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date: Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 2:12 pm

title: The movers are here

HI GUYZZZ.

After 476 posts and 5 years, I've moved to Wordpress (:

Not for any reason in particular...I just thought it'd be nice to have a change now and then!

date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 10:58 am

title: Dewdrops on green blades

Hello...

These few days have been rather uneventful. I'm still trying to work out my Wordpress blog so that it'll look like a more personalised site rather than "Just another Wordpress.com site". Haha.

Anyway, dinner yesterday with Abi, Sonia and Andrea was great 'cause we got to visit Sonia and Andrea's dad's shop and we were putting on clothes and taking pictures. Just for the fun of it.

I think this holidays I've been deliberately trying to keep myself non-busy. Every time an activity crops up i either decline or think very hard about it. Of course it depends on the nature of the activity, but considering I'm helping out at ESC soon and going for Ignite during the last week of the hols. I figured it'd be better to stay mellow during this period. It's just been pretty peaceful so far. And I hope I'll make good pace with the books. And, of course, Wordpress.

Lol. Ta!

date: Saturday, June 05, 2010 @ 4:39 pm

title: Progress?

PHEW. Haven't been able to access Blogger for 2 days now! Annoying much!

Anyway, these few days have been quite unproductive, in my opinion. I want to get down to studying, but there's just so much to study I spend more time thinking about how to organise my notes and studying rather than actually spending the time studying. The first week of holiday's gone already. Not a good thing. But otherwise, studying in solitude and peace is quite a nice feeling. Especially if you've got a yummy snack or two to cheer you up midway.

On another note, I WENT SHOPPING YESTERDAY :D We ended up spending the entire time at 313@Somerset, and I bought quite a number of items from F21 and a pair of shoes from Zara. Lunch and dinner were nice too! had a lot of fun yesterday; back to the humdrum pattern of studying...

date: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 @ 9:56 pm

title: In the midst of IHist term paper...

Blogging is starting to give me diminishing returns. Haha. As you can kinda tell by the length of time between my last post and this one. I wonder if the interest will die out altogether in the near future...? But it was partly because of Hectic School and Happenings, and today I have photos from various events to post haha :D

It has been crazy, and GP was okayish I guess. THI has ended, just as I was beginning to warm up to talking to ahgong and ahma. What I once regarded as a chore I now treasure as an opportunity to inject that spark of brilliance they need. Especially after ahma told us about her past. We told them we'd go down when we were free.

I'm really worried I won't be able to finish all that mugging by the end of the June hols. JC work is so much different from secondary school; I now need to think harder than ever before. Sec school was just memorising and regurgitating. I guess this is the right way huh. Non-rote learning. At least I'm done with IHist term paper :DDDD Small conciliation, but yeah. Haha. I'd better get down to planning my studying timetable PROPERRRR tomorrow.

Anyway, (:D)
Dance Night! With Claire.

1Aers and Chiap who was dancing!

Anna's jazz concert which was pretty awesome! :D

Ahgong and a picture of his younger self! Haha!

This was taken during Math lecture, our last block of the term.

Which was followed by a birthday treat for Bhargav and Gerry, with Ben and Jerry's. Get it get it? Haha!

Le Stade: Rproject 2010 was fun. And interesting. The designs were interesting; some were really nice, but others weren't. And the venue is in the midst of PSA hahaha. But yeah. It was fun :D

Anna!

Gwyneth (:

Clement the master of Runway who was looking super stressed out haha! OG matez ftw!

We were all seated close together.

Joni, designer and model (:

While waiting for my dad...

Preparing for Captain's Ball with St. Paul's on Sunday, which was quite an eye-opener.

After Pre-U seminar today (which was an utter waste of time besides PM Lee's Q&A). We had gone through so much trouble to get the blazer suit that we had to take a photo. Haha (:

Well that's it for now. Study tomorrow.

date: Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 7:28 pm

title: Thanks for the memories

I finally found time to blog after a CRAZY CRAZY week. Last week was just so horrible because I arrived home so late almost every night for various reasons and I still had to work on PW even after arriving home. Not to mention how I had to clean up all the saigang of GPP. I was so annoyed with the rest for the week.

I can't do 1.30am for 3 consecutive nights. Unfortunately I'm not someone who can do that. I found that out during Saturday's training; it was in the middle of the afternoon and it was crazy hot. And I realised that even after running a short distance I was seriously panting and out of breath. There was even a point when everything seemed over-saturated and the grass seemed especially green and that was when I knew I should tell Meph that I should sit out for the rest of training. Otherwise I might have just fallen down and died or something. Scary. Lesson learnt. I won't allow sleeping late to affect training ever again. And not least my groupmates' non-activity in PW.

On a happier note, CLASS CAMP at Ophir! :D

Before setting off (and the photo in which John resembles Elmo)

In the middle of the night when some of the girls found (more) ants and eggs in their cabins and we were eating the frustration away...

Outside our cabin...

This is now Anna's profile pic!

