31 October 2004
10:57 AM
The rehearsal with
Budak was really fun (: They must be one of the most
funky, most musical a cappella group around! Their medley of abba songs was really
comical, and
very harmonious. And then when the choir sang with them, it was
wow. They brought their technical equipment and all that too! Looked totally
professional. I prefer "Been Around" actually, and joe's solo parts are so cool. He has just the
right amount of laidback attitude and his voice is
so suited for the words. I
truly cannot wait for the concert (:
Yesterday was netball carn too! Despite being stepped on and kicked on my
loosed-nailed toe, it was
really fun. I was
gs for most games, and it was
fantastic working with
Huannie!! After a few games, we sort of had a system working. Center(pet) to Huannie, then she'll pass it to florence as a pivot point :D then to me who will be waving my arms like a maniac because I am restricted to 1/3 of the court. Then huannie will run like
crazy near to the goal, and then she'll
shoot!! I recall a
super zai-ed shot when she stood quite a distance from the net and the ball just
sailed in. (: And if they don't, I'll be in charge of catching the
rebounds, which is really fun (: We usually manage to catch each other's rebounds anyway. :x I shot a few, missed a few, and got kicked some, but overall it was
fun playing with the 310 team! I think it's great that we won a few matches! (: We'll all go
screaming and hugging each other, because we didn't have much practice, but we pulled it off! And I screamed like
crazy when vanessa shot
3 shots during a match!
Great job 310!
Music really brings people together. I remember the song This Love was playing when it was 310's turn to play against another class on court 1, then I was singing the song (it was playing really loud) with the 'opponent'! It kind of brought us together I guess, like singing the same song while we played against each other. For a moment it was as if we were playing
together rather than
against each other, and I
kind of forgot she would be trying to intercept my netballs later on. (:
Thanks a
gazillion to the people who cheered me on, like
xiao yu and
ann! It was really encouraging, because I was
seriously intimidated by a defender who was probably 10 cm taller than me and had arms
twice the height and length of mine. :x And then after a match,
dee and
chay would always come over to give me a hug! (: And
steph,
yixuan and
astee conforting me whenever I missed a shot.. And
soomeh,
sooneh, and
tanneh! Thanks so much you guys. (:
And then there was the dedications! I know
Rachie and
Huannie dedicated a song to me and pet! Like I said before,
slackville is one of the best things that has happened to me in school.
Slackvillians- you guys rule. (: Me and Clara dedicated a song to 310 too, and it was playing while a match was on! Talk about perfect timing.
For dinner I had one of the nicest meals ever. My relatives came over, and we baked brownies with california walnuts! (: (: And then there was baked chicken and jell-o! And eggy long beans and prawn tomato soup and cheese broccoli. (: (: I love my relatives.
I love things that last far longer than forever.
"Are we going to be friends forever?" Asked Piglet.
"Even longer..." Pooh answered.
-A. A. Milne
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28 October 2004
4:47 PM
Budak Pantai rocks. They are one of the
most professional,
considerate,
unassuming, down-to-earth performers on this
planet, and I'm so
so glad to be performing with them in their concert! [13 nov] 'In Your Face', at the esplanade! (: The songs we're singing together are
fantastic! (: The only
worrying thing is that I'll have to conduct the choir
and the guitarist at the start of the song, and if I
mess up, I'll just
die straight away. This is
freakily scary.
The rehearsal on tues went
swell. The dinner provided was
really nice, and I
looove the drinks. Fascinating blend, Tropical Sunrise. Tasted as good as it looked. (: And we ate and sang at the
rooftop of ymca! How
cool is that? :b with the city lights to admire and all that.
(Only thing is I can't appreciate city lights.. Can't seem to find anything great about some lights, but never mind..) I love Budak Pantai.
The
netball practice got my muscles all
stretched and painful. Now I can't even climb the stairs without
wincing lol. This is
terrible. And my toe has got a
loose nail!
How am I supposed to play this sat. I really wonder. Never mind. I shall just
concentrate on getting my muscles working again. And I shall
keep shooting those netballs into those
dumb hoops till I get
at least two-thirds of the shots
in lol. Currently I think I can shoot as well as I can
fly lol. How
awful. Whatever it is, I think huanie rocks at shooting.
Way to go! (: Mock competition- I shot the first shot in, she the second, and we
messed up didn't manage the subsequent ones but
whatever. Will try harder.
Today I got back some exam papers. I
shook my head so many times that I think
what's left of my
puny brain got
smashed against my skull. How
dreadful. :( My supposed "
best" subjects were quite sad. And seems like I didn't know how to spell "
occurrence" and "
perceived". So
appalling. But I told myself since I didn't
really study hard enough I shouldn't expect so much, but oh well. Spelling mistakes are
such a
waste of marks. "
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted." David Bly.
After all, neither success nor failure was ever final.
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
-Leo Burnett
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25 October 2004
1:36 PM
"All men and women are born, live,
suffer and
die;
what
distinguishes us one from another is our
dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and
what we do to make them come about...
We
do not choose to be born.
We do not choose our parents.
We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the
immediate circumstances of our upbringing.
We do not, most of us, choose to die;
nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessness,
we do choose how we live. "
-Joseph Epstein
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22 October 2004
9:49 PM
Watched
yesterday once more.
Sadness.
