day 3 at EFL pulau ubin
woke up at 7. someone shouted 'wake up! 7 already!' changed, got ready, went to assemble at 7.30. was a bit late! woke up 3 times again! to turn here and there! did stretches! and then ran round the chalet place. twice. nice workout! was not mentally ready for it.... was tired.... had breakfast! had a lot of red ants! OMG! so wore team theresian shirt cos of wet activity. team titanic. build a raft with the class. against 3d. alicia, shimin, rezwana, jolin, and two others.. can't remember who..... must go and save our instructors. our was cherlene! saved her first! then had to dismentle everything. 3d dismentalled faster! cos their raft broke a bit. our was steady all the way! yay! so we won! cheered a lot all the way! went to do low elements. with the 6 people still wet! we had to stand on this moveable platform and then balance it! did it in 6min! fast! it was easy! had to sing and then alicia had to carry someone and sing! we did it fast! go 3a!!!!! went to the next station. spider web. didn't get carried. didn't want to. just walked through a bottom hole. and there were two eggs in the spider web... the center part! and some real spider webs too!! wow! so we did it quite fast! carry a few people and all! it was fun! and we had to do a cheer after that! went to the next one which is get into 3s. one stand on top, the other two support. went with chloe and sabrina! they supported me! it was so hard! it was just a tin piece of rope to walk on with friends to support! adn we had to hold hands with the people next to us! so it was harder! but we did it! didn't complete as no time. only the first group had to do.  lunch break!

we had time to change. after lunch, had high elements. did the one with two ropes and planks in between. shannon was our instructer. went up the ladder. was shaky! and people were cheering thanks a lot! it helped!!!! really helped! keep being told to go slower.... and one point, shannon said to bring the rope to the other side.. i was like 'huh'? how to bring to the other side? and other side of what? the plank? bridge? me? so wrapped right arm on the climbing thing and just moved the rope.. and it was done! haha! continued the climb and slipped. so legs dangling in the air for a while. scary. no prob getting onto the platform. once there, got scared looking down. shouted 'shannon!' karthika said he said 'trust me'! didn't hear it up there, but thanks! so sweet!!!! daddy! you're so sweet!!!! thank you so much! miss you!
well, the walking was easy. got to the end and shannon said jump down.... then said sit down. so sat on the platform and wondered how to jump from there. was supposed to sit on the edge... hehe! and then someone came to talk to him. so jump or don't jump? just waited there! the jumping was not scary at all!came down! thanks a lot! to those cheering and to shannon! and the helpers! yay! so just sat down and talked to friends about what happened. it was so fun!!!!! will remember this for life!

wondered around.... watched and cheered everyone else. then went to get teachers to do the survey. for PBL. then did a bit of campfire prep with some people. sorry sorry dance! went for the next element! with cherlene! this was tough. not as scared, but was tougher. walked on a tin rope with ropes on top to support! did a lot of matrix!!! haha! it was over, did campfire prep with the whole class and had time to change. gathered at 6.45 to do more prep, then dinner. xiulin left durin the high elements cos of piano exam the next day. sze ting too!

had campfire on sand! and at the hornbill resturant, also had people doing disco! so two types of sounds at once. sang a lot! well, we had to move the benches to the campfire area and got seperated from our class!!!! found each other again and sat down. got hyper on songs. danced with jiayi a bit. and sang a lot!!! jump and jump and jump. too hyper!!! well, its campfire! so we did  a few cheers and then performances. we were first! was not good..... first scene was classroom, where sherly, being mr ng, said that we, 3a, have a mission, to find jack the duck. then we had to look for jack and 5 people must pretend to fall. after that, we sang the song sorry sorry and did the dance, only, the lyrics were like sorry sorrry sorry sorry you lose i win i'm so happy in tune to the real song. like saying that we won and the duck lost. duck was pinwen. and he kept asking if he could get up... he was trapped by two people. then chingyi said she was hungry! so we had to kill the duck! and pinwen could not sit still. keep getting up! we sang we are the world... so say that we are sorry we had to kill it. then the duck came alife and presented a gift to mr ng! for his birthday! we sang the birthday song for him! happy birthday mr ng!!!! gift was a card made by 3a! and we ended by saying the chicken cheer! it was kind of a failure cos the sorry sorry lyrics, not everyone knew. and we messed up here and there. went back. and just cheered. bumble bee cheer!!!!! yay!! 3c and 3d collaborated to sing a song. most classes had a song. and every class got a class shirt!!! except us!!! so we ended campfire.... and mr francis talked to us.... after that had to meet up with the whole class and teachers/instructors. they talked.... and we had a chance to thank everyone that helped us. thanks to my group of friends, karthika, janice, jiayi, elspeth, xiulin! i was never alone in this camp! cos of one or more of you! and to my roommates alicia, christabelle, janice and chloe, who made life in the chalet fun! we didn't fight or anything, just talked. and we asked things like 'who wants to bath first' and 'who wants to sleep on the bed' instead of 'i want to bath first' or 'i want to sleep on the bed' so it was great being with you all! then could go and hug friends!! hugged janice, elspeth, karthika, jiayi, candice, alicia, chloe! didn't cry for once! at a camp!

