Suddenly I've got people commenting on my blog writing style and techniques. Chiew Yee said my blog is all about the the description of the activities that I do each week; then Sarah commented that my blog gives people a "blow-by-blow account of almost everything"; and my dear "girlfriend" Yurong said she tried to imitate my blogging style and gave up subsequently, but my blog entries are among her favourites. AWW so sweet!! HEE HEE!!

Oh well seriously. I don't think I exhibit any distinctive writing patterns in my blogging, other than being overly meticulous in my story-telling. I SOUND NAGGY. "Everybody's blogging style different? Can you blog in a way that's totally out of character?" (from Yurong's blog). What can I do to blog out of character? Hmm. Maybe I should try that one day, and turn my blog into one that employs a different style each time I post something.

Unpredictability. Instability.

But for the time being, I shall continue with my daily events "nagging": This morning I had breakfast at J8 McDonald's with Tammy and Shihui. I got a Happy Meal toy and it's name is Mepples! Whatever that was... Anyway Tammy was late, so me and Shihui pretended that the toy was Tammy and talked to it stupidly. Then went for Easter service after that, had lunch with church people at Kopitiam, then went down to Jericho with whoever that's left of those that didn't go home. Played table tennis for almost the whole afternoon, while listening to Adriel's classic oldies.

Uh huh. I tried my best to not make that account sound blow-by-blow. Did it work did it work??? If I wanted to I'll have talked about how I keep pressing Mepples' head everytime Tammy made some underwear remark. Or how Shihui and me went nuts over the party hats and the baby chair and little boys and little girls. Or how Sarah giggles nonstop. Or how Shermin and Yurong are fighting over me. Or how Sarah keeps squeezing in all the corner balls in table tennis. Or how good me and Yurong are as a doubles pair. Or how whatever and wherever and whoever. SO DID IT WORK???

Blooiee. I sound psychotic.

I just managed to receive a huge file (about 45MB) from Yurong through MSN. For once my internet connection didn't break down halfway and the transfer was quite fast. In it were pictures from church barbeque to Good Friday service to captain's ball to whatever else. Right after I told Cherrie that I don't like pictures because it captures only a moment in time and shows an inaccurate indication of actual life. How paradoxical it is then, when I actually need those pictures that Yurong sent.

So here you go, here are some highlights shown through an "inaccurate indication of actual life" by capturing "a moment in time".


Joel Tan about to eat a marshmallow! He's my protégé, cos he's going to take over Fellowship Committee!!


My fingers are in there somewhere...


Li Rong, Shi Min and Clarissa!


The artwork that came from 7 hours of cutting and pasting...


And the artists: Tammy, me and Shihui


BIMBOTIC. That's us. Uh huh.


Me!


Yurong; supposed "girlfriend"...


Shermin; supposed new "girlfriend"...

Hmm, in one way or another I'm glad to have reached the end of this week. It's been a busy one. Too busy, I must say, cos I've been involved in so many stuff and so many activities that I'm neglecting sleep. My bedtime for this week is 3am in the morning, then waking up at 6am for school. The only time when I've slept for more than 3 hours was on Wednesday night, and I didn't even get to bed early. I slept at 3am and woke up at 8am instead, so I was almost an hour late for school on Thursday.

I have a sleepy look on my face. Some people told me sheepish, and most people say it's zombie-ish. My thoughts are just flowing randomly now.

Went down to Far East Flora on Wednesday after school with Mr Adrian Loh and Hui Min. Needed to get a tree for Earth Week for our traditional tree-planting ceremony, so Mr Loh drove us down. We got a hydrangea! There were only 3 pots of hydrangea left, so we chose the best looking out of the three and sent it back to NJ. I got a small little pot and dish for myself too, cos I wanted to transplant my rosemary.

I know nuts about reproduction in plants and animals. Tuition with Hai Hao is getting more and more tough for me, cos I didn't take Biology ever in my entire life, so I have to constantly research about the ovary and sperm and fertilisation and whatever, just to answer Hai Hao's weird questions. And now it's anther and filament and whatever! I mean, I know SPECIES of flowers, but I don't know REPRODUCTION in flowers.

Me and Siew Peng had a lively discussion during double GP. I insisted that chickens are borned in eggs which are then fertilised externally, but Siew started questioning the process of fertilisation and whether there is any use for the male chicken! Then we started arguing about whether trees are asexual or bisexual, then Liyana told us that some trees like papaya tree had male trees and female trees! We even got Ms Florence Yap to check out the definition of fertilisation.

' "Playing God." How far does this describe the endeavours of scientists and doctors today?' Ms Yap said that we do not need to consider science versus religion for this GP essay topic, but I felt that it was impossible to not discuss religion in the topic as it is a contravention against the roles of God, so it is important to specify the role of scientists and doctorr, especially in their attempts to "play God".

Got back all my Common Test results. GP: B4. Maths: O8. Geography: D. Literature: D. Far from what I would want really, but apparently D for Literature was considered a good grade to most already. Blah. I spent the whole term studying Maths and at most 2 weeks studying Lit, and Lit turned out to be one of my better subjects. Such irony.

