the place). apparently u can only find them in school labs. and we just had to have a holiday next week. i guess this is the result of procrastinating uh.xD

oh yeah facebook's getting more and more fun. loads of nice games which i think im addicted to now. oh no thats bad. and found lots of friends from america(: nice to get back in touch.

three weeks to germany!! i realize that i need to start practising alot, because some of the pieces aren't polished enough yet.:)

ok i guess pictures speak a thousand words, so it's picture time!

me and my spi teacher, mr gabriel kwok from hongkong.
he's a pretty good teacher, very funny and inspiring.
catch phrases include 'you feel any pain?' and 'is there anywhere you find difficult?'

2008-06-29T13:44:00.000+08:00

I screwed up smo): kept glancing at the clock at the back of the lecture theatre, the hwa chong guy behind me must have thought i was nuts(: and the mars bar didnt work either. i thought chocolate was supposed to boost your thinking skills or something. obviously not xD.

yay looking forward to the yst summer piano institute from 5-12 july! I have to miss one whole week of school(: hoots. need to chiong finish all the pts and other homework that have piled up since the start of school this few days, and practise alot alot.=D

Ok feeling random so i koped this really outdated quiz from fangying's blog(:
Q1: Do you like your present school?
hmm its okay lar. nice schoolmates and all, but they probably could stop bombarding us with exams and certain programmes. oh no what happened to my rafflesian spirit?o.o

Q2: What do you want the most now?
for my life to stay just the way it is now. i'm happy enough(:

Q3: If you are gonna die tomorrow what do you want to do most?
hug everyone that made an impact on my life, ie family friends and teachers

Q4: Do you hate your friends sometimes?
nope=D if you hate someone, they wouldn't be ur friends

Q5: Are you afraid of death?
slightly. thats why i should treasure my life more.

Q6: Do you believe in love at first sight?
hmm maybe. when i see one.

Q7: Do you believe in eternal love?
why not.

Q8: Do you think boyfriends are a necessity?
not for some people. i could probably live through it.

Q9: What do you enjoy doing the most?
a lot of stuff!! piano, shopping, watching nice movies, basically anything that doesnt make me wanna go sleep.

Q10: Have you ever done anything for your admirer?
like what? get him a flower? nope. and i wouldnt know in the first place=D

Q11: What feeling do you hate most?
guilt. i think its nice to be sad sometimes(: because then you'll be happy all over again. but then guilt will probably haunt you for a longlong time.

Q12: Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
definitely. friends are the ones who make ur life not so miserable and meaningless.

Q13: What is your goal this year?
im not the kind of person who set goals. what is going happen is mostly out of your control, and i should learn to accept and appreciate both success and failure.

Q14. Who would you probably spend the rest of your life with?
the one i love? who else. and family(:

Q15: What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
relationships. all kinds.

Q16: Do you find life meaningless?
what no. i wouldnt be living if i find it meaningless.

Q17: What do you live for?
happiness. and for myself and others. [duh]

Q18: Who do you talk most to in school?
i talk to whoever i just happen to see. mainly the people sitting around me since i spend 80% of school time sitting in my seat-.-

Q19: What are you listening to now?
alot of people shouting downstairs. i think they're having a barbecue.

Q20: What would you say to a peanut?
hi. sorry but can i eat you?

Q21: What holiday homework do you have left?
okay i realize that this is for people to do during the holidays o.o but mind you i still have leftover homework from the holidays.

(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(: smilez.

2008-06-16T22:59:00.000+08:00

So today I just happen to decide to look at the calendar. 16th June. Hmm not bad. Turns to look at 19th June. School starts. Oh you mean my holiday has ended? No, its okay don’t you worry there’s still what two days left? O.o Oh but then tomorrow and the day after I have SL [which includes going to a moral welfare centre and teaching the people there computer stuff, sometimes with a bonus singing session(:] and math training too, so that basically eats up the whole day. Hmm then I can’t help you, bye. O.o!!!

Lame stuff aside, I always have this dreadful feeling that there’s a lot of stuff that I’ll never finish, but then when I actually get to try doing it, I end up doing absolutely nothing. So in the end, I still have a pile of PTs and whatnots to do. Great(: [I feel really sarcastic today xD]

Anyway, had lesson with Dr Hecht today. I think my fingers are really going to break off playing Ginastera, and it already almost did. They’re already aching badly. Oh, did I mention my arms too. Good thing I get to play slow, so that ‘you can organize every single vibration and not only create general excitement, but specific excitement within the same piece.’=D Or something like that. Then went to eat dinner with jonshin. I was in a really random mood and bought a pencil from Popular and a hairclip, made him follow me *evil grin*.

I love the Euros! It’s really getting exciting, seeing all the players fighting for glory of their own country. Although it can be really defeating too, in the case of Greece, Czech and France/Italy (choose one=D). Go Spain/ Netherlands!(: [notice the choice of teams in relation to the club I support xD]

2008-06-06T22:08:00.003+08:00

simo camp was fantabulously wonderful! minus the lectures and boring parts(: anyway i won't go in great detail since some ppl have written long SAT essays on them, but here are the main points:

1) math trainings, which are supposed to be the main part of the whole camp, but turned out to be more of a chatting session. instead of discussing the geom/number theory/graph questions, we talked about stuff like the professors' weird pronounciations and all(:

2) soccer! despite the fact that my shoe flew out once and i got whacked countless times, it was relatively okay(: never ran about so much in a very long time. the only reason i actually go for the ball is because i used to play with my dad and his friends. but now somehow he got addicted to golf -.-, so thats byebye to soccer (:

3) games! which includes bridge and hearts. bridge kind of got boring at the end, but no one wanted to play hearts with me. humph. oh yeah on the last day we were having a mini magic competition xD in which barry claimed to get 1st prize o.O i was really amazed by keven's trick, at first, but then it just seemed really stupid.

4) other things i can think of. food was extremely nice, although i think i stuffed myself too much at first so i couldnt eat in the end =D dinner at raffles hall was really amusing. we played 24 and the lame game i proposed.

yup, now that the camp is over, i suddenly realized how much i missed everything. ppl who are always poke in some funny comment or just being there at the right time are those who make such things the most memorable. and now all that is left is tons of funny photos and videos...

2008-05-29T11:15:00.003+08:00

SMO's over! yay finally. although i was sniffling all the way through because i had flu. i think i already swallowed a whole packet of panadol and its still not getting any better -.-

SIMO camp starts tomorrow! (pretends to be overly excited) i shall completely ignore the lecture, tea, lecture, tea part of the programme and look forward to the games and free time part! (duh) i wont be staying overnight though, i'm afraid of the dark(: kidding. hmm i shall buckle up and prepare myself for professor after professor giving boring lectures which i probably wont understand anyway :P

hmm holidays are really great. seriously. i mean even though there's *takes a deep breath* history pt, chinese pt, english expo, science project thingo, blahblah to do, at least you get to wake up late! which i love doing xD and to do all the other things i love to do without having to worry about school stuff(:

on a sidenote HAPPY BIRTHDAY yunan! haha

2008-05-16T13:03:00.002+08:00

First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, ten thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China's worst earthquake in three decades, animals in a zoo started acting strangely. Zebras banged their heads against the gates, elephants swung their trunks wildly and peacocks started screeching. But the seismologists dismissed this.

