22 July 2006
ah . what a long and (*&^%T$#% up week .
listening comprehension on monday , fairly uneventful . its uber easy , i bet i got an A , HA . spent the precious minutes before that running around like a chicken thats lost its head looking for a blouse to borrow , and was all hot , stinky and sweaty during the exam , ugh . choral fest practices on both tuesday and wednesday , i daresay we ( both SN and the mixed chorus ) bonded so much more . oh yes , and the hot cellist guy in SNYO kept us all going through the long and dreary marches up and down the stage over , and over , and over again . oh yeeeees (: he really was hawt , yknw . oh , and i love my eye candy (: he kept me going strong ! his name is Max and HES SO CUTE , everybody thought so okay ! yongzhen managed to get a picture of him , i shall print it out and gaze at it everynight before i go to sleep !
thursday wasnt as bad as i thought it would be , as in , in the terms of the rushing around . rehearsal for choral fest ended early , and was able to stroll through a park-ish place to the explanade , with serene and hoho for escorts . journeyed through this maze of rooms to the dressing room in explanade , and had a not so relaxing shower in the showers . took me about ten minutes to figure out how to work the taps , and got myself burnt and frozen and over and over again in the span of this ten very nasty minutes , like eurgh . practised a little with the group while towelling my hair dry , i do believe i've mastered the art of multi-multi tasking , yay (: sound check at the arts cafe was relatively okay , this bunch of morons pissed me off though , talking loudly and all when TONE was having their sound check and when i was trying to get rid of the mommoth headache . told them to " excuse me , can you please keep quiet ? " , much to the horror of tabs and went back to sleep on the extremely wooden coffee table . and yes , thanks to tabs and jo for making me look simply smashing on the day with their excellent skills in makeup , but ive got a confession , your hard work melted off my face in the midst of the mad dash back to victoria concert hall ): not really sure how i sounded during fever , really , everything started and ended so fast yeah . hohum .
and anyway , SUARA got 2nd . oh well . TAG got first . congratulations to TAG (:
concert was great , had a very amusing photowhoring / group picture taking with the choral festers , i've never before felt so wanted and loved , haha in a way . hum hum . walking in for finale was weird , i ended up in the first row instead of the second , but oh well , there are perks (: like standing between Max and um , daniel ( piedmont ) , i believe . forgot the lyrics to tsubasa , and so did camelia . had a panicky whispered debate / discussion about our heinous crime of Not Memorising The Song Lyrics And How To Make Up For It with her out of the corners of our mouths ( daniel whispered the lyrics to us out of the corners of his mouth ) while maintaining our wow-worthy smiles (: but we neednt have worried really , once the band struck up , the magic of the stage took over , and we remembered all our lyrics anyway . finale was great , many thingys burst and confetti came raining down on us , oh yay (: many other mini confetti sprays were had by picking the bits off the floor and throwing it into the air again , haha (: after 1001 hip hip hurrahs for everyone later , we trooped off the stage (: summoning up all my courage with darling alex by my side , we asked Max for a picture ( he said yes ! ) and just as promptly lost him amongst the throngs of people , PFT )': you'd think that a blonde head would be easy to find in a sea of browns and reds and blacks , but noooooo . ran round and round with um , amanda / cassandra / cant remember her name now later on In Search Of Max . twenty minutes later , all we had for our efforts were two pairs of extremely sore feet and many other random pictures with everybody else . and then we got all emotional after seeing others cry and such , and then reality sort of hit , like we're all never gonna see each other again in this way , unless we meet each other on the streets that sort of thing . gave up on Mission Max , he seems determined to avoid us at all costs , pssh . many goodbye hugs and exchanging of phone numbers and tears later , i was on my way back to esplanade for the results and all sorts of nitty grittys . i'll miss toh ban sheng and his life stories and stuff , and the " girls , girls , girls . and the gentleman " .
got lost in the maze-y area , and alvin had to come and save me because tabs was too lazy to , psht . was damn freaked out , the place was all dark and deserted with other passageways branching out into many different directions . then the music came on , and i got even more freaked out . things got a little better when i reached the dressing room where people were sort of quiet . and subdued , ah well . saw qianying , HAHA she hasnt grown , much (: had to throw away my five dollar bag i got from ebay because the light bulb burnt a hole in it , seriously . and then the exhaustion and headache and gastric etcetc hit . felt damn bloody terrible on the way to city hall , didnt talk much to the others , and neither did tabs . slept a little on the train , and took the bus home , and then this bunch of bengs and lians came on the bus and started talking loudly and crudely in their own special language , and i think this -.-" says it all . hit the sack arnd one-ish , and didnt wake up until um , nine-ish . haha . had a debate with my inner devil and angel on the issue of To Pon Or Not To Pon , and a winner emerged , victorious , after a long while . i was on my grumpy way back to school .