Did up a giant cross and message for Good Friday service with Shi Hui and Tammy. On Thursday after lessons, I met Shi Hui in school, then we went to J8 to get paper and tape, then went back to corps to start work. The original message was supposed to be "The man who hung here is the BONAFIDE, CERTIFIED, UNDEFEATED, UNDISPUTED truth & the light, who died out of love for the WORLD, presenting SALVATION for YOURS TRULY." But there were space constraints, so we excluded the long list of BONAFIDE...UNDISPUTED adjectives.

Anyway, the final result was awesome! The three of us had our own bimbo party, cutting paper and pasting it onto the wall. Started work at 6pm, and finished at 1am! By 10pm all of us were drunk. Matthew and Daniel came shortly after midnight to buy us supper, and by the time I reached home in the middle of the night, my mum asked me sleepily whether it was time for school.

Ben and Lurong put together a short video about the archeological and biblical documentation of Jesus' death. I got my name on the credits for "rushing back home and contributing the Father's Love Letter after tuition", cos they used it towards the ending. HEE HEE!

And Good Friday service! Imagine my shock when I saw so many people bringing friends. Okay maybe it wasn't that many, but still, there were a lot of new faces. And during our final worship practice in the afternoon, I couldn't even sing decently at all, much less reach the high notes. Then after dinner with Ben Ng, Adriel and Sarah, my voice came back much stronger during the full-dress rehearsal. Duck noodles, ginseng herbal tea and Strepsils Extra Strong helped. And we brought together a different meaning to "gaining fat"

Well it was good. The many hours of practice paid off, Strepsils did its job, and I could sing high when I needed to. After the worship sessions, I got everyone to stick a star with their names on the big cross that we pasted the night before. And gave out the Love Letter! Everything was quite well-organised, and I think my fellowship committee simply is amazing!

Guess what? Clarissa brought her friends Li Rong and Shi Min. Incidentally, I sent them invites to this service via post. And apparently Shi Min still remembers playing board games with me, even though I've forgotten her name. Shermin and Yurong and me are embroidered in a love triangle. And us three bimbos (Shi Hui, Tam and me) used the leftover star stickers, wrote BIMBO and pasted it on our oh-so-sexy chest!

I can't resist this pun: the church is a place where both me and my items get lost and found. Last Saturday after worship practice, I left behind a CD and stickers meant for SOMEONE'S birthday. Yesterday, Joel passed it back to me, after keeping it with him for almost a week. And on Thursday night, I left my bottle in the auditorium ALL BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE TO TAMMY. Last night, I found it at the reception counter. As for me, I am totally lost in God's embrace and foound in his love.

I think the security guard uncle is super duper nice.

OH OH OH. I can't believe I forgot to mention this: I got Band 1 for Project Work! HOORAY. My whole class got either 1 or 2 which is really a good thing, and I really couldn't believe it when Ms Vignesh said "Guan You, one...". But I think it's kinda dumb, cos we did one whole year of research and thrashing out all the interviews and documentations and oral presentation, and our results were released to us in less than 5 minutes. BATHOS.

AND OH OH OH. I must mention this: My application for the HSBC/NYAA Youth Environmental Award got through! They're asking me down for an interview on Monday. HOORAY.

There you go. My interestingly long week for you.

Oh goodness look at the time now. 3.39am. I'm either a bit too early for school, or I'm stupidly delaying my sleep. Loads of work to do. Well okie but at least I'm still managing reasonably so far. Right now I'm finalising all the plans that we're intending to carry out for Earth Week, which is going to be next week. Later on I will need to update the song sheets for Good Friday, as well as to have a overview plan of what decoration to include for Good Friday service. Then there's still Maths assignment which I don't really know what's going on. ME NEED ATIQAH TO HELP ME WITH ME MATHS!! Need to revise on my Literature texts, need to finalise what I'm going to say for the Catholic High Talk next week, need to find volunteers for various events, need to start fulfilling my role as Assistant Recruiting Sergeant... And there's probably a million other things that needs to be done!!

What the hell have I got myself into? I'm committing to too many things without even sure whether my time will allow me to do all of those. I foresee my next 2 weeks to be one crazy hectic period of my life. Breakdown? Possibly, but most likely from lack of sleep. Already I'm chalking up a huge sleep debt even before the real stuff comes in. I SHALL NOT WASTE TIME IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. I SHALL RELY ON GOD'S STRENGTH.

I'm starting to get the jitters again. Oh shoots not at a time like this. Noooo.

Got into major trouble with Mrs Nair yesterday morning at school. Okie actually it's not really a very major thing to me, but Mrs Nair sort of blew things out of proportion and made it sound as though I've committed a cardinal sin. Nah I shall not bother to explain it, cos it'll take too long and too complex. But anyway, bottom line was that I had to go see Ms Marianne Tan for some accusations that I made but didn't mean it, and for getting Mrs Nair into trouble in the first place, before she got me into trouble. There I told you, it was complex.

I was in one of my grumpy moods in the morning, although it disappeared by noon-time. Atiqah skipped Economics tutorial cos she's going to drop the subject, and "sort of" helped me with my Maths tutorials. I'm more inclined to think that it's my own brilliance that accounted for my productivity in that hour-long free period? Haha but this coming from a guy who flunked his Maths. Blee. Okie so Atiqah did help me quite a bit, but she still can't sketch a circle properly! Hee hee!

