photos from the past one and a half years and graduation day! :)

the many memories we had as a class over the past one and a half years! thank you SA1. while at one point of time i hated my class, i totally love it now. totally love it! :) had a blast on graduation! :)

we celebrated rophi's birthday on wednesday. ling and i tricked her into saying we were having dinner with miss toh. heh. smart eh. we ate at manhattan fish market. it's pretty much like fish and co, while prices are cheaper, i still prefer fish and co. ling and i shared the platter for two. heh. we couldnt finish, too much! advice: sharing it with a guy would have been much better. but there were like 5 guys around, so no trouble finishing up the food. only that we were super duper full after that. thank God we bought a strawberry shortcake. so the cake was very light and we managed to squeeze it into our super full stomachs. and tho i'm not a fan of strawberries, the strawberries in the cake were extremely sweet! :)



Happy birthday rophi! belated...













it's the september holidays! finally!

prelims just finished. and really i've to thank God for bringing and seeing me through those tough times. prelims didnt start off well. in the sense that i guess cause i was feeling stressed and anxious i couldnt sleep at night, or even in the afternoon. had many scary dreams about my prelim results or like brainsstorming on econs and physics questions. yeah! so i was really tired in the mornings. but somehow GOd provides a way out. and He knows exactly what you need, and how much of it you need. like i think there was one chem paper, i was really tired and i really took some time to actually start the first question, longer than i'm supposed to, but after awhile, i became awake and i was alert tru out the entire papaer. once the paper was over, the heavy head came back. yeah it's really amazing! :) and so this went on for like two weeks. yes i was really tired. it came to the point like i was used to not being able to sleep. i screwed up at least two papers. math and physics. but i guess in the sense, it motivated me to study super hard for the next papers. and thank God they were better. so yeah! :) GOd's reallkyy amazing.

after prelims, finally got to go out to catch some movies. up and the proposal. :) and i got to really sleep! :) felt so good! :) so i've been watching my shows and stuff. and now studying again. another two more months, and it's a's alr. time passes so fast, yet so slowly...




friday 31st july.

the day started off horribly. i slept late last night and was super tired this morning. and i kicked up a fuss of not wanting to go to school. honestly school's so boring! :( lectures and tutorials are all revision. so it's just more worksheets and going tru answers. i cant keep up with the worksheets man! hai. so yes i didnt wanna go to school. but in the end i still did.

but school turned out really fun and great. i really thank God for that! physics was exceptionally fun with the quiz thing that mr daniel tay came up with! :) hahas. and then after school, cause blur huiling forgot to take her book, so we brought it down for her with all her worksheets. shuyi and i decided to drop the worksheets down from the 2nd level. and it was so hilarious. you should have seen their faces, classic man! they seriously ran around chasing the papers in the wind, trying to catch them. hilarious! the video's just a short clip of how hilarious it was, pity could catch the facial expressions. lol.

oh yes and we have this family tree thing going on. lol. i'm the youngest, with shuyi as my elder sister. lol. ruirui's our mummy. alicia's the grandmother. vicky's the greatgrandmother. michelle the greatgreatgrandmother. and huiling the great great greatgrandmother. the slower ones at the top of the family tree. heh.

quiet time was great. and GOd once again reassured me and told me of how precious we are in his sight. how while we were worth nothing, made of dust, he chose to place value on us. making us princes and princesses! :) and that's really awesome. we're important and precious in His sight. :)

so i really thank GOd for this wonderful day and how when i was in school, i totally didnt feel tired at all. to the point that only after school did i realise how hyper i was. and thank God for huiling and michelle who always never fails to bring us laughter and joy through their funny actions. lol. :)

Ok I’m finally blogging about guitar. Cause today was guitar farewell. So I’m in the mood. After today, I probably will be too lazy to blog about it. After all, I’ve dragged it over the holidays when I had more time. Heh.

I dare say that my guitar journey started officially last july in 2008. wont count the months from march to june cause I kinda ponned guitar a lot. To me it was like a total waste of time, just joined guitar cause it fit my schedule, and like they got Gold with honours in the previous syf, so probably will do as well, then it’ll look good on my portfolio.

At the beginning, the music pieces weren’t tough, but going tru the practices were much of a torture. So I guess I tried to pon as much as I could. Lol. I was super unethu, not passion, nothing. I guess towards the end of the year it got better. But I went for practices and dec camp cause I knew I had to, cause I didn’t wanna screw up my chance in syf. I guess xmas concert was quite fun. After all, xmas songs makes everyone happy. Love the mood of xmas! Awww! Wish it was here alr and A’s would be over. Digressing…

2009 started off pretty well is supposed. Totally enjoyed cny performance, I guess my first time taking guitar seriously. And then there were like syf auditions and stuff. and so I knew I had to buck up and practice like mad. Cause I would totally regret if I didn’t get into syf. Totally would have wasted my time in guitar. At the same time, the guitar ensemble was like going down down. Complacency I supposed. Everybody thot, even if I didn’t play, somebody else would, so it doesn’t matter. But actually it doesn’t make a huge difference, if everyone played the best. We went tru an entire mad period, which I guess bonded the ensemble more.

