happy CNY!

happy CNY everyone!

today was my first 'Lo hei' session and it was great fun lo-ing with 79 people! haha. we had 4 trays of genuine authentic home-made yu shen. Our teacher-in-charge who made it is just awesome and such a great role model. :o amongst all the random and usual well-wishes shouted or exclaimed amidst flying particles of sesame seeds, peanut grains, carrot or radish shreds, were A for PW!, A for Chinese!, 4As!, and Gold for New York!

One tip is NEVER to lo hei opposite a person who is extremely high, of which some of the reasons i can think of is because... he CAN finally go to New York!. ah, pinrui! he doesnt lo hei, he throws hei! seriously, he flings the food at you! my gosh, and because we had 4 trays, we used two canteen tables where everyone was gathered around, and he wanted to throw it all the way to the other table, it got flung onto the back of a J1's uniform and she was so shocked! thank goodness his house comm shirt redeemed his irrational behaviour. and at the end of everything, there was stuff on my hair and as i told eng hwee that i could feel the lo hei in my shoes (but only to get back in response "dont be paranoid!!")i was picking from pr's plate of 'treasure-hunted' salmon! so its ok la, at least i got some form of payment.

didnt join them for dinner though partly because i was so full and because i really wanted to rush home, took the bus with charissa and someone else. well it was technically just charissa, since charissa and I decided to be anti-social and sit downstairs and not sit with him upstairs. see we are taking full responsibility for being anti- social ok! haha so you cant fault us. ok i shall stop it. anyway, had a really interesting conversation with her and i couldnt stop squealing with laughter! seriously i swear sometimes she is mad under her very 'gu niang' appearance! *clears throat* but i guess thats only after tae club makes her high!! haha i know the plan for the 16th of feb and i shant destroy anything, but just say that im VERY excited. VERY is the key word by the way. oh im excited for this saturday morning too, i need to go dig first though. haha!

it would help if my nose stops running/ blocking like a tap/enghwee respectively, since the latter is always so cold. ok, im turning eng hwee-ish, and should stop very soon.

my dear sister is leaving tomorrow late night! 6 months without a room companion, and the only times when i really praise/complain or talk about life is late at night to her. she is the best because she only knows the people who i talk about through MY eyes. it feels good, because she will believe what i tell her and tell me what to do from then on. my sister is so full of wisdom and although she is NOTHING like me, (seriously!) in almost every way, she is my dearest dearest sister and i will miss her badly.

=(

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omgosh i just read this and im kind of freaked out now.

Programme for NY Carnegie Hall 26 MARCH 1pm.

Program Details

North Torrance Youth Symphony Orchestra
Oxford Academy -Symphonic Orchestra
San Clemente High School Chamber Orchestra
Collegedale Academy Chamber Orchestra
Aliso Niguel High School Wind Band
Victoria Junior College Symphonic Band

Is it just me or the do rest of our competitors sound really really foreign but pro. ok ok, take a breather.

because His grace is indeed sufficient

Have you ever had the feeling you just want to cry because you are SO AWFULLY thankful for everything that has happened? the last time i had it was after getting back promos results last year, and now its happening to me again. i really want to cry! haha.

im so thankful im going to NYork soon enough, im so glad things are going fine and school's enjoyable:)and im so thankful my sister is enjoying herself and doing what she wants to before she leaves for Switzerland for 6 months:/im even so thankful my mum cooks such delicious food every night i feel like such a blessed child before i go to bed everyday.:)

2008 has been good so far, some of the pictures in the above collage above - 90 % taken in school at the treehouse, random shots, before Sea Regatta, and JTS. (if you still dont know, its juniors-treat-seniors!). We had dinner at JTS on Saturday night at BIlly Bombers and i can so make a bet with whoever's reading this (besides classmates of course) that we are the FIRST class to have JTS, right!!:)) Some other photos im still missing are band people at Suntec Mass Dance, dancing in the rain!, us packing cookies on Saturday till we were all woozy and drained, Countdown at Tanjong Rhu!, and other random ones i really cant remember now!

Coming up, we are having this funny CNY showdown thing, band S-T-J at an uluated part of East Coast *clears throat* and urban hike!

