What happened recently

Hmm... I have not really been updating my blog. Think the last update was one month ago - this is what happen when schools start.

So, just an update on a few major happenings recently:

1. Group proposal consider in SMU competition (yay!! was a close shave)
2. Applied for Student Council - went for the SC boot camp
3. Got rejected for SC
4. Applied for OSAC
5. Got rejected for OSAC

Basically, what happened was that I think I got rejected a lot of times. D: But don't worry, I am not actually feeling that sad over all the rejections. 

I guess I wasn't that keen/enthusiastic over SC as some other people, so I thought that they deserved it better than me. I did go in being prepared to face rejection after all. However, it does make me feel a little depressed; this was my second time trying for SC after all. Being rejected twice is not something very nice :( Sometimes, I truly wonder what is lacking in me.

Hmm, mainly right now, I am just hoping that I can get into the pre-u seminar, maybe OCIP, and hopefully smu competition (tough luck to self though). 

Anyway, there was this recent hoo-ha over the Population White Paper.

Hmm, my truthful feelings about it?

7 million doesn't sound good. 

It's already such a squeeze at 5.5 million people, what more 7 million. Although the government promises that they will upgrade facilities, and ensure that there will be 'sufficient space' for everyone, we know that on this island, there is only so much you can fit.

I just read this article by Robin Chan talking about population stability rather than 'indefinite growth'. I agree with him on this point, because the government has always been talking about increasing our population and getting more people in, but they have never actually considered the idea of "when do we stop?"

I think that that is a very important question. The least the government can do is to give us a rough estimate of where the population of Singapore will stop at? Everyone's got to admit that it's got to stop at SOME point. I think that that is very important in crafting our future. This way, we know that our common goal is to achieve this certain amount of population, which we deem as sufficient and sustainable for Singapore's growth. There will be this common consensus.

Although the government say that 7 million is not a target that we will work towards - it's just an estimate, the fact that it's been published kinds of seals it as a 'target'. 

With regards to the building of more homes etc on Singapore, I hope that they will consider the idea of decentralisation seriously. The main reason why it gets so crowded on trains during peak hours is because everyone heads towards the same direction. The business hub is located at the centre of Singapore - so obviously, everyone will go there for work. The residential areas are also located near each other, making all the commuters travel from home to work, and then work to home, of which the direction of travel are mostly the same for everyone.

With decentralisation, it would ease the peak hour 'squeeze' since everyone would be going in different directions. Not everyone will have to squeeze onto one train line that goes in a certain direction.

Having more train lines is not going work when no one WANTS or NEEDS to use them. What we should do is build something along the train line that makes it a need for the people to take the trains. 

Assuming you have a new train line, but there are no offices located along the train line. Who will actually take the train during peak hours? How does that alleviate the issue of overcrowded trains on other lines? Only when you have an office built there, with people working there, then will it alleviate the issue of overcrowded trains, because it would have then DIVERTED traffic away from that train line.

So, more train lines is NOT THE SOLUTION. Stop saying that 'we plan to build more train lines to solve the overcrowding issue... blah' because it won't solve the issue. What will solve it is to spread out the areas for business 'hubs' to achieve a more uniform spread of traffic during peak hours.

Also, (as my parents mentioned to me), why is the government asking some middle-aged men what they think about the 7 million population? Their target audience, and hence the people they should be interviewing, should be US - THE YOUTHS. 

HEY, we are the ones that are going to be MOST AFFECTED by your Population White Paper. (We will be in our thirties in 2030) Why aren't you asking us for our opinions? It need not be done through televisions/very troublesome events. It can be done through simple channels such as the school. Simply have the school allow us maybe say, 1 hour to examine the White Paper, then have us answer a survey that reflects our level of satisfaction with the White Paper being proposed.

Such activities can be easily organised since a survey is already the very bare minimum. As the beneficiaries of the government's future policies, I believe we have a right to have a say in this as well.

It also increases the political awareness of the youths (and perhaps helps in our GP haha).

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Anyway, Singapore is going to have a new line of COINS. 

The new set of coins are UGLY D:

Our current set looks nicer, and classier!! I will save some of the old coins as keepsake! :)

SH orientation

This post is one week late haha, but anyway, so heres the rough outline of my SH orientation Unitas:

Day One:
So, I was just feeling pretty grumpy on Day 1 because I have not changed my class yet and the prospect of having to interact with them made me feel miserable, I gotta be honest. I cannot remember much from Day 1 actually; all that I remember was that Day 1 was SUPER AWKWARD. I thought that maybe Xiyu would talk to me, but she didn't, which made me feel worse hahah. Attended lectures and mainly stayed with my ex-class.

