Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Thanks for the cake, dear! Love it! XD N Thanks for all the bday msges n jiang yue's hp pouch! haha... though most pple won't read this.. haha
hmm.. gp in a couple more days gettting kinda worried now! we must jia you k! Everything will turn out well! haha.. can't wait for it all to end n our ubin cycling trip! shall go mug now.. dun game too much! haha..
5:17 AM
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Monday, October 30, 2006
hahaha happy birthday dude. :D
that poem is extremely beautiful, by the way.
ahh, jt racks up the big passion to go travelling.
today i realised what innocence is all about. its about looking into somebody else's eyes and being able to detect a soul that wont cause you any harm by any means of interaction.
mosquitoes keep biting, we jt keep mugging.
7:45 AM
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Rah.. i dun want it to start but i want it to end! :S such a paradox! Anw, I've started to read a book, The Zahir by Paulo Coelho! one of my fav authors! heheh...
There's a nice poem!
Ithaca
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the angry Poseidon -do not fear them:
You will never find such as these on your path
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your spirit and your body.
The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops,
the fierce Poseidon you will never encounter,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your heart does not set them up before you.
Pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many, when,
with such pleasure, with such joy
you will enter ports seen for the first time;
stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensual perfumes of all kinds,
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
visit many Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from scholars.
Always keep Ithacain your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for many years;
and to anchor at the island when you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have set out on the road.
She has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you.
Wise as you have become, with so much experience,
you must already have understood what Ithacas mean.
Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), translated by Rae Dalven
It's the journey that matters most.
6:51 AM
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
i got your point too. the part about us being elitists just by virtue that we're supposedly in one of the top JCs in Singapore. gotta define elitists properly i guess. and i think in Singapore where we're governed by meritocracy, you can never get rid of the accompanying shadow of elitism.
but once elitism breaks away from being humble, its an crazy thing, dont you think.
felt better today, headache is less sickening. haha.
BRAIN DEAD.
cant wait for As to start..so that it wld end. what an irony. haha.
i hope youre doing fine too! JIA YOU, we must JIAN CHI.
9:40 AM
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Hope u're feeling better! both mentally n physically! but i know u're strong! so everything is gonna be ok yup! HeH.. it's been raining lately! Love watching the rain! n the smell of the moist fresh air too! not to mention the removal of haze! Whee~! haha.. only bad thing is that I still can't exercise (haze or not)...
Wrt to ur inbreeding theory... hahaaha...hmm.. but most of them are in same sex schools in the 1st place! Besides, technically, since u're in HC, u're probably seen as an elite too! Heh.. time to mug! more on elitism next time!
6:41 AM
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Haha.. Of course! super fun! then must visit all seven wonders of the world! XD
Cambridge interview was.. strangely fun! haha. Don't think I did very well but the interviewer was super nice, he kept prompting and encouraging. If only all teachers were like that, learning would be such a joy! (no pun intended!) Think I'll really enjoy Cambridge if I can get in! *crosses fingers* (Probability is super low.. but miracles do happen I suppose! haha)
Heh. What's wrong with admiring anime characters! I have a fav character for all anime i watch! San Jing (slam dunk)! Hong Li (Flame of Recca)! n Roy (FMA)! All my shuai ges. Haha. :D
Friendships take both sides to play an effort! Sometimes, people just drift apart... :S
Heh. I've been slacking for this weekend as well! Time to get the mugging momentum up again! Jia you! =)
6:33 AM
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
haha, now youre dreaming big big bigger. sailing, biking, hiking, driving around the world, hahaha supremely ambitious, but extremely cool. :D if only we cld spend our whole lives exploring the world, get closer to mother earth and witness civilisations as they are. it wld really be a life-fulfilled. here you go, ramblings of a wanderlust.
btw, good luck for your cambridge interview tmr! haha, think by the time you read it, it wld be too late. but nonetheless. hahaha ITS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS! [excuses, ahem, yes]
didi started watching the anime series for slam dunk, and ive gotten used to watching it with him during rest-periods. haha, even after reading/watching at least 10 over times, it still cracks me up. :D i used to think pple who admire anime characters were kinda weird, after all, these people dont exist. but i think for bballers, shohoku is an total inspiration. i remember in sec4, rong and i wld always go around saying 'cheng ba quan guo!' haha. and slamdunk held a more special place after realising that mitsui is also an ACL player! :D haha, qiang.
okay, im rambling again. mugging has been alright. but mugging periods make me think a tad too much. been having some troubles with a rather-close junior of mine. its so difficult to maintain f-ships over distance..because its just so easy to use 'im busy' as an excuse and disappear for good. im lousy at letting people go. need to learn.
OKAY, rambling again.
lala, back to playing game. btw, i found a new cool game! --> multiplayer online-game, its like playing DDR with your fingers. super fun. and addictive. off to play!
9:10 AM
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haha.. YES i see u! Luisa (sp?) like nv change at all (she's beside u rite?)! my com doesn't have any sec 1 photos so maybe i'll show u hard copy next time. With my super short hair! heheh...
