Monday, April 28, 2008 '
2:37 PM YAT LAST ITS DONE!!!!
my god.. i just completed my personal response to my new literature book.
its pure torture having to read the book, and it is actually a super thin book. The main concept is on existentialism and i have to say, i dont like that topic at all. HELLO??? i dont want spend time pondering over the reason for my existence on Earth right now.. i have so much work to do at the moment so i want to spend my spare time doing something more enjoyable than thinking about my existence and the blackness of cosmos or whatsoever...
hahaha..
i really have the urge to go shopping for some reason but then you need the capital to fully enjoy the benefits of going shopping.. hahahah.. i have no idea why but ive been having weird cravings at times.
oh!!! ive been wanting to post pictures for a very long time but i havent been able to bring myself to start uploading so many of them.. let me see.. should i start with pictures of my house?? i guess that would be the most practical thing to post as i dont think you all will forget how i look like after 6 months or so right??? hahaha.
this is my dining area..
the living room.. i have to say, this is really huge
this is what you will see when you first step into my house
PS. all these pictures are taken when i first moved in.. it looks a little different now.. maybe i should take them again and post them just to see the contrast..
oh well, i realised that i have not taken more pictures of my home.. i shall take some of my bedroom next and post it.. haha.. or maybe i should take photos of my patio and the lake.. maybe i can do it tomorrow morning or something..
i shall go and do something constructive like going to sleep now..
byeeeeee =)
Sunday, April 27, 2008 '
12:17 PM Ywoohoooo!!!!
im having my may (labour day) break now!!!
i must say.. my school really has lots of holidays but then, who ever complains about getting to much holidays??? =)
im having my 'end of year exams' in june.. hehe.. ive no idea why but im starting to panic a little already.. okayyy.. people are going to argue with me and say that ive no reason to panic because ive done most of the chapters that im studying at the moment but then i guess i cant stop myself from panicking.. and in a way, to me, the presence of nervousness is a comfort to me. this means that i still care about my studies.
actually i do have new topics that im studying now which i didnt do so in tpjc. Like waves for physics and chemical kinetics and equilibrium for chemistry. Not to mention the totally different english course and the 'not-so-similar' economics lessons.. hahaha..
i must say, today was a real disappointment. Ive been looking forward to going to the wildlife park today. My mum already promised that we will be going there today but then meishi had to go and fall sick with fever so we had to cancel our plans. =( I feel like a little kid, getting so excited over a trip to the wildlife park but ive heard that its really cool. The animals are running wild all over the park and you have to travel around in a vehicle because of this. Oh well, i guess that i will get to go soon enough.
PS. meishi, i dont mind missing the chance to go today you know. i dont blame you for falling sick. hahaha.. i was really nice today wasnt i?? but then again, im always nice to you =)
i realised something. i dont mean to say anything wrong or what but then, i realised that you all are not really talking to me already arent you?? haha.. maybe im being over sensitive but then somehow i get the feeling of being forgotten. THE POWER OF TIME......... i guess that everyone is busy now so i dont even feel like emailing anyone of you too often because whenever i do so, you all either take a long time to reply or somehow, the reply never seems to come. haha.. dont worry, no hard feelings taken but then by now, i dont feel very good emailing you all so often because i feel that im disturbing you people when i do so. do you all know who im talking about?? those few people who dont go online so i can talk to you all.. hahahaha.. its okayy.. just feeling rather emo now.. ignore this part.
okayyy.. enough of reminiscing. time to do serious studying.
somehow, some part of me is beckoning myself to go to the television to go and enjoy a movie.. haha.. oh well.. its the holidays anyway, maybe i should go and have fun.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 '
4:03 AM Ycan you believe it? all of a sudden, i can access blogspot again. which means that i can view people's blog now.
ive learnt a new lesson: dont keep my hopes up, judging by past experiences, i may not be able to access blogspot anytime soon again. so yea..
MY throat HURTS LIKE *@**@!!! AHHHHHHHHH!
it feels as if there is a ball stuck in my throat. It hurts so much. Chances are im going to lose my voice soon. oh well, tough luck i suppose.
TODAY'S CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT IS THE WORST EXPERIMENT IVE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.
in a horrible mood now. My head hurts, my throat hurts and my eyes hurt.
And my last 2 periods of the day is chinese and english. how great is that??
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 '
10:30 AM Yoh well.. i really have nothing to do now thats why im blogging again.. haha..
IM STILL IN MY SCHOOL AT THIS LATE HOUR!!
I have this CAS thing in my IB programme that i am doing now so i have to get some hours of doing some sort of 'community service' which is what im suppose to be doing at the moment but you all can guess what im doing now.. hehehe..
IM REALLY REALLY HAPPY TODAY!!!