Day Two;
Day 2 felt much more worse than Day 1 for me, mainly because there were so many free periods and I didn't know where to go since I couldn't exactly hang out with my 24 class. So, I just hung out with some of my ex-classmates (meaning desperately trying to find them every time I am free).
We did have some house ceremony where we were 'officially' welcomed into our various houses. Mine was Homa then. We did have this ice-breaking session where we literally had to break ice by melting a frozen shirt. I laughed a lot watching the 24 guys trying to melt/break the shirt by hitting it on the floor. LOL. It worked... to a little extent. HAHAH, it was mainly funny seeing them so anxious since the losing class had to do a forfeit which, I JUST remembered, they DID NOT DO. LOL. The house ceremony was kinda fun too, since we learnt Homa cheers which were pretty catchy :)

Day Three:
Things got better on Day 3, MUCH BETTER in fact. Since the whole day was filled with activities, it was pretty much a good chance to bond with our classes. It did feel a bit awkward at first, but I would say it got better. We had this class bonding time at first where we were at the auditorium. My class went to this 'secret place' (which I can't say haha). Anyway, the place is FREAKING cool, which made it a nice and special memory to have hahah. We took a picture! We were supposed to play bonding games there but the place proved too small/cram. So, we went out to the audi again lol.
Sprayed our hair and coloured our faces orange.
We then went to the hall for this mass dancing session which was actually pretty fun I guess. It was nice to see everyone actually trying to dance :D This doesnt usually happen because I remembered that during a mass dance session in y2, everyone was so shy! But this time, most people danced seriously :DD
After that was class lunch :) That was actually the first time where I actually PROPERLY got to talk to some guys, which was a nice opportunity :) I am more of the kind of person whom you have to sit properly in front of me for me to speak to you. I like to talk while sitting/walking side by side, but not while doing random stuff cuz it just seems uncomfortable to me haha.
After that was the games at Katong park! It rained at first, but it stopped so we managed to go out. yay! We went there and played at only one station LOL when it started to rain again, hahaha. Most of us got pretty wet cuz the rain was pretty heavy (I shared an umbrella with jingying so I wasn't that wet hee). While waiting for the rain to stop, we did this intro game where everyone had to sit opposite someone in one row. We'll talk for a while, then one person in one of the two rows would have to shift up, so you will get to talk to the next person. I talked to some of the guys, which was nice cuz like I said, I am more of the 'sit down and talk' type, so I got to know some of them slightly better.
After the rain stopped, we resumed our games :)) We actually won all of them LOL. And after that game, it was easier to talk to Xi Yu YAY hhahahha.
We were actually in a pretty high Homa mood (at least for me - amazing what one day can do). I think it was cuz our OGL taught us the homa cheers again so we knew how to cheer = cheer more = high homa mood.
In my opinion, Day 3 was very fun and I actually went home in a happy mood :)

Day Four:
I was actually looking forward to Day 4 with 24 since there was DOTA, meaning that the guys would probably wreck the other houses hahaha. But... when I went to school, someone told me that she heard I transferred classes. I was like huh??? I took out my phone to check my email using sch wifi and found out that I had like 3 smses congratulating me on my class change, and I was like WADDDD. I didn't even know about it, HOW DID YOU. LOL. So I checked and the email was sent last night, and I didnt know LOL. Can impt email not be sent at night, pls.
My new class was 21, the class which is very hyper (at least from what I saw). I went into my new class and kinda said goodbye to my old class (awkwarddd).
My new house was Drakon, which was kind of sad for me because I actually started liking Homa!!!! (aka started being loyal already). hahah. But anyway, I missed Homa but still wanted Drakon to win, since it's my house after all.
We had mass dance session, where I partnered Ying Xuan.
After that was Siege of the Empire. It was really fun! I stole 2 gold balls LOL, and killed a person HAHAHHAAH. Sounds damn violent but it wasn't really. hahaha. Anyway, we won for our game, but I heard we lost for the other (we had 2 ongoing games, divided by levels).
Then it was lunch. I played some games with my new class and got to know them better. They (specifically Joshua) were very funny hahah.
After that was our A-level Chinese results - such a spoiler! I got B3 LOL despite all the studying HAIZ.
Then, it was DOTA. DOTA was pretty fun, but VERY VIOLENT. I didn't actually participate in much action, which I regretted. But at that point of time, it seemed really scary to go over to the other side, seeing as what we were doing to those who were attacking us LOL. It was kinda like TACKLE WHOEVER COMES OVER. Scary ahhahaha. Anyway, my aim for next year is to go into the mud pool. LOL. Think I should at least try it once, hahahha.
Drakon got attacked a lot of times. Like around 6?? Thats a lot.

