I shall review this at the end of August… if I’m still alive by the end of it, that is heh :) To be honest, I’m feeling the buzzzzzz right now, and weird as it sounds, I’ve missed that feeling.

I’d blog more but I’m kinda lazzie :P
It’s almost August now (and this means Aaron’s recital date is looming pretty close too teehehe), and I still feel like I’m living my weeks in a daze. Every Thursday, I find myself gasping in horror at how I’ve not touched FYP or my History Research Project & Project even though I really probably should start on them because they are incidentally all due in the same week rawr. I probably should get a grip and get out of this hole I’m sinking into ;(

Sports day is coming too! And I’ve decided not to run any individual events this year (and surprisingly without much of a difficulty to come to this decision actually :P) but I will be doing both relays and hoping I can contribute to Nobel in my last year hehehe. I’ve been upping my mileage a lil more in the last two weeks, though my endurance and speed aren’t too good yet. I’m finding it almost impossible to cover the same distance in the time I used to be able to do after not running for pretty long. But it sure does feel good running again^^ Hoping to find a day to gym w Nelly or Jibee :D :D :D

Alrighties, bai :)

Looks like WordPress has changed quite a lil in the layout when I wasn’t around here. I’m finding it quite a chore to update here sometimes cos I think Tumblr is much easier and there isn’t much of a need to type out something too long or coherent:)

Should be staying at Tumblr for a bit^^ For those who know my url, I’m pretty active there ^^v; for those who don’t, you can always ask or find I guess:)

Hmm but I might still blog about Japan when I’m back though! Will be leaving tonight!!! Can’t wait :D :D :D

Sayonara everyone!!!:)

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Hi :D APs are finally over! (Actually it has been for the last two days just that I’ve been lazy to post bwahaha).

Stats ended a lil late at 4pm so I was kinda drained when we were finally released. The paper was kinda tougher than expected though!? I didn’t know how to do Q6 :( Hope that wldnt cost me a 5 lol._. But I shall throw that aside till 3rd wk of July, no point worrying now anyways :D

Okiesss after exams, Aaron & I left for town :) we got our favourite bubble tea (which we hvnt drank in damn long for the first time since last year in hostel we would even take a MRT ride all the way down for one frigging cup._.) then got my corn (!!! in the end we also didn’t eat cos we were too full) from Daiso and headed to Taka for dinner :D OH yeah we stopped by Epicentre (or is it epicenter) on our way there so we played this shuper addictive game on the iPad called Monster Dash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL I could sorta feel the evil glares the sales people were shooting towards our direction but we didn’t care :) Ate sushi at Taka & bought our fave MILK PAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heavenly shizz :) We popped by into another Epicentre whilst we were walking around^^ Haha I can’t rmb what we did, I think we didn’t do much other than walking around and talking with ABSOLUTELY NO WORRIES IN THE WORLD. Omg it has been damn long since we did that cos of late (esp the past month or so), most of our convo centred around projects, acads, APs, worries, all the random stressful stuff etc. It actually felt really nice walking around aimlessly (actually not so much aimless cos we were looking for some stuff on our way around the malls in the Orchard area) and sitting down randomly to talk heh =) Our stamina low liao though, felt tired by 9 so we headed home after that. Oh yeah when I got home, I had sushi supper w my mummy (sushi becomes really cheap after a certain timing cos they just wanna clear the stock haha) and after that chatted w an old friend living overseas using Whatapp (which in my opinion is really a godsend :D) till like 2am before I slept. Heh really nice :))

Hmm on Thursday, I kinda just bummed around at home BUT I felt accomplished cos I managed to pack up all my notes and files really nicely and neatly alrdy :D My study area looks really clear and not cluttered up for the first time in months!! :D Oh then I watched Pan’s Labyrinth! I wasn’t sure if the movie is supposed to be in Spanish? But the version I had was Spanish LOL so nvm._. But I thought it was quite a nice movie :) They managed to intertwine the reality aspect of war and violence very well with the fantasy world :D But the violence was a bit too much for me, yucks it was so bad to the point that it actually became kinda gory? So I fast forwarded the gory bits LOL I don’t have the stomach for gore._.

