So ... I went to Ngee Ann Poly Open House, and that was probably the worst decision I ever made. Because of that, I am now completely 100% torn between going to jc and poly.

People keep telling me to follow my heart, and though I keep making excuses for the other one, I guess I already know where my heart lies. But apparently that's just not good enough for my parents. I really hate the fact that they refuse to try and see things from my point-of-view, or even acknowledge my interests and likes. Is it really that wrong to want to pursue something I am honestly passionate about ? And though they deny it, I know it all comes down to one thing, face. If I do go to poly, they'll lose face. It's a hand-in-hand thing.

If the next time I see you I say I'm in poly, would you judge me ? Would I try to make up for it by saying it was my own choice ? The answers are pretty obvious.

I dont know. Is it me being stubborn when I say I have no interest in being a doctor/lawyer/banker/BIGBUCKSMAKER ? I just want to try my hand at what I like (and what I presume I'm good at), see if it works out and hopefully spend the rest of my life doing it enthusiastically. Is jc the only route for me to achieve all that ?

All this is pretty redundant considering I haven't even gotten my results. Hope everything falls into place after monday.

shit I think I'm starting to like you.

So, the end of 2010 finally came yesterday, and well, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !

Last year (wow this sounds so weird) held so much for me that I just can't find the words to even start expressing myself. GAH THIS IS SO ANNOYING !!! I am not usually this inarticulate, I assure you. See I bet inarticulate isn't even a word.

ANYWAY, I guess out of the 4 years of my life in secondary school, the last was definitely the busiest and most interesting. Filled with amazing people, photos, memories, tears and more. Wow I can't even believe all this cheese I'm producing. But yeah.

So what better way to round up the year then to do a play-by-play of all the biggest events in my life in 2010 ! With photos, naturally, taking into consideration my extreme need to take photos wherever I go as part of my bizarre personality. HEE ^^

(oh but forgive me, my memory fails me from jan to may, or maybe nothing big happened then :/)



Comm Interviews @ Celeste's unexpectedly saw tears from the whites, and a squeamish nervousness that I had never seen before.

haha but I'll admit I still had loads of fun acting scary and coming up with the most difficult-to-answer questions ever :D And it was a huge thing to me because firstly, the green comm members bonded and became even closer and secondly, I got to see a side of a lot of the juniors that I never knew existed, including both whites & greys.

JUBILATE was in a word, amazing. Admittedly the first part of the day was a little sticky thanks to the greens' plan to ignore the rest of the choir as a form of immature punishment for bad attitude haha. But everything cleared up in the end once the cameras were whipped out (SEE THE MAGIC OF CAMWHORING ?!), and the gifts/flowers/cards from everyone put us all in a good mood (:

Then there was the greenbadge curtain-warmer that had us running around like mad ducks and missing out a whole lot more of camwhoring ! But yeah, 1st time properly performing in front of the school without the rest of the choir and I even had a small, ridiculous stint as a beatboxer. DONT LAUGH. Haha okay it's so dumb even I laughed. But it was fun ! And the audience actually gave good feedback !

RUSSIA. RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.

I must have been a very good girl to have been blessed with the opportunity to go overseas with SN Choir, and to Russia, no less. As if the time spent w/ them during normal choir pracs and Jubilate wasnt enough, I got to spend 10 whole days in a foreign country singing, shopping, loving & laughing with the best people ever.

There were so many gorgeous photos to choose from and I really couldnt decide, so I just settled on this one with us doing our signature pose from our signature song. Honestly, it's like, sing a canto song about food and that's the only song audiences will ever remember.



I guess the next big thing after the trip was my Sweet 16th.

Was really pleased that people still remembered even during the mugging period and filled up my inboxes. But I shall be a little whiny here and complain that I didn't get a legendary birthday that every girl is supposed to have on her 16th birthday ): And there were really little presents too harrumph.

BUT, I am so so grateful to have such amazing friends as shown above, who actually surprised me in the morning with a cake, presents, an awesome scrapbook and their very presence to accompany me to mug. Bet you arent reading this but, Lynette, WeiTing, Boon, Mack (who couldnt make it), I really love you guys a lot (:



HA. This next picture actually came from an album titled 'Oh my O's'

Yep. No doubt the biggest "event" and period of 2010 and my life. I'm serious, I've never mugged as hard as I did during october for the O Levels. Went to Republic Poly almost everyday to study from dawn to dusk (literally) with different study buddies. Most frequent were Lin Jian and Megan, thanks dears, couldn't have made it through (alive) without y'all ;3



And finally, O's were over !!!! Screamed and celebrated on that last day of bio paper and really just went mad with joy. Well, next up came Choir Farewell.

