i just had the busiest 2 weeks ever. surviving on 3hours of sleep a day and staying in sch pass 6pm everyday. =/ haha. so lit week publicity should be coming to an end after today. just emailed mr ng the phamplets and programmes board stuff for printing. (: quite pleased with what has been done for it. i cant believed i designed a total of 20posters or so for it. plus 30 over quote cards. and proabably infested the school with 1000 fairies.(which was kinda the mascot for lit week. and the theme is midsummer madness) now my comp is exploding with lack of disk space. of course i didnt do all of these alone. :D

major love to all in the publicity committee:

changrong<3 yuru<3 elaineeeeeee sabbie! angieerhan(: xiaole:D leewenliang-_- zhengyi:)

i wouldnt know what to do without you guys and i cant thank you guys enough and im uberly sorry i took up so much of ur time! but thanks for staying in sch till late and cutting the fairies till ur fingers turned sore and going round the school putting up 200 posters and putting up with my slave-driving ness. (:
and many many many many many thanks to Mr Ng and Gavin!
and to the random ppl who helped. like Sarahsmith and her dad. Shalom agnes samjo teckheng huanyong marcus tonghin tianhui elbert(for staying up) and everyone else in the lit week committee. :D
lit week's next week. i wonder how it'll turn out. (:

cip on friday for dreams@kolam ayer. basically a concert was held to allow youths to showcase their talent and bernie xiaole yuru changrong aggy and i, together with 2 of bernie's classmates, were suppose to make sure the performers were there and ready when it was their turn to perform. the performers were really good and i daresay they deserve to be on Singapore Idol more than some contestants. but anyway the turn out was...well..bad? maybe it's the publicity. maybe it's the location. when i grow up i shall hold a similar event, but one that is more large scale. because there are talent out there. they just need chances and opportunities. (:

cip on sat for youth for causes-angels with hearts. oh and i met WINSTON at raffles place. and he told me he met char and karen the day before. hah. havent seen them in ages either. think i'll meet karen nxt sun cause she's helping xingyan for some cip thing too. anyway, back to the cip. basically going around asking people to donate $2 and then write words of encouragement and wellwishes at the back of the card for the people in the organistation. the organisation is Very Special Arts Singapore that basically helps the disabled to pursue a career in the arts and you know find their place in society and all. most people were quite generous but others were quite doubtful about the organisation, especially with all the scandals lately. i really dont understand why people are willing to stoop to such means to get money. it's so horrid cause it affects real organistations who are trying to get money to help the people who are truely in need. =/ but managed to raise a bit desite only doing it for 4 hours or so. (:

anyway i have so much homework to complete. =( and i desperately need to catch up with my work. and i have decided that no one's gna ever return me my ipod. =( and im thankful i have friends like yuru and changrong to force me to do work.

and i realised yesterday morning that i have not seen my grandpa in for days when i saw him yesterday morning at breakfast. and we stay together! and my house is so tiny. i think it's cause i've been so busy late. when i leave for sch, he's not awake. when i come home from sch, he's asleep. =( havent had the time to speak much to the rest of the family members either. ah i dno. and im just a student. when i do grow up and get a job etc, will my relationship with my parents etc. just dissolve away somehow. i do wonder why we keep ourselves so busy. and yesterday when dad drove me home i met my cousins etc at the void deck cause they came to visit! and then i realise i havent seen them since the hols. we are that busy huh? =( and i miss shiyi! and i have been too busy to go out with fiona despite her asking a good 5 times i think. rahh.


SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

im expecting myself to be less busy after lit week and then maybe i can work on my studies and not get kicked out of rj at the end of this year. or retained. i cant decide which is worse.

and now im off to enjoy whatever that is left of my no-school, no-work day. (:

i feel like life hasnt been treating me too well lately. but that would just make me sound like an unappreciative brat.

anyway i have a million things to do. tata. (:

f**k. my ipod got stolen. =( guess it's pretty much my fault for leaving it outside the library, in my school bag together with all the other bags, instead of bringing it into the school library together with the files and notebooks which i was already carrying in. along with it, i lost a pathetic sum of 20bucks. it's like a 500dollars plus mistake lah. ugh, quite frustrating cause now i cant listen to music on my way home. and it's all because i have so much faith and trust in rafflesians. seriously, does the person who stole have no conscience? that was bought with my parent's hard earned money. plus that ipod contains a trillion pictures okay. i feel like my privacy has been violated. and im just really annoyed all in all. i've thought of two impossible scenarios.
1. the person desperately needs to sell the ipod to get money to save her grandma/grandpa/mum/dad
2. the person will suddenly realise how wrong he or she was and will come up to me and beg for my forgiveness and return me my ipod.

right. =(

been working on fri sat sun and coming home to check on litweek/streetdance/onlinesprees related emails.

missed the germany vs portugal match on sun morn but im really glad germany won. firstly cause i do not like portugal and secondly cause germany is such a likeable team. honestly i think they are my fave team, the way they display team spirit and love for the game. and micheal ballack! who didnt get to play in this match.

on sat night i made my dad wait over half an hour for me to fetch me home cause i left work late. he was really really mad at me. =( rahh. i cant help it really. gotta wait for the ppl from the next shift to arrive. oh and anyway i had the chance to go into the departure hall cause they have a branch there. they call it the kiosk. what a novel and exciting experience. :D i feel like im beginning to love my job all over again. teehee. i cant wait to get my non-temporary airport pass. then im entitled to tax free shopping inside plus 10% staff disc i think. (: anyway cause the kiosk has just been renovated, it's really neat and clean and tidy unlike the outlet at the arrival hall. plus the customers there are less crazy. though there can be a bit of a language barrier between me and the europeans. oh man what happened to my plans to take up a third language??

oh when mummy and daddy came to fetch me home, mum asked me,
"Do you like working there?"
and i said yes. and then she said,
"Do you like studying?"
and i said, "er...no? it's studying."
hmm..how queer and ironic. but i'll never quit sch to work there permanently. i guess pressure from the society etc really stops ppl from doing what they want/love.

ITALY IS WORLD CUP 2006 CHAMPIONS :D

cannavaro is my most fav player ever. he's so uberly good please. (: and he was so calm throughout the whole penalty shootout till they finally won. i have utmost admiration for him. heh. anyway i was really happy Italy won. I KNEW THEY WERE GOOD OKAY. cheating or not. plus, ppl need to stop being so critical. it's not like they are the only 'divers' around. the only difference was that they managed to kick in their penalties.
and the million dollar question: what was zidane thinking? honestly, italy has hardly ever won a penalty shoot out and france's chances of winning would have been much higher had zidane stayed for the pso.
and i was quite amused by his headbutting stunt really. ahah. and i gave a most animated description of how he charged at Materazzi that left agnes in disbelief. haha. i was not exaggerating okay! but he still won the golden ball award. so good for him. with cannavaro as runnerup. (:
and this marks the end to elaine's 3am wake up calls to me and xiaole. :D thanks girl!

im so thankful for all my friends in 07S06A cause they are just too nice and kind and unselfish and i dno what i will do without them heh.

