gave tuition. sean is so adorable he always makes me laugh. was supposed to meet zh @ NLB @ 5.15pm but it was the first time i tried going to bugis without cabbing. in the end i took 2 buses and one train and i was an hour late. hahahaha oops SORRY ZH. then met my favourite people for Harry Potter. it kinda sucked and involved lots of snogging --> ron and his freaky-looking girlfriend.
Sunday, 19th July.
met yq for ice-skating @ Kallang Leisure Park which was really really fun although i was a total NOOB.
on the mrt ride there yq told me he brought a jacket for me coz he thought that i might have forgotten to bring one. (i didn't forget btw. but it was a real sweet gesture nevertheless [: ) and right after that the mother messaged me,"Aren't you wearing a bit too little for ice-skating??" gosh. am i really that dumb/muddle-headed/forgetful??? don't answer please, it's rhetorical.
anyway, something terribly embarrassing happened on the way there. i put my empty bubble tea cup on the bus seat and asked yq to remind me to take it when we were going to alight and he jokingly said,"just leave it there la." and i was like," CANNOT. I'M VERY GONG GONG SHOU FAONE." him:"HUH?" me: (i said it loudly,thinking he didn't hear me the first time)"I'M VERY GONG GONG SHOU FA ONE." him:"huh? you're very WHAT??!!" (with a very cheeky look on his face) and i thought it was coz i didn't enunciate the words properly so i said it again, real loudly: "GONG1 GONG4 SHOU2 FA3!!" and i was still real smug that i actually remembered the chengyu until he started laughing like crazy and said,"i think you meant Feng Gong Shou Fa." me:"OMG!! ya hor. SHIT. " HAHAHAHAHA EPIC FAILURE. i almost died on the spot.
Monday, 20th July.
woke up supafreakingearly to attend some MOE Induction thingy which was actually not as boring as i thought it'll be + the food was really good :D the principal of NorthLight School(a school for kids who failed their PSLE twice or more) gave a talk and showed us videos which were so inspiring and touching that szu an & me actually teared.
and later that day, by some stroke of genius, i actually managed to get myself stuck in the shower. the door was jammed and no matter what i did i just couldn't get it open. had to holler for my parents to come and save me.
Tuesday, 21th July
went to keming to surprise miss kho coz it was her birthday.
photos are here. sylvester is so adorable + he lost 2 of his front teeth = even adorable-ler hahaha and this is my neighbour isn't she just adorable?
Wednesday, 22th July
met ade, celest & angie for lunch @ citylink's NYNY and we're all crazy people. everyone wanted to touch ade due to her ________. HAHAHAHA
then olie came and we went shopping + sat at subway while she ate and marked celest's tutee's essay which was really, the highlight of the day.
Quotable Quotes: "He wanted to go into Soon Long's house BUT NO. " "he knock on the locker hardly. THERE GOES THE LOCKER." "but one thing about that man is that he is a robber" HAHAHAH okay stop laughing we shall not be mean.
went over to celest's to pig out + sew headbands (we are so domestic please)
selling @ $7 (which is WAY cheaper than if you get it outside. plus if we like you you might get it even cheaper ) if interested please email celestin.chia@gmail.com. while stocks last [:
Friday, 24th July
went for the electronics fair in the morning and then checked into my hall, and to my surprise my room is actually quite nice [: requires some cleaning up though. and i still have a huge load of stuff to bring over. and, I FINALLY BOUGHT MY IPOD TOUCH :D oh, and RACHEL CHEW IS SO ADORABLE. she's so terrified of giving tuition that she actually had a nightmare last night. i was so amused when she told me about it. just got off the phone with zh. him and his stupid ridiculous analogies which make no sense. hahaha everytime we talk on the phone i laugh so much/loudly that the mother will come into my room and tell me that i'm making too much noise.
i'm gonna be so darn busy this 2 weeks. hall camp + Oweek + MOE Scholarship Presentation Ceremony + Social Night + tuition + sending yq off the day he sails. and EVERYTHING OVERLAPS.
