reptile

OMG. when I was on the 158 bus making my way back home, guess what I saw???
A REPTILE WHICH LOOKS LIKE A TINY CROCODILE SWIMMING IN THE SMELLY CANAL NEAR MACS.
So cool right?!!!!!! I really regret not getting down the bus to take a picture of it. I was so shocked to that THING! I am not sure what it was but I am pretty sure that it was a reptile, something like a lizard, except bigger. Maybe as big as you hand to your elbow. WOW WOW WOW.
I still remember when I came from softball with Jing Wen and Nicole I think. We were passing the bridge when we saw a reptile in the big canal. It was soooooo cool! When we went down to get a closer look, it disappeared. We tried ways to make it appear by throwing rocks, but it didn't.
It is SO COOL. Never knew that Singapore could be full of small surprises like that! :D

Today was fun. We had literary circle and socratic discussion.
Socratic discussion was funny. At the starting, people were shy and did not dare to voice out comments. But afterwards, objections and views started pouring out. I was in the Farquhar team. It was also especially funny when a few people came up at the same time to take a stick. Haha. When we used the example of an infant as Singapore, people said that it was digression. I was like, "It is not digression! It is an example!!!" HAHA.
Literary circle was okay. We first had the expert group. Xuhua and Shinmin were summarizers too. They were obviously talking about something else. It was only at the later part then they contribute. Though quite little. ><
When we were at out individual groups, I said my summary. Jin Heok was complaining, "Eh, you are saying all our points already leh." HAHA. When I FINALLY finished my summary, they clapped. Guess it was because of the detailed summary.
When Jin Heok said his part, Suting kept pretending to be bored. haha.
When it was Alvin's turn, he said a whole bunch of stuff. Very long. When he finally finished one part of his 'talk', we asked where he was at. He had only said TWO PARAGRAPHS. LOL.
It was Suting's turn, she was an illustrator. She drew stickmen as characters. I was asking, why was Boo smiling. haha. Then, she explained about the picture. At the end of it, I said, "Your signature is very nice." HAHA. XP
Then it was Krystal. We kinda flipped to page after page. And we discussed.
Then it was Nicole w. She was the Question Director. She asked a few pretty good questions. :D We answered some and kinda side tracked I guess. :P

Well, today went kinda well. :) Trying to choose which LA artefact im gonna do. And fusion!!!!!! Gah.

 
~life is full of surprises

movies

CLASH OF THE TITANS 3D 

On Good Friday, I went to watch Clash of the Titans with my parents :)

Storyline: Well, kinda like Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, the main motivation that keeps the protagonist going is his rage for revenge. Perseus fights demons and creatures from the netherworld (Medusa). Eventually, he falls in love like any other hero. 

Verdict: Well, nice effects and all but the 3D was not 3D enough. It should be really POPPED OUT. I guess it is cause it was a 2D-convert-3D movie. But still... And the storyline just isn't novel enough. But the fighting moments helped it lift the mark up. The pretty women in it helped too. x) The comedic moments in it livened the movie up. The irony in it too...(scorpian king trying to kill the giant scropian.... take that.)

Rating: 3.5/5 An okay movie which will set your heart pumping.

THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE

Watched it because my father rented the disc. :D

Storyline: Henry met Clare when she was just 6 and when Henry was 40+. Now, Henry, 20+, is meeting Clare, 20+, for the first time. Amzing huh? Well, Henry is a time traveller. He travels involuntarily and whenever he does, he arrives at his destination naked as he does not get to bring his clothed along. (wow.) The time travelling tests the couple's love as Clare risks miscarriage due to the time travelling child. Another horrible truth dawns upon Henry as well....

Verdict: Wonderful movie. Absolutely wonderful. The actor and actress (Henry and Clare) should be given an award for this. They had so much chemistry and the acting was just great! :) Luv them. The touching storyline is sure to break your heart. You will definitely want to read the book after this! (I just reserved it! xD)

Rating: 4/5 A great movie! Must-watch! :)

14 BLADES

My dad rented the disc. :D

Storyline: China in the olden times. There is a plan to throw the country into chaos. Qinglong, a skilled swordsman who uses the legendary 14 blades, is determined to stop the plan.

