Hmm... Orientation is over, but we've still got a dance party scheduled this Friday night. I'll sure love to go, but there's the Connection Party for the 40 Days of Purpose, so I'll give dancing a skip. Danced a lot with Weng Yin already, cos on Monday they scheduled us for 2 hours worth of mass dancing, then we were watching horrendously at this volunteer couple on stage dancing VIGOROUSLY... Scary...

Anyway, we're stuck in temporary OGs until next week, because the teachers are taking so long to sort and band us into our classes. Alex is in NJ now. So is Wei Ting... Met them around in school somewhere... Wore the full grey NJ uniform on Tuesday onwards, and everyone looked so dull... And I sat in through the whole day at school with millions of breaks everywhere because I'm not taking Literature or any Science subjects. Then I'm trying to busy myself preparing the materials for 40 Days, trying to schedule my time for certain "demanding" people, which include surprise visits and all... Haha...

I think I set a new personal record or something... Just realised that I've been to the Heeren for THREE times in THREE days... Yup. Tuesday was there before watching a movie at Cine, then I was there yesterday after orientation to go walk around with my school mates... And today? Skipped the morning sessions of the orientation with Sheng-de and Wei Kit and a whole big bunch of Chinese High guys... You guessed it. Went to town, went to HEEREN, thereby setting a new record of 3 Heeren visits in 3 days... Haha...

To go through orientation again, frankly speaking, is quite boring. Yesterday all the OGLs were trying to convince us to participate in the games, but our whole class (who stuck together in the same OG) sort of just ignored all of them. In the end, we went back to our classroom to enjoy aircon and bonding sessions before we all split up... And Weng Yin is still my default dance partner in mass dance!

Today was no better... Early in the morning, we got news that today is still not going to be class posting results announcement, so the whole RV gang disappeared... I went out of school too... Was at Kinokuniya the whole morning, browsing the entire design section with Sheng-de. We decided to go back to school later on, and along the way to the bus-stop, we were jaywalking across the road just outside Ngee Ann City, and Sheng-de got hit by a motor-bike that came out of nowhere... The fortunate thing was that he only got a bruise from the impact, but his phone's LCD screen is severly damaged...

Back at school, it was more aircon-ed classroom bonding, then danced some more with Weng Yin, switched partners and was dancing with Jie Xin... Even though the mass dance was still the same song and movements, I'm struggling to remember the movements... Aargh...

And the worst thing is, Linus and May Ee were unsuccessful in appealing back to NJ...

And to my "default dance partner", Weng Yin... Happy Birthday tomorrow... And it's Good Friday tomorrow too... And to my good pal Linus, Happy Birthday on Saturday...

WHEE!! I'm back in NJ Arts! But it's like very depressing, cos quite a few people are leaving the college, or they'll go over to Science and break up the original 05A01... The school called us back to school just to announce that there are no lessons today, that we're free to leave after checking the posting results... SO DUMB!! Anyway, we left school after confirming our places, went to town to walk around, caught a lame movie (Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events), sat down at home and stone... Everybody's wishing that the whole class can stay together, but we all know that it's quite impossible. And everyone's so depressed over this whole issue... Sigh...

I feel like a caterpillar now, but what I really wanna feel like is being a duck... A pink one...

Okay, let's start from yesterday... It was the whole day at Sentosa for me... Brought a frisbee and a rubber ball there to play, but we lost the ball early in the morning... Haha, we were at the Southernmost part of the whatever Peninsular rubbish, then Wei Kit was kicking the ball around when the wind blew it into the open sea.

No choice, we ended up playing with the frisbee, Apri refused to run, then me and Edwin kept having our own mini frisbee toss... Then we had a "bio experiment" with the hermit crabs and molluses-in-a-shell by burying them in sand and water, then watching them wiggle free from all that slosh...

After the beach, we went for a budget lunch at 7-11 eating cup noodles. Then it was cycling time... We rented our bikes, cycled from the start of Siloso beach all the way to the end of it, then we cycled back to the start of Siloso beach again, crossed Palawan, turned about at Tanjong beach, then went halfway into Palawan beach again before turning around AGAIN to go up the slope of Allanbrooke Road. And here enters the thrill of Sentosa... Allanbrooke Road is the steep slope leading to the Dolphin Lagoon, so me, Edwin and Jia Mein were climbing the slope then going down at break-neck speed... WHOO... Controlling the bike was easier for me than Edwin and Jia Mein, cos the two of them were on tandem bikes as Jia Mein didn't know how to cycle...