went to elspeth and karthika's chalet to bath. bathed with elspeth. went back to chalet, got some stuff and went to karthika's room. could not find elspeth and janice. looked for them. they got milo. then went to karthika's room with both of them and jiayi. and some people were blasting music in the room, singing SOOOO loudly... anyway, janice left. then the 3 of us talked, took pics, watched video. ate twisties. then they left. but teachers were said to be checking. so jiayi and i left. went back to my room. talked to alicia, janice, christabelle, chloe, ate twisties too! and sweets. candice came up for a while. we talked, had fun! then slept at 1. i think. slept on the floor. wanted to!:)

day 4 at EFL. pulau ubin!
woke up at 6 or so... cos handphone alarm rang... hope the rest didn't hear it.. sorry! then at 6.55, it rang. woke at 7. woke up about 3 times at night again. turn here and there. includes the 6 plus one. so christabelle bathed, we changed, got ready, packed and brought our bags down. met at 8 in the field. then had to bring our bags out from the chalet. ate breakfast. and went back to the chalet to accompany alicia and jacob, with elspeth and jiayi to refill water. talked a while in the chalet... then went out. took a lot of pictures!!! last day! of the last camp! off course a lot of pics!!! walked to some place for a last debrief and review. and prize presentation! 3A won!!! we got a medal each!! yay! 3A rocks!!!!!!! all the way!!!! walked back to our bags and took the bumboat back to mainland singapore. boat ride was fun then quiet. took pics too! and a video. pinwen gave us lollipops! yay! queued for a long time to pass the checkpoint and go up.sat down and talked with friends. did a survey. finally could go up the bus! was the last class to go, on the bus, ate twisties. sat at the back, 5 of us! talked, took pics! and then reached school. was not the last to reach school though. weird. was faster then 3b and 3c... somehow! said our final goodbyes to our instructors and then left. no insect bites at all throughout the camp!!! slept on sleeping bag/floor the whole camp cos wanted to! yay!

so went to have lunch with parents. went home, bathed then slept a lot! too tired! woke up, went to grandma's house. had a great dinner! talked to cousin, watched a show.... in cantonese, can only understand a bit of it. then went home. tried to upload pics of facebook, but it took so long!!! irritating! slept late!

and EFL journey has ended yet again..... last EFL for life. and can say that i've enjoyed it all the way!! cos of good friends, good roommates and a good class!!!

this week.. well, been good!

monday
school.... got back papers..... that's about all
had training..... bad... as usual.. how to be good, when we have that person around and she does not care about us at all? we do our own stuff and become slack.. like no mood. no point going for training then!

tuesday
had school.. nothing much. went to the parliament house after that. was fun!heard some ministers talk... and could see the room and all! so fun! went for YOG training... then home.. then chinese tuition, all guys except me!! hate that class... anyway, packed then slept!

sunday
woke up early. go to do some stuff..... painted toe nails... hehe! went for the budget 2010 forum! got there early, then the person said cannot wear sch uniform! scared me so much! but everyone wore except natasha cos she had time to change. so everyone came and we were all on different tables. grace and christabel table 1, ming and me table 2, nadia and nat table 3.. all split up. the talk was... hard to follow... had a chance to talk to the table people... then could ask the minister for finance the questions. had refreshments after that. and went home! got changed, went out for dinner with family.