Maybe if the government had predicted it, no 50000 people would have died, no mother would be screaming in despair outside schools to ask if their child was still alive, no person at this moment would be trapped under 1000kg of boulders clinging on to that last straw of hope that someone would come and find him. Don't get me wrong, it is impossible to predict exactly where and when earthquakes will occur.

So, all those geog lessons now turn into cle lessons. So what if we know that so-and-so plate is converging with so-and-so plate and fold mountains and oceanic trenches are forming. So what if earthquakes occur when rocks can't stand the pressure and seismic waves are radiated out in all directions from the epicentre. What are we actually going to do to help the victims when an earthquake really does strike.

pictures of toads roaming the streets of mianzhu three days before the earthquake:

2008-05-10T15:28:00.000+08:00

i really dont know what to say, seeing your last post was really traumatizing, especially having known her for so long. i dont see how u can be so calm, maybe meditation really works. but i hope you will stay strong, make everyone proud. after all everything is just a matter of time. yeah i'm not really great at this kind of stuff, but just to make sure that you know that your friends will be there for you, always.

2008-05-08T22:15:00.000+08:00

yesterday's party was great! i feel guilty though cos i think i flunked math ra today o_O haha

we went to this posh restaurant. i stuffed myself with food cos it was so nice (: we played games like black magic, johnny whoops and this finger game which i didnt really get -.-, and did a lot of crazy stuff like trying to lick your elbow and trying to lift your ring finger on the table with the middle finger bent. xDhaha

an amusing moment:
nattaporn (eyeing hannah's cherry): you know that when females eat cherries, something really bad will happen to them, like they'll get a really bad disease
hannah: oh really! oh no!
dr hecht: and when great pianists eat cherries, their playing will deteriorate greatly
nattaporn: no, that only happens to females
dr hecht: in real seriousness, that red dye in cherries is really cancerous
me: thats true
(he got the cherry in the end)

so exams are finally over! yay! i shall make a note not to do anything productive for the next few days. and to watch a lot of movies and go shopping (:

2008-05-02T17:25:00.000+08:00

lit today was okay, kept trying to think of something to write but couldn't squeeze anything out of my brain, unlike certain people who wrote 6 pages long in one hour -.- i mean what is there to talk about when the book is really that appealing and you dont feel anything for it.

anyway after talking about how diction brings out kahu's great determination and innocence and how tone and dialogue highlights her love for her greatgrandfather blah blah blah, i had my juries!!! no comment about it though. like i just went in and dr hecht and mr tiu basically stared at me play my scales, bach, haydn and chopin. the really dao3 mei2 part was when my got to pick my scale in the transparent glass jar right, and i just had to pick eb minor among the 24 possible scales. and the ppl before me got 2 Eb majors, 2 C majors (!!!) and a D major. dr hecht couldnt help laughing at my great misfortune, and when i gave him a very pitiful look, he said, 'well eb minor's a key, isn't it?' o_O but i guess its a blessing in disguise, because then i would have a great excuse if i play it really lousily xD

so now im basically slacking, even though there's going to be 5 exams next week, of which 3 are maths -.- i better start thinking of a brilliant solution to how im going to not fail maths without a calculator with an 'accepted' sticker on it =D

2008-04-26T13:35:00.000+08:00

i am so proud of myself that i survived our dear service learning program =D really

see that day me and yunan (who was really sick and the fact that i sat near her for hours and didnt get infected shows that i have a really good immune system) went to the moral welfare centre. we were surrounded by elderlys on wheelchairs all staring menacing at us, like we were some weird alien from another planet. it was sooo freaky when a man started talking to yunan. i stood there dumbstruck at the way she remained composed and forced out a smile. o_O

my pupil was a 29-year-old man who was really friendly and eager to learn. as quoted by anni, they're like charlie gordon xD i really feel sorry for him, cos i think his father and grandfather died, and he even showed me their photographs. we did things like spelling names- he knew how to spell his name 'jeevaparhy'! (which is pretty amazing considering i cant even spell it correctly-.-) played hearts too- and u know how the less points you score, the better? ya i didnt really tell him that, and he was so delighted when he got 68 and pauline got 5. (i feel really awful) but we spent most of the time talking, and i realized how unfortunate these people are, how they were forced to go there either because they were disabled or abandoned.

as i walked out of the welfare centre, i realized that those people werent so scary after all, they are just people who arent as lucky as some of us.

2008-04-13T13:53:00.000+08:00

yay today was the hwa chong challenge. which made me miss ORA, the simo test and theory lesson at yst. but it was so fun! we got team third, after ri and nanyang-.- but still quite a wonderful achievement considering they have all those propro chinese scholars. best part was the relay round! so basically there are 6 questions in total right, and your answer for for eg question 1 has to be used to do question 2. in the end almost everyone got stuck at question 4 o_O i sat beside barry, who was the 1st person (ri team) like me, and when we had nothing to do and started talking, the invigilitator told us to 'shut up because no discussing is allowed'. lol.

buzzer round was...exciting. my other two teammates duan yuping and wu xiao forced me to sit in the middle, right in front of the microphone and buzzer. even though i was once told i had really slow reflexes. haha but most of the time we didnt really answer anything, and just waited for the other teams to make a booboo and lose some points xD which they occasionally did. in the end, each of us got a graphic calculator which i have absolutely no idea how to use, and a texas instrument voucher

after that there was piano duos rehearsal. i had to admit it was fantastic, especially lizst and ravel. learning point: always subdivide when playing, or else you will have a tendency to rush especially when playing piano duos. momentum is not equal to faster tempo :) too bad i forgot to stay back for a treat that dr hecht was going to give us. wonder what it is. but after we left akkra played me a birthday song on the keyboard using his iphone!! and offered me a pack of sour skittles, which i kindly declined as i dont plan to chew on skittles all day long when i could be shopping and all =D haha

still wondering what birthday present i should beg my parents for xD

2008-04-06T07:40:00.000+08:00

yesterdays concert was a blast! everyone played super well so great job ppl! haha unfortunately NUS high so coincidentally had to have music week, so this bunch of NUS students filled the balcony. and when you were playing you could hear them 'ooh'ing and 'aah'ing and 'ssh'ing, which obviously was very distracting. but we got almost full house! xD

from left to right: me, yinghan, jonathan, tarin, ben, dewi, yiqing and akkra :)
my mom's first comment: 'wah! wasin's hand very big!'. which is quite true
dr hecht in the middle. quote from him 'this is going to be a historical moment! you're going to look back at this and say wow! dr hecht still has some black hair on his head!' haha

the boy squad #1

the boy squad #2. otherwise known as the tie group. spy the yellow tie, which was bought at daiso for $2. no joking.

yay.

