i. am. tired.... woke up with body ache. something's wrong with the bed. haha!
but....great day today!! <3 it!! :)
went to orchard today. walked around ion and got lost inside! ended up at wheelock place? bought pig sweets! :) met up with her and walked to paragon for lunch. had coffee club! :) nice food! talked about so many things! HAHA! long lunch. walked to scape. played at the arcade there. car racing... i think i'll never be a driver! car crashed and overturned twice. :( played this fighting game...that had no idea when it ended or not! visited the christmas booths. nice! :) how christmas came about. took a bus to a bookshop near great world. religious books. bought one! :) we had some time. somehow, time seemed to take its time. hahaha!!! thought we spent a long time at the bookshop. took bus 5 to great world. we actually saw it when we were walking, kind of far from the bus stop. but we managed to reach the bus stop before the bus came! walked around great world, sat down and talked, played at time zone. walked round again. then went back. time seemed to pass faster when we were at great world!
so thank you so much for today! you taught me things about religion and studies that no one ever talked to me about before! :D laughing at stuff!!! and it was memorable!!!!! :) i'm free next thursday! so tell me if you are! <3 and feel free to read and tag! joyce loke

wasn't allowed to be online last night...
so... nas came over around 10. went to my room and sat talking and talking and talking. about yog, ocip, school life. haha! then headed down to work out! 45min? haha! then she went home. time seems to pass so fast...... its always like that! nasuha

i'm not going to miss sec3... not that carefree. nov/dec hols is the highlight of this year. met almost all good friends. still have to meet some more, but see if there's time. if not, next year after o levels! :) and there was yog and ocip too! though... too much of up and down and problems too. hoping next year would be better. please be better!!!! read a post posted end of last year. back then, i had doubts about going to sec3 and subject combi. now, i think my subject combi is fine the way it is, and 3a has really been wonderful. :)

finally have the mood and time to post about the past 4 days! so many things happened!

its the best week of hols!!!!!! :) and CONGRATS GIRL! ON YOUR FANTASTIC RESULTS!!!! :D

so thursday...
met up with leechin, shareen, grace, siyao, felicia and siti! :) met up at orchard mrt. was too early so went to daiso and had a bit of trouble finding the mrt station again... -.- shareen was standing behind a pole.. so didn't see her until i walked past and turned round!! hahaha!! and siyao ended up on the wrong side, so we went into the mrt and came out, paying 36cents each? went to eat bk with shareen, siyao, grace, felicia. then leechin came. walked to cineleisure. saw isabella! :) wanted to watch a show, but no nice show that all of us hasn't watched yet. so went to chamber. watched knight and day. siti came. show was... boring... siyao was so funny! didn't know that her watch was 1 hour slow! wanted to watch another horror show, but didn't. so walked round and round orchard area!!! had so much fun!! :) thanks a lot for the great day!
went to grandma's house for dinner. on the way back, heard a song. the only exception. hmm. it really brought back memories of ocip! :)

friday
had training... only 8 seniors, 6 juniors. very few people. and some guy coach came. taught us a bit. well, not everyone, just a few people. played match. played GA!! :) went home. slacked...... died tired, not cos of training. went out for dinner with parents. they wanted to get christmas gifts. i got a misletoe(how to spelll??) for the house door. and the christmas deco is complete!!!

saturday
supposed to attend the chuch wedding but didn't. woke up late. went to cut hair.... :( the person cut 1inch, the layered. still okay. then she thinned my hair!! :( what's wrong with thick hair??? went for wedding dinner. thinking of wearing the same dress for prom next year, but see how. dinner was great!!!

sunday
went to dad's eldest sister's house for lunch. got to see dad's side of the family. and a few cousins. plus niece and nephew. joseph and hidaya!!! :) great to see you again! lunch was great! :) egg tarts were the best! talked to hidaya a lot, watched tv.... went to get some stuff before heading back home. think we may go out again tonight. short post. distracted.. haha!!!

okay, finally posting two pics up!!! :) will elaborate another time... tooo tired.... how to wake up tmr????

wait, there is still training on friday. haiz.... so many complications, and people not telling me!!!!! pissing me off.