It was glee-themed and yes, I went as Sue. And yes again, I looked the best. (HAHA) Well I hardly or never post photos of myself on my blog but I couldnt find any other better :/

Sigh been through so many partings and faux farewells that even this one didnt feel real. Like it was just a formality. But I still treasured it, esp the touching gift-giving at the end.

Oh SN Choir, you have no idea how much I love you guys.

PROM was perfect. I don't even care if we paid $80 for food that wasnt really that wonderful, the night was one I'll never forget. More photos than any other event cos everyone looked gorgeous and every single photo I have is gorgeous that once again, I can't choose :/

funny thing is that none of these that I put up are actually from my camera

6Diligent Chalet seemed like the only way to end the year on a fab note (:

So this post is finally over, just like 2010. Can't wait for 2011; results day (ZOMGAH), JC, orientations etc. Not sure if it can top last year though.

I remember I logged on with news to blog but once again i forgot. Oh well.

Anyway ! 6Dil Chalet yesterday was fun+awesome+FO SHIZZLE (?!) and I really love our class. Haha sorry watching Big Bang Theory as i type so i can't really formulate proper sentences. Was banned from staying over so I had to leave at 10.30pm, right in the midst of a very exciting/steamy round of Truth Or Dare. GAWD I LOVE MY CLASS.




yeesh I miss them already )':

Back from Phuket !! I absolutely love Thailand cos of the good weather, great food and FABULOUS prices when it comes to shopping. Obviously, my parents are feeling the love too, since this was our 5th trip there.

Nonetheless ! I had fun. And the shopping was extremely satisfactory ^^

Came home with 2 tops, shorts, a romper, 2 dresses, a skirt, a pair of flipflops (wedges), 2 bags, 2 rings, a bangle and 5 hairbands. HAHAHAHA and that's just my stuff, not including the souvenirs I bought.

And because I'm lazy, I'm only posting up 5 photos. 1 for each day. HA ENJOY.

Also, I'm feeling pretty angsty now cos no one ever seems to reply my messages on fb. And I hate being ignored.

Kay so I think an update is due. Been living the Life of the Lucky; haven't had this much fun since, well, never ! Actually I think all this freedom's a little bad for me, don't know how I'm gonna cope once I ''get back" to school.

Anyway, here goes a play-by-play of the week's events :


Sunday: European Association Christmas Concert

A small group of us (lynette gen cass kaijun yangzhen me) formed an acapella group to perform for this charity christmas concert function organised by the European Association.

It was a pretty sweet event, considering it was for underprivileged elderly (all Eurasians, of course). Performances by supposed local celebs like John Melina (?!?!?) and Don Richmond haha ! We sang a few xmas + non-xmas songs, haha the video is SUPERRRRR embarrassing :X

Let's just say no one can move like sop ones ;)

forgot to mention Mackie's parents were like the in-charge(s) for the performing comm

Monday: GOSSIP GIRL MARATHON (L)(L)

Oh. My. Gosh. Seriously, how could I have not discovered GG sooner ?!? I used to think it was just a shallow superficial scandalous serial (haha sorry i like alliteration !!) but BOY WAS I WRONG. It's a shallow superficial scandalous serial with beautiful people !!! And the best thing is, these beautiful people have relationships with each other !!!

Homg.

So basically, I spent 8 hours at Cassy's house just staring at her comp screen and salivating and WANTING MORE. Can't believe we only watched 9 episodes ! (?!) Of season 1 !!! Gah desperately need to get my hands on the dvds to catch up.

So. HOT.

This, my friends, is Dan&Serena, a.k.a the best and most likeable couple in GG. Or at least the first season, so it seems. Dan (Penn Badgley) is like, really really cute and witty and the sweetest thing is, he's like this poor dude who's had the biggest crush on the insanely gorgeous Serena (Blake Lively) since forever. So when they get together, you just wanna jump out of your seat and whoop.

Coolest thing is, Blake and Penn dated in real life ! For 3 years ! Note that it's dated, because they just broke up this year, before I even started to acknowledge their existence, which is beyond depressing.

But even so I stand firm that Blake+Penn make the cutest couple ever, pwns Zac+Vanessa HANDS DOWN. So totally praying that they'll patch it up and get back together and have the most gorgeous babies on earth ):

Tuesday: Easy A Day

Meh so due to some last min change of plans, I went out alone with GenGen. Trained to Dhoby Gaut for some thrift shopping that I discovered via http://sophiewillocq.blogspot.com/ at a thrift store called New 2 U. (You can see the signboard just behind Gen's head)

Anyway, the clothes were pretty much terrible and unbelievably cheap. Nothing cost over 6bucks HAHAHA gen and i were in HEAVEN. Bought this really cute shirt with a cat print on it that was initially priced @ 2bucks, but they have half-price for students on tues, so basically I got it for ONE MEASELY DOLLAR SUCKAH.