Thank you all who bought the cookies from me today! yay i managed to sell all 25 packets in like less than 3 hours! plus i was still having lessons ok!:) Woots! special thanks go to those people who were sick but still bought to support. thank you, i will remember you even when im over there!:) if you want some more especially if you really enjoyed eating them, you can ask me and ill help other people sell, if not please get from me during the second batch! which should be next week:) drink more water though! its quite drying :/ today during lit lecture was so funny! havent chatted with warran in years and its quite amazing how we could still crack really lame jokes after not proper talking since like last june! his kind of humour is seriously the roflmao kind! and then he and mark kept asking me what i was copying throughout the lecture. like every 10 min he would ask how the elizabethans vs jacobeans thing was linked to duchess of malfi. i mean true la, after awhile i was also wondering, haha but i mean you cant expect me to admit im obsessed with not missing anything out during lectures right, at least on paper! annabelle was so amused also so we just kept laughing. oh and today i super suan-ed andre kua alot ! it just seems so natural when im talking to him. sigh!

anyway, was chatting to chia wen just now and we are going to start the vj support group after JAE. we will be praying for it and hope everything goes successfully! looking forward!

last year,

just got back from band dinner. :) my first BIG GROUP one this year.:)) so many we have to split into 3 buses and occupy a few tables at the hawker. these kind of outings are something ill never ever forget after i graduate from vj. although its only a meal, it is so much a part of all us, when we come together after a long hard day of school then toil in cca, and come together for dinner.:) we talk about our day, funny things that happen, gross news and play many fun games we learn from others:) its also amazing how there are nearly no cliques, like you come together in one whole big group (this year its gonna be 80 plus), and you're enjoying the company of ANY other 5 people you happen to sit with at the table. not one dinner either at katong nasi lemak, simpang, thaipan, marine parade hawker, bedok, airport or parkway is ever the same, because you are always with someone different in the group. its also amazing how i find myself having PROPER : one- to -one not-small-talk nice enjoyable conversations with more than 10 people everytime we go out. :) interestingly, today it was only year 2s though. we always have year 1 s with us but today they disappeared, maybe they went out on their own. but its nice having all the dear year 2s again, im missing the times when it was just our batch, but im so excited for our juniors as well:)

ive got a new perfect pitch junior and it rocks because he doesnt even need a tuner for the timpani. ive got 2 arts fac juniors in my section too (woohoo!) sidney this is for you!: arts fac is slowly starting to dominate ok! remember how my previous section always forced me to count money to pay the bill to practise math. =/

the year 1s come in with such a fresh slate, they have no idea of the history behind every senior and friendships they witness, im just so grateful all of us have a memory because all these, if not going down in books, should be engraved in our hearts forever. go vjcsb, and machu picchu!
New York here we come in about 8 weeks :))

love, me.
P.S: thankyou group of lovely angels who adopted me!

five loaves and 2 fishes

this morning i recieved a BIG yellow construction paper from my Angel (s). the source is SO dubious - so many different handwritings (of which some i can so recognise who it belongs to!) and why do i even have so many angels! its supposed to be 1 right. argh, stop tricking me! haha. thanks for the nice sketch of me though. :)

was chatting with hwee and nathaniel yesterday and gosh doesnt it seem coincidental that everyone seemed to be on the topic of leadership and stuff like leading people etc. I guess only after quite a number of years have i finally confirmed what kind of leader I am or what i want to be. You can only have it one way, to me, its really just being yourself but bearing in mind other altruistic purposes. He asked me to be honest, and so i was, the reality hurts sometimes and trust me, so many more than just me will really respect those who accept it with understanding and grace. so there. Im so sorry if you dont understand what im talking about, but rest assured i havent gone bonkers yet because i know if any of these particular 10 odd people came across this post, they will know what i mean, and it goes out to them. :)

i also have a checklist i look back sometimes to make sure im on track, since im a man with so many flaws! This is what the checklist says:

Intrapersonal Qualities:

1. Self-motivation?

2. Self-regard?

(Self-confident and self-accepting, based on an accurate understanding of one's own strengths and weaknesses)

3. Integrity?

4. Emotional Resilience?

Interpersonal Qualities:

1. Communication?

2. Establishing Relationships?

3. Teamwork?

4. Leadership?

easy as it sounds, its not easy to have it all, esp, intrapersonally and in all areas in your life. big shoes to fill, but i guess thats what life is for isnt it! we are young and able, and we have Him, push on friends!

N.B especially to those have problems seeking self motivation (during this gearing up season) , to motivate and inspire others.

love.

All the best for season and competitions, babes and hunks!

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if you dont cry, the lump in your throat becomes stones in your heart and alas, it soon turns cold.