I meant for myself to rush down to City Hall immediately after school cos I'm meeting Dora to collect envelopes from her (more about the envelopes later). But stupid me fell asleep on the bus there as I only slept for 2 hours the night before, and I ended up at the exact same bus-stop where me and Atiqah ended up when we took bus 174 last year! Haha there was this occasion when we wanted to go town, but met this old man on the bus and he dragged us past Chinatown with him. So I had to take the bus back, saw Ken and Peiling, walked a long way, missed the meeting with Dora cos she had to work, and decided to go straight to town next to meet Eleanor to pass her her CDs. I got Joel to help me collect the envelopes instead.

Then I rushed down to corps to prepare the song sheets cos I'm leading worship for youth cell, then needed to prepare the pamphlets for the Good Friday service also (hence the envelopes). And gosh the practice was quite bad, cos the songs I chose were difficult and we had a hard time making it sound right. And my bad throat was hampering me from reaching all my high notes.

The actual worship came at 8.07pm. I was feeling so stupidly nervous and clammy, then Shi Hui messaged me while Matthew was doing all the introductions. Haha she was somewhere in the seats below the stage and apparently my red shirt was too outstanding (again). Oh well the worship was good, but I couldn't get the right key for the song All Day. So I was languishing around, completely lost, couldn't get the right pitch at all. But eventually I did, and the rest was just awesome.

I overstrained my voice over all the high notes. After worship I couldn't talk without going into a high pitch.

And for today, I went for the Green Audits Awards prize ceremony at Singapore Polytechnic! Met Hong Yi at Dover MRT at 8.45am, then we realised that the auditorium where the ceremony is going to be held is just straight from the MRT station. So we wandered around for half an hour before going into the auditorium. Met loads of SEC/GVN people!! Hahaha! Ms Stella Koh was with us, while Mr Mark Lo (my school's vice-principal) was to go on stage to receive the prize. Oh well the ceremony was quite dull, other than Chan Soo Sen's speech and Marsiling Secondary's presentation. There were 132 schools getting the various awards, so me and Hong Yi just ended up clapping for all 132 schools. Okie we clapped slightly louder when it was Mr Lo's turn.

Blooiee but it wasn't that dull either. The refreshments were great! There's nonya kuehs, including my beloved kueh lapis!! And I realised that it was quite a good place to practice my networking skills, but I didn't do so. Anyway, left the place at around 12 noon, headed down to City Hall MRT to meet Kai Jie and Rhoda!

We're meeting to do our Geography Mediterranean biome project at the National Library, while I'm meeting Kai Jie earlier for lunch. And when Rhoda told us that she was going to be late, we walked around, ate, window-shopped. And I went to see Dora at Starbucks! Haaha! Eventually Rhoda arrived, but not without grumbling that she couldn't locate the bus-stop and goodness gracious whatever.

WE WERE PRODUCTIVE. So much more productive than the last time we did the rivers project together. Within 15 minutes Rhoda and me found 4 books worthy of attention, and Kai Jie found this huge book all about Mediterranean climate. All of us couldn't even spell Mediterranean in the first place! After that we went to Raffles City foodcourt to analyse our data, distributed the work and went shopping after that! I wanted a green shirt, but we keep getting distracted by other gift shops. Eventually we gave up on my green shirt cos it's either too expensive or not nice.

I got down back to corps again after that! It was a day full of travelling. I had a worship practice for Good Friday's youth service, where me and Ben are leading the first worship session. And both of us being guys, we chose all the songs with super high notes that only the guys are meant to achieve and force the girls to sing in some horrid accompaniment key. But that also means I have to reach those high notes, which us guys have trouble reaching already!

Do remember that my voice is still overstrained from last night's worship, where I chose high songs too. We started at 6pm, and we only ended practice at 11pm. Songs were too high, trying to figure out the transitions, determine which way of singing is better, figuring out wrong chords, fatigue and all. It was a good practice, in the sense that we managed to get the songs to sound good, but at the expense of everyone's fatigue. And my voice is totally gone now. It's been reduced to a raspy croak...

I'm so bloody stupidly tired now. Need. Sleep.

I've been rather tense these few days. There's nothing to do with nothing. I'm just feeling extremely volatile and there's a great explosion ready to take place in my mind. In fact I realised that I'm actually wishing for someone to irritate me. I "sort of" want to get all argumentative and picking fights and shouting and blowing up at people. But sadly no one was kind enough to irritate me. BLEE.

Anyway, it was dialogue session with our Principal, Mrs V Cheng. I got to sit in the conference room for the second time of my NJ education. The first was with Ginny at some racial harmony focus group... I ended up sitting right in front of the P, and I forgot all about my black-painted-pinkie-nail on my right hand. Haha yesh Dora helped me paint my pinkie nail black, and the P noticed it right away. So for the entire dialogue session she kept eyeing my nail cos I think it was quite conspicuous, and she even asked if I went clubbing or to some nail-painting course during Enrichment Week. And now the Arts Faculty owe the school a set of tables and chairs. BLEE.

My tense mood continued for today. Morning had to be in school early for some MOE Project Work survey, but me and Jin Jen were both late but we still did the survey. After PE we celebrated Samuel's and Kai Jie's birthdays, and for Geography I made a meteorological prediction that it's going to rain in the late afternoons. Ms Ting was trying to get us to be "pseudo-weathermen", and true to my predictions, it started pouring really heavily after school ended. Kai Jie and Rhoda both messaged me at around the same time to congratulate me about my prediction. Haha no wonder the three of us are in the same permanent Geography group. BLEE.

