Holiday bash - Bukit Chandu! + Many many other things!

I almost forgot what I wanted to talk about when I click on 'new post' just now. No doubt, I have STM. Well, well, well... June holidays are here. It's been long awaited and kind of dreading for me. Long awaited because we can finally slip out of our homework days and I can stop seeing those irritating boys in my class. Dreading because I will miss most of my friends in school! Awww... but I will be seeing them either in school or during CIP or part-timing. :D

Talking about boys... hmmm. Jiamin mentioned that she hasn't got much problems with boys in secondary school, but now, the boys in JC - in our class, are totally being incorrigible. They seemed so much more childish than they should have been in secondary school. I have the same sentiments as Jiamin because I experience similar problems with someone. Grrr... Why can't they behave like normal people when they look almost normal in appearance? Enough of them...

Our history teacher brought us to Bukit Chandu yesterday. Needless to say, everything there is all about history - Singapore's history. It's a small gallery, 2 stories high and provides information on The Battle of Pasir Panjang. Quite an interesting place and we girls snapped quite a number of photos together, for fun and for remembrance. We were also given a task to do while visiting that place, but I'm quite guilty to say that I didn't really paid much attention to completing the task. :P

We looked at this animation first, the small light there pictures a soldier, telling us of how the war broke out on this hill, Bukit Chandu. He was animated and so were the aeroplanes and fire mushrooms. But the buildings in there are real miniatures. I find this concept of explaining the battle using animation and real miniatures very creative. The whole explanation lasted about 6 mins.

This statue is just beside that 'box' above.

Woooo, Jiamin and me on the steps!

The four of us! Huilin, Zoe, Jiamin and me!!!! Whoosh! (We girls rule!)

Zoe and me playing with the military helmet... it weighs quite heavy. Charge!!!

The four of us again, and of course with me playing a fool in it! Uh... Mrs/Mdm Koh behind and half of Arthur's body. This is the rather small theatre which we went in to wait for the 'show' on the battle. The room when pitch black when the 'show' started. All we could sense was our hearing, with the sound effects of bombing, slashing, shooting and voices ringing in our ears. I kind of felt scared with the room being totally dark and the scary sound effects of war. It puts me in the situation of a REAL war and they've done it! I felt my fear rising in my heart, it was as if I was in the middle of a real war. The people who thought of this 'show' really captured the emotions during war. I grabbed Jiamin's and Zoe's arms inside, in the dark. Haha, part of it to play a fool. But I was also a little scared, probably afraid that they would leave the room without me in the dark. It was Jiamin who suggested taking a picture of us from the top. We got Pearlyn to help us with it. :)

Huilin took me in the theatre... I was, again, being crazy over the earphones. I can't help being naughty. :P

See what I meant when I said I felt guilty for not really paying attention to the task given to us. My group members were busy trying to scout for information and I was behind them snapping their backs. I showed them the first picture I took and Jiamin was not satisfied and commanded me to take a second one. So, there they are, in the second attempted picture.

Hmm, this Bukit Chandu trip is also helpful for our PW. I think it was worth the while to visit that place, although it's quite secluded.

I came home from school about 2 hours ago. I was the emcee for the Panel Discussion of the International Yoga Therapy Conference held in JJ. It lasted not too long and very short. It was almost useless for me to change into my white blouse, school's blazer and black court shoes. But since it's required, I have to adhere to the rules of being an emcee. Umm, professionalism... that's what I call! Mr. Goon told me there are more jobs to come, I shall await them and finish them with enthusiasm! Wuahahahaha...!

Ooh, how glad am I to have change my CCA from photography to Chinese Orchestra now. Although I havn't attend any of the practices yet, but I'm happy. I think music still runs in my veins, I rather do something I'm more comfortable and happy with than brood all day at a CCA, which I do enjoy, but, not as happy enjoying it as CO! YAY! Additionally, I got to know from Bing Qing that Swee Chin had also joined CO! Swee Chin told me that she just switched her CCA from band to CO. She's playing the guzheng, like me! But it seems like there are enough people playing the guzheng already...sigh, as much as I like it, I think I will have to play the yangqin instead. No worries! I am happy playing either instrument. :D :D

Great news again, Miss Mardiana sent me - and among some others, an email to say that we have been selected to go for a dialogue session with the Minister of State. There are even trainings for us! Hehe... Jiamin and I are both selected! Yay, we can attend the trainings together! Whoosh!

