Wednesday, February 10, 2010
i just finished writing the essay for the application for the music elective scholarship, phew. well actually it was more of editing the content of my testimonial from secondary school that i prepared haha. anyway, i really hope i get granted the scholarship! so many things can be done with $1000 manz seriously.
today was my first music lesson, and i must say it was enlightening(: haha not only on the knowledge of the A level syllabus, but also about the tj culture. all the nine selected mep students played at least 2 instruments each. i felt kind of hesitant to say tt i could play violin as well because in fact i have only been learning it for 2-3 months.. LOL. some of them could even play 4 instruments and that is really quite impressive. ms chew seems a nice teacher too, at least responsible enough (: she says that this year the mep students might be going for a trip to russia. this got me damn excited man haha! anyway, we have 4 guys, 5 girls. nice mix(:
i feel like im on a roller coaster ride, only that there're no plunges, only continuous positive gradients:D
Tj lectures are really cool i love them. even though some may say it's easier to fall asleep in a huge classroom setting where everyone is given much less attention. i beg to differ, in fact i feel more awake with knowledge of the fact that i'll miss out so much if i even dare to stop paying attention for a minute. economics and literature lectures are the best so far, i really like the theories of economics, they are so logical and goddamn easy. literature does makes me think alot and it feels really good to just let ur imagination flow.
ohboy, i feel like im having the time of my life. THIS is the kind of study life i want! :D
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 12:31 AM
Saturday, February 6, 2010
so many things have been going on recently that i dont know what to write about first.
Orientation X was a blast, undeniably. especially the mass dances:D haha i dont know why i enjoy dancing in crowds so much man. although i definitely have to say that the first day wasnt really quite a tasteful one. i felt worse than shit when i knew that vjc doesnt offer music. (okay, i've talked about this mils of times but still.) honestly the feeling is even worse than not being able to enter the jc that you want OR even the feeling of getting back horrible results. it was like being robbed of something that was so precious and so rightfully mine. and i think this is perhaps the first time in my life i've made such an important decision by and for myself.
1st option: remain in vj arts and take another arts subject besides music. that means either china studies/art/theatre studies & drama/geog/hist.
2nd option:transfer to tj arts to take music.
which one would you choose if you were me?
to me, the subject of pursuit definitely triumphs over the school of prestige.
and let me tell you also that it is freaking intimidating to be in a state of uncertainity, especially when it concerns your future. i never ever want to be in that situation again.
2nd day was slightly better, although i felt extremely weird when i stepped into the auditorium/hall. it felt weirder to see my other secondary schoolmates and have them asking me why i transferred. needless to say irritating, to have them criticise or complain about my decision in changing school, saying it's so wasted and all that. i mean, would you rather i stayed in a prestigious school but suffer by having to take subjects that are unfamiliar to me/that i have completely zero interest in? and yea, tj's uniform is ugly, but i think i can sacrifice wearing an ugly uniform for two years rather than my A lvl results. okay to be frank i cannot really remmber what happened on the 2nd day except that i ordered my uniforms and went for literature lecture and sat for the music test in the afternoon.
as far as my memory prides me we had wet games on the 3rd day. those were REALLY cool especially the one on the stadium tracks. strategy, teamwork, accuracy and luck were required in equal proportions for this game and that really made it fun:D i wasnt quite as enthu for the cheers because of my dampened mood that lasted a few days and also because of my unfamiliarity with the weird cheers. (i mean, shabuya sha sha? like, huh?) and i got terribly sunburnt especially on the cheek and nose region. we also had to start planning on the items to be auditioned on wednesday and subsequently, if selected, be performed on O night. they included the TalentNight segment and the OG performance. and being an unfortunate member of the performing arts, i got dragged to the TalentNight segment :\ we finally decided on doing Innocence by Avril Lavigne and i was supposed to play keyboard. ok before i go on let me declare that my playing really really was misunderstandably screwed up. SOMEONE in particular even pointed out that OH SHIT we're performing next and your chords are always wrong! What an encouraging comment to be made just a minute before our turn to perform. okay whatever i know i deserved it yeah. oh and i had the mep performing audition. learnt two more new friends who are trying for mep as well and i think they're really nice people(: and talented too, of course. met zhenyi with kahsuan at century square for dinner and i think we had a nice time catching up with each other(:
i should really get my head into trying to learn how to improvise.
