two days

ok its in two days! in order to get more motivated, i decided to read up.

GOOD REASONS TO GET UP AND RUN

There are many good reasons to run. However, there will always be days when you have to force yourself out the door. In those moments, just think about how good you will feel after a run, and remind yourself of the consequences of not going running. After all running is medicine for your whole body:

1) The brain: Running doubles the oxygen supply to your brain, keeping you awake and thinking clearly. Running also increases your brain metabolism which leads to increased learning capacity and creativity.

2) Immune system: Running increases your body's immune system activity which leads to a better resistance against all kinds of infections and a lower risk of cancer.

3) The muscles: Running increases the number of mitochondria, the power plants of the muscle, which improves muscle metabolism. New vessels grow within the muscle to improve blood supply.

4) Heart and circulation: The heart gets stronger and more powerful. The resting heart rate decreases and the heart's ability to recover from stress improves. The viscosity of the blood is reduced along with the blood pressure. Running has the same effect as a mild antihypertensive medication. In addition, blood fat, including cholesterol, declines.

5) The lungs: Lungs get more powerful. Ventilation and blood circulation through the lungs improve. The whole body is flushed with oxygen.

Is anyone still not motivated to run?

my material Christmas wants

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PHOEBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT FOR AFTER THE 14TH DEC! *WINKS

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ok i shall put this up since some people who have started christmas shopping comment that they cant find anything that they may think i need... and its making things difficult for them so, here goes!

meiyi's list of material wants:

1) IPOD touch. haha, ok dream on,
2) a new duffel bag.
3) a new school bag
4) new havanas
5) a watch to tell time. not something too valuable or shiny because then i cant wear it to school.
6) a new sweater for school.
7) jewellery (my kind) is always a plus point to christmas wants!
8) a diary/ notebooks are my no. 1 favourites because i like to pretend like im in control of stuff.
9) more next time.

ok i didnt really specify the brand or whatever because i feel very bad its like as if im asking for them so yea. haha. have fun christmas shopping all you!:)

craft stuff and glue

yesterday i embarked on my 2nd day of Xmas shopping! with charissa!:)

yes you heard right, charissa lee zhi min(to like the millions of band newcomers: she is not my twin btw, and we do NOT look alike!:)! haha im a lucky girl indeed, busy bee got let off from work super super early! with her fantabulous craft expertise, i managed to accomplish all the purchasing of craft stuff i need etc. headed to bras basah then raffles city etc. we also had a very interesting talk. haha! ok even though she used to be from mgs but she is unlike any other mg girl i know, haha wont elaborate why! hint: remember that im from scgs. haha. ok if you get this hint, then you know what i mean already:) we left by 5 plus for her cello lessons. ok im talking so much abt her because i know she wont ever come here to read.haha!

i managed to buy alot of things i want! hip hip hurray!

anyway, im finally meeting the class girls for lunch tmr! jac got me on the edge of my seat today when she called and my phone was buzzing non-stop during meeting.! being the relatively kaypoh me esp when im anticipating something, i started drifting from the discussion during the meeting and started imagining all the things jac had to say. HAHA. my bad (hwee)! ok i shall stop my rant.

im excited for NSSN, are you?

you should be, because its gonna be great + you will get to see me challenged. haha. because i have to do something ill be worried for many days before that. !

thankew thankew phoebe, jeremy, markleong, timothy, family, annabelle and 6 friends for your support. however i still have at least 5 more tickets to sell. so please buy from me!

VJC PT 14thdec 7pm $10.

great music + great acting = Not- So-Silent-Night (NSSN)

we promise hilarious moments and many more impromptu stuff from our pool of musicians and cast. oh yes, secondary 4 students will be joining us too, so do support your alma-mater schoolmates too!

