fantastic :)

Firstly,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TWINNY!

I had a great day today! Because it was my dear Twinny's birthday! Haha, we wanted to surprise her at her house initially, but because she went to the Temple, our plan was foiled. Therefore, we surprised her at Bishan instead :D Well, at least we managed to surprise her haha.

After that, we proceeded to Orchard and met up with the rest. Went to NYDC for lunch haha. We camwhored like crazy, it was super cool cause we took a total of 160 pictures today!

The guys and girls were sitting opposite each other, so it was like, a xiang qin thingy haha!

And of course, our day was filled with spastic/unglam pics :D

Oh oh, I was fiddling around with Philip's camera. It has this super cool Macro function which allows you to take close-ups of still objects. The photos above show the keychain that my choir angel gave me, nice isn't it!

Guy and girl shots again haha.

And this is our birthday girl with her birthday cake :D


And here are some group shots :)

I had fun today! :D

Musings.

I have only one word for choir practice today; Disappointment.

It really sucked to hear Mr Kwei say that we were 'incompetent'. I was expecting him to blow his top, but surprisingly, he was very patient, and only said that we were 'incompetent'. However, the word 'incompetent' struck me more than anything else. It wouldn't have mattered so much if he had gotten downright angry and screamed at us, but the way he said that we were incompetent, coupled with the fact that the choir was really progressing really slowly, really struck me hard.

I guess that everyone is very relaxed about choir right now because the choir hasn't even settled yet, but I really think that it's time for all of us to pull up our socks. 7 months may be a long time, but we should start trying our best for each and every choir practice from now on. I think most people haven't realised the significance and importance of the Choir of the World Competition. We are VJchoir after all, and we need to prove ourselves. Most people just think that VJchoir are very good, but they fail to see all the hard work that we put in to make the sound good. Plus, the songs this year are quite tough, so we'll really need to do our very best to make good music.

VJchoir is not just all about fun and games, it is also about hard work and determination. And though it may still be early on in the year, we do need to work hard from now on. Mr Kwei's comments today should be a wake-up call for the choir. I personally find that the choir is progressing too slowly too, for eg, we shouldn't be repeating things that Mr Kwei did with us last Saturday, like what happened for Zsoltar today.

I will really try my best from now on, and I hope whoever reads my blog will do the same thing too. Let's all work hard, and make good music together, who knows, we might even get a standing ovation in Wales! That'll be a dream come true for me :D Okay, that's beside the point, but let's all do our best for VJchoir yeah?

No Man is an Island.

determined, or not.

The problem with me is that, when I want to give something up, I always want it back.
I never seem to ever have the determination to truly give something up.

I know that nothing good will come out of it, but I can't seem to just snap out of it and stop what I'm feeling about something that I know is and always will be hopeless.

When the heart and the mind clashes, which do you follow?

And I should wipe the slate clean.

It's been a tiring week.
I'm glad it's the weekend. There's choir tomorrow! I'm excited for it somehow, but I don't know why. I guess it's because we're gonna learn and sing cool songs again. :D I can't wait.

A few photos, thanks ah eng!

Don't we look like we're from RJ?


And look, same height!


TWINNY :D

Basically, these are the uniforms I tried on these few days haha. Cool eh? x)
**
So many things have happened these few days.

I'm worried about history repeating itself, but if I'm always scared, I will never be able to step out of the past. Perhaps I'll just have to believe that things will go fine, or at least, try my best to make everything work. I'll know my limits this time, and maybe things will last. There's no point thinking about all these because it just doesn't make sense to be afraid of something that happened in the past.

What's more important is to cherish. Cherish every little bit of happiness. Cherish all my friends :)
That's what I will do.

咎由自取，
那是我唯一能用来形容过去发生过的一切的字眼。
对于我所做过的事，我感到很抱歉，
应为我现在终于明白你的处境了。
好人难做啊！

On a different note, I've been pretty happy these two days.
It feels good to have something to look forward to again.
:)

Everyone needs a best friend.

TWINS!

500th post!

I've found my twin, and she is none other than Wan Ping haha!

We really do look quite alike haha!

And Wan Ping, Cedric and I are like, Triplets haha!

Wan Ping and I are the identical ones while Cedric is the fraternal one.

Coolio isn't it? :D


I've missed you dearly my friend.

Trust, belief, hope.