I don't think I really understand complex numbers. It's... complex. I had a talk with my Maths tutor about my horrible Maths grades, and honestly, I did put in effort for my Maths. And Ms Sim was cool with it too, except that I'll have to go for extra lessons. Not that I mind, really...

I'm going to be rather busy for the next week. Proposals, projects, assignments, research, homework, revision. And I need to get my throat in shape for Good Friday AND TOMORROW! I'm going to put in a lot of travelling tomorrow. Gotta meet Dora after school, then meet Eleanor, then travel back to Corps for worship practice. And on Saturday I'm going for the Green Audits prize presentation! Really can't wait, after all the hard work in doing the Audit. WHEE!

Got back my Maths paper today. I flunked it quite badly... Got a 38 over 100 only. Don't ask me what happened, cos I don't know either. And it's quite tragic cos I think it's the first time that I really put in effort for a major Maths exam. Bloop.

It could have been worse. We got back our Teddy Hughes paper today too. But I stupidly overstayed for 20 minutes in the library during my break and missed the Literature tutorial. I've got no idea how much I got, cos I don't know who has my paper and nobody seemed to know what's my result either.

I pulled my right calf muscle during PE. Jaslyn told me to pull the left calf too to make it even.

My horrible relationship with Ms Ting continues. I answered "climate" to one of her questions and got a stop-giving-me-rubbish lecture from her.

Am supposed to lead worship this Friday, but I've got a bad throat. How am I supposed to reach the high notes?? Why don't Hillsongs lower their key and make things easier for worship leaders worldwide?

And guess what? I lost the pink highlighter that Shannon gave me. It just vanished into thin air.

I guess it's just not my day today. I'm stupidly depressed and feeling idiotic and moronic. But I'm not that upset, and neither am I in a very bad mood. I'm just... Tired? Weary? I admit I haven't been myself lately, although I think I'm still okay enough.

Why, this is not Guan You! Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Okie okie. There are good things that happened this week. I learnt how to play Settlers of Catan yesterday! It's kinda repetitive after a while and there's a lot of things going on at the same time at each turn. But it has quite a good interactive gameplay. I realised that NJ's library is quite funky, except for the stern librarian. I enjoyed company with my prudey-darling. I got a new stamping thingy too. Nutseed looks slimmer. And loads of other little good things that I won't bother to elaborate.

I shall try changing "All Day" to a more manageable key to sing in now.

Today was kinda boring. Had to go down to Pasir Ris Park in the morning for nature guiding. Grant's giving us a refresher course as we have to guide people from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped next week. I won't be guiding though, but I'm just there this morning to help with any familiarisation for the juniors. Well okie Wang Mo and Karen were there, but they sort of backed out last minute. So only Connie came along with us, and boy she was quite a fast learner!

Grant's becoming more and more like King Lear. Stubborn and soo imperative. But definitely wiser and more savvy than Leary.

Anyway, it's April Fool's Day today. Nobody tried to pull some major prank on me, except Wang Mo who pretended that she loved me. Then Su Kai and me were trying to trick David into believing that "someone had the cooties for him", but he was so laggy on MSN that I sort of just gave up.

Went down for worship practice just now. Me and Ben are going to lead one session of praise on Good Friday, and it sounds pretty awesome. But I've got a super weak throat now! UGH. I have no problems reaching the notes, but I sound so flat and monotonous and too fluid.

Gotta start on my proposals and whatever work there are tomorrow. I'm a social bimbo butterfly!

Anyway, I'm looking for anyone who wants to play "Let's Talk Rubbish" with me! Haha the game's simple. It's a MSN conversing game that requires you to talk about the most rubbishy and random things! The rules are: 1) Each time you cannot say more than one word, 2) You must end each word with an exclaimation mark. WHO WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME??

Okie I finally got down to calling the tecnician down to fix my corrupted computer. Eh lemme rephrase that: I coerced my sister to do the calling cos I was being lazy. So this afternoon, some Compaq guy came down and my dad entertained him, and goodness knows what he did (I wasn't at home) and now the computer has been restored to factory settings. And the all-important awesome thing is that it's working fine now.

Whee hee. Maybe the computer breaking down is a blessing in disguise, cos I've been able to sleep more.

Oh well, I guess I'm supposed to feel enriched, since it's Enrichment Week. Bah I'm just feeling as if it's like a holiday, going on excursions or talks or whatever. Monday's video showing of Glass Menagerie was kinda pointless, cos the play had absolutely no action at all and the entire plot centers on these 4 main characters speaking in some Slovakian accent and we couldn't hear the words clearly. So I had no idea what's going on at all...

Tuesday was spent at the URA gallery, and it was kinda interesting to hear the Master Plans and Concept Plans being explained all over again when Mrs Pang did that for me 2 years ago. URA had this giant aerial-view model of the Central Business District, and the little trees are quite cute.

And yesterday was a series of poetry workshops with Ms Ho Poh Fun. What the heck I don't even know why I'm still so polite towards her. Okie she published her own poems collection in a book about 20 years ago, and the subject was suposed to be phonaesthetics and syntax/meditation of poetry. AND ALL THE POEMS SHE SELECTED FOR STUDY WERE FROM HER OWN COLLECTION. Okie there were maybe 10% of it which were from her students and friends whom I'm not even sure are credible, established poets. Me attending the workshop thinking that it might help you in Literature, but all you get are the entire poetry collection of Ms HPF. I'm soooo sure that all the other poets out there in the world did such a terrible job that they cannot even compare to Ms HPF. Or maybe Ms HPF just didn't bother researching outside her 'already-acclaimed" collection cos hers is already sooo great.