Xmas shopping (1)

First day of Christmas shopping!!:)))
ok this may be late/ early to some of you, but yea, its christmas! ive been gettting into the mood of it largely due to preparation for NSSN! didnt buy alot, but got alot of inspiration!

after that i met Jean for tea after collecting our race packs at suntec, bumped and saw tons of people eg. lemuel, yixiong, tingwei (jean caught him) and lorraine's older brother and dad. I miss lorraine, phone buddy, come back soon!! :)

seeing so many pros and just so many people carrying the race packs made me so stressed! it didnt get to jean but im excited and nervous that i suddenly feel extremely tired and heavy-legged on the day of the race. found out that sheila is going to run the full marathon too, wow, you go girl!:) my aims for completing the race is sub-hour and that seems highly unlikely considering its in 7 days. running has seemed to serve an extra purpose from what i wanted- besides increasing motivation and improving my perseverance level, i have lost another 5 kg plus, dipping my bmi yet again. this is worrying because i havent actually regained the weight i lost during promos and its going down again. plus i look and feel the same. hmm! still eating at macs, island creamery, mahjong-and-eating sessions (!!)etcetc doesnt help provide me any answer to that either. hmmph!

oh well, thank God I didnt fall sick last week as i thought i was going to, if not my stamina would be back to square one after recovery. im very happy im running stan chart this year because it reminds me of two years back, running with ll, jean, shan and lesley. okay tmr, 10km, sub 1 hour please!:) to class girls, lets meet up soon, since jac is back!:) yay!oh yea, more mahjong please!

reverso

yay today i finally met up with jean, jill and chiawen!!! woots!

we have made other plans to meet up in dec (haha yes, we 4 have sad busy lives) at jill's house. and since we will most prob be broke, we are gonna buy food from great world and trot over to her house to cook. yay!
we talked alot, (at least i think i did) haha at island creamery. i shared a sinful banana split with jill and honestly i cant remember if it was that great as reputed because i think i didnt concentrate on registering the tastes because i just kept talking and talking! haha. we didnt take photos and post on the board like how the masses at island creamery always does because we didnt even have a camera. >< at first i thought the photo printer was the camera then jean was "do you actually think this is a camera?" , then we laughed because i realised it was farrr tooo bulky to be one. hahah i always feel like shooting myself when im so blur, well at least the naughty punks werent there if not they would have screamed 'meiyi moments!" -_- :)

we then proceeded next door to macs after about 3 hours. bumped into cheryl tan, lynnshan, changsuo and kevin there. changsuo and kevin joined the 4 of us and we had a really interesting conversation about chia wen!! haha. its times like this which i really miss the old days and the GLCC people! anyway im pretty upset because i wont be able to go for glcc church Uth camp (10th to 14th dec) because of NSSN which is on the 14th, 7pm at VJC PT (advertisement once again.) we will also not be taking part in WASBE JC bandfest this year due to it. wow im pretty amazed at the potential of my already busy schedule, imagine if i had bandfest rehearsals and uth camp and studying and nssn and stanchart marathon and etcetc i have to do (mentioned two posts earlier).

anyway this is pretty random but you know last time in autograph books you will fill in 'likes' and 'dislikes' etc. right? i remember not ever having a strong dislike for anything, but today i just confirmed what i really dislike. i REALLY DISLIKE chee ko peks. or hum sups or whatever you call them. the most decent- looking men at the busstops can secretly be chee ko peks :( To chee ko peks : in whatever shapes and sizes you come in, wherever you appear (at bustops, college, eateries, random places) you are so annoying to people and you should not be one. poof. :( to any boy reading this, you better not grow up to be one, if not you will be the No.1 irritant to many around you! oh yea, have i mentioned, since i cant stand you all, im rather intolerant to you all also, BEWARE!

bye!

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when silence becomes music

okay, *cheers* because i didnt fall sick in the end!
the remedy is just panadol, and sleep for like super long. haha.
the week has been super hectic and unlike the week before i didnt have any days to actually rest at home.

