Well, partially :)

Botanical gardens with the truth people today! It was quite memorable getting lost in.. nevermind. Just getting lost yeah and BUS MAPS ARE SO INACCURATE BTW. Especially in coughorchardcough. Yup. It was fun "picnic-ing" (under the shelter -.-) while it rained, waiting for MaryAnne who was 3.5 hours late and laughing at cows walking by (HAHA LIKE SERIOUSLY). Bernice and I have such great cam-istry (pun intended by MaryAnne) cause we set the best timers! You people are still the most successful jumpshot people, yay. Okay more when Christine the hardworking person is willing to upload photos from her camera. AND I AM TANNER THAN BERNICEEEE 8)

On a total sidenote, see this.
And that means we still have to study hard for A' levels now. GAH.

p/s Scouting For Girls is back in my playlist :D:D:D

Hahaha sissssssss is hilarious when she is stressed from studying. Kaaay uh that needed rephrasing. She hasn't been home in ages ages ages. Then I was quite annoyed she was disturbing me in the midst of my gossip girl but I still answered her video call (awwwww) anyway. And her stupid screenshots! I decided to crop the webcam shots cause the conversation was srsly... censor-worthy (COUGH COUGH COUGH SISTER DO YOU SEE THIS PLEASE REMOVE FROM YOUR BLOG THANKS COUGH COUGH COUGH). Yup.

My neighbour is amazing. She can play Insomnia on the piano like zahmaigawd.

Kay I was just feeling bored as usual and I decided I'll scrapbook again this hols! Or not. That wasn't a a decision with much conviction, but know what. (I don't know what) We'll see how things go.

And my grandmother was so inspiring today! Because I recounting my pathetic story of my first try at whipping up a decent meal for myself. Which included warming up leftovers and just frying an egg (which I failed at). And telling her that I didn't really care since they go in and come out all the same and it was for myself after all.... and she started on how precise and determined you must be when cooking. If you wna see results, that is. Or you'll never cook properly, or fry a proper egg AT FIFTEEN. Then I was asking how it was humanely possible for her to be a walking cookbook and she didn't know either! "感觉啦! (feeling, lah)" or something along that line. Like SO COOL HAHA. Like how 'ster has The Ear and can play any music by just listening, my grandma has The Nose and identifies any ingredient by just smelling. Ahmygaaaaaaaad my life is surrounded by totally cool talented people wheeeee.

p/s I suddenly keep realising how cool my family is. :)

Omg Forrest Gump is so nice :)

Glee soundtrack and reblogging on tumblr and glee and gossip girl drive my holidays. Gotz training tomorrow. I cannot reiterate how much of a nuisance going to school is. IT IS NOT FAR and I still needa take how many buses. (okay two) It's like going Bishan! (so close yet so far) Okay shutup I'll stop complaining at least I don't live in like pulau punggol like doobs heh heh. Oh but at least I got something to do tmrw.

I wanna watch Wicked! Defying Gravity is from that musicaaaaal. I think Chris Colfer (Kurt) is uber cool! Have you heard his vocal range?

And I'm finishing my books already. Whee heee heee Incendiary is sucha touching book honestly. Not touching like soapy-mopey-make-you-wanna-cry kinda touching but like... argh it's just nice. Normally I get so 'uhhhhh' at novels filled with Fwords especially when I don't get what's happening and I get so distracted (i end up counting the number of Fwords in a page)! Okay gna stop free publicity here go read it if you want. AND THERE IS A MOVIE (which Ewan McGregor is acting in AHHHH :D) released in 2008 haha omg. Now that's doubly cool wheehee!

...Devastating. I just downloaded my Borders coupon and and and it expires today. Great job to me reading newsletters so. late.

"Closeness is indirectly related to conversation. When friends become too close, we don't bother asking them about a day in their life anymore... lunch or teatime or dinner, because we expect that they'll be there no matter what, anyway. They are the texts that we blink away and the instant messages that we forget to reply to 'after the commercial break'. They are the favours, requests, we think nothing of. They are the ones who've grown too close to us; in our hearts, in the end, they end up being the farthest."

p/s I think mom is so coooooooool hahaha she is conducting a lecture/talk/workshop/whatever-you-call-it on ethics! ETHICS! HA. How to be a person! Do you know how to be a person? I mean like, how do you teach that.