2008-03-30T12:55:00.000+08:00

learning journey weeks over. it was certainly enriching, giving the oh-so-rare chance to learn about stuff outside of textbooks and to see parts of the world that we would have never thought of going. however, unfortunately, i will state without hesitation here that some parts of it were boring xD

um i shall not talk much about the rs project management workshop since i will probably bore you all to death. HDB tour was fun and certainly entertaining. kukup trip was great! (thats an understatement) although we did have to endure the scorching sun and balancing ourselves on thin wooden boards that looked like it was going to collapse any moment. it really made us realize that it is a true blessing to live in singapore. oops wait i forgot the sungei buloh trip. never mind.

hmm im feeling so accomplished today because i finally borrowed a book on music at YST library- famous pianists and their techniques! im feeling quite intimidated now since the book's even thicker than the length of my pinky. but its the thought that counts right! haha i have never completely finished a book on a topic that seems as boring as pianist's techniques :) either because its too long or i have to return it within two weeks and dont like renewing it. most commonly the latter xD but the first few pages seem intriguing enough:)

chem pt is quite pointless and time-consuming. i mean whats the use for taking this for an assessment if u cant use scientific words because they assume a p6 cant understand it? and i dont see the point of anyone wanting to use mothballs if it causes cancer and other diseases, cos my clothes never attract moths -.- and me having no artistic talent whatsoever cant get glitter properly onto a popsicle stick. the glitter seems more inclined to stick onto my hands and face instead of where it should be. tips anyone?!

YAY. upcoming concerts notice! april 4th primarily piano concert, haydn sonata in c# minor. april 15th piano duos concert, shostakovich two pianos concertino. Both at YST concert hall.

2008-03-21T13:26:00.000+08:00

1. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
ehh pictures? and somehow it's a weird shade of blue
2. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP?
how am i supposed to know what i do in my sleep?!
3. WHAT DO YOU MISS?
my cute little dog that i had to abandon after moving back to Singapore L
4. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO?
where? anywhere?
5. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU'VE EVER RECIEVED?
my puppy for my 8th birthday
6. DO YOU LIKE ANYBODY?
i like everyone
7. DO YOU HAVE A PET RIGHT NOW?
obviously no
8. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF SINGAPORE?
yes
9. YOUR WEAKNESSES?
tooo blurrr. once a teacher said I have a blur look on my face -.-
10. MET ANYONE FAMOUS?
define famous. langlang? I took a photo with him!! Unfortunately I blinked in the photo 0.o
11. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST?
-- (u see I don't get complimented much)
12. HAVE YOU EVER HAD BRACES?
YES now. and it feels like its never going to be straight
13. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?
its coming up in 24 days, just in case anyone’s unaware. *hintshints* J uh a steinway.
14. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?
I WANT THREE! i like kids.
15. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
anyone, no. anything, yes. i think it means spring or something since I was born in spring -.-
16. DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
yess! but somehow most of the time it doesn't come true
17. DO LOOKS MATTER?
to a small extent yes.
18. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
rant at someone continuously? i don't get angry.
19. WHERE IS YOUR SECOND HOME?
school? isn’t that obvious.
20. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
lala from teletubbies that makes a weird sound when pressed. I was so depressed when I
heard about the person who suffocated in the lala suit :O
21. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE?
numbers? Let me count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. 10?
22. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW?
drake and josh? Its really really funny! (no its not sponge bob square pants people)
23. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES?
YES. I check everytime I cut my nails -.-
24. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
the insane screamings outside my window
25. LAST THING YOU DRANK?
lim huiyi’s water since my waterbottle was empty
26. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
yunan who invited me to a free movie!!
27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE/SAME SEX?
their sex.
28. FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR?
april? (who doesn't like their birthday)
29. PLAY ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS?
piano, violin
30. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?
great expectations by charles dickens. started on the first page

2008-03-02T13:27:00.000+08:00

Tell me, how do you create a logical, original story entitled 'One flew over a cuckoo's nest'?! that was exactly the title given to us during story challenge audition today -.- we were momentarily stumped by the great absurdity of the topic, and as if thats not enough the special condition turned out to be 'there must be a computer virus in your story'. so in the end, our story turned out quite ridiculous, but still very nice xD basically it was about these two cuckoos, a delicate and pretty wife (leevoon) and a fat old ugly husband(me). because the husband could not get rid of a computer virus, the wife got angry and fell in love with another young handsome cuckoo(anni) while flying over the cuckoo's nest. so to describe a man whose wife had been unfaithful to him, or a cuckoo who's old, we call him a cuckold! hahahaha. but drumroll....we got through to the preliminaries! yay =D

i took the risk by being attacked by the terrorists and spent the rest of the afternoon at suntec city and vivocity. did a bit of shopping, probably bought enough clothes for the whole year. and out of pure curiosity, i went to the career and education exhibition thingy, hoping to find something that would interest me. but every single stall was either promoting their psychology course at abc university or business course at xyz university. so i ended up watching an immenselyl intriguing game of 'Spin the Wheel' for no particular reason at all.

after that went vivocity to eat dinner and watch movie. shall not reveal the movie's details.

so i conclude today has been a slackish day. which is why i should stop blogging.

2008-02-29T14:08:00.000+08:00

ppl its not dead okay sheeeeesh. not after this post xD

um what happened this week. usual school stuff, EXAMS--HCL and AMC 12B, homework blahblah.

Today i feel very accomplished because 1. we managed to find enough ppl for the inter-class shuttle relay(i'm one of them) 2. borrowed enough shorts for everyone and 3. got mr tan to get us 8 random t-shirts. so even though we dropped the baton thrice and didn't win, i'm still happy cos we didn't get class detention!! yay and thanks to everyone who sacrificed their time to run and helped to borrow shirts and stuff.

history paper tomorrow.

okay time to sleep, byebye

2008-02-18T04:27:00.000+08:00

The past week has been super busy. Firstly, there were the concert and its many rehearsals, which caused me to reach home at 10 plus on sunday monday tuesday and wednesday too because of lessons. yes i guess the concert went okay, i was the 4th to play xD which is a nice number because you aren't really at the beginning of the concert when everyone's paying full attention and you still can slack for a long time after you play. so this is my second time playing at the concert hall with an audience (excluding studio classes and all when the puny audience consists of other students) for i probably got more accustomed to the acoustics of the hall and everything. highlights of the night includes scriabin sonata, chopin ballade no4, lizst rhapsody and others. the best part was the end when everyone crowded backstage and there were lots of hugging, picture-taking and playing of chopsticks =D then we went to the reception table loaded with pizzas and lollipops and started stuffing ourselves with all the nice food.

oh during maths lesson sometime this week mr ang suddenly popped up and asked "Has your commitment at nus (referring to yst) ended?" i paused and said "(obviously) no". then he said "You know you shouldn't over-commit yourself to other things ah. We have a lot of things to do okay so please ah." i was momentarily stunned. i mean i have a life right, and i cannot spend much time doing the very thick pile of worksheets that he dumps on me. so i have no idea what he wants, i don't think i can go any further with maths.