4th day of orientation was amazing race and it was the most un-rushed, relaxed and slacky amaznig race i've ever participated in. LOL i cannot believe we could still stop to buy bubble tea before we barely reached the mrt station. the games were fun on the overall but somehow i wished it would start pouring haha. :P the weather was cruelly scorching.
5th day of orientation - i could only remember myself screwing up the auditions in the afternoon and getting even more sunburnt from being exposed to the sun again.
thursday and friday are definitely the BEST days of the whole orientation period.:D dancing around the fountain of wealth in suntec definitely made me super high and crazy, jumping around like a madwoman. i screwed up the couple dance though :( kept having to look at other people to see what they were dancing before i could recall the steps LOL. nevertheless, laughing at my own stupidity was unmistakenably ENJOYABLE. it wasnt long before all of us got flooded and i mean literally so. we were drenched from head to toe by the unpredictable fountain. training around the fountain and slapping people's hands feeling like u're some celebrity was super fun too:D friday was no less awesome, we actually had a real-live pop concert right in our school hall haha it was like in a disco just that the disco ball wasnt there;) i learnt a new vocabulary from shannen: mosh. that is, to bang your head crazily in the air and jump hysterically with your fist punching above your head. haha, or that's what i assumed it meant. the entire hall was dark except the stage and almost everyone was jumping around madly. im a proud mad mosher:D oh and the best thing of all is that XEIA IS CHAMPION HOUSE! we actually bagged first prizes in the X photo competition, the Talent Night segment AND the OG performance! LOl im so proud of myself to actually be in the winning house! :D then cheered like mad and jumped around somemore. and i think i lost a bit of weight too haha;D oh ya and our shabuya cheer never fails to crack me up. i think the change of pitch from girls to guys is so DAMN HILARIOUS. :DDD
haha and im actually such an appreciative and grateful person that i actually cared to count my blessings! ;D i have seven nice ones so far. hahaha dont call me crazy.
i think my standard of writing has deteriorated like about 70%. :( just compare this post to one of my posts a year ago :( this post is totally incoherent.
THOU SHALL WORK HARD THIS YEAR, AND EVEN HARDER THE NEXT. THOU DO NOT WANT TO ACHIEVE LOUSY RESULTS LIKE WHAT THOU HAS GOTTEN FOR Os.
oh yes one more thing: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE TELL ME HOW COOL IT IS TO TAKE MUSIC FOR A LEVELS:D
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 11:33 PM
Sunday, January 31, 2010
VJC SCAMMED ME BY SAYING THEY WOULD OFFER MUSIC WHEN THEY DO NOT.
sacrifices, i believe, are part and parcel of the cruelty of life.
this time, im really making a huge sacrifice to feed my passion.
i know it will be worth it. i'll put in 200% to ensure i get an A for H2 music and a distinction for H3.
and i'll always be FOR VJ.
VJ POWER.:D
nothing you say can dissuade me from taking music. u can't tell me it's not worth it to study it. who are you to say so, anyway. let me tell you that Vj might be my dream, but music's an even bigger one. oh and speaking of this, the mep aptitude test was really difficult. i thought the test would only be half an hour but in the end it was 2 hours. !!! we also had to write an essay on bela bartok which im totally ??? about, and finish up about 6 bars of haydn's string quartet (following only 6 bars) ON OUR OWN.
do you really think i cant sense it when you're mistakenably angry with me? im not stupid, you know. i've had enough of your ridiculous and illogical over-sensitivity. just seriously cant understand what's in your head man. cant stand the way you over-complicate things when actly nothing is going on at all.
