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tralalaa. i can smell the weird stench of burnt ashes. is it because it's vesak day today? today i spent 4 hours studying chemistry and geog. i should have gone for the HSBC tree top walk with my dad and my sister.
oh speaking of my sister, SMU law called her yesterday and she's been accepted. thing is, the students who were successful for SMU law were also successful candidates for NUS law, so there was a deficit of students for SMU. =] yeah. and i'm starting to feel the heat. my mom keeps pestering (ok i should not use pester. it sounds like she's a rat). OK She keeps asking me if i know which faculty i wanna be in if i get into university. wait- you see, i can't even guarantee myself there in university considering that there's such strong competition. =[ arts and social science? i ask myself if that's really what i wanna do. i have the passion for a subject like geography (man but studying it is so painful haha) and even for economics - i do like econs alot! =]
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yestArday was sucha rockin' dayyyyyy.
i'm typing in a texas accent and since i've already failed hopelessly, let's get back to normal english.
ok firstly the soccer match was great though RJC emerged victorious, after that 52nd minute score. and i realised alot of their players are from china. what's this man. haha OK. although we are disappointed, i really felt the spirit and the camaraderie and the meridian might. i swear we were at least 4.7 times louder than RJC (that's because the whole school went down). though it was a heart-wrenching experience, both teams deserved to win, and i guess it was a matter of fate and it's ok, God's grace. there's always next year.. =]
in fact in a soccer match it's that easy to make it or break it, simply because there are only 2 teams playing and each team has a 50% probability of winning - and that other chance of losing is also 50%. so MJC SOCCER WAS FANTASTIC. and RJ played well too, with their aggressive foray. but kenneth said many of the rafflesians wrote off their school right from the start, so they should be feeling sour that they won?
ok enough said of soccer. choir concert was great - not professional, but it was more like an entertaining show with colourful costumes and dazzling make-up. and more like a musical towards the end. we cheered like mad when TK CHOIR came on stage - i LOVEE TK CHOIR. AHS choir was excellent also, i thought their altos were very strong. i was forseeing that the secondary school choirs would outshine the main lead.i did feel that in my heart (which is perhaps because i am not being very objective here. but that because i have been in both TK and MJ choir so i can be objective about it) yeayyay i'm so proud of being a tk'sian.
but i felt kind of lost and sad, and i pondered on why i quitted choir. i love singing, but i guess staying in MJ choir would have given me not just reluctant tempers to enter the choir room, but also sleepless nights trying to rush homework,scoldings from my parents and failing grades. i was so so so so glad to see those bunch of old people again. after the concert ended we formed our own chamber choir, singing gloriously outside VCH. recollecting those triumphant moments ( wait, we are still victorious what)
we caught the last train home after running 240m from VCH to raffles place mrt. we gripped each others' hands tightly, gave that warm and comfortable hug after the night was over, and it was a memory to remember.
i'm glad God gave me a chance to see those old faces again, because they never change and we'll still be great friends forever. i'm glad i still have huiqi in my class, and i really treasure her presence.
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today was a day of conflict. not in terms of physical conflict (unless you're talking about colossuem). it was a day of mental conflict, bagged with emotions, tears and tissue. i really didn't expect the day to turn out like this, especaially when everything came at a go, so sudden, so abrupt, so shocking.
it all started out when our goeog tutorial ended, and mrs chua wanted to make an announcement. we innocently thought she was going to comment on our mid year content. in her usual, gentle voice, she deadpanned,"i'm not going to teach you all anymore".
sarene and i stared at each other with a look of disbelief written on her face. that sentence resonated around the usual quiet geog room. that thought zapped through my brain left right right left. did my pair of ears just failed me?
no, i wasn't living in delusion, i wasn't wading in a river of oblivion. we were sunk into immediate depression - and it meant REALITY. so mrs chua's not going to be our CT anymore, because she's going to DHS to teach. i felt like i was pushed down a cliff, then being bounced back to reality, with scars all over my body. with a broken ankle. sarene was crying, i was crying, jaime and OYC was on the verge of tears. blue funk.
why would i even have been so downcast by this piece of news? it wouldn't have been so bad if it was like oh, if that came out from mr gua's mouth.(though i would be a little sad coz we won't be able to bully him) that sense of attachment to mrs chua was rigid, was tenacious. she was a convincing lady, influential in making us feel that we were really essential and important to her. she never judged us by our academic results, she was never a pendantic-oriented teacher unlike some others who look down on you just because you produced mediocre grades. she never did entice us with any goodies like chocolates for us to do well in tests, but that human touch - that distinct respect she had for everyone of us. that's why she garnered so much respect from every student in 501. her greatest attribute would be that she's kind, she gave us zealous love, and she bothered to know how u felt about eveything.
she was a part of our lives in school, and seeing her cheerful smile in the morning was one of those things she made me look forward to in MJ.
i felt like it was history slamming back into my face, a piece of news God wanted me to swallow without even gracing me with time to chew it and mix it with my saliva and let it slide down my oesophagus and let it settle happily and comfortably in my tummy. i had to accept it that hastily, still feeling absurd about what was given to me. it was a flim, a flim with its content fast fowarding in the opposite direction. when dorea left MJ for TJ, it was such a "fast fact" that i had to accept, and now THIS. i'm not disgruntled with God or at anyone or for everything that's happening, but it's the momenteum that's freaky.