Day Five:
Last day of orientation. I forced myself to learn Drakon cheers on the way to school :D 21 wanted to meet up first to play captain's ball. It was pretty fun! :D Got a nasty scratch though. We then ate lunch, and went back to playing ball. But we played against some Homa people though, so it was like 21/Drakon vs Homa hahaha. Great game.
Then, we took class photos.
We then learnt our mass dance first, then played some mass games.
After that was dinner. We were in this DAMN HIGH MOOD. We kept cheering and cheering. The feeling was actually pretty awesome and cool! At the canteen, you could see this whole bunch of y5 drakon people cheering damn loud. We kept cheering until we got to our designated seating area LOL. I didn't actually know Drakon cheers were so addictive til then. There were some cheers where you could just get high and go wild! It was a good thing I learnt the cheers, because I was screaming my lungs out then! XD After we ate, some of my classmates starting teasing me, saying I was a betrayer of Homa and told me to go back LOL. Then they started chanting the homa go home cheer at me (telling me to go home), and THIS kinda sparked off the whole cheering war LOL. Cuz everyone started cheering homa go home along with them HAHAHAHA, for different reasons from them. The cheering war was easily the highlight of Day 5. Because you see people standing on chairs and tables, facing each other and cheering like crazy! FRIGGIN COOL. I heard someone video-ed it down, I WANNA WATCH AHAHAHHAHH.
After that, we continued our high spirits and went to the hall because it was raining  = no campfire D:
We had the mass dance. Best house went to Homa, best house spirit went to Drakon!! We came in 2nd.
Then, the teachers announced that the campfire would continue, because the rain stopped. HURRAY.
We had performances at the track/field area. Towards the end, all of us started singing together and linking shoulders. Really memorable! :))

Overall, Unitas was a good memory! It didn't exactly started out as fantastic, but it ended well!

Shit

Some stupid shit.

I feel so annoyed.

And desperate.

Whoever said making mistakes are good because you learn from them probably just made that single mistake in his life only. I hate the fact that I made so many significant wrong choices in my life.

Including the one I just made, that's three. And the fact is, it's so hard to find a remedy for those wrong choices. Right now, I am just here waiting for something that never seems to come. 

I keep refreshing my window hoping to see something unread, something that I actually WANT and NEED to read.

Grr. Hate myself for the choices I make. 

And the bad luck I face.

Lesson learnt: Don't choose controversial choices. Just stick with your gut feeling and follow the crowd. That's definitely the safest option. 

The start of something... Dreadful

School is starting soon. What a BOO. It is the thing I look forward to the LEAST every single year. Furthermore, I will be heading to my class which only 2 girls and a subject combi which I want to change. My appeal is currently be processed and I am put on the waiting list for the class I want, because there are currently no vacancies for that class left. However, one of my 4k friend from that class is transferring out, so I am hoping that there will be a place for me soon. 

I reallllllyyyyy hate this endless cycle of holidays and studies. ZZZZ.

Anyway, I stayed over at my cousin's house yesterday after baking Viennese biscuits (it was a last minute decision to stay over hahah). Baking the biscuits was hard work. We had no blender/mixer so we had to mix everything by ourselves. Stirring close to 1kg worth of ingredient was no easy feat. 

We replaced the milk needed with honey. When I asked my cousin why honey, she told me that she just thought of it, with no particular reason, thinking that milk was linked with it being sweet and sweet with honey LOL. We make wonderful bakers haha. Furthermore, we wanted to make heart shapes out of it which had to be shaped by ourselves. Weird ideas of trying to get the heart shapes done more quickly resulted in a lot of laughters hahahahah. We also put strawberry jam on top, which was a really good decision hahah because it tasted pretty good. In the end, we spent around 4 hours to finish baking all the biscuits. Phew!! A job well done ahahhha.