still... feeling happy about today. went to meet her at well, harbourfront mrt? could not find each other, walked round and called until we finally met at the bus stop. haha!! watched rapunzel. 3rd row from front, but not too bad. funny show!! we were at the side... and two empty seats beside us! whole of the back of the cinema was full! no one in front of us! yay! nice show!! had popcorn, drink, nachos. and popcorn with nachos cheese. :) walked round vivo, bought some stuff. welll, gifts. came to my house, played cluedo and monopoly. watched chanel 8, 5.30 show. she went home. and had dinner with parents. at great world. saw ms quek and mr wang there, seperately... not a good idea to go there....

can't wait for tomorrow! going to be a great day!

today and tmr looks like they will be great days! yay!! no plans for friday, except training.
yesterday was tiring... really tiring. but towards the end, was fun! i mean at lunch time! :)
friendly match with KCPS(i once said kcpc? idk why!) did some sprint drilll... passes, shooting. watched junior's match. b div played 4 quaters, then ms adeline ask for one more. wanted to play. so happy to get a position. then got centre. was like 'huh'? haha!! played centre from 2-4 quater. killer. real killer. I NEED MORE STAMINA! 2nd quater was still okay. 3rd was super tired. wanted a change already. its like.... missed everything and was just running around..... :( 4th was well... 5th, could rest! so...after today, i'm going to get more stamina.
wanted to go home already. but decided to go for lunch with jacob, abbicia, serene, euginia, pulara and rainee. went to pizza hut. had pepsi with cheese thanks to pulara. she had pepsi with chilli in return! :) jacob also got cheese thanks to rainee. haha! serene and i got lasagne.... took forever to come! talked and talked and laughed. shared the lagsane with jacob cos could not finish. fun and funny timeeee!!!! :) you all made my day.
went home... saw mrs dehamel on the way home! at home, waited for the door to come.. slept in the meantime... so tired!! had porridge for dinner. and cake! yima, yizhang, kongkong came over.

going out soon.... muscle ache and knee pain today. didn't stretch enough....

unsecure....
i need someone to talk to now

sunday
woke up, had breakfast with family. walked round parkson for a long time before coming home. left melaka around 4? so came back very late.... so tired... watched night at the museum again.... haha! slept...

monday
woke up early, had training. court game most of the time. wd, wa.... went with mum to have subway for lunch. came back and knocked out. i'm seriously in no mood to post.

soo... now in melaka!! again!!
friday
was supposed to wake up early, drive early and reach early. but... woke up a bit late... had macs breakfast! pancakes! then drove up.... reached around 3 plus? still had to wait a long long time for room to be ready. reached room... went to the mall to get coffee bun, cos skipped lunch. came back for tea at the lounge, went for jap buffet dinner. great! :) had icecream!! oh.. was buying som biscuits at the mall when this malaysian lady came up to me..... appeared that she thought i was some shopkeeper or helper!!! :(

sat
woke up at 9 plus... had buffet breakfast! LOVE THE BREAKFAST!!! went to walk around with mum. came back with a gift that's really overdue.... and new shoes. apparently, i get more stuff in malaysia then in singapore. went round and round and finally got gifts that mum wanted for christmas. met auntie and uncle. came to our room to eat tidbits.. we are on a no lunch routine! went for tea, then dinner. walk walk walk, with the people who were in this 12 hour walking thing.. just that we were in the opposite direction, to jonker street! had wanton mee cos the adults had laksa.... walked more. they bought lots of food stuff... came back. soaked in the bath tub again! yay!!! coming back tmr! :)

ahh.... happy today!!
wednesday
well... went to grandma's house early. cousin came. played some searching game on her mac. then played sims 3. so fun!!!! creating a sim took at least 30min, getting a house took 10min. then decided to redo the whole thing. 1 hour to create 2 sims, then delete 1. so left 1 sim.... choosing a plot of land took 20min! building the house took.... well... a long time... had to go off for lunch halfway. went to nihon mura! jap food!! and ice cream!! :) yay!! on the way, played itouch. was supposed to jump and run to advoid obstacles. instead, ran through the obstacles and wasted life! HAHA! didn't even know it was an obstacle! continued sims after coming back. FUN!!! want to play again! had dinner.. very small dinner.. cos very full, before coming back home. yiyi fetched me home!