Me, Janvin and Benny are resolved to calling each other PRUDES for the rest of the next few months or so.

And yesterday afternoon, me, KaiJ, Benny and Rhoda travelled down to NUS for a Geography Career Talk. I met Clarissa and Edwin! Haha okie I see Clari every week so it's not that spectacular, but Edwin! He's much more hunky-dorey and charming now. Haha! The talks by all the speakers didn't really make a lot of sense to me, cos none of them were teachers and they're all in weird professions except the URA planner.

And today, it was Asian cultural heritage tour to Kampung Glam and Little India! We did a lot of walking, sightsee-ed like a tourist, visited places of worship etc, all within 5 hours plus plus. Whoo! Me and Khairi decided to wear our red OGL shirts and we looked extremely conspicuous among the 40-odd students who were mostly dressed in white. The weather was hot though it did rain in the end. Okie I was slightly enriched, cos I did learn some new stuff today. ^_^

This evening I was at Jericho with the other worship leaders discussing about our joint "praise and praise" on Good Friday. I WANT TO SING WORLDS APART!!!

From Jaslyn's blog! The picture says it all. I'm hungry.

OOPSY sorry for not updating in this blog. It's not as if my life is so boring that I've got nothing to say, it's just that my computer chose a rather unfortunate time to break down. I'm updating in school now cos I need to rush a presentation out by Saturday. And to do my Permutation and Combination assignment online. UGH maybe my computer needs a hard jolt for turning its "screen" on me at the most crucial moment.

Kai Jie is beside me now. It's enrichment week, and the morning was spent on watching a bunch of boogers lindy-hopping on stage. Haha it was funky! Then a JJQCA and me and KaiJ and Annie went to KAP for breakfast, and now me and KaiJ are in BYTZ.

Common Tests are over! Most of the papers were manageable, except for Maths. Like Khairi said, it's not a paper, it's a killer. Oh well I guess it's part and parcel of the stress that you face when you're in your A'Level year...

In the midst of studying for Literature, I realised that a lot of things made sense to me. Especially my dear George "Herby" Herbert and King "Leary" Lear. Herby has the most diabolic and didactic virtues to bring forth, but his spiritual faith is unshaken like a rock. He's not ashamed of the gospel. Leary on the other hand is a stupid old disillusioned bloke who learns humility the hard way. I like the part when the Fool talks about idiotic kindness: about the woman who wanted to bake pies but refuses to kill the eels that she wants to use as filling, and about her brother who feeds his horses buttered hay to make a nicer palate for them.

KaiJ says: That, or you're reading too much into what Shakespeare originally intended. HELLO, IT'S A PLAY?! JUST A PLAY?!!!!

I LOVE BUTTERFLIES.

KaiJ says: So random. =.="

Anyway, I just learnt from Rhoda that the word macabre is not pronounced meh-ker-ber, it's pronounced mer-karb. Gosh it's sort of like double entendre.

KaiJ says: So random again. -_-

Asian elephants have smaller ears than African elephants. They're grey like NJ uniform.

KaiJ says: There are 10 types of people in this world: People who understand binary and people who don't.

Janvin just arrived! I haven't seen him for ages! JANVIN I MISS YOU!!!

KaiJ says: So random yet again... -___-

Okie till my computer gets fixed, I shall not be at this blog. Update me on the blogosphere events face-to-face.

Had a fever last night. It wasn't that serious, but it caused me to puke twice. Was thinking of skipping today's Common Test papers, but if I did I would be missing Geography and Maths and I didn't want to do that cos I did put in effort for them. Okay Geography was relatively okay I guess. It wasn't too tough, but it wasn't simple either. Barely had time to squeeze in all my words cos there was a lot of writing involved and my hand is tired from writing.

Maths was quite a disappointment. Yep I think it was the first time I actually bothered to practise all the equations, but the paper was difficult so there were still many blanks on my script. I didn't study for Numerical Solutions and Vectors cos I couldn't make sense of them. Blahh when I put in effort to study for Maths, the paper just had to be a killer. Crap.

Kai Jie taught me how to determine maximum and minimum points of a curve today. I forgot how to do them totally, and he taught me some first order differential technique that was quite cool. Haha and I was on the same bus home with Siew today! I like yellow scrungee hairbands.

I'm coughing badly. I think my lungs are quite susceptible to colds. Maybe I should eat more fruits rather than just bananas and durian puffs.

Okay I've been quite busy for the past 2 days. Holidays are ending, and I've got Common Tests starting in another 20 hours or so. BLAH.