Baking with my cousin was really fun and it provided some nice bonding time :) Wouldn't mind doing it again (with less quantity next time though)!!

Some pictures~~~

We ended up making circled shaped biscuits because it took too much time to make heart-shaped ones.

Also, I've realised that I have watched some movies:

Breaking Dawn - 3/5 Pretty entertaining.

Les Miserables - 4/5 Quite the classic. Hugh's voice did get quite annoying towards the end though. Very touching and a terk-jerker.

(This list of movies is wayyyyyy lesser than what I had expected before the start of holidays D:)

Hmm. I am pretty excited for the new school uniform though.

Wishing myself all the best~

Thoughts

So, I went to Genting with some of my relatives. It was really nice to be back in Genting. The weather was colder than we thought it would be, you know, with global warming and the fact that it didn't seem that cold at all 2 years back. I think that it was a really nice time for all of us to relax. 3 days 2 nights was definitely not enough, which was what made it so enjoyable as well. If the duration was too long, we would end up feeling bored (which was what we did felt at times). On one day, we stayed out at the plaza til 2am because we were playing the indoor rides til 1am. We ate marybrown and started praising it a lot because of some bad service we had at KFC hahaha. It felt pretty nice. The feeling of not wanting to leave, and just staying there forever. The shopping plaza when there was almost no one there. Such a weirdly creepy but calming scene.

I shopped there too. Bought a dress from CottonOn for only S$18 when the original price here would have been around $40!! Of course, there was a sale hahah. Basically, the things there was almost the same price as it would have been in SG, except that it was probably a few dollars cheaper.

Genting is still a pretty nice place to be in. I wouldn't mind going there again (not next year though) with a few years span in between. I would then just take the indoor rides all day (and hopefully get to ride my Flying Dragon - the ride closed when I wanted to take it!!!! D< ) and eat, slack, shop :)

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Celebrated Christmas and New Year with my maternal family relatives. We had Secret Santa and my aunt bought my slippers hahaha thanks. We also played Kinect and realised how awesomely fun it was. Great exercise too!!! :D We also had potluck where delicious food was provided for by everyone :)) Anyway, it was really fun celebrating these kind of events with families, so I'm hoping to do it again next year~

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I just attended a 4K dinner. It was nice to reunite with the class. It makes me pretty sad that I won't be seeing their faces when I walk into my class next year :( Dinner was at Fish and Co. Afterwards, we gathered at pasir ris park and chatted, play games, talked about ghost stories (which were only slightly frightening/shocking hahah). Some of them are going for night cycling like... NOW. hahaha.

Attending the dinner made me realise that I WAS going to miss them to some extent. No matter what, I think that we are better now than we were 2 years ago. I did think that whatever we did, all of us improved in some way or another, and have at least talked to everyone in the class (no matter the amount of words). This class has been a great learning experience, and I am happy to say that I am walking out of it with newfound friends :))

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I am going to change my subject combi by submitting the application form to school tmrw. Pretty exciting HAHAHA. Truthfully, I am dreading my current (with my subject combi unchanged) class. I am only one of the 2 girls in the whole class which is my worst nightmare because I am actually rather socially awkward with guys. So being in that class is just probably going to result in me being detached from my SH class T_T So, I REALLLLYYYY hope that my subject combi application will be approved. That being said, it is not for this silly reason that I am changing my subject combi. I have already made up my mind to change my combi before even knowing about my class. So the class actually just acts as an incentive for me to change my combi LOL. I wouldn't mind not changing classes as long as I can change my combi!!!! PLEASSSSSEEEEEE APPROVEEEEEE.

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Okay, many random topics here at once, so I shall stop for now.
Anyway, I am SO NOT looking forward to school (schoolwork, projects, new class, unknown people, long school hours, more schoolwork...). I am currently relishing my last few days of freedom. Also, I am supposed to go er hum, start reading up on my SH topics, so I shall.... try starting.

About holidays

Amazingly, holidays are already coming to an end (at least to me, it is). When nearing December, I feel a great reluctance to greet the new year. 

It is ending,

I feel sad.

It's waving me goodbye

Even though I'm pulling it back.

A new year ahead of me makes me uncertain and unsure about what to expect. I have mostly been the kind who does not dare to tread on new territory; it all seems so scary. Furthermore, a new year brings about the greatest tragedy that can ever happen to a student: the end of holidays and the start of school! D:

Looking back on my holidays, it has all been a complete BLUR. Seriously. I wonder where all the time went, so Huiyi and I decided to do a little recapping of our own.

