wearing our special band beloved shirts we lead worship for the first time this year! and our hard work wasnt put to waste. it's really wonderful to bask in God's presence and sing his praises :) all the more when we are united in one Spirit! haha and i just knew it. everybody loves CORN POPS! the band gobbled up the entire gigantic box worth :D

church today was mega fun!! even though i had to wake up at 6, i got lift from zhou hao who just passed his driving lesson on friday!! thank gdness we all arrived safe and sound :D i dunno why but even setting up the equipment on stage was fun! then, we had breakfast together! jotham brought his weird blackcurrent juice that hardly anyone drank (so he drank it himself after that!) david made his sandwiches and i brought honey stars and CORN POPS! i can still imagine the yummy taste hahaha. so we just sat there and talked while the skit people hogged the stage. when service finally started i felt so hyped up! that was one of the best worship sessions i ever had :D but shant go into details...

then they put up their skit which was so hilarious!! i cant remember what they said except that i was laughing like mad! but i remember jotham in his short shorts!! hahaha how embarrassing! we were all like.. oh mann dont look dont look.. hahaa he's so funny!

after the whole service stupid mil liz tiff and wensi kept rushing me to hurry up when i told them like a gazillion times to go first!! while we waited for the people to clear out we sat on the stage and talked and laughed away... then even when we started to pack up they just kept nagging and nagging at me! we were all pretty high today and liz was talking about how she is so over _____:D haha liz u cute retard! as soon as we stepped out of the lift and saw the green man blinking away, we dashed out of park mall and across the street while screaming the entire way!! haha i love it when we do that :) then, we ate at pepper lunch where tiff drowned her entire plate in dunno what sauce and mil drank sauce with every spoonful! hahaha. then we all went to this shop to buy hair clips and hair.. stuff. i like my new pretty clips :D

whatever it is, today was just so much fun! sigh.. i love going to church.. the atmosphere and the people :D then when i came home, i went straight to my sister's room to say hi, then i lied down on the floor and fell asleep there for almost 3 hours. gdness i had pins and needles in the weirdest places ever. hahaha

8:37 PM.

" Saturday, February 24, 2007

oooh this week has been so fun! i know i'm only saying that cos the weekend is here! hahaha in spite having both our bio and history tests on friday, it wasnt too bad after all! on wed i completely slacked even though i had this ambitious schedule planned out after school:

ok after i rush home, i will shower, only watch tv while eating lunch, then i will go through all 3 chapters of bio and finish up history! all this before dinner! then after dinner i will relax and prepare for sunday's worship and monday's chapel!

haha all that planned out, but all for nothing in the end! i was so terrible ok! i ended up watching tv for 2 hours. then to make up for the guilt i went upstairs to study bio, and ended up falling asleep on my bed!! gdness.. i slept for like 3 hours, was woken up by my mum who told me to go change! and i was like change for what!? i totally forgot we were going out for dinner since my cousin came to visit and stayed for a while. so i had this wonderful night out on a school night and completely and willingly forgot about homework! :D

stuffing our faces into yummy NYDC FOOD!!
lee lon: the 19 year old who thinks he's real mature but he's so not :P
hehehe, who doesnt enjoy a mushroom and ham!? mmmm...
daddy treated us to sinful swensen's ice cream! mann i love chocolate!

the fountain of wealth is actually the world's biggest fountain. wow.

since i had to stay up on thurs to finish studying and preparing for worship, i was so exhausted on friday! and i hate having to be that rah-rah spontaneous house captain when im obviously so not in the mood. but it wasnt so bad in the end and we had overwhelming response for inter-house games. go jacksonites!! :D

then i was pretty happy about going for worship prac. i love band beloved! though we may be slightly tired it just seems like a perfect way to end the week :D hahaha, we were just dying trying to sing 'crazy' (that insane song :P), i was freezing away in the hall, and people were flipping through my file reading my english compo looking at my terrible chem test paper and scrutinizing my homework!!! uggh :P and who knew people could be so fascinated with our prefects' handbook :D and some people are such gentlemen. oh and we got our beloved shirt! (only the 14 of us have it! :P) no matter how tiring, worship prac is always fun fun fun! with faith everything will turn out GREAT tmr!!

