Kaleidoscope 2007

*ahemahem, cough* I'm going to start another thank you list for Kaleidoscope

Daddy God, for seeing us through the noon rehearsal right down to the evening concert.
For getting the curtains fixed by evening when the VIPs would be present.
For making sure ****** is fine, her fall really scared some of us off and we were dead worried for her.
For the good weather, so our audience could come without obstructions like the rain!
For giving us the Agape Concert Hall.
For giving me the chance to perform in PL's debut concert at our new concert hall.
For the 2 gold with honours (bells & gz), 6 silvers (harp band dance guitar LD) and 1 bronze (chinese drama) for SYF.
For the people mentioned below,

Mr Fong again,For his dedication and guidance. As you can see in the pic, he's holding this giant card made by us.

Teachers and stage crew and ushers who worked so hard to make this event possible.
Too many names!

Alumni for their support, Pearl Annabel Yi Jia Wan Yi Hui Zi Wen Xin especially to Wan Yi and Wen Xin and Huizi (or is it Hui Zi?) for staying for both the matinee and evening concerts!!! I know that y'all had a hard time reasoning with the prefects. We appreciate your effort, really!

Church peeps Wan Hui, Joe, Jacelyn, Clarissa, Aaron, Joshua, Kai Wei, Stacia and Andy! For being there. I was looking out for you during the intermission but but but I only saw Clarissa and Vanessa who told me that y'all were inside so I went in to say hi! Actually I wanted to take a group pic with y'all, but there wasn't time? =( Just wanna say that your presence made a lot of difference! I felt a little more motivated to give my best again. It was different la, knowing that some (in fact most, -no- all) of you are watching me perform for the first time hahaha. Thank you so muchhhh for coming!!

Classmates Tania Joey Persie Madeline Lai Theng Charmaine Sara Melody Sheila!! (did i miss anyone out?) For your support! And for putting up with my "shit la i need tickets!" for the past week.

(from left) Thanks to Mr Fong (white rose, hidden) Theodora Fiona and Yu Ting and Wen Qin for your pretty flowers! OH and to Candice too, who told me on MSN that she wanted to give me flower (orchids, to be exact) but couldn't find me so she gave it to someone else *sobs* LOL.
So touching! hahah. I think this is my FIRST time receiving flowers from anyone for a concert. So that's something. The 5 (and recently, 6) made my day!

SYF team and helpers ( where's the full photo huh!?!) once again for the memories! We didn't play well for the matinee concert, but gave our best during the evening one. We played so well, even Ms Tessa Tan praised us like mad! "Handbell girls, you all never fail to make PL proud. We are so, so very proud of you" or something like that. But we also know that our music groups HARDLY, in fact NEVER get this kind of praises from her, so we must be really good to earn them! Well done, do each and everyone of you girls!

The treblers/melody ringers, (photo credits to Man Ling!)
I know you don't like blue la. See, I'm so nice, I take the blue cloth just cos' none of you want to take it! Haha. Now seriously, it has been fun working together. There were times when we couldn't agree on how the melody should be played etc, but hey look where we are now! We played a huge part in this SYF and got our gold with honours! The disagreements were worth it =D Mr Fong even told us that we scored the highest among all the schools, 96 marks/points IF I'M NOT WRONG.

Bells clique, (photos courtesy of Man Ling again)thanks for adding so much colour to my life! All that laughter and makeup (haha)!

The SPORTING AND ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE!!!!!!
For clapping along with us, laughing and responding to our emcees, laughing when we put up our collars, laughing when we started bobbing up and down for the London Bridge/Ode to Joy. All the sound effects made by them that day, esp the night one, I will take it with me for as long as possible. They were awfully responsive! Honestly the best audience ever. Or maybe it's because it's our best performance, haha! There was this guy in the first row who went "what?!" when we put up our collars. BEST. And a lot of murmurs from the crowd which got me smiling and enjoying myself thoroughly throughout the 8 minutes on stage. I'm sure almost all were impressed by Kaleidoscope, the overall thing.

While all the other sec 4s have stepped down from their CCAs (i think), we (the most senior handbellers) still have quite a bit to go before we complete this journey.
Next stop: Japan! And we will make it big.
I don't wanna leave leh.