Sunday is tomorrow, and it also marks the first day of my part-timing this year, at the Singapore Expo Food Fair! Beixin introduced me to the job, serving samples of Nutritea! The pay is better than the one I got while working in my secondary school's bookshop. Grr... that bookshop owner was obviously over-using my labour with that little amount of pay. But still, I got money... Haha! Zoe, Jiamin and Jiamin's sis will be there working too. But too bad, they only gave Jiamin one day of work and we have different starting time. We will still get to meet each other during work though... Zoe will be working with me for the next three days at the same time slots! Whooohooo! Beixin too! I think Zoe has started her work today already.... hehe.

I'm so hungry, waiting for daddy to bring home our dinner... and I guess I should type out the list of what we have to do for my PW group later. Going back to school on Thursday to have a PW consultation with Miss Chan...!

I think I am bonkers. I borrowed four, FOUR books to read during the holidays! It seems that the librarian was happy that I do so... of course, they should be encouraging us. The other librarian also asked me if I wanted to borrow DVDs home, but I declined politely. The library has this 'top-borrower of the month' going on. If you are the top-borrower, then you will win yourself F&B vouchers. We heard that it was Swensens's food vouchers. It really makes my mouth water at the thought of dining at Swensens. I found out from Mdm Phua, the librarian that the average number of books the top-borrower borrowed was above 20... or even 30! I think that's quite impossible for me... to borrow that number of books and read at the speed of lightening, not forgetting that there are homework and school activities going on...sigh... I love reading, I must say. I have finished 'Undead and Unwed' last night, finished it in 2 days! That's quite fast for me but I know of someone who reads even faster and can finish a book in half a day. Humphf! Jiamin also likes to read and she told me before that if she sets her mind to reading it, however thick the book is, she can finish it in a day too. Take my hat of these people. Their eyes won't dry out reading for such a long while. I must remember to take photos of these four books... and post them here! :D

D & D are here, Daddy and Dinner, here I come! :P

Blue is the Colour!

Blue is the colour, Blue Blue is the colour (softer)

Blue is the colour, Blue Blue is the colour (Soft)

Blue is the colour, Blue Blue is the colour!!! (Loudest)

Oooooohhhhhh... Bannister!!

Bannister camp... hmm, wasn't that fun I must say. But the Sports Meet yesterday overturned me!! Woohooo! After a long day on Thursday and not forgetting after my chem test, Bannister camp started. Water games were the first activity on the list and I rushed back to LT5 to change my shirt with my friends. The games were rather much similar to the ones we played during our PAE camp, but novelties were the cheers they taught us for the Sports Meet! The cheer that started this post is my favourite cheer. Whoosh! :D

After washing up, we had dinner and Mr. Lim took photos with us! He mingled with us for a while before going home to his wife. He's a good hubby. We headed back to LT5 for a song singing session thereafter they played 2 videos for us to watch. Both were shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey and life-changing stories covered. The second was a devastating and heartening one. Done with the videos, we next moved to a classroom to discuss some survey with our CT (which we have already done). Mr. Lim has gone home already so Mr. Siow took over the job. So there's nothing much to say, we ate supper (sushi! and bread and water).

Next morning, simple exercise, breakfast, Pepsi drink(?). Yup, Pepsi drink early in the morning. We were suppose to drain the contents in the Pepsi cans so we can fill beans in to create shakers. We headed for morning assembly after that and the Sports Meet officially started! Yay!

Bannister house was great, though we didn't win in terms of sports, we won in terms of best cheering! I think it was the same last year too! Banni was the best in cheering. We cheered together as a house below the audience's seats, the other houses were not like us. We even ran on the track once as a house during the 30mins interval. How united can we be? Damn united! We cheered loudly for the runners and danced when the mass dance songs were played. Hehe! We even cheered for the other houses when the teachers were competing in the ....leg. I don't know what's the event called but... yeah. We cheered for them! I drank lots of water too, I was losing my voice but the vibe was pulsing, I can't stop!

I say Banni Tsunami

I say Banni beat Biki

I say Banni own Owens

I say Banni kick Rono off the road!

Bannister!

This cheer follows the tune to the maggi mee song. Haha, interesting one. Another cheer, which we hardly used during the sports meet:

Banni Jia you! x3

Jia you ohh ohh ~

Jia you ohh ohh~

Bannister!