When I got off the bus just now, it started drizzling. 'Was okay so I still waited for and walked by the traffic light. Then the minute I turned into my estate the rain got heavier. So I dashed from tree to tree like some crazy nut. Thinks to self, "NVM REACHING HOME VERY SOON!". And the minute I left the last tree on that tree, rain started pattering down like rioting rhinos. Oh did I forget to mention, this is the part I have to climb the stairs before reaching the road adjacent to mine! (Not those kinda chop chop short stairs that you can take two or three steps at once, but those looooong wide steps that you needa take three steps between) So I gave up and started walking in the rain until I reached home.

Dig for key.

Enter house.

Quickly dry stuff and shower! 

Done with shower.
Noise outside stops.

.
.
.

Completely.

_|_

So I took a nice shower and washed my hair so I couldn't go running today. And it stopped like completely completely completely like CLEAN CUT yknow? Like the rain severed ties with the clouds or something. At least force a little drizzle to make me feel better, right. It totally just stopped. And I showered! Now that's a evening with good weather wasted. Damn I hate this. And that's one exercise without running, and I doubt I'll be for the next two evenings.

That kinda sucks alot. The weather sucks (big time). I don't care if it boils or blizzards.
THE WEATHER SUCKS :(

Anw.
I ran this ytd.
I thought I increased it quite alot! It was only like 900m more.



SIAN. The effort on slopes aren't taken into account rah.

/have I been taken as a fool, or for a ride, or the only one that'll comply?

EVEN SURFING THE NET IS GETTING BORING ): I seriously have n-o-t-h-i-n-g to do now that exams are over. NOT COMPLAINING!.. But the sudden blank schedule is overwhelming. This time last year, I remember having my daily Guitar Hero rituals. Now...holidays haven't even started! And I'm already disintegrating. And holiday plans this year not very exciting eh. I need to get out and get active. Get fit! Zomg. My Abxercises not working (anymore). Know what? Heck the weight (of muscles hopefully). I'm going to start running again!

p/s I secretly think that studying is very unhealthy. Spiritually and physically :)

Everytime you smile, I smile
And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you

I can't believe I'm moving out!





Castles can flyyyy on Wednesday! It was so fun looking at them having fun building sand castles! TOTALLY ENVY K. They had the cool cool sand castle building equipment and the super cool looking flattener (?) and different moulds omgzzzzzzz ahhhh and I realised then, that I have never built a REAL sandcastle before ): And that part of ECP was so cool also! Castle Beach or smth like that. And I've never been there! (call myself Singaporean) So fun k, why didn't we have this sort of activities when we were boarding! 

Formal dinner pictures another night, when the JH1s eventually send them to us! :) I think yesterday was so fun! I mean honestly, (surprisingly) it wasn't that boring. Plus, on Tuesday we were told that we had to move out this week! So ytd the JH1s mobbed our rooms for last-night celebrations haha. Totally cute, I tell you. We were stuffing our faces with xmas cookies and Deb and I were busy getting pwned at some memory game and we were cracking up and splitting sides laughing at charades! I don't know what I'd do without Deborah because she is the all-time bombzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Scenario #1
JiaHui says 'Harry Potter' to Tessa, who passes it on effortlessly to Carene doing the lightning-bolt-on-forehead-action.
Carene, "CHEYYYYY"
-Carene passes on to Vivianne-
Vivianne, "CHEYYYYY"
-Vivianne passes on to Akshaya-
Akshaya, "CHEYYYYY"
-Akshaya passes on to Deborah-
Deborah, "....Har?"

So we even threw in hints like
"There's 7 books! And people queue for hours waiting for its release!"
D, "Ohoh! TWILIGHT!"
"It's both a character and a movie!"
"What does the action mean!!!"
D, "Lightning? On forehead?"
"Yeah......so what is it?"
D, "OH OH OH!!! BOLT!"
"....!@#$%^&"

And we had job shadowing yesterday toooooooo. I downed two cups of coffee in 3 hours! When we hardly even did anything, except listening to the different departments and descriptions etc etc... OH and mummy brought us to Raffles Marina and it was raining and the weather was like greaaaaaaaaaaaat.