Alright now Sara's complaining I always blog about handbells.
Ok she's right.
Now that CCA has stopped (temporarily), I will blog more about my everyday life la ok!!
There's a lit test and listening compre exam, I should be in bed now! G'nite world =)

OMG,

I LOVE YOU YEOK LING AND CANDICE HO!!!!!!!!!!

You know the evening tickets were sold out in the middle of last week, and I had to get 2 for Yi Jia. Then I went round trying to look for people who look like they have extra tickets. Then I got the news that some church friends were coming, and need extra FOUR, 4! That's 6 evening tickets altogether!

You know how difficult it is to go hunting for tickets when they're all sold out at the office! Yet I managed to get ALL 6 of them today!!!!!

Yesterday Fiona msged me saying that Yeok got the tix for me! I couldn't believe my ears. Can get 4 in a row tix in such a short time leh!

This morning I wanted to msg Yi Jia and tell her that I'm not able to get her 2 tickets. But I delayed it a little, then after the morning jog Candice asked me whether I still needed tickets. She had 2. And I needed 2! What a perfect timing! Hahah I believe it's all part of God's plan!

That's a load off my back, SIX evening tickets really drove me up the wall! Thank God for Yeok and Candice!

Central Judging of Instrumental Enesmbles

JESUS YOU ARE SO GOOD
JESUS YOU ARE SO GOOD
THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR CAUSE I'M HERE IN YOUR PRESENCE
JESUS YOU ARE SO GOOD
JESUS YOU ARE SO, SO GOOD
I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU WITH EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART

The Lord has given us yet another

Gold with Honours award!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You Jesus, all glory belongs to You! We played for YOU on Monday Lord! And we hope You liked them =)

Thanks to the following people/groups:

Mr Fong, for his dedication and passion for bells, for PL pri and sec! We made countless jaws drop (i saw them myself!), ventured deep into different genres of music with handbells, broke "rules" of handbells (aiyah you know what i mean!)! He told us to look beyond SYF, go international, "the gold with honours is yours already, go and take it la", and constantly told us that we are special, we have the 'X' factor. I shouldn't have doubted his words because he is really a professional, not Mr Fong but Dr Fong ok! Without him, there'll be no PL Handbells!

Ms Goh and Mrs Wong for their endless stream of encouragement during practices, helping us to improve, doing all the admin stuff, looking after our welfare. I tell you, their faces were black as soot (oops) on Monday morning and we were like, "wth, SYF day still look so pissed" but we know they have our best interests at heart and they love us alot alot a lot. They also took all the trouble to settle our Japan exchange program mess and write to companies/organisations for sponsors!

Ms Goh and Ms Tay for showing us what traditional handbell really is like, last year and the year before and the year before that. Without them, we'd even be thinking, 'huh, handbells got tao gay one meh?' *hint: i'm trying to bring out another point. happy cracking your brains. give up, then ask me!

SENIORS! I mean, the ALUMNI!!! Oh man they were so damn supportive and enthusiastic, they even made a banner for us! I bet our school was the only one with a banner ;) They come down to Lor Ah Soo for our practices, they nag at us, they cheer us on, they buy us chocolates (LOL), they come and are going to come for our mini SYF and Kaleidoscope, they video-ed and snapped photos of us, they did everything possible to make us feel blessed, and they ARE the bestest seniors anyone could have!

All our sec 1s and 2s, who were our helpers for the day. They worked VVVVVVERY hard, and they deserve more than just a pat on their backs! They will be the ones getting our next honours, and they will do a good job! I know that it can be quite boring to sit there for our last few practices and listen to us playing the pieces over and over again, but they did it anyway, and we must thank them for tahan-ing us!

Our families, classmates, friends in school and church or anywhere else, for their prayers and support, 'you can do it', 'all the best', 'good luck', 'congrats' etc etc. I've been saying "thank you" and shaking hands, it can get a lil' tiring, hehs. Those greetings on MSN, SMS and 'live' really were the icing to the cake. And oh oh oh, also for the little gifts! Fiona your chocolate is still in my bag! And Xi Ying can I have more cookies? =D

Finally to ourselves, the SYF team, we worked hard since last November. Ok maybe not that hard, it's only twice a week plus practice starts late because of our 'nice' timetables. Lessons end at 4 and 4.40. Nevertheless we did it! HANDBELLERS WE DID IT! Are you happy? haha. Duh that's a stupid question. We may have had disagreements here and there, but they're all worth it! We gave our best and we succeeded, much to our delight. I think we got a gold with honours plus distinction!