10:14 PM.

" Tuesday, February 20, 2007

from fong's house to shu's house to coach's house! wish we could have visited more people today! wensi and i planned to map out this whole route to visit all our friends on the last day of our precious holiday today. but due to time constraints we couldnt. plus everyone wasnt at home anyway.

still it was super duper fun! playing card games, watching tv, stuffing our faces with pizza!! shucks the holiday is over -.-

with adorable geri, gen and the roger federer teddy bear!!

6:57 PM.

" Monday, February 19, 2007

im in desparate need of HELP!! someone save me from becoming a CORN POPS ADDICT!!

seriously i eat at least two bowls a day, and today, i ate 4!! crap.. haha ifra and i are CEREAL KILLERS!!

and today, we went to our grand aunt's house to visit. since as long as i can remember we called her Principal :D

i realised my least favourite part of sharksfins is the sharks fins itself

haha poor sharks thanks gdness i rarely eat it.

my darling cousin baby ethan!! he's 6 months old and he's hungry for beer already!! learning from his daddy :P

oh yes!! im supposed to mention fat bush's name here! as my 'punishment' for ignoring her on msn all the time.. if not i'll 'get it from her' during history :D

haha HELLO DEAREST BUSH WANG!!!<3<3>

10:11 PM.

" Sunday, February 18, 2007

Happy chinese new year everyone!! gong xi fa cai! :D

what a fun day! we didnt go visiting but we had FAMILY TIME! we drove back to our old condo for a swim. my dad can swim the whole length in one breath! i couldnt reach the last 3m.. and i walked into the guy's toilet to shower cos they switched the locations and no one told me!! haha luckily it was just my daddy. then we went to some chinese restaurant and had yummy steamboat! the tofu dish was just heavenly!! after that sumptious meal we drove around our previous home area, reminiscing about the days when we lived there and all the shopping centres we used to visit. then, we chanced upon a FIREWORKS DISPLAY!!! it was really beautiful! but my handphone couldnt capture it properly, especially since it was all dark. well duhh u can only admire fireworks in the dark what am i talking abt?! haha

commentary

min: oh my, i wish i were a firework!!
jia: -.- u would die in a few seconds!!

haha my voice was super low there..there was another video too. with all my sister's little squeals, my dad's deep oohs and aahs

we were so fortunate to chance upon them!! preeetty preeetty fireworks!! :D

and the 3 of us were going HIGH in the backseat!!

9:10 PM.

" Saturday, February 17, 2007

thanks to each and every single person who got me something for valentines' day!!! (zhimin, tang hui shan, rahh, steph, jac, liz, jun (who will give me my present soon), char, hui, joey, beu, hammie, chowie, faith, sandy dandy (whom i went vday gift shopping with!), choey, chloe, mari and jo!!!) thanks guys! sorry i hope i didnt leave anyone out. i had no idea who i got some presents from. whoops hahaha. i think i nearly drowned in all the CHOCOLATES!! but the flowers were really sweet smelling esp chow's tulip!! i was sniffing it throughout the entire emath period.. somehow miss ho didnt say anything :D

good business at the flower booth! and for a charitable cause! :D

and thats our last vday in mg.. how sad. alot of things are our last in mg. so all the more we should treasure them with all our hearts!

to add on to the chinese new year joy, my cousin from new zealand/saudi came yesterday!! after not seeing him for more than one half years, and he has slimmed down!! hahaha. i love it when relatives visit. except that he took unglam pics of me while trying to wake me up in the morning and sat on me till my legs were deprived of blood. then he went to do the same to my sis -.-

somehow i feel kinda lethargic this new year. probably cos we already had our reunion dinner last saturday, and im just sitting in front of the television all day and stuffing myself with chocolates and corn pops. either that or taking afternoon naps. haha what a fat ass i am becoming!!

