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2007-06-20T12:25:00.000+08:00

><))o> PLAY! A Video Game Symphony

I know it has been the longest time since i last blogged....let's see...the last time i actually did the "finger workout" was *amy refers to previous post* 22nd Oct 2005. Wow...that was nearly 2 years ago! Ok...i am really sorry for the near 2 years hiatus from blogging...life has just been crazy and busy! But this particular post is one that i definitely have to blog about. It is none other than the PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Asian Premiere concert.

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Asian Premiere concert, which took place at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 15th and 16th June, was scheduled as part of the month-long Singapore Arts Festival. To make this concert a reality, NAC specially invited PLAY! Music Director, Arnie Roth to Singapore. NAC also put together a Singapore Festival Orchestra and engaged The Vocal Consort as the chorus. Since NAC wants an 80-strong choir and consort has only roughly about 40 active members, we got NUS choir to perform with us.

From the performer's point of view: the concert SO TOTALLY ROCK!

First of all, we got to work with the internationally-renowed Arnie Roth who was a Grammy award-winning artist and possessed a wealth of experience in orchestra conducting as well as symphony music composition. He was the person who single-handedly arranged all the video game songs into symphony music and made PLAY! a reality. Recently, my niece was at my house for a family dinner and she was watching the "Barbie Princess movies", what seems to be the lastest craze among primary school girls her age. Anyway, i was watching the film as well (cos the animation and music are really magnetizing) and at the end where the credits appear, guess whose name i saw? Arnie Roth! I was thinking back then "Wow...this guy is really something.."

The chorus along with the orchestra met Arnie Roth for the first time during our second combine rehearsal, just two days before the actual performance. In person, Arnie Roth was such a nice person and there was no air around him at all! Even when the chorus or orchestra screwed up at certain areas, he would tell us nicely and request that we do it again until we got it right. And he smiles alot, which certainly puts us at ease and made the performance much more enjoyable. His style of conducting is accurate and precise, toned down at the right places like the piped organ solo for Final Fantasy's Dancing Mad while bursting with energy for other pieces like Chrono Trigger/Cross, Metal Gear Solid.

Hafiz, Arnie Roth, me and Michelle

For those of you who went for the last performance on Saturday night, did you know that you were the only crowd who got to experience the second encore? Arnie Roth didn't have the second encore piece for the previous two performance but decided to do One-Winged Angel again for the last performance! He's just a really great guy through and through!

Secondly, I got to meet really accomplished composers like Yuzo Kiroshi and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi.

Hafiz, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, me

Remember those primary school days when we used to go to the arcade and even before you enter the arcade, you will hear this familiar tune "Daytona....Let's go away! Daytooona...!!", blasting from the Daytona USA racing console that is always strategically placed somewhere near the entrance of the arcade?

For me personally, 1. Daytona USA has always my favourite racing game (its the ONLY game that i play and play well at the arcade), 2. I loved the theme song "Let's Go Away" because it really give you the "high" feeling while you are playing the game. So can you imagine what happen when i found out that the composer cum singer of Daytona USA, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, was in the house? I went ballastic! And the best thing of all? He performed an item during the concert. With the exception of the matinee on the Saturday afternoon, he sang "Let's Go Away" for the other 2 concerts. Without fail, the crowd would always get so high after his rock-style performance, screaming at the top of their lungs. Without fail also, he would bring with him onstage, a stuff Sonic, which he would hurled (always in the same direction and at the same angle : stage right, roughly 30 degrees)into the audience.

During the last performance, he did a little gimmick : turning around and pretended to throw the stuff sonic at us and quickly did a 180 degrees turn, and threw the sonic at the audience. We groaned and grumbled, a display of our disappointment, much to the delight of the audience i supposed. Overall, Takenubo Mitsuyoshi's high-octane guest performance and energizing personality made the concert alot more unconventional!

In person, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi was especially a super hyper, awfully-nice and humble person!! When hafiz and i approached him at the backstage for his autograph, he readily agreed and even made small talk with us, complimenting on our performance. He even offered a handshake (talk about true star quailty!). I was star-struck for an least half-an-hour after that (how could i not be when i grew up, playing Daytona USA and singing to the theme song?). During the last performance intermission, when we bumped into him at the backstage, he recognise hafiz and told him that the chorus was "very good" and did the "thumbs-up" sign.

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's autograph

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi also composed Sedge Tree for Shenmue and Shemue II, which has a captivating melody that seems to speak of a poignant love story. It was a genere that is completely different from Daytona USA, displaying Mitsuyoshi's wide spectrum of musicality.

Another composer that we met was Yuzo Koshiro, the composer of The Revenge of Super Shinobi. His composition received the highest number of votes, in the GameAxis online poll, as the extra bonus theme to be performed at the Asian Premiere concert. He was kind of reserved person...I didn't get to cross path with him much though.

Takenobu Mitsuyoshi's autograph

Thirdly, there were 3 large-size screens suspended above the orchestra, broadcasting all the scenes from the video game titles.

These includes the old school favourites like Super Mario Bros., Super Shinobi, The Legend of Zelda to some of the more sophisticated animations like HALO, World of Warcraft and the newly-released Lost Odyssey. The screens provided another dimension to the concert. The videos aired were a feast for the eyes and when accompanied by the symphony music, it was a cinematic experience for us and the audience!

Fourthly, the Singapore Festival Orchestra played beautifully. With each performance, they just got better and by the time we had our last performance, i was swooned over by the music and found myself swinging to the rhythm, especially for the piece Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. I fell in love with the song. I have attached a YouTube clip below...listen to it and you will understand why this is such a captivating piece.

Lastly, the audience was such a hyper-active bunch. During the first night, which was supposedly attended by some the Ministers, the SVIPs and VIPs, the crowd was more subdued, more reserved. But the audience for the two performances on Saturday was just incredible, especially the Saturday night one (somehow i have this feeling that gamers make up a large proportion of the concert-goers for these two performances). There were truckloads of woof-whistling, screaming, thunderous applause from the audience for almost every piece that the orchestra did with the classic Final Fantasy's One-Winged Angel, receiving the most shouts and applause. When we did the song as the second encore, the crowd was went mad! Three seconds into the song, the crowd finally realised that arnie roth was doing One-Winged Angel again and the screaming/clapping came...(as a rule of thumb, clapping during mid-song is considered rude in a conventional concert. Then again, PLAY! is anything but conventional!). After we finished singing the song, there was a standing ovation from about 20 to 30 odd people.

At that instance, i felt really honoured to be part of this production. That night, the orchestra were really good (especially the strings, percussion and the keyboard), we the chorus made minimal mistakes as well (the entries and singing were precise), arnie roth looked extremely happy and pleased with us. For me, it was one of my best experience as a chorister, apart from the one where consort won the Open Mixed Superior and Folklore Category during the Olomouc compeition.

I am happy that possibly my last performance at Esplanade ended on such a high note.
There is even a newspaper review on the performance! Click here to read it.

I even spent S$40 and bought the More Friends: Music from Final Fantasy as a keepsake and got Arnie Roth to autograph...Woo~

Arnie Roth's autograph

To gamers (if you are reading this): there are some talks to bring Dear Friends concert to Singapore. Watch for it! If Nubuo Uematsu makes a guest appearance for the concert, it would be so cool! I would definitely want to be part of the performance!

Looking back, being part of consort has given me the opportunities to go places and meet incredible people. I cannot be any more thankful!

Below is a short clip of the actual performance:

2005-10-22T20:25:00.000+08:00

><))o> End of syllabus = EXAMS!

#I was so looking forward to the end of my syllabus especially for the very irksome Biophysical chem and introductory bio that i kinda forgot that exam soon follow suit.

Damn!

#Busy like hell...wont be blogging for a mighty long time! To all my aj gang :me and intan really miss u guys really lots! All the best for exams~

Ok...LET'S MUG!

2005-09-13T11:27:00.000+08:00

><))o> Guess what is a dunkey?

#Dunkey-noun: prounnced as DUNG (yeah that thing that comes out of your backside) KEY.

#An animal, belonging to the mammalian family. It is a four-legged animal, feeds heavily on carrots (i think) and looks like a horse.

#Often used as a form of transportation for goods through perilous mountains, rough terrains.

So..can you guess what is a dunkey??

Ok ok...one last clue...it mates with horse to produce a sterile offspring!

Got it?

YEp! Its a donkey!!
Dunkey is a mispronunciation of the word donkey! (its was made by a lecturer during the lecture for one of my modules...haha)

2005-09-07T22:46:00.000+08:00

><))o> I'm so faked?

#Firstly to intan and fiz : Thanks guys!

First msg:
Nick: ihateamy
Date/time: 04.09.2005, 17:25:29
IP: 165.21.154.10
Msg: u r a faker, who is so fake.

Second msg:
Nick: ihateamy
Date/time: 05.09.2005, 16:25:49
IP: IP: 165.21.154.8
Msg: that is crap.

#I'm fake? Can you please be more specific? What is it that you find it "fake" is it my appearance, my personality? For the record, my appearance has not been nipped nor tucked...I don't come out of the barbie doll factory so there's nothing fake about my appearance. As for my personality, people who are close to me and know me well enough will know what kind of person i am. If you are 1)not close to me, 2)dont know me well, I don't think you are in a good position to make such a deflamatory judgement.

#And to hide behind a nick is really not honourable at all. And dont bother changing your nick or tag me from elsewhere. I will still know its you and i have a very good idea who are you too.

#After tracking down the IP address, here's what i found:
165.21.154.10
bbcache-10@singnet.com.sg
Location = (Singapore)
lat/lon = 1.16n, 103.51e
source = DOM whois.nic.net.sg [singnet.com.sg]
type = guess
place-key = sg [capital city]
geo-key = sg-singapore -> .\data\geo.vdb

#So the person is defintely from Singapore (oh well, i guess it) and using Singnet (well...may be some public or school computers but....hmmm...)

2005-08-31T15:29:00.000+08:00

><))o> Into the 6th week of school

#I'm finally settling down at school...no more sucky situations...just the occasional 'late for practicals', 'give the wrong answers during prac', 'spill my steaming teh onto the canteen floor', 'drop my pencil case during lectures' that sort of thing...other than little embarrassing situations like these, i'm happy to say that i've acclimatised!

School's been really busy lately....with all the ongoing lectures and tutorials...there's hardly a time to take a breather! Hence, i seldom blog now...there simple isint time to! Or rather, there isint time to daydream about what i can blog...thoughts come and go...by the time i want to blog about something interesting, its gone from my mind- totally wiped out from the face of this earth. Nevertheless, i've something to blog about today!

Its about a book i've read.

And nah, its not a boring Biochemistry 100th edition book.
Rather, its the book 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks.

You know that movie with the same title starring Mandy Moore??

Yeah...thats the one!

#Apparantly, i've been told that the book is very very different from the movie and i got to find out for myself when i borrowed the book just weeks ago. To my surprise, the book is indeed miles apart from the contents of the movie! (Now, for the next part, if you haven't watch the movie, dont count on your lucky stars that you will understand what i'm talking about!)

Difference no. 1: In the book, Jamie's(Mandy Moore) dad had her only when he was like 50+ so by the time he married her off to Landon Carter, he's already a 70++ man which is FREAKING OLD! In the movie however, he's like some typical dad - middle age, handsome-looking and stuff~

Difference no. 2: Landon Carter was not as rebellious as the movie had portrayed him to be...instead, he was supposed to be a rebel only when he was young...and even so, all he ever did was to make snide remarks about Jamie's father while hiding behind some bushes and chew peanuts in the middle of the night at graveyards...he was even elected at the President of the Student's Union Club~!

Difference no. 3: The play which Jamie and Landon starred in...Jamie did not sing (as the movie had been).

#Well..there's about the major differences i could think of at hand...SEE...the movie's kinda different yeah? However, one thing remained unchanged and that is Jamie has Leukemia and she died eventually of course...and i remember crying about it (i was previously on the verge of tears when i watched the movie)...and as always...the quote...that ever moving phrase:

Love is always patient and kind.
It is never jealous. Love is never boastful and not conceded.
It is never rude and selfish.
It does not take offence and it is not resentful.
Love takes no pleasure in other people's sense of delight in the truth.
It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope in doing due work, whatever comes.

#Awww....I've just got my Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (borrowed i mean) from the library!! Cant wait to start on it!!

Till next time......TataZ

2005-08-03T22:09:00.000+08:00

><))o> 2 weeks of university life

#After going through nearly 2 weeks of university life, the only word i could think of to describe is : sux.

Below are SOME (some only...still got alot) reasons why i think it sux (the more ***, the suckier it is):

1. Lecture notes are not printed for us (****)
2. Lecture notes can be uploaded as ridiculously late as the morning before the lecture (*******)
3. Tutorial lessons has no discussion at all...the lecturer/tutor just give us the answer....i think even the student can do this! So what are we learning exactly?? (********)
4. We have to print our own resources from super thick and super expensive books because the lecture notes are provided infro to the bare minimal!! (**********)

#Sigh...i'm so depressed now.....i'm confused too...SIgh..i hate university life!

2005-07-19T15:41:00.000+08:00

><))o> my first animated pic!

#Hopefully there's many more to come!

2005-07-14T19:00:00.000+08:00

><))o> back with a new layout

#I really love this pinkish layout~! This time round, i've all my site info: info about myself, blog entries, links and contacts all shown in one page so that there's no more clicking needed! =) Song list will also be updated...i dont have much new songs though because its kinda difficult to download new songs for example: Marion Raven's "End of Me"! So bear with me yeah?

#School's starting soon...i really cannot wait for school to start because i'm so bored staying at home...only going out for choir and tuition..i feel so much of restrain on my freedom. I think my jc days are even better than now..nevermind...only about 1 week plus to go!

2005-06-26T19:27:00.000+08:00

><))o> Hitting the 10 000!

#Wow! Its a pleasant surprise to see that my site has register 10 000 unique visitors (unique on a per day basis) ! This is really a huge achivement for me...anyway thanks to all those people who visits my blog often and that includes friends...curious surfers...enemies..etc...haha. Thanks for making this possible~!

2005-06-10T19:24:00.000+08:00

><))o> Why I chose NTU over NUS?

[Disclaimer: The following blog entry is purely my own opinion based on what I’ve witnessed. It is no intention of mine to defame any institution or to degrade it in any way. Anyone who wishes to read this entry, please be informed that my views although bias, are supported with visual and verbal evidences.]

#Just yesterday, I was checking my email when I noticed that NUS had send me an email expressing regret over my rejection of their offer, prompting me to do an online questionnaire as a form of feedback on why I turned down their offer. In the questionnaire, I expressed that NUS’ approach in getting prospective students to join them was (seemingly to me) intimidating and lukewarm. I do have my reasons when I made these comments…

#I dare say that NUS has always been my number one choice and it has never wavered until recently when I set out to find out more about NUS and NTU respectively.

#I went for NUS’ various open houses- NUS open house, FASS open house and Science Faculty open house. What struck me was that the talks presented by various departments never fail to bring out the face that NUS is doing every well on the ranking board (it always comes with slides which I never bother to interpret). “We are blah blah placing and blah blah placing locally, internationally, etc.” Perhaps the person who did the PowerPoint slides made it a point to include such information in each faculty’s PowerPoint presentation. However, it does appear to me that NUS is boasting their reputation as Singapore’s best university, which without a doubt, they are. It is a redundant move though…aright not so much as redundant but I don’t see any need to repeatedly emphasis that fact too much. Honestly, the whole point of a talk (in my opinion) should be about the institution’s or faculty’s vision, pedagogies and strategies to further nurture prospective students into useful citizens of tomorrow. That itself, is already a selling point.

#NTU, on the other hand, impressed me with their talk, which made their quality of education a focal point. There was nothing mentioned about rankings and achievements were mentioned in a hush hush manner without any elaborated, “firework-sort of display”. What touched me most was the willingness of professors (mind you!) who took prospective students on a tour around The School of Biological Sciences. These professors are definitely not paid to do this sort of things but their enthusiastic participation sent a strong signal to me that they are more than willing to go the extra mile for students. That alone, was enough to make me feel overwhelmingly welcomed! What about NUS then? There doesn’t seem to be any tours led by professors…or at least, not of any that I knew of. I also discovered that they have a penchant of making remarks that indirectly play down other universities, particularly NTU. One such remark, still etched in my heart, was made by the Dean of Science Faculty about how “some institutions added a molecular tag to their courses” to attract students while in actual fact, the coursework remains mostly unchanged. I sensed immediately that it was aimed at NTU, which had changed several titles of its courses to include some life sciences term. My bf felt the same way too…of course the dean has good intentions to make prospective students more aware so that they make well-informed decision s but I strongly believe that the dean could have put it in a better way, for example, “ I urged you to look up the coursework of the courses you are interested in, especially those that are offered by other institutions as well as NUS and not just make your decision based on the title of the course.” In this way, it would appear, as a goodwill gesture doesn’t it?

#So much for the different approaches by both NTU and NUS…there are also other factors constituting to why NTU was my choice.

#NUS offers a curriculum of 55% major and 45% minor/electives. Their aim of providing an all-rounded and holistic education (what a cliché) is simply not my cup of tea or coffee for that matter. After going through years of secondary and pre-u education, if there isn’t anything that I’ve realized, one thing I know for sure is that I don’t enjoy being the jack-of-all-trades! During my secondary school year, I find myself flopping Combine Humanities and Higher Chinese despite investing a large percentage of my energy and devoting most of my prayers (not that I prayed anyway!) to these two subjects. I can honestly swear that I would be at least a zillion times better of in other subjects if I don’t have these two subjects haunting me day and night. I am a Science student not an Arts student. If I were to put myself through that sort of torture in university and emerge as a “master at none” graduate, I will never forgive myself. Which is why I went for NTU whose degree covers about 70 to 80% of a particular major.

#Other less determining factors that come into play would be the outward appearance of the universities (NUS’ grey-tiled buildings and brick-red stairs just “dulls” me off while NTU’s circular, spacious School of Biological Sciences is more, much more actually, please to the eye), the location (NUS is located in an area where there’s a lot of bustle going on- too noisy for me, while NTU is nicely tucked away in a quiet corner-serene!) and of course, friends (I’ve Intan with me- back to our JC days when we take train rides to school together and some NIE trainees whom I got to become friends with during my teaching stint at CSS). Of course I have friends at NUS whom I will miss not be able to see them much…

#There you have it…the above reasons are why NTU is my choice and not NUS. I hope no one is offended with my argument..=)

2005-06-09T18:28:00.000+08:00

><))o> Bored

#Having no workplace to go to, nothing to look forward really makes my life appear stale. Talk about everyday being a new day, new beginning! Everyday is like a replay of yesterday to me - i wake up at 9.30am, brush my teeth, go to market with mum, comes home from market, read the papers then read a book while having a big pillow stuff behind my back on my bed, eat lunch, bathe, play the pc (not everyday though), read again, have my dinner, watch tv then go to bed. Honestly sounds like the kind of life an eighty year old granny would led except of course, grannies aren't supposed to know how to use high-tech gadgets like computers...

#People have been asking me if i've recieved the NTU care package and my answer is a disappointing (despite myself) "no". I dont feel "careD" by NTU at the moment...

2005-06-04T21:25:00.000+08:00

><))o> Population Control?

#Contrary to the common belief that Singapore's population is declining as well as heading towards aging population, i think Singapore's population must have INCREASED! Why do i say so? Here's a few phenomenons to back my stand :

1. Orchard road has become more crowded than ever! Try walking through the basement of Wisma Atria to Ngee Ann City and you'll understand what i mean!

2. Cars on the road have increased if not why the heck are the authorities installing ERP and still planning to install more?

3. The MRT must be the most frustrating case of all! If you think properly, do you realise that whenever you are taking the train, it always seemed to be full and sometimes you stand all the way (poor pathetic legs!) to your destination? The situation is especially bad during school hours, lunchtime hours, after work hours and not to mention weekends and public holidays. Often, i feel like a tomato-preserved sadine in a "can of MRT". And what's with the crap of jacking up public transportation fares? I'm a non-working adult paying adult fare (so it seems as viewed by the transport authorities) when i am only a pathetic 19 year-old student-to-be-again! It's so bloody unfair especially when those people are making millions and still complain of financial problem when ask to put in more safety measures (i did my PW on SMRT! Muha!)! Doesn't really make sense huh? If that's the case, i would really love to see where does all the money SMRT makes goes into. Maybe they should reveal their budget planning or something......

4. Donations to charity like NKF have increase steadfastly or it could be that people are more kind-hearted and generous...but that's unlikely because the number of flag days have increased dramatically also! Maybe its common knowledge that with a bigger population now (that's what i am assuming now you see), there is always more money to go around when infact, those poeple who do flag days always targets MRT stations, bus stations which comes down to public transporters donating all the money...when we are already having a hard time dealing with increase fares! Maybe they should stand outside carparks or something so that money donation is fairly distributed among the larger population now.

#Who says that Singapore's population is declining then? *winks*

2005-06-02T17:07:00.000+08:00

><))o> a new layout

#Been toying around with the idea of creating a blogskin using brushes and finally i did it! Now i really appreciate the uses of brushes...it gives you all the subtle and not-so-subtle effects on the pictures...=)Really love this layout and of course it features my recent craze : TWINS!!! They are a cantonese pop duo and recently i bought their cantonese CD released in 2004...its a good way to learn cantonese while singing along - time to brush up my cantonese!

#Recieved a letter from AJ to collect my certificate...when i saw the familiar handwriting for the address (we were told to wrote it before we leave school so that it makes the admin work at AJ much easier)..gonna ask my brother to get it for me=)

2005-05-24T13:55:00.000+08:00

><))o> My Vesak Day

#Yesterday i was supposed to meet up my bf, his friend and his gf but eventually his friend and gf didn't make it so we had the whole day to ourselves...while waiting for my bf to arrive, i went to isetan to find intan and chatted with her for about half an hour..it was really great to be able to talk to a friend whom i have not seen in ages!! And the best thing was that she was going to the same school as me!! This means that we can go to school today again!