1. Studying for HCL O-levels / Workout
2. Guitar CCA and camp
3. Class chalets
4. Work
5. Work
6. Work... (you get the hint)
7. Dinner with friends

So, basically, work just took up a huge chunk of my time. Before the holidays, I use to think that work would be something for me to DO, but I have just realised that it wasn't something that I actually DID DID. Get the idea? Work is just work.. but it wasn't going to be like a 'highlight' or 'event' in my list of holiday activities when I look back at it, which made me realise that work was just A COMPLETE WASTE OF MY TIME. Yep, I got the monetary gains, but my days of working felt like a 'blank'?? It didn't feel worthwhile for me to use my holidays to work - especially since I did say that I was going to enjoy the holidays after all the major exams. 

Hmmm... so if I ever work again, it must be with friends. At least that will be memory/bonding session for me hahaha. 

Anyway, met up with Yunyi and Huiyi yesterday to practise guitar, with a lot of slacking done in between of course. 

I've finally watching Breaking Dawn. Thought it was awkward at times in its execution, but overall, a major improvement compared to previous films AKA more interesting.

Hmm, I wanna go bake and workout with my Purple Buds!!! But some are working and busy, HAIZ.

Also, I have just watched the film Across the Universe, which is a musical featuring songs from the Beatles. OMG, I never knew that The Beatles' songs were SO FREAKING GOOD AWESOME AMAZING ADDICTIVE. Currently, my favourite is Hey Jude :D However, I like the film version's of the songs rather than the original, hahah.

This is the part in the film with Hey Jude :))

Going off overseas tmrw (not exactly a very far place hahaha). Shall tell you where when I return :D

Okay, starting to feel a little hungry... XD

Work experience

So after my chalets, I went to work.

I worked at Metro City Square Mall from 12pm to 9pm, hence explaining my lack of blog posts (which is due to my laziness as well I admit).

The first day of work was HORRIBLE. It was a Saturday. I showed up in black pant, covered dark blue shoes and a black tee with prints. Turns out I needed an all black attire, with no prints, no nothing. Haiz. So I went to buy 2 black shirts, of which one was bought for me for free because apparently this problem did not just occur once, so it was kinda a punishment for the person ic.

I was a promoter for toys - the company I shall not mention. Anyway, there were so many kids!!! My job was to let the kids play the toys, hope that they don't break them, and hopefully, get their parents to buy the toys.

So this is the thing: KIDS ARE MONSTERS. Well, some are.

Some of them would snatch for the toys!!! Very annoying. Some would not follow instructions, and do things which would probably accelerate the process towards which my samples would get spoilt. Very irritating. Some would get excited and start shouting. Very noisy.

Because of my location, weekdays were boring while weekends were terrible. There were too little people during weekdays, and too many during weekends. The difference in contrast is too huge!!!

But then again, some kids are actually pretty decent and cute. These situations usually happen when there is only one or two kids around the table. It gets easier to control them too. Some kids are adorable too :) Their huge eyes and small statute. Hahahah. Sounding like a pedo here.

So, when I first started working there, I was lost. When customers asked me stuff, I didn't know how to reply. I would then just rush off to find an associate; when I can't find one, I panic. Somehow, it seemed really important to fulfill the needs of the customers once I was put into my job. It was part of my job, and yet it wasn't at the same time. I was just a promoter, but since I was working at Metro, I needed to follow the basic code of conduct in Metro since I was 'representing' them as well.

Another sad fact of my work was I wasn't close to anyone. I was all alone. So lunches (if taken outside) and dinners were by myself. I did enjoy the loneliness sometimes though, after being surrounded by so many kids especially.

Another part of the job which I hate was the fact that we had to stand the whole day!!! Just standing, and in my case, waiting for people to come along. There was this day when I felt abit tired and sick. That whole day was torturous because I had to stand even though I just felt like collapsing and sleeping. The thought 'I wanna go home' kept ringing in my head.

AND, I HAD TO WORK ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. WHAT A BUMMER.

I did gain experience though. I finally knew what it was like being a promoter. If ever I work as a promoter again, I want to promote products for adults. At least they behave more civilised at times than kids. Haha.

I also did packing and stocking of items, which was very tired. It is pretty amazing because now I know how do products actually get into the shelves. Oh, and we had to stick the price tags on by ourselves, which is surprising because I always thought they went though some machine which would stick them on, LOL.