thursday
training. didn't even know there was a meeting...... training was okay. didn't play much, just sat there and watched. played WD!!!! wow...... p4/p5 days? sucked at WD, cos its a known fact that I CAN'T DEFEND? suicide plus physical again... tiring..... supposed to be shooting, but didn't... will start when i'm back. ranking..... well, surprise outcome, but i was happy about something. thanks! at least i know i meant something, i know that you still think me worthy of being main 7 even though SOMEONE does not think so.
met ka onn and went to watch narnia at vivo! :) had lunch at pasta mania. then had popcorn, nachos, chocs, sweets during the show. didn't eat the chocs at all. a bit of popcorn and sweets, a lot of nachos! CHEESE!!! show was nice, but now i think prince caspian is better? hmm... so the original 4 won't be seen again until the last show, if it comes out. nah, won't tell the plot here.... go read up! walked around, had ice cream! then went to grandma's for dinner. not much dinner... can't eat already. still had cake, but no way i could force down anything else! thanks for cheering me up! :)

tuesday
was at home the whole day... was supposesd to revise, but tried out piano instead. trying to get back to playing the piano for a certain song..... had macs for dinner after someone tempted me with fries! haha!! had so much fun talking to you!! :) wish we never stopped talking and hope we get a chance to talk like that again!! made me smile and brightened up my whole day! <3 angel!

monday
a whole new week! i need to start studying!! or rather, revising!
got so used to talking to you that one day of not talking feels so weird... come online soon!!!!

so... training today. one word. FUN! heheh, warm ups.... secret! :) played games like mother hen and chick(lao ying zhuo xiao ji!), freeze and melt(there's no home? HAHA!) and human chain or bull something.... sat in a circle. supposed to be team talk.... talked about lots of stuff... hahaha! did half court, then full court. played wa and ga reserve. still trying to figure out what you both are trying to tell me! played in the second full court. super funny on the attackers side!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! okay, had fun today! will remember it for quite a while. bought sec4 books..... hmmm....

lalala! just feel like posting something..... tmr training, please don't be tough!! :(
side note, this weekend was relaxing! had a great time chatting online with someone!! yay!! :D you make me want to smile. haha! idk why, its just what we talk about! <3

sat
stay home saturday!!! woke up late cos slept late. oh well.... can't get to sleep at night... can't stay awake in the day. something's wrong with body system. its definitely not jetlag(how to spell) cos laos time is only 1 hour behind. grandma came.... then left. watched band of brothers again. a lot of episodes. want to continue now!!! usual dinner. only cousin and aunt didn't come.

sun
woke up early enough to go to vivo for breakfast. macs hotcakes!!!! bought a new tree at giant. hope it will last as long as our old one, which kind of broke end of christmas last year. :( decorated the house for christmas. yay yay yay!!! its the time of year again! festive!!! :D went house viewing. terrace(how to spell this!!! ahhh!!!) house was nice! :) a lot of stairs though.... nice house but probably won't get. came back, watched tv.... dinner.... lalala... nothing much to talk about already.

waiting for someone to tell me, its my turn, to decide.... i wish you were with me now!
thursday
dad took leave again. had noodles for lunch! chinese homework.. band of brothers again! dinner at grandma's! nothing much to say... heheh. quiet house?

friday
mum's at home. slept before 4am, woke up at 11. haha! had pao for breakfast, went to tiong for tuition. called them to ask if the lesson was going on, they said yes. went there, they told me the wrong classroom. went into the wrong classroom, looked at the worksheet, how come so easy? then another girl came in and the teacher asked why is there one extra person? she asked to check our name. read the names and the other girl and i raised my hand cos same name! check closely... wrong name.... so went to another classroom... waited.... 10min..... then went out to ask why the teacher not here, the person said oh, the teacher is away in china. didn't know till now. wth la! wasted like.... 1 hour plus... going to tiong, waiting, coming back! don't want to go there for tuition! came back... did chinese homework. 4 days of it, and not done. still have compo to write. went to pasta mania for dinner. and nail polish incident? HAHAHA! only one girl knows what i'm talking about and she's reading this now NOW! :) went to look at orchard road light. so tired now....

ocip laos pics are up on facebook. 5 are at the side of the blog. look for it! don't want post too many up here.

sunday
lalala! slept slept slept for a lot of the day. had salmon sashimi for dinner! yay! i want fries!!! haha!!!

monday
training. 20 rounds? wow.... stairs thankfully only 2 sets. how come we had to jump up 2 stairs? is it new or something? didn't play court game. not in main team.... feel like reserve. heheh. had lunch with abigail at koufu. love the chicken rice there! :D came back, slept. i think i feel drained. both emotionally and physically. lalala.

tuesday
missing you!!!! training again. abigail didn't come. :( get well soon! went home, renovation. went out again and had subway for dinner with mum!

wednesday
no training!! yay!!! can rest. slack day. did chinese homework. like 1/10 of it! hahaa! texted people cos was bored. seriously bored. can't stand being at home too long. had french toast with dad for lunch! watched band of brothers. war show, its nice! still having a craving for fries!!!!