so results...
emath-A2
chem-A1
lit-B4(but its combined)
chinese-not sure cos marking error
amath-fail!

today had a full day! still posting now without parents knowing!

woke up at 7.30? around there. got ready and left at 8.30. for Anjila's house. got a bit lost halfway. but got there just around 9. her house was quiet. apparently no one else was up yet. oppps.. she got up at 8.30.. so we just talked... then the other arrived. kristal fetched maisie and meiyi. and she woke up late! so the rest had to wait. well, started on the project. well, maisie did. the rest of us just had fun and slacked around, talked. had fun! did a bit of work.... then anjila's family went out, so left the 5 of us. talked, laughed, screamed, sang. and did a bit of the project. had to leave at 11.45 for math tuition. well, it was okay. miss loh went through amath paper with me. ate lunch, had ice cream during the break. decided not to stay on for the extra class and went back to anjila's house. well, they did quite a bit already. the script was done! so left recording. and the movie making. and reflections. well, they did finish the script! so did the recording. and at 5, the rest left. left anjila's house around 5,30? went home for a while then went out for dinner. anjila got the video done up! nicely too! thanks a lot for alll the work and effort! came back not long ago and uploading the video and reflections. anjila's house is so nice! two storeys! and her family is nice too! lucky girl! will elaborate more next weekend. got to sleep already. its 11 plus, with school and cca tmr. hope we are getting back our CA. tuesday is YOG training again. and then EFL from wednesday till saturday. have not packed!!! so goodbye!

some food..... yoges idea

pics of today!!

mama just called..... wanted to talk.... realised how much she means to me. asked me to go to her house again after school just like last time. i will goo!!!! can't wait to go!!! relieve the good old memories!

i don't know why... but it feels like i must treasure the things around me more. like family and friends. somehow... missing my grandma so much!!!!! i've got a feeling... is it the same feeling people get when they are about to go?

well, this week is exam week!
no training at all, and only stayed back on tuesday for YOG dance practise.

monday
emath and history. was okay. emath, thought it would be harder. hope no careless errors and can do well for both. normal lessons after that. went to comp lab for amath. to do something about graphs and a test. the day was okay. spent time at home to revise eng and chem.

tuesday
eng and chem. eng was hard! could understand the passage, but cannot answer the questions. chem was.... well, also a bit hard? PBL, mrs rajen did not come again. and we are not allowed a class shirt! the other lessons were as normal....

wednesday
chinese and ss! both were hard. please let me pass!!!! had chinese after that. watched life transformers 2, the last episode... part of it rather. bio was okay, emath went to the lab again to do the emath compulsory assigment. chem was alright...

thursday
lit and bio! lit was a bit hard... i think went off point for 1a. 1b was okay. bio was okay too.... had bio after bio ca1. was very relaxed. asked questions about the paper. was supposed to go through a worksheet, but in the end, at the end of two periods, only went through two questions! haha! chem was boring as ms goh did not come and ms leong had to teach. she went through so slowly.. and is one of few teachers that cannot control our class! had chinese. supposed to watch the show.. but watched like 5min of it cos no time. free time for VE.

friday
school started late. and last day of pledge duty. last day of ca1. amath was a killer. could not do at all! despite all the practise. maybe not supposed to take amath. haha. any way, got ss compulsory assignment back. 10/13, finally a good grade!!! end of school, met yoges. went to bugis junction with her for lunch. pasta mania. lagsana!! yay! with garlic bread! took pics. will post up later tonight or tmr. went to tiong, walked round, talked, and went home! relaxed mood now!!

friends mean so much....
they build the foundation of a happy school life...
they bring joy to life...
they bring laughter...
and happiness...
they bring fun....
and get rid of loneliness...
they understand you..
and help you...
in the best way that they can....
they lend you a shoulder to cry on..
they lend you a listening ear to your problems....
they are encouraging all the way...
they are there when you need them the most....
they are there to guide you along....
they are there to help you get over setbacks...
they are there to help you move on...
they are there on your worst days.... to push you to continue...
they make you feel wanted...
instead of feeling useless...
they are with you..
instead of using you...
that's what friends are for, and that's why they mean so much