I learned how to deal with customers a little better. And I learnt that it's important to pick things up fast. Like for example, when a customer wants to open the shelf for some Tomica cars, I used to find and ask my colleagues to open it. If I can't find the colleague, it would be quite bad because the customer has to wait for me to find him/her, then wait for him/her to open it. In the end, I found out where to find the keys, and just opened the lock on the shelf by myself, which is way easier and better because it's faster, and I don't worry about not being able to find someone else to do it. Relying on oneself is always better.

I also realised that eating by myself is not such a scary thing. Partially because city square mall had way less people. But still, eating alone always seemed terrifying to me. Somehow, we all get the image that it screams 'loner'. But when I was forced to eat along, it started being okay and normal for me.

Yep, yesterday was kind of my 'last' day of work. Zixin came to visit me, and we ate dinner together :) A break from eating alone! I would be officially working my last days of work on the 17th and 18th (which are weekdays phew!!).

As of now, I shall not be working anymore. I have quite a lot I wanna do. I need to watch Breaking Dawn and buy my Christmas gift! :DD Korean dramas toooo!! Alice in Cheongdam-dong is GOOODDDDD. Go watch it! Shall go out for dinners with people more often. I went out for dinner with Huiyi and Dion on my off day. We initially planned to watch a movie, but there were no more seats/ good timing. So we resorted to just eating HAHAH.

The next time I look for work, it must be either with friends, or be an admin/office hours job. Tuition's not bad too hahhaha!

Class chalets

Yep, chaletS.

I had two class chalets last month, the first with my 2K class (Kellyxians!!). The second with my 4K class.

Before the 2K class chalet, I had my guitar cca, rendering me completely exhausted when I was at the chalet. We barbecued, mainly because of my protests at not having a BBQ haha. In the end, we ended up with too little food because I was scared that we would end up with too much food like the last bbq we had. So we ended up ordering pizza too.

We then played bucket, where everyone would answer a question anonymously and then the answers would be revealed to everyone. Pretty interesting game especially if there were controversial questions haha. Afterwards, a few of them went night cycling. I kinda regretted not going, but if I were to make a choice again given those circumstances, I guess I would still stay behind, because I was so freaking tired. I felt like dozing halfway through the bucket game. Which is to say, I wasn't in the 'high' mood needed for night cycling.

The next day, we basically lazed around in the chalet. In the late evening, we decided to play captain's ball by the beach. It was a pretty fun game! :) One of the few recent times where we all played a sports game together. Oh! And there was this cat which kind of got attached to us. So when we were playing volleyball, the ball went out and I wanted to pick it. When I got the ball, the cat pounced on my leg LOL. I bet it was planning on pouncing on the ball because that's what it did the next time round. But it really surprised me!!

Then we TRIED playing sardines, which failed TERRIBLY. Grace Nicoleg and I were probably the only ones actively searching for Weirong LOL. We saw a beautiful scenery and near-sunset though :)

Afterwards, I left the chalet with Nicoleg Grace And Jinheok (who had a sore throat) :) Sad that I couldn't stay for the second night!!

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Okay, now for the 4K chalet. I merely went for the planned BBQ on the first night, but it rained so we ate out instead. Anyway, when I first went into the chalet, my expectations were totally not met, and in fact, they were failed very badly. This is the reason why: 2K's SAF seaview Resort was FREAKING AWESOME. Whoever that's planning to go there, you won't be disappointed, but will be pleasantly surprised instead. They have 2 floors. The living room has a huge tv, with a sofa. The kitchen provides everything!! Knives, utensils, tongs, even chopping board!! And they look clean. They even provide charcoal and fire starters!! AMAZINGGG. There are 2 toilets - which are freaking huge too!! Almost has big as a room lol.

Meanwhile, the 4k chalet was just.... frankly, it looked dismal the first time I saw it. I just went, "this is it??" Even Yohanes agreed. Anyway, we went for dinner at Downtown East in the end. We at Different Taste, really great (second time eating there). The portions were small though -.-

On the second day, I went there after guitar. The place looked better. The sunlight streaming in helped, A LOT. It made the place look livelier and bigger I guess. We had bbq!!! Which went better than the 2k one :)))

So, some of us were planning to go night cycling. I was a bit hesitant and very unsure. I mean, it's further from here to marina barrage than from saf seaview to marina barrage. And the 2k ppl took 6 hours the other time!! Eventually, I decided to go. I mean, I don't wanna regret again. So, we went to check out all the bicycle kiosks nearby.... and they were closed. Such an apt ending, because we took really long to decide if we wanna go (as usual). And by the time we set off for the kiosk, it was 9pm. But still, I think the walk to and fro the park was okay. Because I had people to talk to, and my group actually sat in the middle of some rocky floor in the shape of a circle at pasir ris park and talked a little. So yep, it was actually okay. We went night walking instead of night cycling LOL.