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 9:02 AM
Monday, January 25, 2010
today has been another really really fabulous day, i think it was even better than the picnic day on 1st jan hahaha. again, the gilas went out, and this time to safra tampines(:
i think what makes it so fulfilling and optimistic to know is that no matter what happens to us, the six of us will still be the very very best of friends, and no grudges will be held. true colours has really been a rewarding game, at least for me. not only did i learn more about myself, i also found out what the rest of the gilas have been thinking of me all this while. and it was enlightening in a very positive light. (: i think im the one with the hugest ego in our group lah. :P there seemed to be so little time for us to spend together! express-it guess-it was a very entertaining game also, especially with qianru being the main comedian there. LOL all of us were thrown off guard every time she performed (: *YOU~ THE APPLE OF MY EYE~~* haha seriously damn funny, im laughing while i type this! bowling at orchid bowl was fun too, even though my score was not in the least impressive :( ahaha but it was okay, me and cherlene totally got mixed up with our names and lanes, in the end we just anyhow played around with them :P heehee and joscelin you dont know how bad i feel for having to hope that your ball goes gutter, cos i seriously dont wanna be the last! LOL really sorry and i know you wont mind. (:
and yes, cherlene, i admit i was sad during the hug, but we will definitely meet each other again, soon and frequently! :DD seriously, i think this will be the most encouraging and driving factor that will push all of us through jc life and push us to greater heights, to attain even better results.(: haha at least for me, i know i really need to put in so much more effort and determination.
LOVE THE GILAS! you girls make my life so much more colourful, really.
sorry, but now i need to feed my obsession.(:
ahh~ im going to die already.
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 9:29 PM
Sunday, January 24, 2010
he's still freaking sexy.
don't call me a sicko.
at least i gave him clothes to wear.
:D
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 1:12 PM
weird, whenever i log into blogger i totally forget what i wanted to blog earlier on. haha anyway, yesterday i went clothes shopping for CNY with mum and eve, and i felt so bad cos like always, i spend more than necessary. bought two astriel tops and a polka dot design skirt. hahaha and eve bought a pretty green&brown number for only $11.70! and im the proud spotter of the amazing deal. :D can't wait for Chinese new year to come, this year's new year feels like its going to be the best new year of all my life, cos there's so little studying/ homework to worry about not doing. LOL. and its a bonus that Vday falls on 初一also, i can die waiting to watch Valentines' Day with the babes/gilas. HAHAHA i still think its a hilarious name.:D
yay yay im so glad everything just falls into place nicely, perfectly(:
memoirs of a geisha contains so much emotional stringing, i feel like i dont have enough capacity to take it all in. but it's still a very very good book, no matter.(:
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 12:20 PM
Saturday, January 23, 2010
i'm really really happy for the way things turn out in the end for me, and i cant express it further than to say thankyou so much to the beloved 5 of you(: right now im feeling so inspired i totally feel like composing a piano ballad specially for you five:D
as far as im concerned, every minute of my time in 2010 has been spent and enjoyed very fruitfully. :D this year, many more things, than in the past, will stay private for me.
i think im really in love with taylor lautner. help!
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 12:58 AM
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
maybe it's better for you if you shutup, growup, and think twice about saying anything.
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 9:58 PM
Monday, January 11, 2010
alright, dont bother to ask me about my results. they're totally not impressive at all. i didn't manage to improve them from my preliminaries, though neither did they deteriorate.
im extremely pissed off with my english grade. seriously, i dont understand how i could have gotten a stupid b3 grade when i've been getting a1 all along. and those chinese scholars can actually manage to get a1s, cant understand what they do to get them! ugh, im so freaking pissed off, and on top of that, i felt like i seriously let mrs g down :( i really wish i could retake english, if that was possible, and i would be 75% sure i can do better than a b3. i know i cant do anything about my eng grade now, and it's quite mindless to keep mulling over it.
even though mum says my O level results reflect consistency and at least, my l1r5 beats getting some lousy number like above 10, i still feel i could have done better. not to mention my english, if one of my sciences had managed to scrape an a1, my name would totally be on the roll! and i'd get to stand in front of everybody and have them clap for me :D ahahaah yes, im desperate for people to clap :D seriously, i'd rather i get a1,a2,b3 for the three sciences instead of all a2s. at least my name would be on the roll!!! omg, the feelings of pride, joy and glory all bundled into one victorious feeling that i crave for so much :(
congrats to weiqian (you pro woman! :D), yujun, joscelin, cherilynn, zihuan, wayne, marc. i feel happy for all of you from the bottom of my heart :D
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 11:18 PM
Thursday, January 7, 2010
under the request of qianru, i shall complete this quiz haha.