Wish they had nicer clothes though, cos everything there was like for old middle-aged people T_T

Quickly trained down to Orchard to catch Easy A @ Cineleisure. Pretty good show ! I think the plot ending was kinda stupid, but the technical work was done really well. And best of all ... PENN BADGLEY WAS IN IT !!!

He played Emma Stone's love interest but come on, we all know that he looks tons better with Blake and probably will only ever have feelings for her. ^^

Wednesday: Stoned at home

Watched Legally Blonde 1 & 2. 1 was better and I now have a better impression of Reese Witherspoon.

Thursday: Narnia-Ikea Outing !!

Voyage of the Dawn Treader w/ nette tian tong ning @ AMKhub. Visually entertaining but the script was so corny ! I was cringing half the time. AWWW I miss Susan and Peter.

Meatball-filled lunch afterwards, followed by an adventure for Tian's new Pikachu through the wonderful world of Ikea.

proposing

Friday: Sentosa w/ the Teos !

Spontaneous outing with Gen and her family to Sentosa. Spent the day at the beach taking pretty photos and frolicking in the water ~

Saturday: Baby Edward's Party + Double-flea attack

Went for the 3month-birthday lunch for my (almost) newborn cousin Edward ! Cute little thing, but honestly, I don't take very well to babies. They're kinda ... ugly ._.

Really fun catching up w/ the aunts and uncles though. That would sound bizarre, if not for the fact that due to weird relations, they're still under Generation Y.

Trained down to Raffles Place after the lunch to go flea-ing @ Alcova w/ Megan. Exciting much !!! We're true blue flea addicts now.

A little unnerving to browse at first, cos all the people there looked so condescending and unfriendly O.O Haha nothing like the friendly faces at the Haji Flea.

But we still managed to get stuff ! Especially since we finished the entire place in record time and decided to head over to the Flashbang flea at Singapore Flyer Skydeck. Hooray for double-flea attack ! I got 3 dresses, 3 rings and a top for $35. Not my best but still reasonably cheap I guess :) Totally made up for the fact that we got scammed 10bucks by the taxi driver while cabbing from Alcova to Flyer.

WOW so I've finally finished this agonizingly long post and if you've read it till here, I truly applaud you. Next update will be when I'm back from Phuket then, since I'm leaving on Tues ! Whoo fun I even bought brand new (hot pink) sunnies just for the trip ^^

SEE Y'ALL. XOXO. (You know you love me)

After talking to Gilaine yesterday, I was really inspired to outline my career path more distinctly, and not just sit around wondering where I wanna go after JC. Duh I want to go overseas, but previously I had absolutely no idea where. What the top film schools were, their admission rates+fees, yada yada. So now I'm here googling and I find myself overwhelmed with choices. It's kinda embarrassing but I can't help daydreaming about the possibilities of a my dazzling future while reading all the programmes offered.

^^ teehee.

People who know me well will know that I'm a complete worrywart. And right now, yes NOW, instead of enjoying the glorious holidays ttm, I'm worrying about how I'll ever get to any of those schools. The fees are a freaking fatman bomb and my parents have stated clearly that if I wanna go overseas, it's gonna come out of my own pocket T.T

But I clicked on the doc on scholarships and it's 33 pages long, and despite my constant irrational need to worry, my greater need to procrastinate and be lazy took over, thus forcing me to close the damn document.


Guess this whole hooha about colleges was also spurred by my discovery and newfound love for yet another musically-talented brunette

KURT HUGO SCHNEIDER. -insert a million fangirly hearts-

Apparently extremely popular on youtube, I just started appreciating his downright awesomeness and ability to play like 20 instruments.

He even freaking played Pachelbel's Canon on mobile phones ?!? Like using the beeps non-touchscreen phones make when you press the buttons. Genius man.

And he arranges all these amazing mash-ups and medleys which his partner sings, but seriously, people should be going gaga over HIM instead of his singing buddy.
It sure helps that Kurt's really easy on the eyes too. REALLY easy.

But the coolest fact about him is that he goes to Yale. Musically-talented, slightly nerdy, cute AND he goes to an Ivy League College ?! Do these people even exist in Singapore ?!
)':


On a less depressing note, Nettey came over for a Glee Marathon today, since we were hardworking students and missed out on the entire Season 1 to mug for prelims/O's. Lovelovelove Finn and Kurt, who looks so cute in the first few episodes but not so much in the later eps. And Quinn, of course, the most gorgeous in the whole cast (Y)

Santana is starting to look extremely appealing too ... her skin positively GLOWS and it's pretty obvious that she's got the best bod in the club.

Yeah ... my lesbanic fetish starting up again :/ Sometimes it comes this close to overstepping my very normal obsession over Angmohs.