Uh what else.

So the matron should be coming any moment now to check our room. It's going to feel weird taking bus home after half a freaking ohmygod year! I SPENT TWO TERMS BOARDING 8) Man, I should totally get a certificate for that. At least we ended on a satisfying note this time! (Remember our aim at the beginning of the term, doobs?) Now I still don't know about Term 1. If I do actually stay Term 1, and since Term 2 is the JH4's boarding term... I'd be staying a year! I SHOULD TOTALLY GET A MEDAL FOR THAT! 

/Oh and I think we all got what we (have always) wished for. Singapore is seriously getting cold.

I asked Deborah if she wanted to eat dinner before going for dining etiquette class. Then walked past Mrs Tan and ignored her sceptical look at us-plates-us. Just before we peeled our orange from dinner, it occurred to us to ask Mrs Tan......I mean, obviously, 15 year olds these days think that they learn fine dining with empty glasses and plates. (Y)

So yes okay we ate two dinners.

That must've been the most priceless encouragement I've gotten in ages. Haha thank you!

( Outdated pictures. )

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OBS'09 was aweeeeesome :) What our instructor told us about "Yesterday was better" is truly well-said.

So I hated OBS for the first two days. Monday was mainly spent travelling to Pulau Ubin and getting to know each other and the day felt so slow and boring and "What? OBS is like this?"-ish, and unfamiliarly pitching tents in the dark and cooking dinner with burnt pot + rice and everything was so @#$%^&*. And uncomfortable and itchy sleep.

But Monday was better than Tuesday. On Tuesday, did heights in the morning (rock cilmbing!) which was fun! Then afternoon was time for kayaking and capsizing drills and etc etc and it was fun!... until we got to the part where we weren't able to shower for the night before sleeping. Rushing to pitch tents before it got dark, and feeling exhausted but cooking instant noodles in the dark, wasn't exactly the best way to end the day. On top of camping in a god forsaken place! With shrubs and sand as toilets and seawater to wash cutlery...

Tuesday was better than Wednesday. We kayaked from morning to late afternoon, from OBS Camp 2 to Camp 1, from vast oceans to squeezy swamps to oceans again, then with rain, from excited kayaking partners to pissed off acquaintances...And we never seemed to finish kayaking. When everyone got off at Camp 1, we were all still feeling the motion of the waves. It's as if we haven't got out of our kayaks and still bobbing around. Then showered and turned in. Camp 1 looked good, though. Threw away my wet shoes cause I was so determined we were never stepping into kayaks again after that million years experience... then I had to dig them up from the bin when we were told we were kayaking back to Camp 2 the next day. Riggggght.

Wednesday was possibly better than Thursday, or not. I guess by Thursday things started getting much better. Heck the "physical challenge", you're aching, and I'm aching, and everyone's feeling irritable and drained. Started the day with morning circle to Thank/ Apologise to anyone in the team for anything in the past few days. Then we did our land expedition for bout 5 hours. That was alright, albeit carrying a bag three quarters my height. We came back and cooked cooked cooked dinner! Cham-per-lang all the 'fresh food' given and whipping up something edible and coming up with a description for it... good time. Oh and apple crumble! Dinner never looked simpler, nor felt tastier.

But Friday was the best, I thought. Started the day sitting by the jetty in morning circle and sharing our highest/ lowest points during the course, our biggest takeaways and how we'd apply them. Then we made our own commitments, and took a leap of faith! Hah. No we jetty jumped. It was so exhilarating. And when our instructor was gna rinse us + life jackets, she asked us to zip up the vests and line up for a 'car wash'. Cause Kriittika didn't zip up hers, the QOTW came about, "Just so you know, I'm a Merced---" (Instructor sprays water in her Krittika's halfway through her sentence. Like literally. In her face.) That practically just cracked all of us up and for the remaining of the day. Then Tenzing went to pack our store in wet and dripping clothing, but who knew packing stores could be so hilarious as well! :) 

Can't believe that's five days for us, just when we couldn't wait for the fifth day when we first arrived. Tenzing's been great, through the good and the bad; the glam and the ugly, yes you know. Everyone got to see a different side of everyone, whether impressions change for better or for worse. They say a person's true character comes out in the toughest challenges right, and I must say I'm lucky to have met the toughest with the rest of OBS 26102009-30102009 Tenzing. 