Loch Ness Monster and Friends. (and Jane, of course.)
celest & ade came over to chill on monday + complain about the state of my room, and we had so much fun playing in the pool.
we look so candidly happy & carefree in the first 2 photos + i really like the third photo [:
jumpshots are crazy fun, camwhored, had an Aqua Race in the pool where celest can't reach the floor!, taught me how to tread water (yes i sort of can tread water already, albeit a little funnily is there such a word as funnily??), our BIATHLONS HAHA (celest this is how it's spelt!), synchronised swimming hahahah AND...
the LOCH NESS MONSTER ATTACKS!!!
went for an early dinner (i didn't have my lunch!) at Thai Express @ holland V and the food was 'shakingly orgasmic' :DD
was about to head home when i made a last-minute decision to not be lazy & headed instead, to town to meet rae & jm, which turned out to be a really good decision coz we had SO MUCH FUN being retarded as usual. monkey sounds & unglam photos ensue, not forgetting our Hi-chew escapade, after which jm ended up with half a lychee Hi-chew stuck to the front of her braces & rachel and me laughing our asses off by the side. (i am still laughing as i type this) and, we have a new friend her name is Jane. hahahahahah funny shit. love those girls we are insane. love our HTHTs [:
here's them looking pretty + me looking retarded as usual + our good friend Nong Shim
we ended up having cup noodles outside FEP and continuing our conversation til around midnight where we left for home.
and here's an ugly photo of us to make your day :D (jm aren't you touched i censored your photo for you. ) (there's an even uglier one which totally cracks me up but i'm not uploading it here :D)
went shopping with the mother on Wednesday, then headed to my cousin's new house to play with Tyler + celebrate my aunt's birthday. he is seriously getting more and more adorable:
this photo is hilarious! Tyler: Hi. HAHAHAHAH met the girls at night @ Clarke Quay & spent the whole night + early morning exploring the clubs there: Zirca, Rebel, Lunar(HAHAH), okay i forgot the names of the others.
photos: seriously why am i always the only one who zhaogengs??!?!? the rest are here.
We're Goin to the Zoo, zoo, zoo. how about you, you, you? (remember this song? it's stuck in my head hahaha)
I've been bumming around at home for the longest time ever I FEEL LIKE A LOSERRR.
slept really late on friday night. talked non-stop on the phone for the longest time ever. hahaha okay not really. but i think it was like 3.5 hours or more in total. talked to celest, then zh called and i talked to him for real long, and then i called celest again. and after that i was so high and couldn't fall asleep til 3am or so.
and on Thurs i was cutting my nails, and halfway through i went to do something else and forgot all about my nails until i left the house and noticed that i had 3 fingers with short nails and 7 with long nails. i am Goddess of All Things Retarded.
tuitioned Sean on Saturday. he's so cute, i think i'm gonna enjoy teaching him alot though it might be quite challenging [: signed 4 years of my youth away to MOE and saw rachel & qh who were doing temperature-taking @ MOE. lunched @ Holland V with Uncle Ken, Auntie Jenny & Sherrylene (okay idk how to spell her name haha and she is one sweet cutiepie) then met the boyfriend and we headed to the ZOO i was so excited hahahahahaha. we walked around to look @ all the animals and yq is a horny piece of shit man. either that, or maybe he's just very interested in animals and their mating habits. HAHA
then it started raining elephants while we were in the middle of watching an animal show(!!!) and i was really happy coz i got to see the penguins which were extremely adorable ♥
waited for the rain to stop then continued looking at animals and finding our way to the Kids Fantasy Rainforest (or whatever it's called) which we found in the end but didn't get to explore because it was already closed by the time we reached :[ (ber and co. when we go to the zoo again let's please go to that place it's very colourful and happy-looking)
left the zoo coz bestfriend called to tell us that it was closing soon (and also that we were supposed to meet her & pangsai for dinner) but our bus took really long to arrive. took the bus to cck interchange and waited really long for another bus to take us to cck swimming complex (where we paid $1 for the kids' tickets and snuck in to use the toilet to bathe :D), and we couldn't meet celest & pangsai in the end coz it was already too late (I'M AWFULLY SORRY BESTFRIEND!!!) and the time it took me to shower + change = time it took yq to shower + change + read 8 pages of his book. which either says that i bathe really fast [: or that yq takes an inordinately long time to read.
headed to Lot1 for dinner (it's so different now. haven't been there in a really long while), then took 190 all the way to Dhoby Ghaut (falling asleep on the bus). was supposed to meet jon & co. @ Acid Bar but just as i was about to head over it started pouring like crazy so i decided not to go in the end (ps-ed quite alot of people that night SORRY GUYSSS :( please still be my friendssss), when the rain was less heavy we met zh, jm, ber, qh & marcus and squeezed with 93847598452 other people on the streets to watch a pyrotechnics show. (whatever happened to "Try to stay away from crowded places" coz of H1N1?!?! it was positively swarming with people)
anyway, the show sucked big time. jm and i were too short (jm is way shorter than me of course) we couldn't see most of the show. and the fireworks were minimal. headed into the museum where we went to the History gallery and walked around exploring the gallery with our enormous iPod-esque thingamabobs hanging around our necks.
