It's been long since I've posted, so yup here it is again :D

School's fine, and we have gotten our test papers back. I'm pleased but at the same time, disappointed. Oh well, on the bright side, most of the tests are over (except for 3 more next week :/)

We have been practicing really hard for syf and we are determined to get the Gold, even better, Gold w. Honours! We have about 1 more month to practice and this is our last lap, jia you SMSB!

Sports Day is on next Thursday and it'll be at Clementi Stadium heee. It's pretty far from my house so I have to get up early :D I'll be out in the sun as I will be helping out, hahahaha apply sunblock lotion 8) After that week, it will be the long awaited March Hols. Yessss I've been waiting for this holiday for the longest time hahah and there will be band exchanges! Quite excited for it as this will be my 1st time attending.

There will be Masters Class tomorrow, I'll try to update regularly yeah.

YESSSS the week's finally over. We'll still be having another A Math and not forgetting, Chinese tests next week too, but it's time to relax a bit yeah (:

I was quite shocked for English, as in the topic. I didn't really know what to write about (oh well there goes my pass) so I wrote a very standard essay gah. HMT was o_o it was all about the cheng yu and I could not remember much.

Next was E Math. Wow this is the only one which I am hoping for a good grade. I had quite a breeze doing the paper and I did the whole paper again so as to double check my answers. I thought that the given time was rather long.

Social Studies was done similarly notwelldone. I struggled much for SBQ and for a moment, I blanked out at the SEQ. It was my very first SS test.

We had the Bio paper today and I am v. v disappointed with myself. I had to blame myself for not studying even harder and focus on the main points of the questions :/

Band tomorrowwww!

Haha, I locked my blog for fun 8)

Happy Belated Birthday Eunice!
Finally 15 yeah!

Jingwen, Yi Li, Abigail, Eunice and Eunice Tang went to Thomson Plaza after band today, Yvonne joined us later and we had a fun fun fun time celebrating her birthday.

Jw and Abigail had to visit the washroom, but they went to buy the cake for Eunice. Yi Li joined them aft that. We all left Subway and when we passed Hans, the lady passed the cake to Yvonne, thinking that she was the birthday girl hahaa that part was hilarious, and then Eunice took the cake hee (:

Stood in the middle of the mall while watching Eunice eating the cake. This was not over yet. Yi Li and Abigail went over to buy the bear for her, while we walked to Popular to not let Eunice see them. While trying to put the bear inside her bag, we even distracted her asking "wowww you got new bag ah?" hahaha etc. We had a hard time stuffing all the things back, and she found it in the end. Had a great time with all of them!

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It's been long since I posted, so yup. I've been having tests last and this week, while there will be an upcoming Chemistry test :/ Never in my entire secondary school life I've been so so worried for Geography test and it was only on a chapter LOL. Bio test is okay, but I'm a tad bit disappointed though.

SYF soundcheck is on this Sunday and I'm pretty worried yet excited for it. I do want to feel how it will be like during the actual syf and I'm anticipating for it :D

Time passes really quickly and it will soon be the end of week 3. I've been a Sec 3 for about three weeks and I could really feel the stress now. The amount of homework we get is already an example of the difference between lower secondary and upper secondary. We get homework everyday, and also the amount of things we will be learning. It will be much more in dept, and difficult. gahhh.

Chinese New Year is on the 26th Jan, which is this coming Monday. We're going to have a long weekend, but we are also given many, many homework :/ haha I'm not done with the buying of new year clothes. It will not be a half day tomorrow and there's prefect's induction after the celebration. Grandpa will be back tomorrow and I'm looking forward to the reunion dinner (:

I've been really clumsy these few days: got a brown (??) bruise on my left knee, cuts on legs and got a knock on my head hahaha. pretty weird eh.

Band was fine today, oh we've got new reeds last week yayyy!! :D We did many practicals this week, we used the microscope to observe cheek cells, onion and hydrilla cells; and for chem, it was on measurement so we did an experiment where we tried to use the pipette (: Learnt more about SPA and Sec 3 life is really different from lower secondary's.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Sec 3 DOT Connection 'BOND' Camp 2009 was really awesome. We laughed a lot, but also cried pretty much. I will miss everything about this camp.