Verdict: The storyline about China and blah blah is kinda hard to get with so many names like Prince Qing and stuff. The fighting is exciting, as usual. Qiyuwu looks kinda... dumb? The protagonist is too short. >< Overall, the story is okay. I like the ending. Partially because it is real and the protagonist dies~ :D Call me sadist or whatever but then the movie really faces reality. ^^

Rating: 3.5/5 Not a bad watch.

Am now currently waiting to watch Obsessed as well as my the book, The Time Traveller's Wife :D

random stuff :D

Yo people. Sorry I haven been posting for a while. Have been having a lot of projects streaming in endlessly.
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1 April was April Fool's Day, as well as Kaleidoscope 2010 for Dunman High School. We had lots of fun, except maybe for the starting ceremony when the hot blazing sun was aiming straight at us. Boo D: We had a fan as a souvenir. It really came in handy. Afterwards, we went to attend a 'course' for figurine making.
I made the little chinese/korean doll below wearing a chi costume/kimono. I have no idea because she looks like she belongs to both. Maybe a hybrid...?
I also went to play a game for 50 cents. I got the prize and it was a yoyo balloon. Well, even though it is not really worth it, it is still worth the experience. Though I got it on the first try so it wasn't much of an experience. >< It was still fun to bounce the balloon along as I walk :)

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When I went to my grandma's house on Saturday, I took some random pictures in the taxi. Seemed quite nice. I guess. :D

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Yesterday, we celebrated my grandma's birthday. It was really fun! We ate chap chey, curry with chicken, noodles, fishballs, hotdogs with tomatoes, prawns with capsicans and soup. It was all very delicious! We had dessert and finally, the birthday cake! It was half-frozen durian which tasted like ice-cream!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANDMA! ^^

kong hwa!

Today was still okay okay.
I am very very very happy with my Hist SEQ marks 8D
Hehe. Got full marks. YAY. I was damn scared that I would fail. Hahas. But cannot get too confident and complacent. Must work hard for the next one too!!!!!!

Today, instead of Kong Hwa, we went to Meridian. For a primary school, it is quite cool and nice. It is very big. I think bigger than Compassvale Pri Sch. :) Got a buddy. Truthfully speaking, my buddy is not that smart. But must guide her along!!! x) But I still miss my Kong Hwa buddies. I want Kong Hwaaaaaaaaa~!

Anyway, our class seems to be in the "Fusion mood". Haha. Everyone is like, 'wanna join fusion?'. Including me :D I currently asking some ppl.... Trying hard to persuade someone to join me.... Nicole g is joining me ;D Getting a girl would be nice so that choosing songs wont be so difficult. :)

Now TRYING to do the History article on the founding of Singapore. GAH. Anyway, trying out a new game these days, called "Hotel City" on FB. Seems okay except the fact that I have to keep cleaning the rooms becuz of infestation.....

Anyway, I bought 2 books! Actually it was my mother who bought them for me hehe. >< They are "Cleo" and "Letters from an unknown chinese mother". I have finished reading Cleo. It was nice. Will do a book review about it someday....

Tomorrow gonna do CME... :(

~hoping it will come true

Sports meet

Sports meet was kinda boring at the starting.
Krystal and I were teasing Nic w about Miss Chan's exaggerated voice and pronounciations.
She kept emphasising on EVERY word. Especially the last one. Like, "All athletes, please proceed to the tent near the ending point NOW. IMMEDIATELY."
italics: emphasised
cap: emphasised ALOT
Haha, Nic w was like grumbling all the way. Krys and her also complained about the poor selection of songs and the fact that Lady Gaga songs were being played.
After about 1h30min, it started raining. Miss Chan made us annoyed again by asking us to cheer the rain away. GAH. When it started raining AGAIN, around 1h later, she asked everyone to cheer the rain away, again.
During the second rain, there was actually a race going on. There was one part when a DHS athlete overtook a Chung Cheng athlete. We were cheering madly! Afterwards, I realised that that person was YUPING. I did not even know that she was participating lor!!!!!!
There was one part that was frustrating. B girls ran for the 4x400m relay. One of the girls accidentally dropped the baton. But they still struggled on and came in first. However, because of the fact that they dropped the baton, they were disqualified and thus, came in 4th in the end. I was furious! They showed the Olympian spirit and kept on running. WHY SHOULD THEY BE DISQUALIFIED? Even though I know that that is the rule, I still cannot help but feel angry.