OCIP LAOS!!! THE JOUNRNEY STARTS NOW!!! LAGONE SINGAPORE, SABAI DII LAOS!!!

day 1 - 18 november - thursday - laos to singapore
looked forward to this trip for a long time! to the days leading to the trip, began to have doubts about the trip. like leaving at the wrong time. but.... it was worth it in the end. i would never want to miss this for anything else. went to the airport for lunch. burger king. fries!!! met at airport at 1. talked to ayilisha most. both of us brought emath and she brought physics whilst i brought lit. closest friend i have in ocip. sat with her for both plane rides. from singapore to bangkok. walk walk, walk, waited a long time at transit. bangkok to laos. food was okay.... love the bread on the flight from bangkok to laos. forgot to get immigration card on the plane. haha! actually, only teachers took it, so we all had to fill them in. saw all the people from the lodge. sat tuk tuk with team building group and ms vino who was so scared of falling off! ride was fun! so tired! checked into our rooms. gave the gift. washed up, saw a show on hbo and had no idea what it was about! tired! only missed parents and grandma when saying goodbye. we just talked and slept.

day 2 - 19 november - friday - nong ping primary
had breakfast. split into bread group and noodles group. drove in tuk tuk. was fun! windy! bumpy, dusty. met the kids. was a school holiday so its a mixture of kids that came. school was not too bad but old.... kids were welcoming! waited around, took pics and videos. went to the room and waited. played duck duck goose with the kids. formed teams, then whole group together. briefing whilst the cultural group went to buy flowers. was so tired! briefing, i drifted off. walked round the school with jamie and ayilisha. came back, talked. went to the festival that night. like singapore's pasa malam. well, no money to buy anything. they had sticky rice and bbq egg! told ayilisha to pack then we discuss what to bring, but slept before she could pack. she only realised when she asked if i wanted a biscuit or something. woke up halfway and asked her what is the alarm time. she told me 4pm! haha!!!

day 3 - 20 november - saturday - ta lat sao and rehersal
breakfast was bread and butter and egg with drunk men. went to another bakery and there were two men who were drunk early in the morning telling us how to behave and talking and talking to us. irritants. walked to ta lat sao. seemed like it was a long walk although it was only 15 min according to ms vino. bought 2 sets of 10 keychains, a notebook, shared book marks, 5 each with Ayilisha. keychains for friends and family. bargained. didn't get the half price i wanted, but nvm. haha! first shop, from 45000, i didn't want it, so said 10000. thankfully shop keeper said cannot and left. second shop, keychains were 35000, got it to be 18000. Ayilisha and i got a notebook each to make the price lower. we walked away, then they called us back. the bookmarks too. talked and talked and talked till we walked away and she called us back! haha! last set of keychains, didn't have time. so 25000, got it for 20000. scared to be late. actually, was supposed to walk in groups of 4 or 5. but Ayilisha and i just walked by ourselves in twos. wanted to eat egg prata(or parata as they called it). waited 40 min or more for it! only like 4-5 others in front and all from our group. someone cut queue! some local! still had a lot left, cos changed 15 usd.
practised for performance. got the rap of we are the world by hearing it a lot of times! some of the them got their prepaid card. whole group learnt the we are the world and waka waka dance. learnt part of the cultural night dance, till the chinese part. kimberly said she was bored so she came to our room for a while. saw that our room had two chairs and wanted to bring one back. our room doors were side my side. 302, 303. so she dragged a chair from our room to hers, then realised that her room had no space so she dragged it back. prank knocked. isabella and kimberly knocked our door the first time, came out, no one. second time, saw kim i think she said she heard the knock too and was scared. debated on who it was with Ayilisha. came down and heard siti say she knew who it was. and it turned out to be kimberly and isabella!!! wth! would never have thought it was them! came up and wanted to prank knock on their door. aulydia and andrea was inside too. so ayilisha knocked and i closed the door. they all screamed! we ran to the bed and pretended to recite the rap. but the door opened cos it was not closed properly. and gave the game away! hahaha! ops! sorry!