Hmm, there was another cheer that we used repeatedly when our runners were running, here goes:

Let's go Banni, Let's go!

(Drummer x2)

Finally, the happening event ended and Charmaine and I went to met Ms. Chan for our PW's GPP. Shaun and Thaddeus were on the bus home already when I called them. They didn't know about it, so I told them I will inform them of what to do. :)

I went home soon after, bathed, played online games for a while then went to nap at around 3pm. Woke up just before 7pm. Haha, was totally exhausted. I slept in bits and pieces in the hall during the camp. LOL.

I love Bannister!!!

Flushing Time away...

Hmm, you know...well, I don't know. I'm blogging here now, chatting with my friends at the same time, thinking of almost everything, trying to wait for time to past. I'm waiting for Jolynn's case study for history project and waiting for teacher to vet our partly finished essay... I'm just...waiting.

I think I have a lot of homework to do, but I still haven't started on any. I went out to JP today to scout for the Great Expectations book for literature and to look for some necessities. But didn't manage to find any of what I wanted.

Let's see, there's Lit essay to be written, chemistry worksheet... that's about it. But there's econs essay test and chem test next week. Bannister House Camp next Thurs and Fri, a pretty redundant camp, but I think it's their yearly ritual. Ridiculous thing is, the consent form for parents stated: 'I hereby consent my child/ward _________ to attend the camp...' There's no 'do not consent' at all! It's made compulsory but they know that some parents do not allow their children to go for the camp hence the consent forms, then why is there only 'consent' on that form??!! Ah well....

I was thinking of clearing my wardrobe and hanging it with new clothings but yet I don't want to spend so much money on them. I believe that my fashion sense should improve as I grow older. There must be some sophistication in my clothes now. At the same time at JP today, I went on a clothes hunt. Bought 2 new affordable tops for myself. :) Come June holidays, I will be seen demoting my 'outside' clothes to home clothes!

There was a sort of cooking competition that went on in the afternoon at the shopping mall. Seems like Channel newsasia was filming the competition and there was an elegant host in white dress interviewing some chefs too.

The cooking set was cleared then there were Love 97.2FM radio hosts, Marcus Chin and Violet on the stage, to promote Huiji waist tonic in collaboration with Mother's Day. I only managed to snap Marcus Chin from afar. The not-very-tall guy in blue t-shirt, who seemed to be just right under the speaker. :P

Yunxin is updating her own blog too on QQ, the famous chinese website in China. Users can chat with friends in there like us using msn. Blog there like Myspace. Oh! I'm reminded of the Shanghai Steamed dumplings I had today at Kopitiam. It was simply delicious. On the topic of food, I also had my green tea ice cream from Scoopz!

Opps, I only remembered to take a photo of my ice cream after a few scoops! Haha, how can one resist the temptation to savour this dessert? I'm surely not one who could do that! Our shopping trip today was quite fruitful, not only did I bought 2 new tops, I'd also bought a new pair of shoes at a warehouse sale on the third level. New shoes to be worn to school, lol! You know, I actually dislike going out and do shopping, but once in a while, it's fine. However, I hate spending money, it's like never ending, money keeps going out...Grrr...

I love my baby and Zoe's crystal so much! We brought the two of them together and both of them love each other at first sight. How great Love can be? Awww... Plus, they look soooo adorable together! They are a matchmake in heaven... (I feel so sleepy now, and the couple's photo can't be uploaded... irritating - a few retarded minutes later... I accidentally deleted the photo that was painstakingly uploaded on here! )

There they are! Baby the keychain and Crystal the pencil case.

Luckily, there wasn't any more problems re-uploading the couple's photo. Muacks! Kisses for them for being so cute! Both ur mummies (me and Zoe) love you!

Ok, I guess it's time to sign off...projects! Here I come!

Sleepiness keeps me Awake...

I've finally finished my Chemistry hw, phew! It was quite a lot to do, but I completed it! I was also discussing history project matters with Ee Seng. We took quite a while and that period of time which we used to discuss our work really wore me out. I'm still sitting here, feeling rather sleepy and typing all these. I just don't feel like going offline yet. But it'll be soon.

So, History project, Econs project, PW's GPP are still not accomplished. GP and Chemistry test on next Friday, to be worked hard for.