Okay. I'm starting to feel the fatigue. I totally forgot how beds felt like, so yep. Bye.

p/s OBS is worth it, trust me.

"Huh? You mean that's...the end?"

This whole week was ... (enter appropriate adjective here). Take at least 2 papers a day. Good or bad, proceed to quick lunch. Then immediately back to hostel to bury head in notes for the next day's subject. Repeat cycle for four days. "IT'S MY LIFE", yup. That's being a student and examinations for you. People say there's no point in brooding about once it's over, but there is a point! There is sure to be a point, after how much effort you put in (for the month or term or year) and you made mistakes or got a mental block at the easiest, easiest, giveaway questions. That's JiaHui for you. YES I CRY OVER SPLIT MILK, figuratively.

So finally, free. Free for the rest the month, the rest of term 4, the rest of the year, the rest of JH3. Not that I need to come to the part bout receiving papers baaack. So rephrasing, I'm free till our papers are returned. Btw, sciences totally owned. First time in my life, speed writing my practised name/class/register, flipping open the booklet in a fluster, looking at Section A Question 1 MCQ and going, "What the hell?" THE BEST, MAN. I can't believe all of us totally felt so owned by Physics ytd, but we ended up laughing after the paper. Laughing like, "HA WHAT THE HA SHIT HA WAS THAT HA HA" "Oh you mean you too?! You couldn't get it too?! Hahahahahaaaaaaaa" kinda thing. Sad JH3s. And as if we even recovered physically, today's chem was... whooh. Ftw. Oh fine. What's done is done, right? We redefine misery.

We went to watch My Sister's Keeper! To think we thought that there wouldn't be seats........oh but it was funny (people) and sad (show). Funny = simultaneous sniffing behind us and embarrassing bursting-into-laughter at unappropriate segments of the show. Tsktsk.

And 09JH305 is so awesomeeeeeee hahaha. They totally took 'ster and I by surprise by first sneaking in with two pandan slices with a candle. -people in restaurant looks over- And when 'ster was just about to leave, they waltzed in with a (SECRET RECIPE BANANA CHOCOLATE) cake (LIKE ZOMGGGGG)! And they sang happy birthday and the restaurant played it too like (zomg) :O -people in restaurants glares and eyes cake-. But anyway, here's a big thank you to Deborah, Tessa, Serena, LiLin, Denise, Amanda, Rachel, Alison, Duong, Sriram, Tu, Tri and basically everyone who was present today! :) You all are as sweet as the cake!

And Rachel Doobs Tessa and I left the latest. Where we bummed around cathay and embarrassed the living daylight moonlights outta ourselves but nvm, I predicted that it's unlikely that we'll ever see/recognise anyone we saw at Cathay for a second time.

When I went to the MRT station I saw Esther and LiLin (who left MUCH earlier haha) and to think we spent so long taking photos outside Cathay and after they left and they haven't even got onto the train when I reached! So Esther and I met with some interesting hair encounters on the train back to AMK. Think along the lines of sardine-packed train and talking halfway and suddently feeling a thick swoosh of hair slap you across the face...?

( walking on sunshine. )
On the last happy note,
Happy Birthday 'Ster!

Today I heard someone playing Star Girl and ohmygodddddddddddd :D
Everything came pouring back in; London for Xmas and Sec1 camp and Sec1 life and replaying McFly until my friends got so sick of it and I still didn't and and and watching all the videos over and over ten times and twenty times and learning all the play-able songs on piano and getting high thinking of the lyrics omggggg. I miss how I could be so easily intoxicated.

So, wouldn’t you like to come with me?
Search for the sun as it starts to rise? -McFly

Take some time to watch it. I thought it was short and sweet (like literally) and totally made my day :) Whether you're doing research or homework or mugging online (cough), just take 12 minutes off. I thought it was worth it.


One of Cannes Lions 2009 International Advertising Festival winners.