Tragic ending. Spoilt my whole post-exam celebration. But the company was great. (:
Just got home from my shopping spree with sis. Orchard at night in quite
different from Orchard any other time. You just feel like spending more I guess. It's the whole environment. I'm so
spent now.
"I've been living for tomorrow's of my life..."
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17 October 2004
2:30 PM
So give me strength, to face this test of mine.
Aqua
If only I could turn back time
if only I had said what I still hide.
if only I could turn back time,
I would stay.
If only I could
if only I had
if only I could
Turn back time.
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04 October 2004
9:11 PM
I am actually
not supposed to be blogging any more. In fact, I'm not even supposed to be on the computer! >.<>crap. I am actually seeing some
funny lines on the screen now, like a spoilt tv, only that the lines are horizontal lol.
Worrying. ):
Anyway, I'd like to
thank (
again) some
extremely nice and
cool people, like
Huanie. Huanie was
very nice today, she taught me the sine rule thing that I missed when I didn't go school, and did it with the
greatest patience I have
ever seen in anyone. (: And whenever she got a sweet from laoshi for answering some question, she would
throw it on the floor to break it in half so she could give me the other half! I was touched. xh- you
rock. (:
And we were listening to Linkin Park today too! So cool. I didn't know xh could rap so well ;b So there we were, with her whisperingly
screaming like a maniac, and me trying my very best to
rap. It was crazy. (:
And SuMae sent me an get-well email! -
big hug- Thank you soomeh, for
everything. ^^
ok,
now I have to get off and never come back
till the week is up if I want to heal. :x
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C.S. Lewis
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02 October 2004
10:20 AM
I didn't go school on thursday, and I am
so thankful friday was a rg school holiday, or I would have to miss it again. -whew
Ok, I have decided to write what happened to me, so that people reading this won't have to ask for the long story again, because it
is pretty long. I can't stay long on the computer, unless I want to go blind or something, so I'll make this short. :)
But first, I really got to thank people like
ming and
pet. They did some really
awesome things for me. Thank you
so much ming, for meeting me at the mrt station and travelling
all the way from home just to pass me my homework! I really
really appreciate that, and I really thought you were out already! You really didn't have to come all the way, I could have gone to your place too :( But yeah, so I was very shocked when she told me she was going home after coming from home just to hand me my homework!
Thank you. (: (:
During school, the
slackvillian population was sms-ing me to tell me how friday was a school holiday, and to get well soon & everything. (: thanks
rachie,
petti, and
huan-ie :b It wasn't so bad lying at home knowing you've got friends to talk to. And then
pet typed out the english compre. answers for me just so I could mark it at home! When I got the email I was very shocked. Thanks so much pet. :)
And after school, when carmen & pet realised I was at the A&E ward at SGH, they were so
frantic! :b Relax guys, you should know I'll be fine (: But thanks for the concern. (:
Ok, so it started wednesday, with my right eye having this really
blurred vision. The doc said it had something to do with being overworked or something like that, so the nerve behind the eye got a little cranky. So anyway, I was beginning to get
hysterical, because I couldn't
see my own hand at a certain angle from my eye. It was as if there was water in my eye and I couldn't blink it off. So I decided to
chill and get some sleep. When I work up, I had this migraine- my teeth and gums and
nose hurt.
(The you-can-just-cry-and-die sort of pain) SO I continued sleeping until mum decided it was impossible for me to go school the next day.
I woke up at 12 on thur and rushed to the doc, who
freaked me out when he said he was referring me to the A&E ward at SGH as an
emergency case cos blurred vision was quote "
no laughing matter". So my poor mum and me had to rush to the hospital. I think my mum was
convinced I would be blind or something, cos for the entire journey she kept blaming my late nights and computer sessions. And when we reached there, my temperature was
38.7 degrees, which was quite freaky, so the nurse just looked at me, but then she allowed me in. (I knew I looked healthy :b) And somehow, we skipped by the many people waiting for treatment and I got immediate consultation. I was amazed. I didn't think blurred vision was so serious.
Saw the eye specialist, and she
dumped lots and
lots of different coloured liquids in my eye. Ouch. And she kept shining funny lights into my eye, to test the pressure and the retina etc etc. Turns out my nerve is ok, so no worries. -whew
Then I had to run to another specialist, who was checking the migraine bit. They kept lamenting about how I was "
only 15", and "
so young" etc. -__-" I think it is uncommon for teenagers to have that bad a migraine, so they were wondering what was wrong.
In the end, the doc gave me some reference to KK Hospital, should my vision problem ever occur again. They worry me.
But other than not being able to study for very long and look at the computer for a longer time (this is the final time for the whole week.), I shall recover
most definitely. (: I shall resume my studying on monday after I recover
fully.
Sigh. I have been listening to Mozart's Sonatas, Waldtaufel's & Stauss's orchestral Waltzes
(Estudiantina, Les Sirenes, Dolores) the
whole of yesterday, today and
tomorrow. The house is
filled with
orchestras of the Overtures to
'La Fille Du Yambour Major'. >.< That's all I can do at the moment, listen, dream, and play my piano (: Life ain't so bad actually.
Oh yes, and currently my brother is hobbling around the house because of the
9 stitches on his shin, and my sister's temperature is
39.1 degrees, and I am having difficulty forcing the medicine down my throat & sneezing like crazy lol. My poor mum. As if she doesn't have enough problems with her nerves, and now she's got
3 invalids in the house. >.<
When it rains, it
pours.
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