hey ya! so this week is the 2nd week of term 2. all's well just that i do rly need to catch up on math esp summation and method of difference plus recurrence! topics are gone thru so fast now that we have finished MI and now starting trigo! gosh. i must jiayou jiayou!!

ytd during econs lecture, miss jane sue actually talked to us about this trip to cambridge from 4th to 19th august. that means if we go, we will celebrate national day in cambridge. and we will miss the fireworks! lol. this trip aims to let those highly motivated j1 econs students to go and learn more about econs. we will be taught by the academic staff of cambridge and go to places like the bank of england and many others. kinda of cool yea? but it comes with a price tag man. $5335 per pax!! OOHLALA~ haha. but mum says that it's quite cheap considering that the air fare, food and accomodation are also included in the package. oh well, my mum actually wanted me to go but i'm afraid i will waste my mum's money cos it's like so ex? what if all the things i learnt there didnt get into my head? and i'm not very highly motivated. just a bit motivated i can say.

i was almost late for school ytd too! i left the house @ 720 and i thought i would be late. fortunately, my dad and i met all the green lights on the road so i managed to reach school within 10 min! YAY! i'm gna try my best to keep my record clean, not like last year! HAHA. i was late like at least once a month? damn jialat. and i challenged with vaish to see if i could reach my bus-stop before her bus reaches. I WON! :D:D i was so elated cos i walked rly damn fast.

BUT TODAY.. everything was different. i left the house late again today cos i spent a lot of time trying to hide my pe shirt under my blouse and folding the shorts so that it wont be longer than my skirt. it's so hot and stuffy having to wear 2 sets of clothing. for the first time, my dad and i met the most no. of red lights on the road man. every traffic light we pass today was practically red! it kinda of made me nervous cos i dont want to meet mr wong! he will reprimand like siao! BUT I WASNT LATE! phew! tmr must leave the house earlier alrdy. in fact tmr supposed to start sch @ 830 but there's house meeting so have to go school @ 730. and i lost the challenge to vaish today ! :( so frustrated you know. i was @ the bus-stop when bus 58 arrived and i was procrastinating if i should board the bus. i had the mentality that i would meet vaish at the bus-stop so i didnt take the bus. just when i was about to send a msg to tell her that i was at the bus-stop, i received a msg from her. i thought she would tell me she had just boarded the bus, just like how she told me ytd. BUT she told me her bus had alrdy passed my bus-stop and that SHE WON! i was like OMG. and i missed my bus just to catch her on her bus. LOL!

so i waited for a whole 15 min before the next bus arrived. met shangfa at the bus-stop so it wasnt that boring. chatted with him on the bus too and i realised how much fun the triton ogls had for their outing during the sch hols! they played from 9am to 11pm! total madness can? they went to sentosa, explore all the beaches, played games, canoe, kayak, cheered, makan. They even got a small boy to cheat just to get a family package for the go-kart thing but they were caught haha. so they didnt try the go-kart thing. then they went vivo to continue playing. arcade, pool etc. they played like almost everything within one day lah! it must have been REAL FUN that day. sad that i got band that day. if not, i will definitely go!

oh yeah, so there was PE today which explains why i wear my pe attire beneath my sch uni. we are supposed to wear like that if our pe is during the first or second period cos this will help to save time and we can reach the sports gallery on time. it's better to be early too cos if we're late, the whole class will have a make-up pe lesson on one of the days at 645 am! today was running 2.4 cos napfa is coming up. 21st april. must work hard so that when sch reopens, we can play games for pe! the whole cohort must get at least a silver for napfa. if not, we will have PT every pe lesson during term 3 to prepare for a re-test in august. sian right? so must work hard now then can relax in term 3. haha. my timing for 2.4 aint that good today but considering the fact that i have not trained for so long, it's considered not too bad. i was the first girl in my class. rather pleased with it but there's still room for improvement for my timing. i got 14:13. shall aim to run below 14 min the next time cos that's also the criteria in order to get an A. my all-time best was 13:30. hopefully i can break that record! sinyi ran 12 min last year lo. PRO!

J.C = Juggle and Cope. it's difficult but not impossible -- quoted by relief but good econs teacher, mr loh aka lala hong. HAHA!

GAMBATTE!

Went for alumni band prac today. And i forgot to help weng siong take his stick! gosh. never mind, i can always take it next week and pass to him @ the bbq :D that would be more convenient, comapared to me bringing it home today (if i had rmb) and bringing it to school again on wed.


traffic light!

