I believe in yesterday.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Within the Katong school.

Mrs Chan! We waited for 20minutes just to take photos with her okay! But this proved our love to our dearest dearest sec 4 FM! :D

林老师 who always never gave up on my Chinese no matter how terribly I did. xP

Mdm Goh. I feel pretty bad dropping Econs. Sorry :/

Cikgu Ashikin! I'll be waiting for the invitation! :)

莫老师! She teach me HCL, I teach her EL! :)

Mdm Azizan. The truly awesome SS teacher! :)

The trip back to TKGS was the highlight of the day. Met many of my teachers - Mrs Chan, Mdm Adela Chee, Mr Peh, Ms Ng, Mdm Azizan, Mdm Goh, MFL, Ms Nur Ashikin, Mrs Janice Chua, Ms Lim Yun Shyuan, Mdm Khoo, Mrs Thong... (though I didn't take a lot of photos and didn't manage to take very many pictures with most of em' cos alot of them were busy with the some upcoming chinese competition event, I think) and ex-schoolmates/classmates/ccamates... As I walked along the classrooms, I peered into the window and reminisce how we used to chat in the classrooms and stare at people breaking rules by eating in the classrooms. (And eat in front of Sakina even though she's fasting. O.o Sorry!) 4th floor circular blocks - Beethoven and Janacek rooms were my Wednesday and Friday afterschool hangout places; Choir on Wednesdays and Fridays in lower sec, OLP lessons on Wednesdays and Choir on Fridays in upper sec. Wednesdays were always crazy because I have a crazy timetable followed by afternoon OLP lessons till 6 before chionging down to the AVA room for choir. Janacek and the other music rooms became my favourite hangouts in Sec 4 when I consistantly borrowed the keys to practice my voice and piano. Heh (: Com Lab 1 was where Yi Yi Ying, Yi Qian and I used to hang out and play the computers even exam period! xP And there was the big Jia Min who would be there with us - and I remembered how there was this stalker who was stalking me and attempting to extract info from me when Jia Min came to my rescue and started bombarding the guy with vulgarities before blocking him. Heh. IT resource room - I had my Malay Special Programme lessons there in my lower sec before I painfully decided to let go of that subject at the end of sec 2. But Cikgu Ashikin was really fun with all her lessons (And I'm such a letdown because I forgot most of my malay; I should try to pick it up again...) The assembly area - I made my first morning announcement there where I didn't turn off the microphone and there was this really annoying sound during National Anthem and I got scolded from this teacher when I wasn't told to off it after I said "The National Anthem". O.o But subsequently, I remembered to do so. (: The Den. I love to throw my bag/stuff there while going out to videoworld/outside for lunch. And stoning, chatting and studying there. Performances are always done in the hall... I remembered how we're always complaining it's always so hot in there and we'll always be sweating like crazy! The Home Economics room was where I got to see RED HOT FIRE GUSHING TO THE TOP OF THE CEILING (And with Ms Seah's help plus salt, the fire died.), burn spagetti for the first time (and break them too cos they refused to slide into the pot. Epic fail, I know) and peel chicken skin (Sab's classic favourite statement. That's how the housewife name came about anyway... Lol!) The DnT block where Mr Teo did weird stuff to my Pikachu toy by chipping off the wrong block of wood and I think I still have the toy at home (And I got an A1 for that okay!) Haha. I'll never forget running and screaming along the corridors and nobody cares... And Mrs Chan always picking on me run to her locker to get Chem stuff. Haha! (It seriously helped me improve in my shuttle run. Lol!)... Everything played a part in piecing the memories together.

At the end of the day, wrong choice or not, TKGS still has a place in my heart. Or let's just say, it'll always be my 2nd home.

Anyway, H A P P Y T E A C H E R ' S D A Y ! :D

-To my KHS, TKGS, NYJC and all my other teachers!-

And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I genuinely miss being in an all-girls' school. There are some things that you'll never have to worry over at TKGS where you have to start worrying in NY...

Today, Tay Wan Shi promised to go back to TK with me after promos. Mwahaha. Anyone else wants to come along? We shall go together and crash MEP Workroom. Heh heh heh! xP

Time for me to study. 31 days to promos. *Runs*

Adieu. :)
Xoxo.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Tell me.