the week away from school felt great , and then again , not so great . its gonna be hell trying to catch up . and with so much homework and stuff that i missed , i have no idea what i'm still doing here . this would have to do for the moment , and the many days ahead
P.S vocallapallooza is cancelled . nothing can describe my extreme disgustedness and shock right now . it is amazing , really , that with singapores population of 4 million over people , we are unable to sell 350 tickets . ridiculous , really . do the math , friends . and the certain acapella group pisses me off , real bad . dont you let me see you again . perhaps theres a reason why God has let things come to this not very pretty pass , but i havent got the strength and time and patience to figure it out now . i'll do the serious thinking and stuff later , just typing these lines out make me steam at the ears
CHORALFEST'06 , je t'aime
SUARA'06 , je t'aime
1:53 PM
16 July 2006
christ , this is gonne be one hell of a week ):
choral fest practices for combined choirs commences tmrw , and i havent even started learning the i love spain or whatever song . its gonna be one hell of a three day intensive training :/ not so bright side : i get to skip school for three days ? imagine how much i'll lag behind on my work lah , and everyone knows i'm lagging enough alr . TASYV practice wednesday night from 2030 to 2130 , note the time please ):
thursday , the nightmarish day . combined choir prac in the morning until five-ish , then rush down to esplanade for the championships , then rush back up and pray hard i make it back before interval of the concert , perform , and then perhaps i'll go back down to esplanade after the concert for the nitty gritty details , ugh ):
i feel screwy yeah , i dont wna be the reason that TASYV ( or SUARA hahahahaha ) fails on championships day because of the $%^&^%$@$#@ fever solo , i dont wna screw up but i'm scared i will and then let everyone down . its all frightening and panicky-ish . a million things could go wrong on that day . but i'll pull through , i will pull through , i must pull through . faith !
i've long forgotten the joys of late afternoon naps
11:25 PM
11 July 2006
toh ban sheng amuses me very very much , i'm so very amused by him .
went to support swim today , and missed choir ): was uber uber bored there , and fell asleep . woke up with sore neck :/
PERKS
1. uber hot guys , seriously
2. lessons are missed
3. fun is had
4. love is spread all round
NOT SO PERKS
1. extremely boring at some parts
2. milo didnt taste like milo
3. humid and damn bloody hot , icky and sticky
4. no aircirculation
5. my very sore shoulder and neck
i think i made the right choices , and whatever wrong ones i make , i dont regret them . well at least , i try not to .
bless me for this week and next friends , so many things to do , and so little time
8:17 PM
07 July 2006
a dream is a wish your heart makes
when youre fast asleep
in dreams you will lose your heartaches
whatever you wish for you keep
have faith in your dreams and someday
that rainbow'll come smiling through
no matter how your heart is grieving
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
no matter how your heart is grieving
if you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
11:58 PM
shanshan likes to stick scochtape / sticky tape on her eyelids , believing that it makes her eyes much bigger . actually , it does lah . it just looks odd on everybody else . and newsflash friends , the current hip and happening way to pronounce natalie is net-teh-lee . oh yeah baby .
chinese oral was freakish , and i guess hilarious from an outsiders point of view .
examiner : so . do you like your teachers ?
me : uh . i like some , but i dislike some as well
examiner : oh ? why do you dislike them ?
me : uhh . because they dislike me ?
examiner : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
me : shit .
and i got stalked / hit on ( i think ) by this old guy swigging a bottle of very expensive one dollar and eighty five cents root beer with the glass bottle that he plans to take home to use as a vase in the mrt while waiting for jasmine honey . in that very much one sided conversation , i heard more than i cared about how teenagers today are just so out-of-the-tracks , and how effectively bilingual he is , and how much of a law abiding citizen he is , and how he saw teenagers groping each other in the pool a few years ago , and miss tammy from nyp and how he watched the clip on his mobile phone and how gross he found it . oh yeah and his opinions on BGR and PDA . like , oh my gawd . someone come save me ! and i couldnt message for help cause the phone battery was flat , like wtf . and now , for the grand finale :
the weird guy : so , do you have any siblings ?
me : uh , can i not tell you ?
the weird guy : why dont want to tell uncle ?
me : um , cause my mummy told me not to speak to strangers ( hey it was the first thing that popped into my head )
the weird guy : ho . so you dont want to talk to uncle is it ? its okay , i go off now . HMMPH .
and then he left in a huff , thank god . its like a scene out of one of those protect yourself against potential molesters or baddies created for primary school kids , yknw those anti " come , uncle give you a sweet " thing . my goodness , i have no idea why this type of things always happen to me .
oh yes , a certain lit teacher made me and shan cab back to my place , pick up the laptop , and rush back just so our group can present our presentation . ten dollars and ninety cents later , it turned out that we had no chance to present . god , the angst . i could do so much with that money okay ! like maybe lunch at pastamania instead of the food court with jasmine honey today .
i'm better already friends , so dont worry too much about me . plenty of sleep and time will help ease the weird-ness of it all , and it wont be long until i'm back to normal again . i'll still shine , no worries . i love you guys , each and every single one of you so very much , and thank you for loving me . but i'm sorry that i couldnt congratulate all of you properly that day , so i'll do it now . i'm very proud of all you guys , really . youre all gonna do well in whatever posts youre in , and if things crop up , or youre low on morale , i'll always be there for you . its gonna be a hard year ahead , and we'll all work hard , together , hand in hand . the long coveted prize , the GWH , is waiting , at the end of the road , and its ours for keeps . all these , came from the bottom of my heart , its all genuine , and i meant each and every single word of it .
god , i'm sick of the joy luck club . seriously .
10:26 PM