Haha life's been fine.
JC life sucks. But the Choir Year Ones rock.





Gotta go because there's choir tomorrow so this is just a short incoherent post.
Ciao.

Are we going to be reduced to this?
Maybe I'll heed your advice.
Only time will tell.

rewind.

It's 11.14pm now and I just got home from my outing with the The Usual People who are now officially Year Threes.

How time flies. I was staring at some of them across the table from me and I could still picture them in their Secondary School uniforms. Now, they're all talking about their working lives, driving lessons, and their preparation for army. The things that I am worrying about seem so different(and childish) from what they worry about.

Somehow, after having gone through two years together with them, I'm going back on rewind and the rest of them are still continuing on play. After being a Year Two, I'm going back to being a Year One again, and going through everything that the Year Threes have gone through before two years ago. It feels like I'm trapped in time, while the rest of them are continuing and moving on with the rest of their adult lives. I feel like I know so much about JC life, but there is also still so much more that I don't know.

Deep inside, I know my place is with the Year Ones, but somehow, there is still a part of me that will never forget the Year Threes and all the experiences I've shared with them. I know I'll never find people like them ever again anywhere else, and I feel really really blessed to have been given the chance to get to know them and to spend two years together with them.

Sometimes I wonder, is it really farewell?

And now, the prospect of going to school is rather daunting. It's not so bad tomorrow because there'll be choir. But seriously, I sort of dread going to school. Schoolwork seems to be tough and I am really worried that I will not be able to keep up with the pace of lessons. I also hate having to move from class to class, cause all the classrooms give me a cold and unfriendly feeling.

Besides all that, there is still the process of making friends with and getting to know my classmates. I don't like having to make small talk with people, but it is an inevitable period that is required in the friend-making process. Sometimes, I'll rewind again in my mind and think back to two years ago when I first entered IP, and I'll be wondering if I felt as bad as I do now. I know that in the end, everything will turn out fine, but this period is really one in which you don't know what's going to happen and if the class will be fine.

A new year, a new life, new friends, a new start. I am someone who doesn't like change, who will always try my best to hold on to whatever I can. There are some people whom I would dearly like to hold on to, but who seem to be increasingly slipping out of my grasp the harder I try. Who doesn't want to have friends who will last a lifetime? However, it takes effort to maintain a friendship, and sometimes it's just unfair to expect the other party to put in the same amount of effort as you do.

Or maybe, we should all just let things go, and let it right itself. However, I do not have much faith in doing that, for I believe in our school motto, Nil Sine Labore; Nothing Without Labour. If we do not work hard and put in the effort, how can we expect things to stay the same? Afterall, the only thing that is constant is change.

Ah! It's late and I definitely will have a hard time waking up tomorrow. Sigh, and I haven't mugged my scores and finished my math tutorial. It's only the first day of school. :(

choir og!

Orientation is finally over! No more cheering and mass dancing sessions anymore. Muahaha.

Hmm, I'm kinda glad orientation's over, because I didn't enjoy orientation that much. But well, I guess it's because this is my second orientation, and it's just boring having to go through everything a second time.

I think the choir Year Ones bonded more through orientation. Am really glad I have all of them to tide me through this horribly sian period :D Well, we haven't been really very horrible ponners too haha, due to our guilty conscience, most of us were alternating between choir room and the hall. Orientation's really really tiring, so we just go to the choir room to.. rest and catch our breaths! Haha. And most of the time, we'll try to stand at the back and learn mass dances together and such, really fun! :D We've also been going out for choir dinners after orientation, they're all fun haha.

Today was a great day. I joined everyone for wet games in the morning, I had my hair shampoo-ed :( Kinda gross but fun too haha! After that, I had lunch outside the choir room, and was too tired to really move around a lot.

So throughout the day, we shuffled between the choir room and the cheering sessions and such. In the end, all of us went to join the mass dance session. After a while, I was really too bored to continue, so I sneaked off outside to talk to my dear Neh :D Met Zheng Yi outside (who was hiding from the mass dances too) , it was like, the first time since I talked to him in dunno-how-many-cow-years haha. So basically, I slacked outside until the cheering and mass dances were over.

After that, we went back to join the OGs to watch the final skit and stuff. Ivanhoe won in the end, but oh well, it was no big deal. Then, the mass dances played a second time, and so I sneaked back to the choir room heh. Oh and Jerrold, Dawn and Yu Ting came back to visit! Chatted with the former two for a while, before the rest of the Year Ones returned.