32 days to P r o m o s .

I ~~should~~must be mugging! But PW's SO getting in MY WAY. ):
And life doesn't get any better when you have to constantly check litespeed for new lecture notes/tutorials/lecture recordings/misc/blah. I need more discipline than this. ): ): ):

Blogger is being screwed today - the toolbar sector has vanish into thin air again, so no pictures this time round. (Okay, it's not that I've got lots of pictures to post anyway. And you can always see them on fb - if I don't feel lazy enough to post em' up. Heh :D)

It's been a crazy week coupled with tests and Bio SPA and I couldn't be happier when Friday came when Ms Peh said "Pens down." in the lab. Econs was genuinely screwed - I only wrote a miserably 2-pages essay because I spent wayyyy too much time explaining contractionary fiscal policy. Math was still pretty alright, I suppose. I'm secretly praying that I'll get my 20/20 for Bio SPA if I'm careful enough. (And Chem SPA too, except that there's a higher risk there because the classmates endpoints has a range of about plus minus 0.5. O.o Heh.)

I'm just so OVERJOYED the first SPA's OVER! YAY! :D :D :D

Night studies have proven to be relatively effective thus far. I've been getting a good load of work done (Even though I'm being constantly piled up with more work the following day, tsk to me.)

Shopping with HS and Seehow for Oli's present was highly amusing. I get to see shopping in a new perspective. SEEHOW is the __________ shopping companion ever. (Fill in the blanks on your own.) Anyway, they finally made up their minds on bodyshop stuff. And Charm told Seehow she wants bodyshop for her birthday too! HAHA! SEEHOW DEAL WITH IT! HAHA! xP

Oli's surprise birthday last night was a blast too! Haha. And well, she didn't even become suspicious until she got up the open terrace! HAHAHA. Anyway, I left home at almost 4(I wanted to leave at 3.30, but I was doing something else so I kept procrastinating...) and I started worrying when I realised I was going to be really late because I had no idea it takes 16minutes from Dhoby Ghaut to Hougang. (I thought it would take only 10mins. O.o) So when I reached Hougang, I was secretly praying that I won't be the latest, and true enough, when I walked towards the bus interchange, I saw Seehow and Hansi! HAHAHA! Yay. We waited for JY to get Gabchew and for Zhuo Hong to come. (Fortunately bus 112 came after Zhuo Hong arrived. Haha!) Alighted at the bus-stop outside her condo and we tried to go in with the other residents but the boys made too much of a commotion to make us look like residents. So I registered Gabchew's name. HAHAHA. On the way to the open terrace, Sarah (Oli's sis met us - awesome sis okay!) met us and brought us up. We were suppose to deco the place with balloons but the boys seemed to be having more fun doing silly stuff like blowing 2 balloons at one go (Carl), putting balloons in the stomach pretending to be pregnant (eg. SEEHOW.), Mai Nhu dancing the Aces day dance which I totally forgot how to dance (Tell Me by Wondergirls) and making randomrandom videos at the open space singing ~~Tarzen~~GC and ~~Jane~~Oli (Improvised by the boys.), taking more random videos while we were tying the balloons up and laughing later. Oli came up later and just stunned there. Her reaction was like, a turtle. Lol! And her mum told all of us about the planning and stuff when Oli somewhat calmed down a little. The catered food arrive later, and all of us ate. The cheesecake was really really good! HAHA. Boys on one table, Girls plus Gabchew on the other and so we were talking and teasing each other. Oli's classmates came over at 7ish; they ate while we played Taboo and the Psychiatrist and they joined us later. Gcheow came over at about 8 (to ~~clear up~~ eat the food). The psychiatrist game ended though Gcheow, Simon and Carl still couldn't figure out the disease. Haha. Chatted with random people later. (This is the part where I am tempted to burn JY alive for happily reminding Gcheow about the Macs incident that happened idk how many weeks ago. O.o) which turned into some crazy and embarassing conversation with Gcheow, Simon and Gchew (with Sharon and Gnet teasing me too. O.o) Bleah. I promised the 3 guys to watch out, so you three WATCH OUT. Haha. Walked down with Oli and talked to her for awhile before we went up to see the boys play twisters. Super funny! Videocammed & took unglam photoshots of the games process. Grace, Rachel, Oli and I played after the boys and it was plain hilarious. Plus the boys got a taste of last laugh when we look silly in weird positions. Lol. Rachel emerged victorious after a good 20minutes plus, I think. Cake-cutting moment. Her cupcakes were really really cute with hearts on each cupcake and a "Happy 17th Birthday Olivia" on four cupcakes. No prizes for guessing who took the "Olivia" cupcake. Haha. (No, it wasn't Oli. Haha.) Continued chatting till about 10 before the lights went out and some of us brought Oli's stuff to her place while the rest left. Went to her room while she opened her presents and read the letters/cards. Left at 10.40pm when Dad called up.
Thanks for the invitation and I hoped you did enjoy the surprise anyway. Have an awesome awesome 17th Saikang Warrior Princess! :D