Haha. i suppose we can abandon our husbands (if they exist) for a few mths? Heheh. Anw, isn't 45 kinda late to get married? How am I gonna get my god-kids then! Anw, i was thinking of going continent by continent! Oh! n i wanna sail too! n u can learn how to operate a yacht! Then , we can bike, sail, hike, drive etc around the whole world! Whee! so many things to do! post A's! :)
haha.. I really luv the team this year, with all the extremely different personalities blending in together as one, real cute jiao lian, lame mr tan, caring lao shi n the (out of tune :P) singing on th way to competition! haha! Hmm.. sometimes, i wish i had less choices too, but it's these choices that make us who we are isn't it? Kinda late now.. but hc does have loads of pple worth knowing n liking (if not loving)! Besides, u'll always have ur dream team, family (real n otherwise) n me caring for u even if we may not be in the same sch! :)
5:54 AM
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
haha first thing: the photo as promised. yes, spot yours truly if you can. [hint: i was skinnier then and chen hanwei had the coolest hairstyle]
so i guess youre saying if you do take up the SAF scholarship, youll be in the army/navy/airforce for the rest of your life? heh, that sounds like a good steady job. but are you very very sure thats what you really want. if im to be dead honest, hahaha i cannot imagine you doing that. and YES if youre not married by 45, we can go backpacking. haha, i wld give up marriage for my backpacking dream...so my husband-to-be [or-not] had better be an avid traveller as well. haha thats a sidetrack, more sidetracking. somedays i sit and think that i wld really really love to take about 3-5 years off, and jt simply walk arnd the world. havent you ever thought of wanting to visit places like easter island, galapagos islands!, spend a white christmas in the american countryside, go trek in moutain paths in canada, go see the victoria falls, walk thru the amazon jungle, witness the great pyramids of egypt, see the pathenon, go to poverty-striken areas to measure the worth of your life against theirs, walk thru the city of jerusalem to see the place that sparked off the crusades, be a visitor to the rural villages of china to attempt to see how our ancestors lived their lives, before spending some time slacking arnd on beautiful beaches in hawaii, perhaps even join in the tomato festival in southern america. there's so much to see and do...and dont you get that feeling that if you dont see as much as you can, it isnt a life worth living? one day, just one day.
okay, finished sidetracking! hahaha, okay why dont you jt sign up for the scholarship first and see how? :D hahaha. im too hyped up to give proper advice now.
and yeah, the grass is always greener on the other side. we had this class discussion once, about how having the liberty to make personal choices jt give up the chance to regret. which is pretty true, isnt it? if i hadnt had to choose between vj and hwachong, i wldnt have regretted much? jt like how i didnt have any say when i was put into scgs for 10years. i wldnt deny that hwachong has enabled me to grow academically..my chances of getting 4As and getting into med school is most probably higher, but over the course of 2 years, my personal character devt, emotional quotient seems to have deterioted tremendously. somedays i get scared, because i seemed to have forgotten how to interact with people, because most pple arent worth the interaction. too insincere, too fake, too politically-correct. hwachong bball this year has been the only saving grace out of the 2 years. for those months we spent trng hard for comps, gosh, i was so happy. because there was finally a sense of belonging, a connection with you guys. and one day if i shld look back on my hc days, you guys will most probably be the only reminder. and this goes on to how life is fair, isnt it? bball in j1 killed me, bball in j2 revived me. haha.
we're fast approaching the crucial crossroads in our lives, lets make sure we dont make any more mistakes.
and thats true, what if we cant hear what our hearts are saying? we need an op-amp! ha.ha.ha
what a long long post. off to play computer games! :D haha
10:25 AM
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haha.. seems like we're always doing weird stuff tgt, even in ur dream! heheh.. u seriously get the weirdest dreams! haha.. maybe cos it's holy's lect so cannot b late!
I suppose if I really take up the scholarship I'll probably wanna work in that organisation for more than the years of the bond. Unless of course it's really not what I want to do. That's why I'm so afraid of choosing the wrong thing. But it seems that the only job that I choose and will have relevance to my degree will be research. But do I want to study forever & ever?
Wrt SAF, I didn't really think I would want it but strangely my father is encouraging me to go for it.. Seriously, he's the only parent that I've heard encouraging his daughter to go to the army. My sis thinks he's mad for suggesting it lah. N not say he was very pia during his army days. But he says that it offers some of the best terms and conditions. (which is true. I think parents are very pragmatic people.) OH.. n army officers retire at 45! can I still go backpacking then? heheH...
But i suppose that things have a way of working out in the end. So while hc might have not been what you expected, there's bound to be ups and downs. N there's a tendency for grass to look greener on the other side. Had u went to vj, u would probably have wondered what it would have been if u had gone to hc.. Sometimes I look back n wonder what would it have been like if i hadn't left sa, would i have been happier at a less stressful place. But ultimately, i'm here n i dun think i regret it. haha.. maybe coz my class is nicer (i hope none of ur classmates know this blog... :p)
True, we only get one chance in life. But to be afraid to make mistakes is a mistake itself. That's something that I have to keep reminding myself of, to not be afraid of changes, of the unknown.