At night, we played a drinking game (with soft drinks). Pretty fun. Heard quite a lot of interesting stuff :) And I made everyone talk backwards, while joelle made everyone talk in alliteration. Not sure which was worse hahah.

The next day, I went bowling with Shernaine and Zixin, while Huiyi Randy Sheryl and Louis played bridge. Quite a good game, and I ended up with the highest scores hahahah. Afterwards, went home with Huiyi, while dragging my insanely huge guitar along.

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Overall, the 2 chalets have been nice. In fact, they were better than I anticipated, for many reasons. I thought 2K chalet would feel awkward, given the span of time which we haven't met up. It did feel awkward at times, but it was pretty much okay.
I thought 4k chalet would just be... eventless?? hahah. Somehow, that was the feeling I got from 4K (case in example the night cycling). But I still got some fond memories and nice things that I did there, so it wasn't too bad.

Yep, the chalets of 2012 have both ended on a nice note, of which I am very happy about!! :DDD

Holidays

I havent been blogging for a while. Basically, I am just too lazy to type out a few hundred words talking about my life and random stuff, hahah.

Chinese o-levels are finally OVER! :D I had been studying Chinese with the Purple Buds!! (Name courtesy of Joelle/Shermaine) Various places we have studied at: My house, Dion's house (where I ended up playing Wii), Joelle's house (Waffles!!! She's a dog btw)

I have also been exercising quite a bit with them too. Gym, swim, badminton :) Feeling pretty good about myself now hee.

Chinese o-level's were over, in a snap. Literally. In 5 hours, it's over. 

Everything that I studied did not come up in the exam. LOL. I guess that the whole point of studying is to reassure yourself before you step into the examination venue. Otherwise, for subjects like Chinese and English, studying before an exam can be kind of pretty useless because these subjects count more on consistent work rather than last minute studying.

I have been DESPERATELY looking for a job these few days. I am pretty keen to be a tutor heehee :D Though I know that people are probably looking for full-time/permanent tutors who are willing to guide their child throughout their school year. Hmmm, I wouldn't mind it though I guess the month of Oct would be quite troublesome for me since I would have my year 5 promo exams next year...

So I had Huiyi and Yunyi over at my house today to practice guitar for our guitar auditions tomorrow. Freaking nervous!! I am pretty sure that I will screw it up. Huiyi has been telling me about how good Delirium is (I lent it to her), which is making it pretty funny since Dion had been spazzing over it just a while ago because I lent her Delirium and Pandemonium. Hahah. The 3rd book in the series is coming out next year I think, so it's going to be a long wait.

Hmm, I feel kinda... listless/restless/bored without chinese to study. I still recall bringing chinese stuff everytime I go out and study with my purple buds. Now, it's just weird that I dont have to do that. I still remember feeling guilty (!!) over listening to english/korean songs when I know I should be listening to the chinese radio lol. This is just so weird. I guess it feels like a BIG part of me is gone. Imagine. Without the topic 'Chinese' in my syllabus anymore, I am actually hardly going to take the initiative to make contact with Chinese. Sometimes, I wonder if taking the O-level HCL and then not studying Chinese for the rest of my life is a good thing.

Oh, and I watched Skyfall. It was kinda good, though it seemed much more like a comedy than a Bond movie. I was expecting this movie to be pretty 'dark' and twisted, therefore giving it an edge. BUT, it failed to meet my expectations. The Bond girl (or at least the more interesting one) actually like (spoiler) dies halfway through the movie. When she died, my reaction was "whaaaa?! so that's it?" Yep, don't be surprised if you feel like that too. I mean, we don't even get much of her background info, or how did she get captured/threatened. She just appeared, had sex with Bond (duh.), then dies. Great.

Overall, you would walk into Skyfall expecting a whole lot more, but getting a lot more less. There is less action, less pretty girls, less complicated and intriguing plot lines. There is only one thing that there is a lot of, in fact too much of, the comedy. Yeah, some were pretty funny, but some just felt out-of-place. Hello? Is this is Bond movie or a comedy???