thanks to all of you.. who have made my school life a happy, joyful and fruitful one... something made me realise that if i don't say it now... may never get a chance to say it any more. so thank you, for the help, support, encouragement and excitement. you all really mean a lot to me.....
karthika, janice, jiayi, elspeth, xiulin
anjila, meiyi
yoges, abigail, trisha, jacob
shareen, leechin, grace
twin(amanda)!!!
and all the others who are friends till the end

just came across this song.. its in chinese, but with eng sub! a bit sad.. but very very nice!
peng you... youtube link

here are the lyrics
*Ze xie nian, yi ge ren



All these years, alone






Feng ye guo, yu ye zou


The wind has passed, the rain had gone






You guo lei, you guo cuo


These were tears, there were wrongs






Hai ji de jien chi shen me


Things we hold dear I still recall










Zhen ai guo, chai hui tong


If you've had true love, then you would know






Hui ji muo, hui hui shou


There is loneliness, there are goodbyes






Zhong you meng, always there is you






Zai xin zhong


In my heart










**Peng you yi shen yi chi zou


Friends walk this life together






Na xie ri zhi bu zhai you


Those days will not return






Yi ju hua, yi bei zhi


One word, one life






Yi shen ching, yi bei jiu


A lifetime relationship, a cup of wine










Peng You bu cheng gu tan gou


With friends you won't be lonely






Yi shen peng you, ni hui dong


Lifelong friends, you'd understand






Hai you shang, hai you tong


There are wounds, there is pain






Hai yao zou


Must go our separate ways






hai you wo


Always there is me

the birthday cake!!!

some weird tree in our school

janice and elspeth!!! birthday girls!

got jiayi's hand in this pic...

now she is running across!

first try at group shot!

second try at group shot

we got 5 of us in... all except elspeth!

random shot by kristal...

finally, our group shot!

pic with karthika and elspeth at ikea!

finally a nice pic!

flag day group pic

some random pic

sunset sky!

the moon!!! in the evening! the sun was one side, the moon another. ps, its a real picture... not drawing or anything else.

today was flag day!! and it was so fun!!!

begin the day with being a bit late reaching school. brought a cake to school to celebrate Janice and Elspeth's birthday. sat at the iron tables near block D where there was some peace. finally everyone came. Karthika and Jiayi tried to light the candles. took videos of them. its on facebook. sooo funny!! some matches cannot be lighted up, some lighted up for a while, then went off before anything was done! and it took a while to get all the candles lighted up. well, the wind blew the flame away... so by the time we got to the song, only about one or two were still surviving. still, it was a great fun! ate the cake. 6 large pieces. biggest ones going to Janice and Elspeth! we rushed a little as we were late. cleared up and ran to the canteen. found that almsot everyone from 3a was in the canteen. got math test back and a flag day worksheet to do. went to the hall, got tins, got juniors and off we went! partnered Jiahui for flag day. don't really remember the other junior's names. went to abc market and walked the outskirts of it. a lot of people donated. yay!!! we split up with the juniors.... well, Jiahui was the one who was more outspoken and asked a lot of people. walked around the area. came back and found xiulin, then jiayi and halie. and walked to another hawker centre. saw karthika and elspeth there. with the juniors. got a drink and continued along the bridge area between ikea and anchorpoint. met up with the rest at ikea for lunch. janice and xiulin was somewhere else cos they did not want to come. juniors ate upstairs, the 3 of us ate hotdogs! mr ng called.. didn't answer.. sorry.. but he was upstairs so just went up and talked. got juniors, left ikea and met up with janice and xiulin.

went to commonwealth mrt area next. just walked around there. until time to go back to school. didn't finish  the whole tin, but it was heavy enough. went back to school and waited for mr ng.... then went off to tiong. took train with jiayi, xiulin and sarah chua. got off at tiong. walked round. got a drink then went for chinese tuition. was almost falling asleep as was really tired. went home, bathed and all. then went out to have dinner. with the same group of people met last week. too lazy to say them all. but dinner was great. okay, very tired already will sleep after uploading all the pics and all.... and study tmr morning!

you caused the greatest problems in the team.... and then, you said everything is over, its a new beginning? wth is that! if you think that this is liveable, well, its not. with you around! what's the grand plan you keep saying? destroy everything within months? get everyone under your control? is that it? you destroyed EVERYTHING! okay! things that i've held, and maybe the team, has held most dear and you took it away? what if your own precious thing gets taken away from you? won't you be angry? won't you want it back? well, then that can explain what we are doing. netball may not be your life, but think about the people in the team, it might be what they live for okay! what they strive for! it may be almost everything to them! some grand plan you have. netball is something so precious, maybe not to everyone, but to some!! remember that. if netball fails, some have no where else to go you know! cos netball may bbe their life. think about it!

