we've whizzed thru so much maths this yr that i find myself asking. how do i do DE or power series? bad sign? totally

i cut my hair and this hairdress ALWAYS cuts more than i ask her to. so 8cm chopped off :( hahah, i gre to that length in half a yr k...so now i've to wait another half a yr to get it that long. but ah well, i usu am not sad abt cutting hair cos it will grow back anyway. ok, the pt is, when i was there, i thought of my 5th weird thing (if you dunno wat i'm toking abt, go back 3, 4 entries)

5th weird thing: whenever i go to the haridresser's, there will be this sudden muscle constriction on my right back. like my kidney area. ahha. it's as if my hair fears being manhandled by hairdressers or sth. then i will jerk. i used to think maybe cos i was just a kid and scared of strangers of sth, but it still happens. and i will never know why that happens. hmm..weird huh.

after the past two days of low mental activity (class cip and prep) it's a little hard to get back the previous concentration span/level i had. yest was qt fun lah. ahha, the kids werent as havoc as expected. though we had heaps of waffles left to eat, and rachel was happily making her waffle sandwich for everyone. we also made a very special waffle sandwich for jingheng! (happy bday!) will get pics from chris to post. it had toothpicks for candles and was nicely decorated with chocolate, strawberry and sugar syrup, chocolate rice and raisins and milk. haha, im sure he had a great time.

So. i've finally watched the hard gay video that everyone's talking abt. ITS SO HILARIOUS!!!! find more of his videos ar youtube!! its soooo hilarious!!

[Bakafish] Hard Gay Ramen English Subtitles

this is something i will be doing post A's, so you're welcome to join with me if you're interested! it's basically an extension of interact in schools and a junior version of the rotary, thus the name rotaract!


The Rotaract Club of Singapore CIty was officially installed on 28th May 2006 by our Guest-of-Honour Rtn. Zahidi Rahman (the incoming Chairperson of the SNG Committee). We are currently 30 members strong with about 10 more choosing to be 'Friends of Rotaract' owing to their other commitments. Our target membership is 60 official Rotaractors and your participation is crucial if we are to meet our target.

Here're the answers to some FAQ you might find useful!

"why join the rotaract club?
it's an avenue to do community service and a platform for ppl interested in community service but do not know how to go about it. infrastructure, funding, organisation is ALL IN PLACE. all you have to do is sign up and turn up. very easy :) also since it's 'service through fellowship' there's got to be some fun involved. if it's all work everyone will burn out and it's also about getting to know like-minded individuals so there is the area of self-development that rotaract hopes to pursue. professional development involves organising courses for the rotaractors like etiquette class, interview skills, personal grooming, tea session with various professionals as a form of career guidance, cooking class for rotaractors about to go abroad to study etc. many many plans in the pipelines, just waiting to see indication of interests.

what rotaract does
the rotaract club of singapore city has chosen to adopt the assisi home and hospice at thomson road. assisi is a hospice for terminally-ill cancer patients and rotaractors will be 1) volunteering in the wards on saturdays 2) helping raise funds for the home 3) organising mini-projects for the patients' benefit. the point of adopting a charity rather than concentrating solely on adhoc projects for various charities is that it allows for continuity and when you work closely with an organisation, you are better able to meet its needs. besides monetary contributions, assisi also needs volunteers' time because the nurses are already working round the clock and patients need more than medical care. assis currently has a 'teddy bank' project going on where donors buy a $10 green teddy bank designed by one of the child patients. rotaractors can help sell the bears to family and friends to raise funds. the mini-projects vary on a monthly basis. can be anything from just turning up in full-force and spending 1:1 time with the patients for an hour one evening to caroling in the wards at christmas. i've also volunteered our services to other volunteer organisations as manpower so they'll call us if they need help running their projects.

a little bit about me (lest you think it's some fly-by-night club :P)
i'm a j3 waiting to read law at NUS, starting august. will continue with my Rotaract commitments for the rest of the Rotaract year though! i was chairperson of the rjc interact club in j2 and that's how i know the rotarian advisor who asked me to take-over the rotaract club of singapore city (it's a 40yr old club but the previous leadership has been stagnant for 2yrs and they got kicked out and replaced :() personally volunteered with assisi since i was 15, helping out in the fundraising sector before moving over to the wards this yr (you need to be 18 before you can volunteer in the wards). i am also volunteering at the MINDS employment centre at margaret drive where intellectually disabled (ID) adults are employed to clean SIA headphones / do simple arts and crafts and give tuition to underprivileged children at the children's society student care centre in bukit merah."

Hope this give you a better idea about Rotaract. Again, could I please trouble you to forward this to your members and do ask them to email me if they're interested in joining Rotaract upon graduation from Interact.

Thank you!

Warmest Regards,
Joanna Joy Tan
President of the Rotaract Club of Singapore City
Immediate Past President of the RJC Interact Club

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself, saying who tagged you. In the end you need to choose the 5 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.


1) habit: im a coffee addict. big time. trying to substitute it with tehpeng. if i dun get my daily fix, i will feel really terrible at like 9am in the morning.