day 4 - 21 november - sunday - cope centre
bread for breakfast. today was not filling. played concentration with 15 people, which started the game trend. concentration and forfeits in tuk tuk almost everyday after this. cope centre. saw the history of laos, actually, the vietnam war and its effects on laos. the types of bombs dropped, and the old and new fake limps made for and by people who came to the cope centre. they also displayed a home that was like the ones last time in the war. and they also help those who had club feet. mr poon kindly explained to me what club feet meant. sad life these people had. watched a long video. was next to ms vino. when the movie showed them eating a lizard, ms vino sort of screamed softly and jumped and hit me. and joy turned and laughed! they had to evacuate a village to destroy a bomb and one old man said that the bombs killed his wife, his children, his brother. so it was like his whole family. so sad! the show was about the vietnam and a team trying to destroy the remaining bombs that were left after the war. some children wanted to get money by selling scrap metal and therefore bombs but get killed instead. rehersal. finished the whole performance! yay! thanks ebigail and angel for your help! visited angel's room. farzanah and marianna were her roommates. ebigail was there too! first day of period. crap!

day 5 - 22 november - monday - embassy visit and nong ping primary
came down late! Ayilisha!!! everytime we are down late, or halfway going down, Angel will be there to tell us to come down or rush us. thanks a lot!!! :) you're a really good friend! went to the embassy and heard him talk about laos. had cookies and sprite! nice!!! bought dustbins?? and headed to nong ping. played around the world and what can i bring to school today! haha! team building was musical chairs and balancing game which failed. lunch, played where will i go next. got it fast! and people came pestering me about it! had digging and could not dig properly cos some people..... and ms vino... came to ask for clues and more clues! hahaha! digging, found worms, and idk what else! roaches? and hit an ant's nest i think cos a lot of red ants suddenly came out. there was this big whitish worm. a bit of screaming. joy came and dug it out, then threw it to the roosters area! they scrambled for it! sharmila wanted to take a pic of me. first pic, joy came in! haha!second one was okay. during lunch, we played concentration with fruits. i was berry! joy said mongo instead of mango. haha! forfeit!!! went to supermarket and spent all of my money. combined with ayilisha to get biscuits and chocolates! yay! kitkat, choc, rits, biscuits that were hard like rock! discussed filming with ms vino, sharmila and angel. ms vino and ms shivani came for room checking, stayed for 30min!

day 6 - 23 november - tuesday - nong ping primary
went to the swedish bakery, like the first day for breakfast. did the number cards for the games in the tuk tuk. cards kept flying everywhere!!!! haha! windy ride! :) teambuilding first. p4s. played spoon and egg and taught cheers. played dog and bone but was not there. did interviews. Angel did interview at the gate, Marianna and Sharmila outside the classroom. Ebigail at the gardening. when Ebigail was doing her interview, this frog appeared and people behind her was screaming! including ms shivani who jumped back 3 times and hit into mr poon, who continued to walk normally after that! haha! and Ebigail could talk normally! wow! had new group for team building games. all girls. great! :)at least have an idea of how being in a mix school feels like. was supposed to help p4 english after lunch but didn'\t cos of filming. lunch is rice with vege or egg or chicken. like normal catered food here. nothing much. briefing was funny!!!!! didn't call back.

day 7 - 24 november - wednesday - nong ping primary
bread with jam and butter again. okay, didn't eat the butter. was so tired! late again cos of ayilisha's watch. a few minutes. wacko and animal charats for p5 team building. lunch.... slept...zzzzzz haha! was that tired. slept on the table okay! woke up with left leg numb and then pain! not a good idea to sleep there. planting. :) did digging\, then filming, then digging. didn''t put the plants properly. the green ones were okay, but the purple ones, after taking them \out of the bag\, the soil just broke, so could not plant properly. so sad... became uneven planting on one side. one p3 girl came and gave me a flower! hibiscus i think. so sweet! yay! g\uess what, 10 years old and we can drive a motor bike there! 18 and we can drive a car! somehow, when i think or talk about some laos words, i think of jap. why??? haiz.. kept thinking then watching then spacing out. idk why!