Ms scotti, my english teacher, gave me my marks for the IOP (individual oral presentation) that i did last wednesday.. I GOT 23/30!!! heehe.. this is A LOT better than i had expected myself to have done!! i was thinking that if i got like 20i would be super happy already but then i managed to outdo myself!! =)
acutally i have to say that the reason why im so scared about the marks is not because i dont think that i presented it well, in fact, i dont think that there is anything much to fault with my way of presenting (afterall, we had had lots of practice last year when preparing for PW OP so there is no problems in this area.. not much anyway..) what i was really worried about was my content. This is ENGLISH LITERATURE that im taking now, not GP so yea.. my literature has always been AWFUL so it is only natural that i will panic about not having the correct/enough content in my presentation. In the end my marks showed that i did not do too badly, at least according to my standards. As im the 2nd person in class to present and the last person will only present like one month from now (there is only 12 people in my english class you know..), i wont really know how good my score is at the moment. If everyone in the class ends up getting like over 25 then..
i shall not think about it for now.. should remain happy for a longer period of time.. hehe.. tomorrow the 4th person is going to present.. at first i was thinking that im rather dumb to have agreed to be the 2nd person in the class to present but i guess that it was, like what ben said, 'better to get it over and done with' than to drag on and i have to worry about it for a longer time. Ben was the 'brave one' who agreed to be the first person to present.. hehehe.. so currently the two of us, along with andrew who presented today, are SUPER RELAXED about IOP and we are telling everyone who has yet to present that 'EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE!' or 'IM SURE YOU WILL DO WELL'.. hehehe.. its so nice to be the one reassuring and comforting people than to be the one who is being comforted =)
wow.. i didnt know that i have so much to say about my IOP.. hahahaha..
OH! ONE RANDOM THING TO COMMENT ON.. MY TYPING SPEED HAS IMPROVED TREMENDOUSLY EVER SINCE I CAME HERE.. HEHEHE.. MUST BE DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE TO USE A LAPTOP IN SCHOOL EVERY SINGLE DAY. QUITE COOL THOUGH.. I DONT MIND USING MY LAPTOP EVERYDAY =)
Lets see.. what else to blog about?? oh yea.. ive will be doing aerobics every friday from now on.. hehe.. and i think i shall start going to some yogo class or something.. oh!! and i really want to start learning a chinese instrument, afterall, im in china so i should take the chance to learn a nice chinese instrument to add on to my piano playing skills. oh yea!! i also really feel like learning how to play the guitar, the music produced from there is really lovely. In addition, i dont think it will hurt if im going to get my youngest sister who is learning the violin in school at the moment to give me a lesson or two on what she has learnt. It seems like i have planned out a really packed schedule for myself. But it really is cool to learn more instruments =)
Talking about school, my school actually offers psychology as a humanities subject and currently all the psychology students are all rushing for their internal assessment which included them carrying out acutal tests on students to varify their results and so on.. to relieve them from a bit of their stress, most of my level people have been very kind to allow ourselves to be 'tested' by our peers.. hahaha.. i guess i trust that they wont damage my brain or whatsoever..
gosh.. im really super HUNGRY now!!!! awww.. i can just imagine my yummy dinner waiting at home for me.. hehehe.. makes my mouth water..
ooo.. i just want to say, in a way, i sort of love my life more now. NOT IN THE SOCIAL SORT OF POINT , i mean, i still prefer my social life back in singapore as compared to this. What i love more now is the fact that my dad actually spends more time with us now. In the past, every weekday night, he come home so late from work that we never have a chance to eat dinner with him but now, he comes home every night to eat with us and on better nights, we actually have lively conversations at the dinner table. My mum, i guess that her job has been very stressful on her and so her health detiorated and she was rather weak back in singapore. However, even though i know that it is boring to stay at home and be a full time housewife, i have to say that her health has been improving. Anyway, WE HELP WITH THE HOUSEWORK AS WELL!!! hehe.. i must say that i have been taking my previous life for granted. The life with a maid present to help me do the household chores and help me with stuff.. hehe.. ive been living with a maid ever since i was 3.. around there.. and this is the first time that my sisters and i are left without a maid to care for us. Tough luck but i guess we can cope =)
oh well.. ive really posted long long posts and im not even sure if anyone can reads them though i assume if nothing goes wrong it will be visible on my blog which everyone in singapore can access.. haha..
guess i better go now.. im really looking forward to going home though it means a 40 minute walk home in the rain =(
till then.....
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 '
6:30 AM Ywell, it seems like the fact that i was able to access blogspot for the last few days was merely just an error in the china government's firewall system or something..
I CANT ACCESS BLOGSPOT ANYMORE!!!!
I can actually continue to blog if i want to through the "blogger.com" which is the only thing they allow me to access in china but I wont be able to view my own blog or anyone else's blog as a matter of fact.. sad.. why cant they allow it??
Can you believe it, its my economics lesson now.. ITS SO BORING.. haha.. from what i can see, my classmates are either playing computer games, chatting on skype or surfing the net for their own stuff..
Oh well.. my economics lesson is either SUPER interesting or SUPER boring. What can i say?? Studying is never fun but then it doesnt seem like i have a choice do i??