Agnes demonstrating our abseil. I think our abseil path is pretty spectacular! And it was more challenging and fun than 1A's >)

Me hahaha.

This is ARA I think.

John.

Claire and Pris.

Lol this photo is candid! Ryan getting owned by Bird (:

Claire abseiling.

Anna's turn. And the waterfall scramblers at the back!

Girls!

Mr Rolly and his I'm-too-cool-for-you sunnies!

Kathy

415-ers ftw! :D

Class camp was really such an enjoyable time and I wish we could have that kind of fun throughout the entire school year, without a care in the world (accommodation aside, of course haha). It was so hard to return to school mode...

date: Saturday, May 08, 2010 @ 4:25 pm

title: Mount Ophir (Mount of Fear)

CLASS CAMP WAS AWESOMEZ!!! I shall upload photos soon (:

It has been a crazy week, what with trainings and Animal Farm, and I srsly hope I'll be able to get back into school mode...

On a happier note, we had Dtw Touch Rugby today so Photog people were taking us now haha! I haven't posted my waterpolo DtW photos yet :/

And there's Dance Night later. Whoosh.

date: Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 8:29 pm

title: Late nights are bright

PHEW. It has really been a very very busy week. I slept late, as in later than my usual 12.30, on a few nights and you can tell it's taking a toll on you. Like during today's power steps. And the ulcer on my lower palette.

Exco stuff is really quite overwhelming. Actually more for photog. We have to answer this whole long questionnaire and the questions are not the easy-to-answer type. They require you to think really long about things, and I'm not sure I wanna give up the time to do that ):

HAHAHA and we were supposed to get our Team Raffles shirts for Trug on Thursday. We had already gotten them in the morning, and suddenly in the middle of the day, I happened to glance at the collar where the CCA name is printed. I thought I saw TOUCH RUBGY. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, because it's really subtle. Then I looked again and I saw it was true. LOLLLERZZ. What an idiotic mistake to make! some kind of supplier that is! So I texted Sophia about it(she hadn't noticed it either) and she had to collect it back from everyone.

And so my classmates coined a new name for me. A rubber. Whoa man. Joke of the day.

date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 11:52 pm

title: Evermore

You are my God, my life, my all

And I live for You alone

I am Yours

Evermore

I think I need to spend more time with God. Work has been way over my neck since last week, and I've been skipping quite a lot of QT.

After all, what is trying to finish my work without His help?

Anyway, Play! today was real funny and real cute (: Go RGSSB Batch'09!

Lit and History. Monday.

date: Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 10:07 pm

title: My God is the God who saves

It has been a colossally tiring and busy week fraught with a million and one pieces of homework. But going to school has been fun nevertheless because of all the company, and I'm really thankful that to negates the dreariness of school to some extent. Haha.

I'm trying desperately to cut words form my PI now. 84 more words to cut!! I donch see how my PI can get any briefer! D:

But anyway. Photog this week was really fulfilling. I managed to get some pretty nice pictures from Macritchie and on the way there too!

The sky that day was awesome shizz.

That's me. Sydney took this haha.

Golden retriever!!! I couldn't get a nice clear picture though ):

The magnificent sunset.

date: Saturday, April 03, 2010 @ 11:22 pm

title: This is the sound of settling

Phew. It has been awesome fun two days! Let's disregard the fact that I didn't do much (if any) work within these 2 days. HAHA.

On Thursday I went shopping with Anna at Orchard. Gosh how I miss Orchard! And that's a common sentiment among almost all RG girls I think lol (: Managed to find some nice stuff that day! :DDD

Good Friday started with a swim, then a 3-hour service in church. It was pretty long drawn out and the speaker had this really weird and mechanical way of speaking, but the subject matter was good.

After that was OG outing! Well actually there were only 7 of us but it was awesome fun nonetheless! :DD Our plans to watch Clash of the Titans were dashed 'cause we couldn't book beforehand and so, obviously, tickets in every cinema were selling (or, rather, sold) out. Ohwell! Wanted to play pool, but again, it was SO crowded. After much walking around aimlessly, we finally settled down at Settler's Cafe. HAHAHA. The variety of games there is amazing and we had so much fun (and loud bursts of laughter) there!

Silver lining outside Plaza Sing. Not the best of pictures though :/

Imagine ifff was the funnest game man :D

I think we had a good session at training today and I went for Jap buffet after that WHOOHOO before heading to the airport to fetch Abi who just came back from Italy rawrr. Haha.

Oh yeah, going back to RG on Wednesday was quite a nice experience. They now have a cafe next to Popular!! :OOOO Mr Jalleh kindly treated us to drinks there. Managed to see my band juniors and a few teachers, and it was nice to catch up with them a little.

Alright. It's time to get down to business. No more playing for the next few days/weeks?

Cya.

date: Sunday, March 28, 2010 @ 7:47 pm

title: The greatest love of all is mine

Maybe I should not be doubting, but put my trust in Him because after all, He is the one who sees the big picture and I am but a small part of His big plans~

Ok, looks like I can't make it for paintball next Saturday D: But I'll probably meet them for lunch!

