Teacher's day 2010

Time is like a flowing water

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Each moment will reveal its new molecules of water

Righty, today was the celebration of Teacher's Day in my secondary school! So well as a so called -tradition- I decided to go back with some of my 4E1'09 peeps and we finally met up again. Even though many people could not make it, I still feel happy to go back to Tanglin and meet with my friends again. Brings back memories really.

So well we met up in school and meet with our teachers! Well even though it was not every teacher, I am glad to see some and talked about how has things go for them. Well yeah it's really weird uh. Last year I was talking to them as a student. Asking them questions. Now we complain about how difficult things can be in our school. Weird isn't it?

Well I wanted those who go back to write this letter (with all its format) but apparently not everyone got the message, so there were only 8 letters, out of the 20 odd I think. Well never mind, just that I learnt how the usual CRS (Class Relay System) failed. It's okay, on the bright side, Mrs Lee do love the letter she told me. That's good to hear.

After the meet up some of us went to New York New York for lunch. Had an enjoyable time there talking, and sharing about our lives. How the JC people and the poly people interacted and we shared our stories. I guess life had pretty much changed. For better or worst, I wish my friends all the best alright. We can do it.

And yeah that's all for today I suppose.

Coming back to Tanglin certainly brings back memories. Even though we may have changed in one way or another, I ultimately hope that our friendship and bond shall remain. I would like to thank those 4E1'09 who took their time to return, and especially to those who had written their letter. To those who did not, it's okay :)

Alrighty, two more days to Immunology test! Aye aye aye! Full steam ahead for these two days! See you :)

It's either I'm over sensitive. Or I'm thinking too much.

Weird

The sky of eternity

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I shall one day, grab it.

To put it simply, I've been feeling rather "weird" lately. It's something I can't just describe simply in words. It's hard to describe, it's hard to explain. Basically it just feels weird. A feeling of happiness, anxiety and sadness mixed up together. No idea why.

Anyway I just feel like blogging. To let the steam out :)

So finally the lessons are starting. Well sort of lessons, more of exams! Yup, it will officially begin next week. Thursday to be exact. I'm sort of... Prepared haha. But I well hopefully I can do well in my exams! Whew, 60% is not easy you know. It's not.

And talking about exams, I've decided not to study tonight, or in fact today. Even though well I read some immunology in the afternoon. I'm going to do my Teachers' day card! So happy to be going back to Tanglin again to meet with my friends on Tuesday.

I think I don't know if I'm too stressed or what, that I've been feeling these weird things. But I do know and I do hope it will come to an end pretty soon. Just now my sis and I were talking about having a vacation. A sign that a rewarding reward is coming soon though! Oh yeah.. Hehe.

Okay that's all for today, and this short and a lil meaningless post. Writing helps I suppose. Righty, that's all and see ya!

Oh I thought of this saying today. To be poor, without feeling poor. And to be rich, without feeling rich. That is one of life's perfect bliss :)

La pluie

Light graffiti!

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Trying out these days, very fun!

The rain in French that is. Well yeah today it was raining quite heavily in the late morning, which results in Niv and me not going to school! Oh well, seems like the rain wants us to stay at home hehe. Recently the weather has been a bit weird so yeah.

Anyway I tell myself that I must make the most out of today! Since it's nearing to school reopening... So yeah. I did Immunology today. I think it's alright, I understand it better now. Those weird and complicating antigen processing done by our dear MHC class one and two. Diagrams rock! Haha. Okay gotta move on to ten soon :)

Recently I've been feeling rather.... "poetic". It weird in a sense that I feel like making poems, but at the same time I don't know where to start. Well honestly, great ideas come in a blink, go in a blink. Sometimes I just ponder about somethings that are going on, then... The inspiration just went poof. So yeah. Oh well.

I can be feeling weird at times. It's hard to describe. There are always some moment where I would feel this feel-good feeling, but at the same time, sad and good and yeah feeling. Feels really weird. But I love the good vibe there.

Life is weird. That's it. But it's unique.

Alright that's all for the short post. Feeling.... Weird again! Currently listening to Melodies of Life by Nobuo Uematsu. One of my favourite FF song. See you!

Lets sing to the melodies of life.