Basically everything was just a come-and-go. I thought I was dreaming.

We made our presence known when we arrived at S'pore Conference Hall. We made heads turn. Haha, who wouldn't, when they hear a sudden increase in volume! The facilitators or whatever they're called had problems getting us to stand in twos. We stood there for awhile, then got off our twos and started walking around snapping photos. My family camera spoiled la, and I don't have a camera, so I apologise if you found me a nuisance! Cos' I kept popping in to join anyone who was posing for the camera. Heh. So yeah, we were noisy! It was quite embarrassing as CHIJ St. Joseph's were standing next to us, in their twos, looking like a disciplined lot of students. And then we were acting like never see SCH before like that.

We were given some time in the tuning room, where we just sang our 2nd piece out and moved to our singing, getting high and all. We made sure we left an impression on the facilitators (?? then what, ppl in black?) with our highness. I don't think other schools were that high.

Everything just passed SO fast la!

The place wasn't all filled up as Mr Fong had promised. But we could see the other school handbellers at the front, and our seniors with the huge banner at the side!! Haha. Ok so, we bowed, raised our bells, started playing Lenggang Kangkong. (I believe this this the first time I'm typing out the titles of our pieces) My heart was pounding so fast I thought it was going to drop out! But then I remembered God, our main audience and after that I calmed down a lot more. We played our best, Lee Xuan insisted that was the BEST among all our other practices! Haha I only know that I expressed and played with a lot of feeling la.

Then for Crazy Little Thing Called Love, when we put up our collars nobody laughed lor! Wahlau! So unlike mini SYF, I think PL lites have a good sense of humour! But then again, it was a competition (though it seriously didn't feel like one) and everyone was anxious to hear how our piece sounded like. So ok lor, never mind, just continue. Ethel started her dong dong dong and we bounced and we started playing the deceiving intro 'London Bridge' combined with 'Ode to Joy' and when we stomped our feet, wah I think we shock the entire hall. I was looking at the first and second row, and yes we made their jaws drop! Just like Mr Fong predicted. Gosh I felt the satisfaction at that point of time. Haven't even finish the thing, and the audience was stunned already. I admit we were speeding a little, despite the countless warnings from Mrs Wong Ms Goh and Mr Fong. Precise and neat. Nah I think we were messy and sophisticated! neeway(new word), there were a few mistakes here and there but we covered them up, until "mistake also sound correct". Then for the clapping part, only our seniors clapped but that's better than nothing, they made all the difference! =) Before I knew it, we were bowing and walking backstage again. The end.


I still cannot believe it's over.

All eyes were on us when we joined the rest of the audience and performers in the hall. I wanted to know how everyone felt about our pieces so badly, I could have screamed! haha.
They made us wait for a long time for the results, announced in order of appearance.

RGS: Gold with honours.
[i thought, wth, 1st school already gwh?!?!?]
SHSS: Silver
CGS: Silver
[i thought they were going to get a gold or sth, they were so confident]
SCGS: Gold with honours
[my pulse raced again la, with adrenal glands releasing more adrenaline than ever. they got gwh? that's 2 schools! what about us man.. don't tell me we got gold. but it's impossible, we have something the others don't.]
ZSS: Silver
[ok so they maintained la not bad]
CHIJ: Bronze
[well at least not COP]
MGS: Gold
[all of us were about to fall off our chairs already, all that suspense! all i could say was gwh gwh gwh gwh gwh silently.]
PLMGS: Gold with honours

While the sec 3s were crying, most sec 4s weren't. I mean, we're so used to hearing Mr Fong say the award is ours, we just have to claim it, take and go, don't go SYF can go Japan already. The gold with honours was easy to get, now that I think again. Haha and I hope I'm not sounding like a peacock here, but we expected that man to say the 3 words "gold with honours" anyway, so it wasn't much of a surprise. However we did not expect the judges to give out 3 GWH awards to 3 out of 8 handbell ensembles. Look at band and all that la, where got so easy to get one!