#Afterwhich my bf finally arrived (i will fast forward from here). We went to far east first then headed to Heeren doing loads of window shopping and of course, drool over many clothes (both of us DROOL not just me alone ok?). Before going home, we had our lunch at Marche! Its been a long time since we ate at Marche and honestly speaking, we were both craving for the Rosti there. So we ordered two plates of Rosti, one with chicken hunter sassuage and tucked in. It was such a delicious lunch..the potato strips were crispy-brown and together with the cool sour cream, the taste is just heavenly! After our main course, we ordered a plate of fried calamari to end off our lunch. The calamari was nice but in my opinion, not as nice as those served at fish and co.

#Before leaving, my bf bought me a braclet! Its a tarnish gold type of chain, decorated with gold flowers and stars beads as well as crimson red flowers. It also has circular plates that produces a tinkling sound whenever it hits against the floral decors...=)) love the braclet~!Thanks fiz, had a wonderful day~

2005-05-18T18:16:00.000+08:00

><))o> A new layout!!!

#Yippie!! This is my lastest layout and i've been working on it for two weeks at least from the hatching of concept to actually getting down and putting the whole thing together!! Bascially, the idea to elongate my whole blog is something similar to the very first blogskin which i've used and the whole purpose is to minimise the number of scrollbars around! If you are wondering how come so many scrollbars are showing up then check if your screen is at 1028px by 768px ok? Because this site is best viewed at this size!

#Some new changes i've made (compared to the previous skins) :

-my clock is back!! YEAH!! I missed those times when my skins are without clocks..feels like precious time is slipping away and i don't even know it!

-the section on "me" (as the name suggests, it is devoted entirely to me, myself and i) is gone because basically, i think no body reads it especially if you happen to know the person well. Besides, i dont have that much things to write about myself as well. Therefore, what i have now is just a little bit of info on myself at the "home" section which happens to appear as a default section as well.

-Gone also were the days when i have only one song playing and worse, i've cheekily placed a script that doesn't allow you to stop the song and therefore, people have been complaining that they find the continuously-replaying song very irritating!! I've "turned over a new leaf" so to speak, and made a cool-looking mp3 player so that you people can select the songs you want to hear (i swear i will update the songs regularly or probably add more nice songs!). It can be found under the section "grove to the beat". Do read the instructions before you play the song ok? Or you will be wondering why the song doesn't start!

-Another fabulous change is that i've made a page specially dedicated to my blogskin designs...it serves something like my personal portfolio and i've gotten all the images up so that now, instead of words, you actually see the actual skin itself! You can also download the skin by clicking on the images! You can find this under the "goodies" section!

#There are still some nitty-gritty details that i'm not too please about but i will try to sort this out..when i have the time...for now, i'm happy with the overall skin...absolutely love it man! If you guys have any comments, tag me yeah?! Do take your time to explore!!

2005-05-14T12:55:00.000+08:00

><))o> Jac back with the kids on the bloggig block

#To jac : Hey ger! Finally you've updated your blog!! Its been accumulating so much cobwebs and antique entries! Just a question (tag me to ans me if you happen to read this entry k?) : Who's Surash?!?!? (Amy looks bewildered and kapo at the same time!!) *Grins*

#One piece of good news..(actually its no longer a news) - AJ choir got gold with honours at this year's SYF!! There are only 5 schools who were awarded with this highest honour and i heard that AJ ranked 4th after VJ. HCJC and ACJC!! Woo...we rock!

#Anyho, i've been back to CSS to mark for the past three days and i tell ya...its really a tramutising thing to do...!! Argghhh! Especially when i ecounter tough questions...the marking is just so hardgoing because of the diversity of solutions the students give...and of course...i found myself remarking and remarking after changes to the master solution (ARGHH!! Its the most frustrating thing ever!!)..anyway, i'm glad all those torturing are over...being a teacher is no as simple as i previously thought...at least being a maths teacher isin't~!

#Read jac's blog and saw that she did this lame survey on "How cool are you" and i decided to try it...here's what i got...

You're The Epitome of Cool!!

How Cool Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

ooo...so much for the self-acclaimed ah ma!

2005-05-06T20:55:00.000+08:00

><))o> New hairstyle!

#I've cut my hair~! Its been a year since i last cut my hair and the ends are just getting all tangled up and dry. Therefore today, together with my mum, we went to my old house area and got our hair done (my mum went to dye her hair for Mummy's Day!) Yippie...my hair is now shoulder-length, very much shorter from what i used to have and pior to cutting my hair, i've changed my parting from centre to side =) My hair is now...

-lighter (alot lighter!)
-smoother
-more layered
-more straight and silky

...love my new hairstyle! Love it!!

#going to NTU's School of Biological Science open house tomorrow...seems like no one from my class is going there...so sian...gotta get to know people all over again if i'm going NTU...=(...oh well..we'll see tomorrow...luckily i have my bf to accompany me or i'll be bored...

2005-05-04T16:28:00.000+08:00

><))o> I've offically retired

#Oh yeah...after 4 months plus of working, i've retired (if not, crudely put, TERMINATED!)...haha...anyway, not that i was harshly-axed by the school...more of my services is not required anymore. It is a welcoming change for me...feel really tired of teaching and yearning for a break, even if its a short term one. On the other hand, i'm sourcing for jobs already. My bf's friend apparently has some lobangs...to teach at kindergarden...or some secretary job..heard pay not bad...anyway, its only for another month or so...guess i wont be too picky..=)

#Anyho, there were many poignant moments yesterday when i walk into the classroom, knowing that its my last lessons with the students...i feel sad even as i stand at the photocopy machine, photocopying the last set of solutions for the students. With that aside, i've recieved some lovely gifts from 3/4 and 3/2 respectively. 3/4 gave me a card with all their well -wishes written on it...there was a cheeky message from a particular student who enjoys eluding from me when he doesn't hand up his work saying something like "let's see what Mr leong will do when he comes back if i don't hand up hw (laugh with me) Muahaha.."...if any 3/4 student is reading this, please help me pass this message to Shazwi "When Mr Leong comes back, prepare to get your a** burnt if you dont hand up handwork (laugh with me) Muahahaha!"

#3/2 was very cute...they gave me this notebook which cost $3.85 (they forgot to peel off the price tag...haha)...and every one of them wrote a pageful of messages. It was very very colourful...one can just imagine how many coloured pens do they have in their pencil case! Anyhow, i was really touched by their gesture...and that $3.85 book to me now, is priceless.

To 3/2 & 3/4 : Thank you so much...i didn't know that i have made such an impact on so many of you...thanks for believing in me and of cos cooperating with me...(other than handing up homework)...and yeah...someday, i know i will go back into teaching service because you guys have made me believe more in myself =) I can honestly say that this teaching experience is the best-est working experience that i ever had and its you people that made all the difference!

#Oh oh..some pics that i've taken with 3/2 (thanks to peiling who took the time to send me!)

That's peiling~! Gosh..we looked so yellow in this...as if we've both got jaundice...haha...

2005-04-16T18:26:00.000+08:00

><))o> Muted

# I've gone dumb...not stupid but mute! I've officially lost my precious voice! "AHhhh....!" Amy screams, but in slience (pun intended!). Actually i saw it all coming. I started coughing about a week ago and on wed i went to Woodlands library to find some books for my bf's mum. After getting the books i wanted, i was tempted into Cafe Gailee (not sure if its spelled this way) by no doubt, the aroma of expresso! Happily, i got myself an ice-blended mocha and sipped delightfully as i read the books and what you know! The next day, my oesophagus felt as though its been tie into many tiny knots...my voice was hoarse and each word i speak hurts and very often, i go off-tune! So yucky!!

# Reported to work for both thurs and fri, thinking that it wouldnt hurt if i taught for two more days since the weekends are not far away. Some students are disgusted by my voice, which i could fully understand since i share their sentiments as well. Some students were sympathetic, offering me lozenges, remedies and keep reminding me not to shout too much (many thanks!!)

# By the end of yesterday, my voice was barely there and i dont know why when i'm with my bf, i'm so chatty...cannot stop talking...anyway, we had a nice day yest (refer to my bf's blog...too lazy to blog about it)...and Poof! When i went home, my voice was gone...damn! I've been a dumb for about 1 day liao...the feeling of not being able to verbally express myself really sux...on the other hand, i do find that i listen more and reflect on myself more....maybe that's how mutes think....poor them...i can kind of understand how they feel...

# Anyho, thanks to many who have showed concern....my students, my lao gong, my parents and the teachers at CSS! Thanks! I must try to get well by tml if not i'm a gone case!

2005-04-07T20:52:00.000+08:00

><))o> What kind of fruit am i?

#Saw this test that meimei did and found it really interesting...so i decided to try it out for myself...Meimei is a strawberry...aiyah..suits her lah...she's so ichigo! So i'm a....

Take the What Fruit Are You? test by Ellen!

Ohh....BANANA...!! Hahaha....i love bananas lah...i mean love to eat...hehe...

#Nothing else to blog...so i'm OUT!

2005-04-02T13:39:00.000+08:00

><))o> Growing old the reverse way

#Before i start my topic, i would like to express my thanks to shuxin for the bday message. Thanks ger!!

#To jac : Please do someting to your tagboard! Its malfunctioning...i mean...there isin't even a tagboard! Do sign up for one at myshoubox.com (the one i'm using now) You can choose the colour schemes and generate an easy code which you can cut and paste into your blog template...its really cool!!

#To leena : hey ger...for some weird reasons, after even typing the password to your question at your blog, i cannot get into your blog...can u like remove that password thingy? I'm dying to know what's going on in your life!! If got pple harrass you at your blog, call 911 lah...dont use that stupid password access!

#OKie...i'm gonna talk about growing old the reverse way. What does it means? Well u see, every morning my teachers (who live opposite my house) would send me to school and during the journey, they would discuss about various topics, peppered by their own opinions of course. There was once when my teacher was complaining to her husband about how those Normal Technical students whom she teaches for Computer Application are such a pain in the neck and can only resign to fate that they are not mature enough to think for their future, squandering their future away to mindless activites like sleeping during lessons, not bothering to even do their work properly.

#Sitting at the backseat of the car, a thought struck me, "Hey! Would it be nice if we all grow old the reverse way?". This means that we are born with the intellect and maturity at birth and this adultness- quality will enable us to give our best in school, excel in our studies, get our pirorities right. In a nutshell, be responsible students that do our homework and hand it up promptly, giving teachers the due attention and respect. And as we age, we become more and more childish, learning to play more and enjoy life more...with of course all those cash and stable job that the inborn maturity has ensured us of. Isin't it great? Then we wouldnt have people who are discriminated by the education system and end up becoming "nothing" in life just because they were not mature enough to think for themselves. Teachers would also have an easier job mentoring the students and developing their potentials.

#I think there was an advertisment that made used of this concept before- work hard when u are young and play hard when you are old. Could that become a reality for us? Unlikely i guess...its just a thought that would only exist in a utopian world i supposed. *amy shrugs*

2005-03-30T20:44:00.000+08:00

><))o> Birthday Messages from friends

#Just tot i blog this down because it is really not everyday that i get birthday messages from friends right? HAha...unless i'm born like every other day...
(-.-")

#From Shah: Hey girl! Wishing you a great 19 bdae! May all your wishes come true n stay alwayz...have a great dae ahead yah =>

#From Leena: Wishing you a very happy birthday! Enjoy yourself! Take care!

#From meimei: Hey dear! Happy birthday...may u stay cute and babelicous! And stop growing taller!

#From Jac: Happy Bdae mimi! Have a geat dae ahead!

#From Intan: Happy birthday...eh did the msg come too late? (amy : nah!! Its NEVER too late!)

#From Shaozhen: Hey..happy 19 birthday. May u haf a happy day n a smooth sailing yr ahead :) Take care...

#From lao gong: Morning dar. Hug. Happie bdae lao po. May u continue to be sweet, lovely and smart. Love you dar.

#So thats there...thanks to shah, my piangz gang (jac, leena, meimei, intan), shaozhen and laogong ..Thank you for taking time off to type all those lovely messages! Thank you also to Weifang, weiqiang and girlie for the online well wishes. Last but not least, thank you to my mummy, daddy who took the effort to order a tiramisu from Bengawan Solo and make Shabushabu (a jap steamboat)...its was DELICIOUS!! And also to my piao jie and piao jie fu for coming over to my house to celebrate my birthday!

2005-03-25T20:54:00.000+08:00

><))o> My bday celebration!!

# SO happy today! I had a fun but honestly VERY TIRING day! First thing in the morning, wake up at 7.30am and went down to Jurong Complex Hall with my bf to meet Qin Yuan and Terence up for a badminton game!

# Terence is botak now! Haha...but luckily for him, he has already POP liao so its not so back...the hair is growing already. It was great playing badminton with Qin Yuan and Terence..there was hilarious moments where rally matches were going on and suddenly it stopped because someone make a stupid mistake but not running after the shuttercock or simply just got bashed by the shuttercock(we are playing doubles by the way)...After the game, we went for lunch and did some catching up...joking about the past and present...=) Ok shouldn't go into that...

#After lunch, my bf and i walked all the way from Chinese Garden to Jurong East and caught a bus, 197, and sat all the way to Marine Parade because we wanted to go somewhere more quiet and not the usual rowdy town...

#At Marine Parade, we had our lunch at Fish n Co!! OOoo....the food was delicious as usual....we actually took some pics there but i cannot upload it at the moment...but i will upload it asap! Yummy!!! After the sumptous dinner, we took a stroll at the beach....i wanted some scenic moments with my bf but it turns out that everyone seems to love the beach on holidays....the whole stretch of East Coast was packed with tents, people, rollarbladers, bikers...what have you lah....so irritating...but it was nice to walk by the beach to enjoy the moment for the moment...=))

I had a wonderful day...thanks to Qin Yuan, Terence and of course my lao gong!!

2005-03-20T19:21:00.000+08:00

><))o> Sentimental Song

#heard this song on radio today while i was on bus....i'm so overwhlemed by the song...its none other than "Almost here" by Brian McFeddan feat. Delta Goodrem...here's the lyrics....(i'm trying to get the song uploaded)

Did I hear you right
'Cause I thought you said
Let's think it over

You have been my life
And I never planned
Growing old without you

Shadows bleeding through the light
Where a love once shined so bright
Came without a reason

Don't let go on us tonight
Love's not always black and white
Haven't I always loved you?

But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's
Not enough
But when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'Cause you're only almost here

I would change the world
If I had a chance
Oh won't you let me

Treat me like a child
Throw your arms around me
Please protect me

Bruised and battered by your words
Dazed and shattered how it hurts
Haven't I always loved you

But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's
Not enough
But when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'Cause you're only almost here

Bruised and battered by your words
Dazed and shattered now it hurts
Haven't I always loved you

But when I need you, you're almost here
(Well I never knew how far behind I'd left you)
And when I hold you, you're almost here
(Well I'm sorry that I took our love for granted)
(Now I'm with you, I'm close to tears
'Cause I know I'm almost here)
Only almost here

2005-03-19T22:46:00.000+08:00

><))o> Random thoughts (actually not so random)

# A quote from Shakespeare describes how i feel of someone at the moment...

I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

-William Shakespeare

(that SOMEONE you better stop your ill-doings because you are bringing yourself closer to retribution...)

-amy pissed(not "peace") out-

2005-03-04T21:08:00.000+08:00

><))o> lost in a state of euphoria

#OH my goddness!! I'm so happy!! I got what i aimed to get for my A level results!! AHHH!!! I got a AAB! At first when we were called to the hall, a bunch of us looked for the table where a 09 tag was being placed. And from not far, we saw that Ms Kwan-Terry had placed a plate of sweets and erected a note, congratulating us for doing well. Curious with the striking note, we went over the table only to realise that a summary of the whole class' result was on the table! Furthermore, Ms Kwan-Terry was away from the table...so we actually took a look at our results! At first when i saw my results, i could believe it! I just screamed and started jumping around as if i'm a monkey under fleas attack!! Then doubt started to seep in...maybe i could have parallex error? That wasn't my result? I wanted to check and make sure again...but the teacher on the table adjacent to Ms Kwan-Terry's, shooed me away and cover the results with a book =(

#Then Mrs Tay talked for like ten mintues...(stuff that no body bothers to listen to)...and Mr Tan gave a summary of this year's results. Our GP passes has improved from 96% to 98% this year!! There was also improvement in biology results (A / B grades) from 70+ % to 88%!! Then it was time for us to take our results! THere was no orderly queue (insanity has overtaken the very basic of our humane consideration...but that's forgivable!)...and finally it was my turn! I looked for that piece of paper which i previously saw but it was no where to be found! So i just initiated beside my name and waited for Ms Kwan-Terry to hand me my results...but of all time, she chose to shift the paperbags containing scholarships, university entry...leaving me standing there on tenderhooks staring at her in bewilderment...then that leena came to ask me how i did...and i told her that i havent gotten my results! Finally, after all the physical shifting Ms Kwan-Terry sat down and looked for my results. I took it but the result slip was placed in a tactful manner such that we had to flip over before we could see the results. Ms Kwan-Terry then checked my results and said that i did very well! I was so happy and when i flipped over my results, it was really a AAB!! Ahh!! I was so elated!!

#My brother and his friends came over at this juncture to enquire about my results. When my brother saw my results, he immediately became very stress and said "Oh no! I have to get AAA now! Better go home and study now", making me burst into laughters!

#My bf did well as well...he has gotten 2 As for his history and higher malay. Considering that he is taking as a private candidate, he has really done very well...and he is possibly the top scorer for higher malay (according to his ex teacher, there was only an A)...so yeah...well done dar!

#Hehehe...i'm so happy....really contented now...my parents are very happy for me too...at least i know i haven't let them down.... =)

YEAH!

2005-03-03T18:38:00.000+08:00

><))o> Dooms Day

#EEks!! Its the release of A levels tomorrow...oh goodness...i must get ready to meet my creator already!! What should i wear tomorrow so that i look good when i meet my creator? A frily long dress (white one in specific) or sleak black? How about blood red? They say that blood red makes a ghost looks scarier!

#Ahhhh....anyhow, my gang and i are meeting up for our "last supper" at ajc before we meet our doom...what should i eat? Maybe hor fan?? Shredded Chicken noodles sounds yummy...Or OR grilled fish? I dont want to be a hungry ghost you know...

(the above are purely fictional. any resembence to any living or dead person or whatever that is going to happen tomorrow are purely coincidental.)

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#Dont worry lah...i wont suicide....i'm too optimistic for that! *BIG SMILES*

2005-02-28T21:09:00.000+08:00

><))o> O level results fresh from the oven (MOE i mean)

#Woah...the staffroom and office are in a total craze today due to the release of O level results....there were excited chatter, screams of joy and astonishment everywhere! Ok...so how did CSS fare?!? WE HAVE IMPROVED!!! Yeah!!! It was quite a good improvement for many subjects...take for example geography ( i was sitting in the Humans dept side), there were no failures (the teacher was overjoyed i tell ya...)...the worse was a C6 and there were only 3 C6s....as for maths, there were also improvement...likely to meet target this year! Overall, we did well lah...well enough to retain our atonomous status which was threatened by the slipping results over the years...heng ah!! And i heard that there were alot of 7, 8 9 pointers coming from the middle classes which mean overall, the L1R5 MSG must have improved!! Yeah!! I'm so happy...seeing all the elated faces in the staffroom makes me realised that if one really put their heart and soul into teaching, the reward is far greater than all the frustrations - its priceless. Hence, the joy of teaching!

#To all those who are dying to see CSS ripped of her atonomous status (specifically those choir rivals from a very eastern school)...my message to you guys is WAIT LONG LONG!! Muhahaha...

#Wanted to kapo and join in the bustle at the hall today during the release of results but i was tied down by Maths group study....turns out that for a particular class, quite a few of the girls were not there because they had stayed in the hall for the major affair...some of the girls even revealed to me that they wished they could be in the hall to see some sec5 shuai ges...aiyo...the innocence of the young minds!

#This whole day has been quite an exciting one....but all the activites going on just keep reminding me, isabel and qin yuan that in a week's or even less than a week's time, the staffroom at aj will be filled with the exact kind of atmosphere, anticipation, joy perhaps? I hope so...AHHHH! So scarey to even think about As!

#On a brighter note, due to the improvement in results this year, CSS might have half day...yeah! I'm keeping my fingers crossed! *prays*

2005-02-19T19:04:00.000+08:00

><))o> AJ FAMILY DAY (MORE LIKE CRAZE DAY)

#Well...to my sincere readers of my blog, sorry i havent been updating my blog...been really busy and tied down with tons and tons of marking...sleep late every night and i gotta wake up 530 every morning...imagine how tired i feel for the past few days?!? Anyway, i just woke up from a YUMMY nap! Feeling happy cos i am not so sleepy!!

#Today i woke up pretty early yet again because a senior teacher (a very nice teacher) asked me to go down to CSS this morning to help with the distribution of cans for the Heart Foundation Flag Day...so i gotta drag my half asleep butt to school this morning. The distribution of cans was done effortless (except for some boys who tried to confuse me with their register numbers so that they can share the can with the person they desired...but of course i am too smart for them..i didn't let their dreams come true...MUHAHAHHa) and by 8.20am, i was done and really to go down to AJ. So i headed down to AJ with isabel (who is also teaching at CSS now).