HAHA. we went for lunch @ miss clarity cafe!

jess and meixin joined us later. the ambience was okay just that it was a little too dim. not exactly good for the eyes when you're reading the menu. lol. but the restaurant is super colourful, just like the colour of the shirts gena, xueli and me are wearing. and best part is, there is no GST or service charge! HOORAY!


the colour of our cups so matches with our shirts! LOL.



isnt it beautiful? the walls are filled with so many drawings like this. i feel like i am in some playroom, and not in a restaurant!

and this is my meal!


garlic crusted dory :D YUMMY!



that's gena and xueli's meal -- vegetarian(baked pasta + baked rice) and their desserts-- cream caramel & bread butter pudding !

gena, xueli and me left early cos we had to rush back for alumni band prac. we're still late though (like duh?!) we only started eating @ 230! gosh. i think we were 1 and a half hours late. felt paiseh about it. we played phantom of the opera. NICENICE :D but there's still a lot of room for improvement. need to polish on my HIGH notes especially.


the 4 different colours of chung cheng band t-shirt! WOOHOO!~ luckily chloe had worn the blue band tee. if not this pic would not have been taken successfully. haha.

it was not a very smooth ride home today :( so i was supposed to meet angel and tricia today but it had to be postponed AGAIN. wonder when will we ever rly meet up since i will not be free for the next 2 weeks. perhaps around tricia's bday? yeah so i took 43 home with gena and xueli when it started to pour REAL heavily. thought i could avoid the rain with the overhead bridge, only to realise when i reached the bus-stop that the overhead bridge had SHIFTED! this is rly silly. why in the world did the bridge shift. it was so inconvenient for me as well as many other ppl. met edna at the bus-stop and fortunately i had an umbrella so we were not that drenched when we crossed the road. but our feet was wet from the rain and the dirty mud water which flooded the ground >.<

took service 21 and yet another prob arose. the bus broke down! this was my first time experiencing a bus breakdown personally. all the passengers are supposed to tap their card, afterwhich they would receive a complimentary ticket so that they need not pay for the next bus they took.


my complimentary ticket.

btw, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOANNE! :)

i could hardly contain my excitement when i realised i could connect my phone to the comp! i was super ELATED!~ yay! HAHA. i used to think that my phone can never connect to the comp cos i'm using windows ME. (yes, i dont have XP) who bothers. i will get vista next! LOL. and i tried before once to connect my phone to the comp but it failed terribly. dont know what has come over me ytd but i just felt like trying it again and after fiddling it here and there, clicking here and there and everywhere, i managed to connect it! woohoo~ all hail to the queen~ HAHAHA. and so now in future, i will not have to depend on jessica or others to help me dl songs and bluetoothing it to me. because i can do it by myself now! WHEES~ :D

okay so, since i can upload photos now. i'm gna flood my blog with loads of pictures from the TROMBONES CHALET during the march hols. i totally missed the chalet okay. it's like today i was feeling so sleepy (i've been feeling like a zombie these 2 days) esp during the last period -- maths lecture and the minute i think of the trombones chalet, i felt so rejuvenated and much more refreshed! how amazing can that be yea? rly shows that i missed the chalet loads. and so here comes all the photos! :D:D:D:D:D:D



me.xueli.gena on the taxi to swensens :D

there were supposed to be 16 ppl for the trombones gathering @ swensens. but miss peck, jesica and jacie couldnt make it at the last min, so left 13 of us @ swensens -me,gena,xueli,charissa,meixin,jessica,derrick,qianyu,emma,walter,eeloong,alex and mr wong. i just realised that my batch of trombonists is so fated to no. 13.. LOL. and mr wong was uber "early".


top: me,gena bottom: qianyu,emma,xueli


the trombonists 04-07 with eeloong!


alex and me. PEACE! haha!

we went to buy alcohol! haha. despite mr wong telling us not to drink cos we have sec1s with us! Lol. okay, i admit we're a bit naughty. but must learn to drink a bit ma. if not next time get cheated how? HAHAHA. and besides, walter said he drank wine before. hees.

we bought...


jolly shandy! and...


these!

HAHA. and all these are treated by alex! WHEES~ thanks alex!

we were fighting to take the drinks and usually when we play games is always loser has to drink but for our case, the winner gets to drink! LOL. so all of us tried to win but i always end up 2nd. so "lucky" eh. but i still get to drink so nvm :D i esp love playing the seven-up game. HAHA. we not only use seven-up, we also use six-up, nine-up, eight-up. played until i went bonkers trying to think when to say up and when not to say to. LOL.


walter trying to practise his bowling skills. he did that dont know for how many times in the chalet lo! LOL.


gena's so flexible!