The highlight will have to be planning for bindi's and charissa's and yuxuan's surprise birthday celebration on wed at the 11th hour the night before. thankyou enghwee for enduring my stressed screams and ranting then! it was a success because the birthday trio were happy by the end of the day! the fish and co. dinner was also very enjoyable because i never knew the staff there do a birthday rap for the birthday people. haha it was really funny!

okay spot the unglam photo of me (please dont say all i appear in HAHA) taken by daryl's stray camera! :/

ok this is really bad because i cant remember what i did on thursday and friday. hmmph! and saturday was actually successful and fun! we have quite a lot of juniors wanting to join us for NSSN, this means increasing the chance of a more impactful performance. yay, do come for NSSN! 14th dec, VJC PT.:) after that i learnt mahjong from kahsiong at kaikeng at the waterside. yay finally. but thankfully im not exactly addicted, haha if not there goes my R-papers in Jan because ill be able to play it like everyday with so many kakis around. haha. oh yes kaikeng's house is like some ginormous entertainment centre. he has many arcade games (catered for mostly boys, la) and mahjong table and OSIM chair and very good facilities in his condominium, adding on to a very conducive place for taking afternoon naps. i enjoyed myself alot, thanks exco (minus jiawei), daryl (sorry! haha), dafril, shikang, kashiong, kaikeng, junsen and huijin for the company!:)

and yes, Praise the Lord, dear Phoebe is back from Lit trip! Lorraine just left for there and poor jac is still in India, hopefully they have planted our adopted tree in Sikkim already! i sure hope they remember to take a picture with our dear seeds!

Finally, to jillian, haha im so sorry im so caught up with things, ill organise the date ok when the 4 of us can meet ok?:)

x0x0x0x0, meiyi:)

Refreshed

hello all!
yesterday He touched me in a different manner, a refreshing one. Our God is indeed a God who listens, who is willing to try all ways to reach out to you, He understands our diversity, He understands our differences, He knows our reserves. I was indeed proud to enjoy it with Hwee, Eric and Jiawei. To Eric : believe it or not, you weren't there by chance. :) im always so heartened when someone else gets to know Him and experience Him for the first time because that person just doesnt know the amazing journey he/she will be embarking on.
because we reached home late after supper-ing at the Grapevine (which was very enjoyable!), this morning as expected i couldnt wake up by 6 to go running. hmmph. but its ok, i slept in and now i dont feel like im going to fall sick (as i did yesterday).

I just got an idea for Christmas presents! so utterly excited:) im going craft shopping later after music lessons, then ill make a trip to East Coast for a hopefully 6 to 7 km run. HAVE to run 10km by 2nd december. oh no!
Next week there are going to be so many birthdays to celebrate, im pretty excited!oh did i mention, im going to try my hand at baking a birthday cake too ah! haha.

What i want to do next week:

1) Finish 3 chapters of Math
2) Finish more of the Sudoku book i have been clinging on to for a month
3) Watch Scott Fitzgerald's Hallmark show Wed: either 10/11pm, not sure
4) Watch Heroes on Channel 5 (yea im slow here, dont want to watch them on sidereel!)
5) Print my photos for photo essay at mum's office and start on it
6) Complete ALOT of band stuff : individuals, sectionals, meetings
7)tanning, swimming and prob gyming (i cant believe i need this to play properly)
8) sell more NSSN tickets
9) Meet up with Lorraine, Jean and Chiawen one day of the week next week
10) Meet up with class girls : LITTLE INDIA!
11) Housework!
12) Run like 4 times next week and reach 9km by the end of it.
13) Make sure there's a successful Tune-in on Saturday!:)
14) Start on ________'s Christmas present, and other lovelies one's too:) yay. oh yea not forgetting birthday presents!
15) complete my carmen improvisation for organ!

okay i shall stop here, the restwill have to go to WEEK 4. !

Week 2

the week has whizzed past yet again, eventful and miss-able.