But I don't think we're in any position to say, because we haven't heard the other school pieces! Not fair not fair I wanna hear how the other schools played. But I don't think anyone recorded. I WANT TO HEAR THE OTHER SCHOOLS!!!! hmph. And anyway we should share the award right, cannot be selfish! What makes PL stand out is, we arrange our own scores (wait we dont even have a dao gay score) and we're going to Japan in June! Not for some symposium which is opened to more schools but an exchange prog with with a performance in front of a 2000-strong crowd, and they invited only PL! haha.

I was blog-surfing, and I did not expect to read that we actually took the breaths of handbellers from other schools away with Lenggang Kangkong and Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Like really make them sit still and all that. They made it sound as if we're really that good, when our confidence level was dipping just that morning! But then again, we don't know and can't compare because we did not have a chance to hear the other ensembles.
I think we should thank them for their positive comments! So, thank you, other school handbellers! =)

It's over it's over it's over. So fast.

Honestly it's quite disappointing that our school has been getting silvers....
I hope the guzheng will bring back a gold with honours!

Man I spent like dunno how many hours typing this whole thing out.

the day

In less than 12 hours, we will be in the school hall, doing some last-minute rehearsals.
tomorrow is THE day.
All the pressure is on us now to break the curse of the silver streak.
All the pressure is on us now to get the gold WITH honours for God, for PL, for our ensemble.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes and prayers! The support from school is scary.

omg I'm so anxious I'm gonna break down anytime now.

Today, after a long long time, I went for main service.
And God kinda spoke through the songs we sang for worship.

Into your hands I commit again
With all I am for YOU Lord
You hold my world in the palm of Your hands
And I am Yours forever

Jesus I BELIEVE IN YOU
Jesus I belong to You
You're THE REASON that I live
THE REASON that I sing
With all I am

I'll walk with You WHEREVER You will go
Through tears and joy, I'll TRUST in You
And I will live in all of Your ways
And Your promises forever

And tomorrow Lord we ask for your glory to fill S'pore Conference Hall,
that it will go forth from there to the nations (and we mean it)
Let Your kingdom rest in that place
As we gather to play for You, for PL, and to seek Your face

The lyrics to the songs are so, so real, I get freaked out.
(calm down joyce, calm down)

And now all we need is more encouragement (haha), sleep, lotsa rest, water, energy, and most importantly...

FAITH.

Time passes so darn fast, it seems like just yesterday when Mr Fong told us the titles of our 2 pieces.
(I'm talking to Sherry on MSN now and she's equally excited. I'm sure sec school handbellers islandwide are)
It seems like just this morning when we had our mini SYF and the judges commented on our almost-flawless performance.
It seems like just last week when our seniors brought back the 2005 gold with honours!!!!

Like what Mr Fong said, even if we get silver, WE'RE still going to Japan, and no not the other schools, but us.
No I'm not living in self-denial or anything hahaha.

Handbellers pls remember to rest well, everyone from sec 1 to 5!
Pray hard, sleep hard, eat but dont eat too much like Ling Ying and Ethel, and remember to bring your 'costume', makeup, shoes, hairpins and bun nets for the sec 1s and 2s!
Tonight when you go to bed, (if anyone reads this tonight, that is) think of nothing, no one but God.
Thank Him for all his grace and mercy, for his love that greatly abounds.
Mr Fong has never walked out on us although he flared up and threatened not to coach us for the next SYF, and thank God that he's very proud of us now, I don't think he'll leave us =)
Yah and pray, most importantly, for GOOD HEALTH!!! which we always take for granted.
Yeahs.

God will be the solution to all our problems and anxieties!

Phil 4:6-7,
Do not be anxious about anything but by everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

=)

Alright now my other worry, (I must keep telling myself not to worry for He will provide)

KALEIDOSCOPE EVENING TICKETS!
From $10-25, all sold out would you believe it.
And thanks to the last-minuteness of my beloved senior Yi Jia and churchies, I have been hunting for people with extra tickets and I'm quite tired.

Need 4 in a row for Joe, Smarties, Joshua and Kai Wei.
And 2 for Yi Jia.

HOW?!?!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAYS,
JOANNE (April 16)
LAI THENG (April 17) and
DADDYYYYYYYYYY!! (April 18)

GO GUITAR (April 19) AND HARP (April 20), all the best for your SYF!