CHEERS!

we managed to stayed up till the next morning but decided to sleep for a while before gng to escape!


us sleeping. LOL. we slept for less than an hour. HAHA.

and we went to escape. we had 6 free tix! HAHA. 4 from downtown cos we stayed for 3D2N and another 2 is mine and gena's cos we went escape last year and we got ourselves a complimentary ticket! whees! there were 8 of us so we shared cost for the tix for 2 more ppl. only paid $2.50. HAHA. cos use meixin's nebo card only need to pay 7 bucks for the ticket. so cheap right? it's like more than 50% discount?!

played for a while before it started to rain and we went back to play mahjong! for the whole of the stay in chalet, we spent loads of time playing mahjong man! it hsa become an addiction/craze in the trombone section! LOL.


HU!

i'm too lazy to talk about the things in detail. i will just let the pictures speak for itself. HAHA


walter so cute!


jess and me


chalet room no.! buy 4-D? LOL.

and i realised there're a lot of photos of me eating!











HAHAHA! last pic so unglam!

okay but just to say that i truly enjoy my chalet loads and hope to have another one like that in the near future (at the end of the year!)

my mood during the chalet:

okay. so now i am currently in the library's computer room,idling time cos i will only be meeting chan and trish @ 4plus. this place is SUPER quiet and it kinda of freaks me out. probably because there arent many ppl in sch except for the j2s who are having their block test today.

so today was band and i was sosososo scared. you cant imagine how worried i was for the combined today cos only j1s have to attend due to the j2s having block test. and there are like only 2 ppl in my section, including me?! it was like wth?!

at least it's still better than pae.

yeah, i was the ONLY j1 trombonist during pae lah! i'm the only pure trombonist during the pae batch according to cheeri. seems that there's another person who can play the trombone but he aint pure trombonist cos he seemed to have switched from tuba to eupho then to trombone. yup. and he didnt join band >.< so that leaves me alone.

luckily i still have jannah with me. i told her like dont know how many times i was scared lah. HAHA. cos tkgs ppl always tell me that ms seah very fierce and all that. jannah claims that she's just crazy. LOL. but according to her, she's alrdy very nice to mj band. cos her angry mood in mj is in fact her happy mood in tkgs o.0 her temper was rather good today but could tell that she was a bit angry when one of the flautist kept on laughing and couldnt play properly. courting death it seems, according to the tkgs ppl. HAHA.

we played the circle of falls, which is actually major scales and it was extracted from the 'i recommend' book! hahaha. then we played a bit of vesuvius. gosh. i was forced to play the 1st part and jannah also had to come up from the 3rd part to the 2nd part cos ms seah realised that there weren't anybody playing the first part. and oh my, i have to practise my high notes once more. the score is SICK! loads and loads of lines drawn below the black dot and i was like 'what note is that?' lol. the highest is high Bb. i was having difficulty playing it. my pitching is always not correct and even if i can pitch it, i cant play it during the actual one cos tempo is quite fast and i cant pitch that fast and well!

and ms seah still kajiao-ed me " the notes not high what, just a lot of lines only" >.< she's rather.. comical? haha. like when we were tuning the notes, the clarinetist was rather soft and her sound was also not opened. so ms seah actually told her this

ms seah:"put yr hand into the bell"
girl"huh?"
ms seah:"put yr hand into the bell. take out the snake or the big fat cat out of yr instrument. you sound so stuffy!"

LOLOLOLOL.

and i realised that ms seah's way of tuning is very similar to mr wong's. both of them would use the keyboard to play the tuning Bb and we are supposed to tune with it. difference is, ms seah does it one by one and not section by section. i dont know why but it was so obvious if you're playing out of tune in the band room cos i can hear the clashing VERYVERY clearly! i have never heard it so clearly in chung cheng before! jannah said maybe because the keyboard sound was very loud so thats why we can hear so clearly. hmmmm... !

i hope there will be more trombonists coming to my section cos it's rather impossible for 2 trombonists to survive right? it feels like hongting and ee loong batch to me. cos jannah is a bass trombonist, and that reminds me of hongting. i have to play 1st now and this reminds me of ee loong. OMG. BUT! rumours are rife that a trumpeter may come over to my section as well as to the french horn cos there are only 2 trombonist and french horn players when there are 7 trumpeters! so inbalanced right? there are 8 percussionists as well! so many! my batch of band players are damn weird. you either have a section with too many ppl or a section with too little players like mine >.< it seems that there aint any tubists cos i didnt see any today during combined.