After the sports meet, yuping, vivianne, grace, maranda and I went to KFC at Compass Point to eat. Kinda like a gathering. :) Actually wanted to have it with Chung Cheng ppl but they went already. D:

Pictures:

~if only we could hold it together

EARTH hour

Science presentation: Turned out quite okay. In fact, better than what I expected :) Heehee.

Today, Suting, Nic w, Valen, Bryan and I participated in some Earth Hour program.
They orginally stated clearly in BLACK AND WHITE that it was a CLUEDO game.
Turns out that it was an AMAZING race with little cluedo stuff in it. LOL.

Anyway, we were at the LT2 and then realised that the girl from 2B who was supposed to join us ended up joining her own class, we decided to call Valen since he wanted to come actually. So we called him and then he joined. Suting, Nic w and I were in group K1 and Valen and Bryan were in group K2 as we were supposed to bond with the year 1s. So we mixed with the year 1K. Our juniors! :)

The 'briefing' and dividing of groups took like 1h 30mins. We were there practically wasting time as they tried to set up AV stuff. There was a video "Save the environment" which they showed us which was crappy. Like seriously. But really funny. Suting and I were singing all the way to annoy Nic. Hahas. So when we started, we were supposed to find out who killed Mother Earth. ._. Something like cluedo, except that it was more of physical than mental usage.

The first station was damn funny. We were like supposed to have something like Taboo. So after we figure out the word, we will tell them to Suting and a yr1 and they would get some letters from a box and try to make the words out. I lent the facil in charge there my watch. Then, we did the guessing really quickly. And we were like, "Can we help them?" "No! They are already cheating! See I let them cheat until like that already!" (Suting was taking all the letters up and flipping them over. She was supposed to take a handful, take what she need, put them back, then take again.) "But then we wanna help!" "Cannot!" Then I said, "Whatever," and started helping. HAHAHAH. The facil was like what whatever! later I deduct ur hints! Everyone laughed. Then Suting proceeded to take the box to invert the whole thing so the letters would all come out. The facil shouted, "Noooo! Thats cheating!" and stopped us. D: then, we finally finished. The facil was asking the other facil, "How ah? They cheat lehs. A lot some more." >< then he took out my watch. I took it back and said, "Aiya, never mind lahs." "But you all cheated!" "This watch is already enough for one hint lehs!" HAHA. In the end, we still got all the hints :D

The rest of the stations were ok-ok. One station was quite interesting also. The Blindfolded Throwing Something. Nicole W got chosen to be blind folded in the end. Through FAIR circumstances. Haha. Suting was like "YAY!" I became her 'eyes' and was supposed to direct her. She would put up like cans, plastic bottles and papers and throw them into the respective boxes to recycle them. The starting was pretty good but I got kinda fed up in the end. Some incidents....
Nic threw the bottle to Suting. The plastic bottle hit Suting on her forehead before bouncing back into the box. OUCH.
I wanted to say left but said right. Then when I say turn left, Nicole turned too left and hit the whiteboard.
Nicole picked up a can. She could not see the facil in front of her and wanted to throw. Lucky for the facil she got away! >)
I got really fed up and pointed to the ground and kept saying "here here here" to tell her where the stuff were. Nic was like, "Where's here?!" HAHAH. xD

Our facil was also very funny. I think he was from China so his Eng was not very good like in terms of pronounciation. But he was very funny. Haha. Especially the way he runs. He would purposely run from left to right and right to left. Kinda like roller blading. LOL. Dunno how he does it.