Ok yesterday was busy too. first there was simo training which went by with me basically copying every single scribbling on the board without having the teensiest idea of what it meant. then i left halfway at 10.45 for yst (notice that i can walk from the science blocks ALL the way to the end near clementi road in 15 minutes:D:D). ok so we got stuck at the entrance because our temporary cards didn't work and this security guard just happened to walk by, so we tried to persuade him that we had a lesson at 11. but he kept giving us this whimsical look cos i was obviously in school uniform. ok we worked on bach cello suite in the lesson and we talked about voiceleading and pedal point and stuff like that. it was quite enriching, like we learnt how to apply the technical aspects of a piece of music into our playing such that it actually affects the way we play. not like oh, this should be a *fill in chord here* and it goes to *fill in another chord here* i feel so smart! o_O

after that I ate a really hurried lunch (actually i stole a few fries from anni's lunch) and rushed all the way to the story challenge workshop at stamford arts centre from 2:00-5:00! this is basically a competition in which we(anni, leevoon and me as a team) have to make up a story within 15 minutes with a unique criteria and perform it in front of a live audience and judges. we talked about the elements of a good story and the 5wifes1husband xD and we were given a demonstration! the theme was 'The Tale of Two Cities' and the unique criteria was that they had to say 'I am hungry' and 'I am full'. so the story came out there was the longlonglong great wall of china and the bigbigbig london bridge, and they somehow fell in love. then they stuck in 'I am full, full of longing for your love' and 'I am hungry, hungry for your love!' somewhere in the middle (which i thought was quite clever). but then came a little sparrow who told london bridge and great wall of china that the other said bad things about each other. so they got really angry and the great wall got longer and longer until it reached london and thats how...LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN FALLING DOWN LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN etcetc. so basically auditions are nextnext week, good luck to us! :)

then we rushed again to my dad's friend's house cos they invited to dinner, so me being greedy for more ang bao tagged along too. ok jkjk actually i found out that their son from RI was a great cook! he cooked all those delicious dishes we had for dinner> i bet RI offers a great cooking course or something. hmm i should probably learn from him and start cooking too xD we watched a movie, played lots of computer games and blogsurfed xD it was so exciting but kind of anti-climax when we had to leave halfway through the movie.

and all this happened in one day! i reached home at about 12 and switched on the television and at that time liverpool was leading 1-0 and chelsea was still at 1-1 right. so i was so superduper happy that i decided to sleep. we all probably know what happened so i shall not say but just so you know it wasn't their lucky day. on another note, HAHA to all arsenal fans, though i do share your great despair that manu won.

ok that's it after a pretty unfruitful yesterday, i have made up my mind to make today a productive one!!! oh wait then why am i blogging? -.- ok i shall start being productive right after i finish posting, go out and eat lunch, put antiseptic cream on my wound (which is producing a thick liquid which anni claims is the result of dying white blood cells) and watch tv. byebye.

2008-02-09T13:36:00.000+08:00

春节晚会was a great hit! though my parents werent really that pleased. they said the previous years one was better. but i think it was wonderful nonetheless, i mean something that keeps you glued to the tv for 4 straight hours without you dozing off in the middle of nowhere, should be pretty miraculous.

i shall now list my top5 favourite programs:

1. '那是为什么呢?' this is extremely hilarious, especially when she says that in this really high-pitch and comical voice, i almost laughed my head off. seriously. and also when a lot of people claimed that the man was 老年痴呆 and she managed to sell so many houses despite the water leakage and stuff. so today when friend A came to my house and asked me if i could play the piano for her and i said no, she said 那是为什么呢？and naturally i gave her the diao look.

2. 爬竿. i had no idea that it was virtually possible for humans to jump from one pole to the other with their legs only while adding in turns and flips until i saw this. and all the people looked like they were children below 10 years. *gapes* and my dad claimed that if i had ever attempted doing whatever they did, i would probably end up with a neck, spine, head and whatnot injury for the rest of my life, which i guess is true xD

3. 诗歌朗诵. i thought that was super touching, i think i cried. it was so depressing to see all the poor people stranded in the storm and not able to see their family over the new year. most of them read their lines quite well, with emotion and all, except one funnny person who kind of forgot his lines and had to look at his booklet.

4. 舞蹈飞天. the one where they were wearing this yellow long silky gown and they were doing poses of which may be impossible given some physics theory which i do not know of. then i realized that their right legs were being stuck to the stage, but probably still requires great sense of balance and technique. oh welll they must have really strong stomach muscles :D

5. 赵本山's 小品. this was what my parents were waiting for from the start of the performances. and sure enough it was pretty good. they laughed a lot of times at something that i either did not find funny or did not understand, most probably the latter =D but it was great anyway.

[the magic show at the end was kind of lame though. but he was looking straight at me when he asked for a representative from each family :O]

anyway, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR PPLS!!

watched CJ7 yesterday. i found the plot kind of shallow and unrealistic, but it was still touching. and did u know that the main character is a girl?! and she acted as a boy. so that was a kind of anti-climax after how everyone has been saying how great it was supposed to be and how they worked for many years to produce such a film.

and....drumroll....got lotslots of ang pao. xD yay wish me good luck spending them all =D ok kidding i shall be a good girl and save them for important stuff. :D:D:D:D

announcement: i'll be having a concert on 12 Feb. 'Primarily Piano' at YST concert hall. and there will be rehearsals tmr and mon. great! u are welcome to come if you want to :)

ok byebye.