And I'll wait for blogger to return to normal before picture posting :D (And for Oli's side of the photos&videos to come in) :D

I'm deciding whether to change my blogskin. SHOULD I?

And I'm going back to TKGS tomorrow and meetup with my bestestbestest friends and bestestbestest teachers! LOVES!
(The moment I left school, at least 2 of my teachers got engaged/married. Haha. )

YQ & N, I've linked the both of you!
Oli, I know we look really different from our SYF days (which wasn't really that long ago, haha!)
Xoxo.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Random

Xt, I really want to whack you.
Haha.

Friday, August 21, 2009

P-day.

Thank you for the crazy times we had, Ps :)

And awaiting for happier days to come.

♥ the 3 of you :D
Xoxo.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

I wondered who would come into this place

Nations fall behind him;
the rivers crawl to find him;
mountains move
just to let him through.
Come and never leave him,
Just let your heart believe him;
Never let his light go,
Never let your love grow dim.♥

And this song has been stuck in my head for exactly a week. :)

I'm in the midst preparing to get my patriacal blessing... Everyone's like "pestering" me every week to get it or "I'll drag you to the bishop's room and chain you up" quoted from Casey. And Bro Johnner gave this analog - If I'm gonna give you 10bucks, are you gonna say "Wait, let me prepare 1st?" I got the message. HAHA.

Today's YW lesson was somewhat a wakeup call. I need to review my priorities.
I know I haven't been spiritually strong the past few months. I know I'm got inferior complexity. I let some people climb over my head, dump me with unwanted work, treat me like a fool. I was weak. I didn't even try to stand up for my own rights. I'm totally tied down in school. People tell me I'm apparently living in a world of academia and choir. Or maybe I was drowning in that world of mine. I haven't been in the best of my mind lately. I either say the wrong things, do the wrong things, hear the wrong stuff, make wrong statements, give wrong impressions... Maybe that resulted in the internal struggle within me.
But today, I'll try my best to be spiritually stronger. I want to. I know I need to. And I have to.
I'm making it a commitment.
And I will need all the help to make me stronger.
I want to see a different Jesmine in my life.

I'm gonna take up voice again. After I finish A's. It's a deal. :D
Xoxo.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile

Hey people!

Seems like a pretty long time since I did a decently decent content post since almost every other post seemed so content-baseless. LOL. Okay, since I'm in a feel-like-blogging mood right now, I shall blog wherever my mind takes me to. Haha! xP

Monday (3rd Aug):
Pretty slacky day, I suppose. Helped out with the last bits of the flea market with choir comm and carried the stuff to the carts. Night studies (I was reading through GP essays and chionging homework) with Charm, Hansi and David (who miraculously disappeared to some classroom.) till 9plus before we packed and started chatting about things people shouldn't know :D

Tuesday (4th Aug):

Choir flea! Was decently successful since we earned more that 200bucks according to Simon, so good job, everyone! GP Essay Lecture Test immediately after the flea, which went totally insane. I. HAD. NO. IDEA. WHAT. I. WAS. WRITING. O.o And the questions were so... idk what to say, actually. There was a topic on discrimation. WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO. BAH D: Night studies with Charm and Hansi till 9ish again. We should totally camp in school. HAHA.