I would give this movie a grade B.

I went to Nex with my maternal extended family yesterday! Happy Deepavali. Was intending to go to Punggol Waterway, but it started raining. We then had dinner at my house, and watched a slideshow of some old photos of ours where we laughed at weird poses and funny hairstyles of the past decade. 

That's all for today~!

I need to get a job.

Events, one after another

So, just some updates on what I have been doing:

After we attended bowling for our post-exams activities, a group of us went to Vivo City. We ate lunch, sat in a circle and played some games. We then played sardines, which was actually quite fun, but tiring. One of us would hide, while the rest of us were seekers. When the seeker finds the person who hid, he would have to hide with him too. The last seeker remaining loses. Vivo City was so big (and we only played on the top level!!). Quite fun ahahah. After that, we watched Perks of Being a Wallflower. I thought that the book was nicer then the film though. The film was I guess... subtle?? But I hate films that are subtle because in books you kinda get it, but in films, nah. There were also too many elements in the book that were fitted in the film, making hard to concentrate. All of us were also very tired, so it was kind of hard trying to stay awake during the movie. Oh, and if you watch the movie without reading the book, you would just walk of the cinema going "whaaaaaaat?" So, advice: read the book before watching the movie.

I also went to eat Fish @ Co. at Suntec City with some of my classmates: Zixin, Sher, Chunsan, Xue Chun, Karen and Joelle. Omg, the lunch became a laughing session. All of us laughed for at least 30 mins I think. Mainly, there were a few causes for laughter:
1) My snide remarks (I asked where was the feedback form when the waiter got the order wrong, and I said bye to Xuechun when she asked if we could eat at some other place - being my mean self hahahah)
2) Xuechun's bluntness and cluelessness (she asked for refills of the salad bar, and attempted to make some word sound like oranges by saying it real slow)
3) The laughing video
4) Joelle's laughter (freaking infectious)
5) The weird menu (seriously, 3-some??)

Then I went bowling again with some of my classmates during the last day of school (which DID NOT feel like the last day of school). Played some cards too, had some fun :D
Took lots of unglam pictures too.

Last Friday, I went to Shermaine's house to play (haha, we sound so childish). Xuechun, her sis, Randy, Trevor, Huiyi, Yunyi and Dion were there too. We played mahjong, bridge, some x-box racing game. All of us bought mac's too (some general consensus to get fat together), except Shermaine who ate chicken rice. I regained some memories about knowing how to play mahjong. I played bridge with Dion, Huiyi, Shermaine and Trevor. There were moments when we all laughed in exasperation at Dion's actions during bridge and I was saying that whoever plays with Dion will lose (but Dion finally won a game ahhaha).

After returning from Sher's house, I celebrated my brother's birthday with my extended family. Watched this really gory movie (which I watched before), watched the channel 8 show, and other stuff. I was really tired by then (see my eyes closing).

On Saturday (the next day), I went dancing with Zixin - oschool at scape. The open class was so hard. I had trouble keeping up and was pretty sure that I danced as if I were drowning underwater. Flabbing my arms wildly, struggling to keep up. Hahah. I shall go for another class this saturday, but shall go shopping with Dion and Zixin before that hahah.

After the dance class, I headed to my cousin's house/function room for her 21th birthday. Ate food, talked a little. My legs were aching by then because of the dance lesson too.

Wow. Just realised I had a lot of events happening :)

Anyway, my mind was also troubled over the past 2 weeks because of my subject combination choices (which I have already submitted). I was stuck between english language and linguistics (ELL), history and economics. I needed to choose two out of the three. My confirmed choices were Maths and Physics. I realised that my school did not allow the subject combi of MPHEll, so I definitely needed to take Econs. I was stuck between ELL and history and frankly, I was fine with both. Flipping a coin did not help.

I discussed with my parents and decided ELL. I guessed in the depths of my heart, I wanted ELL. But I was too afraid to take it ( it was a totally new subject to our school), and I just couldn't bear to tear history out of my life (I mean, I have been studying it for 4 years?!! There's some attachment there.) So I chose MPEcEll as my first choice. Choosing subject combis was such a headache for me!!! Totally did not expect it to be that hard for me to choose. o_O

Gonna study chinese these few days!

Wish me luck for HCL O-levels :)