2008-02-06T14:31:00.000+08:00

YAY tomorrow’s Chinese new year eve and I get to watch the ever so exciting 春节联欢晚会, So, let me leave you all to read this great chim poem written by ‘anonymous’. xD

时盛岁新，河岳高吟诗世界
年丰人寿，江山沉醉酒春秋
文笔总多情，春联满写新春意
英年须努力，壮志早酬少壮时
万里和风吹柳绿
九州春色映桃红
人寿年丰歌盛世
山欢水笑庆新春

让平安搭上鼠年的快车道，让快乐与你轻轻拥抱，
让困难与你刮目相看，让烦恼低头悄悄走掉，
让吉祥对你格外关照，让幸福对你永远微笑！
祝鼠年快乐！

2008-01-23T14:18:00.000+08:00

Hello! after a long break from blogging, i'm back again! and since we're studying plate tectonics now for geog, i like to see my nice blog as a volcano, ready to erupt any second. which reminds me to say that we watched dante's point [some geographical movie back in 1997, starring some hot guy who doesn't look at all like he's 60] for two whole geog blocks. I LOVED IT and i cried two times, first when the grandma jumped into the scorching water and sacrificed herself to save the others and the second when they got rescued. xD

taiwan immersion programme! i realized the students in taiwan are really generous and hospitable. and i also noticed another pattern, that is they are all ano. i kindly ask them what they want to eat during lunch, and almost everyone said they weren't hungry. so we had to order nasi padang [i think the auntie got quite shocked when we ordered 5 plates of the same thing], and guess what, she took out a mini CALCULATOR to find 5 X $1.40 when i was trying to convince that it was $7. and we were really desperate since we were late for lessons xD and my nice buddy elizabeth gave me a really big m&n toy thingy where m&ns fall out whenever you pull the arm. AND MY DAD JUST FINISHED THE WHOLE PACKET just now, i found out when i pulled the arm and nothing came out. =D

hmm i should say a big fat SORRY for the three people whose specs i smashed during basketball :/ june, leevoon and tessa. i really didn't try to aim at your specs [if i can't hit the basket how can i hit your specs right] so do kindly forgive me. xD i think next time i should stick to bounce pass^^

so. yst has started, and dr hecht's back. i really need to get used to his strict ways of teaching, compared to ms hahn [who says 'wonderful' even if it's the lousiest playing she ever heard], and fast too. i guess the first lesson went pretty ok, and tmr's going to be the second. but he teaches really meticulously and picks out every single detail u can possibly think of, and very well i have to say. SUPER well. i learn a lot from him :)

oh yeah i'm so honoured to be able to hear abigail sin play live twice in studio class. she makes such a simple piece sound so beautiful, that i gape in awe whenever she plays something [ok not that exaggerated lah] like every phrase is so carefully crafted and every note is meaningful. i shall not say more about her playing because we all know how well she plays. =)

i realize i have been ending each paragraph with a smiley face. i think that's because i feel happy recently, despite homework and all. let's hope that it stays that way >.<

2008-01-12T14:19:00.000+08:00

okok yunan im posting im posting!
hmm nothing happened much these few days. school was the same old boring but i guess we haven't got to the busy part yet. we even had time to play hangman during english! where chuleevoon got pneumonia with _ NE_ _ _N_A. tommorow got a YST studio class meeting, probably to discuss lesson plans or something. ok i get the hint that the new semester is starting and im going to get much busier after this week.

our class theme was changed to disco! because two new ppl joined and we got to revote. yay xD and we also decided on some mosaic thing, but i wasn't listening during that part :) and i got into chinese advanced strand! such a pleasant surprise. my mum keeps saying 'ni de hua yu shi zai bu gan gong wei' or something like that. but i get a feeling that i dont belong in that class with ppl all around me with freakish chinese accents. and the teacher talks really really fast, so what appears to be like a great explanation of zhong xin si xiang and whatnot to others, seems like a constant rambling of incoherent stuff to me.

so allow me to enjoy the last few days of slack-ness before i get really frantic, my homeworks get filed up and i chase head to tail around trying to figure out where to go for lessons. xD
tata.

2008-01-06T12:50:00.000+08:00

MY NEW CLASS ROCKS! xD except for the class deco theme which ended up as sea and sky, which is cheesy-.- obviously disco lost by 1 vote. What made us most relieved and happy was that our teachers turned out to be funny and nice, but considering its the first day of lessons they have every right to be. Like our Maths teacher Ms Hoo claims to be the 'most unthreatening teacher in our entire academic life' and likes to go into a 'verbal diarrhoea'. In english we played the most fun educational game I've ever played, where we were supposed to form the shortest sentence. Ours was-- 'Writing letter is a symbol to communicate English without Nokia'. [no need to say it was 'grammatically wrong'] Others include 'The princess dressed in pink scolded herself in the mirror for dancing badly at the party' and 'The Esplanade held a tragedy for acting in threatre using a microphone'. not much happened during chem, we were given the lab rules :D

Today was the first SIMO training! quite similar to last year, except that we inserted a bridge session during curry puff time xD yup k im going to watch the 9 oclock show! toodles.

2008-01-02T10:44:00.000+08:00

Happy Happy New Year Ppls!!

I can't believe its 2008 already! It's funny whenever I do something, even some of the most mundane of things, I would feel this weird excitement in my gut, like i'm watching tv...in 2008!! i'm blogsurfing...in 2008!!!i'm getting scolded...in 2008!!![reminds me of spongebob xD] I'm surely going to miss 2007 though, my great class 111, my wonderful friends...sometimes you just don't feel like moving on you know, and u pray really hard that tommorow someone will invent a time machine that you can pop in and go back in time. but still, even though you have to leave some things behind, there are definitely still more things in 2008 that are just waiting for you to find and discover. I'm really looking forward to a great 2008, although i admit liverpool is not very likely to win the championship, although i'm going into the new year with a few extra pounds [i've been eating a lot recently:/], I'm still really excited and full of anticipation for the new year ahead. Hence I conclude i am happy, happy because 2008 is going to be full of surprises and new experiences, happy because there are new challenges in front of me, happy because that is life.

p.s. watch im a legend! did u know that will smith[the starring actor] it is going to run for president of the united states!!! omg i just saw the future president LIVE!! okay lols but the doggie was soooooo cutexD but she died in the end:'( which cruel person would want the doggie to be killed?! sniffs.

2007-12-28T14:26:00.000+08:00

We finally managed to pull off a successful class chalet!!! whee all thanks to yunan and her parents and some other people including me[cos i helped to call 5 ppl!]. Basically it was a bbq party with a lot of games like twister, pictionary, connect-four, and bridge. The food was excellent, considering that i cooked it! ha but it was certainly a painfully hot experience trying to flip the chicken wings and satays around and trying desperately not to let both your hands and the food get burnto_O considering the fact that this will probably the last chance to meet up with my lovely sec1 classmates who have always been there for me and helped me take my first step into the unfamiliar and unpredicatable life in rgs, i probably should learn to treasure it even more. [reminds myself that half of 210'08 will still be made up of 111ers]

the good memories...

everyone trying to snatch the last pieces of sausage and chicken wings

come and buy f&n[wait i forgot what flavour it was]!! its tastier
and more fortified with vitamins than justea and f&n grape!!

a random photo with yunan. though i do wonder

who will shoot the other first

can u believe six people on a puny twister mat!! though i

dont think we're supposed to sit on the floor right

i can play twinkle twinkle little star on the erhu!!

although its SLIGHTLY out of tune xD

WHY ARE U GIVING ME THAT LOOK!