today sabbie accompanied me to the staff room to hand in chem. and then sat outside the toilet cubicle while waiting for me to bathe and then i didnt even accompany her to the library as promised cause we were both so very late for cca. and then she passed me my waterbottle which i left in class after my cca. and she and her dad went all the way to fetch me from pasir ris mrt for the sleepover.
yuru went all the way to the canteen stall to get me a spoon for my beancurd simply because i was too lazy. and she ALWAYS buys me my ice lemon tea from stall 2 even though everyone else is getting soya bean from a different stall. and she returns all my plates for me all the time. and the last time round i was all alone with a dead handphone and being 'pungsehed' by ms tang, she was there to save me! :D
xiaole carries my very heavy bag on days i whine non stop and she is always keen on teaching me on this and that. and she volunteered to help me out with lit week and even encouraged the others etc etc!
changrong is uberly sweet(though extremely silly sometimes) cause she bought me pretty coloured pens from china even though i merely mentioned that i liked them. and she agreed to walk with me all the way to j8 to check out printing prices even though she leaves beside RJC.
elaine sportingly agreed to help me out with designs for lit week and today she walked halfway across the canteen to get her handphone just so i could get ms tang's no. and she is so enthusiastic about community service!
shalom is ever encouraging and she's a great person you know you can always turn to.
and agnes who's the raineyshiney!
and bernie though not in our class came down specially to pass us our pw surveys and the countless things she's done for me since i knew her.
and then there are the times chinnam buys drinks for all the whiney soyabean drinkers. and all the little thigns everyone in class does for each other. :D haha. so much to be thankful for.

anyway i screwed up my papers. BIG TIME. but im gna work harder. i know we can all go over to the bright side together haha. :P xiaole is very motivating. haha. so is AGGY. lol. and mr raufie says blogging is bad. so maybe i'll blog less often. not that i blog very often in the first place?

SCHOOL TMR. i hope i dont get back my papers. but either way i know i screwed up this exam. =/ worst than anything i have ever taken in my life. and that's saying a lot considering that i failed everything in sec3. so maths didnt turn out a lot better than the other papers.

anyway post exam activities! went to watch JUSTMYLUCK at lido. :D it was funny and good! (: really enjoyed it. haha. and rachel and bernie came too! haha. i see rachel a lot and was commenting that it's as if she was never gone. ;) so bad lah me. but i meant it in a good way heh. went to eat dinner at food republic at wisma. i have like never ever eaten there. it was quite big. but after eating nachos i was really full so i had some dessert. and then they were so persistent on taking a neoprint though i was super tired. so we walked and walked to heeren and met aggy there(she didnt have dinner with us heh) and then took the pictures which turned out having everyone looking white while i simply looked fairer. i wish i wasnt so black!

i went to see a doc on fri abt my ankle. gah. she just told me to continue wearing the ankle guard and it will heal eventually. may take a few months. (!!!) then went to sch for litweek meeting. then went to meritus mandarin for my cousin's wedding dinner. it was so sweet! they showed videos of their lives. and the day he proposed! i think he booked the whole snow city or sth. cause they showed a heart drawn in the snow and the words I LOVE YOU DOREEN written with rose petals. omg so sweet right. :D haha. and my cousin looked really really pretty. gah i wna have a wedding! (but i dnt wna get married)

maybe i will grow up to be a wedding planner. oh which reminds me i have another career option to add to my list. i wna be a pilot! haha. cause rachel was telling me how her dad's a pilot and she got to see the take off and landing. sounds so exciting right. and i'll get to travel. which is like the most fun thing ever. but i dno if they accept female pilots. =/

anyway back to the wedding. my other cousin(who's around 40) came to talk to us a bit about missions and christianity. hmm. i dno. i wonder if im gna remain a buddhist forever. i feel like er my faith has shakened? im not sure why what he said this time had such a huge impact on me. expecially since i have heard stories about christianity like so many uberly times. maybe it's because his wife told me about her own experiences with jesus? and also because my brother is now becoming more active with his church activities since he is in boys bridgage. i think he might want to convert one day? hmm. not sure.

i reached home quite late that day and then watched the germany vs argentina match. was just in time to see argentina score! was so worried throughout the rest of the match! omg was so relieved when klose scored teehee. and me and elaine were like msging each other throughout the match. thank goodness germany finally won during penalty. :D haha. i decided that ballack is my fav german player heh. bet everyone likes klose though. he's like so uberly pro. (: i managed to stay up to watch the first half of the italy match. haha. they scored during the 6th min okay! proved all the doubters and non-believers wrong. and i woke up the nxt morn to find out that the final score was 3-0! haha. :D anyway semis it's italy against germany. elaine says we can be arch enemy for one night. haha. i wouldn't really mind if germny wins.