so this week... well, what can be said about this week?
monday
spent lunch time with yoges. abigail had lesson and trisha had project. yoges did some WEIRD things... and serene, must repay you for doing that!!! will repay you someday! haha!!!  she had some thing(idk what it is) and went round scaring people with it. expressions were very funny. had training. well, the sec1s came! a lot of sec1s. hope they are good and will continue to stay in netball. not go halfway. training, if it is even called training, was very slack. that thing..... left us alone. we had some team building games, h2o i think. and dog and bone. then warm up, half court. was really slack. and no one really told us what to do. was what yunhe and the team decided. played full court for a while, then dismissed! training never felt that boring. and useless. seriously, the drive and passion i had last time during training, its fading away. it's like the only thing that keeps me sane in netball and not give up is.... the fact that Y,A,T and J are there. friends. yes. need the passion back for netball... but its hard. really hard. its like, no point training any more.

tuesday
dance training. for the YOG thing. was fun! went with zann, then loretta. she was super funny! talked about random stuff. the dance, we didn't do the rountine, but just pracise some stuff. it was great! sec3s all in one row. very few of us. next tuesday is our next practice. should be fun! the stuff we did was not like hip hop. more of comtemporary maybe? but keep bending down and coming up. want to continue dance lessons soon!

wednesday
amath test. it was not really a surprise test. but then again, it was easy, yet cannot do. cos didn't study for it! log test. i think, i'm prepared to fail amath this term. it was so easy! but just passed the test. 9/16? OMG! can't do amath at all! why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's all for studies....
helped for house practise. isabel, joseph and caroline house. sec3s did captain's ball. took chairs and got ready. but there was a lot of free time even before they came down. finally tried to do bio homework. its killer too! hoping the CA1 questions will be easier. so much to study for, so little time. well, so helped to umpire. in the end, joseph 1 and joseph 2 got first and second place. caroline 1 got third!:) at free time, talked to jiayi and anjila. was fun!

thursday
pe! did 5 rounds, not 6. yay! was super tired! even after 5 rounds only. many people skipped PE. maybe cos they heard its 2.4. cos the other classes did. only we didn't i think. first 3 rounds was fine, after that, really tired. stamina is not holding! amath test. again. got back the first one and was surprised that passed. but yeah, one mark. second test, died. really died. could not do a single sum! really... wished studied harder for this test. but... well, nothing can be done now.
house practise. finally our house practise! watched a video, about a coach and his American football team. so touching..... what he said to his team. any way, all the talk about teamwork, sportsmanship.. all mentioned and learnt before? so... well, captain's ball was fun! ignatius team 1! played marie team 1, drew the match. catherine team 1, won, had a tie break with marie team 1, cos we both had 5 points. lost the tie break, was against a catherine team.... not sure which one. won. finally against marie team 1 for finals! won them! played marie team 1 3 times! drew, lost, won! yay! we were so hyper! for all the games. and the mc person had to keep saying ignatius house, contain yourselves. something like that. but its house practise, should have fun right? but WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUR FIRST SPORTS WIN!! 2C 09 ROCKS! love you all!!!!!

friday
emath test. got back our amath test, failed.. horribly.... help!! help for amath!!!! its the only test that keep failing!!!! well, any way, today had council meeting. then went to the choir room for assembly. could not even hear the national athem or school song so didn't stand until we could go in. then 3a and 3b were almost all lined up. the rest of them were downstairs.. the first level. so they were stopped cos of prayers and all. apparently, there were prayers. announcements could be heard, but it was muffled. so we had a talk from two people. tana river life foundation. the organisation we helped last year for the stationary. and 2c washed cars on the last week of term4 for them too! then, most of us got sick... may not be the car washing... but..... that was a bad last week of school. last day of school, half the class was sick and 3/4 came? maybe a bit less. so anyway, after that we had flag day briefing and it was brief cos we ran out of time. and our end of term video. councillors had to meet mr francis. and we were late coming up for emath test. had lesser time, so rushed through. it was easy. just hope no careless mistakes! cos rushed through. the rest of the day was fine. duty was great! the girls who always stay in class are out. thanks to Olivia and Christina. they went to the problem classes and told them to get out. and they did not come back till recess was over!! thank you!!!!!