im innocent okay!

i didnt manage to get photos of some of the other ppl and the group photo is with yunan. but i'll never forget you guys!! <333>111'07

2007-12-21T13:39:00.000+08:00

PARENTS MEETING!! [doesn't that make u shiverXD] okay my mom had this meeting with ppl including the head of the talent development program, mr ang, ms lim, ms chew, mrs ban-HOD of math. we went in the nelsons room and everyone seated around this humongous table. after that they started discussing my plans for next year while i listened attentively *ahem* to their conversation. i think the plan is that i learn the sec3 math and RA in one-to-one lessons with mr ang(omg!!). i think i’m already beginning to dread next year when i have to start tolerating his overwhelming number of wks and incomprehensible explanations all over again:/

yesterday i went to watch national treasure with my parents at midnight!!! my dad came home quite late and out of the blue he suggested that we go watch a movie! so obviously i readily agreed, but my mom started moaning about how she was just about to sleep o_O but who could miss such a great thriller at midnight right!! so we went shaw ctr and caught the movie at 11.30. the movie starring Nicolas cage was really good, the acting was flawless and the scene at the end in the city of gold was breathtaking. probably the best movie i’ve seen in the year, which is saying a lot considering i’ve watched a lot of movies.

i ended up waking up at almost noon today:P then went shopping at takashimaya and lot 1. daddy bought some golf stuff like those cream u apply to prevent you from burning to death under the scorching sun. mummy got some of those facial creams at watson’s, she probably spent half an hour choosing the right creams while i stood there trying to look interested in the stuffed bunnies they sold there. i bought some clothes-- pants and a stretchable belt. what an eventful day!!-.- i think i better go and read a book now. or whatever that will make me seem studious=D

2007-12-18T01:27:00.000+08:00

ok so liverpool lost, but that is NO REASON to think that they aren't as good as any other team in the world. so i regret writing the last post, so some people will probably laugh at me/liverpool, but the deep faith that i hold in them will still remain. ISNT THAT RIGHT FELLOW LIV FANS??:)

2007-12-17T06:38:00.000+08:00

Ok thought i should say GO LIVERPOOL!! I can't wait to watch the match tonight! okay let's get ready to gloat at shanjee, wingyan, who else...:) [i seriously hope i dont regret writing this]

So anyway, CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE!! should remember to write my letter to santa claus:) oh and should remember to be a good girl because santa doesnt like bad girls:D ok below is a draft of my nice letter:

Dear santa claus,
I have been a really good girl this year and worked relatively hard so i should deserve to get
1) a puppy! [my parents say they will FINALLY think about getting me a dog since i've been begging them for so long:) i miss my husky in america! his name is leon[so cute>.<] they say it's very ma2 fan2 to clean up after it and it'll probably chew off all four legs of the table O_o, but since i'm promising to be responsible *ahem*, they are considering itXD]
2) more books!! to read
3) watch a nice movie
4) liverpool to finish at least top3 in the table before christmas
5) a happy happy christmas!
Yours Sincerely, me!

sadly, my daddy is at shanghai right now, interviewing some other people for the job. or else we could have been out feasting ourselves right now:) but no, instead i'm stuck at home doing, this.
ok thats it for now, better go touch up my letter to santa!!:D

2007-12-16T13:32:00.000+08:00

So yesterday was the artist finals and prize presentation. I love tchaikovsky concerto!! It's so technically and musically demanding. Wang haijie played very well and won first. mozart was great too, except that andre claimed that he played 10-15 wrong notes. grieg's sound was super nice and resonant, i think what it lacked was musicality. when we were backstage shih wei asked me how much prize money i won, then he gave me this look on his face that said 'haha i won twice as much as you'.

Okay my lizst was after sunflower, langlang's favourite piece!! after that we took a lot of pics with the judges and ms hahn, since she's leaving soon!T_T she gave me this very pretty necklace that has 13 pearls!

Today, i woke up very late...oh i just realised that i have with me...drumroll...a big stack of maths wks left to me by who else but mr ang kor lin. i also realised that i have not bothered to read the first page of that stack of wks. i also have realised that i should start doing them in order not to get scolded by him. i realised that i have realised a lot of things...

i noticed that actually kiddy shows are really quite nice once you get to know the characters and plot. for eg, spongebob squarepants, jimmy neutron, hi5, mickey mouse etc. the characters are really cute and it gets you all hyped up for the day. so get rid of all your stereotypes of it being lame and boring and give it a try!! does that sound like an advertisment

oh yeah can someone pluuese give me a nice font. this one is so ugly and fat, somehow the font is different when it's postedD:

2007-12-05T13:56:00.000+08:00

TAG REPLIES!

[mengshi] not a bad suggestion really, except the fact that i have to stand up after every piece and use a humongous old cloth to wipe the chair?!?! ok better start thinking of a wise solution instead of being sarcastic the whole day:)

[yujia] yep super fun. and NOOO i dont know who ur 'you-know-who' is. wait let me guess is it 1. ms hahn(?!) 2. your boyfriend(quite possible) 3. okay i cant think of any more

[weizhen] i sound like a piano professional?! to me it sounds like useless stuff that i crap when im bored

[fangying] good luck good luck to u, repeat, good luck good luck to fangying......repeat. that was a song in the tune of happy birthday:)

[june] junies playing even without pedal also hen2 hao3 ting1 oneXD

[alan] thank you! like real, okay i bet you one dollar, that way if i dont win i'll still be comforted that at least i earned one dollar::) but no lah i never expect anything from it and anything can happen. hmm do i sound very philosophical

[yunan] good thinking yunan! -.- okay i'll check

2007-12-03T13:01:00.000+08:00

So yesterday i went to try the competition piano at alliance francais. there was a great sense of familiarity, though the inside of the auditorium was smaller than i imagined. so i went in at exactly 1pm with my teacher and mum and rushed up to the stage in order to save the approximately 10(?!) seconds of time. [unfortunately it took a really long time for my teacher to flip to the right page and mum to set the video camera0_O] my impression of the piano: quite a light touch. hard to control. tin-like sound at the high registers. really loud bass which throws off the balance. pedal not really effective. chair very slippery, slips back roughly 2 cm after each piece. impression of the hall: VERY dry. almost no echo at all and makes a really weird clicking sound when u clap really loud. little problem with clarity and virtuoso passages. big problem with soft passages and legato touch. [AHH!] and my ravel, which is supposed to be water-like, ended up sounding like a lot of bumpy stones -.-

okay so that was a review of the whole rehearsal process. except that at the end the person at the counter started chasing us out and my teacher was trying to persuade her that we came in late:D and we managed to steal approximately 2 minutes. MUAHAHA laughs evilly.