The weekends are here again. The only thing I remembered this week was doing spire till 3am and sleeping at 10pm SHARP the next two nights and hip hop lessons which practically released all the endorphins my glands could secrete. We danced to Pokerface and Nobody! Damn, that was possibly the most unannoying dance class I've had in 3 years. That's great, I think. Bio totally screwed me up and down but I guess this time I'm not expecting great results, considering the compromise I made with myself. So simply, if I fail, I'm gonna be able to take it. I love the weekends, but I hate bringing my work home with me. Basically, my sister and I get so un-updated about all the fuss and stuff going on at home (LIKE MY AUNT GIVING BIRTH = two more cousins to maternal family = expanding baby daycare at grandma's house!! = so not a small matter) when we're away at hostel. On a lighter note, I've got a few matters off my shoulders for now. Poems, spire report, bio test, physics test down. And I passed my piano exam :)))))))))

You're going to have to make a few compromises for now,
but only for now.
And we'll accept the things we cannot avoid for now.
Cause everything in life, is only for now. -Avenue Q

p/s Cheer up sister! You probably weren't that bad at all. Probably the examiner was male and old but hard of hearing or forgot to dig his right ear or yknow.. THAT'S WHY HE HEARD WRONGLY! (Cause he didn't dig the right ear) It'sokay yoz. I let you call me fat for the rest of the month :)

I don't want to do any SPIRE or have any Physics test or Bio test or Chemistry test. Stop grading me so much. Go refer to citation on learning being more on process than result. THEN WTF IS A PROGRESS REPORT FOR when it doesn't grade our progress. It doesn't give us 99/100 marks for not sleeping in class. I don't want to do any Bio practical or Chemistry FILA whateverproject or Chemistry FILA practical or Chemistry FILA report or hand in my 2-3 LA poems. Besides, I can't write if you force me to. You can't force a poem out of me! You don't get original, fully inspirational and wholeheartedly written poems if you force it out of students the way shit is forced out :( I mean come on, you HAVE to write at least one poem with a structure (sonnet, limerick, etc) and relating to social/cultural issues like !@#$%^& okay? Damn that was crude, but I can't say I'd rather not take O'Levels already. I'm not speaking up for this anymore. At this rate... at this rate. But probably it's just me. I don't see anyone complaining as much as me. I should learn to listen, accept, move on (like a blind mice) :( meh.

Call me an ungrateful, incorrigible and annoying Singaporean student. I'll listen, accept that and move on.
Don't need a break from school.
Need a break from life.

Schooling makes majority of my writing sound suicidal.
Thesis statement: Skoolsuks

Throbbing headache throbbing throbbbbbbbing. I just need to get everything out of my head and concentrate. FOCUS. FOCOS. LEARN. TO. FOCUS. I will live by being disciplined and focused and prioritising. Like channeling inspiration to SPIRE and rhyming words and forming a sonnet. That's all. No more thinking about totalpieceofdisasterpianoexam and other trivialthingscapableofgeneratinguntrivialsadness. No more brain space. For now, there is no life in my brain. No life on my planet.

Emoshitzftwwtfidkanymore. I'm gna PMS up and down and all around until the day exams are gone for good. ...What? You can't blame me for being female.

I was finding old pictures of Gin. And quite sadly for her, the nice park ones of her had me! Omg hahahaha I looked like idkwhat. And then I chanced upon our old Pulau Redang photos too. And when I say 'old', I mean like, really really really old. Omg. Hahahaha. Can't. Stop. Laughing. No I'm not narcissistic!

( Ready, set, .....omg run!! )


Kay so I went training with my dad just now. Not technically with him kinda thing. But just. At the same place. Yep. IT WAS SO SHIOK KAY. The weather was like perfect, great, ultimate, the best. You know the hour just before it's about to rain? Yes. I was running in that weather. Omg. I'm probably praising Singapore's weather for the first and hopefully not last time, but it was fwoah. And I was running to the rhythm of my piano exam piece. Goodness. (Note to self: Never try that again) Too fast ah, my short legs can't carry me far. The after-wind was great too :D Okay recently I've discovered that my favourite feeling in the world is the feeling I get after exercising. Not before, not during, but after all that perspiring and panting and tireless thumping to the rhythm of the song in my head....exhilarating okay!! Damn, now I wished I was more disciplined in training.