#When i reached YCK, the feeling of walking to AJ was so wonderful!!! Aww man! i miss AJ...i miss school and most importantly, I MISS BEING A STUDENT!!! Cant wait to start uni life and be a mugger!! Anyway, when i reached AJ, i was surprised to see that things were more happening then b4...i mean the students (in a nutshell, AJ isint so boring!)....there were things like this makeshift stage where AJ's very own rock bands perform and the vocalists going very very offtune...there was this vocalist who couldnt reach all the high notes for 1 song and that made so many of us, there watching the "concert", giggled and laughed so hard that it became embarrasing-ly apparent for him...he later claimed that he had some throat infection (ah...lame excuse!)...there was also the dunking of teachers...cheeky concept...but i dont know who are the teachers who got dunked...so that isin't too interesting for me...

#Upon my arrival, i met two of my tutors!! Mr Ong and Mrs Soon! (I met Mrs Soon first) I was so excited to see Mrs Soon that i just screamed her name! Mrs Soon and i sat down and talked for a while...she said that her daughter made it to AJ (previously, she was complaining to us during tutorials, worried tat her daughter cannot make it to AJ)...based on choir appeal (see...choir is a powerful CCA in AJ!)...Mrs soon also said that results will be out soon (Shivers)...Not too long into the conversation, Mr Ong joined us...he looked like he has aged (opps...)...he says that he has been very busy since becoming the Subject Head...oh poor him... When i'm at Aj, i asked Mrs Soon, Mr Ong and Kangwei to guess what i am working as now and they guessed it almost effortlessly (Mrs Soon being the fastest and Kangwei being the slow one)...and of course when i ask what subject they think i am teaching, it seems like chicken feet to Mrs Soon...she instinctively said Maths...haha...

#After 1 hour of hanging out with Kangwei, Meimei, the posh taitai finally arrived, clattered with glod accessories...(fake one she tells me...shh..dont tell anyone)...then we walk walk around and talk...we ventured into the toilet behind the PE dept and slacked that awhile...

#THe whole hoo ha ended at around 2...and then we left after taking some pictures with kangwei...meimei actually wanted to dragged me to town with her...but i went home after a struggle at the mrt platform...(i'm physically stronger mah)...went home and nap...till now! Hehehe...i'm just a pig...Anyway, my brother just got home, happy that all the pisang balls that his class was selling were sold out...they even resorted to buying bananas from other stalls! (Btw, i got the last and only pisang ball for free after the people tending the stall knew that i'm their classmate's sister! Haha...how nice!)

#Think Aj becoming more happening liao...thats what my bro said too...that makes me miss AJ even more!!!

2005-01-23T21:45:00.000+08:00

><))o> Jimmy liao Book- half price!

#Yeah...no kidding! I found Jimmy Liao's book at half the usual price! Haha...if you are wondering where is the sale going on...its not a sale!! Yesterday my bf and i went to IMM before we head to Clementi for some dumb choir performance, we were at IMM because hafiz wanted to try the food at Banquet Bagus (its a halah foodcourt that works like Mache)...we ordered a plate of fried hokkien mee (its $4 but very big plate...big enough for two person and its very nice!) and sassuage rosti (its expensive and sucks!). After lunch, we walked around IMM...there was this $2 Japan outlet...its very big and has got alot of nice little things like cardboards that can be folded into many holders, boxes, pretty japanese plates, stationerys, etc. After walking around that $2 store, we walked into a China bookshop....its something like Popular and Kinokuniya...and since there's alot of chinese books around, i told my bf that it would be nice if i can find jimmy liao's book. Initially, i couldn't find the book and suddenly my bf saw it and unlike the books at Kinokuniya, the books were not wrapped...so i showed one of my fave book , Moments, to my bf...and i turn over the book to see the price. Surprisingly, its priced at $10.80, half the usual price! I took a few more other books (Beautiful Solitude, Turn Left Turn Right) and similiar, the books were priced much lower that those books at Popular and Kinokuniya!! At first i thought the books were pirated...but after close inspection of the printing, paper quality, i deduced that it couldnt have been pirated books...so the reason my bf thought of was probably the difference in publisher (there's an extra publisher logo)...yup...but its very cheap and i really wanted to get it once my pay comes in. My bf quietly took one of the book (Moments) and told me he wanted to go toilet. He came back and we left the bookstore. Outside at the escalator, my bf ask me to open his bag to get the newspaper for him and lo and behold, i found the book in his bag! He actually bought the book for me...! Aww...i love that book...yeah....i so happy...maybe tomorrow when i get my pay, i will go and get Beautiful Solitude...hehe

2005-01-16T20:13:00.000+08:00

><))o> Photos...

#Here are the photos that my bf and i took when we went out a few days ago to buy my tote!

2005-01-15T13:08:00.000+08:00

><))o> My teaching experience thus far

# It's been two weeks since i stepped into school as a teacher (relief teacher i mean) and so far, the experience has been amazing. First of all, teaching sec5 classes weren't that bad as i thought. I was really encouraged and of course happy to know that quite a handful of them are very willing to learn and they always pay close attention to whatever i've taught them. Quite a number of them were also an inquisitive bunch and asking questions is an indicative sign that they are thinking and processing whatever i have said. Sadly, next monday will be my last day teaching these students and if time table changes again such that they do not have math lessons on monday, i will not even have the chance to step into the classroom and say my goodbyes *keeping my fingers crossed*.

#As for the sec1 class that i've taught, i have already taught my last lesson with them, which was yesterday. Yesterday, we had 3 periods of lessons. 1 period before recess and two periods after recess. During that two periods lesson, the class actually planned a birthday party for all the jan and feb babies cum a farewell party for me! I was so touched by their actions! When i got to the classroom, i had to wait outside for their "preparation". The know-it-all glances and cheeky grins were exchanged between the students and they seemed more hyper than usual. And when they finally allowed me to go into the classroom, the room was in pitch darkness and someone or rather a few of my students spray the...(eh...i dunno what's that called but its this spray can that produces strings of foam)...yap...so i was made the clown lah. THen the "sprayers" went around the classroom, sabo-ing all those jan and feb babies. The scene was just hilarious!

#After that intial surprise, there was the cake cutting, singing of birthday songs (in chinese, english and malay mind you!)and of course the feasting. In a way, my two periods for lesson were gone but it doesnt matter because i was going to close the chapter anyway so there weren't much to teach for that lesson. As a result, the lesson was filled with laughter and fun and of course a tingling bit of saddness. I distributed every student a small bar of tabolone (not sure if its spelled correctly)...and told them to be guai and blah blah...they are really a bunch of angels and i will really miss them.....

# After school, i went to marina mandrain hotel for vocal consort performances. It was a Southwest CDC (community development centre) dinner with all the big shots there like Lim Boon Heng and Dr Amy Khor (actually i only know this two.). Dr Amy Khor is so pretty in person...i mean...i like the way she brings out her point directly in simple yet clear english, putting her point across in parliment in a very frank manner. To see her in person was an overwhleming experience! The performace was great..the acoustic was favourable to the choir and with hafiz standing opposite me, we just cannot stop giggling especially during the song "When i;m 64"...its a song about how couple grow odd together watching each other's teeth drop, doing things like scrimping and saving together that kind of stuff. Its a very humourous song and i just cannot stop smiling when i'm singing that song. After the performances, i went to change only to come out of the toilet and learn that the organisers were expecting us to sing another song! What the *(@#(^*&@#%! In the end, the choir was forced to change back into gown and suit and go upstage just to sing another pathetic song!

#After the performance and the "changing-in-and-out-of-our-costumes" routine, we were finally allowed to go home...yeah! I was so tired by the time i reached home and fall alseep immediately after i bathed.

#Ooo...by the way, i'm so happy! For the past few days, my mum and my boyfriend got a few things for me which i wanted so badly for a very long time! My mum and i went shopping at arab street together on Thursday. We bought a piece of linen cloth which has a base colour of peach and little yellow strips decorating the fabric to make a skirt for me. The cloth has a very oriential kind of look like one of those pashima shawls! Afterwhich, i went to bugis and saw a long skirt with brown embriodary at the bottom (one of those skirts that i have been eyeing for quite a while) and my mum bought it for me! My bf on the other hand, went walking around with me in the town region for about 2 days looking for a nice, practical bag which i could bring to work. After much viewing, judging and considering, we finally settled on the bag that i saw at far east plaza and have wanted to get since a few months back but didn;t because of the pricey tag. Its a regular tote with floral-liked print, decorated with glitter and this oriental-looking metal with leather strings tied to it, acting as both a decorative piece and securing the opening of the bag. The bag was such a beauty and my bf got it for me~! Yeah...i so happy! Now i dont have to carry my brown carrier to work anymore. Its really very small and bearly enough for me to put all my things inside. With the worksheets and books that i have to bring home to mark and mug respectively, the carrier was totally impractical!

#I'm a happy girl at the moment...my job is going smoothly, my bf has changed and become nicer, i'm feeling more settled at vocal consort..everything is smooth sailing at the moment...hope it stays that way for the next few months to come!

2005-01-10T18:41:00.000+08:00

><))o> Romantic night out

#Went out with my bf, hafiz today. Actuallly my bf and i were supposed to meet jac, meimei and leena today and go to the fish and co at the glasshouse (beside Parkmall). But eventually my bf and i went alone because some family problem cropped up and she couldnt make it for the outing...so meimei and leena didnt come along also...

#My bf and i met at around 3pm at my house area and he told me that my friends couldnt make it. Because of that, his little plan had failed. Well..wat he intended to do was to give each of my friend a piece of ferero chocolate and they will eat infront of me while i just have to look on. He presumed that i will start to complain and even when i do, my friends are supposed to continue be their sadistic self and indulge in their chocolates and not share it with me. After sulking for a while, hafiz would bring out a heart-shaped box of ferero chocolates to surprise me. In addition to the chocolates, there would be a mystery gift hidden among the chocolates. As my friends didn't join us eventually, hafiz just gave me the chocolate box and immediately i can tell that there was something below the tray of chocolates....i lifted the tray and beneath it was a beautiful butterfly necklace! The pendant is in the shape of the butterfly, formed using sterling sliver metal. Half of the pendant revealed the sliver metal while the other half was decorated with little crystals and stones. The butterfly however, was not complete. The right-hand corner of the pendant was a gap and dangling at the corner was another crystal-studded butterfly (a much smaller one) that when placed intact with the main pendant, formed two butterflies...it was such a lovely and unique gift!

#We took a train to Orchard and started walking around there because we wanted to commemerate our first date where we had walked from dobhy ghaut all the way to orchard. But this time round, we walked the other way instead - from orchard to dobhy ghaut (because the glasshouse is there).

#We were famished by the time we reached the glasshouse...thankfully we were there early (around 5 plus) because by the time we were dinning, the place was so crowded and those who came in thinking that they could have a quick meal were utterly disappointed. Dinner was a very sumptous Seafood Platter for Two. Actually we hadnt had any intention to order that. We wanted to order two sets of Seafood Platter for One. Our conversation with the waitress went like this....

Hafiz: Can i have two sets of Seafood platter for one please?

waitress: (flipping the menu) why not you try Seafood Platter for Two instead? (she got distracted by something else later on giving me and my bf about 30 seconds to talk)

amy: So what are we going to tell her? That Seafood Platter for Two is not filling enough for us? (actually its kinda true lah...not filling enough for the both of us...we are huge eaters...moreover, both of us are not mussles lovers and mussles happens to come only with seafood platter for two).

hafiz (to the waitress): Eh...we don't take the mussles....

waitress: (happily suggested) Then you can change it to something else...like more rice, more calamari or prawns (seafood platter btw is a huge pan consisting of rice cooked with rasins, prawns, calamari, grilled fish and chips - absolutely delicious!)....

hafiz: (puzzled that the mussles can actually be changed...i'm equally puzzled as well because we didnt know that it could be done) well...i'll have the calamari then...

waitress: grilled or fried?

amy: huh? got two kinds ah...(tots shot like electric curcuit through my brains...memories of our last pathetic encounter with grilled calamari resurfaced....it was such a torture to eat it because it was so chewy and just chewing it could get your mouth tired - i'm serious!)

waitress: i recommand the fried one...

hafiz: we'll have the fried one then...

#ANd boy was that a good recommandation! The fried calamari was so so so so much better than the grilled one! Because not only has frying the little squid made it harder and therefore easier to chew (like eating keropok like that)...the taste of the squid was also so much sweeter compared to the grilled ones....and i must say, this fish and co meal was the best ever...because not only the calamari was nice, the grilled fish was given to us in the largest quanity we've ever seen and the atmosphere of the glasshouse was just so romantic! You see...it was raining and therefore the evening seemed to darken faster than usual...and softlights inside the glasshouse were turned on earlier....moreover, the decor at the glasshouse was one of the best for Singapore's fish and co outlet...and therefore the dinner was fab!!

#After dinner, hafiz and i walked down to City Hall because he wanted to bring me to Millenia Walk where a new chocolate cum candy store has just newly opened. He assured me that i would be thrilled when i see the store...

#We took the escalator up to Millenia Walk from Suntec City and took and right turn into the entrance. Standing right smack at the entrance like a little wonderland was....CANDY EMPIRE! The store was made up of two units combined into one to form a gigantic store filled with probably thousands of types of candies and chocolates all imported from Germany, Austria (European countries) and Australia which means these are cool stuffs that you cant get from Cocoa Tree or NTUC! I was practically jumping like a little small kid...(you see, i'm a sucker for chocolates)...

#We took our time to look at every kind of chocolates...there were so many chocolates in different shapes and sizes....there were the heart-shaped ones, the frog-shaped ones, even chocolate with wine (and shaped as wine bottles of course!)...it was a dream come true for chocoholics like me! After "close examination" of the shop, we bought two sticks of chocolates (its another kind of ferero chocolates just that its core is made up of hazenuts milk chocolate...it was also one of the first food gift that hafiz gave me when we first met. During that time, this precious little chocolate could also be found in Europe...he bought it when he was on a choir tour there previously...)....btw...one stick of that chocolate isint cheap...its $3.50 for just ten balls (per stick)! Talk about having class! The shop owner also commented that we had very good taste...(alamak...of course lah! That goes without saying!)...we also bought a package of strawberry candies...yummy!

#After all the excitement and fun, hafiz and i bidded goodbye at night and i went home feeling happy that i had an enjoyable night and wonderful memories for our 3 year anniversary celebration.

2005-01-03T19:22:00.000+08:00

><))o> First day in school

#Went to css today to report and found out a few shocking things today....

Shock number 1 : The previous principal of CSS, Miss Dorothy Tay has resigned and a new principal ( i dont know what's her name yet) previously from Pasir Ris Crest Secondary has taken over her. This new principal (i heard) is pretty strict about attire....the sandal which i wore today (i have about 3 of such casual sandals and they take up 3/4 of my shoe collection) cannot be worn! I was like...what the hell!! So...i have to take out my choir court shoes and start to make sure i get use to them again....getting used to the shoes is not simply just putting it on and walk around....its more like getting through the "blister phase" (u know...how certain shoes esp court shoes can cause horrible blisters at the back of the ankle? *ouch!)

Shock number 2 : All along, i tot i was supposed to take over some sec3 classes (i was thinking, "bless me!" at that time) but today i found out that for the first two weeks, i'm supposed to teach not one but TWO sec5 classes! I nearly fainted when i heard this appalling news. And i also got to learnt that some of them actually knew me....ooo....how nice....i can forsee that it will take me quite a great deal of effort to draw the line between teacher and students.

Shock number 3 : Well...as i was saying, i thought i was supposed to teach a sec3 class so i was expecting to teach the topic "simultaneous questions" (quite an easy topic) but because now i gotta teach sec5, i am told to teach "probability" instead. Hmm....honestly, i gotta admit that probability was never my forte. Infact, its my worse and most hated topic for math c statistics...now that i have to take over the role as the one teaching, i can predict that tonight i have to come up with some lesson plan, making sure that tomorrow when i teach probability, the students would not be confused and most importantly, i dont get confuse myself!

#Shocks asides, i have learnt afew lessons today....

Lesson 1 : Always have a book or newspapers or some magazines (times or FHM or whatever lah) with you....because i realised it is terrible borring to kill time by staring away (in the process you look like some idiot)....i had to wait for nearly 2 hours before i finally met up with the teacher i'm supposed to relief...boy! THat was the most boring 2 hours of my life!

Lesson 2 : Always keep your foundation solid (as in for basics in maths or eng or watever you have learnt)....i hate to admit this...but when i was in sec1, i was always dazing during maths lessons and practically all that i was taught, was returned back to the teacher. Today, i found myself staring at familiar terms with unfamiliar definitions when i was looking through the sec1 textbook (i'm supposed to relief a sec1 class)...things like natural numbers, prime numbers seemed like such a "long-time-ago" affair....hmm...now why didnt i pay attention to my teacher in the past?

Lesson 3 : Always remember faces together with the names. Today, i went back and saw many familiar faces but i couldnt find the name to tag to those faces. I was painly embarrased by my memory that always seem to short-circuit. As those familiar faces greeted me, i could only hear myself saying, "Hello Mrs/mdm/mr....*mumbles*", hoping that they wouldnt realised that i have longed shoved their names out of my brain to make way for those bombastic info that my jc tutors feed into me.

#Thats all for now i can say of my experience today....i certainly pray that tomorrow, everything will go smooth for me! After settling my stuff at CSS, i went to JP to watch Phathom of the Opera with my bf. THe show was fantastic...with a proper script and setting in place, the broadway musical magically transformed into a movie that makes the story more comprehandable by normal people like me. The songs were also skillfully aligned with the plot so there's never a dull moment in the movie...its always some conversation, and lots of singing! Its really a great show not to be missed!

2005-01-02T18:57:00.000+08:00

><))o> New year resolutions

#Hoho! Its the start of yet another year...!! But the year hasnt really started in a nice kind of way...because it has been raining practically non-stop for 3 consecutive days! Well...hardly a way to start the new year huh? Anyway, i was reading meimei's blog just now and she was saying that there's no school to look forward too...yeah...i'm kinda feeling the same way....no more dashing to school before the last bell and cannot see Mickey Tan (AJ's principal) and Minnie Tay (VP) liao...kinda miss all these....

#So...with my schooling life gone (for the next six months at least), what resolutions am i going to make?!? I mean...the usual "study hard, get good results" thingy is no longer valid....hmm...let me think....

#AH haa!I'm gonna work very hard and earn alot of $$$$!! Just an update on my career: my ex-maths teacher from CSS has called me up to do relief teaching for maths because her husband will be going for a course which will last for 4 months long while another teacher is going for reservice for 2 weeks...so that gives me about 5 months of job at css! So tomorrow, i'm gonna report to CSS at about 8am to settle the handover stuffs! Thinking about it just makes me so excited! I've always wanted to do relief teaching after my As and now my dream has come true! Furthermore, its at my alma matter!! Of course i'm not expecting it to be a bed of roses....but i will take watever difficulties that come, in stride!

#Also, i think its high time that i use those muscles of mine...therefore, my second resolution would be to hit the gym at least once every week! YOu know...exercising is no doubt a tiring thing but you will really feel refresh afterwards. On top of that, you know that you can always count of your fei mao tui (flying feather leg - direct translation hor) to catch up with that bus or MRT which you cannot miss or run away from bandits or run after them (whichever way you prefer)!

#Oh well...two resolutions for the time being! =)

2005-01-01T17:33:00.000+08:00

><))o> growing up

#I remember when i was young, my mother would always tell me, "eat more veggie and you will grow taller" and i really believed that! So every meal, i ate alot of veggie and also because i keep stuffing myself with these chlorophyll-filled stuff that i grew to like eating vegetables. At the same time, i find myself growing rapidly, way too fast for even my male peers (not to even mention female peers!) to catch up.

#In kindergarden, at the tender age of 4, i was already towering over most kids and throughout primary school and secondary school, whenever the class is to line up, i would always be the person standing at the every back of the line, along with all the guys.

#Growing up has always been an awkward period for me. Being a head taller than everybody else, it also confers greater strength to me.....i'm among the best althete during my kindergarden and primary school years and of course i enjoy all kind of sports simply because i am good at them - from running to jumping to skipping. Being stronger (physically) then everyone else, it also means i can affort to be a bully (HO HO HO) but of course i never bully my classmates....i bully my brother! We used to always fight (for some stupid reasons) and he would eventually get hurt physically. Once, i jumped onto a bed where he was lying on with hands stretch upward (its a game lah) and because i was too heavy, my brother's arm got sprained and because of that, i got a trashing from mum.....

#Buying clothes or shoes was especially difficult too! When i was a teenager (around 12, 13, 14) and desperately trying to keep up with the fashion trends, the sizes available were always too small for me. I rememeber during that time, bell-bottom was in the trend. I went from store to store searching for bell-bottom jeans of a suitable length for myself. Eventually, i settled for a pair of bell-bottom that was about 2 inches shorter but it was the longest i could find....of course i looked hilarious wearing that jean...but i couldnt care less....(thinking back now, i think i was stupid to not settle for skirts...i mean...u get what i mean right?)

#Now, after years of being a head taller than everyone else (most people la)...i think i am finally at ease with myself....the awkwardness is still there at times especially when people looked at me in awe and go "oh my god....she's so tall!" but i think i've gotten used to that...and at least now there are more clothes with bigger sizes and jeans with longer lengths...

#Being tall has it advantages...it means that when you are stuck in a crowd, while most people cannot see anything beyond other's head or shoulders, most of the time i have a clear view...and also because of this, i'm grow to dislike having tall people around me because they block my pleasant view...=P

#Anyway one thing i know for sure, eating veggie really has got nothing to do with growing taller....