In the end, when we got back and finished, turns out that we have to collate answers with Valen's group, K2. And they have not come yet. They very slooooowwwww. Haha. While waiting, we traded info with 2L. Hehe. And played building blocks on Nic's phone. Suting was pestering me and caused blocks to fall down. Haha. And we waited impatiently for K2.

^The starting in LT2 where we wasted 1h 30min

^Hints and the list

^Light bulb made from plasticine. It was actually what we did for one of the stations. 

^One game made use of these rings made of newspaper. At the end of the game, we made this Olympic thingy for fun. :P

^Suting cancelled suspects and stuff for the game.

^I was being totally random and took this. Notice the second and min are the same x)

^ Us!!!! :D Valen took this picture for us. He was laughing when he wanted to take the picture. dunno why. We posed for damn long and Valen was still laughing! Then when I saw him laughing until so funny, I started laughing too. I laughed until cheeks hurt. xD

After the picture was taken, I zoomed for Suting and showed her that in this pic, her eyes looked weird. She said, "Nooooo! Let's take again!" Nic and I protested, "Noooooo!" I did not want to pose again for a photographer like Valen who keeps laughing. x)

There is no school tomorrow!!!! YAY! But there is the sports meet gah. We have to go Bedok Stadium... 

Haiz. A day full of SUNSHINE. GAH. will be sweating like mad....

Anyway......Ying Xuan, JIAYOUS! :D
[edited] Did not know that Ying Xuan did not participate. haha.

~save the earth

kong hwa

Yo people!

Went to Kong Hwa yesterday for Star Buddy program. It was VERY VERY NICE. AND AMAZING :D The kids there are SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE :) I cant imagine myself being that small once. We were teaching the primary fives. The students seemed a bit rowdy at first but after getting to know them, we realised that they were actually really just being KIDS. They were nice too. We played heart attack first for icebreakers. Yuan Wen was talking, got distracted and got hit. Haha. x)

Yuan Wen and I got 3 buddies. Sharing :P They were all boys: Wei Qi (i think), Qiong Wun, Yi Heng. They were reeeeeaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyy cute~! I was kinda 'attached' to Qiong Wun I guess. I 'tutored' him for maths and left Yuan Wen to the other 2 boys. Sorry, Yuan Wen!!!! >< I dunno why but then Yuan Wen made a lot of mistakes while teaching maths. In the end, the students were right while she was wrong. HAHAHAH. She was like, "Oh! Really ah?" Hahas. While they were doing their math, I went around looking at other people's buddies. Then I realised that got English!!!!!

So, after the math, we went on to do Grammar with them. They were really quite cute when they dunno how to do. Qiong Wun was especially hardworking, surprisingly. He seemed so slack at first when I saw him but after teaching him (he called me 'teacher'! xD), I realised that he was the MOST hardworking amongst all 3 of them I think. WOW.

Too bad we are only going for one more time, next week.... I WILL MISS THEM!!!!!! boohoo~ :( Should have signed up for more if I had known. Haizzzzzzzzz.

Gah. Today was compre timed practice and tomorrows the summary. LA has been pretty bad lately. Marks have been going down, down, down, down, down~ downnnnnn downnnnn, baby are you down down down down down. hehe. Tomorrow gonna present Science thingy. Hopefully it goes well. Partnering with NicG and Xuhua. ;D


~more kong hwa!

docent

Today was THE BIG DAY for the trainee docents. We would finally get to put our training to the test and guide visitors around the museum.

The first group of visitors consisted of Amanda, Rachel and a little girl, the sister of someone from 2L. Even though we tried our best to seem lively, I guess we kinda failed at it cause they did seem a bit bored. Must be museum fatigue. xD Rachel did tell us some feedback that we were doing great as we tried to have a conversation with them. :D This is the first group so we should keep our spirits up! :)

The second group was a group of tourists. They were from overseas I think and one of them was I think, married to a Eurasian woman. We guided them and 2 of them seemed spontaneous. The woman, though, seemed kinda bored and started looking around.

The third group was a girl who was the twin of someone in 2L and her younger sister. They seemed kinda interested and that made us happy! :D There was also a docent with them, observing us too I think.