OK. at least we once had her in our lives, and we shouln't be too greedy. stop being emo, can?
colossuem was fun, sarene yanying and i had fun walking round the school and we cheered madly for the she-man, the race horse like jonathan and OYC whose great sportsmanship got him a medal for dance. YAY! =] perkafe was busy today. and we earnt money. congrats to huiqi - MARKETING DIRECTOR! HAYDEN - OP MANAGER!
choir concert and soccer finals tmr. =]
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i come from the best secondary school choir in singapore.
i mean it. i really do.
we were the only secondary school choir to get 90 points and above for this year's SYF.
ok. we are second to VJC choir. (hey really ok, tk choir is ranked second when all e results for e schools are put together.
yah i'm very proud. of course, at least i have something to be proud about if anyone thinks i'm being very shittily arrogant. i love that hoity-toity feeling.
go tk choir =] see you on thurdsay!!!!!thanks huiqi and zhengjun for making my day!!!!!!
and i'm feeling the heat. the phlegm is rising up and my nose is itchy. i feel like getting a chopper to slice off my nose since it's been leaking non stop. i need a plumber. someone bring out yellow pages and flip to the correct page so i can pick up the phone and call for assistance. and i have a math test tomorrow.
it's ok. any day is good with God.
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i just read faith's blog, when she posted on the 8th of may. i really felt tears coming close to me beady eyes. i really miss the roachie toilets without door knobs, i really miss choir (faith!!raisin! wanjing!), i really miss sam and cheryl, i really miss 4C's ruhui, dorea,rachel. em, lilian, michelle (luckily they are in MJ). i really miss mr wee and his weird antics, i really miss mr kang, mrs chee. and sorry to say, even mr teo and his bull's eye. i really miss struggling inn physics.
i think evan's right. i do have a positive take on the future, but i am unwilling to let go of the past.
absence makes the heart grow fonder.
i think we shouldn't take things for granted.
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athens, greece.
NEW HOBBY OF MINE = looking for nice beautiful pictures online. YAY! i would like to pursue photography next time if i have the financial backing. haha. any sponsors?
and yeah, so sister didn't get through the SMU law course selection,but she got an offer for double degree from SMU for accountancy and business management. i woner if you'll end up learning less of each degree. haven't heard from NUS law, medicne and dentistry, but i guess her chances aren't high, at all.
at least she has the chance to pursue double degree what, i don't even know where i'm heading towards now.
i hope i'm not losing engine power.
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i really like this picture. there's always a moment to pause and care for the people we love in this fast paced world. see the 3 candles projected on the building? somewhere in america, in memory of the 2004 tsunami victims..
today we spent 15 minutes running our 2.4 in the rain. luckily it was only a trial run. haha and to think i had to answer nature's call in my 4th round.nehahaha.
mrs chua showed us a volcanoes video and it's WAYYYYY too cool! =] i can't imagine people living in harmony with environmental hazards like e/qs and volcanoes and lava flows and tephra and all those man. i love geog. it's so relevant, be it human or physical. and later on there's gonna be economic geog. i guess it's important to love what you're studying. especially GEOG wahhhaha. i wonder if anyone loves chemistry? =/ it's so factual. ( as if geog isn't factual)
wait. mrs chua just told us there's gonna be 4 DRQS and 2 essays for our mid year goeg, which is 3 hours long. so we're just gonna sit there and write till our veins crack for 3 hours. that's like a twelth of a 2.4 run. and she told us we only have a month to go (!!!!!!!!!!!) and we better start studying. studying for MID YEAR. and we had goal setting for compass today. wheeoooowooo. given that our class has got HCM, i think we are quite ready to study.
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today was hilarious.
after having our house nomintations and after the national anthem was played. this particular huge teacher who's the teacher in charge for chest club (chairperson sommore) came up to the row of 501 girls and she hollered " this class!! the girls have such short skirts!! can see your panties already!!!!go alter!"
and we just burst out in gaffaws after nodding our heads, sniggering at her at the same time. she's just so bloody funny lah. LIKE HELLO WE ARE SO MODEL STUDENT-ISH!! go take a look at this particular JC in the east. huiqi mentioned she'll be so shocked at the girls and she'll scream "WHEYYEEE ARE YOU ALL NOT WEARING SKIRTS???$!?$ I CANT SEE THEM!!" yeah she must be blind. she doesnt take chemistry you see so she doesn't understand whats parallex error. you know skirts look shorter from behind, due to the positioning of the knee.
so for the first 15 minutes of the geog tutorial we were complaining about miss H to mrs chua. mrs chua is such a nice cuddly bear like teacher so she was really patient with our whining. haha anyway this can be the joke of the year man. but thanks to miss H, we managed to think of s0me brilliant ideas for ground breakers, the PW topic.
target audience? MISS H.
ok. the 501 people will know about this funny woman.
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