day 8 - 25 november - thursday - nong ping primary and farewell
last day at nong ping. swedish bakery again! :) instead of noodles. went there and saw a performance by some of the girls. laos cultural dance i think. very nice. thought they were rehersing but it was for us! haha! p5 team building. spoon and egg and hand entanglement. cheers! gave out prizes for the p5. lunch. went to practice the laos dance. then practised Angel's farewell speech. suddenly, the principal, vice principal and a teacher came to give us friendship bands! so didn't finish practising. got 5 more from 5 girls, altogether 8 in all! :) thanks! went to get sweets for buddies throughout the visit there. zambawan gave me a sweet in return! and some other girl gave me a heart! gathered everyone in a circle. this p5 girl, i can't pronounce or spell her name, pulled me to her p5 class and asked me to sit down! haha! so sweet! but had to go to the p4 class to be with team building so had to leave. :( closest buddy there is that girl!!! <3 so we had our performance for them. took our bags and left. so many people cried!!! so sad. waved to buddies!!! hugged a lot of them. haiz.... never managed to click with small kids before this. break from 3.30 to 5. long break! practised. sang songs like baby, love story, i'm yours and others, including national day songs. sang along to Angel's guitar. haha! leaving laos soon! will miss laos alot!
Angel came over at night to help with math homework, after our debrief. suddenly ms shivani knocked and we thought it was room checking. but she just wanted to use our toilet cos her room toilet, well, was clogged again! ms vino and ms shivani came for real room checking. opened the door a bit only. they said that they could not stay to talk cos too late and tired. Angel hid behind the door whilst i was talking. then Ayilisha appeared. if not for Ayilisha asking the teachers 'what about her' and pointed to Angel behind the door, the teachers won't even know Angel was there. haha! they didn't suspect any one else was in the room! finished most of the math homework. followed Angel back and her room mates were asleep and the door was locked. banged and banged till they woke up to let her in. thanks a lot for your help!!!!

day 9 - 26 november - friday - Xaysettha secondary
I'M GOING TO MISS LAOS A LOT!!!! GOING TO MISS EVERYTHING THERE! THE INTERACTIONS WITH FRIENDS!  after we left, the primary school is back to normal. after we leave the kids in both schools will continue their lives and so will we, but the memories will remain. guess dragon lodge will seem quiet again after we are gone. haiz....so today, everyone of us went to the Swedish bakery for breakfast. could choose between crossiants and baguette. chose crossiants. (can't spell both!) went on the xaysettha. got a buddy! Nouk! she couldn't speak much English so we had to use hand signals or ask someone to interpret. met up and exchanged friendship bands. went to the padi fields and saw them replant the rice. went back to a block and prepared food. actually, didn't do much cooking. played horrible  
xaysettha secondary school
volleyball.... :( then talked to ayilisha's buddy, poppy. well, she helped us to interpret. oh yeah, nouk wanted to go to the toilet to wash her legs after planting, so just followed her there as didn't know what to do. and she thought i needed to go too! she tried asking me and i didn't understand, so had to get someone to interpret. omg! hard! walked around the school. quiet okay and advanced. science display, comp labs. ages 10-19 although poppy said that they were there for only 7 years. poppy wanted to treat us to drinks. actually, she said if we wanted to buy drinks, but we said that we didn't have any more kip left, then she siad she would treat us. so sweet! but nah, we didn't want to.
came back to the gathering place. saw some of them making the papaya salad which had chilli so can't eat.:(  nouk wanted to make for me, but i can'\t eat. sorry!! had lunch. nouk was so nice! ensured i had all the cutlery, drinks, enough food. thanks! had food like pancakes and stew(which looked more like soup in the end) which stc prepared. and egg, papaya salad, sticky rice, sticky rice with custard and some other stuff which they prepared. nice meal! soft drinks too! and they gave us water.
presentation. their school and ours. then we performed. i'm sorry for getting angry at the performance.... ayilisha and i were supposed to be in the row in front, but no one else was there, only two of us, so went to the back. and --- well, won't say much. overall, it looked good. i think. had fun dancing! :) then they performed and taught us their dance. yay! went back to the room and had gift exchange. gave nouk a penguin pencil case and she was so happy! gave  poppy a flamingo pen. also happy!! :) they gave us a potted flower. left the school. touched by them. really.
came back, had a long break. from about 3 plus to 6. long long long break! bathed, relaxed. went to angel's room. she tied french braids for me! :)  nice!!!! went to the pizza place for dinner, just down the road from our lodge. next to swensens. thanks teachers! about 6 pizzas? tw or three slices each. and coke!! went back to the room. and off to the supermarket. for last minute shopping. caem back for briefing and apparently someone in the lodge had a birthday and they celebrated. got a cake and they shared with us! last night... haiz. went to angel's room again. talked, watched tv, went back. ms vino and ms shivani came with ms shivani's blue umbrella as usual. played the bang game. ayilisha is slow! hehe. they didn't stay that long. wanted to talk to ayilisha more but was too tired. slept around 1 plus? maye 2? laos time, 1 hour behind us.