3E5 Group 10 was pretty shy on the first day and we didn't talk much to our trainer, Ace, but we were really bonded and there were laughter everywhere we went. Before going to Sarimbun (gosh I miss that place), I thought this camp would be a physically and mentally-drained one, and a camp where you will get sore legs and back aches, but it was indeed a life changing camp. I wouldn't mind going back there, wouldn't mind all the smelly (and bad) toilets, wouldn't mind all the activities, wouldn't mind sleeping on wooden planks and tents, and I wouldn't mind going for this camp again. Really.

My group had really opened a lot after the 1st day and we were so bonded after that. I had many fun times and we definitely enjoyed ourselves there. We were really open to our trainer Ace and we laughed a lot, and of course, talked a whole lot too!

We did many activities, such as the Challenge Valley where we had to go down to the Milo Pond, High and Low Elements, Group activities, General Stations, going to Sungei Buloh and the Great Sarimbun Challenge. I did many things which I thought I would not have done it and I've kissed a frog. It was rather disgusting but it's a good experience :D

gah, whenever I think about the camp, I just feel nostalgic and wanna go back there again.

During campfire, I could not control myself when the trainers started their performance and when they were showing the pictures on the slideshow, I cried and tears kept flowing. I have not miss any camp so much than I miss this Sec 3 camp :/

At night, on the campfire day, we had a great talk with Ace, and we just laughed till late midnight. We had a wonderful time with her and will definitely miss her and the other trainers ):

On the last day, I had swollen and puffy eyes due to the crying and I had to control my emotions again. It was difficult as we all knew that we had to leave today and we may not meet any trainers in the future. Ace and Asyraf spoke to us, telling us how they enjoyed this camp so much and at that moment, we all just let it out and teared. We were emotional and could tell that everyone in this class will miss the camp. Asyraf cried pretty badly too (so did I) and we all took a class photo with them and went back to MPH.

The trainers once again sang a farewell song and I cried again gahhh. We were reluctant to leave the campsite and upon going out, I turned back and took a good look of the Sarimbun campsite. Nostalgic. Cried a little more on the bus when we bade goodbye to Asyraf while Ace was still with us, the journey back to school. We've reached school, had debrief and final cheer. At that moment, I realised that camp was really over and there's nothing we could do to go back to the time where we just reached Sarimbun.

Thank you, 3E5, especially Marilyn, Mun Shuen, Edrea, Cheryl, Shi Ying, Amelia, Sonia, Ariel, Hannah, Priya, Nainika, Jaishree, and Xin Yi. Thank you all the trainers, thank you Ace and Asyraf, you guys are great trainers and we'll miss you.

Jingwen, Yi Li and I went to send Mr Tan off this morning, and we reached Terminal 3 at 11.45pm. haha, it was pretty cool to stay at the airport in the middle of the night. We sat at Macdonalds and waited till 4 plus before heading back to the departure hall (yeah we slept there)

There were also many students from other schools came down to send him off. Mr Tan's childrens are really cute! We waited till the first train and went home.

Sec 3s will be going to Sarimbun Campsite for a 5D4N camp tomorrow, so will update more after it (:

It's 2.39am but I still wanna blog about this.

Firstly, Happy New Year! Hope you guys had a wonderful time today yeah :D

It has been a year full with ups and downs (recession!). I had many surprises and some of which were pleasant, and it was also a year with many farewells. I would say it is not a great year but it was definitely a year I will remember.

Year 2009 is sure to be a hectic year, with the SYF Central Judging and 'O' Level Chinese Papers. It is also a good thing because it will keep me busy and not to be distracted.

Resolution:

1. Stop eating so much and start exercising :/
2. Be more focus
3. Study hard

I went for CG this morning and met Wan Yu, Germaine, Belinda, Jie Yang, Joel and Clive. It has been a long time and it was really great to spent my New Year's Eve afternoon with them. They are great and I'm really happy to have them as friends.

Ate my first Chili Cheese Dog at Super Dog and I would say that it's pretty delicious (to me), played at the arcade and watched Yes Man. That was my last afternoon in the year 2008 and I certainly had a great time.

Jw came after that and we sat this ship thing outside Vivo and it was absolutely fun! It's some stimulator thing and it shows you how the life on the yatch (while having competition) is real extreme and of course, tough. It got quite dizzy at first but I enjoyed the ride.

We watched Twilight (yes again, the 3rd time) and stayed for the countdown.