Anyway, Abi's in Italy now! And I am stuck here doing GP stuff. THIS IS UNFAIR!

But, THURSDAY'S A HOLIDAY DUUUDES! *whoops and cheers* :D :D :D

date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 @ 10:01 pm

title: Singing here we go again

School has started again...

Oh well.

Luckily the feeling of doom I was having on Sunday night has more or less evaporated.

Dinner last Wednesday :D

date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 11:43 pm

title: All the praise goes to You

Whew training in the rain yesterday was quite an experience! At first I was kinda apprehensive (well, for the usual reasons) but I guess it really was something we'd seldom get to do. Haha! Since rugby is supposed to be played in all weather. Thank God I didn't fall sick or something. i wouldn't wanna go through that again though! It's messy ttm! And my new boots were completely soaked! They're still drying btw.

Cell today was quite fun; they were starting to warm up, so that's great. Lunch with Andrea and gang was fun too! KOI ftw! HAHAHA.

Goodnight!

date: Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

title:

The nagging is never-never-ending. It gets on your nerves, because of its intensity and tone. Once in a while, you can let it go. But when it keeps on happening, over and over and over again, without respite, you begin to feel that you cannot take it anymore.

And today's training which wasn't. AGH!

date: Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 6:14 pm

title: Inactivity

Hellooooz!

This week has been quite busy. Haven't had much time do much work because I've been going out quite a lot. Actually not really. I think it's just that I spend too much time thinking of what to write for my essays. Because I'm slow and I haven't really gotten back into the mood in which I can spin out essays without spending ages thinking about how I'm gonna present my arguments in a coherent manner. Oh well. At least I'm done with History!

I shall post photos from yesterday's dinner to celebrate Evan's and Deb's birthdays sometime soon (:

date: Monday, March 15, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

title: Like a bullet train it goes by

It has been an extremely eventful week. Manzxz.

On Wednesday we went to see the Egyptian thing at the National Museum. It was okay...quite interesting, though it was kinda short. And the museum staff didn't like us. I wrote my name in hieroglyphics though haha (: And we saw our RGS juniors on their Learning Journey! Coolio.

We went to Pizza Hut on Thursday for lunch. People, I don't know about the pizza, but the other food is horrible. So please make sure you don't waste your time and money eating Pizza Hut's pasta and baked rice. They're horrible! From what I know and have heard, the pizza is not great either. Lol! Another stupid mishap happened during the video-making workshop that I learned was quite a waste of time after staying back four hours for it :/

Went for DtW Judo on Friday, and I'm still trying to get used to using a DSLR. I still feel pretty noob sometimes, since I only started using one like, a few weeks ago. After that was Giselle! It was kid of a rush going there, and we sat outside City Hall for dinner we had da bao-ed from Raffles City because it was too crowded for us to sit down anywhere -.- The view from there is pretty though! I enjoyed the first half of Giselle; the female lead was soooo good. There was a part where she practically was on one leg across half the stage! And one of the male 'peasants' was really good too. Unfortunately, I sorta fell asleep in the second half. the only part I remember clearly was Giselle's spirit floating out of the woods. Seriously, before her feet come into view, you could swear she was floating!

Training on Saturday wasn't so satisfactory. I think we were all tired and we couldn't really execute the drills properly...oh well.

But on a happier note, Crossover sleepover was fun TTM! Praise Night was great, and games after that were awesome shizz! Especially Human Gunbound :D hahaha! My group won, btw :D we were happily engaged in free play hurling water bombs at each other without the device thingum when suddenly everything went silent. Because the police had come. We had been making too much noise. HAHAHA. But we got off lightly; they just told us to pack up and stop playing this game. Which was after we had had our fun so thank God (: We wanted to order Mac's in at 3am, but...THEY WERE BUSY. Wtheck. So we settled for cereal with milk. Haha.

After service on Sunday we went rockclimbing :DD It was really fun and I tried 5 different routes :D They were pretty varied and you could challenge yourself by only using rocks of one colour to make it harder. And I managed to reach the top all 5 times though it was difficult for some. Haha. My nails were all scratched up after that.

At night we went over to Bertrand's place for a while for his birthday party. House of Wax was freaking scary. Gorily scary. Or scarily gory. When I left I could hear them screaming from outside the house whahaha.

And so today I slept in. (:

date: Friday, March 05, 2010 @ 10:53 pm

title: That's the way it is

Today was pretty fun. School ended at 12.30 and our class went to watch Alice in Wonderland :D I quite liked it 'cause of the set and costumes and, of course, because there was Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter (: He always gets all these whimsical roles; so coolz.

Photog today was fun because we got to do hands-on :D I think I'll borrow the school's DSLRs for future shooting sessions 'cause I really need to get used to the functions. And all the other stuff about aperture, ISO etc. Haha.

The parade square is always very nice in the solitude of the early morning.