Thursday (6th Aug):

This is the craziest day of the two weeks cos I've gotta survive from 7.30 to 3.30 with 2 half an hour breaks. (I've got almost every subject today apart from PE and PW.) -.- Anyway, studied at the music room with Oli, Gabchew, Hansi, Sharon and Xinying(Who left before dinner) before going out to the tau huay shop for tau huay dinner! Honestly, I never knew the tau huay could be so awesomely filling. Even though Hansi was still hungry after that. Sorry Hansi! Anyway, this seems like some SCs&QMs bonding session. (plus Scary Senior Sharon Seng. Haha) :D

Went home after dinner and CHIONGED the first draft of EOM! Okay, I took a 15mins power nap till 12ish before staying up till 3plus. Woke up at 5plus to complete it. -.-

Friday (7th Aug):
National Day Carnival. Honestly, a lil' boring, and Val and I totally missed our turn during the Don't forget the lyrics. Oh well, better than losing our faces just because we can't sing Munnaeru Vaalibaa. HAHA!

0901 BBQ in the evening over at Tiffany's was awesome though. Uncooked/Overcooked BBQ food, Cotton Candy Machine, Chocolate Fondue, scandalous truth or dares... Oh guess what, I was the first to be pointed at (as usual)... Talk about being unlucky. And the question was just... O.o Anyway, took a couple of the dare videos. Really enjoyable on the whole. Left her place at 11ish and reached home close to midnight. Lol.

Sunday (9th Aug):
YW Presentation! Was really good on the whole. Except for my solo singing, I suppose. ): I know my legs started shaking like jelly at the initial solo part and I could hardly hear myself... But towards the back, I totally gave up using the microphone and just exerted extreme force from my diaphragm and shocked quite a few people cos they were quite shocked how my voice could be loud and audible without using the microphone yet still being able to hear from the back of the chapel. Still not good enough tho, I really need to train my voice... :/
FOODFEST AFTER YW YO! YAY! :D

Monday (10th Aug):

Got up fashionably late since it was a public holiday. 9ish in the morning, i think. (Since I usually get dragged up by 4plus 5am in the morning on normal days. Heh xP) Surprisingly, I decided to go to church for the FHE activity. (Even though I ended up studying there, with Gayle. HAHAHA.) And the BBQ-ed food after that was heavenly. (Well at least more cooked than friday's where Val was endlessly attempting to BBQ cooked chicken wings. HAHA! :P) Went church past 1pm.

Was planning to study outside but I think I felt lazy, so in the end I just went home in the end. Lol!

Wednesday (12th Aug):

Panicked and practiced inequalities and equations like there's no tomorrow. D:

Anyway, thanks for your lecture notes and Oli! :D :D :D

Thursday (13th Aug):

The day with 3 consecutive Chem periods (1tutorial, 1lecture and 1 CT period which usually turns to some form of chem class... -.-) BUT he didn't come today, so we had the 1st period off! :D Math Class Inequality Test. I hope I did decently. PE was slacky cos Ms A. wasn't around so we somewhat slacked around. Lyne got injured during the netball game, so we kinda tried to help her. Hope you're feeling better now girl! Decided to train home after that, so Azyan and I walked to Lorong Chuan MRT. Saw Bryan and waved. Haha. Azyan started rambling on some silly things. Lol! Went home to study Bio Genomics and DNA & Genetic Variation. (I HATE GENOMICS AND DNA D:) And attempted to complete economics policies assignment (which includes inflation which Idk how that even came about). Obviously epic fail. Slept at 1plus 2am.

And how could I forget to say HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY ZHENGYUAN my friend who always converse in Chinese! Haha. Hope you're doing well with your elderly course thing over at TP! (Because you haven't told me the name of the course that you're taking. Haha!) :D And I miss you! ): Meetup soon yea! :D