sat morn went to meet changrong to do pw survey. got pestered by this boy to donate money. in the end had to part with my 5bucks. but it's for charity i suppose. (: didnt really get much surveys done that day. but we called up our friends and told them that we'll be passing it to them to ask their friends to do etc. so we were done real soon and decided to go to borders.

i wanted to buy freakonomics and changrong wanted to get SAT book.(like so uberly soon??) anyway freakonomics was on some buy 3 for the price of 2 offer. so i bought 5 ppl u meet in heaven and some other chick flick read as well. (: and then changrong and i were talking abt how broke we are and decided that we really ought to save money together. she then went off to her SYF opening ceremony thing(haha. she elaine xiaole sabbie picked when we drew lots. so poor thing. =() and i went window shopping while waiting for shiyi to arrive. then i saw a pair of shoes which i thought were quite pretty and were really really cheap. and so i bought them despite promising to save money less than an hour ago. felt really guilty after that.

then shiyi came and we decided to go far east cause i have never been to the upper levels there. the shops are never ending and it's a lil confusing cause there are so many corners to turn into. bought a couple more stuff and before i knew it it was time for dinner. ate hastily and RUSHED HOME so that i wldnt be late for the sleepover at sabbie's house.

i reached home at like 830 plus plus. and then i called mummy to buy aggy's cheezels etc. then finally got round to bathing. and i thought there was gna be enough time since we were meeting at 10pm. turns out we were supposed to meet at 9.30pm! and when aggy called i was still bathing. heh. so horrid lah. came out at 9.50 and packed my stuff. by the time i left the house sabbie's dad had already gone to the mrt station to fetch aggy and bernie to her house. but anyway sab was being real nice and she came to fetch me from the mrt station after that too. (: thankyou!!

arrived at sab's hse and aggy was calling me evil nonstop heh. im sorry lah! i wil try to bathe faster nexy time okay. (: anyway the england and portugal match was less exciting than the germany one. im so sad england lost though i wasnt extremely surprised since rooney got sent off and they havent been playing too well. it's quite impressive that they didnt play a lot worse with 10 ppl on the team than when there were 11 though. ate quite a lot throughout the match. oh yes and aggy didnt eat the cheezels she told me to buy and she took out her jodi picoult bk during the match.(!!) haha she's like so cute lah.

i wanted to take a nap while waiting for the brazil vs france match to start. but in the end sab couldnt bare to wake me up at 3am and i missed the match. AND FRANCE WON BRAZIL!?! i was so sure brazil was gna thrash france and prove that france did not deserve to win spain. =( but according to the papers france played well so there. anyway we woke up in the morning and bernie had to go off and aggy sab and i went for breakfast at downtown and eventually went home. (: yay so fun. we shld have more ppl over in future though.

so i went home bathed and rushed to work. oh i didnt have to clear any dinning that day. :D haha. but made mistakes at the cashier. in the end we were not short of money though. had more in fact! how cool right. haha. and mumu came to work too haha. so it was quite fun. i dno if he liked it though. haha. in the end we ended work half an hour later and missed the last train! thank goodness daddy could fetch and we gave mutu a lift too even though it was out of the way hah.

today was spent waking up at 1++pm and lazing around at home. went eastpt for dinner just now and went challenger. got myself a new keyboard and mouse! haha. cause mummy says the white one gets dirty too easily so we got new black ones. (:

i wonder if im getting back my papers tmr. =S
anyway tmr's officially a new term and a new beginning on the BRIGHT SIDE. no more falling asleep during lectures and undone tutorials. yep. right. all the best to me and everyone else.

GOODNIGHT :D