2007-11-27T06:29:00.000+08:00

I broke another two piano strings the day before yesterday. That would be my best (or worst?!) record, three strings in ten days. So as to not hear a out-of-tune note [which is very disturbing] every 5 seconds, i went to yst to practice yesterday. At least i got a chance to practise on a nice steinway in a large ensemble room:) yay coz the sound produced is so much better than a yamaha in a small room with closed windows[because my neighbors had been complaining about the 'noise pollution'].

Later i met ms hahn along the corridors and she led me inside her studio to change my lesson time. so i was trying to make conversation and said that im getting quite bored playing the same comp pieces over and over again. and guess what she said?! ''thats a good sign! u know what you should give your pieces a rest, do NOT practise them for the next few days AT ALL. because our ears are tuned to novelty, new stuff, so you should try not touch them for a while. on top of that, go get a massage and ishak house. its very cheap and u should rest your muscles.' i was trying so hard not to stare at her and look completely astonished when she said that. Then she asked me lie down on the floor and started hmm..fiddling around(?!) with my shoulders... When i told my mom she was like '对对应该去按摩一下！' o__O

At about 5 my parents picked me up and we went to eat hotpot! It was a buffet so i was trying to stuff myself with as much food as i could get=) The food was wonderful except that the sauce thingy that you are supposed to mix was not so nice, so i ended up eating the food without sauce. *stares at my father who drinks the sauce by itself*

After the filling dinner, we went cathay to watch enchanted! it was super nice and hilarious. highly recommended. it really brings out the fact that there is no fairytale and 'happily ever after' in reality. and i cried, again. i think theres something wrong with me, i cry at every single movie even if its a comedy or a horror film. and my mom ended up complaining that if i cry, the next day my eyes will become swollen and ugly. -_-''

2007-11-24T12:00:00.000+08:00

Don't feel like spamming my own tagboard, so

Tag replies:

[yunan] who say u always win at the thumb game! i also got win sometimes okay. and im not scandalous, i bet u are.=)

[clarrise t] what kind of memory do you have! must be short term lah. i told u my email at the bus stop remember? haiya waste my saliva its zhangaidi@yahoo.com. and i'll add u XD

[lanabel] of course im very busy, but i try to find time to blog. its called time management. lols and plus its the school holidays.

[voon] excuse me. do not think sick and yes i noe i very slow but i just realized voon rhymes with joon and boon and goon and noon and moon. [is loon a word?]

[sparrow] heeheeheehee HARLO SPARROW! how was your day today? nice? had a good sleep yesterday night? hope u r fine! LOLS

[deborah] do not laugh at my nice handwriting okay! and i bet u r over the moon coz portugal with your christiano ronaldo got into knockout okay. HMPH. and i linked u alr long ago. so u better link me NOW!

p.s. i am currently feeling an overwhelming pain in my mouth because i went to the dentist to fix my braces today. it feels like a hammer is knocking against my front tooth trying to force it in. argh.

2007-11-23T02:15:00.000+08:00

My heart is broken......england lost!!!!!! T_T

2007-11-22T13:29:00.000+08:00

i had dinner with fang lao shi at crystal jade, takashimaya yesterday. somehow we decided to have dinner together as sort of a thank you after we left nafa for yong siew toh. so me and mum reached there about 30 mins early, in fear of a traffic jam but jonathan was already there[lols he was actually shopping]. So at 7 the five of us sat down at a huge rectangular table and fang lao shi started ordering some 'delicacies'. The only thing that me and jonathan ordered was six pieces of fish fillet on bread toast, probably the most western food they had thereXD In the end all the food ordered had a weird taste, probably because its shang hai cuisine, but it was nice and filling anyways. It was quite fun when fls started telling us stories, some hilarious and some sad. I found out that she really has a great sense of humour, like we were laughing the whole time.

After dinner ended, fls went off and the rest of us went shopping at isetan. mostly window shopping, but i was trying to find a suitable dress for performances and stuff, but most dresses my size are those adult gowns that are very...hmm mature. so in the end, i gave up since it was already quite late. so we went home by mrt together and Jonathan started showing me this really thick book, i think it was 'famous pianists and their techniques'. though i admit the contents and quotes were quite cool and the techniques were similar to the ones my teacher always uses. oh yeah it was super hilarious when i kept winning him at the thumb game, out of about 10 times! muahaha laughs evilly

when i got to chua chu kang, i realized my dad was happily enjoying a big mac burger at macdonalds o_______O

2007-11-20T12:53:00.000+08:00

I watched 'the kingdom' yesterday! after eating a humongous bowl of la mian at lot one :D so basically i think it was about how america go and take control of saudi arabia's oil resources, causing the saudis to take revenge on them by killing a lot of young innocent children at a baseball match. So then obviously the americans are very angry, and they try to get rid of these terrorists. There are a lot of violence and gory images, I guess thats why its rated nc16 (don't worry nothing to do with sex) But i got past the janitor/ticket collecter who didnt even bother to check the ticket properlyXD (can i be jailed for that? oh oh don't tell anyone ok^^)

On saturday, it was our turn to host the 'monthly gathering' again. It's the kind of gathering when my father's university classmates come together to catch up on each other. Its always very fun, because there never fails to be a lot of junk food:D. After dinner at the maria country club in pungol, we drove back to my condo and the adults began playing cards while me and my friends watch tv and computer games... Time really flew by playing 'wheeeeee catch the purple ball' and 'try to find the five stones hidden around the house', and everyone left around 1 am.

Oh yeah, thank god that russia lost to israel!!!! or else england would be dead meat:)

2007-11-14T12:44:00.000+08:00

I broke yet another piano string today! I feel so proud of myself, assuming that breaking a string means that I have actually made an extra effort to exert force on the key, which I normally do not bother to do. Mostly because its so tiring for the hand and I end up having muscle aches. So I was happily practicing my lizst and enjoying the great emotion of the climax when suddenly there was an excruciating loud snap. I was momentarily stunned, but soon realised that my really really high F string broke. I then told my mother, who was still trying to figure out what made that horrible snap *grins* But I still feel guilty to trouble the piano tuner person once again(considering i broke the last string not long ago). She was probably kind of annoyed, wondering how this person could break so many strings in such a short time:)

So I guess I would have to put up with the horrible creaky out-of-tune F every time I play it for the next few days, but oh wells, who asked the string pian pian want to break itself? >.<

I think I have to miss strings in the next two days because of yst and nyps prize presentation thingy…

2007-11-11T13:50:00.000+08:00

The only adjective I can think of to describe maths camp today would be 'enriching', those kind that were well-planned and are supposed to be fun, but somehow you just can't get all of the algebraic equations, complicated combinatorics and tirgonometry into my pea-sized brain. Unless you can think of another word better to describe that (considering my narrow range of vocab)

I missed the first part of the camp though, which included a training session and a treasure hunt cos I had theory lessons at yst yet again. I was in group 2, with a lot of ri boys whose names I was supposed to remember during a ice breaker game of whacko, however due to the overwhelming amounts of information I was trying to cram into my head, I have long forgotten them. We got 1st in the stations games (yay!) which included hexs, minesweeper, 24, and mastermind. I think that this was the funnest part of the whole camp, considering how the games were interactive and mathematically challenging-_- (partly because we were winningXD, just kidding)

The oral quiz was thrilling too, with a jeopardy thingy and rapid fire. Our group's name was Ouch! greatly due to mastermind alan and the long, lame process of coming up with the name I shall not bother to explain. So when we got the answer, we were supposed to supposed to shout Ouch! I just happy no one was hurt throughout the whole thing ^.^ All the questions were really challenging, and it really tested our ability to think fast with the pressure of some rjc guy counting each second out loud. Though some were really super-duper lame, for example, expand a2-2ab+b2. Answer a2-2ab+b2 a2-2ab+b2 a2-2ab+b2 a2-2ab+b2. ya you get the point.