And then it occurred to me that I really haven't been training (hard) for many months. Perhaps the whole past term or so. I guess one of the biggest drawbacks of boarding is that there isn't really a place I can run. Unless you consider the school track (But I cannot stand running around around around tracks!). Apart from that, the area's basically just packed with schools and houses and roads and what not... And yes, there's a gym at the hostel. But of all things, it doesn't have a treadmill! I run. Don't. Like/ Do. Conditioning. That. Much.

So I'm reiterating and emphasising and concluding that home has always been, and will always be The Best hahaha. I mean like, where else is literally the centre of Singapore, and is opposite a reservoir, and walking distance from your alma mater and etc, etc, etc....

K bye. Should go wash up or I'll have to kneel on the floor the whole evening (it's disgusting to sit on cushion chairs when your butt is sweaty).

p/s Can't believe it's Monday NIGHT already. And what have I been doing the whole day? Nothing much. Just one set of MA1101 revision. And piano at two hour intervals. And going out with Dad to Vivooooooooo. MONDAY NIGHT. knfJWBFIHSWIJH. Slightly more than 12 hours to exam exam exam!! And I can't believe that I actually have to check in tonight if I was going to school tomorrow. Time = faster than Usain Bolt. Insane Bolt.

First week of boarding went really quickly. Happier week, definitely. Yes, I'm counting it rare. It's as if I have some serious problems with being happy now. You nearly have to pay me to be happy. Neway, I think 'twas cause I came home four out of five days of the week. No I didn't cheat! Monday dental dinner home Tuesday pianolesson home Wednesday practisepiano home Friday checkout home. See. That's why I lived through the week, I think. Truly, the biggest takeaway from boarding is learning how to appreciate your home. And comfy beds and contour pillows and bolsters and thick fluffy quilts and airconditioning and not having to walk a mile to the toilet or fridge and not having to wear slippers everywhere even if it means getting my feet plastered with dog hair.... HOME FTW YES.

But if there's one thing I took away from being 15, or after 15 years, is that, happiness is short-lived.

Example: Monday = publicholiday = home (so yay!) But Tueday = no school = home (supposed to be yay) = because of piano exam (no yay!). Then back to school for Wed and Thurs and half-Friday so I guess it isn't that bad. Short week ahead = supposed to be yay = but that means one week less to EOYs = no yay! -digs up dictionary of Coarse Language- Like it had to be further rubbed inmyface that I haven't been making myself very useful.

And and I only have holidays from December onwards. -insert moping JH here-
It goes something along the lines of this:
20-23 Oct: EOYs
26-30 Oct: OBS
11-25 Nov: School workshop thingum
28Nov-5Dec: School Vietnam trip thingum

And to think that The SN People end their exams on by 14 Oct. GRAH. And VIP People having study break now so I assume theirs is starting/ending soon too. Wth. We haven't even finished our syllabus. WTH. :( I'll be sucha sad mugger toad when everyone starts playing alreadyyyy.

Meh. On a lighter note, I FINALLY watched my GG season 3 and my WOWP season 2 episodes and Glee! Ahhhh they all make me laugh and make me happy so yay. USTVFTW. (Y)

p/s Oh listen to Michael Buble's super gethigh song. It's (Y) too.

pp/s Still scared shitless bout piano exam. Gonna pray that I don't get freeeeegin spasms in my fingers or some mystery outbreak of Parkinsons. I'd just die right there and then. WHY AM I SO SCARED. When was the last time I took a piano exam!!! ....... Ohwait, last year.

Hello Term 4.

So this is my boarding term. (Sounds familiar) As a boarding leader. And frankly, we've only survived one night. Well,  it's only the first night. I meant that in a good and bad way.

1) Well, it's only the first night. We might not survive the subsequent ones.
2) Well, it's only the frist night. Maybe we'll get to know the jh1s better.

So as of yesterday, I became room mates with Deborahahaha. omg. That is so cool. I never knew I could do that to her name! Yes okay. So. Preview of what we did last night.



That's me webcamming with Esther, but I showed Esther what Deborah was doing to get "better signal". Hahaha.
Yep. We're gna try lotsa new things this term. Or me, at least.

( I have to be the change I want to see. )

There, goals for Term 4. Plus spoonfuls of focus and buckets of hardwork.
GO ME!