Friday was a busy day spent on travelling. In the morning I was at Eleanor's house with Faith, having our half-yearly worship/fellowship sessions. Greg was supposed to be there, but he had some family outing at the last minute. The last time we met together was in July or August last year? And Faith became fatter! Haha! So yup, we had another 2 hour worship marathon and talking nonsense. Eleanor likes to poke me in the head. And it's really my "priviledge" to spend time with these two "wonderful" girls. (Chokes)

After that I travelled all the way to Tiong Bahru Plaza to meet Jaslyn, Annie and Kai Jie. They were there studying since morning, so I tried reading the Urbanisation notes borrowed from Kai Jie and we mugged for another hour or so? Went down to Bedok together to meet Jin Jen, then we took a bus to East Coast Park for the A01 family barbeque! Yep the junior class are treating us seniors to a barbeque, but there were only 5 of us! Okie Khairi and Shi En turned up later in the night, so we figured that we were the only 7 people in the entire class who didn't bother studying!! Seriously, if an additional night of mugging could gurantee you a distinction, I'll gladly stay at home to study, but naahh I'll rather prefer to be out playing cos that's obviously impossible. (Glares)

We formed a new clique! JKJK SAG, after our initials. It was great hearing them shout out the A01 cheer. And singing the school song and Aerius song. I wore my "Feed Me" shirt for the occasion. We all thought Shi En would arrive by canoe, but she walked. I didn't notice Huai Ying and Regina until I spent 2 hours there. Oh picture is from Jin Jen's blog, her new specs make her look cool!


JKJK SAG!!


I left halfway to rush back to corps cos there's cell group and I was supposed to lead the lesson for the night. Took a taxi all the way back to Bishan... Charmaine brought back chocolates from Perth, so Biru kept throwing the food at me cos I'm wearing the "Feed Me" shirt. Somehow the topic shifted to ghosts and spirits again, so Della and both Rachels kept screaming. Okay maybe not Rachel Kwan.

And yesterday? I was busy mugging. That explains it all.

I'm feeling quite miserable now. Went to bed last night with a dreadful cold, without bothering to take the flu pill cos I thought it'll probably clear away by itself throughout the night. Nahh it didn't... I woke up this morning with a bad cough; my nose is blocked, leaking and sneezing.

I hate blocked noses. I can't smell anything. And I can't taste my breakfast.

The entire morning has been kinda dull and dreary. I've been hogging the tissue box all to myself and filling the bin full of that white stuff. The most exciting thing that happened was receiving identical messages from Khairi, Annie and Ruth. They want to go mugging tomorrow at Tiong Bahru Plaza, so they're inviting almost everyone cos we're all going for the A01 barbeque after that. There was a (send to guan) note at the top of Khairi's and Annie's messages, so I presume it was Ruth's doing. (:

Okay I just popped a flu pill, so ideally speaking I should be knocked out in another hour. Cheerios.

Okie I've got people staring at me from my window now. 3 or 4 of them holding sticks and directly outside my kitchen window. And they keep shouting at people to bring in their clothes cos all those inconsiderate blokes are blocking their ascent on that carrier thingy. And they're turning the walls into a mass of white paint.

Yesterday I went down to Catholic High again, to meet Ms Angelin Wong who used to be my Sec 1 and 2 form teacher. I'm going to give another talk there during one of the assembly periods, but this time it's for the secondary school section. So for the entire time that I was there, I was at Ms Wong's table viewing all the past nature guiding photos. And I realised that if I was serious about being a teacher back at Catholic High, I'm going to occupy one of those tables in another 5-7 years time. Sheesh.

After the meeting I went down to Jericho to help out with the Games Week. And yep Adriel warned about babysitting kids that were like below 5 years old... Okay it was quite chaotic, cos there were a total of 5 kids all below the age of 10! There were the sisters, Patterny and Nerissa, who were 9 and 4 respectively. Then there was Deron, Dylan and Denise who were 4, 5 and 9 too. Was playing Halli Galli with them, and I think sooner or later the bell's going to give way under all that slamming. Pat and Ner went home soon after, so I was helping Denise with her Science homework. And I brought Ron to the toilets like 10 times in total? Cos he was some peeing-crazy boy who drank a lot of water. I LOVE DENISE!! Gosh if she were like another 5 years older I'd have eloped with her or something. Haha yesh she was adorable! In the midst of doing her Science worksheet, we started talking about the difficulties of being the eldest in the family, about the colour pink (she likes pink too!)... Then she drew a picture of a bunny for me and I drew Powerpuff Girls for her, although her Professor is better-looking than mine. Haha!

Under the springs of heaven, there my soul will seek to dwell...

I went to the zoo today! Yep ZOO! I seriously can't remember when was the last time that I stepped into the zoo... But I can remember when was the last time I went to Night Safari! Okay slightly out of point. Anyway it was a joint Green Link/OG1 outing, but everyone couldn't make it so only Beatrice, Suling, Connie, Jingjie and Christine turned up. And Tammy too, cos I asked her last night whether she wanted to join us...

Hmm the entire outlook of the entire zoo really changed a lot! When we first arrived we couldn't even find the ticketing booths! And I didn't remember the entrance being so spacious and tall!! Yup but the renovations didn't come cheap. $15 on entrance fees alone. And everything was sooo overpriced. Maybe it's because we're all kids who don't earn their own money, and maybe it's because we're not big money-spending tourists visiting the zoo for the first time.

Yup it was more or less the usual animals; all the elephants and tigers and camels and lions and zebras and bears and monkeys. YESH I think we saw LOADS OF MONKEYS, cos the Singapore Zoo has the most number of primate collection in the world. The penguins look extremely clumsy cos they can't balance themselves. And I got to meet my distant relatives, the GUANACO and IGUANA! Then we ended the trip at the Children's World by touching all those horses and ponies and sheeps and cows and pigs. We even got to birdwatch at some tiny enclosure.