Friday (14th Aug):
It was a MONSTROUS DAY. Woke up at 4plus to continue studying Bio while waiting for Jace to get up and go for seminary. Went to school and continued studying Bio till assembly before heading for Math Lecture where Mr L. continued singing praises to VECTORS(Me don't likey D:). AND I LEFT MY BOTTLE AT THE LT!!! D: D: My pink bottle... *sobs* Hope it'll still be there on Monday. (I hope) Bio lecture test at 11.30am was just disastrous. I'm only pretty confident of the Genetic Variation questions which is worth only 13/40 marks of the entire test. ): So anyway, that wasn't the worst part of the day. By the end of the lecture test, I was feeling pretty much crestfallen as I walked with Meena to the Bio lab. Lab session described in one word: INSANE! We had to finish the 3 tests(Benedict's, Starch and Biuret) for the 5 different solutions (Which means 15 tests in total) in 15 minutes! And that includes heating up the beaker and waiting for the Benedict's test solutions in boiling tubes to boil for one minute. If the test tubes and boiling tubes were made of plastic or rubber, I would have just gladly thrown them in the sink or something. Why are they made of glass, of all materials?? ): Well, I did manage to complete the tests within 15minutes, but it came with the opportunity cost of me close to losing my head during that short span of 15minutes, with Mr N. shouting "You have 7 minutes left, oh wait, minus 2 minutes for boiling for the Benedict's test, so you have 5 minutes left!" O.o Nearly died during Econs - had a splitting headache and awesome Meena went down with me to get panadol which did the trick. Choir was pretty fun - we learnt Silver Bells today! PLUS WE surprised Mr C. and the other birthday girls! :D :D :D And we bought like, 2 cakes! Haha. The cake was really nice. Haha. (I'm complimenting you okay, Gabchew!) So anyway Happy (Belated/Advance/On the day) Birthday Gcheow, Ivy, Jia Zheng, NLB, Annie! :D :D :D

Went to Lorong Chuan station to meet KT for dinner at Macs after choir. And apparently I still don't know Lorong Chuan MRT well, cos I kept insisting there were more exits when there were only 2... (And to my horror, I found out that the MRT opposite the side gate was ~~LORONG CHUAN~~ SERANGOON MRT D: Sorry luh. ): And there was only one Macs in the whole of Serangoon.) Anyway, we were walking towards the entrance of Macs when I thought I saw the comm members and the I realised that Mr C. was inside with them too! (He told me beforehand that he was supposed to go home, but apparently they stayed there till past 11, according to Oli! o.o) And it was Rachel's idea to have dinner at Macs... Yea, I think Mr C. was just shocked to see KT and vice versa. (But I won everyone hands down because I think I haven't recovered from the shock of seeing all of them there yet. o.O) We still went in for dinner because I was hungry :/ (even though I did eat a piece of cake, it being seriously full house and we only found a table next to the toilet.), bought dinner, ate dinner, chatted alot till 10plus before we left and walked to Serangoon MRT so that I could train home and I reached home past 11. Thanks for suggesting dinner meetup. Haha :)

Saturday (15th Aug):

Went back to school at 8am for Chem makeup tutorial since he didn't turn up on Thursday... -.- I think anyone can tell that I'm sick of waking up early even 8am seems like a chore :/ So it was pretty much a waste of my 1.5hours because we were doing the same thing again (when we can just do it at home on our own... -.-) Bused home after Chem cos I was feeling really tired so I came back for awhile and stoned abit before meeting EC at Bugis for mugging session! Really happy cos I pretty much figured Chem Equilibria (and thought of some points for EC's GP.) plus plus plus I finally got hold of the Nocturne score by Chopin (the one that I really wanted to learn since, after Os last year when I heard Hilbert(I think that's his name) play and it was so so so so so beautiful. I wanted to learn that too but Mdm E. never brought her book and allow me to learn so I was reallyreally sad D: ) Then I tried asking people around to send/lend me the scores but apparently everyone's either taking exams or totally forgot about it. ): But it's okay, I got the scores now! YAY! :D I'm actually feeling really excited to try it on the piano! I'm gonna print the scores after this and tinkle the piano abit before I zoom off to lalaland. Heh :D

Anyway, I think I'm gonna learn a duet with Charm so that we can perform or something. I'm v. excited! :D

On a more serious tone, my promo's in 48days! D: I'm gonna mug like mad, stay back for more night studies sessions and do everything I can to improve my sadistic JCTs' rank points and get promoted to J2! YOU CAN DO IT JESMINE. And you can do it too, everyone! :D

Okay, I'm leaving! I hoped you haven't wasted all day reading this. Haha :D
I'm gonna eat dinner now! And it's uhh, 10plus now. AHHH! D:

Oh before I go, HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY AKSHAYA! I MISS YOU ): I HOPE YOU'RE DOING AWESOME AT TPJC :D :D :D AND I MISS YOU TABLE PARTNER D:
Xoxo.