and that is why! today i did something incredible!! i went for a run!! after weeks of evolving into fat blob since we stopped the usual trng for competition, till now where we only play once a week, i FINALLY went out for a run!! until i almost DIED on the roadside. seriously. i had this extreme acute stomachache and i felt like vomitting. i could just feel my face turning pale and i almost wanted to cry cos i was so far from home and i was dying of pain!! then there was this guy who jogged past me twice since i starting dying and he showed no sympathy for this girl kneeling on the roadside!! well fine i probably wont know what to do with some stranger, but then again i've never met some pale sweaty stranger on the verge of fainting from pain and agony. hahaha after like 10 minutes of torture and fervent praying i was finally ok and resumed my walk/jog. it was really peaceful walking/running around the estate, enjoying the breeze and listening to music, and occasionally choking on exhaust fumes from cars.

and i have just finished blabbering away a whole lot of nonsense. happy new years' eve everyone!!!

11:03 PM.

" Wednesday, February 14, 2007

HAPPY VALENTINES' DAY EVERYONE!! LOVE YOU GUYS LOTS AND LOTS!! <3

8:34 PM.

" Saturday, February 10, 2007

sweet sweet recollections :D

the tennis courts' green red and white. such familiar grounds to us :D
once part of the mgs team, always part of the mgs team

coach! part of mg team too :)

true blue mg warriors!!

same old cheer: MG POWER!!!

my beloved partner JO!! we won all our games together since sec three!!
my other beloved partner HAMMIE!!
5th feb: drowning our sorrows in CHEESE STICKS :D
the note we pinned up the cafe. too bad jess couldnt join us

liz bellowing away. for now it's just the end of the road...
jess WILLINGLY took pictures that day!! :D
the AWESOME SEC FOURS!!! at least we hope we are :P having fun in the scorching sun our GOOFY times the gruelling moments we perservered
PASSION for TENNIS. MG B DIV 2007!! LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER...

10:57 PM.

" Wednesday, February 7, 2007

since i was rather upset and all on monday, i decided to rollerblade around my estate that evening just to distract myself and enjoy the breeze. it feels almost as good as lying on the track or on the court, thinking about all sorts of things and having such a peace of mind. except that i was so scared that some car will suddenly turn out from a corner and run me over cos i cant brake in time. but other than that, the cool air on my face and watching my shadow glide along with me was so peaceful. made me wish that just for a few days i could spend my time without all the stuff going on in school and have some time alone to relax and do what i want. haha everyone wishes for that.

more than anything i wish i could do that again today, or lie on the court again, since i feel slightly more miserable as compared to monday. but sadly im bogged down with all the work and tests. time wont stop even when u feel all lousy and zapped out of energy. today was like a closure to everything that has happened. so no use talking about what happened. on the outside everyone feels fine and forget about it when they're distracted. but when it's all quiet i suddenly remember why i felt so terrible and tired in the first place.

but we'll get over it wont we?! forget about what THEY said today. remember some parts of it and throw away the rest! the initial disappointment will fade away after a while, so long as we dont hang on to them for too long :)

we can think of the bad times, but happy thoughts surround those sad moments!! dont forget all the joy and fun we had over the past few weeks, months and years! our friendship is more special and significant than anything else so dont leave that out!

as i've promised, all the fabulous pictures that leave a statement to the great times we had will come out soon! once all the tests of the week are over. ughh.

touch-me-nots: they curl up when they are scared but open up again when the sun rises!! always look on the bright side! :D

10:22 PM.

" Tuesday, February 6, 2007

i finally got my hands on 'it's the end of the road' even though liz refused to send it to me :P

it's so applicable, yet with a new perspective

one line can change a story.

i'll take my pain and i wanna protect it
never blinds me always reminds me
there's so much more to see
at the end of the road

we'll get over the regrets. it's just a matter of time.