Everywhere was v. v crowded, they even had to queue to use the escalator and lifts. We were moving inside the life and we were packed like sardines and I'm not kidding. Everybody got pretty high when they started to countdown and it was already 2009.

Well, here's the first official post of 2009 :D

30/12;

We had a farewell party for Mr Tan and we are glad that it went smoothly (: Many alumni and seniors came back, we played Stand By Me and Nostalgia while the alumni band played Colours of the Wind, That Thing You Do, and Amazing Grace.

I could feel my tears welling up when I played Nostalgia. Although Mr Tan has only taught the sec 2 (batch '08) for a year, he has indeed taught us many things we do not usually learn in class, cracked many funny (and cold) jokes, who brought much laughter to band, and he is also the one who inspired me to learn more about music.

We went to Performing Arts Studio to watch the video by the alumni and it was of the 9 years Mr Tan had spend in St. Margs. We had also presented his Wikipedia page and we are really happy that we had this opportunity to create this page for him! :D

However, he will be leaving this Sunday and we'll miss him. All the best for your studies Mr Tan!

Met Alicia, Sze Yue, Melissa, Shumian, Charmaine with Jing Wen to do the scrapbook for Mr. Tan. hahaha we ate there, drank coffee and made quite a mess there, didn't manage to do much and we will be going back on the 26th again. the materials for the book is really pretty but v. v expensive. we also listened to the recordings of the pieces we played in Polka! IV. great time chatting and laughing (plus taking pictures too)! 8)

Just went to mum's friend's house for Christmas Party, had pretty much fun and ate lots of meat. whooooa, for this holiday season (or the whole of nov/dec holiday) we've been eating loads of food, can't resist.

It's Christmas tomorrow, Merry Christmas everyone!

As promised:

Christmas Gathering (21/12)

Went over to Daddy's friend's house last Saturday as there was a birthday party for his granddaughter and it was really nice of them to order buffet from the Tavern. They serve western food and it's absolutely tasty (very expensive too) hahaha.

Bella's Lullaby is lovely

So KL was pretty much fun, with all the shopping and walking round KLCC for 3 out of 4 days hahaha.

1st day: We all woke up early as the cab would be here at 6.30am, and MaxiCab is awesome great seats yeah!! Reached Harbourfront Centre as we would be taking a coach there and I would say that that trip there and back was the most memorable bus trips I've had. They had great food (yeah good for a bus service) and comfy chairs, it was pretty different from the previous I've sat and the trip was a breeze.

We arrived at Corus Hotel, the hotel we stayed for 4 days and it was lunch then shopping time. hahaa it's been four years since I've been to Malaysia and it's a whole new experience there again. we went on walking rounds and rounds in the mall, in Isetan and whooaaaa the place is huge. met up with daddy's friend for dinner at the restaurant near Times Square and their lean meat is very fatty and very good and not very lean at all. what a day to end off with great chinese food (:

2nd day: basically our trip was to shop, eat and sleep. hahaha so we spent our day again in klcc and we couldn't stop walking. I remembered the time when jw and I had to dress up as butterfly/insect for a christmas event there, ah good old times. so yeah, shop!

3rd day: Went to Sungei Wang/ Bukit Bintang for a walk and met up with our relatives. had lunch with them at the noodles house (we ate there with them at the same place 4 years ago too) and we got a chance to visit my granduncle's office. he has branches in overseas and has one in KL too. pretty amazing to see them work haha. Midvalley Megamall to shop and also, watch Twilight hahaha. I had not read the book at that time so I felt the movie was pretty great, I wanna catch it again :D

4th day: did last minute shopping in klcc again and we've packed up and got ready to leave Malaysia for Singapore. the trip back was great (again) and watched Just My Luck on board. hahaaa.

yeah, photos. I'll upload them again.

Greetings from Singapore, I'm back.

well I'll post more about KL later, here's on our trip to Pitstop Cafe with Double Reeds (:

Cafe Cartel's baked macaroni is still the bombxzz, the cheesy and creamy sauce whoooohooo. Walked to Pitstop Cafe which is located at Circular Rd and it's on the 2nd level. Pretty cosy and the games are very fun. hahaha, played games such as Ugly Doll, Snorta, Quelf, Spy Alley etc.

HEEHAW! (haha) had much fun laughing and drinking lemonade. smacking and pressing the bell which is faulty. Pitstop's great.