PS: BTW, if you want the other photos, they're ALL UP ON FACEBOOK! (I don't wanna post everything up here, so the pictures here are like a preview to the ones on FB. HAHA. :D)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

During the fire drill today, the lecturer said:
"When you walk out of the LT, please pretend to run to the field."

Candid punchline.

Xoxo.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

There's a place that will stay within me, wherever I may choose to go

This is home truly,
Where I know I must be,
Where my dreams wait for me
Where the river always flows.
This is home surely,
As my senses tell me,
This is where,
I won't be alone.
For this is where,
I know it's home.

There's no place I'd rather be,
You'll always be a part of me.
And even though I've roamed the world,
It's still my home I long to see.
This is where my family
And my friends grew up with me
So I'll cross the skies and sail the seas
To be where I wanna be.
Cos there's no place I'd rather be.

Happy 44th Birthday Singapore!
(I know I owe this place a decent update, will do it later. :D)
Xoxo.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Yesterday you told me bout' the blue, blue sky

I need to talk.
I need consultation.
I need a listening ear.
I need advice.
I need to trash things out.
I need to trash out my thoughts.
I need to get back on track.
I need to study for promos.

Just don't send me to the counsellor.

Btw, Sharon was the 1st victim.
She survived a good half an hour of my endless ramblings, no worries. (:
Xoxo.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Presenting the Nanyang Choir's Scandalous (Executive) Committe Members

I realised I never introduced any of my NY friends, so I shall do so now. Lol!
(Yea, I know saying that I'm bored would have been a better excuse, but still... :P)
Presenting the Nanyang Choir Scandalous (Executive) Committe Members (NYCSCM)...
*Drumrolls please!*

The Pres/Rachel G.

The Vice-Pres/Simon (Simon***).

The Secretary/Yan Jun.

The Treasurer/Carl (Cow/牛小弟).

The Male SC/Gab Chew (Chewy/Chewie).

The Sop SL/Monica (**monica).

The Sop ASL/Kerlene (Kerleny).

The Alto SL/Nabillah (NLB).

The Alto ASL/Charmaine (Charm).

The Tenor SL/Zhuo Hong (Ah Ma Voice).

The Bass SL/Si Hao (SEEHOW).

The Female QM/Olivia (Oli).

The Male QM/Han Si (Fish).

The Publicity Head/Anita (Annie).

The Student Welfare Head/JY

So once again, the ~~NYChoir Exco~~ NYCSCM! :D
Can you not ask why I'm being so lame? xP
And me♥ my choir exco v.v.v. much and hope we'll be tightly bonded! (and maybe a little less scandalous? :D) HAHAHA xP

So anyway, we did the pricing of the items for the flea market last night. Rather hilarious, and I've placed the photos on FB already. LOL LOL LOL!
Anyway, flea market's on tues, 4th Aug! People, bring your monies and come down to NY and support us! Yay!! :P

And I went to Sid's 3rd tea-birthday-party just now and she's so so so adorable! Will post pictures of her another time. I♥my darling niece v.v.v.v.v.v. much!!! :)

And to NLB who's down with it and everyone else like JACE, MUNNY, OLI AND CHEWY who's DOWN WITH FEVER, COUGH, FLU AND EVERYTHING ELSE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REST WELL AND DRINK ALOT ALOT ALOT OF FLUID, SLEEP LIKE PIGS AND BE HEALTHY AGAIN!!
I remember I was talking to Oli yesterday when Chewy and I started coughing SIMULTANEOUSLY and Oli said "Both of you are coughing together!" Lol!

Let me assure you that my 7-which-turned-to-5-which-turne-to-3 days MC wasn't fun at all. D:
Neither do I want people to start disappearing from places. :/

Now I'm back to that never-ending pile of HW. AHHHHHHHHH ):
Xoxo.