R.I.P Grandma.

its time for apologies and forgiving

i cant believe im missing the first weekday of school band prac, but my throat and fever is enough to kill 5 people, seriously. I missed school today also bleh but i think im getting much needed rest. :) oh no, im gonna pangsei the "thaipan-tonight" (lol) people again, sorry!

blog hopping and facebooking just makes me feel sad! haha i dont know why but its amazing, sometimes worrying seeing how things between and within people change. 365 days ago, i was still... 365 days on, there has been such a radical change. after chatting with hwee yesterday talking about erhem, i reconsidered my priorities and principles. i mean, why should I compromise on my principles and what i respect just to accomodate someone i dont think deserves it? haha this reminds me so much of the roaring twenties. Daisy and Zelda symbolised everything Gatsby and Fitzgerald despised and hated, yet they wasted their lives pining and yearning for their love, finally realising (or maybe they didnt) their lives were in such a fix, too much of a mess. Fortunately, we are all still young and not too much in that irreversible stage. I know things werent clear and our messages both ways werent too defined, but we both undeniably know what went on, and for now, at least for me, im also very sure of what i want (or what i dont) - you know the answer. its hard to let go, but its made easier when you dream and have faith in something much better ahead. :) the more you know about someone, the better it can get, and quite rarely, the worse it can get. So when that happens, you know even the stars in the sky are trying to tell you something. they are screaming at you not to waste your time, not to compromise, because from their angle, they can see so much more fabulous things waiting for you:)

i said 2008 was going to be great. but thats only if we are willing to put the beautiful 2007 behind us. we will be fools to continue thinking that 2008 will be as great as 2007, at least for me, since many of my favourite seniors are gone =(, we are going to be studying more than ever, and I wont be meeting more and more new people everyday, unlike last year. 2007 was so beautiful its really so hard to believe. oh well 2007 is gone, 2008 bring it on! i cant promise ill handle everything as well, but ill do my best. :)

im bidding farewell to all my dear senior buddies who are enlisting today and tomorrow. im going to miss the random suppers, studying a.k.a starbucking, impromptu cycling to get your worrying off the A levels which was in a month time HAHA. im looking forward to your first pay check though, remember to keep your promise!

raindance!

mass dance at suntec was great! if im not wrong i think i had more fun than last year! the more memorable things are me staring at vera and laughing and not being able to talk because if I did we would just be drinking rainwater. it was pouring and there all of us were, some j2s and most j1s, stranded, having nothing else to do but being drenched in rainwater dancing and cheering out lungs out.:) yuxuan and I finally succumbed once to the choo-choo train but it was so dangerous because i was wearing slippers and the floor was so slippery. many band ogls came to join us instead and i can safely say we definitely rocked the place, at least within the 100m perimeter ok! many other random people from other ogs or even ex- VS people came to join in our fun and cheering. another funny thing would be when Mr. Chan came and everyone surrounded him and started cheering "full day, full day full day!" then he was "yea can, tomorrow is sunday!". So we intuitively started chanting "two days two days!" then after that it progressed to "one month one month" and finally it became "no school no school ! ". Ha. then he just smiled and left. !!. after taking photos and ending of with last year's OG cheers, we went off for supper. everyone's voices were really hoarse and horrible. shared ice kachang with xuan and then the j2 table started playing alot of those table games till late.

i felt so sick after that because there was band early in the morning, then daryl's house then the mass dance. not enough sleep plus getting caught in rain = not very good for health.

today all our lessons were cancelled and we only had a lit lesson with Miss Chia. so after that we went to east coast to eat at bk, then we cycled. :) as usual i got injured again and sunburnt. haha.
today joshua asked me about j2 life and everything and he said to enjoy this slack part while it still lasts. actually i really am, there are alot of things i want to make my last, for example, cycling on a school day (i.e no more ponning), prioritising and doing assignments (i mean ALL), start being more hardworking and generally more motivated. I have finally decided what to do with my life. Its either Law or FAAS at NUS, or corporate Law at SMU. Im not going overseas unless i cant make it locally, but ill try and go for more overseas attachments etc. in Europe. yes:) the whole group of us missed the deadline for signing up for SATS so i guess ill be doing it either in May or June. Still cant decide which is better.

New York trip has been confirmed - 21st to 29th March. I hope it snows, like it surprisingly did last year!that would be a nice treat. but then again, i cant really take really cold weather. i end up being really quiet because im praying badly for the sun. Im a sun person, cant deny that. we will be going after CTs march hols, which means we will be missing school for those few days. as much as im really excited for the coming year because of so many things i have to do, it in itself is enough for worry. so much planning and organising, work which cannot be neglected. but at the same time i want to live as i did in 2007 - still being around friends and doing things i think is meaningful. Im just praying things will come one step at a time and we will all be fine at the end of the day because what doesn't kill us, just makes us stronger. :)