Hoho today (Friday), I met up w Nelly at North Point Manhattan Fish Market for lunch :D He was nice enough to come all the way down to my area even though he didn’t have much time to spare, but we had a really nice lunch and talk :D :D :D Hahah the food there is actually pretty good though I didn’t try their fish & chips (even though it’s their trademark dish I know) cos I didn’t like chips and they refused to change it to rice or baked potato for me so I had chicken & garlic butter rice instead which is still pretty nice^^ Went to Yishun lib after Nelly left and borrowed a Nicholas Sparks book (yay :D) and some travel guides to Tokyo cos I think my family is gna head there this June hahah :D OH and I ran this evening yay :D velly happie cos it has been really really long since I ran like the longest I stopped running walao why did I even stop :’( starting again is always the shittiest part, but nvm must persevere :D

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YAY :D I feel all the stress off me for the time being :D Though I think gotta start mugging for the SATs reasoning test liao =( less than a month away nuuu. Is the one question a day they send us using email enough~~~ Ya riiight.

Okies loads of activities lined up next week :D

Monday-Tuesday: Soccer camp WHOOTS!

Wednesday: Going out :))

Thursday: Going out w Chua :D

Friday: English results released NUUU but going out after that so shld be good anyhow :D

YAY!

Okies bai! Gna read my Nicholas Sparks love book and cry my heart out :)

And I’m getting more sick (as in coughing and flu kind of sick) and tired more easily these days :( Our A div girls soccer nats have started so gosh, I will return home late every Wednesday and just go right to bed… hahah very worried for history :/ my history grades aren’t as good as they were last year =( Just got back our test today and I totally bombed it hooboy. As in boooooooombed wth. I don’t really get how to do this sem’s history lol. I hope it’s not too late to turn things around and get a good grade for this! Really need it this sem cos my other subjects aren’t too good :/

Anywhoo, we played against MJC just ytd and we lost 3-0 :( we played against them for a friendly before sometime last year and we lost much badly the last time, though I think this time round the scoreline isn’t too baaaad cos of awesome goalie Wardah and the fact that the opposing team wasn’t as strong as last year’s!? I think we didn’t do too bad a job either actually :)) Next week we are playing VJC lolololol, they thrashed NJC 13-0 ytd… haha.

Anyways next week we’re gonna have some test spam or smth-.- We have bio test, history test, chem test and english AQ test? Wowow. And the following week would be mock APs alrdy… dang I hvnt studied :( I must really get down to doing it alrdy… I can actually foresee my CAP dropping like mad this sem =( and I thought I’d be different this year cos it’s the last year alrdy._. haiz.

NVM, it’s not too late :) :) :) :) :) Just gotta get down to doing it cos the hardest is always having to start from scratch (this time, all revision really is starting from scratch wowie)

Oh and I went to the college counsellor the other day and I’ve been talking a lot bout universities and applications to Daddy. I kinda know what I’d like to do, but I don’t know how reachable that is and it makes me feel very troubled and hesitant :/ I will blog more bout it another time :)

Gotta go Starhub svc centre tmr! My SIM card died on me so sorry if I’ve not been replying to ur smses/calls!

Cheers! :)

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Wow Term One really flew by, partly cos I wasn’t really living up to it :/ I think Term Two is going to be even more packed and crazier though ^^”

Anyways, been awhile since I blogged, so anywhoo here is just a quick update :D

The last week has been full of ups & downs :/ more so than usual :D

Monday went by pretty fast cos it was sorta the last day of term for me since the rest of the week would have been occupied by SSEF so yup :) Training went well though I pulled my thigh muscle yet again while sprinting-.- but nvm, thanks to the largely inactive life I’ve been living since Monday, I think I woulda fully recovered yay :) Nationals are coming and I’ve gotta say I’m really kinda looking fwd to it cos it’d be the last ones that I will be participating in^^ Last year this time was a dark horrid period of my life where I was ridden with injuries and had to even pull out of the competition after hospitalization and whatnot, so hope competitions this year would turn out better^^ I rmb emoing in hostel last year after losing my matches though :/ I gotta admit, I don’t like talking to ppl much after playing and especially after losing :/ but what warms my heart is that the entire team goes through it together, whether we win, lose or draw :) that’s something I would never have experienced if I nvr made the decision to join soccer :)

Hahah Tuesday was awesome cos it was my birthday :D I was really touched by my 205 buddies, Aaron, Ash, Chee Ying, Cleo,  Jean, Jibee, Mariel and Timbo who presented me w a pink holga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Thanks a lot^^ the card was cute too, though Mr Cactus wasn’t XD hehe don’t rly know how to use a holga yet, but I’ll learn and hopefully take more photos w you guys since it’s our last year liao :’( Lynnette also presented me w a huge card!!! HAHAH I was so shocked to see a few teachers’ msgs there, wow :O so nice of her to approach some of my fave teachers to write a msg for me hahah :) the card was really lovely :D Ros & Sab gave me a file w a jar of candies as well yay thanks :D Yu Jia came over my class and gave me a package full of wired cross, deer keychains (thanks babe, you’re really talented :D my ebil sister stole the cross one away :( *sobs*), guitar pick (okay okay, I will rly learn it at the end of this year :D) and green shoelaces (HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT’S MY FAVE SHADE OF GREEN :D), Aaron gave me something cute to deal w my indecisiveness *sobs* that’s so mean of him right LOL. My family celebrated w me as well w yummy dinner and hazelnut cake at night =) I was a happy girl yay :)