They say "follow your heart" but what if you can't hear what ur heart is saying?
6:21 AM
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Friday, October 20, 2006
blogger is really irritating when it comes to changing templates.
1) it loads SUPER SLOWLY.
2) it times out after a while
3) the preview page always comes out weird!
heh, im leaving you to decide what to write under the 'links' 'players' 'supporters' page.
and the dream i had of us last night was seriously. FUNNY.
c'mon man, who else wld be able to dream of hunting arnd for secret passages into the LT so that we cldnt get scolded for being late for chem lects. by the way, its still your fault for dragging me to go for lects, even though we were late already! haha, late then late la. :D hee. XD
When we go through life
So sure of where we're headin'
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened‘
Cause sometimes when you loss your way
it's just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself
- Find Yourself by Brad Paisley
10:20 AM
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
haha i need to blog here more often! but the lures of the internet are slowly waning off. always does during mugging periods. especially when there's no funny shows to d/l or show and no cool games to play. [which isnt that a bad a thing, is it?]
cant believe youre interested in sms[women]! haha, i thought i was practicallly the only crazy person who seriously considered it. but found out that at least 3 others are considering it later on. haha imagining you in BMT makes me laugh. but i think if you really really do go for BMT, ill be super super jealous. haha ive always loved watching all those tv shows on army etc. well it seems pretty cool to be holding true to the notion of 'bao jia wei guo'. but how far can girls go in the army? i really dont know. but ultimately, after the studying and the bond, by the time you really want to venture out and do something associated with your degree, youll be in your early 30s? too late? dont know.
anyway, was talking to my dad, he is very willing to send me off to australia to study med if i dont make it to nus. but i keep thinking of having to endure 5 years in med, clinical years, housemanship etc [dont even talk about the studying yet], struggling with patients, discrimination and i get the chills. in the end, i cldnt really understand whether i want to get into med school to help other...or otherwise. i need to know whether i can handle dead and dying people, i guess. i need to know whether i can make decisions that decides life or death.
med school has been a personal dream since forever. but hwachong has been a personal dream since forever too. you get my drift? haha.
ohwell, rambles! mug hard you. hur..
7:19 AM
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
SMS(women)...
Just attended the tea session at Pan Pacific today..
Hmm.. Have to say that it really looks interesting! BMT sounds exciting! haha.. While the guys are trying to get out of it, it seems quite silly to voluntarily sign up for it.. But.. urgh.. I really dunno what I want.. And at this point of time, everything seems rather interesting... But at the same time I dunno what is suitable for me... How to decide? :S
4:21 AM
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MAF...
was great yesterday!
Went for dinner with Jiang at holland V but we had extreme difficulty in deciding where to eat. After walking like half of holland v, we ended up at burger king! Felt super full after that...
Met with eelin n weilin at hc. ee as usual was extremely hyped up.. Spend time walking to n fro the audi cos ee wanted a henna n we're trying to stop her.. haha.
Left them later to join the class. Was quite disappointed at first with the low class turnout. But with more pple joining in later, we got sufficiently hyped up, singing and dancing around! Whee~! I suppose this is the last HIGH I'm gonna get until the A's...
Also, talked to Sheena n Xiaohui (dades) tgt with Joy! Haven seen them for quite some time.. but i think they haven changed much.. haha..
Kinda dun want this to end.. Think I'll really miss the class when sch ends... :|
4:03 AM
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
Whee~! my new blog! thanks to joy! haha.. XD *hugs*
It's been a week since we biked from Joy's place to ECP then to Changi village! The beginning was great with a smooth path (except for the red lights).. and we stopped by East Coast hawker centre for nice laksa (it's supposedly from the Roxy theatre) n great teh! yum! =) 
After lunch, we went by safra resort (the one where we had the fac outing!) On the way, we saw this Singapore flag stuck in the water n we were trying to guess what's the flag for.. we concluded it's to inform illegal immigrants they've reached... :D
Then, we went down Changi Coast Road. Cycling on the grass was grueling until we discovered there was a dirt path! Haha.. It just makes me think... Sometimes, when it seems impossible to go on, there'll be pple around u to keep u going! n other times there may be other paths juZ that u're too persistent to notice...
Anw, we went on to Changi Beach Park & finally to Changi village where we had our yummy deserts! N for the 1st time we saw the starting pt of the park.. haha. In addition, I went to sit on the swing! haven done that for a long time! Love the carefree feeling of being on the swing, trying to go as high as possible.. juz brings back the childhood memories...
Then we cycled all the way back.. making it a grand total of 45km! Great sense of achievement after that! =)
Haha.. A super long post for a start! Hope i'll be able to sustain this for future entries! =)
5:39 AM
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