2) habit: if i want to get something in a day. i MUST plan. or i will probably end up whiling all the time away. that doesnt mean i will stick to it closely ahha. but at least its a guide of what i needa complete.

3) thing: i think my family is pretty dysfunctional. on the whole its jus like a normal family but when certain issues arise, can start to see the cracks. and my extended family too. i never know how it feels to play / grow up with my cousins (the other half of the cousins are in msia and small)

4) thing: i have tons of secrets or things that i hide away haha

5) i will add on when i think of one.

ok, i dunno who has interesting things to say but JANICE haha. and i will help her full in one of the 5 items!! Janice has hmm..some weird fetish/interests. haha.

sigh, so the us econs trip ppl are on their way. how fun! so, i've still never gone on a sch overseas trip before (while my p4 cousin is going China with teh sch. p4 leh!! wat was i doing in p4 man!!). but i chose to stay to study for CTs i guess, cos i really need the time, plus i've been to the exact spots in us during 03. man. sch trips must be damn fun. and the batam cip trip too.. sigh

my dad likes watching da chang jin too. he says its educational. hahha, but im sure he enjoys the drama and all! it's gonna be one of my post-A's to do - rewatching da chang jin! muhahah. speakng of k-dramas. there was this time i wacthed on CNA on tvmobile abt the bae yong jun wax figurine in some museum and aunties were CRYING over that!! mind you THEY WERE CRYING. its madness u noe!! someone pls save them! what's so great abt bae yong jun! he is such a bad choice lah, aunties!! mediocre acting, mediocre looks (some say ugly). haha, well, i personally think that guy in Full House is damn shuai hahah (not Rain!). but not like im going to kiss and hug his wax figurine if there's gonna be one right. i think they needa wake up from their delusion lah. hahha

i was watching a documentary on discovery called "End Day". it depicted 4 different scenarios that scientists predict the world will end in 1) a mega tsunami 2) a meteor hits earth 3) a flu pandemic 4) a particulate accelerator experiment that might create a black hole effect.

well, the first 3 are supposed to be "the qn is not whether it will happen, but simply when" while the last is just imagination and sci-fi stuff. i didnt like how the tsunami one only depicted the effects on US East Coast. too small a scale to be "doomsday". hahha, if sth is a doomsday, it should affect the whole world. like the earth exploding frm its core or sth. i thot 2 was what i would believe most in ( did u noe that tiny meteorites hit the earth all the time but they get burnt out while penetrating the atmosphere and thus becomes the dust that settles on your table?) and 3 is the most relevant to current situations. i dunno abt you, but if i know doomsday was coming and i prob wun be able to escape, i will just wait for my death, i wun attempt to run or hide or anth, because its not gonna be very nice being one of the survivors and seeing the bleak world arnd u huh? i guess u'd rather be dead then too.

i kinda like sci-fi hahah, and the simulations and CGI in the docu was good! haha, anyway, it just shows how unpredictable nature is huh? the tsunami one had this scientist saying that such an event had occurred throughout geological time (its supposed to happen because this volcanic island erupted and split into half, and the impact will cause giant waves), and is not gonna stop just because we exist on earth. so true. and makes us feel so very small huh. speaking of nature, i think she has been extremely unkind to Indonesia! Earthquake, tsunami, volcano, earthquake again. leave indon alone for now, there's too much tragedy there!

went for the True Hearts cip farewell. and one of the mentees gave me this balloon :) well, i spent a very short time there but it was a pretty nice feeling knowing how they appreciate my presence. it's tuition for normal tech students and to us it's a very different kind of scenario. they are sec 3 and still learning simult. eqns. to us its lik second instincts rite, but i gues i've come to apprec that my surroundings and my friends are only a very small part of the world we live in, and that there are lots of people out there with lifestyles/environments vastly different from ours and it would be extremely narrow minded to only concentrate and dwell on our own little bubble.

finally the holidays are here. im happy because NO MORE 6AM MORNINGS!!!!!!!! (plus my mum is getting more lenient abt my wake up time ahha) that's the best of the hols. and to look on the bright side, i finally have time to sit down and study proper (provided if im well discplined and can sit still and wait for the info to enter my brain thru osmosis). but duh, who likes studying!

i not stupid too is so depressingmpared to the first one! but i guess it does portray truths about lives we cant comprehend or never experienced before.

we watched a very depressing video during physical geog today. basically, it talked about this 2 climatic phenomena - global warming and global dimming (this caused the ethiopian famine), and how pollution is the main culprit behind them. despite the decrease in pollution in certain countries, the inability for us to remove CO2 in the air (which comes from burning coal etc for energy) will worsen global warming. and it's jus a vicious cycle- the world will become hotter and hotter, the ice caps melt, plants cant grow, ppl die of famine, etc etc. you must watch the video yourself (which is very nicely filled with horror movie- worthy music) and you will come out depressed. btw, the effects will hit in by 30-4o yrs, so don't think it doesnt affect you. recycle and save electricity!

what started out to be an attempt to do my lit PC essay has turned out to be a terrible failure cos i have NO REMOTE IDEA on how to start my essay, or what im supposed to write.

