December updates (1)

Right, now where was I..

Oh yeah, some updates.
I now find blogging a chore, it's rather tiring. Unless I feel I have something that I can't contain, and I decide to blog it here rather than in lj. Haha.

Yet another long post. Means fewer people will read (:

National Chinese Music Competition 2008

I went to support Jake and Brian on their pipa for the pipa youth category, with Lukas and Irvin. Peiyan was there with her other friends. She seems to know everyone in the Chinese music community O_O I remember heading to Marina Square's food court with Lukas and Pei Yan after that, spending a lot of time talking till the place was half empty.

Well basically all the participants sounded good to me. Haha. Apart from a few which really could have been better. There were different arrangements of that dragon boat piece they had to play... and I prefer Brian and Jake's, may be because I've heard it so many times before, other arrangements did not sound as good. Ahhh whatever.

Really thought Brian could have gotten into the finals, but he didn't. He spent a week going into depression because of that -.- Jake did get into the finals though. He didn't get top 3. Still, both worked very hard, and they're winners. To me, that is. awww.

I also went for the ensemble finals. This time with the rest of the CO. The only person I knew who was in one of the ensembles was Chun Yang. I recognise another guy as well, but will not say who. The finals for this fell on a Saturday afternoon, and Pei Yan managed to convince Ms Too to cancel sectionals so we can go watch the ensembles, said it's a good learning experience.

It definitely was!

They were so good, I kept drifting off to sleep every now and then. I look at their xianyues, and then ACCO's, and I shudder. There's still time, there's still time. We can have a prayer meeting for the Christians in ACCO... pray for the recruitment, SYF, people, ... there's so much! Good idea, but whether it will be carried out or not, I have no idea. Lol.

I was more awake when the 3 percussion ensembles played. It was more entertaining, all their rhythmic stuff. I thought Chun Yang's group did fabulous but I was wrong. They got 3rd :(

Handbell Gathering for the Class of 2007

I went there after the percussion finals. Was VERY early, went to meet Ling Ying and Man Ling first. I don't like walking around Orchard Road alone okay, I'm afraid of losing my way. I did lose my way that day, I couldn't find Cineleisure -.- call me noob. Go ahead.

Basically everyone was there, all but Preethi :( She couldn't make it at the last minute!! We went to Pasta Mania for dinner, where LY and Hui Ling were constantly looking out for 'cute guys' or something like that. Oh my goodness. Ling Ying was messing up her food and being unglam. NO change after all these years, TSK TSK. Ethel went to Plaza Sing instead of Cine, and we were all laughing at her when she arrived LOL.

The plan was to catch a movie after dinner. I wanted to catch Twilight real badly!! It was sneak previews then. And all the seats were sold out. We were debating whether to watch a movie or go play pool. Since time was not on our side, went for pool... had to borrow Ethel's Elmo sweater cos I was in school attire. College skirt and collegiete with ACJC printed across my uh, chest. Christabel had to go first, she had to leave Sg early for Malaysia (hey, me too, man!).

I didn't play, I just watched the rest play. Theodora was watching with me. The 3 Lings and Ethel took so long to clear one game. tsk. I went on observing them and people from other tables.
Then Theodora left too :( but I stayed though I knew my luggage was not even half-packed. hahah, cos' I don't get to see them very often, so just stay longer lor. We started cam-whoring after that -.-

(Finally, some pictures, not paragraph after paragraph of text. Be glad.)Don't know exactly what time I got home, all I remember is that my dad was nagging at me to pack my luggage and get to bed.

Penang trip

For this trip, my family went with Uncle David Chan's family. That meant Jia Yan too! I was pretty excited for the food and shopping, but shopping was a disappointment. I mean, their clothes aren't something you'd want to wear. It's just me, maybe. I'm particularly choosy when it comes to clothes and Singapore still wins hands-down when it comes to style! All I bought was white jacket which I like(d) very much though it was a little more expensive.

Day 1.

The journey there was like, >.< . We set off while the sky was still dark. Dropped by KL because my dad had to pass some stuff to his staff in the KL office. So since we were there, my dad suggested we go for the "best bak kut teh" in Malaysia. Yeah, it was really good. The soup was tasty. I'm not very concerned about all that meat. HAHA. I just eat what I can and enjoy the soup (: Caleb (Jiayan's youngest bro) spilled his drink at my family's table -.- Hyperactive, I'd say. Lawl. Group photo below. (M'sia photos from facebook)
Then we kidnda got lost in KL and my dad had to get another one of his staff to come and guide us out -___- Wasted a lot of time! We reached Penang in the evening. Uncle David got lost.. somehow the walkie talkies didn't work properly and he made a wrong turn. Took him a long time to finally drive to the hotel, Krystal Suites.

Loved the rooms! Apart from the small bathroom and the bedsheets which didn't smell very nice.
Dinner that night was at a hawker centre where they sold super cheap + good food. The fried kuay teow, the oyster ommelette, ...!!!!

Of course that came with a price. I had a slight stomachache the next day and had to make frequent trips to the restroom while shopping. I kept farting too. I ate less than half my dinner that evening. Totally no appetite! Had to swallow 1.5 tubes of po chai pills too to ease the discomfort.

Thankfully, the pain didn't disturb me too much while we watched Bolt at the cinema after dinner. That movie's SO cute!! The best thing was that tickets were cheap cheap cheaper than Singapore's. Their cinema seemed very normal too, so I'd say it's more worth your money to watch movies in Malaysia than here in Sg.

Day 2's breakfast was at a prata shop near the hotel, which my dad claimed had the "best prata in Penang". Lunch was at that mall (can't remember the name), Pizza Hut! Again, food's cheaper there, slightly over RM100 for ELEVEN people. It's considered cheap okay!


Day 3.

Checked into some beach resort.

I'm sleepy, I wanna sleep soon, after QT. Outrageous, check out the time. I'm turning into a second Sophia! Sorry will reply all your tags in the next post (: