NO!

::meiyi moments:: says:
no prob just that ill miss your company!

beatrice says:
haha ok

beatrice says:
cya tues den!

::meiyi moments:: says:
tues?

beatrice says:
SCHOOL MEIYI! it still exists

beatrice says:
unfortunately

::meiyi moments:: says:
haha OH, SCHOOL

SHOUTOUTS

holloa world!
i have survived the dreaded exams, my first in jc!
Praise to Him! for sustaining me in health and mental strength throughout.
Even though i know i havent done my best ( didnt study as much as i would have liked to), like what Phoebe says, He builds strength through weakness and even if i dont do too well this semester, i hope ill be flooded with more diligence and discipline next term!

Thank God that even though i studied for history and lit only the night before, i was filled with inspiration the next day and my pen moved faster than i thought it would. For once in my life, after the papers i felt i didnt need to discuss anything at all, i felt calm and serenity. Like what mark said, he felt so at peace. Amen! God is indeed great! Thank God even though there have been quite a lot of expectations on me this time and even more next term, I didnt really let it get to my head (perhaps a bit too much on this part) and survived the entire event.

This June holidays has been one set apart from the other holidays ive ever had. Firstly, the Literature trip was so much more about UK and France. It was a journey of amazing friendship and since I was travelling with many God- fearing friends, it was definitely a spiritual journey as well. Thats why when people ask me "how was the lit trip?" All i can say is "really really good" haha. even though i know that doesnt really satisfy their curiosity, its just too much to say. :) a holiday in Europe was much more then musuems and plays, to me, it was a new haven away from Singapore. away from the towering buildings and super efficient transport stations and perfectly safe streets.

Back in Singapore I had to return immediately to my responsiblilities in band. the next morning after returning from UK, we had an exco meeting and lunch and preparation for more stuff. and PW was a headache too even though im really grateful my group came to my house! thankew people, even though i was listless and was falling asleep during the day due to jetlag, you guys never failed to understand! and then came finale pracs for the SYF closing ceremony. we made new friends and meeting old friends was just so nice.

then came the studying part. studying has never been so fun!
1) Thank you study groups ( Mark, mark, jeremy, and phoebe) and ( Kahsiong, eric, beatrice) for studying together and having as much fun as i would have liked to during our holidays. thankew for distressing along with me, either at the piano or at pastamania with loadsa juicy stories. haha. thanks eric (his dad) for sending me home after the ghost story night!

YAY TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY!
after band and lunch ill be heading back to my ex-second hometown Bukit Timah for VIBE at GLCC, prob with jill and lovely friends i cant wait to catch up with, and then head back to east coast park for band bbq!

Thank God for this much needed wonderful rest - (i finished my exams on wednesday)! :)

Rant from a superhero

I feel like a little girl
Trying to conquer the whole wide world
Everybody wants a piece of me
And I just don't know where to turn I
've got work piled up to my head
All I want to do is jump into bed
And wash away my troubles with lemonade
Play hide and seek with the boy next door
Take a trip to Singapore
And imagine how i'll make the world a better place

All I need is a good disguise
One where nobody can recognize
That I'm feeling so small...
All I need is a secret weapon-
I've gotta have faith Zapping monsters into outer space
I'm gonna be a Superhero

Na-na-na-na...

If I were a little girl
Trying to clean up the whole wide world
I'd kick the bad boys back to school
Teach them fighting's just not cool
I'd give every kid a teddy bear
Turn starving people into millionaires
Break glass ceilings with dynamite
Sprinkle a little sugar and spice
Turn the bullies that terrorize
Into pink poodles that bark but don't bite

Little Superhero Girl
Little Superhero Girl
Save me...
Little Superhero Girl
Little Superhero Girl
Save me from myself

I feel like a little girl
Trying to conquer the whole wide world


-Corrine May

This song is perfect for me. Right now. Im going to be a superhero, and cram 3 subjects into 5 days. Plus, forgetting the nightmares and thinking happy thoughts.

secondhand serenade

hello all:)
even though its 3am now, i shall attribute it to post jet-lag. :)
ive decided to talk a little before i go back to my mugging status soon enough.
i officially started studying today, ive 8 days left and all ive done is 3/4 of math. but oh well things are moving along and im just grateful for the momentum which is speeding up.

yesterday hwee jac and andre came over to my place and we had more fun together than did pw. haha exchanged photos and stories about lit trip and korea trip :) then i finally finished EOM by 7 something.
tmr im going to study in school with marks (2 of them) and jeremy.
a rather long lost friend suddenly found me on friendster and strangely he kind of made me reminisce on my sec 3 and sec 4 years a little. haha i miss sc. i love the premises as well as the hot location (!!) haha i think only sc people will really understand that so yea. now im kinda stuck in the east! only parkway and roxy square and katong and marine parade. haha i miss my old hangouts- king albert park, serene centre, coronation centre, orchard, bugis.
yes, today i was emoing between studying and...i reflected upon my life (!!) and found how far God has carried me through. i have done things i have no idea how i actually had the ability to.