2004-12-25T13:02:00.000+08:00

><))o> Christmas eve outing

#Went out with meimei yesterday and we had so much fun!!! We met up at orchard and went shopping yesterday....our first stop was far east...at far east, i was telling meimei that i wanna be a bitch and wear mini skirts. When we got into this shop that sells tons of mini skirts, the lady asked us if the lengths of the skirts were ok...meimei jokingly said that the skirts were too short for me and i jokingly replied that the skirts were too long for meimei....anyway, meimei dragged me into the changing room to try on the skirts and OMG...its so short for me....its like wearing underwear!! Evenutally we didn't buy the skirts lah...cos meimei thinks the skirts dont look too good on her also....

#Before that, we went to a small makeshift store selling T-shirts at only $9.90! Meimei told me that the current fashion craze is T-shirts with mickey mouse prints (which instantly made me thought of my 9 year old mickey mouse T-shirt which i recently donated to the salvation army....) and true enough, that store is stocked with mickey mouse T-shirts....meimei got herself a light blue shirt (with a mickey mouse embriodary)....actually she wants to get a dark purple one...but i told her that it looks like leena's blogskin and the colour just makes me sicked (haha...sorry leena!)....as for me, i found a shirt with a grumpy girl print...(as in the girl is really grumpy) and its really cute!!! The girl is in her pyjamas as if she just woke up and has a coffee cup in one hand, looking really grumpy!! There are other grumpy girl printed shirts...got one pink shirt with the print of grumpy girl trying to smile...its so hilarious because the girl cant really get herself to smile....aiyah...i tell you guys you all also wont get it...i try to find the pic...

AH HAA!!! There it is!

This is the print of my shirt...but my shirt is not light blue...its a white t-shirt...

This is the "grumpy girl tries to smile" print....its so cute righT? Hahaha....

#go to grumpy girl website to see more of their cute products!!! I bet you will love it as much as i do!!

#So after buying the shirts, meimei and i came up with a fabulous idea of trying out the shirts in the washroom just incase they dont fit and we can change it immediately....so we went to one of the toilets to change....we got out with our new outfits so that we can look at ourselves in the mirror...meimei's shirt looked good on her but mine looked abit small.....(when i was buying the shirt, i asked the salegirl if she has a bigger size and she told me that this shirt is free size....but when i looked at the label, it says "S"...so i asked, "how come it says S here?"....then according to her, its free size....what the!)...but meimei assured me that it looked fine on me...so ok loh...i kept the shirt...anyway i really love the print!

#After shopping (looking at many other clothes and watches and bags and accessories) around for a while more, we went to have dinner at subway....meimei very shuan gu (mountain tortoise)....she has never dine at subway before! So i introuduced her to their Turkey Breast Meal...its a long bread (we ordered the honey oat one) stuffed with slices of turkey breast, cheeses, tomatoes, cabbage, prickles and served with honey mustard dressing. It was delicious! And actually before we went into subway, its like a mini ghost town - very quiet and very un-inhabited (very few customers lah!)...but after we ordered our stuffs, people starts to stream in (monkey see see, monkey do do i guess!)....and meimei pointed out that we are actually have turkey on christmas eve!!! That makes our dinner seemed more like a christmas dinner...although its abit pathetic lah....

#After dinner, we went to borders hoping that meimei would bang into her shuai ge...but too bad we didn;t run into ....its 8 plus by then...and we went home from there...but i still feel quite happy lah cos we had fun anyway!

2004-12-19T13:33:00.000+08:00

><))o> A belated update on AJC's very own prom night on 8dec

#Haha...sorry guys...an update on my blog on prom...i know its like so over already but i wanna blog about it so next time i can read and laugh about it lah...okies...less crap and more pictures!!

Me, intan and leena gathered at meimei's house for the great makeover! As i have said, it is a makeover so we kinda looked sloppy in the "BEFORE MAKEOVER" picture...we reached meimei's house at about 4 plus near 5 because me and intan got lost in that area (serangoon area) and overshot the bus stop that we were supposed to alight! Anyway, the above picture shows us ironing our dresses, getting ready to do our hair! And if you looked closely, i'm wearing my commonwealth T-shirt and shorts (in a nutshell, its CSS PE attire) because the dresscode is to wear things that are unwanted or not needed in a long while...(get the hint?) Hehe...

Well well well...never expected us to look so pretty after you saw the previous photo right? THen u are wrong! Like my mummy and her sister always says, "18-year-old girls will always look pretty"

I wasn't expecting something so stunt-y but trust the prom committee to come up with something as wacky as an ice-craving of AJC....actually to tell you the truth, i would appreciate it more if they had crave the words "0903 ROX" instead...

A group photo of all the 0903ians present save for kangwei, the one always MISSING IN ACTION.

Me, meimei and leena - vainty reigns and even taking picture in a hotel toilet is a MUST!

Glamourous glamourous huh? Jealous? Oh well...we cant helped it...!

Finally!! A shot with the ever busy kangwei!

A group shot again at the dinning table...talking about dinning table, our class was separated into 3 tables with me, leena and meimei at one table, intan with the muslims at another table and the rest together at one table....we were so PISSED i tell ya....but our spirits were not dampen...instead, we make do with circumstances and even get to table hop occasionally!

Doesn't the girls....opps i mean food just look delicious? (where's the food anyway?)

its 4/6 of the gang again...too bad marlin and jac cant be there with us...

Eh..sorry i'm lazy to rotate this pic around...if you really cant stand looking it like that then rotate your pc screen 90degrees anti-clockwise k? Anyway, its just me and meimei being wacky again...

More random shots....

This is a little gift from simon to meimei and shuxin respectively...according to meimei, its like a tiny garden...when you water the head of the dolls, grass will start to grow from it, forming the "hair" of the dolls....interesting!

Its leena and me...(i was trying to be sweet by lifting my skirt...not lifting...eh...whatever lah)

Well...what do you know? Leena spoilt the pic by being the odd one out again posing a different style from us....leena leena....

2004-12-14T17:26:00.000+08:00

><))o>Survival tips for travellers

#Hey people,i'm all the way in Penang, Malaysia now. Having a great time here...the food here are amazingly cheap...say..RM1.80 for a bowl of prawn noddles? What the hell can you get that kind of price in singapore?!?! But sadly, bad things always have to strike. My brother's handphone got taken away by some ah beng here right infront of his face! The story goes like this....

#My brother was at Komtar Complex (a building equivalent to Singapore's Western Stamford Hotel) with my cousin when a chinese guy approached them. The guy insisted that he buy my brother and cousin a drink at a nearby coffee shop and even though my brother declined, he forced them into the coffeeshop where two of his indian accomplices were waiting. During the visit, that ah beng probed about my brother's identity, asking my brother questions like where is he from, if he has a handphone and so on. My cousin (he's only 15) being navie and gulliable, told that ah beng that my brother was a Singaporean and has a handphone. That ah beng then told them grandmother story about himself saying that he is some leader of some gang at Komtar and just the night before, his gang beaten someone really badly and blah blah (i say he is crapping!)...in a attempt to instill some fear into my brother and cousin. After finishing his story, that ah beng ask my brother to lend him his handphone so that he could make a call to check out some thing (which he didn't say what). He also told my brother that he could get his handphone back from the people upstais guarding the billboard stations. And so there goes the handphone. When my brother returned from the billboard stations empty-handed to the coffeeshop, the three idiots were gone! HOw frustrating?!!? His S$280 6100 nokia handphone is gone together with the simcard valued at S$40!!!

#I felt very angered by those three ah bengs and hence i've came up with several methods to counter this kind of dark motives.

#The kungfu method
If you know kungfu, you are defintely at an advantage (if the stalker has no weapons that is)...if forced into a situation whereby you feel threaten, recall the scene from Stephen Chow's Kungfu Hustle where the nerdy-looking man slapped Stephen Chow (this caught him off guard) and then grabbed his hair and slamdunked him repeatedly onto the passenger's seat. If you find this defense method too complicated, then just kick that bastard in the loins...that is bound to make him harmless for about 10 full seconds which could give you a headstart if you wanna make a dash to the nearest police stations (forget about informing the Malaysian Police....they most probably wouldn't side Chinese) or to the nearest cab and Zoom....off you leave the place.

#The Girlie method
Forget about this "if-i-scream-i-will-look-like-a-sissy" thingy guys! This method works well for girls and even better for guys (an attack would expect a man to fight with him like a man right? so screaming would defintely catch him off guard). If you find yourself cornered in a crowded place, no where to run, just take a very very deep breath and let out a long scream in your highest possible pitch....it is not only deafening, it catches the attention of onlookers. And when you are done screaming, shout, "He wants to take my handphone! catch him!" and muha! There you have it, the ah beng caught like some pathetic shrimp in a fishing net.

#Of course the number one rule is : NEVER EVER GET CORNERED!! And you should never tell people that you are a foreigner.....you can always tell them that you dont live in this area or you just got back from overseas studies yeah? Lastly, bring lesser cash and expensive accessories when you are out on the street (doesn't hurt if you don't flaunt your wealth for once yeah?)...so yup...

#The prom photos...i will upload soon lah..when i'm back in Singapore....i'll be leaving for Genting tonight! How exciting!! To all my friends, take care!

2004-12-05T21:32:00.000+08:00

><))o> Retarded

#Just tot i add this pic...it was taken during a bugis outing a few days ago...

Doesn't intan just look nothing near a malay? and look at her retarded haiR! She cut it herself....makes me wanna laugh...Hehehe...no offense hor intan!

This was supposed to be a lame picture....see how everyone is putting effort to look dumb except leena who decides to flash her teeth....

#I've been feeling rather retarded lately...i don't know why i feel like i've got nothing to block (*blog i mean) about....oh well...a little update on my life...i have finally gotten rid of all the worksheets from my secondary school (yes...i still keep them up till recently...very recently)...turns out that the garang guni uncle doesnt want my worksheets....you know...its ironic...i mean...garang guni should collect almost anything and everything except unwanted dead corpse or fecal matter ya? But that uncle doesn't want my worksheets....i;m so hurted..he rather collect those flimsy newspapers than my worksheets which are high-quality double A paper....so eventually, i had to thrown them away myself..*piss*

#Went for The Vocal Consort choir practice (i have no idea why they cant just call themselves Vocal Consort...must add one THE.....sounds so...DUH Vocal Consort...like that pun that we always play on DUH Chinese High School)....anyway, i'm so glad that Mr Kwei (the conductor) was there today...last week's practice without him sucks totally....the committee decided to split the choir up and learn the songs in small groups. Afterwhich, each group has to perform three songs....i was the only soprano 1 in my group and i had to sing all the descant and sop 1 parts myself.....sucks man....not only i was too nervous to sing, i suffered a sore throat after that...up till now, i have yet recovered....*piss*

#Mum's almost finish making my dress for prom *claps*...it's very nice...but not exactly as nice as i hope...well...my mummy not very experienced...so what more can i expect? Anyway, i sew a butterfly out of beads (according to a drawing meimei drew for me quite a while ago)....as i am not artisically-incline at all, my butterfly almost became a drangonfly (at least thats what my dad thinks) *piss* Mummy's gonna help me remedy it....perhapes remove the butterfly and replace it with something.....Wow....looking forward to prom...not that i am excited about dolling up...but the chance to dine at one of singapore's finest (ok lah...not finest) hotel with my best buddies from AJ is just amazing!! Can't wait for the day to came! *beams*

#Wow...talk about nothing to blog...i've blog so much...gonna stop now...i'm watching tv!

2004-12-02T21:33:00.000+08:00

><))o> What to blog about HUH?

#I'm so lazy to blog lately....must be because i am feeling ill - i am a sicked little wriggling...(whats thaT?!??!)...a little summary of the past few days' happenings.....stayed at home for 3 three days and did a thorough springcleaning of my room (i managed to pack out 6 bags of clothes, toys and bags for the Salvation Army!), did some ambigrams (inspired by Dan Brown's Angels and Demons) slept....today, i went to do my eyebrow....thank you to intan, leena and meimei for accompanying me! Ok lah...nothing much to blog about....=P

2004-11-25T20:37:00.000+08:00

><))o> rise in brankrupcy

# I just heard the news reporting that there are 426 peoples and companies made brankrupt, a 1.5% raise since September....Woah! Singaporeans are having problem managing $? I just finished reading the book Shopaholic by Shopie Kinsella...its about this lady named Rebecca Bloomwood who is a shopaholic and she cant stop buying unneccessary things....it seems that she's tries to buy short-lived happiness thru shopping, only to sink deeper into debt and depression. Although its a hilarious book meant to entertain, i must say....shopping can be quite a dangerous addiction...just look at me today....i went out with meimei to shop today (for her prom stuff) and i bought......

-an estee laura (is it spelled like this?) mascara ($7.90)
-a pair of exotic earing (at least i find it exotic, $6)
-took neoprints with meimei ($4)
-hotdog bun for lunch ($1.20)

*Kaching* Total telly is....$19.10! Wooh...that's $20 within a few hours which is a big deal for me...considering me being an extremely stringy (or as jac would like to call it -calculative) person...but oh well...once in a while its alright to indulge myself in such pleasurable sins yeah? Haha...anyway its meimei's birthday today!

Happy birthday meimei!

#So as i was saying....brankrupcies is like such a scarey thing....u get into this vicious cycle of accumulating interest along with the loans you took, the money you owed the bank, credit card companies and paying off your interest over and over again...its like the third world debt kind of thing....*shivers* I would never EVER wanna get into that kind of situation.....and therefore...i've planned...if i work, i will try to save about $500 or more per month -a form of investment for my future....*amy beams*

2004-11-23T20:56:00.000+08:00

><))o> sly vs taufik -who will win?

# 2 days to Biology Paper 1

# 1 more paper more to go

# 2 days to total liberation

#Woh...i didn't know that my comment about sly was causing such a stirr in my blog...oh well...i agree with you yonghao, yes yes...to be an idol, it takes more than talent...u need charisma, looks, engaging personality, blah blah....sly's defintely not lacking any of that given his large fan base...but honestly...i really think he lacks the singing talent...simple not versatile enough for my liking...i mean...can you guys imagine him representing singapore in the world idol, performing like how he did last week and finally get screwed by the foul-mouth judges, putting singaporeans to shame and at the same time, questioning singapore's credibility of choice? Well...in my opinion, at the moment, i would rather taufik win....at least my heart tells me that he's a better choice than sly. However, given sly's large fan base....it seemed unlikely...oh well....i'm crossing my fingers...btw....i dont really mean that those that support sly are tone deaf or what...i'm just kinda frustrated that olinda got booted off....

#Idols aside, meimei and i went shopping for prom today! (ok...more like meimei was doing the shopping and i was the accomplice....i mean...i was accompanying her...) After walking around orchard for nearly 5 hours plus, meimei bought her dress! It was a lovely white knee-length tube top with a top lacey-liked layer, nicely embrioded with little white flowers....and the best thing? It wasn't very expensive compared to most of the dresses we saw! Haha...so happy for her...but the sad thing was, both of us got too caught up with shopping that we forgot our lunch....by the end of the trip, we were both having stomachaches and gastric...Boo hoo boo hoo....no wonder they say shopping can kill....=P

#Ah yes! 2 more days to freedom....*amy grins* so happy.....btw, jacintha finally got herself a blog! Woo Hoo......way cool....looks like the blogging bug has caught her too! Visit her lovely blog here
and why why....what do you know...intan's got her friendster account back....well...looks like the ending of As has resulted in so many personality changes...haha...(jus a joke!)

2004-11-21T18:35:00.000+08:00

><))o>I can see the sunlight, it is just an inch away.

# 19hrs 30 mins to Biology Paper 3

# 2 papers more to go

# 4 days to total liberation

#Whoo hoo! How freaking cool is this? A levels are finally gonna be over!!! I am feeling this mini me (Hey... Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me is on tonight!) inside me that wants to jump out of me and go "WHHHHHHHHHHHEeeeeeeeeeee!" (ok...exaggerating!)

#The past few ten days had been kinda boring....with all the chemistry paper going on and mugging...i found chem paper 2 and paper1 kinda tough..*sigh* not looking too good!Oh well...but As are ending...that's something to cheer about!

#Another thing that i wana cheer about is that i have found my first three month friend, Renukha, over the net!!! *whistles* How cool is that?! And i got to learn that she is now in Ukraine, as a first year medicine student (awww....how i envy her!!!)...btw...jac, if you are reading this, she ask me to say "hi" to you and marlin! I kinda miss Renukha...her sudden departure from AJ just seem...so....oh well...sudden. No one had any idea where she had gone like she just vaporised into thin air! So you can imagine the kind of excitment when i found her on friendster...its was like "AHHHHH!!! RenukHA...kha...kha..."...yeah...get what i mean? She says that she might be coming to Singapore next summer! Gosh...just hope i get a chance to meet up with her....

2004-11-10T19:00:00.000+08:00

><))o> I'm a survivor!

# 5 days to Chemistry Paper 3

# 5 papers more to go

# 15 days to total liberation

#Alright! I'm done with the 3 horrendous papers!!! I've survived the storm!!! I'm a survivor!! Yeah....so is anyone giving me the one million?

Went to watch Shark's Tale with my bf today...actually we were thinking of watching Bride And Prejudice but there are only sneak previews at odd times for this show...so we decided to go for the cartoon...i have only 1 comment for the flim - what a flimsy plot!!! No doubt there were some hilarous moments, most of the jokes were generally lame....but i love the theme song though....you know...that one that goes like...

Doo doo doo doo doooooo....doo doo do doooo....tatataaaa.....

...yeah? Its stuck in my head now...and having any song stuck in my head isin't a good thing for me...wanna know why? Because during exams...i will hear the song in my head and thus distracting my concentration...it happened to me during the prelims though i didn't say this to anyone...I forgot what song was it though...haha...luckily during the As i managed to block the song out at least for a few hours and once i handed up my paper, the song automatically started to play itself in my head....the lastest one stuck in my head before this dooo dooo doo song was you know...that one that goes like...

I dont know what it is...
that makes me feel like this...
I dont know who you are...
You gotta be some kind of superstar...
(Jac, i and leena even invented a goofy dancestep for this song!)

#anyway....Deevapali and Hari Raya is near....so Happy Deevapali to jac and leena and Selamat Hari Raya to intan and marlin!

2004-11-08T13:25:00.000+08:00

><))o> Fish caught in a net

#In the middle of 3 BOMBASTIC (is it spelled like that?) papers now....just finished chem paper3 which was pretty ok save for some hiccups at the organic chemistry section and food chem (a question on differences in protein, minerals and vitamins content of skimmed milk and cream milk came out....what the hell?!! I don't drink skimmed milk...how i know?!?)...anyway its bio paper2 and maths paper1 tommorrow! *gasp*

So what am i doing here blogging away? I just feel trapped lah...like a pathetic fish caught in the net -helplessness.

I should really get out of here and get to mugging....

*amy did what most yoga masters would hope to master by kicking her buttocks with her buttons*

*amy gones*

2004-11-04T20:44:00.000+08:00

><))o> Perfect Storm

# 4 days to Chemistry Paper 3

# 8 papers more to go

# 21 days to total liberation

# Why i chose "Perfect Storm" as the title of my entry today? Well, ever heard of the movie "Perfect Storm", a true story-turned-movie based on a fishing vessel that was caught at the converging point of three stroms occuring stimultaneously? This is what will be happening to me next week...Monday and Tuesday to be exact. I will be having Chem paper 3 (all core topics including option topic) on Monday and followed by Biology paper 2 (all core topics) and Maths paper 1 (all core topics) on Tuesday. A perfect storm? Yeah you bet! I hope i come out of the storm alive! *fingers crossed*

# That aside, i have no wish to talk about how GP was today...since i'm sure it would be a rather boring topic to talk about compared to something i've been wanting to share for some time. All i can say....GP was ok...do-able =) I'll be happy enough if i pass....i never had high expectations for GP. Therefore, being able to complete the paper in time was already quite an achievement for me =P

# Ahh...finally...i've been wanting to share this for a while but i couldn't find the time and PC to blog! Nevertheless, now is my golden opportunity!!

# Have anyone ever irritated you so much that you wish you could slap that person? Ok....no one irritated me but someone bullied my bf and in turn irritated me. Who is this scroundrel? Not too long ago, my bf became a member of a rather prestigous choir in Singapore. He was placed under provisional membership for about a month. During this period, the conductress assigned a mentor to him and this mentor was such a bast***. Not only was he a lousy mentor (he simply did a horrific job of "grooming" my bf, demoralise my bf, question his singing ability when the conductress says otherwise!), he actually looked down on my conductor (whom i've been under for all these years) saying that he is lousy as a conductor when he himself has yet to even achieve any peanuts!

So who is this guy? His name is ALBERT. I tried to find a photo of him to post here but i could not (see...he's such an insignificant figure). Nonetheless, i shall continue to shame him on my blog. This ALBERT, according to my bf is
-fat
-ulgy
-horrendous attitude
-arrogent

YUCKS! To avoid all other unfortunate ALBERTS who share the same name as him to come under my "shaming", i shall rename this ALBERT to KUKUBIRD.

# I've thought of going up to KUKUBIRD and insult him at the choir's upcoming performance....

Amy (strides up to KUKUBIRD) : Hi! So....you are the infamous ALLLBERT (dragging the first syllabus in a disgusting manner.)

KUKUBIRD (slightly irritated) : What do you mean by infamous ?

Amy (in a sascarstic tone) : Oh, you mean you don't what's the meaning of infamous ? Why not trying checking the Collins dictionary or for a more PRECISE meaning, try the Oxford dictionary.

KUKUBIRD (fuming like an ancient Cho Cho train and mumbled) : ...BITCH...

Amy (with an all-knowing smile) : Oh yes....Babe In Total Control Haa!

With that i will do a 180 degree classic shampoo girl turn and hopefully smack that KUKUBIRD's face with my lice-infested, serum-coated hair, allowing some lice to migrate onto his EVEN more oily face! I will stride away in style, bathing myself in the pride that arose from the thunderous applause coming from the bystanders who have been long oppressed by that authoritative KUKUBIRD for so long.