Hardwork, unpaid

The moon, and its beautiful craters!
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Edited, and cropped :)

Don't worry, I'm not referring to myself about the title. It's about someone else and I really pitied him :( It's Dr Elangovan!

Okay so anyway today, there was supposed to be a Biochem workshop where he will run through everything as revision again. Well apparently I think I few people signed up for it (that was a few weeks ago) and there should be about 20 people there. But out of the 40 people of stage A of DBS, only 3 people came. They are Bobby, Ahpa and me.

Whew, and I can sense his sadness. Cause he prepared a some fermented sugars to show us, he even made yogurt (as in addition of bacteria to milk) which he will show us in the afternoon. And also he prepared so many worksheets, he planned the activities and such, but only 3 people came. So he had to cancel everything.

Poor Dr E, I understand how he truly feels, cause this happened to me once.

Anyway so we ended up going through lipids, which I understand more now :)

Nope, please don't think I'm ranting and sort of "blaming" those who never came. After all it's all your choice right? Peace, don't think all of the negativities yes.

So anyway after the changed-to-one-hour workshop, Ahpa and I went for lunch. I didn't feel like eating so... I just had pieces of bun. And oh, I had a nice chat with her. Salute to her for going back to and from Malaysia today just to attend the workshop! Wow.

I decided to go home after that since no one is studying with me in school, and ehh I don't really like studying alone in school, it feels a bit weird and lonely :/ But I'll be studying with ah Pow tomorrow! Finally meeting her again hehe. And I'm meeting Jolene as well, my money!! Haha no worries, I'm not money minded :)

And at home... I did Math! Yay I'm so happy that I finished Tutorial 13, thank you to Lizzie again cause she taught me hehe. And I did my revision notes! Yay, well still left with chapter 14 and 4, which I have not understood fully yet. No point writing notes blindly right?

Alrighty I guess that's all for today. Gosh, a few more days to school reopening. And I' not even 100% prepared yet! Argh this is killing me. Lutte a finir! Fight to the finish in French that is. Alrighty, Bonsoir!

Miss Philippines in Miss Universe 2010 is awesome! Asian FTW :D

Gayane

Sweden

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I wanna visit Europe one fine day, again!

Okay I know the title above sounds weird. It's actually a ballet which music is composed by Aram Khachaturian. Even more confused? Khachaturian is a Russian composer! Or to be exact, a Soviet-Armenian composer! And yes I'm falling in love with his songs. It's so nice....

Basically I'm falling in love with Russian composers now. First I liked Borodin. His Polovtsian Dances, In The Steppes of Central Asia and some of his string quartet are really really nice. Perfect studying companion, really!

Now I somehow prefer Russian and Italian composers as compared to Western-Europe composers, perhaps cause I'm always exposed to Western European music, so discovering Russian music is like a wow to me. Just like how I was exposed to classical music first :)

Anyway hmm nothing much to talk about haha. Today was awesome, I spent the day studying with Nivedha, Syazwan, WP and Lizzie. Thanks a lot Lizzie! I understand chapter 13 more now :D And I'm happy for I've killed 3 Immunology Chapters now, yay :)

Tomorrow I'll be having Dr E's lesson. I wanna go... And I'm thinking of not going... Oh dead haha why can't I make up my mind :/ But should be going. I really wanna recap the materials! I think Biochem is going to be one of my poorest subject. Don't say such things! Nope nope! Haha

Righty I guess that's all for today. Oh man, listening to these Russian songs make me feel like going to Russia itself. Arrgh I wanna go for a holiday!! Okay okay see you then :)

Why are Singaporeans (most) so impatient :[

Procrastinator... Hopefully not!

Two adorable cats at my hometown

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Just look at that innocent kitten!

You know there's always this thing with the word above and me. Procrastination. Ugh, I hate it when it happens. Okay today I wouldn't really count it a procrastinating. More like... "Study block"? (Instead of the "mental creativity block" thing)

So well yeah I didn't study much the past two days. Yikes, my exams are coming soon and I still have so much to cover! Is this crazy or what. Okay so today I wanted to study in the afternoon after lunch. But well... Nothing gets inside me! This is ridiculous. Very.