day 10 - 27 november - saturday - laos to singapore
sabaidii! last day! :( throughout the trip, played games like bang, around the world, um...., concentration, how many mama jumped over the wall. did math homework with ayilisha and angel, teachers came to talk, got to know more people, more friends. 9 days ago, it was sabaidii! today, its lagone. tuk tuk rides were fun, dragon lodge was great too! we sang songs like i'm yours, the climb, love story, the only exception, what about now. a lot more! will miss everything, like the interaction! :( 10 days seems long but i enjoyed it! well, woke up a bit late, meeting time was 9 instead of 8. laos time. got ready. went down to angel's room and got hair tied again. thanks! went to joma to eat breakfast. got into groups of 4 or 5. each person was given 40000 kip for breakfast. bought cookies and a brownie. filling! spent exactly 40000. sat with ayilisha and posed with the cookie box. teh lodge people also bought a joma cake for us. lemon pie or something like that. was nice! thanks! :) walk back to the lodge seemed so fast. last minute pack and went down. took pics with auntie sally. and of our room key, 303, that i shared with ayilisha. tuk tuk to airport seemed to pass too fast. well, said goodbye to mr khamla, our driver. waved goodbye to mr peter, auntie sally and joy, then off we went. some people bought stuff and just walked and shopped around at the shops there. cos no more money, so didn't buy anything.
from laos to bangkok, checked bags and threw away forks. so sad! thankfully mine was in the luggage. sat with christabelle and zann. slept from take off to the meal time, then slept till i didn't even know we landed. haha! bread was nice! transit. took a bus to the terminal and walked and walked to the waiting room. had to check bags and passports and they threw away things like sunblock? mine was also in the luggage. scared they throw away my knee cream. that would be bad.... took out math homework and angel helped me. omg. caused a stir. played with her stufftoy!!!! i'll miss angel a lot! <3 sat with ayilisha and jamie from bangkok to laos. food was okay. slept a lot too! saw the clouds but forgot to open the shades for sunset! :( it was very sunny so closed the shades. reached singapore later then expected. supposed to be 7.55 singapore time, but came out around 8 plus almost 9. waiting for luggage took a long time! then gathered and left. angel's dad gave us all flowers! thanks! and the airline also gave us orchids. whole of mum's side family was there! thanks!! dad didn't come cos had dinner. sad.... its finally over! goodbye! dear friends, keep in contact okay! i'll miss you. <3

How the time passed away? All the trouble that we gave
And all those days we spent out by the lake
Has it all gone to waste? All the promises we made
One by one they vanish just the same
Of all the things I still remember
Summer's never looked the same
The years go by and time just seems to fly
But the memories remain

In the middle of September we'd still play out in the rain
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
Reflecting now on how things could've been
It was worth it in the end
Now it all seems so clear, there's nothing left to fear
So we made our way by finding what was real
Now the days are so long that summer's moving on
We reach for something that's already gone

Of all the things I still remember
Summer's never looked the same
The years go by and time just seems to fly
But the memories remain
In the middle of September we'd still play out in the rain
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
Reflecting now on how things could've been
It was worth it in the end

We knew we had to leave this town
But we never knew when and we never knew how
We would end up here the way we are
Yeah we knew we had to leave this town
But we never knew when and we never knew how