tmr there is flag day! will have to wake up early. so goodnight!

oh yeah, once again, i must thank my friends. they helped me through this week again and again.

really... what's wrong with you?

so any way, won't be going for training next week. wrote a letter already. cos any way, there is not much point going. why? cos we have no coach. and its like self training, with tournament and all over, its time for studies. coach! come back!!! called her on monday and we talked for quite a while. miss you so much! these pass 3 weeks, keep thinking of the past trainings, tournaments and time spent with you. it was fun and  change from what was used to back in  primary school. and in sec1, when it was so difficult, you were there for me......

can't decide whether to let go... or just hold on....

so today, had the last lesson of _____. will not be continuing this class any more, no more time. arigato Tomoka sensei. had chinese tuition after that. then to grandma's place. cousin was there with her mum, auntie, and renjie and peishi with their parents. and their father's brother with his wife. cousin's mum's best friend and her second son was there too. its easier to write it like this then to use the chinese terms to call them. had fun playing with renjie, peishi and cousin. cards. cheat, 21, snap, hiding stuff and more! yay! love going to grandma's house. <3 grandma!

its been two weeks since you left..... keep thinking of you at odd moments.... want to call, but need a reason. feeling lost..... there is still a feeling of emptiness inside. at this point of time, i must thank my friends. its always been fun with you all! talking to you all, makes me forget these unhappy things.

well, this week was a short week. no need to really stay back at all. and no tests? was supposed to have math test, but mrs fung didn't give!:) so no tests. only got some tests back. quite happy with the results. think i did average.
to sum this week up,
tuesday
didn't do much. woke up late and just tried to finish lit work. was about done already! just slacked the whole day at home with dad. mum is like almost out of my life already. work work and work.

wednesday
had OCIP interview after school. was about 5 min. interview was with mrs leong. same old questions that we were given in the paper to sign up for OCIP. like why do you want to go, what qualities do you have that will help in OCIP, what will you learn and so on. just repeat what was written in the paper we handed up and should be okay? went for the chem remedial after that. not that didn't meet the mark for that test, but was below average so wanted to go. just did a worksheet on purification of substances. was easy.

thursday
nothing to talk about. just rushed the last part of the lit work!

friday
ran in the morning with jiayi. 3 runs, rest, 2 rounds. then push ups and all. yay! a lot of people at the track this morning. lit project finally handed in! eng and math passed fast. ms veno confused us with elect history class! but history is always fun! love history! ss was okay too. elspeth, xingchen and christabelle didn't come. was sitting alone in class!!:( in front and beside me no one! at night, went to chingay with dad. saw the stc chingay people. performing. and Janice's sister!:) glad we went. then to the river ang pao. it was great! the rides were so expensive though. so only took one. spent about 2 hours there. from 9.30 to 11.30. went home. and LC, will call you tmr.came back a bit too late to call, sorry!

so that's all for the week. this week, could not stop myself from sleeping in the afternoon. not a nap, two hours. cos at night cannot sleep. went to lay on the bed around 12 or 12 plus. wednesday was 1. but still could not sleep. hope its not insomnia. slept in the end, off course. okay, that's all. i think

today was packed!
woke up late again.... wondering how to wake up on time on wednesday for school. since been waking up so late. well, so we got ready and left for florence gu gu's house in woodlands. btw, mum's been working so much, cannot join us for cny much. so reached gu gu's house. and almost everyone came. except da bo, dad's eldest brother and mum! so all 7 cousins were there, with their parents! yay! finally, after so many years. can see my cousins all at once. almost never happens now. didn't talk to them much. well, they are all older, like from 20-35 years old? so much older. and the only only child there. was closer to hidaya, joseph's wife. parents of first nephew! going to get a niece soon, in april. from doreen, another cousin, and she's the only other female cousin. the rest are all guys.... had a fun time. all of them grow so much every year. only adults remain the same. had a great lunch! for once, the chinese soup was nice. never really liked chinese soup. great cooking! then played blackjack with linda gu gu, dad, 5 cousins-raymond, daniel, wilson, eugene. other two didn't join us:( it was fun! some went back after that, played a bit of mahjong? left at 6.