Wednesday went by rly paaaaaaainfully cos it was SSEF judging day and we had to wait for our 6 judges who came by over a span of like 10 hours :/ so we were nervous and jittery and pretty much mentally exhausted  by the end of that 10 hours. But it was a good experience luh :D Aaron and I were fortunate to have our project in the finals and I’ve gotta admit, it was quite a good ending to our almost year long ARP :) Hahah, thankfully we didn’t fall out or argue at all over the course of our ARP unlike many other groups/pairs that might have. In fact, I think the time spent tgth last year at KKH (and beyond._.) and time spent chionging the report and presentation this year was really great I guess :D I really thought we gotta know each other better through this process though quite honestly, I was pretty apprehensive bout our working tgth cos there is always a possibility of us falling out and ending up souring our friendship cos prior to this, we haven’t worked w each other for any projects (even in 105 and 205). Hahah I miss my groupwork w Jibee & Nelly :((((((((((((((((((( (Hi Jibee & Nelly, I know y’all are reading this :D :D :D) Hahah in any case, SSEF was a good ending to ARP :) Would love to sit down w Aaron one day and reminisce bout all the crazy highs, bad lows and all the inside jokes and everything hahah! :D

On Thursday, it was public viewing day so basically slackkkk till results of SSEF :D Hahah Aaron & I went around Science Centre and uh, I gotta say it was pretty boring._. though I actually do like science centre quite a bit :D okay what the hell am I saying-.- hahah at 3pm, the results of SSEF were released :O pretty early this year, but I guess that’s good cos the results took a loooooooooooooong time to be released cos judges had to go arnd and everything. NUS HIGH DID RLY WELL THIS YEAR :D :D :D we got like 10 out of the 17 golds available :) So proud and happy for our school :) Congrats to all recipients!!!!! :D hahah I could feel the nus high pride in the air when everyone clapped and cheered loudly when the judge pasted the award on our school’s booths :) :) :) hahah, gotta admit though, I was pretty bummed by the fact that our project didn’t get anyth. But I kinda expected it cos of the nature of our project, but still deep inside, I actually hoped that our presentations were enough to overlook that fact. But looks like I was just kidding myself :D It’s not that I was expecting something, it’s just the general shitty feeling I got for not achieving anything yknow???

Hahah anyways, after that there was a belated birthday celebration for me (and Cleo actually, though she cldnt make it in the end :((((( haiz) at Cafe Cartel IMM :D Hahah rly gotta thank those who celebrated w me :) Aaron, Ash, Chee Ying, Jean, Jibee, Mariel and Timbo :) they were really life savers manzx :) Jibee & Jean got a slice of cheesecake (WHOO :D) from Secret Recipe and they all sang me a song yay :D Had St Louis Ribs (not too bad, the portion was rly worth it too :D) and we basically sat down there for like, 3 hours talking and playing contact like some nerdsxzzzxzxzxzx :D I think everyone was pretty drained and tired though I had really good laughs and genuine fun :) It had been such a long time… I actually missed just being in the company of them all :) I don’t really know how to express myself (as usual cos I am really bad at blogging bout happy stuff), but that evening was rly good for the heart :)

On Friday was House Carnival.. hmm I wasn’t involved this year, unlike last year… gotta admit, I rly missed the feeling of being part of the nobel family and the feeling of contributing and helping out. I rmb how Chin Wen and I set up the booths the night before, how I lost my voice shouting myself silly and how happy I was when I saw ppl enjoying themselves and playing for their respective houses. I shall reflect on this some other time.

After that, we went around recce-ing for our upcoming Charity Car Wash at two different estates :) There were some hiccups here and there that I hope we will get to settle and thrash out during our next meeting… I was quite disappointed honestly, but I wanted things to go on smoothly, so I had to swallow any displeasure I had, though poor Shengze (especially), Fu Nan and Aaron had to deal with my impatience and unhappiness. Thanks guys for being there :) That was nice. When we recce-d along, the reception wasn’t as good as we hoped it’d be, but I gotta say, a lot of nice ppl and things happened along the way that gave us renewed hope and conviction that really was very heartwarming. We need a lot more work to be done for Project Sprout to succeed :) After the recce, a very mentally and physically exhausted Aaron & I trudged over to bus to West Mall to have dinner hahah. I saw the cutest graphic tees ever there! But I was broke and didn’t have enough $$$ -.- Shall get them the next time I drop by there again :)