2009: In the beginning
Where did you bring in the New Year?: my house, watching the new year countdown on tv. haha it happens every year.
Who were you with?: My family
Did you kiss anyone at midnight?: er, no.
Did you make any resolutions?: yes, but didnt exactly fulfill all of them :( esp the reading on, i only read 15 books last year :(
2009: Your love life
Did you break up with anyone?: No. No relationships in the crucial year, please.
Did you get anything for Valentine’s day?: Of course, i was quite intrigued by black pepper and lemon chocolate too!
Did you meet anyone special?: hmm, not really.
Did you fall in love?: TL TL!:D
2009: Friends and enemies
Did you meet any new friends this year?: Definitely, at student camp:)
Did any of your friendships end?: I would guess.. fade off, not end?
Did you dislike anyone?: obviously..
Did you make any new enemies?: yes, definitely.
Did you resolve any fights?: IHAHA. the word fights sounds so childish. yes of course! resolvations are part and parcel of life, arent they...
Who was your closest friend?: Jos, Cher, Cheri, Jo, QR! :D we study, work and play together! :DD
Did you have a cake?: Quite many in fact, for different occasions LOL.
What did you do for your birthday?: This is easy. i had my O level higher music practical exam.
Did you have a party?: Nope, definitely not in the midst of O levels... :(
Did you get any presents?: duh.
If so what was the best thing you got?: haha of course the 2 dresses from the girls.
2009: All about you
Did you change at all this year?: Character-wise, definitely.
Did you dye your hair?: wanted to after O levels but decided that it was too expensive D:
Did you get your hair cut?: Yea, twice haha.
Did you change your style?: By about 90degrees.
Were you in school?: spent a great deal of time in there with stupid emotional spurts.
Did you get good grades?: They only picked up the last half of the year, but i could have done better.
Did you have a job?: Yup! Data entry! type type type:D
Do you drive?: i wish i could! but this year the driving age has been upped to 21 D:
Did you own a car?: Nope.
Did anyone close to you give birth?: Ditto.
Did you move at all?: Didnt move house, but otherwise, what an unneccessary question.
Did you go on any vacations? HAHA THE GREAT BIG BANGKOK SHOPPING TRIP!
Would you change anything about yourself now? yea, i desperately want better skin! D:
2009: Wrap up
Is 2009 a good year?: Yes, on the overall.
Was it a naughty year? i guess not.
Did 2009 bring any new insights?: YES OF COURSE. i learnt so, so much last year.
Do you think 2010 will top 2009?: yupp, i've a positive feeling about this year being so much better for me, being in a new environment, meeting new people, feeling comfortable about being just myself...
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Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 11:28 PM
Saturday, January 2, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010! (:
yesterday's picnic and ice-skating was fantabulous! haha i totally love the photos we took even though they are not all perfect LOL! haha and i wont forget these group of besties manz! gonna upload my photos on facebook as well but the system is kind of slow and it's making me really impatient haha. i honestly enjoyed the evening's confessions with you girls! glad i got THAT off my chest haha.
going to cafe cartel (yvonne's workplace) with mabel, shurui and liling tmr to celebrate mabel's birthday which is supposed to be next saturday. haha, i havent seen them since the end of O levels.
feel like saying something i shouldnt, but i'll keep it in myself for a while first.
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 1:14 PM
Sunday, December 27, 2009
oh man, i feel so bad for not blogging for so long.. :( haha the recent numerous events have made me really heady! :D
prom was a fabulous event, i couldnt' imagine it being any better (excluding the not-up-to-standard entertainment), haha. i loved the atmosphere! everyone was so well-dressed and different, enthusiastic about taking photos, paying compliments etc. time seemed to fly past so quickly, and that was sad. and unfortunately i was half an hour late too due to work, so that gave me even less time to take photos and gaze around at the crowd :( i only took 100 photos in total, could have taken more if i came earlier ugh. but i still felt that $76 was a tad too high a price to pay..