On Tuesday I had such a fantastic time because i spent time with people i seldom have time to and perhaps not for a long while more- priceless. :) LIT TRIP REUNION! :) I met Phoebe at 12 plus in school after band meeting and as usual we had the time of our lives sharing. haha. phoebe is amazing, she is so angelic in everyway, gosh! anyway we waited for shu, then talked alittle to zara and wei-an , before we 3 travelled and talked to parkway to get bubble tea. heard some serious news. O_o. they also insisted i try MOS's frozen strawberry. although i promised jeremy the day before to keep my stomach empty for lunch, i couldnt help it since i was so hungry! anyway we then met mark t and jerry at the bus stop and talked for alot more before we boarded 43 to meet gwyn so that she could show us to her house. on the bus yeowboono, phoebe, me mark and desmond played bridge and seriously, it was really reliving the long bus journeys in UK! it was so fun and i think i upped a notch in my bridge skills cuz thompson was helping me alot:)

its funny how people change in different circumstances with different people. mark becomes thompson when around lit trip people because there's a mark leong as well. not just that, the mark i know becomes a thompson suddenly. haha ok ignore me if you dont get this part. anyway, thanks thompson! we rushed to gwyn's house and watched numbers on AXN for quite a while then i continued with bridge. during the whole session kelly just kept laughing at whatever i was saying it just so felt so 'meiyi-momenty" again. haha! not long after, the rest came - mark leong, nicholas, jinghan, warran, a14 girls and miss chia!

miss chia also brought her friend Aida, who gave us a really insightful briefing on BACKPACKING IN EUROPE/THE WORLD. tips like how to make yourself blend in with the culture allowing for more security as well, stuff that i really wished my sister was there to listen since she will be going backpacking in europe next week inbetween her course at St. Gallens. we had that session for roughly 2 hours, then had the pizza treat from miss chia and mr teo! while eating we relived memories by watching pictures taken by numerous people -danielle, mark leong, gywn, jeremy... after that we watched PARIS JE TAIME. OHMYGOSH. the show was fantastic seriously. displayed in the Films De Cannes Festival, its contains many short stories of love in paris : my favourite would be these:

Natalie Portman falling in love with the blind man. The film starts with Portman (an actress) making a phone call to him and gives a really long poem on lovers breaking up. Before she finishes, he assumes she wants to call it off with him and he hangs up, stunned and disillusioned. then flashes of their live together whizzes past in his head, from the time they met, and how they screamed, studied, laughed etc. by the end of it, all of us are close to tears because its so sad, but then suddenly he is brought back to reality with the phone ringing again. Portman calls again, asking him why he hung up and whether her rehearsed script was dramatic and realistic enough.

The vampires falling in love with each other, where necking suddenly comes with a new meaning... haha.

The old sweet American lady falling in love with Paris, and finally,

the gay- theme one! ok i dont usually advocate such an issue but i have to admit it was sweet:)

we ended pretty late and I announced my photo-essay thing, haha ok guys please do send your contributions to me asap!:) im stressed now, because apparently everyone is kinda looking forward to seeing the essay after im done. haha. have i mentioned? im not really creative OR artistic.. haha.
on our way out, we visited the Japanese cemetery the people who take chinese were so intrigued by because it was in their syllabus. haha. took pictures, before resuming our way to the bus stop. nearly went with phoebe to her og meeting cuz she said anyway ill be crashing her group so i might as well have gone haha but that would be ultra strange.! bussed home with dearest kelly and jerry and yeowboono and the bus ride was just so funny. kelly is always so funny and we were reminiscing about vanessa (pau) and sc and then we both suddenly agreed that both of us had a common view to life- that we value life so much more than certain-mentioned people who took studies to be nearly everyone. hmmm. really interesting!

ok pictures will come SOON:)

farewell.

farewell:

jac, faizah, jason to india. sikkim tree! haha
phoebe, minsypansies and other humanities people to thailand!

im going to miss you people. come back soon!:)

21st

happy 21st sister!

its time to fly dear! honestly, i love to think how you flying may be, because to me, you've always been up there. love you!

we went shopping at dempsey jones the grocer first then headed next door, Culinary Quality to lunch. haha lulu had Kobe beef which was really good while i had rack of lamb! also really good, thank God for providing us with good food everytime and even at home because mum makes such good everything. Mum baked a cake and it was so yummy-delicious.:)

Not - so - silent - night 2007

hello everyone!
COME FOR VJCSB'S
NSSN (not- so - silent- night)
CONCERT HELD ON THE
14TH OF DEC 2007 AT
VJC Performance Theatre,
7pm,
$10!