Anywhoo, it’s holidays now :D Yay! I hope to get a good rest primarily :) Though it’s gna be pretty tough, since my holidays are really packed-.- There’ll be a soccer friendly then dinner w my fave juniors at Nex after that :D Wednesday would be out celebrating w Seo Youn, Thursday would be bonding day for Project Sprout and Saturday would be the carwash :) and a lot of random things in btwn, with trainings and I also hope to invite my 205 friends over (which days will y’all be free?? Tuesday??) and Lynnette, Roslyn & Sabrina over as well to thank them for being so sweet on my birthday :) hahah I realize I hvnt rly actually spent much time talking to them, though Tioman was quite a good start for Ros & Sab… Haiz time is passing by so fast and there’s so many things I wanna do haiz. I hope everything will fall in place nicely =)

Okay okay okay, this blog post is mad long-.- It’s to make up for the entire month I didn’t blog :)

Take care all xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo!!!!

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This is a bit late but still, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR everyone :)

Oh dear, the last few days of the long CNY holiday just flew by like that!? :( But I think it was a good break with the family :D My cousin posted a few of the photos we took during our reunion dinner on Facebook so I guess I will upload it when I’m less lazy :D We went to Kiseki for our reunion dinner :D The Japanese buffet was pretty good :D The last time I went last Dec, I didn’t get to try the tofu cheesecake, but this time around I did :D And we took like 7 pieces each!? Really yummy and awesome, must try it when you’re there^^ The buffet had the usual Japanese food, like really thick slabs of sashimi (srsly, the thickest I’ve ever seen^^), tempura, hot pot, yakitori, seafood, etc etc :) Really satisfied sitting there and pigging out and just being w family and my fave relatives!!! :) :) We took a walk down really empty Orchard Road after that before heading home to see some really long fireworks from my house window :)

The first day of CNY was spent at my grandma’s :) We aren’t too close with our other cousins so I was mostly spending time w my aunts and my fave cousin yay :D We watched the Liu Qian magic show to pass time and I was srsly fascinated by how he could conjure bubble tea from plain water LOL I want that skill too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmm the second day was spent visiting my grandma’s brother’s wife whom we call Da Kam Por? My cousin brought his Monopoly Deal and Saboteur cards so us kids were happily playing there :D took me some time to get the hang of Monopoly Deal actually, but it’s pretty fun :D :D He bought his cards from HK on an exchange there so all the roads are like, HK roadnames. Pretty cool actually :D After that, my family and the same relatives with whom we had reunion dinner w went to IKEA to get a table for me :D haha quite fun luh, I actually like going to IKEA or furniture shops to try to imagine how my future home would be like :) I find it very cute when I see couples, esp newly wed couples, going around shopping for furniture for their perfect home =) Also reminds me of the scene in “500 days of summer” during their happier times :D Needless to say, we pigged on ikea hotdogs and ice creams :D we wanted to go visit Helix Bridge since “the night was young” but after driving there, we realized that there was the River Hongbao thingy going on so it was really crowded so we had to head home afterwards =( I haven’t been to Woodlands Waterfront (yeah even though it’s pretty close my home), Southern Ridges, the Sentosa Boardwalk (?) yet!! I wanna go there one day, to have a picnic or go run there or smth :D

The third and fourth day of CNY just flew by… I think cos I woke up pretty late, trying to catch up w my sleep and my family kept going to the dining table to eat, snack and talk a lot lol!!! So time just flew by liddat >< Hohums. Now it’s back to reality and chionging homework >:( This week is going to be a really busy one… gotta skip school on Friday to help out w Chingay, Saturday as well. And Sunday is going to be spent celebrating my grandfather’s birthday!!! Then hopefully, can join the soccer girls in visiting each other’s houses =) Hahah, before that though, this week there will be: 1) PUB report + ppt due, 2) English articles + FYP, 3) Chem quiz, 4) loads of things to settle for Project Sprout heh, 5) Maths quiz, 6) History debate, 7) OSAP Application to fill in. And ahwells, this week is going to be a sad one cos you’ll going off and I guess it’s going to be weird not seeing you almost everyday :(

But that said, I really got things thought through this much needed break :D There are so much to be done this semester, so much that demands space in my heart but yet, I’m starting to look forward to tackling them^^

Things have been piling up and I’ve not been able to properly sit down and attend to every one of them.

Gotta take this CNY break to settle all that’s bothering me and properly start this (Chinese) new year like how I should have done so a month ago.