# *snap* okies...i'm out of my fantasy....will i ever have the courage to deal with that KUKUBIRD? We'll see....but that KUKUBIRD deserved to be taught a lesson for his arrogence!

2004-10-25T16:24:00.000+08:00

><))o> Reality is so hard to swallow nowadays

#3 days to A level Chemistry Practical Examination

#10 days to A level General Paper Examination

# The real thing is inching nearer!! Oh no!!

# Went for GP consultation with Intan today...after the usual "Ms Kwan-Terry-help-me-see-if-my-essay-layout-is-ok" thingy, I asked Ms Kwan-Terry if her current handphone has camera and if it was good. She is using a nokia blahblahblah hp (i don't know what's the number that goes with it but its a zero dollar hp if you sign up a 2 year contract with starhub....so just go and check the papers and you will know what i mean). Anyway....we started to digress from there...Ms Kwan-Terry started asking me if my dad was still as strict then i said "yah". Probing further, she asked how come i still turn out to be such a cheerful kind of person and i replied that its no point for me to sink into depression, might as well just shrugged the unhappiness off and i'll be happier. Then the conversation took a turn. Ms Kwan-Terry started to talk about herself.

Ms KT : My parents were also very strict.

Amy : Huh? Really meh? Thought your parents seemed like the "anything, anything" kind?

Ms KT : Yah lah...now they don't care about me but when i was young, in secondary and JC, they were very strict. Do your parents set a curfew for you?

Amy : Yep, be home by 7.

Ms KT : Mine was 5.

Amy : Oh man! 5?!? How to comply? Its so early! Cant get much things done also...

Ms KT : Yah loh. There was once i want to send a friend off at the airport but she is only leaving at 9 and in the end, i didn't get to send her off because my parents didn't allow me to.

Amy : Awww....

Ms KT : I was very rebellious then.

After saying that, she went on to say...

"I ran away from home before."

Me and intan immediately busted into laughters. Ms Kwan-Terry running away from home?!? It seemed like the last thing this mild-mannered, guai-looking kind of teacher would do. And she actually stayed at her friends house for "A FEW DAYS" putting her friend's parents into a fix of harbouring her and at the same time, handling her parents' phonecalls. I was like "WOW!" Really admire her courage for doing such a thing and at the same time, i was really amused by her confession. Oh well...it just goes to show that...

... every child yearns to be free and like a caged bird, the more you deny your child of freedom, the more your child seeks liberation...

# Haha...just a small tip to parents, parents-to-be and parents-will-be.

2004-10-22T19:20:00.000+08:00

><))o> The As has came! So has my doom!!!

#6 days to A level Chemistry Practical Examination

#13 days to A level General Paper Examination

#Wow! Look at the dates!!! The core papers for A level is creeping near!!! How scarey!! I went through a very terrible session of Biology Practical on Thursday...

#After scanning through the papers, i decided to attempt the second question regarding effect of the wavelenght of light on the rate of photosynthesis using DCPIP (an oxidising agent with itself being reduced during photosynthesis) ...my choice of the first question to attempt proved to be a bad one - a very bad one indeed! First of all, we were told mash up pieces of leaves given in a cold buffer to produce a green leaf extract. Next, we have to add 5 drops of DCPIP (which were blue initially) to the leaf extract, ensuring at the same time that we do not expose the mixture to light for too long. This means that we have to rapidly remove and replace the aluminium foil over the extract! How irritating!! This experiment is really not for clumsy and panicky people like me!! Anyway...the mixture i got was dark green...pretty much difficult to tell if the DCPIP inside was being reduced over time or not (after complete reduction, the mixture would turn back to the original colour of the leaf extract which was light green). There were 5 capillary tubes containing the mixture- the colour standard, a tube completely exposed to light, a tube completely wrapped in aluminium foil, a tube placed under a green fliter and another under a red fliter.

#Over my 16 minutes of observation (yes...16 mins!! Its that long!) I squinted and squinted to try to make out if any changes happened...eventually, my results tell me that DCPIP in the tube under the red fliter was being reduced the faster meaning photosynthesis occured at a faster rate followed by the tube that was fully exposed to light, then the tube under the green fliter and lastly, the tube that was wrapped in aluminium foil.

#I hate to say this...but 2 years of physics in secondary school has taught me nothing! Or rather, i learnt nothing! I can't recall if the filter was supposed to filter all the other spectrum of light except the colour of the filter itself or let all the other spectrum of light through except for the colour of the filter itself. Now, that point is kinda crucial for the explanation part...but...I JUST COULDN'T RECALL! Oh well...i went along with my results and tried to make some sense of it! Hopefully its correct!

#After the horrifying question, i flipped the pages only to realise (to my horror again by the way) that there were at least 3 more sub parts to the question (what the O*^Y@(#) and one of it was a design experiment with 9 marks attached to it! I'm not a wimp or anything...but design experiments just freak me out (during O level physic practical, i left an entire design experiment out...and of course...subsequently how i got a B3 was a mystery...)

#After freaking out, i went on to the last question only to suffer mental block....it was a genetics question...i have absolutely no idea what the question was asking me! Feeling rather demoralised, i completed part of the question involving a chi-square test. (After the exam, i found out that if i had been more calm...i would have been able to read the genetics question in more detail and would have easily scored the marks! Oh...what a failure i am!) Went on with the first question which asked for plan and detailed drawings of kidney...relatively easy question i should say...then i did my design experiment which i later found out that was managable....=)

#The bio prac shocked everyone...having religiously mugged thru the past year practicals from the tys, the DCPIP question was really one of its kind...never in the history of bio practice has this experiment came out!! What the *#@$^(! Oh well...but its over...i'm happy at least that i didn't really screw up the experiment...or at least i hopped! =) Hope chemistry prac won't be such a killer!

-if i die (in bio prac), i'm sure many others will die with me...so what's there to fear?-

2004-10-16T21:46:00.000+08:00

><))o> The making of a mugger

#There used to be a girl who was born into this carefree world (or so she thought). At kindergarden, she loves chinese and math, oftening scoring above 90 marks for these two subjects. She loves studying. She's simply good at it. Kindergarden was a breeze for her. She got into Rulang Primary School as an eager girl with a raw mind to start the next schooling phase of her life.

#There was a incident that happened when she was in Primary Two and up till today, its still fresh in her mind. She got home one day, with a horrendous result for a minor maths paper. Her dad fumed and caned her. She ran to the kitchen and sat down, leaning against the washing machine crying and rubbing her eyes for hours. Her mum sat down beside her, comforting her, persuading her to stop rubbing her eyes. But, she couldn't care less even when her eyes became swollen and red.

Finally, she was too tired to cry.

She stood up and washed her face only to feel the scroching heat at the skin around her eyes the moment water touches it. She nearly screamed for the pain on her tender skin was unbearable. Only then she realised that the skin around her eyes had came off after hours of rubbing. She regretted her action....but she was too tired and upset to care much about it either.

#The next day, the healing process began...as the skin nurse itself back to health, a layer of brown deposit formed around her eyes. She looked like a monster. Worse than it perhaps. Nevertheless, she went to school only to be greeted by classmates who shy away from her as if she has got some deadly disease. She felt sad, lonely and embarrassment.

Foruntately, she got over the whole terrible episode and moved on with life.

#She did reasonbly well for her PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examinations) scoring 3 As and 1 A* and got into a reputable school in the neighbourhood, Commonwealth Secondary School. She became a girl who wanted to be recognised, wanted to prove that she has grown up and could make decisions of her own. Her chance came when she got noticed by some PE teachers that she had potential in sports. Being gullible and naive (her eagerness to prove her worth also got the better of her judgement), she agreed to join the school's track and field team.

#The morning training started out as once per week. Slowly it became twice per week and she was obliged to attend afternoon trainings at MacRitchie Resvoir , even religiously report back to school during the holidays. Having to juggle with Choir and training at the same time put a strain on her studies. Her results slipped. She barely pass Maths. She couldn't believe herself that her capabilites was just mediocre. Her father couldn't believe it too and gave her a good scolding that night when she got back her results.

She remembered that she cried very badly that night. She kept drifting in and out of sleep, crying everytime she drifted out of sleep. She could hear her parents arguing about her. While her mum reasoned that her daughter shouldn't be given too much stress, her dad guarded his beliefs that his daugther had diverted her attention to unnecessay areas.

#She went to choir practice the next day with swollen eyes again but having learnt her lesson the painful way, she refrained from rubbing her eyes the night before. Nonetheless, her eyes were swollen. It was obvious to her friends that she had spent a night crying. They comforted her and tears welled up again at the thought of the night before.

#She didn't tell her friends that she comtemplated suicide that night. She asked herself in the mist of crying if she should just end her life there and then and be liberated from the miserables. But a voice with a strong conviction told her that she shouldnt be such a wimp. Instead, she should prove her father wrong and do her mother proud. Suicide thoughts were immediately wiped out of her minds with plans on how she is going to pick up the shattered pieces of her life. She decided, on that very night, to work very very hard, to get all her concepts right, leaving no questions unanswered just to get her grades.

#She quitted the track and field team not long after. It wasn't a cca she enjoyed much either. During secondary two, she worked harder than she has ever worked before and the results amaze her. From a near fail in maths, she scored nearly full marks (also thanks to a wonderful maths teacher of course). She did very well for science as well as geography too. Eventutally, from a scrap through at secondary 1, she was third in the class, 13th in the level. It was then that she realised that she could really do well if she put in all her efforts into her studies.

Since then, a mugger was born.

#People often commented that i am a mugger....well....having gone through all those painful experiences (which still can potentially bring me to tears when i get reminded of them), its hard not to become a mugger right? *winkS* So yep...that's my story...=)

2004-10-14T21:52:00.000+08:00

><))o> 1 day to graduation

# counting down 8 days to Biology Practical A level Exam

# counting down 21 days to General Paper A Level Exam

#ooh...*stressed*...so...need to *destress* Best way to destress? Take photos!! Lots of it!! On tues, instead of doing the routine pe, me, intan and leena become Singapore's next top model (ok lah...i'm abit exaggerating!)....we were going wild taking photos....below are some of the photos we took...

See what i mean by *destressing* ? That's the way man!

Both leena and intan claimed that they looked like dead corpse in this photo...yah...i agree hehe..

My fave pic of all...!! I just loved the idea of lying down posing with a football in the middle! (that's Ganison's precious ball btw...)

My fave number, 3! HoNEST!!

Fandi Leena and Fandi Ganison....the next Ronaldo of Singapore!

Ok...that was a dumb pose...but nevertheless i felt humored looking at how stupid i looked with my head sticking out and Intan attempting to close the door!

The Hockey lians!

Intan and leena fooling around with the tree...

Aww...another of my faves...dont u just love the combination of lustrous green and red hot in one photo itself?

A stint at the balance beam...

The monkeys hanging themselves on the monkey bars obviously...(haha)

The two prisioners of AJC...

I went to pay leena a visit...(look at how sad i was...)

The toilet become our next target...

A toilet ad anyone?

# Went around taking pictures today again because....IT'S ONE DAY TO GRAUDATION...SOB!!!

Creative shot isint it? Meimei and intan were posing while me and leena made sure our reflection got captured just so that all four of us are in the picture!!! *A spark of genius*

Had a huge feast today....13 plates and bowls of food from different stores in AJ were shared among 7 persons namely myself, leena, jac, meimei, yanting, shuxin and shuqi...aww man...i tell ya...its the best meal i ever had in AJ...eating so much food at the some time with so many people was so enjoyable that i didn';t feel hungry for the next....5 hours or so?

meimei acting cute.....haha...

one last picture with Mrs Soon...aww...Mrs Soon, i'm gonna miss ya....*sob*

If you are wondering why i pose this pic...it is because if you look carefully, you can see brown stains on this wall...and the brown stains (as observed by meimei) kept appearing for some mysterious reasons even thought the wall has been repainted several times. We did examine that area and felt equally bewildered by the occurances as it was impossible for the stains to appear in a shelthered area. Hence our deduction is that....the stains were probably not made by humans....

Saw a pulley for the first time in my life *screams* so excited....so i took a pic of it...

While studying in library, meimei saw MacDonald's lastest ad. Mac is selling hellokitty stufftoys at $1.50 with each Extra Value Meal! We went to NYP and got it!!! Hehe...meimei brought the smoky quartz (the orangey one) while i bought the garnet quartz (the red one)...aww so nice right? We wanted the rose quartz one (pink) but the NYP outlet sold out all the pink one by 12 nn....

Lo and Behold! I saw that the rose quartz was available at Admiratly's Mac!!! So happy...so i went and got it just now for myself and meimei! Yippie!

2004-10-13T13:31:00.000+08:00

><))o> 2 days to graduation day

# counting down 9 days to Biology Practical A Level Exam

# counting down 22 days to General Paper A Level Exam

# How sad....in 2 days time, i will no longer be an aj student...come to think of it, i've come to like the school after studying 2 years in AJ...it must have been because of caring teachers like Mrs Soon, Ms Kwan-Terry , wonderful friends like my gang and also a very enthu class like 0903 that made me thorougly enjoy my JC life. Thanks to all you people for sharing all the memories to me =)

# Frankly-speaking, i used to hate AJC not only because the school campus is old, it wasn't my first choice at all (my first choice was SAJC but because i shifted house, i had no choice but to go to AJ to avoid travelling). To make things worse , Ms THC (yes...that teacher that marked my GP paper 1 for prelims) was my pdg tutor and she probably enjoyed making my first 3 months life difficult (to hell with her!). I had little true friends from my first 3 months class because i never felt that my previous click clicked at all.....i was considered a pest in choir because i continuously absent myself from practices (i swear i have very good reasons for this!). Under the kind of circumstances i was in, i should have gone to another JC after the release of my results...infact i did consider about it. However, i decided to stay on (ironically AJ choir was the reason i chose to stay on) and boy was that the best choice i ever made in my life!!

#THings took a 180 degree turn after first 3 months. The reshuffling of students got me into another class with very unfamiliar faces...i got to know leena, meimei and intan, got to become good friends with marlin and jac (who were previously my first 3 months classmates but my click then viewed them as the mugger group and called them the A.I (artifical intelligence/ahmad ibrahim] group...till today, i think marlin and jac are still irritated about it!)...and of course, slowly i got to know the class, forged better bonds with teachers...blah and blah...

# All these seemed just like yesterday....but graduation is 2 days away....why does the 2 years seemed so short? First of all...its not exactly 2 years if you do the math probably...i just used a whole number for convenience sake . Secondly, time seems to fly past quickly when you are enjoying yourself. In a nutshell...i've been enjoying my JC life and the 2 years suddenly didn't seem so long at all....=)

# Just a little qoute before i'm off to mug....

Learn to live your present life and face up to daunting challenges with all the amazing memories you have from your past.

2004-10-09T20:52:00.000+08:00

><))o> Undies for sale! Any takers?

#Opps...did i sound like a bitch? Nah...i'm not the one selling the undies....its someone else...the story goes like this....

#Last week, a person from friendster who goes by the name of rainywater sent me a message asking me if i want to sell my undies. She is paying $20 for my undies! Wow....have i suddenly transformed into a superstar or potential superstar that someone is so desparate to pay $20 bucks for something as personal as my underwear? Immediately, i thought of the underwear that has lost its elasticity, suffered from a few holes that i had found in the dustbin (apparently my mum threw it away because....it was in a state of no return!!)...a cheeky thought struck me....would it worth $20? Honestly...that underwear was brought....hmmm....when i was in primary school...it was probably on sale at 5 pieces for $2? Haha...if i sell it, i would make a hell of a profit and buy more decent underwears!!! *evil laughs*....but of course....why would i want to sell my underwear? I mean...its something so personal and morever...i wouldnt feel comfortable knowing that somewhere out there....some maniac probably has my underwear.....YUCKS!!! Naturally, i told the person "no thanks" hopping that it sounded like i had attitude problem and she would back off....

#BUT NO!!!!! She replied back! Guess what she said?? She said "just 1 piece can? i need it urgently..i will deposit the money into your account.." Piangz! I nearly fainted reading that...someone really wants my undies so much....that word "urgently" is particularly disturbing...well...can't be bothered with people like this...i decided not to reply this time *amy beams*

#So much for the story...so who is this bold entrepreneur? Dying to see her lu shan zhen mian mu (face) ? Muhahaha.....scroll down!!

#Tata....thats her (sorry i have no idea which one is it....i presume its the one on the left...her poor friend on the right got implicated too......or vice versa....)

#above was the message she sent me....hehe....(sorry girl...you haven't told me not to reveal your picture and message...)

#I'm outa here after some satisfying havoc which i have just created!

2004-10-08T13:27:00.000+08:00

><))o> The Da Vinci Code

#Read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown sometime ago and if i had ten thumbs, i would give it ten thumbs up!! The book is really a masterpiece not only in the language itself but the plot, the kind of thinking process and research that the author went through and did to formulate codes with double meanings. Dan Brown is truly a master at crytology. Another aspect about the book that intrigued me was the description of the famous paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci such as Virgin of the Rocks, The Mona Lisa and also The Last Supper. When i have the time, i swear i will put up those pictures and tell you guys the hidden meaning of the pictures alright? If you have read the book, I'm sure you would have felt like Sherlock Homles playing detective along with Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu. If you haven't read the book? Oh man! What are you waiting for?? Grab the book and indulge in it!!! That's all folks! Been really busy mugging lately...but i will try to blog whenever i can!! Take care readers!!

-amy out-

2004-10-02T21:40:00.000+08:00

><))o> the stars of AJC

#A few days ago, the termly AJ publication called AJ Link was out and being distributed among the classes...this colourful magazine is like a god sent gift compared to the black and white lecture notes or tutorials that we normally get and so it is no doubt that we eagerly flipped through the magazine when we get our hands on it...when we come to the centrefold of the magazine...we saw our (0903) picture right smacked in the middle!! And it was ridiculously big! We looked ridiculously hilarious!!! The picture was taken when we were cheering away knowing that we had won the AJ amazing race! (If you have no idea what i am talking about, refer to one of my early aug entry) And because all of us looked so excited, we looked so funny!! Here's our elated faces...

# As you can see...all of us are in a state of euphoria as if we strike lottery or got 4 distinctions for our A levels...haha...leena was shouting so happily away that she really look like a hippo (she herself noted that her mouth looked so big!!)...Bernard was like rising his hand up as if he was Christopher Colombus who had just discoverd America while Hueychyi had her hand over her mouth in a state of disbelief that we had won...haha...whatever the reason for the idiot actions we have...we really look happy...never looked happier before as a class...personally...i'm honestly glad that the photo was published because that serves as a memory to each and everyone of us in 0903 that we had won the AJ race. What's more important is the unity that the picture tell of....=) Ohoh...if you have noticed, i'm at the bottom left hand corner taking pictures...so...Muhahahaha....i have a picture of the photographer taking a picture of us....*evil laughs*

#there she is....Miss Florence Lee!! Haha...and of cos...our leader, Yonghao receiving the prize from Mr Tan....hahaha...what an irony....her picture tells of our story while mine tell of hers....

*a picture speaks a thousand words*

2004-09-30T17:15:00.000+08:00

><))o> Good teachers vs bad teachers

#Have you ever met good teachers that are so dedicated and encouraging that you in turn get motivated to study? (Well at least for that teacher's sake?) Then have you ever met bad teachers that make you loathe the subject that he/she teaching just because he or she is teaching that subject? Unforunately...i met some very bad and incompetent teachers that made me hate cetain subjects. But forunately for me, about 90% of the teachers who have taught me are very nice and passionate people. Unforunately, during this prelim, two of my scripts are marked by two teachers one of which i totally loathe and the other, suffering from a disgusting case of imcompetency!

#My GP paper 1, which was essay, was marked by Ms THC (i shall be nice and just put her initials)!! This is one woman that i really hate and the hatred started from J1 when she was my PDG tutor....she always look like she has some attitude problem and she is always quick to refute any constructive ideas the student suggest during GP which often makes us feel that she is not very receptive of ideas and fiercely guarding her own beliefs. As i've said...my miserable script was marked by her and it seemed like 70% of my point sounded silly or illogical to her...thereby i failed with a pathetic score of 20/50. I wouldn't deny that my language ability was atrocious but i think i would have fared better if my script was marked by someone else or if i have just chosen another question to do in the first place...

#Maths - I failed my paper 2 with a score of 38.5/100, something which i was already expecting. However, when i checked through the papers, i made a shocking discovery - my last question was not marked! Oh my Gawd!!! (yes...omg!) And the teacher who marked that question was actually a sotong math teacher whom i have no idea how on earth he earned his First Class Honours. So much for that....my papers was sent in for marking and i managed to earn a few more marks to allow me to improve a grade higher...=)

#Overall...i did pretty ok...except for bio (which i have yet to get back my papers), i fared pretty well for chem and maths (dont talk about GP man...)...i actually exceeded my own expectation....this is especially so for chemistry...so...i'm happy=) But this is no time to be complacent...i'm now motivated to sprint for my last leg of race!

GO AMY!

2004-09-28T18:25:00.000+08:00

><))o> Happy 18th birthday Leena!!

Happy birthday to leena
Happy birthday to leena
Happy birth....day....to....leena....
Happy birthday to YOU!!!

#See leena....i so good...remember to sing you birthday song leh...on my blog somemore...haha...=P

#Okie...that aside...here are the photos taken from intan's aunty's wedding and the birthday celebration for 0903's most scandalous couple - Leena and Boonkiat (Their birthdays are only 1 day apart so we thought we sabo them...*evil laughs*

The arrival of the groom! See the uncle that looks like Singapore's President, Mr S R Nathan? That's Intan's grandfather!