If God brings you to it, He'll bring you through it:)
another thing was that really, to love is to love from the inside out. that's how He loves us, and we should aspire to be like that also, just that today's world makes it so so hard to do so, but prayer works wonders, so lets do that!=D

woot!

Day 6 to 9 shall just be photos due to the lack of time on my hands. the sights and sounds arent worth being trapped in this blog without words but...someone tell me exams are in 12 days, then shoot me. -_- maybe ill tell the story after mid years yea?:)

Day 6!

7 days a week I will pray, I will pray 7 days a week!

8th day!

Day 9!
Home sweet home** but i really miss Europe alot!!

Day 4 onwards!

ok im back to complete sharing the wonderful lit trip with everyone:)

Day 4 was one of THE BEST DAYS of the trip!

Phoebe and I woke up late! thankew thankew Huimin who barged in with some expletive (which shall not be repeated here) which really shocked both of us! Yes we went to Westminster Abbey! It was so beautiful! And I saw Henry Purcell's and John Blow's tomb which really reminded me of my sec 4 days when i took music at o'levels! The guide Daniella was very professional and the plain fact that she's an Israeli was already mind-blowing! After that we went to Charles Dickens House Museum. by this time i was getting quite gelat from so many museums after museums! But it was rather informative especially since Great Expectations had quite alot of fiction part based on his life experiences. the final stop was the Jane Austen Centre where we got a mini workshop on her life story and public reviews of her books before we headed to the London Tube station to get a brief getting-around lesson from Mr. Harris.

on our way to the London Tube! From Left: Yeow Boon, Daniel and Phoebe!

Then the group of us chionged down to Queen's Theatre to watch Les Miserables! We passed by Chinatown and then Jeremy spotted Char Siew Rice which made all of us suddenly miss homecooked food! Les Mis was SUPER DUPER good! getting it original from them was amzing man! hearing the live symphony also made my hair stand!

INSIDE QUEEN'S THEATRE!

jeremy and phoebe with yeowboono behind them!

After that Mark Phoebe and I went on our free-half-a-day-trip in London! so cool! we met Phoebe's Godsis Eva at the Picadilly Circus traffic light. She brought us to Buckingham Palace we spent quite some time there posing with the Imperial Guards

who were miles away and inaccessible from us.

We walked through Green Park near Hyde Park

spot the london eye in the background!

and then we took the tube back to the Picadilly Circus. Because we missed a street to our restaurant where super nice Eva booked and ended us really near SOHO (red light district!!), we cabbed there to reach there just in time. So there it was, my first time in a London Cab!:)At Yauatcha we had the nicest dinner ever! It was that kind of club-restaurant fusion style place. There was a bouncer outside the restaurant which actually looked like an actual ill-chase-you-out if you are underage bouncer.! We started out with smoothies and duck salad. Then had Singaporean variations of noodles which was amusing because we never had that kind of noodles in Singapore! A speedy shot of the restaurant before we were told photography wasnt allowed.

And we had GORGEOUS desserts! mine's the blue one!

after that we went mini shopping, went to Scribblers where we bought a Grow-your-own-_gay_-friend for Warran and bought a naughty punk card for the naughty punk gang!=D then we realised it was 9.30pm! my gosh you cant rely on the skies there, darkness falls only at 10 plus. we thought it was only 7 something! so although we had overshot the curfew to return to the hostel... pictures were still important!

Phoebe and I posing at Green Park Station!

and have I mentioned how terribly anal the people there are over letting others off first and keeping to the right on escalators? I mean in Singapore we ignore those signs all the time but over there you actually get alot of tsking behind you when you stand on the left on the escalators.

although we were really late, we bumped into Miss Chia at the Tube Station Black Friars! haha but she was so blur she didnt notice us!

although we were considerably late (45min) plus in dangerous foreign land, we were the second earliest group! the guys only reached at 11 plus?.. Phoebe and I went back to our room to play with the naughty punks! haha yes literally play! we tried on kelly's new dress and pranced around. haha its been a long time since i actually had time to do such things! and we laughed and shouted till nic and gweyneth told us we were too loud! huimin kindly did a poster which read "SSSHH...everyone can hear what we are saying!" (which is strangely enough as she said..just for me...) then we went down to conference hall and joined the guys who just came back and immediately went into this playing-bridge mode!

a mind-blowing foot-tripping day! (especially for mark l!) heh!

Day 5.