Overall it went quite well, and I learnt quite a lot, not to mention all the formulas and theorems, but that there are still lots more stuff to learn in mathematics than we probably ever heard of.

2007-11-10T13:58:00.000+08:00

The lunchtime concert at Millenia Walk was...cool. Except that I did not have my tie as I obviously had lost it, much to the reproach of my mother, so I had to borrow from the kind-hearted and generous yunan. She offered to wait for me at the 302 bus stop outside her condo in the morning. So I happily sat on the bus which joyfully rolled past lots of hdb flats while I tried to keep my still sleepy eyes wide open for the bus sign 'regent grove condominium'. Who knows where the bus would take me if had missed my bus stop, so you cannot blame me for my increasing anxiety as the minutes slowly ticked by. Then, I received a call from yunan and she told me that a 302 bus had just zoomed past the bus stop, so naturally I began to panic. But all's well went well, I got there okay, except that the bus bell just refused to ring when I was reaching the bus stop, and the bus driver just ignored my attempts to attract his attention. I ended up in a 100 metre sprint towards yunan, who was obviously furious at all the trouble that I had caused her. *smiles* (in the end, I realised we really didnt need to bring a tie)

We attracted the most amount of people with our concert today, as compared to some tango dance performance yest! as said by the lady organizing the event. It was super hilarious, cos in the middle of my scherzo, some angmoh started clapping (i assume he thought it was the end). I just hope the camera didnt catch me smirking in the middle of my playing XP.

After that, me, june and shanjee went to mac at orchard. The highlight of it was when i tried desperately to teach shanj my method of the rubiks cube, which obviously is much better than hers:) But she just refused to understand my fish and 由method. I guess either I'm a bad teacher or she's a bad student, but most likely the latterXD.

I had piano again at yst after lunch(which i desperately tried to reach at 5, to find that it was actually 6), but this time ms hahn wanted to check scales, yes what else but scales. and broken arpeggios too. So she preached us on how we had to get our shaping and positioning of hands right and how scales were essential to achieve a smooth melodic line. After that my parents picked me up and we went to pizza hut (although it was kind of anticlimax when my dad ordered a seafood pizza with shrimp and fish and olives). note to self: must control high cholestorel diet.

I reached home at 9.30, to find myself on the computer writing this blog.

2007-11-09T13:05:00.000+08:00

Liverpool won 8-0 in the uefa cup! hooray, obviously this is great news for me and other avid Liverpool fans. But considering how they only got 1 point out of the last three games, it'll be a miracle for them to make it to the knockout stages, though I have much faith in them>.< (see i so loyal) My mum was happy too since she also supports Liverpool, but not my dad(he's a manchester united fan). I wonder why so many people like manu so much, like shanj and wingy who kept teasing me about it, I mean a lot of the manu players are so cheatybug, namely..*ahem*christiano ronaldo, and anyway Liverpool players are much more handsome than them:) Although considering liverpool's bad form recently, I've changed to support arsenal (although this does not question my loyalty at all:>), who scored a last minute goal versus manu a few days ago. MUAHAHAHAHA to all manu fans.

Yesterday was a long day. I had piano classes all the way from noon to 10 pm, though I had to miss strings(and leave huiyi all alone without stand partner) First was individual lesson, and Ms Hahn showed me a lot of nice impressionist paintings since I was playing Ravel. She was trying to make me understand that impressionists paintings have no clear boundaries or markings (that was supposed to make me play better). Then, she gave me a long list of impressionist painters like monet, van gogh, pisarro and others I can't remember. After that was four hands class, where I played this really famous brahms hungarian rhapsody which tune I cannot sing right now. (it goes C#F#A F# E#F#G#F#) In the studio class from 8-10, I played two pieces, after which I heard Ms Hahn say bravura! and started asking if anyone knew the origin of the word, which of course no one knew -_-''

p.s. i watched 'the game plan' today! it was SOOO touching I cried ten times throughout the whole movie T_T. and the man had super big muscles:)

Holiday

2007-11-06T14:08:00.000+08:00

The holidays are finally here! Now that all the burden of exams and homework has finally lifted its merciless hands, I now have the chance to just sit back, and relax.

It's a nice feeling to wake up when the sun is already high up in the sky, and being able to get out of bed without the dreadful feeling in your gut that you are going to be late for school, as compared to the frenzied rush to pack your bag and eat a hurried breakfast just to reach there before the bell rings. I get to eat pancakes from Mcdonalds breakfast instead of two pieces of bread with peanut butter, which never fails to make my throat feel so dry that I have to gulp down tons of strawberry milk. I can do whatever I wish without having the feeling that I'm going get a scolding from a teacher for misdoings or a booking from a prefect for not abiding by the school rules. I can eat anywhere I want outside the canteen, sleep anytime I want outside lesson time, and use my handphone anytime I wish, not necessarily after school in the foyer. I can jolly well pop up at a shopping centre or watch a movie at the cinema without feeling the guilt that I should be doing my homework or studying for exams. All that, is over,

On the other hand, besides homework, exams and school rules, there is still one thing left that stops me from breathing with ease--piano. (although I do admit that practising scales and certain passages over and over again on the piano is slightly better than trying to squeeze maths formulas or biology terms into my oversized head =) I dedicate almost 10 hours of my time per week at yst, with individual lessons, studio classes, theory lessons and four hands classes, which are the utmost..*ahem* time-consuming. Everytime I try to pass time practising there, I almost always end up searching frantically for an empty practise room. (although there was one time i occupied an entire large ensemble room just for myself and no one could use it. heh.) But I guess it all ends up with the satisfaction that you get when you finally hit a note correctly that your finger just refused to hit before, or just when the sound finally comes out the way you want it to, after many desperate but futile attempts to do so.

Well, they always say, things just have a way of handling themselves, let's wait and see how the holidays will turn out for me..