Gosh what's with all the birthdays huh! All April some more! (I'm dead broke)
Is this supposed to be a good thing? I thought there's more in August. HAhaha.

My tummy is currently stretched to the max, I feel bloated and weak.
I sat in the toilet for 45 min staring at the tiles of the wall.
Diarrhoea lah, what else.
Got all the shit out of me and now I feel light as a feather though I may not sound like one.
(and as far as i know, feathers neither type nor talk)
Alright this is gross and it sucks when you feel all drained out the night before an exam.

Can someone just buy Kaleidoscope tickets?!
It also sucks when you know nobody from this other side of your life is buying tickets to go and support you.
Damn sad la.

Tuesday was Free Cone Day @ Ben & Jerry's, Sara and I went to the Cathay outlet.
The queue went on from almost half the 2nd floor, up the escalator and to the 3rd floor.
Good thing was it cleared quite fast.
Really worth your money. But we didn't go for 2nd round cos' after we got our cones, we saw that the queue at the 3rd floor had 'grown rapidly'.
People all over were holding cones, few cups.
I saw R & R there hahaha.

Actually, the REW so-called follow up by volunteers from S'pore Youth for Christ is quite interesting and fun. Yes, fun.
I mean how often do you really get to talk about your faith in depth in school?
I hope to benefit from this thing, and maybe by the end of the next 5 sessions, I'll be more confident and dare to spread His love! Hahah.

I was really pissed with myself for not being able to stretch the extra 2cm for sit and reach, and get my gold award. So now it's a silver.
Wth. 2cm.
But nevermindlah, that's only something which appears in black and white on report cards, not like it can help me get into some top JC like HCI or RJ (wahahah ok I'm kidding.)

Right now I feel like collapsing onto the cold hard floor but no,
I SHALL PUSH MYSELF TO ABSORB MORE CHEM AND BIO PRACTICAL Q & As!
Not forgetting... the stacks of homework I owe to the teachers... so gonna die...........

I'm sorry school, I can't get tickets for Kaleidoscope...
Reason being -- negative response =(
I hope at least Kara and Randy will say yes,
cos' so far the cell's response is like ... ... i dunno what lar.

It's the sec 4/5's last concert in PL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg i wanna cry. After this there'll be no more.
Only the Japan one and maybe some external performances, then bye bye!

Class tests and mid-year exams are pouring in already..
28 May is approaching...
Everything's coming so fast.
I don't want to go to Yuying for lesson. I get weird stares.
Hey I'm not from another planet ok!
I was made to sit with this Chinese girl (meaning from China) and goodness I feel like I'm a disgrace to Singapore.
Her Chinese is wow la. And she thinks my Chinese is lan4 until I don't even know how the format of gong1 han2 and si1 han2 is like, that kind.
I don't wanna sit with her man. She makes me look like a fool.
Better still, I don't want to go back there!

I have a feeling that my mama won't be happy with this month's hp bill.
Alot of SMSing and calling this month leh how.
Lol. You know what? I've been complaining non-stop. And I'm going to continue.

Can't go for church camp! Haiz.
HELLO I CANT GO FOR CHURCH CAMP AND I'M SAD.
Japan exchange prog is 12-17 June(actually it's 13-17 if you look at the departure time on 12th)
and church camp, 17-21 June!
How to go like that! Even my family will not wait for me to return to Sg before heading for KL.
Oh it was is sadddddd, oh it was is sad. it was sad when the big ship went down to the bottom and the...
In the end everything points back to me, I had a choice and I chose to go with the handbellers to I shouldn't be whining. Right? right.

I am very happy with my 2.4km timing,
it's between 13:50 and 14:00. That's an A. My only A grade for napfa.
Yay and thank God, because I jog once in a blue moon.
Also because if we really ran 2.8km that day, my timing would be 12 plus min?
Even better =D

"I keep falling in love with Him over and over and over and over again..."
=)
Note the capital H before you say anything, yes I'm referring to you! haha.

Thank you for your tags, seniors and friends! Erm or should I just say 'friends'?