Next post on KL trip, there's photos yeah.

Hello! I'm currently in Kuala Lumpur, haha spending my holidays here. It's fine here yeah and the night view of the twin towers' fantastic. hahaha (:

I will be back in Singapore on Wednesday and if there's anything to inform me, you all may email me as I will check them (if 0nly there's internet then), so yeah :D

Hope you all have a great holiday too, see you all in Singapore!

Last Tuesday was our final practice with Mr. Tan. We went through our set piece and reminded us what to work on, and revised with us the importance of PEAR. hahaha, took our bocal out and blew a note, hahaha the part when he said about our reeds was pretty funny (:

Nostalgia, gah. I can still remember the day when we Sec 2s step into the band room, together with the Main Band, and we all worked and sight-read some pieces, Fantasia!! We will definitely miss him.

Hwa Chong& Nanyang's NOEL concert later.

Really, Thank You for the Music.

Faith, Hope and Love II ended yesterday, and it was absolutely amazing. Our performance was great, especially Jericho. The feel was there, emotions were there, everything was there. It was beautiful.

I could feel my tears welling up during Victory, but I had to control. The last chord of Spirit of Christmas, which was also our last chord conducted by Mr. Tan, was good. It was a great performance, truly a wonderful performance to remember.

There was a slideshow prepared by the schools, CHIJ Toa Payoh, St. Margs, and Catholic High and it was a slideshow showing all the past pictures taken with the schools. Encore was great, but yeah teared sniffled a little. my nose was red hahaha. Thank You for the Music was enjoyable, with all of us singing to the tune, crying a little, moving to the groove. Wow, it was fantastic. Yeah, wow.

Yesterday was our last concert with Mr. Tan and I really really thank him. Thank you for bringing music into my life, thank you for letting me know more about band life and enjoying it. I have definitely enjoyed all my time in band and get the opportunity to make music. Once again, thank you for the music.

Faith, Hope & Love II is tomorrow :D In less than 24 hours, we will be sitting in the IJ Hall rehearsing our pieces *big grin

Today was our last practice before the concert, kinda sad, I will miss playing and practising the pieces, figuring how to play the semi-quavers and the low low low notes, but what I will miss most will be the practices with Mr. Tan.

So let's play well tomorrow yeah!

Band camp was pretty fun, with section bonding, games and practices (:

hahaha, played charades during section bonding time, blueberry cowcake & men-toss (inside joke)! Audition went quite well yay, and I still can't forget the time we've spent during band camp. took many photos, failed jump shots, group photos with succesful & unsuccessful shots, full main band photo with us saying 'Polkaaaa' and 'Jerichoooo', band camp was great.

None of our juniors came, so it was the 7 of us and I realised each of us can make up a letter of the word 'Doubles' hahaha. Night practice was a refreshing one, and it was quite interesting and fun we did not have any night practice before, so it was cool yeah (: full run went well too gimmicckkks!

Concert's in 3 days it's going to be exciting!!!!

Band Camp's tomorrow! From one month, to two weeks, and now, tomorrow hahahaha, can't wait (:

I'll be away from tomorrow (24/11) to wednesday (26/11). I'll update more when I come back, bye.

Ate dinner twice last night, once at home, the other at the Ubin Restaurant, the fried squid with salted egg is delicious! The squid and the egg just melts in your mouth, and it makes you feel happy (I don't know, that's what I feel) whoa, that time we ordered that dish twice, hahahahaha !!!

Bought new reed at IMM last Sunday, yayyyyy but it was very expensive. The happier part is that it is easier to blow, compared to the other reeds when I just seasoned them double yay (:

Band yesterday and we played really nicely, especially Jericho and Spanish Fever. The Victory part was superb and I could feel myself moving to the music. The feel was there and I'm really really happy. Spanish Fever and Spirit of Christmas were very good too! :D

wanted to wake up earlier these few days to make breakfast, haha, after seeing Nigella Express on the Discovery Travel & Living, I will really wanna try to cook (: It's kinda my favourite tv channel now, haha, that's alot to learn from the programmes, cooking!

The set pieces were here today, t o d a y :D I prefer the first overture, rhythms are not too difficult to handle, but the second sounds nicer hmmm, we will be getting our scores soon.

Sectionals & drills will be in less than 8 hours, I have to sleep soon.