The guy dressed in dark pink like a Sultan is the bridegroom. He has such a lovely dimple on the right side of his cheek...aww...

The man in black is doing silat, a form traddition malay martial art.

The blushing bride and cheeky-looking bridegroom.

From left: marlin, me, leena and intan!

Intan looking like a maid with her rag and hagged looked.

OKie....we are not in anyway directly related to the couple...but...we thought we should just take a photo for keepsake...haha....so thick skin!!

Me and marlin fooling around at the playground behind the banquet area. Leena finds us foolish for our acts but i find leena stupid to try to act "mature" (see below pic!).

Leena insist on just taking the pics normally (so boring)!

The gang of 4 out of 6 once again...

Oooo...this is one of the makkal i was saying that jac would like...he is the one who knew that we are taking photo of him...muhaha....but too bad...jac doesn't seem too interested with him! So much for my effort...=(

This is the makkal with the soothing voice....but too bad...jac also dont like...

The bride and bridegroom leaving for Bedok South where there is another banquet specially setup for the bridegroom's family and friends.

Our very scandalous couple - Leena and Boony!! We forced them to cut the cake together so that they look like they are cutting their wedding cake...muahahah!

Ooo...the gang looking all sian....

Bernard (the guy with the black bag) wanted to rape boonkiat! Hence he is holding onto boony's bag to use it as a bait!

Above are intan's overdue present (the one in the bronze box.) Its a butterfly penchant with an orange lace string...The present with a lavender wrapping is Leena's present. We got her a palette of eyeshadow because her makeup set was pathetic and she kinda need some quality makeup set...we thought we start her off with the eyeshadow palette..hehe...

#alright...i outa here!

2004-09-26T21:07:00.000+08:00

><))o> dusting my blog

#Whey hey people...sorry haven't been blogging since my prelims end and i am armed with very reasonable reasons...well...reasons are supposed to be reasonable right? Only excuses aren't reasonable...eh...oh well...the reasons being:
1. My dad is back from overseas and he has been bugging the computer.
2. I'm having such a wonderful slacking session that i'm too tired to use the pc much less than to fight over the pc with my dad.

With that said, i will now officially "report" my doings for the past few days starting from thursday.

THURSDAY
#Went shopping with meimei at orchard...haven't bought anything though...only Leena and Intan's present...meimei was abit upset about not getting anything for herself. Mind you, the thing that actually caught her eyes that day was a white Herms-lookalike bag (a smaller version of it) with a button that says "strawberry leaves" and with a price tag of $129!!! Being a calculative person (as Jac has "affectionately" associated me with...which i think if crudely put, should be stingy), i started discouraging meimei from buying the bag...i mean...what? $129 leh!! That is effectively 43 bowls of ban mian if each bowl is priced at $3!! Hehe...think she kinda upset about not getting it...

Meimei, nevermind lah...next time i become millionaire then i get it for you okie? Hehe...anyway...we took some pics....

Nice right? So the nice pictures kinda neutralise the saddness we are feeling...=)

FRIDAY
#Ooo...lots to blog about! On friday, i went to the gym in the morning with jac and afterwhich slack at her house waiting for leena to wake up from her beauty sleep so that we could go over to her house. Jacintha's dog, Charlie, was such a cutie!!! It is quite a glutton too! It had wanted to eat the biscuit that i was eating...btw, the dog loves whatever jacintha loves! Talk about like owner like dog!

At about 10.20am, we headed to leena's house where we were greeted by a very unfriendly dog named Belle and her mother, Buffy, who was more mild-tempered. We played Twister while waiting for meimei to arrive. Leena was so unlucky with Twister! She was practically doing a split and her hands crossing over! She looked so hilarious!! At that point, she got kinda fed up and decided to end the game...Muhahaha...!

After meimei's arrival, we chatted awhile, ate...then i started to teach Leena and meimei photoshop. (Think i can skip the photoshop part...rather boring i would say!) After a few hours at the pc, we went back to playing Janger (u know..that game whereby you have to take a block from the bottom and put it on the top ensuring that the whole setup doesnt topple over?). We decided that whoever who loses, has to do a forfeit. The forfeit? Do prank calls, pretending to be a person called "Keropal Singh" and accused the person whom we called of kicking "Keropal Singh's dog" and threatening to kill the person. Lame right? But it was funny though. And guess what? I lost!!! What the hell....leena was like so reckless with removing her blocks yet she survived...but me...i was carefully and delicate...yet i lost!

Leena says its some physic shit...(arh...Watever!) So i did the call...our first target was Bernard...so i went "Bernard arh....You kick my dog right?! If i find out that it is you, which i am sure it is, i will kill you arh! YOu better watch out!" Afterwhich i passed the phone to leena who went "this is keropal singh!" then bernard hung up. We did the prank call on intan too who immediately recognised Leena's voice and heard jacintha's hysterical laughter which kinda gave us away. After intan, we called Yanting who kept going "huh? huh?". After the call to yanting, bernard called leena's handphone. It was then that we realised that bernard and yanting were together!!! What the (*@#^ 4! So...even though leena die die also don't want to admit that she was the caller, bernard kinda knew....ah...anyway, me and leena decided to tell them tomorrow...haha....

Friday was awesome man....it was really quality time spent with my gang...

SUNDAY
#Today me, leena and marlin went to attend Intan's aunty's wedding...grand affair i must say...it was so cool! There was a live Hindi band playing and shortly after our arrival, the bridegroom came with all the drummers, his friends and relatives whom we dubbed "man in black" because they were all wearing back suits with the top two buttons undone *whistles*.

The three of us kinda got the VIP seats...the table closest to the "altar" (i really dont know what's the set up called)...so when the groom came, we saw everything that was going on at the "altar" which was an eye-opening experience for us (at least for me and leena lah...)...we were making so much jokes and crappy conversations there that time seemed to fly pass so quickly! We took some pictures (which i promise to upload once i get my hands on it) and also took a sneak shot of the hindi band which comprises of two very good looking makkals ("the cool people" in Indian terms) to spite jacintha knowing that she has such a thing going on for makkals...haha...

#wow...so long a blog...=P sorry people to put you through such tortures...you'll be glad to know that this is the end of the entry!

-amy out-

2004-09-23T08:27:00.000+08:00

><))o> Temporal freedom

#alright! Prelims are finally over! Reflecting on my study attitude, i havent been entirely please with myself because towards the end of prelims, i lost the motivation to study...i haven't did as much practice as i would had hope, haven't got some important information into my brain...but overall, i knew i gave at least 70% of effort....i'm certain that maths and gp will probably be the two worse-scoring subjects while i pray that i improve my chem and hopefully do ok for bio...=) I haven't found chem and bio papers particularly daunting....esp chem...it was defintely easier than the mid-years. =) Oh well...i hope i get at least a reasonoable grade for prelims...maybe 2 Ds at least...i'll be happy then and more motivated to sprint my last lag of race.

#meanwhile...it's time to rock!! Yesterday my bf and i went to JB and i brought The Sims 2! Awesome game i must say!!! If you are never a big fan of The Sims, it is really time u start considering playing the game because i'm sure you will be captivated with the characters, their lives and opportunities zooming their way! Sims 2 rocks even more so than The Sims....so do check the game out!

#Oh oh...and a big thank you to all those who have been concern and gave their upmost encourage to me during this period of time (you guys know who u are!)...thanks!

-amy out, indulging in The Sims 2-

2004-09-20T20:01:00.000+08:00

><))o> the torment shall be gone.....soon lah

# Yuppy...its 2 official days to the end of prelims (for me) with 3 more officially papers to go....had pretty much lost the motivation to study (naughty me) because prolong studying (which i think i started about 1 month after mid year till now?) simply SUCKS! I'm so drained out now...frustrated too because i find myself forgetting important things when i should remember them...Mrs Soon always says "if you find yourself not getting the right anwers or getting stuck, its time to sleep!" (ok lah...she didn't exactly say sleep...she said "take a rest" during exam and "take a nap" if you are at home) So...i am slacking big time now...

# Today was bio paper 3...and as expected...that inconsiderate girl beside me took off her shoes again...but i told myself to be focused and i ignored her...anyway...the paper was time-pressing also...so i didn't had much time to idle!

# Got a call from my second elder brother just now to go downstairs and meet him. He has something to pass me. Wheee....so happy...hardly get to see my brother because he travel around alot!! He passed me some mooncakes...which is like so sweet and cute of him...the mooncakes are not the normal mooncakes...it looks like agar agar mooncake...hehe cant wait to tell my mum when she gets back! Haha...okie...back to mugging for me now...*groans*

#btw...tagboard's down again (what? again? yeah...AGAIN!)...so if you have a comment, just drop it at the comment box below (arrows pointing down)

2004-09-17T16:40:00.000+08:00

><))o> amy- the toilet bowl

#AHHHHH....hippos of heaven, monkeys of earth, WHY DO I HAVE TO STAND DIRECTLY UNDER A BIRD'S LATERINE TODAY?!?!?! It is ok that the bird pooed but....IT DIDN'T FLUSH!!! ARghhhh....! Guess i am just unluckily....or very lucky so to speak....

2004-09-13T20:12:00.000+08:00

><))o> the big P have offically started

#The big P i am referring to is the "Prelims"....yep...today was biology paper 1 and 2. Paper 1 consists of 40 MCQs which i found reasonably ok (fairly simple i guess)...it was way too much time to give 1 hour 15 min for the paper...i think within 45 mins i finished (ok...i'm not boosting really...now tell me, how many of you finished within that amount of time? See. Almost all of you!) ...i felt like sleeping because my head really felt heavy (damn the flu!) but i saw Mr Ong standing near me and i decided against it. I don't want to look like a primary school kid who needs like 12 hours of sleep per day...worse still, i might just become the next target of Mr Ong's criticism!

So instead of going to Zzzz land, i decided to check through my paper thoroughly and boy, that probably saved me from losing a few more unnecessary marks...really hope i could do well for MCQ because i totally flop at paper 2. It isin't because the questions are tough...its more like i couldn't put my thoughts into words (a sign that i lack practice!)...and unfortunately, i didn't have enough time to finish the paper (this time they gave too little time)...i wonder if the biology department did their math correctly...or maybe they aren't very good at counting...or at least Mr Ong isin't (*evil laughs*)....okok i know....stop blaming the whole world except myself. I know...i'm lazy...didn't practice...so for As, i must practice!

#Oh oh...i think i am really suay today....i have to sit beside a slacker (or so i assume...she must be a slacker lah...i'm quite sure...)....during paper 1, she sat like a soldier, resting the ankle of her right leg on the lap of her left leg and kept shaking it....she is really distracting me....and she looked like she couldn't be bothered to do the paper....what the....! And if this isin't bad enough, guess what she did during paper 2? SHE TOOK OFF HER SHOES!!! Yeah...you saw it right. She took off her shoes...and she didn't even wear socks! Can you believe it?!?! No socks....no shoes...just her bare, naked legs! I think i nearly fainted....did i smell some weird odour?I don't know...even if i didn't, my mind must have imagined it! Gawd....what luck man....she even had time to take off her shoes...doesn't that show that she is a slacker? I'm kinda sure that she didn't know how to do the questions and therefore suddenly found herself having to kill 2 hours of time. And of all things, she had to choose to take off her shoes to kill time...oh yucks! I was disgusted over and over again...i'm so relief when the paper finally ended...The thought of having to sit beside her for Biology paper 3 is just traumatizing. I suddenly wished that she will come prepared...then again...fat hope...i think she's a total slacker! Well then...good luck to me!

#After the exam, i went to Chong Pang and met up with my mum for dinner. After dinner, my mum suggested that we sit at the void deck and enjoy one of nature's greatest phenomenon - birds returning to their nest! Ok... if you think that i am saying just a few pathetic birds flying back to their treehouses then you are wrong! It is like probably a million birds, appearing in large groups each time, flying back to their homes within a period of an hour (from 6pm to 7pm). The scene is just amazing...perhapes even better than those you see at Sungei Buloh.

These unusual number of birds residing at Chong Pang have caught the attention of the media in the light of the bird flu outbreak. It seems that the authorities are comtemplating to cut these trees so that hopefully that will disperse the bird and decrease the chances of these birds catching the bird flu together (mass infection i should say). What bullshit is this? It is as good as saying, if someone who live in blk XXX is suspected of having SARS (or any other transmissable diseases), blk XXX should be demolished. Crap isin't it? Why should we destroy something so beautiful? And as if it isin't bad enough that people call Singapore the concrete jungle! And it is not as if these cute birds catch the bird flu...its chickens ok? Chickens don't go flying around in the city! Infact chickens are too heavy to fly...so what's the link that these birds will catch the flu? Through the soil? Nonsense!

People can be so cruel sometimes....we invade, we conquer and we subdue (doesn't it just sound like the Japanese soldiers during WW2?)...you know...we always go like "aiyo...so cruel...how could they do such things" when we ourselves are stepping on bugs or pushing for the trees to be cut. We aren't better. Admit it. Humans are a bunch of senseless idiot. Yes we are. Admit it. And those Chechen rebels...nothing better to do issit? Go and hold the poor children hostages for what? If they are so sicked of this world, then just go to hell lah. Or maybe hell won't even accept them...they will be sent to somewhere worse! And i damn well hope those that have died will never rest in peace. May them will always be guilt-ridden even in a place worse than hell. Amen.

#We humans are constantly trying to protect ourselves from this very world that we are living it. The more we try to keep ourselves from harm, to uphold our dignity, the more we are destroying this world that we are living in. Nature has given us so much. But what have we gave in return? When the world comes to an end, we have only ourselves to blame.

2004-09-11T01:37:00.000+08:00

><))o> love

#They are both convinced that a sudden passion joined them.

Such certainty is beautiful,

but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

2004-09-10T20:19:00.000+08:00

><))o> A new layout!!

#Hey guys! I'm have did a new layout...this time i adapted the images from jimmy liao's A Chance of Sunshine. I love jimmy liao's work....it's just full of surrealism....your wildest imagination can be found in his work! Of all his works, A Chance of Sunshine is one of my favourites...so i decided to do a skin based on this =) I kinda love it....just that i gotta get used to the layout...=) Haha....

To meimei: My pinky blog is gone! Hehe...how's this one?

2004-09-09T13:43:00.000+08:00

><))o> IML (into a mugger's life)

#If could take a look into my brain now, you wouldnt see anything but formulas and formulas, profound info like "trachieds are stained red/green/pink" , " kw = [OH-][H+]" , etc. I'm seriously tired of mugging....especially doing all those complicated questions from top 5 junior colleges....! Oh man...i cant wait for prelims to be over...i want to relax, do something nice like play badminton or swimming!!! Ahh....this week is such an agonising one!!

Sigh...i have no idea what to blog about...life is extremely boring now...revolving around nothing but books....and notes....oh yes...i flew a kite yesterday! It wasn't particularly windy but my mum, being an expert, managed to get the kite high up into the sky....whenever i see the kite, i feel as if my woes and worries are a thousand miles away...and for a while, i feel that life isin't so stressful...perhapes i am too hard on myself....

*We accept flaws to gain perfection*

2004-08-31T21:31:00.000+08:00

><))o> one more thing off my wishlist
#It was Teachers' Day today and this year, i have made a bold decision to return to my secondary school. It was bold because i havent went back since i took my O level results and i'm sure the school has changed, people has changed. I felt kinda insecured when i stepped into the school but i'm glad to see some familiar faces and some not-so-familiar faces. The principal of my ex-school is still as boring...her speeches are just so long!!! It is really obvious that students are getting increasingly impatient and they even clapped before she finished her speech. That was really rude of them....but then again...i might have done the same just to make her shut up!

Anyway...i met up with some of my teachers...and untied my emotional knot today....YES! Finally! This thing has been bugging me for quite a while and today, when i finally met the person, i realised that she has changed alot. The change arose because she is in a relationship now and has realised alot of things which she haven't realised in the past. Some of the changes surprised me (but i'm not going to discuss it here...its kinda private)...overall...i know i felt a tingling bit of saddness for her...because she made alot of sacrifices for her relationship and these changes were antagonistic to her personalitity...*sigh* How unpredictable life is....

2004-08-27T14:59:00.000+08:00

><))o> Happy..=)
#Eversince the 0903 blog is set up (since 2 days ago), a wave of blogger mood has since rippled out of control among the 0903 people especially the bloggers....it is really great to see that 0903 is so full of enthusiam about just almost everything! Yeah!! Keeping on blogging you guys!

#I dont whether i should feel guilty or glad....but it seems that i have infected meimei, yanting and shuxin(just now) to design their own blogskins...opps....yes yes...i'm the culprit (amy points to herself)...meimei is really addicted now and her first blogskin is soooooo nice!!! The blogskin is called Snow Fairy and she drew the picture herself!!! She's really talented man...hehe...ask her to draw a few butterflies and flowers which i intend to use for the upcoming blogskin design...hehe...so thank you meimei! By the way...leena is using Meimei's design...finally she got rid of that ulgy, problematic, purple skin! Good move leena!

#So much for the craziness....i'm feeling the pressing need to mug...so i will be taking a break from designing blogskin...its really a break i must take if not i think i will flop my prelims and i think my dad is gonna kill me! =) Yep...i will be taking a break from blogging too...probably blog less often...exams ultimately more important ya? Hehe...cheers to all...esp 0903!

2004-08-21T22:44:00.000+08:00

><))o> Badminton game
#Played badminton with jac, leena, bernard, boonkiat, cheehong, shuxin, tan zhi hao and yong hao today....(wenxian and yong zhi hao was also there but didn't get to play with him)....i think bernard, tan zhi hao and yong hao played like pros (yong hao was formly a school team player)....playing with them is scarey....especially bernard and yonghao combine....the game started off with me and leena playing against bernard and boonkiat. As the game progresses, people start to switch sides and courts. It became me and jacintha playing against Leena and Chee hong (poor chee hong kana smack by my shuttlecock quite a number of times due to favourable timing, angle for a smash and chee hong's unfavourable position which was infront of me)....so sorry cheehong (though i doubt he will read this..but it makes me feel better anyway)....then it became a 3 against 2 game...the 3 were me, shuxin and jacintha (alternating with leena) while the two were bernard (alternating with zhi hao) and yong hao.....those two guys are power man...it takes the 3 of us to be able to keep the game in decent shape...anything lesser than the power of 3, i think we will be trashed!!! Haha...anyway...i had loads of fun! Unforunately, my handling of the badminton racket was bad! I am now have brusies at the wrist! My arms are trembling now because it has been a very long time since i played the sport....i'm truly one feeble ah Mah now!Below are some snapshots which leena took...

#Went to the sims website at www.thesims.com and found out that maxis is releasing the game, thesims2, on Sept 17! FInally!!! I have been waiting for the game for so long and i'm really looking forward to indulge myself to a copy of the game!! Then again...A levels is near....hmm...i think i might have to prioritise and put my studies above games *sigh*

-fatigue sets in, amy out-

2004-08-20T21:08:00.000+08:00

><))o> Butterfly Dreams
#I was chatting with Leena and Jacintha this afternoon and suddenly i had the compulsion to design another blogskin....after a few hours of work, here's my final product!

I named the blogskin Butterfly Dreams because i have used yellow and orange for this skin and it kind of gives a very cheerful outlook...something like a happy dream filled with butterflies...(ok...i am a butterfly craze!)

Gotta stop hogging onto the computer now!

#Mr Lim Kim Thye (a chemistry lecturer) said, "If you cannot convince the lecturer, then confuse him."

-amy out-

2004-08-17T19:04:00.000+08:00

><))o> The Rugby Ball that has a mind of its own
#This morning, we played touch rugby for a change (instead of the boring basketball!) and at first i was kinda looking forward to it because it was a new game and i have never tried it before. But at the end of the lesson, i felt traumatised! I was traumatised by the rugby ball itself (kinda reinforces the fact that i hate balls.....all kinds of balls be it from golfball to basketball...balls you use for sports ok....dont let your thoughts stray!) . The dumb rugby ball is not exactly spherical in shape which i am sure 3/4 of the globe knows (the other 1/4 would be cavemens or pathetic frogs stuck in sadako-haunted wells!). The rugby ball is oval in shape and because it is so oddly-shaped, i think the centre of gravity of the ball "behaves" in a weird way too. Once you drop the ball, that's it. YOU ARE DOOMED! The ball will go.....PIONG!.........PIONG!

PIONG!

PIONG! PIONG!.......................PIONG!......

PIONG!
And it doesn't piong in any systematic way.....it piongs everywhere in no particular direction and we would look like idiotic MOUSECATCHERS (seemingly unable to outwit the mouse despite our oh-so-big brain) going after the ball. I was practicing with a group of girls and everytime someone fails to catch the ball, we would all go "OH NO!" and throw our hands up, hitting our heads in agony. The "OH NO!" cames from the ongoing frustration and stress that we feel while handling the ball while the agony comes from watching the person who misses the ball (a.k.a idiotic mousecatcher) going after the ball. By the end of the game, we had concluded that that dumb ball probably has a mind of its own (sometimes like Flubber....you know...that green slimy stuff in the movie Flubber)...also, we were exhausted...the ball was too hyperactive for us! Well...who cares anyway....i hate balls!

Saw this cute rugby ball which sufering the net. The chinese words says "Hong Kong" and there is a pig in the middle of the ball. The pink background and white pokadots just made the whole ball so corny-looking and cute!However, i still hate balls!

#Met a pervert on train yesterday...i really dont believe my damn luck! And the pervert was some fat, ulgy-looking guy...why must all perverts be either fat and ulgy-looking or fat and nerdy-looking? YucKs...this is what happened...