OH!! something random to post now:
APPLE LAPTOPS ARE REALLY PRETTY TO LOOK AT =)
somehow even with many people complaining about the functions in a MACbook, i think that i have come to love my MAC quite a lot. In fact, im more dependent on my laptop now then on my handphone..
Talking about that, i finally got a line for my handphone now. So it means that my handphone is now back in use!! hehehe.. but then i think that there is no point in you people to ask me for my handphone number as i doubt you will ever want to call me. See how short the singapore handphone numbers are?? 8 digits only!!! In China, a handphone number will consist of 11 digits!!! sheesh.. i wonder if i will ever remember my own handphone number.. For the first time in my life, i have to have my own handphone number saved in my handphone.. hahaha.. sounds dumb..
The weather here in Shanghai is finally getting warmer. Im not going to say that im exactly pleased about this.. afterall, im a person who HATES the hot, humid weather in sinagapore (that is possibly the only thing that i hate in singapore..). The weather today seems to be like 18 degrees celsius.. really nice weather..
School is going to end soon.. haha.. im wasting my time away here.. gosh! i have to buck up and study hard!!! haha.. we had someone from the university of burnswick (somewhere in canada) who came over and gave us a talk on the university as well as the life in Canada, if we are ever thinking of going there to study. In fact, there are so many talks that are being arranged for my level now. We have had Oxbride talks and so on. Universities from USA, UK, Canada and Australia are a few of the "hot" countries that my school love to talk about. Many of my friends here want to go to the States or UK to study at the university.
Actually seriously speaking, it really sounds fun to study somewhere in the States or in UK. Take Canada for instance, the pictures that we viewed today are really really pretty!! haha.. but then again, you dont actually choose the university based on the beauty of the city that it is in but then again, you cannot help exclaiming and admiring the wondrous sights. Ive never had second thoughts on going anywhere else but the National University of Singapore to study but the teachers here keep on telling us to "keep our options open" and they keep on further questioning me "If i had a choice and money isnt a problem, where else besides Singapore do i want to pursue my education?" I have to say, that had really got me thinking. Am i really ready to go to some other country to study?? But if im worried about having to be independent then i shouldnt be because when i return somewhere next year or so to go to the university in Singapore i will be alone as well, sort of. My parents and sisters will still be in Shanghai anyway so i will be alone in singapore so this shouldnt make much of a difference in the "having to live an independent life" thing.
woah.. my post this time is really long.. haha.. i guess that i had lots to say thats why.. now that i can no longer view my own blog and i cant view my friend's blogs, i wonder if i will bother continuing to post over here but all i can say is that i will try my best to continue to blog. hehe..
i guess thats all for now everyone.
byeeeeee =)
Saturday, April 12, 2008 '
12:56 PM YOkay.. let me try to get in the blogging mood that i have long forgotten..
hehe..
i cannot believe it, CHINA ACTUALLY ALLOWS US TO ACCESS BLOGSPOT AGAIN!!!! AT LAST!!!
yipee!!! now i can blog again =)
today is the release of PW results.. and TPJC really did well considered to last year.. im really happy for them =)
i can still remember the PW process as if it just ended yesterday.. PW is really a pain in the neck. SERIOUSLY IT IS. but then again, it gave me lots of laughter which i will never forget..
CONGRATS TO MY DARLING PW GROUP!!!!
dajie and ah hwee jie jie:
Both of you all get As ahhh.. happy or not?? hehe.. i think we never expected to get an A for PW.. maybe a B but not really an A. Whats more we actually had external moderators present for the presentation!!! wahahaha.. this means that we have done very well!!!
Even zuo xian and kenny did well =)
Somehow, i dont really have the intense happiness that i thought i should have after receiving such good news.. i dont know why but yea.. but then again, even if i have no use for the results that i got, i dont regret completing the entire project. Well, i dont think it would have been very responsible if i as the leader of the PW group was to have withdrawn from the project at the most crucial stage.. so yea.. no regrets..
07s24 did really really really well!!!! haha.. im sure that ms ong is very pleased with the class.. CONGRATS EVERYONE!!!
So many things happened throughout the few months when i didnt blog.. many new experiences that are indescribable.. but there is one thing for sure.. the longing that i have to return to singapore has not changed.. i still want to go back really badly!!!
awww... im really really relieved now.. my a level chinese and PW grades are better than i had hoped for and my stupid IB English IOP (individual oral presentation) is finally over!!! hehe.. i dont know how well i have done but then at least i got it over and done with..
I know that lately 07s24 have had new students.. Somehow, i get the feeling of jealousy. I want to be back there and be part of the class as well. Especially after i heard about the fun SL that you all had last saturday, i really wanted to be part of the event.
I dont know what else to say now.. i have so much to say and yet i cannot possibly report everything that has happened in one post so i guess i will just stop. Sometimes having too much to say will end up causing the person to be unable to say anything in the end..
From now on im officially back to blogging =)
hooray for china's decision to allow blogspot again!!