I think the goats are irritating. All they do is just prance around, meh-meh consistently and act cute, waiting for people to reach their hands out to feed them!! And I think zebras are animals with the worst fashion statement. Look at their stupid black and white stripes! Why would God want to create such ugly animals??? And I didn't get to see my magpie robins. Haha and everything looks fake to me! Each time we see a new animal I'll just ask "are they real?" because they're not moving. Appearance and reality. ("JAS THIS IS NOT A SOCCER MATCH!" says Mr Whitby)

Oh well. Zoo's kinda boring I guess. The animals don't fight each other. The predators don't eat the preys. The animals don't eat each other. They walk around in circles. Or they sleep like dead logs. Or they run around aimlessly. Connie thinks I'm a sadistic kid cos I like to see animals in distress. Christine thinks I don't like everything! Okie I admit I hate animals. I prefer plants more than animals, so everything's kinda boring to me unless they fight or they eat each other up or they have some orgy-porgy. And when we saw the Tropical Crops Plantation, I was absolutely dying to get there cos finally there's a place with nice proper plants instead of animals. I think that was the only thing that I liked about the zoo. Haha. Okie the white tigers were impressive too, cos they fought a bit. And the arapiama too, cos it was feeding time and they were simply HUGE and aggressively biting the fish off the zookeeper's stick.

And the most ironic part? I realised I was the one who organised this zoo trip! Haha maybe I should just plan a trip to Botanical Gardens or to BTNR. I dislike animals because they move about too much. Plants are sooo much nicer. They stay still.

I wanted to buy souvenirs too! Wanted to get Hai Hao something nice, but everything was so expensive and the cheapest were balloons going at $3.90 each! Then we saw plants outside the zoo entrance selling at $2.50 for a medium-sized pot. Oh crap the plants are cheaper than the souvenirs. And so we went home after that. Hai Hao decided to cancel tuition with me today, so it was kinda good in a way, cos I was quite tired.

Tammy's my bimbo counterpart! Haha!! And I'll ask Shi Hui along to the zoo the next time too! (:

Oh great. Priscilla (Low) just said she saw a snake eat another snake when she visited the zoo the last time. WHY DIDN'T I GET TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

YAY! I've been in a weird mood this entire week! Weird feelings in a good way. I really don't know how to put it out in words. I'm not a metaphysical poet like Herbert or Donne. They can churn out physical metaphors and imagery dealing with abstract ideas easily, but I'm not them so I can't. I'm GUAN YOU! Haha I need to constantly remind myself of my identity.

Anyway, yesterday was the start of my common tests. Actually that's a wrong use of pronouns, cos common tests aren't just MINE but EVERYONE'S. So yup, yesterday was GP for all of us. I honestly found the comprehension manageable, despite what everyone says about it being some toughie. It was my essay that was quite disorganised, cos I was preparing for environment topics but none of it came out. I did "only a life lived for others is worthwhile" and wrote junk.

After GP ended, me and Atiqah initially wanted to find Kai Jie so that we can go over to Namly Cafe for lunch, but Kai J was already on the bus home. Haha cos we had lunch there last year after common tests too, and we wanted a reminiscence of our Namly Cafe lunch adventure! But Kai J promised us he'll go sometime next week as we still have papers in a week's time.

So me and Atiqah decided to go to Little India instead! We walked like for 45 minutes, trying to find the Little India Arcade, and had lunch that was sooo filling because of all the potatoes and flour in the curry and bread. I got myself a henna tattoo on my right hand! Then me and Atiqah each got a bracelet too, and I got a pair of pink shades! But the worst thing was, while walking along the still-drying henna dye on my hand got smudged by Atiqah's bag!! So my henna tattoo has got a gradient effect, cos half of it looks normal while the other half is slightly faded.

Yesterday night at youth service was barbeque! Biru was leading the sing-along session and I was supposed to back-up sing, but me and Tammy started fooling around and came up with bimbotic dance moves for almost every song! Haha anyway Tammy is my bimbotic partner now, cos for the whole night we kept doing our bimbo chant and talking in an airhead manner and going airy-fairy at all of Matthew's comments!! And Joel taught us all a new Black Sheep White Sheep game! And I met Douglas' sister Shi Hui who is in NJ too!

Had a Jericho meeting today, but I was having a headache and sore throat as well so I wasn't sure I caught everything. I think Shermin is turning into a sleeping monster, just like Biru.

I'm seriously enjoying my life right now. Today was an EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD DAY. Nothing is going to trouble me or ruffle my hair tomorrow, cos EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD DAYS rub off into the next day as well. I'll just about do anything for anyone! And yesh Khairi I'm such a slut.

Maybe I should really mutate myself into a water droplet and evaporate into the skies, condense into clouds and come back to earth again as precipitation. I want to be part of the hydrological cycle.

Stupid moment #1: Ms Ting showed us this weather and climate video in class, then she asked what was the fundamental idea behind the video. I cleverly said "I HATE WEATHER" because the stupid video narrator said that right at the start of the video. Ms Ting just acted as if I was insignificant for the rest of the lesson.

Stupid moment #2: Mr Whitby asked who Frank Harris was, and I cleverly said "THAT SINGER" because his name sounds like a singer, and despite never hearing of Frank Harris in my whole life. Mr Whitby stared at me and went "I think you meant Frank Sinatra".