So well yeah I really hope that my procrastination is gone.

Umm okay and as for yesterday I didn't study at all! All I did was shopping and outing haha. Well I took my camera off servicing and tried some shots. Oh man I miss my camera so much. I guess this is because I really love photography. One week without my girlfriend feels so weird.

So glad to know that that stupid black dot is gone! I will take care of my camera more! Arrrgh haha it sucks to have some things in the censor. And there's no more that black thing on the viewfinder as well. Yay man, so I took some shots yesterday :)

Alright I guess that's all for today. Studying with Nivedha tomorrow! So it's finally going to be a productive day for me! Alrighty see you :)

Don't work too hard on yourself, or life will laugh at you.

Stew!

Blue sky after the rain...

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I love it!

Wow it's been a really long time since I blogged. Meh, the only absolute reason is... Laziness.

Alright I'm waiting for my stew to simmer so I've decided to blog. Time for updates!

So well on Friday I had a mini SC outing with all the guys-SCs except Firdhouse, he couldn't make it so yup. Kris as well. So well we met at Clementi (I was late so sorry!) and we headed to Sumo House to eat. That's like our usual hangout place to eat. Sherman joined us later and we talked and chatted. The chat continues even until out dinner hehe.

Had bubbletea and we chatted at near the NTUC bus stop. Weilun, ZR left first and the rest of us left and chatted till quite late. Damn, I really miss those days, these chats totally reminded me of last year. And what's best? We reminisced about that had happened. So... All pure memories.

On Saturday went to eat dinner with Jeslyn, Ade, WQ and Neal at this steamboat buffet restaurant in Sunset Way. Not bad but I think they could have more variations to the items sold. I think it's just too little :P

Yup that's about all for those two days.

I realised those two days have something in common - memories

On Friday, I purposely took the "Pei Tong route" to Clementi. Oh boy, it just brings back lots of memories about my primary school days. And plus the SC outing as well, it just brings back memories! On Saturday, I went to Sunset Way. Which is a place I spent when I was in P4 and while I was learning English, so another memory.

Memory is really funny uh.

Alrighty I'm waiting for the stew to simmer (for one hour...). And at night I'll go back to study. Honestly I'm sick of studying anatomy but I'm happy that I've finished heart, respiratory and urinary. I'm going for Immunology tonight. Alright hopefully I'll have fun tonight. See ya!

I love seeing the blue sky after the rain, for it tells me there's always hope after each problem we gain

YOG flame!

YOG flame, burning brave and bright

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Back to the days of my camera phone! :D

Righty, today the YOG flame came to SP! Haha it was so awesome, well I came in a last minute decision thing. Jeslyn said she's coming to SP. Then I saw Vivian and the rest... So I decided to stay a while to check things out!

But we waited almost 2 hours there for the flame to arrive -.-"

Anyway we just hand around the plaza area to watch things going on. There were a few performances and so we watched it and yeah. Then we moved to the place where the torch was going to arrive from and waited in anticipation. Well it finally arrived.

It was so funny, as it arrived, everyone went to rush in so we were sort of "squeezed" and it was sort of chaotic. But well seeing the flame arrived was a nice thing. Firstly I thought this thing is gonna be boring, like oh yeah, just a torch. But actually it was quite nice, the vibe is cool, we see the flame which traveled from a lot of different countries!

Then we watched some other performances, and then I went to eat with Jeslyn at Sumo. Long time never eat there already. Oh and I was suddenly having headache, it's so weird.

You know what, I think the torch relay is an awesome event. I think it's in one way or another a proud event for all of our athletes. Too bad I'm not a sportsman, I wish there's this like music Olympics, I think it will be cool! I know there's a choir Olympic, but not sure about music as a whole.

Events like this are good morale booster for both the athletes and the people. Hmm too bad not gonna watch live competitions. Just gonna catch it at home :D

Alright that's all for today! SC meeting tomorrow so yay, long time never see em already :D See you!

Raise our hands for our generation, fly the flag of every nation :)

Again

I still want a vacation :(

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Taken at HSBC treetop walk

Hmm, well so far the study break has been good to me. Been going back to school to study together with Syazwani and Nivedha, and yesterday with Sharon, Ben and Zhi Rong. You know, today I realised how much we have to learn for our exams. Sigh... Lets go lets go!