Firstly,
HAPPY BELATED 16th BIRTHDAY WEN YI! ALL THE BEST FOR BAND SYF TMR, PLS GET AT LEAST A GOLD! JIA YOU PL CONCERT BAND!

Mr Fong has got to be the best handbell instructor. Ever.
It makes a whole lot of difference when you have a Christian instructor you know...
And he was the one who made me feel the holy spirit moving in PL, in that handbell room, everything was so real I swear (cannot swear) am sure it's the only time I felt like that. In the school. The uhm, so-called spiritual side of me just came out today.
Never in my 9 plus years in PL have I cried because (i think) I thought God was speaking, calling me. (back to the heart of worship, to rekindle that first love I had for Him.)

I doubted God, I drifted, I attempted to take matters into my own hands.
I felt like crap. Though I still feel this way now.
The gold with honours is ours, claim it.
We will get sponsors for the trip to Japan, have faith and claim it?
Basically everything is ours and we just need to claim them cos' God gave man dominion over everything on earth. Well almost all at least.
Jesus died for us. His LIFE ok.
The tomb is empty because He has risen, His work finished and the devil defeated.
What more could we ask for?
The Lord has so much in store for us, that amount of money is only part of the many blessings showered upon us.
See... God gave us an opportunity to go to Japan, He let ACS Barker choose PL handbells to go with them, not SC, not MG, not RG, but PL.
Mr Fong is right.
We haven't even go for the competition and we're invited to go overseas already, and this is all part of His great plan!
And now, this is only open to the current sec 3-5s.
To say "I don't want to go" is like rejecting God's blessing.
It's right in front of your face and you push it away. Am I not right?

It suddenly occurred to me...
Since God let PL handbells go, He will provide.
Cos' He knows our every need. And problem.
We only have to pray and trust Him.
I have never seen Mrs Wong so determined to "fight" for us to get sponsors and to pay a smaller amount of deposit, ... ...
She has done a lot. I don't think we should let her down too.

This whole thing has been troubling me a lot recently, I think I've done my part in trying to convince you you and you to go.
I'm tired and this time I'm really leaving the rest to Him.
Don't want to go then don't go lor.

Being level rep comes with a price, you waste SMS and phone calls. Collate, collate and collate.
SMS- omg. I have wasted countless msges on people who do not reply! Call but never answer! Making my life difficult. And I'm not even considered as part of the exco = no extra cca points.
Now I know how it's like to keep chasing...
I will put in extra effort to make sure I hand in homework, consent forms etc. on time.

Today's bio test sucked big time la I bet Ms Koh will puke when she marks my paper.

I dunno why I'm crying so much lately.

Actually there's so much much more on my mind but I'm just going to let go and let God =)
I'm weary and burdened, now I'm going to Him and I will get my rest, as promised in the bible.
Sorry if I seem to flare up or get pissed easily. In other words, sensitive.
timetable's packed like hell... and so is my life now with family + school. urgh.

P.S. Will try to find time to blog about Saturday's Inspiration Unveiled.
Can't wait for cell bonding! I think my parents allow. haha.

Inspiration Unveiled 2007

I wish the floor would open up and swallow me, then get its enzymes (if any) to break me up into simpler substances, and get digested.
Or get the streptococcus and lactobacillus to make me into cheese. Either way, I'll still get digested.
Don't ask why.

There's this idiom which goes
absence makes the heart grow fonder
and I second that.

My pa, ma, mei and di are in Malaysia for a my parents' cell bonding.
I chose to remain behind cos' I wanna study, there's Inspiration Unveiled and tuitionS, and there's no one my age in the their cell.
The house is so quiet, I'm not used to studying in a silent house.
=( Aaaaaargh come back quick!

I'll be bored to sleep after Inspiration la.
Please call me, msg me, ask me out, visit me, surprise me, (anything la) at that time, many thanks!

[added at 1.03am]
I came across this cedar handbeller's blog. Below is an extract of one of her posts.

The video mrs aw showed us is so inspiring! PLMGS handbell choir is nothing compare to those in the video. Cedar handbell muz strive and work hard towards the things we saw today. A combination of technique, expression and most importantly passion in handbell will create the ultimate tune that brings peace to everyone.

She is so, so wrong.