I was on the train and at Yishun, quite a number of people alighted, leaving the seats empty. Seizing the golden opportunity, i walked over and sat down at the seat near the train door. Then there was the pervert who stood so close to me even though there was more then enough space to accomodate his "adipose exoskeleton". Of all places, he chose to stand infront of me and worse still, he leaned his leg onto MINE!!! Initially, i though it was because i had crossed my legs too high so i shifted my legs and guess what? That pervert shifted his position too and lean his leg onto my leg again! YUCKS! He was also leaning so close to me! I was so disgusted and embarrassed!
Finally, i gave up shifting for i had no more space to shift so i uncross my legs (Carefully not touching that pervert's leg...)...it was no easy task because that pervert had left little space between my leg and his...so i ended up doing a little gymnastic and got my leg down. It was only then that the pervert moved away from me. What the *4^$S02-@#&*! YUcks! Just my luck man and this isin't the first time i met a pervert!

There was another time during my secondary school years....my friends and i took 98 and was siting at the backrow. Suddenly, we noticed this guy infront of us who was bending his body down at 90 degrees. He was trying to peeping through our skirts! Unsatisfied with his initial position, he actually stood up and sat at another seat just so that he could get a "better view"! YUCKS! We got so scared (we would only young, innocent 14 years old) and alighted the bus.

#Perverts are just so irksome! Dont they have anything better to do then coming up with formiable plans to peep at girl's undies or taking advantages of girls?!? If they love to look at undies so much, then go to departmental stores or even Scott's Blush outlet and look at undies all they want lah! Then again, they might just become public nuisance! What the ()#)(*$()*! WHy must they indulge in such cheap thrills? I hope they get caught and get caged up in jail so that the city is safer for young, innocent schoolgirls, teenagers, ladies and maybe even ah mahs!

2004-08-12T19:21:00.000+08:00

><))o> To PM Goh
#He was a humble man who never intended to step into politics and yet devoted the past 14 years of his life into leading Singapore. He was a man who injected humor into serious issues and made those issues seem less daunting. He was a man who was cool, calm and collective on all occassions. He was in a position where he sometimes has to make unpopular decision and yet, his popularity soared. Children loves to play with him...aunties even ah mahs blush at the sight of him. He is Mr Goh Chok Tong.

'Many of you have thanked me for taking care of Singapore. Tonight, I want to thank you. ' PM Goh

#The sentence above, taken from PM Goh's National Day Speech, touched me a lot. It just shows what a down to earth man that PM Goh has always been. I remember a day ago, i grabbed the morning papers (for the first time in the life) just so that i could find out what post will Mr Goh be receiving in the new Lee Cabinet. To my delight, Mr Goh is now Senior Minister! Well...although it is a well-known fact that the power which SM wields is much less compared to the PM himself, i'm still happy to know that Mr Goh will be staying around in the Cabinet. Yesterday, my gang and i were in the library when we started discussing about Mr Lee and Mr Goh....and we all love Mr Goh! We are just drooling over his pictures in the newspapers...haha...its crazy yes...but Mr Goh is just likeable and if he should suddenly vanish from the politics scene, i would feel very worried for Singapore's future...which is why i felt more reassured when Mr Goh is named Senior Minister. As for the upcoming junior PM Lee, let's just wait and see how he performs...

#I'm watching the Swearing-In Ceremony now. When Mr Goh arrived, everyone present clapped! Not even Mr Lee Kuan Yew himself received such a welcome! This just shows how well-liked Mr Goh is!

#Mr Goh in my eyes, is truly a Singaporean who served on behalf of Singaporeans. Thank you Mr Goh (though i doubt he will ever read this!).

2004-08-08T23:16:00.000+08:00

><))o> Happy 39th Bithday to Singapore!
#In exactly 45mins time, Singapore is going to turn 39th (woo...exciting...)....just now after dinner, i saw my idol, Goh Chok Tong on TV giving the National Day Speech...*sigh* this is the last time he will be giving the speach as Singapore's Prime Minister....so sad...i wanted to watch...but decided against it...because i wanted to finish up my homework....

#If you have noticed, i have uploaded the song, Home, this year's national day song. It's a collaboration between Tanjong Katong Girls' School Choir and Tampines Primary School Choir (collectively known as Young Voices)...the voices are just so melodious especially the male soprano ( a guy from TPS) and female soprano (a girl from TKGS) who sang the solo and descant respectively... My heart aches when i had to scale down the file size of the song which means comprising the sound quality....luckily the sound quality wasn't affected much... when i listen to the song, it kind of have a propaganda effect on me...many people singing in harmony equivalent to Singaporeans living and working together in harmony....haha...propaganda or not, i hope you guys enjoy the song as much as i do!

#Once again, HAPPY 39TH BIRTHDAY TO SINGAPORE!

2004-08-06T19:47:00.000+08:00

><))o> AJ amazing race and the amazing 09/03
#Warning: You are about to read a blog entry about a victorious class. Do not feel jealous.

#National Day kicked off today with Bernard summoning the class to school early to brief us for the race....well..there wasn't much briefing actually...(or i cant remember there being any briefing!)....anyway...Bernard is in his Number One uniform and he is the parade commander for this year's National Day....Gosh...he looked so good in his uniform...nothing like the usual sloppy Bernard....haha...(sorry Bernard...just stating the facts!)..below is Bernard looking very serious with Shuxin...

#Bernard's voice was the loudest during the whole parade...and of course...he looked the smartest (i'm not being bias!)...below is a picture of the usual ceremony that we have for National Day...

#After Mr Tan said the National Day Speech, he sounded the horn and while everyone was still wondering what to do, I heard Shuxin's voice, "Amy! Run! RUN!" and i ran straight, through the lockers area and up the stairs to Lecture Theatre 2, our first stop for the AJ race. Lo and Behold, we are the first class and the classes that came subsequently behind us (probably due to slow reflexes! Haha!) are being shut out of the theatre and we kinda took our time to answer the questions....we are asked to say "Singapore, my homeland" in Tamil and Malay....luckily we got Marlin, Intan, Leena and Jacintha. While Marlin and Intan led the class smoothly through saying the phrase in Malay, Jacintha and Leena's Tamil weren't too powerful and they had to call Ganison for help...(call themselves Indians....haha...jac/leena, no offence k?)...anyway, within 20mins (at 8am), we finished the first task and ran to the housing estate opposite AJ to board the bus that was waiting for us....Intan and Ganison were at the bus waiting for us (because they have lower limb injury that spared them from the running)..anyway, this two sweeties coax the bus uncle to drive the bus near the overhead brigde so that we don't have to ran so far....(aww....so nice of them yah?)....and then it's off to our second destination.... [btw, we scored 11 out of 15 for the first station].

My gang and i dominating the backseats!

Meimei and Leena getting their faces tattooed.

Leena with the headband wrapped around her not-so-flat chest in Survivor style!

#Our second stop was the Singapore Teachers' Union. We were the first to reach the station and i overheard the student helper telling the teachers that she was amazed at how fast we got there and the teachers nodded in agreement. Anyhow, we were handed a set of questions again....this time the questions are tough with weird questions like what does al-Kharyyam (i think its spelled that way) mean....when was the Singapore Teacher's Union set up...when was its estate developed (we literally had to sit down and "have coffee" with the person-in-charged of STU before we could get the answers to the solution...think that guy must have been in conspiracy with those teachers at the station!).....the question about al-Kharyyam was especially hard...everyone including Ms Kwan-Terry, was either begging the guy for the answer or using their handphones to make calls....

#However horrible the second task may be, we got through with a beautiful score of 75 out of 100...and left for the third station at 8.45am...waving to many other teams that have, unforunately, arrive just to see us waving to them (Muahaha...i have to admit...we are a sadistic class...)

#At the third station, we kinda flop it because we hadn't read the questions carefully enough...we scored a miserable 40 out of 70...however, it cannot be a testimonial to our efforts because we did try...(see below)

#At 9am sharp, we hurried to our last station (1 hour for 1 whole task...how great is that? We are WAYYYY ahead of time!), Thomson Plaza. The questions there was easy mainly on NTUC, road names that Thomson PLaza is located and so on.....but of course, there was some "fishing" of information to do....while marlin and a few others went to ask the stern-looking security guard for information, yonghao and Joe ran up to NTUC to find out which organisations are in the tripartie relationship with NTUC.....

Above is Bernard, our official cameraman cum comdedian....cum lamer...

#After completing the questionaire, we checked....and checked....and Checked and CHECKED (because we have got alot of time and because we didn't want to lose any more unneccessary points.) and our checking paid off! We scored full marks (60) for the task!!! We were elated...Mr Ang, the teacher-in-charged of that station seemed geniunely impressed....haha...we took a picture before we left.....the victorious 09/03!!!

#We reached school at 9.31am (a full 29 mins ahead of the time that we are supposed to report)....we went back to our home room and took a rest and had our debrief....[below are pics of me, meimei and leena monkeying around]

the above pic is one of my favourites....it's taken with Mrs Soon and Meimei...me and meimei look like Mrs Soon's daughters....haha...

#At 10.45am, we went down to the parade square for the prize giving ceremony....the moment we saw Yong Hao (opps...i forgot to mention that he is the Head for this race) at the prize giving stand, there was excitment among us (so did we win? Which placing?!?)....the JC1 prize giving went on with the JC 1 class champion scoring only about 155 marks...then the JC2 prize giving began...it began with the 5th prize...and so when we noticed that Yong Hao was the last person in the row, in our hearts, we knew we had won!! There was just an adrenaline rush when the second JC2 placing was announced....the MC went, "A round of applause for 24/03 who came in with a score of 162"...by then, we were jumping up and down like a bunch of impatient gorillas (Mrs Soon was at a corner and she was beaming!)...and the moment of truth...MC,"And our champion for the JC2 is.....09/03 with a score of 183.5!"...that was it...we just screamed our heads off and did our ever famous 09/03 cheer...(the newly improved and improvished one..including Ms Kwan-Terry's name this time)...

I say Mugger you say YONG
Mugger YONG, Mugger YONG (Mugger yong = Yong Zhi Hao)
I say Kangwei you say ERRR
Kangwei ERRR, Kangwer ERRR (Kangwei loves to burp!)
I say Ms Kwan-Terry you say CUTE
Super ACT CUTE, super ACT CUTE (This is the newly added line)
I say 09 you can ZAI
09 ZAI, 09 ZAI!
(cheers...09, 09, 09,09....until everyone around us starts to look pissed)

the above pic are the teachers...i took the picture because Mr Sng Peng Boo looked so cute in his suspenders.....he is our "dad" (so called la)...its a stupid thing that we came up with sometime ago...for details, go to leena or meimei's blog.

above is YongHao receiving the prize from our Principal, Mr Tan.

#After the moment of elation, craziness, we went to canteen for ice-cream which Lishi and Chee YOng has prepared for the class...there was a birthday boy...who was kana sabotaged by his friends and they caused quite a big commotion in the canteen...with all the food flying around, benches top coming off and even a dustin cover being thrown in rambo style...
We were getting quite irritated with those bunch of people and guess who saved the day? Mrs SOON!!! Although being so much smaller in size compared to those guys, her presence certainly commands respect....she went to tell off the guys and insisted that they clear up the mess....(Muhaaha...Corrective WOrk Order....Serve them right!) When Mrs Soon came to us, we started clapping....Mrs Soon is just an amazing teacher!

Doesn't it feel great to know that you have won the prize with the blue ribbon that says "1ST"?

Ice cream! Ice-cream!

The commotion in the canteen got kapo AJCian curious...

Mrs Soon saves the day!

The 09 act cute girls...

#After the ice-cream treat, a group of us left for Ang Mo Kio Central to have our lunch....

The stylish meimei, shuqi, shuxin and act cute kangwei and yanting (at the back!)

jac, marlin, leena, meimei and myself at Ang Mo Kio, feasting!

2004-08-04T18:40:00.000+08:00

><))o> a trip to the ULU plaza
#Ok its not really the ULU plaza...its Thomson Plaza. Intan and i made a trip down to the shopping centre today. While we were on the bus we aren't too sure if we had passed the shopping centre without us knowing it....

intan: Amy, i think we are heading to town already.

amy: Are you sure? (amy getting frantic and looked out through the window panals at the unfamiliar scene)

amy: Do you think we should ask someone?

intan: Ask the busdriver lah!

amy: What? You want me to walk all the way to the front? I will look like an idiot! Why not i ask the girl behind me? (amy turns over and glance at the girl behind. The girl probably pretended that she didn't know what was going on.)

amy to girl: Excuse me, does this bus goes to Thomson Plaza?

girl: Yeah, yes. (Points outside the window) See, that's Thomson PLaza.

amy: (feeling dumb, stupid) Oh..oh...ok..thank you!

#Yeah....what the $!^%&%*$ i must have sound really dumb....Thomson Plaza at first glance looked like some Malaysia rundown shopping centre...but there's nice and unique shops there though...lots of hidden "alleys" and lots of fast food restaurants, cakeshops....all those food are just so tempting....

#Didn't manage to find out much about the building even though we went to the management office to dig information...(turns out that the management didn't even know about the AJ race....some miscommunication here? Well...i'm not too sure....) Eventually, me and intan got a map for part of the building and we copied down all the name and unit number of the stores...hopefully it would be useful!

#I've submitted a blogskin to www.blogskins.com which i have created months ago and it is really well received by the public....i'm so happy...feel a sense of achievement....today, i submitted another skin which i have taken days to do up...hopefully it does as well too...hehe...
You can click on Autumn Love and Butterfly Angel to see the skins that i have created =)

2004-08-03T14:01:00.000+08:00

><))o> Amazing Race in the AJ style
#My school is organising this massive AJ amazing race on this Friday. National Day celebration has evolved from the conventional National Day concerts to a interclass race. Exciting? Perhapes. But i'm not too eager about it. Having participated in the choir amazing race tells me that the clues and tasks for each station would neither be easy to find nor complete. My class chose three locations for the race which includes Thomson Plaza, some amplithreate behind some place (which i dunno where) and the Teacher Union Centre (???i think its called that). My group was suppose to research on Thomson Plaza and tomorrow, me and intan are going down to check out that area.....Thomson Plaza...i have no idea where is it even! Oh gosh...i typed in Thomson PLaza and two locations came out:

THOMSON PLAZA4, MARIGOLD DRIVE S(576385)
THOMSON PLAZA301, UPPER THOMSON ROAD S(574408)

Great...how am i suppose to know which is the one i am suppose to go? *sigh* See what i mean? What an ULU place Thomson PLaza is....anyone who has any information about it, especially pertaining to it's relation to Singapore History, please do me a kind favour and tell me ok? Thanks!

2004-08-01T20:46:00.000+08:00

><))o> Internet practical joke?
#Its been a few days since i use the net and the first thing i saw when i go to my blog was blank at the area where my blog is supposed to be, blank at the area where my tagboard is supposed to be....i think i was in a state of shock...friendster was also not working smoothly with error messages popping out...is this a joke? I mean an internet practical joke? My blog seemed to be working fine now...but the tagboard is down again...(gross....its the second time this happened)...good thing i am prepared for it! See those words in purple at the end of entry that says "comments"? Yup...that's the one...and you guessed it...its not there for "window" decoration...its been there since Golden Age (ok that's lame) for you to leave your comments...so dear friends, make do with the current situation while i get the tag board fixed alright?

#Read The Sunday Times today...frankly, i love it...and i look forward to it every Sunday because the creative layout and interesting articles makes The Sunday Times different from the normal Straits Times. As i was saying, i was reading The Sunday Times today and i came across the horoscope section. Under Aries, it says(or so i remember):

You are now looking for freedom from a particular situation or a particular person. You are tempted by the forbidden fruit. Try to look at things from different perspectives and then consider the situation.

#Forbidden fruit eh? The horoscope makes me sound like Eve...hey! Where's Adam then? I thought we are into this together? (Ok lame again...) Haha....as it is now, the forbidden fruit that is supposed to tempt me have not seemed to appear...so that's good i guess...

#Thinking about the forbidden fruit led me to think about Newton and his ever amazing apple story....you see, Newton was sitting comfortable on the grass, shaded by the canopy of the apple tree and suddenly the forbidden fruit (the apple), falls and hit his head. He stared at the apple with curiousity. That was it. He was tempted by the forbidden fruit. He went on to discover gravity which went on to make the lives of physics-idiots like me difficult. (OK...triple lame!)

-amy lame out-

2004-07-28T20:46:00.000+08:00

><))o> The simple pleasures in life
#I've been in a total mugger mood lately...everyday is like a routine...i woked up at 6am plus, go to school by 7.30am....after school ends, i stay in the library and mug till the librarians chase me out....and two days ago, me and mei mei went to canteen after the library closed and surprising at 6.15pm, Osman (the school caretaker) chased us out too! And its only 6.15pm...!!

#Havent been watching TV much...the only show that i watch now is Amazing Race (which is today!!!)...i am beginning to appreciate little pleasures in life like watching TV, blogging (like now), sleeping (probably the most relieved period of time) and eating. Last time, when i had too much time, and i was online 24 hours a day (i'm exaggerating..), or watching TV straight for a few hours, I would feel bored as if i had nothing better to do. Now, i look forward to every Wednesday when i allow myself to relax (by watching Amazing Race) and blogging became sort of a form of reward i would give myself after much mugging....Yeah..

#The night's getting pretty cold...dear friends and people who read my blog, don't forget your blankie when you sleep!

2004-07-23T20:57:00.000+08:00

><))o> "Although Chinese Cinderella was written when I was in my late 50s, inside I am still the same little child yearning for the love of my parents." -Adenline Yen Mah

from top right: Adeline's big sister Lydia, big brother Gregory, 2nd brother Edgar, 3rd brother James, younger sister Susan, half-brother Franklin, Adeline and family pet Jackie.

Adeline's stepmum, Jeanne Prosperi.

Adeline Yen Mah, now.

#I have always saw Adenline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves and Chinese Cinderella placed in the best selling section at Orchard's Kinokuniya...been wanting to grab one of the books and indulge myself but i didn't particularly hunt for the book in libraries. A few days ago, i saw it in my school library and i borrowed the book.

#The book was about the author's life up to the age of 14. It was such a tragic account...she lost her mum when she was just 2 weeks old and her family considered her bad luck for the family. Her father remarried a half French- half Chinese lady by the name of Jeanne Prosperi. The lady became her and her 4 older siblings' stepmum. She discriminated against her and her siblings and favoured her own children only. And being 1 of the 7 children "bestowed" to her dad, the author was a relatively insignificant daughter in her father's eyes. Her father gave little notice to her...forgot her chinese name, forgot her birthday. Although her family was well off, she had to walk to school everyday...she didn't have beautiful toys and dolls like many other girls of her age and she wasn't allowed to invite friends to her house or vice versa (thanks to her evil stepmum!). Despite all odds, she worked hard with the sole aim of proving to everyone that she wasn't useless or stupid. Eventually, she paved a path of success for herself.

#The way the author wrote the book was honest and she touches me with all the intense sentiments that she had during those 14 years of misery. Mei Mei told me that she cried when she read the part about the letter to the author from the author's aunt BaBa (to whom she is very close with)...although i didn't shed tears for that section, i felt anger gushing through my veins when the author's father showed little sensitivity to her by testing their dog's obedience ( a german sherpherd by the name of Jackie) using the author's only friend, a little duckling by the name of Precious Little Thing. The duckling suffered a blow from the stupid dog and died....the author was devastated...one of her pillar of strength had came crashing down again...i felt the pain too...and i feel angry and upset for the author.

#After reading the book, i had only admiration for the author...she mastered the courage to brave all odds at such a young age....i didn't think she comtemplated suicide...which gained even more admiration from me....the book was so inspirational....unlike the normal books that you see today with ridiculous plots like "a single mum suffering from mid-life crisis and meets a laundry man that turns her life around", Chinese Cinderella was penned with the heart of the author and in no way was the account flowered by exaggerated language or depictions. That is why the book is special. If you are looking for a book that touches your inner soul and brings out your emotions, Chinese Cinderella provides just that form of escapade.

2004-07-23T13:48:00.000+08:00

><))o>In school
#I'm in school now...today a zero period (meaning a 45min period created by cutting down the previous 9 periods by 5mins) was created to allow the student council investiture to take place. Since the whole ceremony only involved the J1....i'm free now....decided to blog and do up my testimonial.

#The past few days have been pretty ok i guess....went for consultation with my chem and maths tutors. I was more or less able to understand some difficult concepts better...felt less stupid also...but the lastest lecture on Complex Numbers just mystifies me...since complex numbers are imaginary numbers, they dont really exist...so their existance occurs in a weird way that i couldn't really understand. With that Dennis Yeo as the lecturer...*sigh* gone case man. It was also because of Dennis Yeo that i could understand curve sketching and curve transformation...*sigh* Hopefully Mrs Soon can do a chatper summary soon...

#Talking about Mrs Soon...i was so happy to learn that on National Day celebration, Mrs Soon will be following my class for the AJ Amazing Race!! Yeah....so nice to have her around...she's like a mother like that always nagging at us....but she also help us alot in maths...so yeah! Yong Hao seemed to have the race all planned out....he is very enthusiastic about it....i think if our class wins, much of the credit should go to him...haha...

#Gotta be off to do my testimonial now (yeah...those stuff where you brag about how great your talents are or how you try to save that little kitten stuck in a monsterous-looking tree)!

2004-07-20T21:13:00.000+08:00

><))o> Mugger-neers
#Total mug is IN now.

#I'm IN total mug now.

#The stronger a person seem to be on the outside, the weaker the person is on the inside.

#Sometimes tears just force their way out...

-amy out, mugging-

#Mugging rocks!

2004-07-17T21:02:00.000+08:00

><))o> wisdom tooth not so much a pain in the a** afterall
#just yesterday i was complaining about the pain the wisdom tooth is giving me and *pooF* today the swelling went down and it wasnt so painful! I'm seriously thankful for the unexpected turn...was supposed to go gym with a friend of mine...but my friend could only stay for an hour at the gym so i kinda think its sort of a waste of time to go down to Jurong for an hour of gym..plus...yesterday i wasnt so sure if the toothache would turn out really bad...so i didn't want to risk meeting my friend only to be a wet blanket....