This was the day we departed London for Rochestor. We had sight-seeing of Pip's marshes, Miss Havisham's house (characters from Great Expectations) and St. James Cooling marshes and Churchyard, where Pip's siblings' lozenges were. The weather was absolutely freezing, even though i was wearing thermals under my jeans and woke 2 layers for my upper torso as well, my teeth were nearly chattering! we visited Dickens Discovery Room and then transferred to Canterbury. This is my favourite part of UK besides London! The atmosphere was very lively because of the Charles Dickens Festival going on. There was a live band playing and Dickens' characters came alive!

me flipping through the interesting menu at the Italian restaurant in Rochestor

Desmond, Kell, Shuwen, mins,mark, Phoebe and I then headed to a random Italian restaurant for lunch. the price was sky high but with the company, the meal was really enjoyable! we then headed back to the meeting place where we headed to Ashford for the long awaited Eurostar train to Lille, France!!!!!

I shared a coach with Warran, may, Jiaxin, nicholas, jeanette, yi ci ... had alot of fun on the train and didnt even have time to update my journal when we reached france!! we headed to Holiday Inn Express by coach . the dinner was fantastic - Salmon and Potato chips (in the shape of coins)!after that we went walking with Julie and Renee to the square near the hotel. even though it was still really bright, it was actually 10 oclock and the streets looked quite unsafe with quite alot of perverts lurking around! so we went back to the hotel not long after! after washing up, we totally K-Oed!

a great day!

Literature Trip 2007 UK and France 28th May to 8th June.

hello World :)

miss chia (who seriously looks like a rockstar here) and I:)

its surprising how i finally find the inspiration to blog - at 12.32 am ( 6.32 am in UK) 3 days after the end of the Literature trip. I guess my unwillingness to write was because i wasnt ready to express my experience from the amazing trip into comprehendable words. With my use of the english language, it totally undermines the depth and resonance from the trip. its times like this where i just want to send my brain over to lorraine loh (author of my very first blogpost) or lesley sia (go find her link and read her blog!) and let them express the experience for me. nonetheless, since this is my blog, i shall do it my way. :) enjoy!

As comparable to how Mark Leong was feeling pangs of anxiety at the beginning of the trip as he was the only science fac student there who took neither lit or history thus not knowing anyone but Warran well enough to promise a fulfilling trip, I had my own qualms as well. Being the only girl from my class to go with the rest of the guys on this trip and only knowing Phoebe and Kelly from another class well, i was worried if i'd be torn between the boys (who would maybe be stuck with more of their VS men) and just Phoebe and Kelly. Being meiyi, i dont really like the idea of sticking to just a couple of friends, so i was skeptical about the whole thing really. Besides this at the back of my mind, I arrived half an hour late at the airport. the latest news i received was to meet at 10.30pm at Terminal 1, unfortunately, i did not receive the updated news to meet at 1o. so there I went, nearly strutting in at 10.30pm, panicking at the sight of an already gathered yellow and white mass of students and teachers. Since i didnt even turn up for the lit trip briefing, people like Warran and Jeremy scared me. Seriously they did, i hadn't even seen them in Vj before! (ok dang my blindness).

And there it was, a PROMISING trip ahead!

**

Ok, i shall get down to the juicy bits.

First, it was the mist that came out of our mouths when we exclaimed with joy at the first sight of UK at Gatwick airport. that beautiful moment will always be etched in my mind forever! then it was viewing one of the 7 wonders of the world - the Stonehenge. in the super cold and chilling weather with strong winds and rain, i didnt stay to stay loads of group photos or anything, so this is from mark leong's cam:

then it was seeing Shakespeare's birthplace --and all the shops along the way which many had names of alliteration, like Creaky cauldron. this particular shop as well a shop named Nimbus also reminded us alot of names employed in Harry Potter, which made everything seem more quaint and alive! then it was the amazing heart stopping Big Bang Building which emerged just as we came out of the london tube station, and then the London Eye which came up around the corner.

that night we walked down the streets of busy London. besides the fact that a couple of drunk girls started hitting on the guys, everything else was perfect. An artsy-fartsy city- they were showing Swan Lake to a mass audience at Trafalgar Square and nearly every nook and cranny of the streets were advertising plays and musicals like Chicago, Les Mis (which we did watch!), the Lion King and so on.

**

the next morning, quite alot of us took a walk to the Thameside Lake near our student hostel YHA. Feeling free at last, having no worry about feeding remnants of my breakfast to the swans and ducklings, bliss was in the air for many of us. Later we headed to the Imperial War Museum where the boys loved the guns, and the girls loved the trill of seeing just so many artefacts of WWI, WWII and post War. so many floors and so many rooms. I lost the girls almost immediately and the only person i found to endure the dark corners and actually quite scary live figures was Warran. Thank goodness!


some of day 3's photos. like what mark says, i should let the photos do the talking instead.


i shall stop at day 3. more coming up soon!