I know I shouldn't be saying this, but, I wish my father would just stop. And shut up.
He has been going on and on and on and on and on and on and on for the WHOLE NIGHT and it's just noisy. I dunno how many neighbours heard already.
Can he stop picking on me (non-stop) for small things? Argh. Shut up. Lah.

Alright now, happy belated birthday to Ethel! Squishyyyy
16 now, but acts like 13 cos' she's small and cute hahahahahaThanks Lai Theng for taking the pic.
Here's one selamat birthday (wth) to Yeok Ling who will be joining us this Saturday!

And also shen ri quai le to Persie Yang aka the PRAWN!
This is the birthday season. I'm broke la. Donate cash to me, puhleeeeese?

Oh my fishies, I'm so damn excited and so are the other upper sec handbell girls (omg i typed "upper sex"), we're really going to Japan!!! With MGS, ACJC, ACS(I) and ACS(B). Just praying hard that some stubborn parents would let their kids go... Like Theodora, she must go otherwise there's no one else to play her notes!!
And can the school like subsidise it? S$2,345 is wayyyyy too expensive.
Read Man Ling's blog la, she's got one whole post about it.

It's Religious Emphasis Week (REW), and that meant 2 days of chapel.
It's the same for every year, and it's enjoyable if not for some people who don't know how to respect God or their fellow peers around them who are trying to worship and listen to the pastor.
They just laugh and chat like there's nothing wrong.
Most annoying being talking and playing during worship.
I felt so tempted to go up to them and ask them to zip up and show respect, but I'm in no position to do so so just ignore them, lor.

There was one part, the drummer talked about running away from temptation, and immediately I thought of Mel Gan's sermon on Saturday! Fleeing from temptation! Not battling them.
Is God trying to say something here? Hmm. I don't think my close friends are doing anything
bad right?
And there was another part, I was saying "yah yah yah i agree" in my heart, cos' I got a brief flashback at that point. . .. .......

We remember Jesus who died on the cross, who chose a slow, painful and torturous death instead of just getting His head chopped off and get it over and done with in less than a second, because He loves us.
It's all because of LOVE. =)

On Monday, (taken from Hillary's bloggie)

Biology lesson was the most fun!

Ms Koh let us watch a human reproduction video

ANNNNNND AND

It was about the whole process of giving birth

SOOOOO COOL

BUT it was rather gross cos it showed THAT part

Showed us how the woman delivered the baby, and zomgg IT WAS REALLY SICK LA.
Our class just freaked out. I'm being open here, so don't mind me... you can choose not to read tho'.
I didn't know that the vagina can open until so big!!!!! The whole baby's head came out then the body and the yucky thing called placenta! It's gross I tell you!
Having second thoughts about having kids in the future now!
Thank God we're a GIRLS' SCHOOL. Can you imagine how embarrassing it'll be with guys around when we're watching that video. I don't even dare to picture it!

Chinese test was BAD BAD BAD cos' 2 of those passages were from Yuying's Chinese ASSIGNMENT in Feb.
And I did them before.
And I couldn't remember the stupid answers! How to get B like that?
I'm going to look thru' all the Yuying passages I've done. And hope they'll come out for next week's Chinese test.

Chem practical was bad too, I was rushing through the whole thing.
What crap oxidising and reducing agents, I dunno how to identify la!

OK I'll end here, and be back for more.

oh yeah. I don't see why I should post something like that again when I've already said it last time. after all, it's the same thing. i don't think i want to dig up my archives and post it again. =) i wish ya all the best with your studies

生日快乐，TANIA & HUI LING!!!
Here's wishing you both a blessed sweet Candied Sixteenth!
31 March and 1 April respectively. This is no April fools' joke!

Being 16 means something: NC16 shows are now legalised! so is sex but uh, NO pre-marital sex ok!
and the 11pm curfew doesn't affect you anymore! Correct me if I'm wrong.


I, on the other hand, want to stay 15 forever.
I don't want to grow up!

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My name, Charmaine's and Clarissa's isn't in the new worship roster, I think that means Christel's letting us step down for awhile to study. So yesterday was my last time singing with Team 1, Sarah Tan, Abigail, Evan and myself!
I think we make a great team, haha. They re-grouped the singers again.
Christel said we're "very good, very nice" then dismissed us to go for cell -.-
So long, YPM worship team! Until the O's are over. ahahah.