#so things took a turn. What did i do then? Well, i ended up gymming with jac...did the trekmile, bike and some situps...feeling great now....been such a long time since i gym...*feeling like a pig* Haha...i feel more refreshed now....possibly more emotionally happier also...=)

#at the gym, someone fainted while taking his weight and went into a fit...me and jac got a shock....luckily he recovered quickly....we concluded that he probably overworked himself and he was also kinda fat....so yeah....=)

#Saw a brochure at the gym with info on kickboxing lessons....for 12 sessions, its only $40 plus...i have always wanted to go kickboxing...seems like a great way to work out and at the same time, i can get to learn some martial arts...hehe...cant wait to sign up for it after As!

2004-07-16T20:57:00.000+08:00

><))0> PMS again
#i feel myself sinking into depression again....today was a sucky day mainly because i had a bad toothache due to the sprouting of the wisdom tooth (wonder why is it called wisdom tooth when its existence doesnt seem to bring any wisdom to me especially when i need it the most now!)....the pain is not excruciating...but it is enough to warrant me a loss of appetite for the day, abit of speech problem and loads of irritation...to make things worse, that Dawes seem irritated that me, jac, mei mei, intan and marlin wanted to take the GP timed practice earlier since we are having breaks and by doing the timed practice earlier, we could get to go home earlier. I'm dying to go home and remedy my toothache so i couldnt care less when he showed his unhappiness. In the end, he let us took the test anyway....*sigh* did i mentioned that i just passed GP? Yeah....GREAt...it was also because of my lousy grade that i was in a horrible mood....up till now...yah...now...

#i feel so much unhappiness inside me...but i have to wrap them up into little parcels and keep them in a corner of my heart. Now, it is not the time for crying or thinking about unneccessay things. I just hope i have the mental strength to last me through the next few months...

2004-07-15T12:52:00.000+08:00

><))o> a happier girl
#Helooo everyone...i'm back after a few days of being Missing In Action..back as a happier person of course....my stomachache is gone (gone on the day itself thank goodness!) and surprisingly, my pms wasnt very bad this month...just a little backaches and all...so...thanks to all who have been so concern...=)

#the first two period today was physics lab so me and my gang (excluding leena) went to the reading room to do our stuffs....the 1 and a hlaf hours there were sucky....
Firstly, the aircon was not on....very stuffy and its really difficult to concentrate...after the aircon was finally on (to the relief of many!), that PE teacher, Alex Lee, had to be pumping his PE class. So you can imagine what is it like to be deep in thoughts and suddenly interrupted by "ONE!....TWO!! ONE THOUSAaaannnd...TWO THOUSaannnd..." (yeah...some idiot go and drag the last vowel!)....after what it seems like eternity, the pumping finally stopped and the aircon was turning too cold for us to bear (ok...i sound like such a complain queen)....so i just stopped doing my work and walk around the school compound with jac and meimei...

#today is a short day for me....YEah! One more lesson to go...and SCH ENDS! Oppss....think its time for me to go and see that Dawes again!

-amy out-

2004-07-12T13:34:00.000+08:00

><))o> boring day
#gosh today is such a long day....and later i have to go for bio practical somemore (yeah...i'm in school now)...i hope bio practical is something easy like just dissection not some plan drawing....*sigh* i have been in a moody mood since GP cos that Mr Dawes was so boring that i left for ZZZ land. After that had a break...totally no appeptite for any food...only had some beancurb then chemistry was replaced by civics cos Miss Chua want to let our class discuss some National Day Amazing Race thingy...i took the golden opportunity to sleep and after the nap, i woke up with a stomachache....which is why...i even more moodier (i dont care if there is no such word!) than i was before...i wish the stomachache would go away...it's really spoiling my mood....!

2004-07-09T19:10:00.000+08:00

><))o> cross DOSS?
#Ms Kwan-Terry, my gp teacher was on mc for about 2 weeks and this relief teacher named Joseph Doss is teaching my class for the time being. And if you think he's a foreigner or something then think again. Infact, he could just be your next door neighbourhood-friendly indian man blessed (or perhapes cursed) with an ang moh name. He came in on Tues for the first lesson. My verdict: Boring!

#Today we had to endure 2 gp lessons with Mr Doss. With him teaching, time is like ploughing through. And that ganison, i not not sure if he had nothing better to do or his studies are really making him go crazy, he came up with a joke and a poem with Mr Doss as the butt of the joke. The joke goes something like : " YOu know if you remove the M,r, D and s from Mr Doss' name, you will get Dos. MS DOS that dos. That's why if he marks our gp papers, instead of writing things like 'grammer mistake, spelling mistake', he would write 'invalid command' "

#Kinda lame.

#The poem goes something like this :
Mr Doss, i know you dont floss.
Which is why your mouth stinks like moss.
Your hair is like gloss.
Which is gross.
If i get D7 for my gp,
You will be the cause.

#Ok...i admit that poem was really funny but i shouldnt be so bad and go laughing at Mr Doss. He's afterall, a teacher who is just making a living. That aside, i kinda miss Ms Kwan-Terry. Hope she will be back soon so i don't have to endure Mr Doss!

2004-07-07T14:16:00.000+08:00

><))o> A day with 36hrs
#school for me ended at 1pm today and with my choir responsibilities officially released, I'M FINALLY FREE AS A BIRD and with loads of spare time at my disposal. So a 24hr day seems like a 36hr day for me today...i'm already at home, bathed and happily blogging now (and its only 2pm+!)...

#life has started to suck since school reopen yesterday...i got back my chem results and it sucks big time...its a big, fat O. To think i studied so hard and even did TYS for chem...seems like all my efforts have gone down the drain. Frankly speaking, i have always hated chem (since secondary school). Now, i hate chem even more! To make things worse, i failed my bio prac...*sigh* To top it all off, Mrs Soon has to tell us that for our class, only 42% of us passed maths..that means only 11 of us passed out of a class of 26! The impact of the news is just depressing and my future looks bleak...

#Since shuxin want me to blog about the video we saw during GP lecture yesterday then i shall talk abit about it. The video is a documentary flim on sex trafficking in Romania. There is many orphans in Romania who are desperate for money and got into sex trade for money...some of them are threatened and forced into sex trade. The disgusting part about the whole show is that young Romanian boys in the sex trade pimped themselves to gays!Then got one part where a topless girl was walking on the street (the top censored of course)...got another part where a guy was flashing his genitals to the flimmaker. Actually the aim of the flimmaker was to find the mastermind behind one of the sex trading business who goes by the name of Tom Peters. He got to meet Tom Peters eventually and learnt the ironic truth about Tom Peters' presence in Romania. Tom Peters went Romania to help out as a charity worker but somehow got strayed and started the sex trade business (talk about self-sacrificing spirit!). Yea...overall, i sympathise the orphans. They are so helpless and so desperate...i hope the Romanian government is doing something about it!

#So much for today...i'm looking forward to watching The Amazing Race 5 (best reality TV show ever!)!!! *amy out*

2004-07-06T20:37:00.000+08:00

><))o> The unjust world
#it hurts most when you dont reap what you sow....

#some people are just so blinded by their stubborness that they fail to see that they are wrong much less to admit their mistake.

#this world sucks...

2004-07-05T09:52:00.000+08:00

><))o>
#there's a saying in chinese that you can bever retrive the water which you have poured out. Whenever a hurtful remark or action is made, the damage cannot be undone. It's just like pouring out a bowl of cereal and afterwhich decide against eating the cereal and pour the cereal back into the box. Not every tiny crumbs can be retrived. Instead, they remain as evidence of what one has done.

2004-07-04T12:12:00.000+08:00

><))o> Food for thought
#The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.

-the butterfly effect, chaos theory

2004-07-03T10:09:00.000+08:00

><))o> Spiderman 2 RoCKS
#went to jurong point yesterday and met up with my bf to watch Spiderman2. I have been told that Spiderman 2 wasnt really good although it kinda puzzled me because Spiderman 1 was such a blast. Turns out that Spiderman 2 was fantastic, i was totally blown away by all the action, romance, philosophy and of course humour! I hate being a betrayer of Harry Potter, but i really think Spiderman2 was way better than Harry Potter 3. *Amy shrugs* It's the truth. Those who havent watch it, go watch it!!!

#Saw my first 3 months friend, Suransi, at JP too. We are like two crazy women screaming when we saw each other (hence the phrase "long time no see"). Found out that she's kinda coping well with her life (still rock as usual) and she's even more beautiful with her new side-parting hair and like me, also suffers from exam woes (ah! Typical!). I found out that she blogs too...so her name is going under my honorary list of friends.

#did i mention that i rented C.S.I season 1 at $1 per disc from some rental shop at CHong Pang? Yeah...$1 per disc..what a good bargain! Hehe..now i can idulge myself watching how those "know-it-all" C.S.I solve murder crimes! Whee!!

2004-07-02T10:55:00.000+08:00

><))o> Post exam syndrome
#the early stages of post exam syndrome: hitting downtown without changing out of school uniform, watching tv shows till late into the night, sleep like a pig and wake up with a bad headache (from oversleeping) and a stinky breath.

Late stages of post exam syndrome: spend most of the time sitting infront of the computer doing non-productive things like blogging, gaming, reluctant to return back to school next tues and suffering from mental disorder as a result of worrying over the grades.

#exams are officially over (mid year exams i mean)...today i do not have to report for any exams so i slept right through the morning till 10.30am and the first thing i did when i wake up was to BLOG.
To celine and Shuxin: Thank you for your encouragements!
Much as i am relief that hell was over, i can sense that hell is pretty much awaiting me because i know my results will sux big time....*sigh* Shouldnt let this mood dominate the happier mood i'm feeling now.

#been thinking about some emotional stuffs lately...one particular morning, it suddenly strike me that i should do something about the emotional knot that i have in my heart since 2 years back (ok, a pretty trumatic thing happened then)...the person whom was partly responsible for the whole episode had sms me at the beginning of this year and apologised. I accepted the apology but felt that i wasnt ready to face the whole problem yet so i continued to avoid the person and run away from the problem.One morning, I felt that i have been doing this for way too long and decided to untie the knot by meeting up with the person someday to bury the hatchet. Having made that decision, i feel a tiny happiness swelling in my heart. At least i feel better now having taken the first step to face the problem. As for when i will meet up the person, i guess i will wait till the turbulent journey to As are over, when i am more settled emotionally and mentally to solve the problem.

#Alrighty to all my beloved friends out there who have just finish exams, enjoy yourself! See you guys on tues! I'm going chong pang with mum now for Brunch! Hehe....

2004-06-30T18:29:00.000+08:00

><))o> Victim of the massive blackout
#yes...i'm one of the many many victims in Singapore who was affected by the black out yesterday. Yesterday night at around 10+, my whole family were sitting at the dining table eating watermelons and *PooF* we are suddenly in total darkness...so corny right? We are only halfway through the melons when this happened...i was like "what the hell...". Fortunately, unlike celine who only had 1 pathetic candle at home, my house have a few boxes of candles that was more than enough to last us thru the half an hour of darkness. Through this incident i have realised how much i have been taking the luxury of having electricity for granted...i'm so lucky...

#anyway...today is the second last day of mid year exam! Yeah! So happy...tml Chemistry MCQ...so HEck! Blog first! Hehe...*amy clears her throat* On a more serious tone, i think i am really going to do really bad for my mid year despite all the mugging...chemistry paper was such a killer...i don't understand why Aj chem department likes to give questions on organic chem so much and give us those complicated structures with at least a dozen different functional groups in one compound making my life so difficult...maths...sigh...gone case...today bio was not as difficult compared to the hell chem and bio papers had been...but all my efforts at memorising SEXUAL REPRODUCTION were wasted! I knew this sexual reproduction thing was a waste of time! Come out all those Asexual reproduction questions for essays...kinda reminded me of my O level when i have mug so hard for the MENSTRAL CYCLE only to be treated to essay questions on BIOTECHNOLOGY (yup...menstral cycle didnt even make a guest appearance!)...sigh...i didn't finish my bio papers...and i didn't feel that i gave quality answers...sigh...so depressing....with only 5 months more to go, will i be ready for As? Gosh...what a dreadful thought!
*amy fainted*

2004-06-25T16:50:00.000+08:00

><))o> Dreams
#This is my fave song from The Corrs...loved the way they create the irish sort of atmosphere when you listen to this song....hope you will like the song too=)

2004-06-24T18:28:00.000+08:00

><))o> The far side n Sherman's Lagoon
#i found some Gary Larson's comic online and i tot i share it on my blog. Gary Larson majored in Biology and has an exceptional talent for comic strips drawing...so he ended up becoming famous by drawing comics closely related to biology...actually its Mr Ong that first expose the bio students to his drawings and i really grew to like his work..v cute...hope you will have a good laugh after reading it...

This one is just the cover page for one of his works...tot is very nicely drawn with colour and stuff...

The above is actually a page taken from gary larson's only (i think its the only one) story book..the story is actually about a son worm (the one with the freckles) complaining about there being a hair in the dirt and sees it as an insult which leads to him to conclude that he hates being an earthworm. Then the father worm told the son worm some grandma story (which is very funny) and the son worm feels proud being a worm again...in the story got alot of tiny pictures for one to spot which is very funny..and if you look carefully, you can see forks and spoons on the table cos according to the book, mother worm want to make her family life as normal as possible so she made the effort to layout the forks and spoons for dinning although worms dont have the hands to use it...which brings us to the point of how mother worm got the hands to put it there in the first place (think mei mei was the one who asked me this) ??? Too bad the book didn't give a good explanation on that...think the mother worm use her mouth lah...haha..anyway the book is really cute...

#another comic of my fave is Sherman's Lagoon...very cute also...describes the happenings of a shark's life...it's always in The Sunday Times...very funny...i love it!

#Hehe...very cute right? If you cant get the joke...then read again...u will get the joke pretty soon....(at least i did...unless you are more stupid than i am...Muahaha)...
I love comics..they just brighten up my day...even at nite.... -.-"

2004-06-22T18:00:00.000+08:00

><))o> Personality disorder test
#saw this personality disorder test which michelle-joy took and i decided to try it..looks like i am free from any disorders except a mild case of being histrionic and a severe case of being obsessive and complusive.
Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: Low
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html

#Obsessive-Compulsive
Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder is similar to obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder. People with this disorder are overly focused on orderliness and perfection. Their need to do everything "right" often interferes with their productivity. They tend to get caught up in the details and miss the bigger picture. They set unreasonably high standards for themselves and others, and tend to be very critical of others when they do not live up to these high standards. They avoid working in teams, believing others to be too careless or incompetent. They avoid making decisions because they fear making mistakes and are rarely generous with their time or money. They often have difficulty expressing emotion.

#geez...that really sounds like me...but i must correct the part about being very critical of others when they do not meet up to my expectations...i dont criticise every little small mistakes ok...in any case, its not good to always criticise others..i try to avoid hurting people's feelings..*amy sounding all angelic*

2004-06-22T16:41:00.000+08:00

><))o> Wind beneath my wings
#yesterday i was struggling to get the quicktime player to play the song which i have upload...but somehow geocities fail on me (for the millionth[i'm not sure if there's such a word] time)..went to tag at yong hao's blog to seek help for him...miraclously, the player started playing the song today...geez...technology functions in a weird way. Anyway, i chose the song "Wing Beneath My Wings" because i was mesmerize by the way my biology tutor, Mr Ong, sang this song during the farewell lecture for Miss Chong...not that i'm falling head over heels over Mr Ong (Of course not!) but the lyrics are just so appopriate for the occasion and he brought out the emotions of the song very well...heard an instrumental piece of the song yesterday when my dad bought some CDs and started playing it over the audio system...so there and then, i decided to put the song in my blog...awww...fell in love with the song...

#was studying today when i received a picture msg from an annoynmous number (shall nickname the sender as Prankster)

Prankster: *Sent a garfield picture msg with a msg saying "This is the cute one wishing that you have a pleasant day"

Me: eh who are you?

Prankster: Your secret admirer.

Me: Huh? Yah right. JUst who are you?

Prankster: :-)The sweetest person in your life.

Me: *a few faces ran through my mind..my bf?Nah..my dad? Nah...Mum? Nah!* Just who are you?

Prankster: *Text in chinese* (translated) You shouldnt be so curious you know. Each sms is 5 cents.

Me: Yes i know and i wouldn't be curious if not for an idiot like you. *Hp battery went flat before i got to send the msg*

-hp charged-

Prankster: *sent some stupid text msg about 1 man having four wives. He named the first wive doll, the second china doll, the third barbie doll and the last panadol.

Me: I would appreciate it if you tell me who are you and stop sending me stupid text msgs.

Prankster: *Made a call (but i didn't answer the call cos i wasn't clinging on to my hp as if it is my dear life)* You like to eat crab and sotong (or something similar to that)

Me: I would really appreciate it if you either tell me who are you or stop msging me.

-end of text- (or so i hoped...havent check my hp yet)

#The number looked very familiar to me but i couldn't figure out whose number is it nor do i have anyone with that number in my contact list...by the second msg, i have already decided that the sender is a cowardly prankster who indulges in sending psychopathic msgs to any unfortunate hp user! Thou shall not let childish prankster ruin thou beautiful day!

2004-06-21T18:43:00.000+08:00

><))o> memory problem
#i'm feeling kinda frustrated now....i wonder if the problem lies with me or otherwise. Why i cnt seem to absorb and assimilate all the information in my notes even if i make an attempt to do the TYS questions? argh...its really getting on my nerves....i was studying halfway today when i had to re-read some infomation which i have forgotten like what the heck are baroreceptors and the ionic eq for indicators are HIn + H20 <---> In + H30...*sigh* I'm getting more and more demoralise as the exam nears...how the heck am i going to do my papers? Sigh...i have been getting headaches from reading and reading and doing questions.....i wonder how the hell am i going to get thru the As...*Sigh*

#went to healthzone with my bf and his brother a few days back...had quite alot of fun and a chance to unwind...healthzone really provided alot of information on diseases like cancer, dental problems, optical problems , diet and so on...took a pic with some still figures and with my bf's bro...

#sigh...too frustrated to blog...nothing much lately to blog oso...
To jacintha: Cheer up..i'm always here for ya and if i can, i will kick his sorry As* for you!

2004-06-17T22:02:00.000+08:00

><))o> hiking
#Went hiking with my bf...we had planned to meet at 7am but he screw the morning up by arriving only at 7.40am...and afterwhich, i screw the day up by alighting 3 bus stops earlier...in the end, before we even started hiking, we had to journey 3 bus stops to the entry of the hill. Upon reaching the entry pt, i can feel excitment inside me like a six year old who cannot wait to go to the playground. Along the way, i saw a very cute sign board cautioning the hikers not to feed the monkeys.

For your information, the fine for feeding the monkeys is $10,000!! Looks like its better to keep those bananas to myself....

#My bf and i have no particular perferance as to which trail to take so we randomly chose a trail and along the way, switch to another trail. There is two types of trail, one is like a wide road which is easy to hike but boring and another type is a narrower trail which is formed mainly by steps...it was defintely more adventrous hiking on these trails but it was extrememly tiring to scale up the steps.Along the way, i discovered a long stretch of ants matching in an army-liked manner. Curiosity got the better of me and i got a closer look to uncover the mystery of how the ants actually stayed in the line. To my surprise, i saw ants acting as guards along the path, defining the path for the ants to march. Nature just amazes and fascinates me! Finally after about an hour of hiking, my bf and i reached the submit. It wasn't really much of a submit...the catchment areas are hidden by the trees which is as good as eliminating all breath-taking views...below are two pictures which i took at the submit...

#After resting and munching on kaya buns, we headed down the submit trail and went up to another submit...this time round, we got slightly lucky and among the trees, there was a tiny opening which allowed us to catch a glimps of the earth below...

#We admired the view for a while and made our way down...just before leaving the submit, i saw a spider...so i took a picture of it...it looks big but it is actually quite small...

#We went to the exhibition centre and i took a picture of this tiger.

The tiger is donated by Mr and Mrs Ha Khie Njoke. It was one of the four man-eating tigers shot in Sumatra in the late 1960s. Tigers often swam across the Straits of Johor to Singapore to breed, especially at Bukit Timah Hill and Chagni Jungle.

#Had lunch at Beauty World and went home feeling exhausted!

2004-06-16T12:51:00.000+08:00

><))o> the cat crusader

#this friendly, neighbourhood cat of admiralty has managed to find its way up to the fifth floor of blk XXX (blk number kept confidential to protect my privacy) and parked itself, comfortably it between my bicycles! This is the cat which i love to pat and stroke! It is very tame and not shy of humans at all! Fearing that the cat would shit outside my house or leave its fleas behind, mum shoo the cat away. Surprisingly, after we came back from market, the cat was still there, but this time sleeping outside my neighbour's house. It has heard all the clattering noises made by my bicycles and woke up to see what was going on. I cnt help but take a few pictures of the cat...the cat has grown up already...it used to be so cute when it was a kitten...but i love the cat all the same...too bad mum doesn't share the same sentiments! Oh well! *amy shrugs*

2004-06-15T21:13:00.000+08:00

><))o> A new layout
#after sweating infront of the computer and fidgeting with adobe photoshop for the whole day, i finally finished my new layout...i have squeeze everything within the screen so the hassle of scrolling down to tag me or find my achieves are eliminated. I however, found the marquee quite a challenge...after shifting the whole thing arnd i have decided to put it above my blog...its not the best place and best solution so hopefully those of you who read my blog, can suggest to me how i can improve the whole thing...alright? Thank you!