And I finally got the chance to catch up with Stefan, aka Kenshin. Seems like he's also quite busy and stressful with the school work in Canada. But he told me he was bored just now...can't blame him, it was around 6am there when he mentioned being bored and there's nothing much to do when it is a rainy morning.

Well, good luck to all of us in our school work!

Arthur's birthday is today, I gave him chocos in a thin, flat box. He appreciated it and smsed to thank me.

He started the msg with: 'You are Cherie right? This is Arthur......... '

I decided to play a tiny prank on him by replying: 'Sorry, I'm not Cherie... cuz I'm witchy Cherie! .......'

He was shocked at first when he saw the first few words, and thought he had really sent the msg to the wrong person. Haha, another birthday present from me: a prank! LOL! Still, he thanked me for it. Happy 18th Birthday Arthur!!

Till then.

Jogging-Labour Day

Timing is so not right. But of course, I may mean a few things. However, when I initially typed that sentence I actually meant that my timing for 2.4km run is so not right! Now as I think about it, there is no other meaning to my first sentence. Well, push it away.

Timing in school was 16.15... poor result. To push and train myself for next Mon's 2.4km jog, I made an effort to head down to Jurong West Stadium. In the end, I only improved by 7 seconds. 7 seconds!!! I pushed, I persevered, I panted, I ran, I.... I did what I could. But nothing can stand in my way. I just have to do it when the actual test comes, no matter what. At least I achieved something by running 6 rounds straight today, without stopping to walk. A little better than in school, where I ran for five and a half rounds! That's the only consolation I can give myself for the effort I made. Can I?

This is also where I had my sports carnival during my last year in secondary school. Youth Olympic Games will be held here too, in 2010. And as I type all these, I'm trying very hard to load up the 2nd picture. It failed many times. What is happening to all the uploading systems on Internet? They suck big time at times. ('Internet cannot display the webpage' - Get lost)

Must really thank Senior Cao for jogging and training me today. Treated him dessert after our run. I feel great to have exercised. I know I lost a few kilos, did I? Hope so.

The sky was cool blue with dotting white clouds. I can't help but loving it even more whenever I incline my head towards the boundless sky. My love for the sky is as boundless as it is. :) Lucky I haven't got a heat stroke after the run today like I did on Monday after PC. Today was cooler and enjoyable.

Standing on the field before leaving the stadium. Finally this picture got uploaded or I am thinking of banging the computer on the floor. I can't though, daddy will scold and I won't be so RETARDED as to deprive myself from using the computer when I need it! I don't have the energy to bring up this sack and slam it on the floor too. :P

The tennis courts were hidden up on 6th floor of the sports complex. I went up and visit them today for the first time. There are only 2 courts. I went skirting around the complex to visit the gym too. Students need only pay $1.50 per entry for an unlimited period of time. Quite affordable, one day I might visit it with friends. The booking fees for a badminton court on the 4th floor is $7.40 per hour. That's quite what we call a daylight robbery. Didn't get to see the bmt courts at all.

This is how the tennis courts look like peeking from outside.

Met my beloved friend while the door to the lift opened on the first floor. She called me but I couldn't quite make out who she was as I took out my spectacles earlier on. Simply waved to her but held on the the door. Then she urged me to come out. I did. As we came closer, I jumped with excitement on my feet and we hugged. It's been so long since I've seen Yun Xin. How I missed her! She's been busy in ACJC, and she was at the sports complex with her cousins for a swim. I must plunge in the pool with her when we are both free one day! We caught up with each other at the right side in the picture.

Senior Cao treated his buddies and me to some delights on Tuesday. Sanjiv sank his teeth on a chewy peanut choco chip cookie. Solomon sank the fragile plastic fork into the hard-rock Oreo cheesecake while Senior Cao and I ate our waffles. Renfred did not take his offer. We sat outside cookie house, chatted amicably and went our separate ways after that. Sanjiv joined me and Senior Cao at our study table and we talked. Sanjiv is a very linguistic person and not forgetting to mention, a very nice friend! I'm glad I got to know him... and also his best friend, Solomon, Renfred too, although we don't talk much to each other.

Sanjiv's cookie and Solomon's hard-rock cheesecake in the picture. I am so tempted to gorge the cheesecake into my mouth. I'm so hungry now, moreover, I love cheesecake!!!

Ahhh, I'm enjoying the wind blowing in from the window, it beats having to stand the tremendous heat just a while ago...life is great!