so, its 2007. feels really weird cos it wasnt too long ago when we were slogging our asses off in the library. anyway, i was at the airport when 2006 was over. so disappointing! there weren't any special celebration for both xmas and new yr. i'm sort of having a post trips blue, cos one week is really short! i actually survived korea without being able to read a single signboard or read any menu (besides hotel restaurants). there were some really really cold days like when we were skiing and our fingers and toes froze but it was really fun. i'd rather have cold than hot actually..hahah. and we did some nice shopping there, though the accessories there are expensive! ( i wonder why! since some sg stuff are korean imports) we also made friends with this 2 kids super adorable!! they called our room to ask if they could come over and play. and they are planning to come to our hse this wkend. very cute! one thing abt korea is that they have very few international cuisines. only the occassional chinese or jap restaurants. so the koreans live on korea food everyday! which will get boring right? i mean, hotpot/bibimbak/bbq everyday gets a bit dull..spking of which, korean airlines serves bibimbak. quite special haha

so now its back to the boring life in sg :( hope to catch a takeshi movie soon and go msia for some shopping!! my table is in a mess once again and i dun feel like doing anything abt it.

im leaving for the land of bae yong jun, da changjin and kwon sang woo in about 8 hours time. but im not in a holiday mood actually, im more keen in celebrating xmas. hopefully there's sth nice on the plane (some nice turkey would be great). it was gathering with pri sch frens yest and the turn out was not too bad actually, about 10 ppl. hopefully we can have another one nxt yr with more ppl! we watched night at the museum and it's qt funny! ahhaha, i love the sakagewea part (sooo hilarious). ah, i still wanna wtach the holiday though and curse of the golden flower!

i was kindly reminded that it is the december solstice today, the shortest day of the year if you're living in the N. Hemisphere. man, i really really miss geog :(

it's pretty boring at home nowadays, waking up late, watching korean dramas over youtube, shuttling between bt batok and home for theory lessons,playing nintendo and watching tv. sigh. i need a life. i sometimes wished that my family celebrates xmas (but we're mostly overseas this time of the yr), there's just this really warm fuzzy feeling about it (chinese new yr or chinese festivals? cant beat this) and all the hype, celebrations etc. what was meant to be an xmas party of sorts ended up as just dinner cos there're just too little of us and we've no idea what to do. we had korean bbq (which i'd probably be eating everyday nxt wk) and went to check out the cannery. that is about the most interesting thing that happened in my life this wk. wow.

i was just reading some of my archives and it's funny how i used to write in a very different way ahha. and i read this post about how i felt during pre prelims period in 04 and how i'll miss the sch. this yr, i was really really numbed by the exams that it only dawned upon me during my last 3rd or 2nd papers that it's going to be the last __ time that i'll walk through those gates in my uniform, as a student of the school. it's really odd how time passes so quickly and things become a bit...surreal and intangible at times. when a classmate asked my what the rest of the class is up to, i really have no idea! except for the few of us who hang out, i don't like this feeling, that things don't last. and i've probably said before how i felt that some of my gd friends don't last. sad, really.

i watched girls out loud yest and i must say it's so funny!! the girls are very hilarious and the guests (hmm, just the 'street eyebrow stylist' actually) were soo....hmm...daring and lacking in self awareness. i mean, how can someone claim to be a model and the cutest person in us and singapore!
my days are now so similar that its hard to differentiate them. and i hate doing writeups to 'sell' myself saying how great i've been and im tired of reading the heaps of overdue friday wkly. well, one thing's for sure, im sorta hooked to sudoku (HAHA passe i know!). i must do the daily one in Today papers and more from this other paper called my paper, i guess it's keeping me from getting senile during this period before sch starts again.

i desperately need some routine in my life. desperately. there's quite a lot at hand, i realised, and i just want to get them over and done with so i can enjoy my break and finish my driving and get a job. (but there's soooo much more i want to do!). i am a routine freak and if i don't plan my time i usually end up very VERY unproductive. sigh. and i feel like i havent had enough fun. have i? well, shopping wise, more or less (next target, malaysia YES! - yr end sale) and hope to have a xmas celebration of some sort before i fly off!

yes i'm lazy

eunice, jy, janice and wy, velda and lynn khoo, mafias, abhi, felly, shuting, kun an, guni, mindy, amy, joy, woonli


tv, sinyong, faustine, zain, josie, melody, eddy, huiling, bonkie, sharon, rachel, von, class, siang ee, the 2 mafias, zul

chris and eunice, chris, shiyun, aik hui and guni at momo, on the cab, in our room, view from 50th floor morning/night, the 2 mafias acting


life can be THIS unfair! the current rg choir batch went for prague/vienna trip (IM SO JEALOUS!) . oh why oh why is life so unfair! i rmb when our comm was trying so hard to send a proposal to the school planning a trip to italy (and it was for choral competitions!) and it was turned down by the school. then there was the aust. trip that didnt materialise due to dull response. and so i've nv gone on a sch trip be :(

anyway, went 007-ing with chris yest and i LOVE THE BAHAMAS!! but i guess it's rich men's land. SO, one day i become rich i'm going there to get my seaside house, get a boat/ yatch, float arnd drinking bubbly and get myself a cute dude (HAHA KIDDING).

so. prom is over. it's quite weird huh that its the last last last ever day as an rjc-ian (but once a rafflesian, always a rafflesian!)! i actually prefer the before and the after more than the during. the during, half the time i was trying to track down friends and i think i took very few pictures!! only 50 in all and rachel (shen), it wasnt very possible to take a phpps pic cos i cant even find them! ahha. but anyway, i think the programme was gd and mr vadi was qt entertaining lah ahha. and congrats to mandy on prom queen! the food was so-so, and the justin timberlake sexy back song just kept playing in the bkgrd and it got stuck in my head esp after rach kept singing it on the way back to our room haha. then we went to post prom party and i must say it was pretty entertaining to watch ppl (*cough* the podium dancers) but half the time i was watching ppl's belongings or squeezing through the ppl hahah. but i really like it when everyone just sings (or rather shouts) along with the songs, esp when the party's ending ahah. niwae it was qt fun and funny haha. we got back at 3+ and attempted to stay up playing games like truth or dare but we know one another and our lives are boring so it didnt last long haha.

our room was great! haha, nice view and really comfy to laze arnd in. and i, being the sleep-first-then-say kind of person, of cos, went to slp first while others waited for the shower hahha. it was so nice and comfy! and in the morn we lazed around in our rm watching tv and grace taking a pict frm the opp bldg of us waving our arms over the balcony till check out time. will post pictures later

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went to vivo with chris today and man, we were so lost in the big big place that we had to spend some time locating each other ahha, but it was quite a fruitful trip! and i absolutely love the good bargains in one of the shops. why? cos it's malaysian!! so i shall rest my blistered feet tomorrow and do some cleaning up!

so. it is over. feels kinda weird though, i mean im so numb to having exams that i REALLY dont feel much. and ive been qt relaxed for the past wk so it doesnt make much of a difference. but it will sink in when i go out and have fun everyday hahah. its like i've been studying my whole life, from mar, then jun, then sept, then nov. once an exam ends, u start studying again for the next. sad lives of singaporean students. oh, and i wont be amazed if i got a U for econs s

niwae, i got my prom dress. hhahah, it was chanced upon, so those of u who havent gotten, fret not! you'll chance upon it! i love the colour of mine, one of my favourite colour combis. anyway, there's NO TIME TO WASTE for post exams time. for this dec, i'll be gg on hol and looking for jobs (which i'd prob start in jan), start learning driving (WOW!), pack my room, revamp my wardrobe and finish scholarship apps (which is such as pain in the ass!!!)

sigh, i was qt sad when it dawned upon me that it'd be the last time im going to rj as a student. now we're all officially alumnis. sigh. the gate that i walked thorugh more that 600 times the last minute cramming at lockers. we were all too busy to enjoy the last!! and i like my uniform a lot ahahha

1. grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4:
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.
They had rooms in the village, and so, walking in

(uninteresting HAHA. got this bk cos i couldnt find mrs dalloway frm the NLB. so lousy ahhaha)

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can
get my liquid paper


3. What is that last thing you watched onTV?
CSI supreme sunday! where i bust most of my wkend time


4. Without looking, guess what time it is.
5.30

5 . Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
5.25. i checked not too long ago.

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
nxt door kids screaming away. what fun lives.


7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
hmm, this morning, throwing the thrash AHHA. hmm, yest, bt batok coffeeshop


8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
hmm...some econs site...econs s is such a pain in the ass


9. What are you wearing?
boring home clothes


10. Did you dream last night?
YES!! i dreamt i was back in rgs with eunice and...rachel i think. then i was intro-ing the sch to them. but it was new and all glass and steel. except the foyer. oh, everything was escalator (dream come true!) no stairs ahah. and i met mrs tan yioe hwa, but she was slimmer and i couldn't recognise her at first. she's one of my fave tchers in rg too bad she retired. i think everything i know abt chem came from her and she made chem prac seem so easy and manageable. (ok i've forgotten EVERYTHING from science! except the Please Stop Calling Me A Zebra, Fat Stupid Pig, Copper Silver Gold. if you know what im talking abt, the metals chart thingy...HAHA)



11. When did you last laugh?
hmm, a few hours ago?

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
wallpaper....