i was bored after awhile. honestly i would have been really interested if not for the fact that i was really tired already. ended up just looking @ the exhibits without bothering to read/listen to the explanations and stories + taking photos (which are with ber whose camera is now a kickass new nikon. salivates.) but i kinda really wanted to explore the art gallery but we ran out of time so oh well, next time i guess.
after the event we went to the foodcourt nearby to eat and entertained ourselves by looking @ ber's stash of jm's unglam photos (which are tremendously entertaining i assure you), then did other stuff and tried to find the famous rochor doujiang youtiao which we did not get to eat coz they open @ 11am. reached home around 6.30am, showered and crashed from 7am to 4pm (woke up @ 10am coz my stomach was hurting like crazy) , skipped the xiaolongbao buffet with obs mates coz my stomach was still feeling kinda queasy, and it's now 4.51am and my body clock is really really screwed up. And celest's coming over to swim in approximately 7 hours time. :D
isn't this the Coolest Shit Ever? WATCH! it's mega cool.
And my bank account is depleting by itself!!!! okay not really, but i really do need to cut down on my expenses which means no more Uncle-adam-road-stop-just-before-the-petrol-kiosk-no-i-dont-know-how-to-get-there-okay-whichever-way-is-faster. One good thing about staying in the hostel when school starts is that at least i won't be late for school. i think. (well, even if i woke up late at least i wouldn't have to cab down to school = saves truckloads of $$$$)
you guys can skip the first half of this entry, i'm just gonna ramble on about obs which was pretty much amazing & awesome which is why i don't wanna forget what i went through, which is the reason i'm bothering to write this whole chunk of words down.
Day One.
my watch was Bo Seng! we didn't really do much on the first day. did high elements though. after climbing to the top, i was so petrified i didn't dare to take another step forward. i think i took a really really really long time to get across. hahaha :D
Day Two.
land expedition! had to carry heavy backpacks & trek across the whole island looking for checkpoints. trekked 10km plus singing Disney/NDP songs and looking for phebe's durian & rambutan trees, & halfway through, my back started acting up(as always) :( hiked to the top of the quarry(highest point in pulau ubin) & boy the view was breathtakingly beautiful. the emotions i felt when we shouted,"BO SENG!!" and heard it echo back to us were indescribable.
when we finally reached the other end of the island, we had to trek halfway back to our campsite. in all, i think we must have trekked 16km or more aren't you guys proud of me??? :D the guys pitched our tents(the guys in our group were awesome; they did all the saikang automatically & without any complaints. nice or what??!) & we did outdoor cooking(yes i cooked okayy); maggi mee & mushrooms have never tasted this good. :D and pau's & si ying's 5 packets of maggi mee song is still stuck in my head! took a powder bath for the first time in my life. hahaha pau's detol powder rocks! drank Agent Red (hahaha code name for the illegal 100 plus leo smuggled for us when he was out doing his medical check up) anyway, when it was time to sleep it was so hot in the tent that i couldn't fall asleep & when i finally was about to drift off to lalaland, it was time for sentry duty :( hahah
Day Three.
got into our triyaks & did the capsize drill. i still can't tread water! (kev tried to teach me the last time but that pangsai kept laughing at me and in the end i gave up learning it heh) love my kayaking buddiesss; szu an & zong jin : i couldn't remember his name at first & khai yu was saying just think "Jin Zong Bao Guo" (some chinese cheng yu which i dont understand) & reverse the first two syllabus, but i ended up calling him Jin Zong in the end oops. haha but i remember his name now! [: we kayaked til the water level became too low and we were stuck in the swamp in waist deep mud, which was quicksand-esque. the moment szu an & me got off the triyak we were stuck in the mud. had to spend a really long time before we could pull ourselves out & the next step we took, we were stuck again! after a few steps my shoes were stuck & i really had no more energy to pull myself up & zongjin had to come & save me haha in the end szu an lost one of her shoes lol
we waited for everyone to struggle through the swamp & reach the river and continued kayaking and finally we reached the sea! but just as we kayaked out to sea, it started raining & there was a storm(!!!) it was really scary. there was rain and lightning & our triyaks were bobbing up and down in the sea due to the choppy waves. so we had to go back to the river to wait out the storm, & when the storm finally ended, it was 8km back to land. our triyak was really fast! we were like always among the first few [:
anyway, we finally returned to Camp 1 in one piece & the instructors told us that we were the most suay batch to have experienced both the swamp & the storm within one expedition. but i thought it made everything more memorable [:
washed up, ate dinner & took so long that we stayed in the canteen until supper haha & stayed up late talking about various things until we finally couldn't take it & went to bed.