Had learning journey today to the Ford Factory (at hillview there). it was not too bad, pretty interesting exhibits, but the thing is, the only photo that i took throughout the whole thing was this display of banana notes


hahah, just wasnt in the "take picture take picture" mood i guess. and there was a pathetically small no. of ppl who turned up. oh, at the end of the gallery there was this comments board, and there was this note, prob left by a kid that said "i am so proud to see my ah gong's id here!" how interesting right! OH and there was this SUPER AMUSING part about how ACS' canteen used to face these "holiday houses" where the Europeans hung out prob as resorts or sth (cant rmb) AND the women would SUN BATHE (was it in the nude!!?!- i think so!) so the teachers and prefects had to hmm...keep the order. oh, and outside the gallery there was this pretty intersting tic tac toe machine thing that would ask u qns from the info u can get from the exhibits.
then we proceeded to Al Azhar for some prata and milo dinosaur. ah well, i guess some of the food there is a bit overrated? but milo dinosaur is so nice :)

oh and i am so in love with magnum ice cream! the chocolate coating is just OUT OF THIS WORLD! oh can someone who watched lost tell me about the thing between Shannon and Sayeed? i missed abt one or two episodes and am completely lost. haha, bad pun.

went for chorale concert today and PUNCH wa SOOOOOOOO hilarious. last year was the bobbing bombay and this year is some mushroom thing. man, how can they be so funny!! ok, so everytime i go for a choir concert, its largely nostalgia and not so much of aesthetic enjoyment for me. ahah but i must say, bonkie's solo rocks!! i was like "that's nice" and trying to trace whose lips that came from.

so, i've gone for 3 concerts in the span of about 3 wks, and thanks to Dad who picked me up all the time, so willingly :). was looking fwd to learning journey but since only 10 will be turning up..(that's like half of the class alrdy) i guess it wouldnt be so fun after all. am looking fwd to the prata. ahaha.

yest when we were walking to VCH, we saw this DAAAMMMNNN CUTE kitty!! i dun often say cats are cute cos i think they look slightly scary, unless they are the persian damn fat type with round round eyes. but NIWAE, this kitty is an exception. it was alone, at the roadside!! so poor thing!! i so wanted to carry it but scared it would scratch me or sth. sigh..mum...i want a pet!!!!!

supposed to do some econs presentation thing, but im super distracted now.

audrey hepburn is really not THAT pretty see this but it's her whole image that's oh-so classy. oh and i cant wait to watch da vinci code!! kinda feel like reading the bk again, to refresh my memory. but anyway, i think ian mckellen is acting as the sir teabing right? i think he suits the role a lot..i'd have imagined him to be that character niwae. he's so flexible right! he can be both evil and nice old men. haha

yay! i survived SATs!! have a pretty good feeling abt it. ALL THANKS TO THE COFFEE!!! i really cant think properly if i cant stay awake. then came home and did nothing andthen went out for dance nite. the whole city hall was flooded by rj lah. and i crown chris the queen of city hall. ahha, cos im very unfamiliar with that area so she's the one navigating arnd. thnks!

niwae, dance nite was good! there's a reason why it gets sold out every year. and the dancers are flexible like anything, they can kick their legs up so high like nobody's business. haha

i REALLY love the fashion of the 1930s and 40s. the women in wide-brimmed hats, gloves, pipe in hand, french chic; poofy gowns with cinched waist, fur, always pearls. i think its the era when femininity was celebrated, women take comfort in being women, the idea of luxury, extravagance for women seemed to have blossomed then

this is what i mean

how exciting! polling day tmr. if there was a rally near my area, i would prob have gone. it's pretty interesting how ppl actually cheer so loudly and are so enthusiastic abt it, shud be quite fun to go lah. hope glenn got to go for one today so he can tell me all about it on monday.

sigh im taking my SATs tmr. and i've armed myself with a can of coffee (those that u can buy in sch) cos i think that amt is just right, and enough to keep me up for the desired no. of hours. gosh. i hope i do better than the previous one or it'd be just wasting my time money effort and brain cells.

all the best to me

i really should get down to doing some work. bead shopping had been really wonderful! and rach shen's display pic of strawberries and yoghurt is just making me SO hungry.

What breed of dog are you?

http://web.tickle.com/dog/

Yorkshire Terrier
No bones about it, you're a social, bustling Yorkshire Terrier. Active and enthusiastic, Yorkies like you have a ton of energy — which means you're probably always running around like a mad dog. You're never without a project to work on, an errand to run, or a party to catch. (Where do you find the time?) You're a chatty little pup, too — talking is one of your favorite pastimes. That's why all your friends and acquaintances see you as their own personal Entertainment Tonight and rely on you for the latest gossip and social bulletins. You always liven up a dinner party or cocktail gathering, and people simply adore your affectionate nature and get-up-and-go eagerness. Woof!


Ooh, i turned out to be one of my fave dogs, though it's not very accurate! HAHHA. really wouldnt mind being one in my next life.