Hmm, after everyone returned, we somehow went to the basketball court to all play basketball together. I got hit by a ball! It's my worst fear please =/ Started crying non-stop, cause it was really painful. I hope I don't get a concussion haha. Well after a while, we went back to the choir room again. I had a nice chat with Sonya :D while the rest were playing bridge and slacking around. The tenors were outside for quite a long time. They were really cute cause they were outside writing songs to entertain all of us! There were stories about everyone haha, it was just really very funny :D

After a while, the McDonalds we ordered finally came! And we all sat in a circle to have our dinner. Nothing eventful happened, but it was kinda cool that there were so many people haha. After dinner, we all dispersed for a while, doing our individual things. At one point, Isabelle and I went to the place near the basketball court and we just laid down and talked :D It's been ages since I last talked to her! So I was kinda glad that I got to talk to her again :)

Soon after, most of us went to join them at the basketball court and played ABC. It was funnn! The tenors are apparently quite good at basketball haha. And there were shouts of Airball Airball! everywhere haha. We played until Jia Ling and Novabelle's parents came to fetch us home :D

Although we did really normal and uneventful stuff, it's still really fun! Yay I think the Year Ones rock :)

Choir tomorrow!

Twothousandeight

New Year Resolutions!

#1. Make sure I do consistent work- Finish tutorials, try to attend every lesson (be it tutorials or lectures.)
#2. Sleep at 11pm every night (same as last year).
#3. Stop being oversensitive, and be more forgiving.
#4. Improve in voice techniques.
#5. Be less exclusive (be it in Class or in Choir).
#6. Be more enthu about family events.

Well, that's about all I have for new year resolutions, can't really think of anything else now. School's starting tomorrow! And seriously speaking, I'm not really looking forward to it. We'll never know what's gonna happen within the next few months. And well, I really hope everything will go fine. At the very least, I'm looking forward to seeing the Year Ones in their Secondary school uniforms!

Speaking of the Year Zeros turned Year Ones, we went to Ivor's house today! Quite a lot of us, went- Philip, Jia Sheng, Cheryl, Ivor, Pock Thong, Wen Siu, Deborah, Sonya, Jonathan Yong, Randy, Joshua, Wan Ping, and Alex. The company was pleasant :D And Ivor's mum cooks very well! Haha okay I'm feeling pretty tired now so I don't have much to say.

School's starting! =/

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Okay so anyway, I just had a fantasicalicious countdown at Oliver's house. The rest are still there though, they're staying over, while I didn't get to :( But anyway, this year's countdown is cool! The Usual People are seriously the weirdest and craziest bunch of people who can never fail to make me laugh hysterically.

After chionging down from the 06v11 Christmas/New Year Party, I reached Oliver's house at about 10.40pm. Was feeling kinda sad actually, but I cheered up immediately when they arrived to pick me up. Haha they are seriously the noisiest bunch of people EVER. And went we went into the lift, we started camwhoring like crazy! Everyone was squeezing together to camwhore haha, super fun alright! :D I pigged out at the steamboat too, the food is super nice :D And yeah we all just sat around the dinner table talking and joking and hearing Kenny and Hu Ping's army stories haha. After a while, Hu Ping, Kenny and Oliver snuck out to buy Yu Ting's birthday cake and stuff, while the rest of us just continued crapping. We didn't even realise they went out of the house!

So at 11.55 pm, the three guys returned with sparklers and we started singing Happy Birthday to Yu Ting. Oh I absolutely must mention this: Yi Zha is so heartless! His Dota is more important than us(or rather, Yu Ting)! While we were singing the Birthday song, Yi Zha didn't even bother to come out to sing for Yu Ting too hahaha! We had to pull him out to take the group picture alright! Okay so anyway, we had the TV on while singing the song and taking the group pictures. And so, we counted down with Michelle Chia and Gurmit Singh! Haha, it was super cool cause we were screaming, 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1! And after that, there were mingled shouts of Happy Birthday Yu Ting and Happy New Year! Super duper cool :D

Had to leave after that because my father didn't allow me to stayover. Oh well :( At least I got to count down! Seriously love The Usual People! Meet up for PS, I Love You alright? :D