Enough cycling, we went back to Siloso beach, May Ee arrived from whatever appointment she had, then we were playing by the fountain when Sheng-De slipped and fell... Next thing we knew he was having a very heavy nose-bleed, then the beach patrol had to rush down... It wasn't anything serious though, cos Sheng-De kept insisting that he was okay... Yup, we played some more frisbee, I went home early, sun burnt and tired limbs...

Today?? Okay, today was AmazinGrace, the actual day of the race after like 2 months of planning. Met at Jericho, then after all the contestants arrived (we had 4 teams of three), all the station masters (me included) rushed to our own respective stations. The clue to my station was "Auntie Molly Killed Katie's Fat Cat", which was essentially AMK KFC, where I sat there doing Econs revision and eating popcorn chicken for 4 hours... Well, 3 teams passed my station, due to the shortage of time... It was not that bad too... Kat and Uncle Vincent dropped by to do some filming, then later on Amelia Yeo and TAMMY and their friend came along... Haha, coincidentally, JEREMY and Coleman and Adriel were at my station at that time... Yes... Uh huh, Kay Kiat and his two friends emerged champions because they covered the most stations with the most right answers, then Aaron, Gerome and Justin was second. Yar, it was a great day...

Okay, I did quite a lot of travelling today, I guess... In the afternoon I was having lunch with my mum. After that I went to Spotlight to get some art supplies, then I took a bus back to Jericho... And at around 1700, I took another bus to town for dinner at NYDC with my classmates at NJ... And to top it off, I took another bus back to Jericho after that...

Yup, and coincidentally I took the same bus for all the trips to and fro... Yes, I was aboard bus 162 for four times today... Haha...

And how I wish, how I really wish I was a tree-branch... Haha... (:

Hmm, I'm feeling weird... I don't know how exactly to pinpoint this feeling, but all I can say is weird. Haha... Was at Kim Eng yesterday, which was this stockbroking firm at Suntec City... Quite fun actually... I wouldn't mind becoming a remisier in the future... And I'm still trying to jam the JAE website. Added like 5000 hits in the past two days, then Jia Mein was trying to flood the hugs counter on my blog... Yar, I can't think of anything else to do online anyway... Heeps... A few more days to go... Think I'm going to go nuts for the next week...

Hmm... Just got confirmation from Chris that NJ's standards really did dropped. It was always in the top five, but this time we're 7th... No wonder the principal didn't give us a half-day or whatsoever. And now it's like almost certain that I'll be in NJ instead of AJ or anywhere else...

Had close to 2 hours of Captain's Ball yesterday during PE... Everyone was jumping everywhere and trying to catch passes and trying to intercept the long throws and throwing and screaming... Having the most fun we could possibly have before people switch schools, or go to Science... After school, we hopped down for more ice cream, and as far as I could remember, I think it was the first time so many people filled up the seats in Estivo's...

Then it was another frantic rush down to Jericho for preparation of the AmazinGrace... We're like mostly prepared, but we need more people to participate...

And I miss the warm feeling... The warming of your heart so great that you just feel like melting...

Everything's as it should be... Went IKEA after school yesterday with Sheng-de to go window-shopping. I saw tonnes of stuff that I would definitely love to have, but they're all going to cost me a lot though... Sigh... Then in school the teachers are all away on some course, or they're down with SYF rehearsals, so we get a lot of free periods here and there... I can't find anything else to do online, so I went down to the JAE Application website for fun. Well, if you go there, you'll find this "hits counter", which have seen like 1.4 million hits so far. And, just for the kick of it, I tried to cause a massive jam on the website... Haha, the thing with Mozilla is that they allow this tabs thingy, so I'm able to add 5 hits each time I click refresh. And after a while, the website just jammed. Pathetic.

I brought THREE different people to NJ this week... Haha... Yurong and Clarissa came to crash on Wednesday, then it was Jun Rong's turn on Thursday. And it turned out that my Civics Tutor was Yurong's previous teacher at FMSS... What a small world after-all...