i think work has just gotten better and better working with joscelin! :D hahaha we even completed 270 entries on wednesday! yay yay i feel we're so amazing:D and no, i don't think there's any form of conflict between us :p
realised i havent mentioned about my overseas trip this time. haha i went to bangkok this nov 09 for shopping, and only SHOPPING! haha i think platinum mall is seriously a GREAT GREAT GREAT place to shop manz! it's something like bugis street just that it's air-conditioned, has 7 stories including a damn big food court upstairs and the apparels are so much more presentable and inexpensive:D the plus point is that it's just next to the hotel we lodged in, so that made shopping a lot more convenient(: i will definitely recommend this mall for crazy shoppies LOL. the varieties are unlimited too. and don't worry about having not enough things to see cos one level will already take you 3 full hours. i wish i could go back there again!!
the next thing that is worthy of praise & recommendation about bangkok is the body massage. it was my first time going for a massage and i have to say it's really shiok! HAHAHA, really felt great after it. the most comfortable was the hamstring press, most itchy was front thigh and most painful was back-pounding :O haha the rest was fine. i think the girl who did the massage for me was so pretty! :D hha i wanted to take a photo with her but mum didn't allow :(
ok now for the not-so-nice part of bangkok city. the TRAFFIC. it's really bad, there are jams everywhere almost throughout the whole day! D: and the taxi drivers are also quite uncouth. if they hear that the place you're going would cause them to be stuck in a jam, they'll actually refuse you and drive off. mum says in sg if a taxi driver does that to you, you can actually lodge a complaint against them. the only thing you can do to persuade them to fetch you is to give them a nice monetary offer. which is usually around $8. and not to mention the amount of air pollution there is in the city, ugh! the tuktuks really do leave a black trail of soot air behind them. yup, that's just about all of the unpleasant stuff in bangkok!
应该到时候用华文抒写了。哈哈，我到现在觉得写华文字还是有点怪怪的。:P 上个星期天我和小学同班同学去了marina barage 吃野餐`放风筝。虽然我因为有钢琴班而只能陪他们两小时（真是遗憾！），但我还是觉得非常庆幸能与他们分享美好时光:D 多亏eileen 想到了这个好主意，而manfung不遗余力地招人来参加，才会有这么好的反映(: 那天天气也非常好，没有下雨。
this year for xmas my family (5 of us) had 3 dinners altogether :P 1st was on 23rd, at ritz carlton hotel. 2nd was on xmas eve, at waraku katong. the set was so filling i couldn't finish my beef stew :P i love the teriyaki chicken pizza! omg so tasty:D yay but the yuki white wine was seriously bad haha. maybe i should have taken red wine instead. 3rd dinner was at earle swensens at terminal 3. haha it was kind of a last min decision. i had jumbo chicken frank, and it was humongous. :P the wedges were nice though.
xmas day this year was fun, i started off the day at church. haha it was my first time in church on xmas day, and when reverend low asked for newcomers viven totally took my hand and raised it high! :\ so paiseh, made everyone clap for me :P haha lol i think i went red immediately. but the people at church were really nice, they were so welcoming and their well-wishes were so sincere. :) even those people i didnt know before talked to me like we were old friends. singspiration of xmas carols were nice and spiritually uplifting too, i think the drummer plays the drums really well! :D was kind of amazed the way his hands coordinated haha. after that i had lunch with vivien at spaggeddies in bedok haha. was actually my first time trying that restaurant. i was also shocked to find how empty it was D: there was only one more family besides us in the restaurant! i ordered baked penne and she ordered spagghetti with ham & sausage. couldnt finish the sauce manz, it was so filling! and im gonna become a big fat pig in no time D: anyway, we talked for a while and then parted, cos she had to join her cell group in some more crazy activities they had :P i then went to buy the pair of flats in modo paulo i've been eyeing haha. couldnt take the temptation already, so i just treated it as my xmas present to myself + the reward to myself for work! :D
had a family buffet at home yesterday! it was quite fun playing cards with eve and the girls :D especially Jack. haha i was so used to playing mosquito without hitting the Jack card that i kept missing out on them. :P i lost the first round :( haha second round wasn't even finished lah. so that sort of made me the laggest. D: LOL but i think we played until very crazy. bridge was damn hilarious too, made me feel so stupid. clarice was so FUNNNY! yea yea, im sneaky, eve's scheming.:D the best part was the pinnata, i didn't expect it to involve everyone lol. it's those kind of large animal you hang to the ceiling in a party, and someone gets blindfolded and has to hit it LOL. but we didn't do the blindfolding haha, everyone had a shot at it starting from the oldest. we were so afraid something would happen when 10th uncle was having his shot at it. turned out he was only acting :p mum used alot of force causing a loud bang HAHA. but the best was meng meng gu, she hit the santa until the head tore off from the neck WAHAHA. it was damn hilarious, i think i laughed until i got drunk. oh yeah, i had a glass of white long flat and it was so NICE, didn't have chance to have a second helping cos it was so popular! then after that cousin nora made a concoction of beer and fruit punch, it actually tasted nice:D but candice was being so nice to say that it actually looked like vomit HAHA. yes, totally influenced our mood to drink. :p
haven't been posting up photos here because they're all on facebook:P haha, i find fb photo albums really convenient to use!