Anyway yesterday was awesome. I went back to study with Pow, Ben and Zhi Rong. Firstly I thought of this scene when I reach SP. An empty library with no one but the four of us. Scary? But uhh I totally went off shot, well the library was empty, as in more empty than the usual days, but there are people studying!

I thought we are the only weird people to go back to study during the break.

Today I went back with Syaz and Nivedha. We went to Colours first and... It's crowded too. In fact it was so crowded that we decided to move up cause it was noisy. And we stayed on the 3rd floor to study. Nice cosy quiet environment :) Oh, and cold.

Here's the thing about going back to study. I just can't simply study at home, I have no idea why. There's always this thing called distractions that will, of course, distract me. From TV, computer, piano, fridge and my worst enemy: The Bed. I can lie there for 3 minutes and ended up either falling asleep or watching TV for 3 hours, by which I will then have no mood to study.

So yeah, that's why I went back to school to study.

Today I cooked dinner too, I had this idea of lemony-Thai-inspired chicken. So well yeah I marinated chicken fillets with lemon, fish sauce, sesame oil and garlic. Oh my God, the taste is just so awesome. Like really, awesome.

And I made passion fruit tea-infused strawberry jelly! Not sure how it tasted but I think it's nice. I shared it with my guardian's maid too, nothing beats the joy of sharing your food with someone eh?

Alright, lets see if I can accomplish what I planned for tonight later. Lets hope I can! When there's a will, there's a way. Cardiovascular, here I come! See ya!

Falling in love with Angela Aki now...

Happy Birthday Singapore :)

Happy 45th Birthday Singapore :)

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Marina Barrage.

Righty... So today is National Day 2010 and thus wishing Singapore a happy 45th Birthday!

Since I didn't do much today, I decided to do a mini room cleanup. Basically I just simply tidy up some of my cabinets and cleanup my piano as well. It's a bit dusty (I feel so guilty! Haha). And I washed my piano cover as well. It's been "stuck" there for sometimes.. So yeah.

I didn't really do much today, cause I've decided to give the weekend, plus today a rest day for me. BEfore going... HARDCORE! On studying of course. At first I didn't feel the "heat" of end of semester exam. But I was thinking of the chapters I had.. And it's a little horrifying.

So well, gonna chiong this study break.

Just watched the NDP just now, it sure tells me how long I've studied in Singapore. Well firstly I was reminiscing about the past NDP songs I've embraced through the 8 years of my study here. "Home" sure brings back lots of memories, so thus "We Will Get There" which is one of my favourite.

And also "What Do You See". Even though it was last year's NDP song, I felt sentimental cause I used to sing that in class last year. And remember how Adeline would laugh at me. Ohh well time is really a mystery isn't it?

Anyway uhh I don't know why but I didn't feel the wow factor of this year's NDP. Perhaps it's due to the fact that I didn't celebrate it in school like I used to in the past 7 years. So didn't really get in the mood of NDP. But anyway I really love this year's NDP song (the Corrine May's version one!). I'm biased, cause it's Corrine May who sing it hehe.

Alrighty that's all for today. Not sure what I'm going to do tonight, for sure, it's gonna be something slackish! :D

These 8 years have been awesome :)

Depressed

I want to buy a ticket

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A one-way ticket to paradise

Sigh, I know I have blogged with this title for a few times already. Yeah. Well sometimes it's weird. There are times where I got so stressed because of something. But today is different. On my way home, I got depressed. Like, really depressed.

Symptoms? My chest (not heart) hurts.

When I reach home, all I ever feel is to simply run away from this world. Run somewhere far where I can forget what life is to me. I know this is equal to death. Hell no haha! I just need.. A vacation I guess?

And when I talk about vacation, I really mean a vacation. Beautiful scenery, nice mood, happiness and most importantly, freedom. Like going to a place where you can forget about your life. No more school, no more work, no more future, no more reality. Just like taking an escape from your life.

Of course, we gotta head back to our course.

Life is funny. We always say we gotta enjoy life, we gotta live it. But there's always a particular moment where we just forget about it. We feel like giving up, we feel like surrendering. But somehow life never gives up on you. There's always a moment we rise back up. And that's when life seems so much better.