They just shifted the JAE application deadline to Monday. Darn, if I had known, I might have registered later... But it doesn't really make any difference anyway... It's either stay in NJ, or go join Clarissa at AJ... Skipped double GP on Thursday to go down to AJ to ask for their subject combinations... They have my combi, but they don't have Jia Mein's... And suddenly a lot of Cat High guys are appealing to NJ through the soccer team...

And yes... I'll be the one to ask you the question first the next time I see you... Haha...

I had no school today, cos NJ decided to let us off for one day after the results are released... Anyway, I was at town again, with my classmates to go watch Howl's Moving Castle. Eh, the movie was captivating, wish it was Moving Palace or some other name though... Eh, okie, we went home after that, I got caught in a traffic jam cos a bus broke down just opposite corps... After dinner, I decided to register for the JAE... Put NJ Arts first choice, then AJ Arts. The rest of the 10 options I just filled in rubbish, because even if I can't make it to NJ, I'll be at AJ.

Stupidly depressed now. I'm okay with my results. I'm satisfied with it, but the thing is you've gotta keep being sensitive to other people's feelings. Wish everyone would just stop thinking about results, and focus on the better parts of life... Oh well...

Okay, it's officially out, after like 3~4 months of waiting and 2 years worth of slogging... O's results were out today, and I got a decent 10... Well, it's good enough, for my standards. I'm happy... Should be staying in NJ, and of course in the Arts faculty. Got my A1 in Geography (YAY!), but the real stinker was English (A2)... Bah...

Skipped school today. Well, not exactly skipped TOTALLY... I went to school for morning assembly, then sneaked off to town with my classmates. Went Macs for breakfast. Loaned money to Jia Mein to get her earrings, cos they were the last pair and she MUST have them... Had to endure her jumping up and down though... Then we went to Kinokuniya, and we're just about to leave when I saw LUKE!! Yup, he was there too with a whole bunch of girls and he was the only guy... So I tagged along... Haha...

Well, Flukey-Lukey beat me by one point. He's very happy, of course... I told him it was a fluke, but he whatever-ed me... My mum's happy too... But I think she expected me to better my prelim's result, cos I got 10 in prelims too...

Okay, it's official. Monday is the O's results day. And my life so far? Eating non-stop. Then I'll start thinking I'm growing fat and go for a 3 km run. I need something to at least distract me from thinking about the results. Man... This is so nerve-wrecking. Just wanna get the results ASAP...

05A01 has another 2 more weeks. Kinda sad to have to say goodbye to each other after these two months plus... Everybody's trying to enjoy themselves as much as possible before the real exodus creeps in...

And... The question you never fail to ask me all the time whenever you see/talk to me... Yes, I did... (:

O's results are supposed to be coming out this Friday or next Monday. Well, there's 2 more days till this Friday, but we haven't got anything on the news yet, so I presume it's next Monday... Stupid MOE... Can't they just kill all suspense and just release the results like, now?? All these speculating are seriously stressing me out. It's a bit ironic, really... You've slogged for 2 years just to cram the entire syllabus into your head, and now you're afraid to get your output...

I'm back. Rain is good, it helps lower the hot temperatures. Sunshine is good, but the heat is bad. Sunshine is good, and the tan you get from the sun is awesome!

I'm just back from AJC and SAJC fun-fairs... Went to AJ's first, met Aaron and Yurong and Clarissa outside the AJ bus-stop, but I was late for 20 minutes. Ate baked potato with bacon, got a pink balloon flower, saw a lot of my old friends, and basically basked around there in the hot sun. Then Alicia came with her friend (also named Aaron), then me and Yurong decided to go to SAJ's fun-fair... Well, we stupidly followed Ali Baboon's advice to take 13 then transfer to 93, which was half correct... Yurong and me did take 13 all the way down to Braddell Rd, but we were supposed to take 93 on the opposite end of the road. Ali Baboon told us to stay on the same side of the road... Guess what? The two of us ended up at Eunos before we realised we're going the wrong way... Anyway, we reached SAJ at around 1600h, and their closing time was 1700h... But that was okay, because they were desperate to get rid of all their stock and so the prices were all reduced by a lot... Haha, price mechanism at work... Yar, we were walking around getting souvenirs and playing games, until Sun Yanzi came... Yup, she was making a special appearance cos she used to be a SAJ student... And guess what? The two of us chased after her and screamed like mad... YES, it's the first time in my life that I'm chasing after a celebrity... We were planning to ask for her autograph, but she was mobbed by a whole crowd of people and all... Haha...