The fourth group consisted of Xuhua, Alvin and a teacher from DHS. They were actually quite erm, observative. Surprisingly. Though Xuhua did say a few unneccessary things. Nearing the end, Nicole came and told us to end quickly as the next group is going to come soon. So, I cut short the part about music.

The fifth and last group, was a group of Malays, possible brothers. They were actually told to watch the movie first as we were actually rushing. They were the most pro-active among all of our tourists. When i held out a picture of P.Ramlee, I thought that the eldest of them all would answer, but in the end, it was actually the youngest one who shouted immediately, "P.Ramlee!" Haha. It is kinda cool actually when you know that they are so interested. :) Grace later also told me that when she talked about the actress who commited suicide, one of them went, "Eh! Why?" And as she continued talking, he went, "Haizzz. Commit suicide....." Haha. So I think that among all of them, they were actually the best group that we received :D

Overall, this experience was a very cool one :D I mean, the self-satisfaction that you get from it is something that cannot be bought and after that 1+ hour of standing, you will feel that it is actually worth it! We had a great time too! If I have a chance, I would do it again! ;)


~being a docent rocks

Alice in wonderland

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Went to eat buffet actually at Sakae Sushi with my cousins before deciding to watch Alice in Wonderland.

Ate sushi until very full.... yummy....!

Storyline: Alice comes back to the 'dream' that she had after 13 years. She is now grown up and was actually in the midst of being proposed to when she ran away, chasing after a white rabbit in a vest with a ticking clock. She fell into a hole and viola! She is in 'Wonderland' where the Red Queen rules ruthlessly. The hatter and many others have been awaiting her return to save them and kill the deadly dragon. She is confused and does not believe that any of these are real. To her, this is just another nightmare or dream. She struggles with her inner self to bring out who she really is and what she really wants.

Verdict: I love the colourful images and wonderful sound effects! The makeup and everything are perfect! However, the story does seem a bit slow in the beginning until when Alice meets the Hatter. The voices of everyone are perfect as well. Anne Hathaway's voice is very good as it is normally soft and gentle, except for the part when she sounds serious and deadly as she warns Alice about choosing her choices. The only, perhaps, loop-hole is that I do not know what is the moral or meaning of the show. Is it finding oneself? Or is it nothing is impossible? Or is it looks can be deceiving? Hmmm....

Rating: 4/5 

Even though I do not really get the moral of the story, it is still a good watch for both kids and adults and at least, there is a storyline. :)

In....ter....net....work...ing....slow...ly

My internet is working soooooooo slowly. Gahs.
later gonna go eat sakae sushi buffet with my cousins. :) gonna pass them free tickets to the show, "Being Human" directed by Jack Neo.
Currently, feeling terribly sleepy, dunno why. OHHHHHH. I think I know why now.... Just now I ate medicine for the flu. GAH. Big mistake. Now i feel like dozing off straight away. Never mind, later then sleep in my aunt's car. Haha. Weird.
Woke up at 9 today. Did chinese hmwk!!! Printed out the pictures, all thats left is to collate and cut and paste them onto coloured paper. :) Left one more chi newspaper review..... Planning to finish it on Friday, along with Nat Geo worksheet. Then, on sat or sun, will plan to do the dreadful maths. :(

Had museum guiding prog yesterday. Still desperately trying to find a visitor to visit the museum. Why is it that everyone seems busy tomorrow?! Haiz. Yesterday was fun. :D After the guiding prog, the bunch of us went to Pastamania to eat. The pasta that I ordered was Basil Chicken Aglio. Very nice. Though should be spicier. x)
After that, went to macs with Grace, Krystal and Nic w. We ordered fries first while trying to think of problems as well as getting the laptop started. In the end, we finished the questions, but the laptop hasn't started yet. Haha. We were like begging the laptop to start faster. In the end, we were like, what did we bring the laptop for??? Haha.
Then went back home while Grace and Nicole w. went to do Geog with Suting.....

Hope that i can find a visitor to goooooooooooo. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
sleepy...... zzz