13. Seen anything weird lately?
not really


14. What do you think of this quiz?
good for bored ppl like me

15. What is the last film you saw?
OH MAN..i cant even rmb...maybe it's memoirs of a geisha!! (god forbid!! that's super long ago)OH now i rmb, the banquet

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
OH! HAHA. u mean multi multi millionaire?
1)go learn all the things i wanna learn!! sewing,riding,french, etc etc
2)save part of it
3)a nice shoe, nice belt and nice bag

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
i dont have a secret life...or do i?


18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you change?
hmm....joining chorale maybe, not quitting piano, and maybe the world being less messed up than it is now


19. Do you like to dance?
well, its nice to see ppl dance. i like ballrm/latin but haha, i've no idea how i'd look like dancing



20. George W Bush... American?
eh?

21. Imagine your first child is a boy, what will you call him?
hahha, HMM...joseph/bryan (yeah yeah passe, but i'd rather not give them weird names like...n'gel....read sumiko tan ahah)

22. Imagine your first child is a girl, what will you call her?
cant think of right now


23. Have you ever considered living abroad?
yes! 3 dream cities in mind!

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
that even though i havent been the most pious of all people, He still accepts and pardons me!

25. 4 people who must do this

reading janice's blog has inspired me to write abt 401 days too!! it's really the best, most super 2 yrs i have had in sch. it's a crazy mix of ppl that made it helluva fun. i rmb the first day i saw steph i REALLY REALLY thot she looked like liv tyler/arwen (LOTR) hey its a compliment ok. but soon i found out that she was FAR from that gracious arwen AHAHA

and then there're others in my row like hanna and wy! ahhaha ( i love bullying her, she's very funny and she makes funny noises!! and she refuses to drink cooler water but we sneakily fill her bottle with it anyway, she cant tell the difference) and then there's felly whom we bully too with the tapping thing but i try to protect her from the claws of steph HAHAHA

and there was the evelyn-steph "cold war" that had dunno how many sets and dunno how many chapters. oh and i rmb janice's table having that fan with the hand keychains. and lots of other things! and then there was muthusamy family and nice mrs tan and mr chang's funny actions

speaking of which. i still dont have the original class vid leh! (which i and mama/liangpei made with the original music) so if someone has pls burn for me thanks!

my PC CONFIRM A ALRDY (read: i am SCREWED)

i didnt even talk about george being mad in "the madness of george"how now brown cow. paper 3 better be gd or i'm screwed (rhymes)

Ozymandias was apparently about tyranny..which i didnt really write about. i am so s-c-r-e-w-e-d

i think i need to detox decaf myself some time.

oh btw, rmb don't burn your notes. i know you want to create haze a la indon ahha, but go green! recycle! sell to garang guni and get some money at the same time ahha

oh Lord, what a bad bad bad way to end one of my favourite subjects. and to think that its probably (99.99%) the last phy geog essay i'd EVER write in my whole life. and i don't even feel like i was utilising the knowledge i have half the time. sigh, this probably marks the end of my phy geog journey from adriel yap to pang pang and marianne chong to ms law. :( its really weird to think that this is THE END of all the work from these years. very weird

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Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

trait snapshot:
clean, organized, dislikes chaos, semi neat freak, perfectionist, traditional, realist, fits in most places, enjoys managing others, risk averse, good at saving money, prudent, respects authority, high self control, hard working, does not like to stand out, follows the rules, finisher, resilient, takes precautions, cautious, honest, unfamiliar with the dark side of life, practical, dutiful


(kinda accurate ahha)

was watching this really really nice show on nat geo. about polar bears mainly, and tracking the beautiful change in seasons in the North Pole and areas in the polar regions. its BEAUTIFUL. i'm inspired and if only money doesnt make the world go round, i'd 1) continue studying geog 2) go the Npole and do filming with nat geo. ( and see the Northern Lights aka auroras it's STUNNING)

IF money doesnt make the world go round

niwae, in the documentary, the polar cubs were SOOOOOO CUTE LAH they look like a teddy bear that i have, really really adorable. baby seals and belugas also super cute! belugas are white whales but they are smaller like dolphin size maybe? and they look like they're smiling! and the guy put a camera into the water to film and record their voices also. and they were so cute lah! they kept looking at the camera in cusriosity and even used their nose to probe it. SO CUTE.

rachel jus kindly enlightened me on how CHICKEN the SATs 2 chinese is lah!! examples


" ni hao, __"
a) ma?
b) ne?


"jing tian wo he mei mei zuo huo che"

a) bus
b) train
c) car

SO CHICKEN. we can ALL get 800 if we took it. man, maybe i shud have taken it for the cheap thrill of getting full marks (ok lah not very cheap) and Arts students have very little options in tms of SAT 2 subs - there're only math, lit and world history(which i heard is very very broad and i havent taken history since sec 2. i know. its time i start reading up after As) so chinese would have been a gd option. sigh, in the end i took sats twice and didnt even have to use it (sorry for wasting ur money dad HAHA)