Ooh... It finally rained today!! After like what, 3~4 weeks of "drought", and 300++ bushfires, the sky finally let down some rain today... Yar, I was in school having GP tutorial when we heard thunder, and then rain... But stupidly, so many hot days, and the rain barely lasted 15 minutes... C'mon, can't the clouds let loose a bit more??

Had PE today... It was NAPFA trials for standing broad jump and pull-ups... I'm seriously unfit and getting fat... Managed only 4 pull-ups. But the awesome thing is, I recorded a personal-best for broad jump! I could never jump for nuts' sake, and the first jump was 180cm... Then I remembered Matthew's "aim highwards" advice, and the second jump was 195cm... It was much better than I expected, but I still need 216cm to pass (NJ standards)...

Ate a lot of chocolates these few days, so I made it up by doing 5 rounds in total round the field... Thought I clocked a lot of mileage already, but Khairi said he did 10km, compared to my measly 2km...

Lots of mosquitoes... But I only got one or two bites... The mozzies don't like me... (:

Great! Just great! My life is great! GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!

and hug me more... (:

Hmm... My Chinese New Year holidays were quite fun, I guess... At least I did some meaningful stuff rather than just laze around at home and will my life off... Let's see, on Tuesday I had half day of school... NJ CNY celebrations included Treasure Hunt and Hamper Wrapping Competition... So you can more or less guess where this whole crap is heading to... Then went to Yishun after that with Nora and Cheryn for lunch... On Wednesday I went visiting at Michael's house. Had a "mandarin-eating competition" with him... Haha, inspiration from May Ee... (: And yup, today I went to my grandma's house for lunch, then after that was just basically stoning at home until Biru asked me whether I want to go catch a movie... So we were down at J8 watching Constantine... We sat right at the front! Yes, the front row... Got a sprained neck after the show ended... Didn't understand the plot, was more amused by Biru covering her eyes for 75% of the show...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Yep, I'm feeling so much better now... Last night I was seriously pissed with everyone and anyone... But come to think of it now, there wasn't really a point to be angry actually... I mean, just because I had a bad day doesn't mean that I've gotta get angry at everyone, so I'm way past the fury feeling right now. Actually it was because Eleanor called me this morning to apologise... As I said, no point in being perpetually angry, so I accepted it... And whoever else I blasted at yesterday, sorry too... Feeling kinda guilty too, cos I was angry at some of my good friends too... Yar, even though I didn't scream at them, I was angry WITH them... Yup, I owe them my quiet apologies too, and I've promised myself not to get overly-twitchy ever again...

Anyway, I just set up this *HUGS* TOTAL thingy just below the music player... Go on... GIMME MANY MANY HUGS!!

I'm feeling kinda stupid right now. Had an extremely terrible day... Waited aimlessly for ONE HOUR at Novena Square for Eleanor... And when she did come, she started whining and complaining about everything and anything... Her reason for being late? Overslept. Didn't even bother to apologise. I got so pissed that I just made up some lousy excuse and left her right there... Before that, I was at Queensway to get the baller-id bands for our class... We were told two weeks ago that stock would come in today, but it was all sold out on that day... At night during youth service was worse... I came early to discover only 10 odd people, and it stayed that way even when we began late... It made me wonder whether all these work for the church was worth it... Or whether I made the right choice to skip the CIP opening thing at Toa Payoh... And right after worship ended, some people who were obviously oblivious walked in making a whole lot of noise, laughing and talking and smiling and exclaiming... So much for "honoring God by being punctual"... If you're late because of school, that's okay, but late because you were gone having fun and totally hecked the idea of being punctual? Smack yourself. I should have gone to Toa Payoh instead... No no, I should have stayed at home and did my own QT... Yan Peng was right, you don't come to church to socialise, you go to church to worship Him. Hadn't had cell for 4 weeks in a row, well, at least I had the chance to talk to some of them... Andre mysteriously disappeared... Then was waiting for another half an hour aimlessly (AGAIN) before I realised I waited in vain. How very smart I am.