I just need an escape seriously. Life is never perfect, nor it is wonderful. But the challenges ahead are what makes it such a unique one. It's okay to take a break from reality and do things you wish to do. It's bad to stay off course either.

Alright I guess that's all for today. Study break coming, I've already came up with a list of too-do/revise-list on the break. Sigh, it's not even a freaking break. Wait, it is a study break haha. See ya then!

Can I go to a place, where I can be a child once more?

Gap

Sometimes all we need is a sunshine

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That shines everyone's heart happily

Whew, it's been such a long time since I blogged. Well partly cause I'm busy. Well I've always been haha. Now is like the last week before the YOG break. Hmm, wouldn't even call it a break since it's just more of like a "study break". Since after the break we are having our final exam. Eeps.

Hmm I think the week has been great so far. Except that I totally screwed my French test! Well I can explain that. Firstly last week I was busy with band, so no time to study. On Sunday I had IBM, so couldn't study either. And worst, I forgot what to study on Monday :P

Lets put that aside...

Anyway been busy studying all these while cause firstly, I have a test on Friday for Biochem! Oh dear haha. I'm left with two more chapters. Two HUGE more chapters. Which one is not even finished being taught. Yum. Anyway next one, I had cytokine essay to do. Well I'm done now, and somewhat pretty much satisfied by it :)

And of course been studying cause exams are coming. As I said in my past posts, I felt that suddenly, the chapters are getting harder all of a sudden. Ehh so of course it's natural for me to study it more right. Well, nothing better clarify your doubts than study it again. And again.

These days been staying back with Nivedha and Syazwan. Haha, studying with them is fun cause they never fail to make me laugh. There's always a point of time where we just laughed. Always. Cause of something, somewhat.

Studying with others is fun haha :)

Alrighty that's all for today. Lipids will be mine tonight (hopefully) and if possible, A&P as well. And talking about the letter A and P, tomorrow I'll be getting my AP chem results back! Errr okay.. Haha hopefully it turns out alright.

There's this gap between us. I just hope it doesn't get longer. And more awkward.

I Believe in Music

Today was awesome... Cause I just performed at..

I BELIEVE IN MUSIC XVIII!!!

It's an annual concert by SPSB to welcome the year ones into the band. Well the practices (combined ones) was quite hectic due to the short period of time we had. The NBC band had to practice for NBC, so they didn't have that much time to practise with us.

Nevertheless, I still think we did a great job during the concert! Apart from some flaws here and there, the concert was really nice. It was my first school concert, so it was really a great time for me to play in that concert.

And what's even better is that we performed in Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music concert hall! Which is one of the best concert halls in Singapore. And maybe perhaps, in the region. Playing there is like a privilege, a dream for me that comes true. As a musician, I always dream of playing in famous and huge halls.

So... One item from my list of things to do before I die stroked off

Anyway the day went smoothly. Rehearsals and everything was nice. Except the part where Chris and wan forgot to move their files back, so they had to share file with me. And the most embarrassing part is... I dropped half of my clarinet at the end of the concert! That is soooooo embarrassing. I have no idea how it fell as well...

The encore was fun though, and ear deafening, thanks to the trumpets! So nice and creative of the last row people to stand up and play at bar L. I wish we could do that too (the woodwinds and the rest I mean). Would be more fun!

Well it sort of feels sad after I played my major pieces. Like... "That's all?". I wish I could have played more songs. But well I guess that's the thing about musicians. Or in fact, everything. We put in so much efforts, to put the BEST show in that short minute. That's why we xian ku hou tian. Feel the bitterness, then the sweetness

Nevertheless, after all the "things" I've been through during the practices, all that I ever think of while I was playing on that stage just now was that, I'm going to enjoy what I do, and forget about them. After all, didn't I tell myself that I'm just going to enjoy music, and nothing else?

Well, I still sort of feel detached. Nah, what can I do really. Sometimes I can't just be too selfsih as well can I?

Alright I'm feeling really tired right now. Still have to prepare my CRS presentation so see ya then! I love IBM XVIII! :)

The thing about being in a band: We're brought together to be parted