Proceeds from the concert will go a long way!
To purchase your tickets or for more details, contact me.:) If you dont know my number, do ask around yea, thanks!

Class chalet pictures

Class Chalet : November 2007
This is my class,

VJC 07A13

and this is me,

besides talking, I think eating is the next thing i do best. haha which is not very good. spot the marshmallow im holding, i koped it even when i hadn't finished my sausage because i was scared someone might take it. HAHA. tsk tsk.

bbqing,

and im too lazy to upload more so yea.

Its funny how we got kind of hooked on to mahjong (hwee and mark), xbox (me) and taboo (girls) during the chalet plus considering how we played taboo for like 2 hours on saturday at hwee's, rachel's and sarah tan's party.

Thank you hwee, rachel and sarah for the treat!:)

world peace

courtesy of anthea's blog!
ohohoh go read her blog for our after- pw adventure!!:))) and the really hilarious resemblance to n.k thing! hahaha.
oh yea, we were the first slot to finish PW!!! whee! first day, first timing, first group! haha and jac was first to go! yay im so proud because all of you did a good job:)


im backkk from a hyper weekday(s)-getaway. whew!:))

Pw is over and everyone is happpy:) what ill remember is our whole class praying before that. after that i really felt at peace. presentation went as planned:) YAY.


Wednesday started off with a bang with band but unfortunately, i felt so bleh-y touching the instruments because i feel i have lost touch with it after such a long absence from them. lets hope we all get the hang again soon really quickly. after that i met jac, she had a really quick bath then we rushed to town to meet ants, hwee and mc. mc was sooo cute because she was imitating people doing hip hop moves with her head and all that hahaha! jac and I also saw soo many people dressed up in halloween outfits some were really scary esp those masks with no eyes and all. caught the shuttle bus in thee nick of time because mc spotted it.:)

NIGHT SAFARI WAS SO FUN! haha pictures will be posted after i get them from anthea!
[WARNING: i admit the following is going to be a rant so dont read if you arent really interested! haha. ]

anthea and I were doing so much more then animal-watching though. HAHA. after the trip we cabbed back to jac's place for a sleepover since we finished so late and mandai is so inaccessible for so many of us. we had supper because we were hungry and thus we didnt sleep till 4 or 5 i think.

Thursday-Friday
we also woke up early at 8 but we talked till like 10 plus! then we had prata and ants and hwee went home to pack stuff first. jac and i felt like watching a brainless show like jac's 'model behaviour' and then we ended up watching till we had to rush like mad to get ready to go down to town because jac had to meet her odac-ers to get her india climbing boots. so while she was doing that i met ants again for lunch. we had to 'lure' jac out of the shop and this happened SO funnily. ill always remember the image of jac, shihan and sofian (??) dashing out of the s hop. haha. rushed around again. jac and i are ALWAYS rushing when we're together, though i suspect its me because jac is always organised, punctual and prepared, unlike me. =/ hwee's mum picked us up from paya lebar and then gave us a lift to class chalet. ok class chalet pics shall come up again next time!=D
oh yea, while cycling i met Mr. Johari jogging! how coincidental! :) wanted to go after him (haha) but then my bike's brake spoilt and i really couldnt risk riding it. lol.

Currently:
im so shagged.! tmr is going to be math marathon in the morning to catch up with lost time and then ill be heading to hwee's rachel's place for the party.yay cant wait!=D

I hope YOU are having a wacky holiday too!