I finally managed to find Critical Essays on King Lear in the school library. And I ordered Longan Red Jelly with condensed milk for the first time in my NJ college life! I didn't know what the drink was called, so I just said I wanted "that red-red thing", thanks to Lauren's influence. HAHA I finally called Lauren by her proper name after 3 months of insulting her. But now it's Tis' turn! I called her a Nosey Tissue Paper. WAHAA.

Was giving maths tuition for Hai Hao today, and Sarah came bouncing by in between to say goodbye as she was going home. She started doing weird actions like sticking her thumbs right in front of my face and even wrote "have fun giving tuition!" on my paper. And Hai Hao just suddenly went all grown-up and asked me "your girlfriend arh?" HAHAHA!! Oh gosh that moment was priceless!! And he's 6 or 7 years younger than me?? HAHA! Much as I think Sarah looks hot with slightly curly hair, I'm still single and available for grabs.

Haha I had quite a fun time in school today! For PE we played frisbee and it's been a long long time since I touched an actual flying frisbee!! What was slightly different was that when the frisbee falls to the ground, we don't change possession, so there was a lot of scrambling and fighting to win the frisbee. Hee hee! Then after school I went to join in the mass dancing with the juniors! Me and Khairi actually arranged to crash the mass dance session together cos we didn't want to miss out on Orientation 2. But I met Angela outside the hall so we danced together, while he went to dance with Grace Tay... It felt kinda weird to be one of the few "full-grey people" in the hall, but still it was great to relive those Orientation days. And I danced with Huai Ying again! Haha I switched positions with her and tried doing the girl's movements, but I kept going in the wrong direction. And I was the only guy standing among all the females doing that weird step movement and placing my hand on her shoulders and going *ting*! Huai Ying says "TOO BAD." Bleagh.

Carmen and Natania turned up in school with their grey uniforms today. HILARIOUS, especially when I'm so used to them in their RV whites. Kai Jie's quite right I guess; soon the whole NJ population will turn grey and all those colourful mix of other uniforms will be gone. Community. Identity. Stopped short of stability.

Priceless moment #1: I was late for Geography lecture, so I turned back and asked Hilda what Ms Ting was teaching now, and she didn't know cos she was doing her Physics homework. Her glazed look on her face and going "Physics??"

Priceless moment #2: Was walking up the stairs towards the canteen after PE, met Celine and she stared at me, thinking that I was horribly late for school. Her incredulous look on her face and going "You're sooo late??"

Priceless moment #3: I told Siew that the water level markings on my olive-green bottle is fading, and she thought it was the olive-greeness that's fading. Her serious look on her face and going "Huh you mean the water will turn green??"

I had a fun weekend. But I can't remember much of it. My memory has disallowed me to recall all my activities for the weekend because I lost the password to it.

Let's talk about today instead. I woke up earlier than usual, got to school carrying Liyana's birthday cake, and found out that it was Han Kit and Wen Hao's birthday today as well! Yup so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHAWN TAN HAN KIT, DELLA, LIYANA AND WEN HAO! Oh did I mention? On the bus to school I was drawing plant and animal cells meant as a test for Hai Hao, and I thought it was really nicely-drawn so I couldn't resist showing it to Sara. HAHA. Then later at morning assembly, I got a pencil from Sera (she's in Hwa Chong JC now) and a flower sharpener from Atiqah! Yeps I keep mixing up Sera from Sara from Sarah. Eeps.

School was quite good I guess, although I fell asleep during the characteristics-of-Herbert lecture. Thanks Nani for lending me your Brave New World text, or else I'll be skipping Ms Teo's tutorial again. And thanks to Ms Koh for allowing us to celebrate Liyana's birthday during Geography tutorial! I fell asleep again during that Bright Sparks talk...

Our entire class was supposed to stay back till 4pm just for a Principal's dialogue session, so I went studying in the library with my classmates, and at 3.55pm, Qiling told us all that the dialogue session was cancelled because the P had a last-minute meeting. CRAP. If I had known I'll have gone home to sleep. But oh well I headed straight to Jericho for Hai Hao's tuition. He scored 14 out of 20 for my test! And thanks too to Yurong who helped me buy cheese fries!

Yeppers that was my day. It wasn't great, but it was good enough.

I just realised that quite a lot of people read this blog regularly. Yep this big ol' blog of mine. And the most disturbing fact was that many of these people read my entries so regularly that it's almost daily. OH GOSH. It's only recently that I discovered many of my friends can almost recite quotations off my blog entries. Or worse, they seem to know all my life events and everything that I'm doing currently, even though I have never once told them anything about it.

I seriously doubt anyone would be that interested in reading all the accounts of my daily life. Okie my life is not that interesting but still it is interesting enough. Sometimes I think my days are so mundane and repetitive that I force myself to do crazy stuff, and all these crazy stuff end up in my blog entries. HAHA. Reminds me of the new Singapore Navy advertisement: If your life were a movie, would it be a good one? I sure hope mine would be a blockbuster hit. (:

I'm kind of uncomfortable by the fact that people are reading my entries without telling me or tagging. Not that I have to censor stuff from this blog, but I think it's just more reassuring to know that you've got a fixed audience.

Haha maybe it's because I'm reading all my friends blogs on my links page, and I don't tag all the time either. OKIEEEEE......

Do me a favour will ya? Drop me a message to say that you're one of the regular readers, and I'll really appreciate it. At least it helps me identify all my stalkers.