Auditioning to get the syf sticked to get into syf was the scariest thing! i mean I knew my stuff, but I could play it perfectly and there were some new fingerings that I didn’t know cause I was in Australia. I was freakin scared and I prayed super super hard! I didn’t think I played well, and mr choo even had to correct my fingerings! Embarrassing! But somehow, by God’s grace I made tru the first time. I was so surprised! And I really thank GOD! From then on, seriously, I practiced hard. And I guess I started enjoying the music we were making, and it evolved some form of passion for guitar. That’s the difference in 2009. that’s what made guitar in 2009 more enjoyable. In 2008, I’m pretty sure I was like dissing guitar during every practice. Poor joy had to put up with my nonsense! Heh.

Syf was a wonderful, first time experience. And winning the Gold made it all more fulfilling. But that was totally by God’s grace. Sure we worked hard and picked ourselves up from the pit, but in many other aspects, we were better by chance. Our combination of pieces was what the judges were looking for. (not that we knew)

Then after syf, the rush to prepare for ‘Glissando’. I had the privilege of being selected as Log i/c. and I think it was the right time. As in previously, I was so against guitar, asking me to serve would be so unwilling and awful. But having gone tru syf and everything else, having some passion, I could serve willingly, giving my hundred percent. If you asked me to do some guitar stuff last year, or even in the beginning of the year, sorry man I would not have done it. I know myself. I need to feel for something, before I can commit, and submit myself to such heavy responsibilities. And the experience was great! Some new that I’ve never done before, so it was challenging and I’ve learnt so many new things about stage management and stuff. very fulfilling. At least I did contribute a bit to my cca, at the very end. Heh.

The guitar journey was not only wonderful because of the various new experiences that I had, but more than ever, it was because of the wonderful friends I had and met on the way. They’re so important, cause they can make something boring so interesting.

acjc guitar ensemble, syf 2009, GOLD

this june holidays has probably been the worst so far in my jc life. cause all the other holidays i've been away, out of the country. i guess it's great that i didnt go out of the country with the h1n1 thing going on. but life got really boring, just trying to study everyday, not to much success i must say. i've barely completed like half of my holiday homework. oh boy.

but today's the second day of school, term 3. honestly, it feels great to be back in school. i wanted to go back to school. and i was right. being back in school, the whole routine has kinda motivated me to get back to the studying and stuff, mainly because i've got work to do, if not i'll be behind in tutorials and stuff, and i totally hate that. so yeah. just getting back into the momentum, tho i dunno how long i'll last. heh.

i've been reading this book, (yeah i'm reading a book! gosh it's been so long since i've read a book), titled: Disappointment with GOd, by philip yancey. seems that many unfortunate things have been happening to people around me. things that seem unfair. and various questions have been bugging me. why does a loving GOd allow such suffering on HIs beloved children? people always talking about how good GOd is, tru the midst of their adversity GOd brought them tru, and in the end, the whole situation ends well. but what if it doesnt? how do we resolve or rather accept such seeming 'unfairness'?

i'm only half way tru the book, so hopefully the book discusses some of these questions. but i've accepted the fact that we're human. and it's not within our human intelligence or understanding, to even come near to comprehending the plans of our Great Almighty God. it's just beyond us, cause He's so great, big, awesome and marvelous. so mean while, i've just got to cont trusting in this great God. after all, being in a relationship with God is all about faith and trusting in an invisible GOd.




i've been really lazy! from blogging to studying. yesh i've to blog about guitar. but it'll be some other time. cause i'm still lazy. anyway a quick update. from mid may, we celebrated shuyi's birthday. lol. it was really quite hilarious that she went to her birthday party in her school uniform. she apparently refused to change. lol. den my classmates were sweet to celebrate my birthday. for all who wished me and celebrated my birthday for me, thank you so much for making my 18th birthday such a memorable one! :)

den we went into term exams. which was madness. oh well. and then holidays, which was when i became really lazy. lol. watched a couple of concerts. ling's harmoc and ac's dance. and we celebrated ep's birthday! :) we got him a swensen's ice-cream cake, which was really good, just hard to cut. heh. and we got him this nice jacket which totally suited his outfit that night! :) and of course you've got to give credit to the people who picked the jacket! hahs. the only disappointing thing was that the service at swensen. it's was so horrible this time round. we repeatedly ask for the cake, plates, etc and they took so freakin long! and i mean we ordered a cake, den obviously we need plates and forks right? enping was so tempted to like go up to the waiter and say: "can i have my birthday cake?" hehe.

photos below, enjoy! :)