went to mum's side, grandma's place. everyone was there already. da yi ma, da yi zhang, cousin, mum's sisters and family, renjie, peishi(they are my aunty, uncle, but younger then me.. you know, chinese families, have this kind of thing) and family and some of grandma's close friends. loud, noisy. but fun! ate a good dinner too! then played cards with renjie, peishi and yien. the younger generation, in terms of age. 4 of us! so slowly, people started to leave as it was kind of late. then another family of relatives came. the one from vietnam. with the two noisy boys. so decided to leave.

no pics today, but was fun! didn't feel like taking any pics. memories in words will do. and i don't want other to see what i was wearing today.... hehe....

so the weekend has been eventful too
saturday
woke up late. 10 plus? slept at 2.30am after watching survivor heroes VS villains. so many familiar faces(well off course right?) almost everyone there is good. sadly ozzy or yul is not back. nor is yao-man. okay, if you have been following survivor, then will understand. hehe. but amanda is back! and so is rob! without his wife this time, sadly. ember. they went to survivor, got married, and also took part in amazing race. so interesting! rupert is back too. so is parvati( why her?) and sugar! she got voted out. first person to be voted out. okay,enough about the characters. might talk more about it after watching it more times. cos know all the people in survivor this season. 20th season, in about 10 years.

went to karaoke kbox with family. about 2 hours. had lunch inside. shopping for food for dinner. came back, wanted to swim but was so tired, slept again for about 2 or 3 hours. woke up, had steamboat for reunion dinner with parents. and yusheng. with salmon inside. yay! love salmon! grandma came over later, and so did yima and yizhang. they didn't eat, just came to talk. so they went home, went on the comp, stayed up to 3 to watch d gray men. its so interesting.

today
woke up late again! well, its chinese new year! to start off the day, bai nian to parents at 12.30am. slept at 3. any way, went to grandma's house, bai nian, but she was not really that ready yet, so went to guan ming san to pray to my other grandparents. father's side. went to di di's house(not younger brother). its my dad's godmother. we just call her di di. from my dad's generation, to my cousins and i. maybe my nephew may get to call her di di too! nephew is now about 3 months old? went to fetch grandma and left for mount vernon. prayed to my great grandparents and great great grandma. dropped grandma off, went to have lunch at macs. then on to grand dad's house to bai nian. finally reached home at 3 plus? dad slept, did work, watched tv. need help for lit! help!!!!! finally went on the comp, dinner, then went online again! so that's all!

so... eventful week...
monday
left early to go for match. against holy innocents high. was slack! even the warming up felt slack. somehow... the whole atmosphere was relaxed. not the kind of feeling that will have, the tense feeling before a match. still, we played. all 7 players were sec4s for 1st and 3rd quater. i think they wanted it that way. then sec3s came ina s attackers for 2nd and last quater. so it was defenders sec4s, attackers sec3s. not bad. score, 25 4 i think. looking back, should have let the seniors play the last quater... after all, last match... sorry.... played GA in 2nd, GS in 4th quater. changed with abigail. playing GS, reminds me of last year's zonals. last match, also played GS. well, after our match, we played with coach. sec3s one team, and sec4s with coach one team. coach can shoot! it was so fun! we had so much fun! only spoiler was that 'person'. she said that we must stop by 5.20.. spoiler! but still, we had our fun!!!!! in the end, we just ran with the ball! and caught the ball, actually slided, my left leg! after landing. stupid right? well, after that b div went to serene centre with coach and mrs de. talked and had some fun. yu sheng too! left at 9pm. late! called coach after that too.... cried and cried at home. scared my parents i think.

tuesday
well, after zonals, more relaxed, but must catch up with school work. nothing much to say. only came home, studied a bit and just slept!!!! was tired! that tired! got back chem test. didn't do well.

wednesday
also nothing much to say. a lot of homework, and study for chem test! another chem test! bio did experiment. its like an experiment every week? cos of SPA. but i think this experiment won't be in the SPA file. brought our own food and did food test. got chocolates. worked with Janice! science partner!!! :) it was fun! the remaining chocolates, gave to karthika. felt so free after that! after school, cos no training. felt weird actually.