alright, guess i just have to practise to prepare for combined on wednesday! hopefully, wednesday would be even better and i must count properly and be more confident when playing!!

btw, i missed out triton ogl outing today. wonder if it was fun, they must be still playing @ sentosa now! aww. who asked myself to have band today and i also have to get my fbt shorts so that i can wear for chalet this coming wed! :D wonder how many i should buy. HAHAHA. and i will be watching the leap years later! though i know the leap year is alrdy like one week ago? HAHA.

step up 2 looks nice :) kinda of feel like watching. hees.

i realised that my neighbourhood is quite happening recentlly. LOL!

firstly, i just found out today that there's a pasar malam gng to be held at my hse! i never knew about it! there were like some tables alrdy set up at my hse void deck but i didnt notice at all! so weird huh? am i that not observant? or is it that i never passed by the void deck lately or did those vendors just placed the tables only today? but oh well. ANDAND! there's gna be like 2 malay weddings at my neighbourhood? WOW WOW. it's gna be so crowded and noisy downstairs with the weddings and pasar malam gng on at the same time.

wondering if i should go to the pasar malam to look for those cute polka cards cos peiqi bought her spongebob polka cards @ the pasar malam for 1 buck only! but as what huixin has said, we would not have much time to play soon. sigh. its true yea? after the march hols, can imagine my jc life man. pw, gp and the rest of the subjects.. woohoo. but at least my timetable aint that sucky yea. mon end @ 415, tues 325, wed 145 (there's band after that though), thurs 235 and fri 1205. i will be seeing a lot of my CT though cos she's gna be my maths tutor and pw ST as well.

on a lighter note, today is the last day of semester! a quick review of what has happened in 2008

-Azimuth orientation 1
-PAE
-'O' level results release
-Road race
-MY BIRTHDAY! :D
-Chinese New Year
-Azimuth orientation 2
-JAE.

so i have been through 2 orientations and both were fantastic cos each had its good points ;D in all, it has been fun for the 1st 3 months cos timetable is rather slack, have been playing quite a bit, made a number of new friends.. it has been real fun! but i must also start mugging cos homework is piling up and loads of revision has to be done for upcoming tests after the march hols. so i guess no more slacking from now onwards yea?

WHEE~
GAMBATTE GAMBATTE MJ MJ
GAMBATTE GAMBATTE MJ MJ
MJC!
MJ WILL WIN THE WAR
MJ WILL WIN THE WAR
WHO DARES TO MESS WITH US
WILL BE CHAO-DA!
WHO DARES TO MESS WITH US
WILL BE CHAO-DA!
NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
MJ AH AH ABA
MJ AH AH ABA
MJ AH AH ABA
SUAH!

AND ALL THE BEST TO PPL TAKING 'A' LEVEL RESULTS TODAY! GOOD LUCK!
MAY THE LUCK BE WITH YOU. (LOL)

heyo! i'm so tired and lazy lately. for the past week, all i do after i get home is either chiong-ing the comp or chiong-ing my dvd. feels like no life eh? and i hardly ever touch my sch stuffs at all! not even my waterbottle okay! LOL. i had wait till midnight before i take out the bottle to wash it. this shows how lazy i am yea?

HAHA. and we had a class outing on tues! cos we had 5 consecutive periods of break! WOOHOO~ so we went to TM's pizza hut to makan!



i guess i was mad or sth. i dont rly enjoy eating cream stuff but just dont get it why i ordered cream stuff in the end >.< it was okay though, just that towards the end it gets too jelat.

lets see.. what else has happened this week.. hmm. oh! SC! i was contemplating for the whole week if i should take up SC cos it's like so busy and all that. and i purposely go find the concillors' blogs just to see how tough it could be in SC. it seems tough but yet at the same time fun as well for them. i didnt take up SC in the end cos if i take that, i would have to give up band..

there were supposed to be 3 j1s in trombone but one has quitted so that leaves janna and me. if i were to leave, gosh then janna would be the only one! wow. cant imagine that. trombone section SERIOUSLY need more ppl. i cant play the 1st and the 2nd part all on my own when the j2s step down!

tmr is the last day of semester! WHEES~
and one good thing! : i have only ONE period of lesson tmr! :D
HAHAHA!