Have a good week ahead everyone:)

vj's favourite 6 songs

ive been crashing orientation like free.
mass dances are just hyper and so so so good.
yesterday (Day 2) was my favourite day because everyone still had their voices intact (only a little husky) and all the people around me were so fun and nice to dance with. Demo-ing neutron and tribal were ok because they are pretty easy. I want you was just fun la although we couldnt do it properly. I thought submerging myself between ogls like daniel and ziyang would help haha but i guess it stumps everyone. well, we learnt it today and yay my feet are finally moving to the beat of those 6 songs. :) Ralphiel was great with daniel, benedict, enghwee and phoebe:) Igor was great with anthea, ziyang, camille, furby etc. :) Tomorrow evening shall be the favourite mass dance at suntec city 7pm, so if you see many crazy people in vj shirt dashing here and there, you know why.:)

this morning we played a successful prank on our junior class:) andre bluffed as a year 1 for as long as we could take it and they bought it! haha thank goodness his cat high juniors and his childhood friend in the same class went along with it. Aaaaaaaa.........ONETHREE! (with hand action). hahah this was used to bluff junior class that we were some cheering fanatics! they were so enthusiastic when we asked them to join us also haha!

after that we had no lessons because the teachers had a special meeting or something like that so the few of us were stranded with nothing to do. haha. talked to hwee about something which has been on my mind these few days, made the stoning useful at least:) thanks hwee:) after that yuxuan, xiaojia, huijin, kahsiong, weijie and I had lunch, before i discovered the thrills of a psp. haha crazy taxi is so fun i tell you. weijie kept laughing at me playing. after that it was just orientation all the way till 6 plus when i went home with jessie and kaikeng.

im so so so sleepy its only 9.50 but im going to bed. its going to be such a long day tmr, school then meeting, outing then suntec at 7 altogether! bye!

yours truly

like what my mum said, if its meant to be, a million people cant stop you. But if its not meant to be, you only need one person to thwart your plans. so there goes, person im talking about, because you're not gonna stop me!

first day in school! was better than i expected haha. bumped into lucas at the busstop so i had his as usual crazee company to walk into school. !! there were of course many lost and apprehensive faces around. a group of sc girls _____ into the canteen too, shall not use the adjective i want to since its not exactly flattering. just hope they dont get much of a "culture shock" people talk about! was exclaiming to vera "omogosh they look so blue! like clouds!" and vera was "yea you were once like that ok!". math was -_-. urrgh seriously, the time i spent trying to straighten my neck looking up since the table was so so low i could have spent that time to do like 2 more questions or something. grrr. but anyway, went with class to makan at jack's place after that (haha hwee!) and vera and i headed back to school, on a SECRET MISSION with phoebe and then joanna. haha! hwee couldnt because of tmr's paper. its ok, there's still friday! and saturday! and monday! ERHEM was fun because we could do a lot of undercover stuff until SOMEONE had to whacko my head and expose my identity. big boo.

well vera was also saying how she was really happy to be in vj, one of her reasons being other people in other schools dont seem to be as happy as her. HHA. for me its the same too, but only because the friends and lifestyle i now lead is so much more ME, if you know what i mean. haha lorraine knows! lorraine knows everything! quite scary, she understands every situation you describe and she gives very meaningful comments. ahh, she is a life guru! its so comforting talking to ll and ranting, even nonsense.

matthew and i will be mending cca booth tmr, hey do drop by ok! esp with your freshies:) im looking forward to combined assembly tmr too, hey freshmen, look forward too ok! you all are in the midst of what so many of us are missing sorely now!:/

P.S i have mastered whiney whiney! woots. haha

last post of 07

honestly, 07 was a great year. its not an exaggeration to say it may have possibly been the best year of my life so far.

i found myself walking through a tunnel, towards a light much brighter than the present,the future, with people surrounding me. those in front were the ones to lead me, those behind me were the ones to let me lead, and push me on if i faltered or stumbled, those at the side were those to support me whenever i needed it. there was the omnipresent Lord as well, my race-route setter, who was my leader, my pillars of strength, and my encourager. He was my left, my right, my front, my back. He was everything. Honestly, what a better way to put it than, Thank God.

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i find myself walking through a tunnel, towards a light much brighter than the present,the future, with people surrounding me. those in front are the ones to lead me, those behind me are the ones to let me lead, and push me on if i falter or stumble, those at the side are those to support me whenever i need it. there is the omnipresent Lord as well, my race-route setter, who is my leader, my pillars of strength, and my encourager. He is my left, my right, my front, my back. He is everything. Honestly, what a better way to put it than, Thank God.

2008 is going to be great. i can feel it in my bones.

love. meiyi