thursday
chem test. got stomachache halfway. scared that could not finish the paper! got a lot of wrong already. but its not the stomachache fault. kind of didn't study enough. got that feeling. its 25% in ca1. there goes my ca marks! got back chinese test. 21/30. happy? disappointed? well, midway. went for house practise. dancing. the instruters were super gay! the guy...... and can't dance!!! well, it was fun!!! went to grandma's house after that. visit her! and dinner! slept there. was tired out again. came back late... about 9, cos cannot wake up. and slept late!

friday
had to be in school early. went to talk to yoges and abigail. found put we had to meet for the NE capture the flag thing instead of council meeting. thankfully abigail said. so spent about 1 hour preparing and briefed by natasha. morning assembly, was so hot! we got to move to the front. between the sec4s! then lion dance performance was boring. singing of chinese new year songs. the singers did not really sing much. could only hear the background music and people around talking. was so hot! sat with jiayi in front, karthika in front of her. xiulin behind, janice behind her. then karthika and i took out our umbrellas! she shared with jiayi, shared mind with xiulin. janice used file. we used files at first, but it got very hot too! finally announcement of class decoration. we got second!! for our level!!! thanks to those who put in all the effort to decorate our class. didn't think we would win, but our decoration was good! we finally went back to class. our prize was sweets. and a certificate. that was pasted on the classroom wall. supposed to have math, but mrs fung did not come up to class. had english. did compo. finally recess. duty!
went to the canteen after duty. rested a while then began second duty. had to help out in capture the flag. just to facilitate. through the activities. was a bit boring. was at the hockey pitch  facilitatin 3j, 3mm and 3r. they were quite good. finally finished the activity. was supposed to go to meet mrs H at the library. but she did not come. waited and waited. went down to talk to J with A about that thing. and Jenisa waited too.... cos was going with her to kellock. finally gave up waiting. capped down to kellock. in the cab, i said, st theresa's convent instead of kellock!!!
saw teachers there. hardly any sec3s... we may have been the only two sec3s there. who knows. talked to mrs Tan(principal) for a while. went to staff room, talked to mrs Linda Tan, ms Michelle Chia and mrs Esther Chia. asked about how kellock is... said random 'hi's to some teachers. but mrs Janet Tan was not there!!!:(  saw the tennis girls. wanted to play to!!!!! tennis days all coming back! all the memories, of coach Raymond too! tennis days.... were over so long ago..... now its all about netball. well, might still play tennis soon, when have the time. had fun in kellock! relieved the old memories. needed to go back to the younger days when was more carefree and did not need to worry about so many other things. take a step back and remember... all the fun times in kellock! missing kellock so much!!!

so that's all for today. long post. with pics before this post. happy chinese new year!!!

on monday... last match. and its really last match!!!!!!!!!!! already!!!! last match with the sec4s(for ever!) and last match with her. parting with her... so fast, its so sad! its only been 2 years and one month plus? hurting to see her leave. cried a lot cos she is leaving..... she was the one who made netball life bearable in my first year in netball, when things weren't too well yet. she has been so encouraging. after she left.... after coming home that night.. there was a feeling of emptiness... like a part of me has gone with her. i don't want things to end this way... like that. with some 'person' taking over us. i wish we worked harder for zonals. so that at least we could have gotten into the second round. and have her longer. netballers, i know some of you are reading this! please!! just do that one last thing that can help!!!! please!!!!

pics from monday too! after the match

trisha(look at her face! abigail too this-but nice sky that day!)

at the track.... hmmm... i am not sure who is in ij blue. but the others are yoges and jacob.

same group of people.... hahahaha!

mrs mok, yoges, abigail, trisha and me!

(its like my clique in netball with coach...)

coach!

yoges and mrs mok!

candid shot of us...

last farewell to mrs mok and mrs dehamel (monday 8 feb)

mrs mok!

group picture!

some random picture....

pics of today!

full family pics!!!!!

grandma and aunt

lao gu

cousin's family of 3

grandma!

yi zhang and yi ma

both of them with the cake!(yi zhang's birthday)

cousin, grandma and me!

cousin and me!

birthday cake made by yi ma!

the 3 sisters. do they look alike?

the 3 sisters and their mum!

dad

maid!