Day Four
did area cleaning & we finished so early we still had time to go to the canteen for our self-arranged tea break :D then was rock climbing which was fun though it was harder coz of our muscle ache. and finally, it was time to go back to civilisation!!
the first thing we did was to go to kovan for bubble tea! :D hahaha was super deprived of it during obs man. talked for awhile & then siying, szu an & me went to do the kiddy painting thingy(idk what it's called), you know, the one you squirt coloured liquid to paint a picture & put it into the oven & it hardens? yeah that one. hahah it's super fun :D
ANYWAY, everyone said that I AM A VERY QUIET GIRL [: [: and that I SHOULD SPEAK UP MORE hahahah. okay i guess i tend to be more reserved and quiet around people i dont really know at first. plus, i was quite shagged during the camp + not feeling very well + other people were much more vocal & noisier, so i sort of became quieter
anyway, i just felt really lucky that i had such nice & fun group mates (which i will still get to see during MOE events/around school; all of us are going to NUS [:)
photos: (yes i know i look like shit due to the lack of sleep + other external factors)
look @ my eyebagsssss O: si ying & szu an [: quoting szu an, "I learnt how thirteen totally different people can come together and overcome all obstacles."
Saturday, 4th July (oh gosh it's july already?!!)
slept til 4pm (>17 hours pro right i know [: ) boyfriend confined = prawn fishing date with celest + pangsai cancelled hahaha oops. was supposed to meet the others @ Holland V but i wasn't feeling well so i didn't wanna go coz i didn't wanna drink + was kinda tired even after so much sleep haha but in the end it was munkit's house for stayover + zh's birthday celebration (see how important you are zh i went even though i wasn't feeling well are you honored?? [: ) nh & sg bought a small little cake with a power ranger on top & we told zh, no candles so you have to blow the power ranger off the cake HAHAHA :D anyway, it was a decoy & zh really had a proper cake in the end
photos:
LOL @ the first photo! click to enlarge. it's zh looking like the power ranger :D here's the "scandalous" photo which nh wanted yq to see. says nh,"i must let yq see what you've been up to while he was confined." hahaha guitar hero-ed and i was totally off-form. i must insist that i do not suck so badly usually. :D played Winning 11 (is that what it's called? i realised it's not called FIFA haha.) and made alot of noise while playing. (omg which one am i?! where's the ball?? how to tackle?? press what to shoot?) and after the game i told guansen, "song gee scored 4 and i scored zero." and that idiot replied "which means you didn't score anything at all. don't make it sound like you scored something." hahaha but on second thought, i did score a goal! i scored an own goal coz i was too excited when sg almost scored. hahaha FAIL. played mahjong, and i teamed up with gs. they couldn't believe my luck haha not that i won alot, but just that i almost always got the tile that i wanted. [:
slept a little, then met yq for mac breakfast, checked movie timings while he was bathing, & he headed for his driving lesson, while i went home to bathe, then met him @ orchard & went to eat my favourite cheecheongfun (:DDD), & talked for a really long time then we walked around & someone almost dragged me into the guys toilet(!) that childish pangsai. played with Transformer toys(those with buttons you can presssss it's damn fun) & then it was it was Ice Age 3 in 3D! [: which was really funny hahaha i laughed alot during the movie. initially my 3D goggles were spoilt so i was like, "is it supposed to be flickering like that??" hahah & the whole movie theatre was flooded with kids man.
went to Ajisen Ramen for our pseudo dinner then cabbed home to meet kev for our keyboard lesson (it was a session to teach us how to use the functions of the keyboard which we have at home, which i persuaded the parents to buy but rarely used in the end)
in the cab gave kev a treat @ swenson's & headed home where i showered & slept another 15 hours away. my body clock is way screwed howww?
and here's a photo of my healthily-growing plant!
just before i left for obs, i realised that i had totally forgotten about its existence = it had not been watered for at least one week or so :P so i passed it to my awesome mother to see if she could revive it, and when i came back from obs it had already grown so much!! :D i think the plant had better stay under her care. when it was with me in my room, i either forgot to water it or watered it excessively coz i was afraid it didn't have enough water :D
photos are here.
this photo is hilarious!
seriously why am i always the only one who zhaogengs??!?!?
look @ my eyebagsssss O:
si ying & szu an [:
quoting szu an, "I learnt how thirteen totally different people can come together and overcome all obstacles."