THIS YEAR HAS TOTALLY BEEN AN AWESOME YEAR:D HAPPY NEW YEAR, HUNKS & BABES! :DDD
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 11:53 AM
Sunday, December 13, 2009
sadly, i've been blogging less and less often now cos facebook is just too convenient to use. i'll try my best, though! it doesn't help with the fact that my blog is so dead either...
work has been great so far even though on friday we were wrongly accused by the boss's daughter about some trivial stuff. haha first time i saw joscelin lose her cool. but it was made up by the constant laughing till our stomachs ached. shall try to talk more to ahem on facebook tmr night LOL.we shall laugh our heads off again on monday! :D :D
violin lessons are manageable and enjoyable so far, just that during the full bow movements my fingers sometimes slip out of position haha. the pressing of strings and changing strings are okay for me (: the teacher is very friendly too! i love it when she says i learn very quickly WAHHAHA. lol, 45 mins seem a bit too short for a lesson!
got a date with the girls again on New Year's Day! this time we're going to marina baraage to have a picnic/kite-flying session and then ice-skating at kalling afterwards! cant wait hahaha my first time doing these three things:D
right now i cant wait for christmas and new year, where all the celebrations are on. this year shall end off on high spirits(:
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 12:49 AM
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
omg, im so bored. i came back from a job interview at hei sushi with qianru just now, really hope i'll be selected. at least it beat slacking around at home, alternating between playing piano,violin,yangqin, reading novels, watching tv...
oh my god cherlene just called to tell me that her company is offering data entry as a job opportunity!! ah!!! THANKS A MILLION CHERLENE!!! :D :D omg omg. i'll be starting work tmr. cant wait cant wait! haha i obviously cant contain my excitement! i shall go choose my clothes for tmr now hahahaha!
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 2:25 PM
Monday, December 7, 2009
i really dont know what to comment on my life right now. i'm like sailing in a little boat in the deep blue sea roaming around without any direction. everyday, day in day out, i'm looking for jobs on jobstreet, making enquiry calls, going for interviews/training, but without any result. i guess i really decided to find a job too late. all of them are snapped up long ago. i really do want a job and i need the experience badly. all those jobs out there look for so many qualifications and years of experience, of which i can't identify with.
今天面试完后，陪了妹妹去淡滨尼广场看新出的电影New Moon. 电影的结尾好烂哦！虽然书本读起来的确有点拖泥带水，但我认为电影漏掉的细节简直太多太多了！因此，看书还是比较划算，不管是时间上或金钱上。哈哈。我甚至认为在考完O水准考试后陪大姐看的那部jennifer's body还比较好看呢。虽然那部有点垃圾样。其实，那是我看的第一部NC16的电影，呵呵。。。
lol i know this is so weird, blogging in english and chinese at the same time. but i shall try my best to keep myself as bilingual as possible, although chinese is definitely my weaker linguistic medium. and i dont think i'll be studying chinese any more in jc, so all the more i should put in effort to maintain my embarassing level of proficiency. even though i really rejoice over the fact that i don't have to write another stupid lengthy 报章报道... hahaha.
shall post at least three sentences of chinese everyday!
Dora Chan ate a strawberry at 10:52 PM
he's still freaking sexy.