Of all the things I still remember
Summer's never looked the same
The years go by and time just seems to fly
But the memories remain
In the middle of September we'd still play out in the rain
Nothing to lose but everything to gain
Reflecting now on how things could've been
It was worth it in the end

i don't know why, i just keep thinking of this song. i think of stuff, i think back, and this song comes to my head. cos yes, what happened, it was worth it in the end. it may not have been in september, but yes, the years go by and time just seems to fly, but the memories remain. and i miss those times. some songs like this is enough to make me feel like breaking. i just think of it, and i just can't believe that things changed so fast..... lagone

it feels like i've been away too long and missed too much. but then i ask myself again if i would rather be there or be here. then the thought changes again. oh well. i've got the songs 'i'm yours' and 'the only exception' in my head. think its the guitar that Angel was playing. OCIP was a blast! :) fun fun fun! :) don't regret it! but will miss the interaction. life seems so quiet now. and after effects of OCIP? can't sleep early, feel empty and quiet, miss so many things till live does not seem normal. and i've almost forgotten how to speak chinese after not using it for 10 days! haha! -.- well, its back to reality, there's no more escape route. i'll just have to take what comes. haiz..... will post about OCIP soon. its a bit too late for the long posts about OCIP. why is it when i am there, i think of here. when i am back here, i wish i was there and think bout things there? someone needs to cheer my up right now!!!

yay! one more day! no wait, actually, this time tmr, will already be on the transit plane from bangkok to laos!!! LAOS!!!!!!!!!!! been asking around about how was it. i mean, people who just came back. thanks a lot for all the help and advice!!! <3 so hyper today. partly cos going off to laos tmr, and also partly cos watched harry potter this morning at great world!!!!! HARRY POTTER IS AWESOME!!!! i want to reread the book now! want to watch it again! no wait, will wait for the dvd to come out, then buy it.
on a side note, eating a lot of fast food. hehe. maybe can lose weight in laos?

what a day.
training. well, i don't want to elaborate. but i'll just say its not your fault. going to miss trainings! and the friendly? came home.... didn't get lunch cos was not hungry. thanks for cheering me up meiyi! :D leechin came over! :) supposed to run, but didn't. sat at home, watched tv, talked. and she just went home. thanks for the wonderful time! two of you have brightened up my day.  :)

training today... haiz.. how to improve on sprinting? i don't want to do 6 rounds again for not sprinting properly. hmm.... ocip meeting till 3. not too bad. cultural night seems fun! working with team building is great too. :) can't wait for ocip! thursday, THURSDAY!!!!!!! yay!!!! results for combination today... i can't forget that day,last year... was out that day. and i got your call. you told me my results. what's my combi, who's in our class. who is with us. yeah, i still miss you till today,  i can't forget how happy we were. thank you so much. then called another friend. we were so hyper together. i miss those times. so excited to be in the same class again. those were the times. i wonder if you remember? i wonder if you will still read this like you used to read every post? i miss you, miss you being there by my side.

end of the week... not done with homework! help!!!!!

so.....
thursday
had ocip meeting again. rooming with ayilisha! :) went to vivo to meet meiyi for lunch. thanks for sticky sweets!  :D walked round and round. came home.... had kfc for dinner!

friday
had training.... well, okay. but draining. more of the court work now. full court, played GA, C, GA. need lots more stamina. after playing C, well... not much left... then suicide runs and physical. died.... went home, bathed. met Amanda and went to the sogurt(is this how to spelll it?) had lunch there. was this set lunch with 200g of yogurt, pizza, ice lemon tea and brownie. yay! :) talked about lots of stuff. :D fun time! went home.... came out again for dinner.

sat
woke up late. went ------ had macs! cinnamon melts! <3 tuition, grandma's house.

i'm in no mood to post..... haiz.....

i miss it so badly!!!!!!

so... this week, half of it has gone and i've been in school for the whole week!!!

monday
had training. was stressed and a little late. first time playing as attacker for the defenders, attackers, shooters drill. new experience. went for lunch with abigail at clementi's subway! :) great time! :D went to vivo to get stuff before going home.

tuesday
had training again. rain... really heavy rain. did physical training. classroom block run.... sprints... endurance.... lunch with mum. western food! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) okay, going to get fat, cos next i went home to sleep!!!! hehe. went to grandma's house for dinner.

wednesday
supposedly free day. but! had to go back for ocip meeting. in school at 9 plus but it was delayed till 10.30 or 11. meeting time i mean. so waited and read lit text. somehow brought it. ms vino only came around 1. went to vivo after the whole thing to get stuff for the games. came home around 5 plus. so late! going out for dinner again so that's why its a short post.

bye bye!!