10:09 PM.

" Monday, February 5, 2007

i guess i'll come straight to the point. we lost to TK, and we cant get into semis anymore.

this is so sad, and i still cant believe it's all over for us. somehow i was just so sure from the start we could have made it to semis and i was looking forward to earning our own trophy all based on our own efforts. but i guess we stumbled somewhere along the way. i think it'll take some time for reality to sink in cos i still dont feel that devastated or anything.

none of us were actually devastated. we were sad, teared a bit, then we kinda stoned. haha well it felt good lying on the track just now talking abt what happened and contemplating about other stuff.

i shall put up pics another time then! not really in the mood to blog. i'll just immerse myself in homework to distract myself for the time being. no matter what, mg tennis b div of 2007, i love you x 100000000000!!!

3:19 PM.

" Sunday, February 4, 2007

oh goodness i HATE MONKEYS!!!

after a tiring morning out, i was about to take my usual shortcut route home. the one where like 50m before i reach home there's this obsessed dog out on the road, bent on protecting his territory. usually i'll just worry about whether the dog is in the mood to bark really loud at me, which is only like once of out every.. 10 times. but today, i couldnt even go near my shortcut. why? because there were MONKEYS there!! from the playground i stopped momentarily in my tracks when i spotted like 2 hairy monkeys on the grass patch. so i slowly walked forward, wondering if they would retreat into the forest so i can walk on. then, to my horror, there were like 6 of those hairy creatures crowding the grass patch!!! and there was one silly monkey that invaded this poor guy's garden and was up on his papaya tree robbing him of his poor fruits.

darn those monkeys. i had to walk the super duper long way home!! and my stupid sneakers were giving my blisters. until my mummy spotted me dragging me feet along as she drove past and rescued me from my miserable forlorn state!!

as usual, i was like 5-10 minutes late for church (which is a bad thing of course), and as usual, wensi was even later for church! (which is even worse) haha si when u are late, u are always extremely late. we were trying to officially welcome the sec ones to ym today, and we happened to be sitting near a group of sec ones when they told us to go shake hands with them. so we got up, and extended our warm welcomes to them! but the two girls i shaked hands with gave me that kinda face. that not so nice look. and after that i was so discouraged i didnt wanna shake hands anymore. but i shant make any judgement about those little sec ones. i believe they are just.. shy. haha anyway, after small group (gang was just like falling asleep the whole time) we went to eat burger king for lunch. before wensi and i embarked on our journey to kallang to hand in our spex forms for tournament! haha luckily we didnt heed john's advice on directions there, i think we would have been rather lost trying to find the national stadium and finding the dumb postbox.

after our mission was accomplished, we decided to take a bus back to kallang mrt station, but we were tricked by the bus uncle!! he told us to go to the other bus stop to take bus 11. so wensi and i, afflicted with blisters, hobbled over and waited for 11. then 11 came, but it was the wrong bus!! we had to cross back to take 11!! we were at the right stop from the beginning!! oh gdness i think we were too tired to be pissed. so we hobbled back, and waited for like 10 minutes before the right bus finally came. we plonked our tired butts near the window seats to enjoy the breeze, finally on the right route home.

oh and while i was taking 173 into my estate i met saniah!!! i havent seen her much less talked to her for so long!! and she's in dance now!! hahahaha so fun :D i live so near her but i have never seen her on the bus or anything for like a year.

oh yes!! yesterday we celebrated zhimin's birthday!! i laughed and screamed so much i had phlegm in my throat by the time i was going home. hahaha. we barbequed, oh the marshmallows were so good!! hot and cripsy on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside :D but it was so sweet i couldnt take it after 3 pieces. and stupid bush was like squatting on the floor next to the bbq pit, because she claimed her contact lens will melt from the smoke and heat! -.- hahaha. the most fun part was when we were all playing jun's take picture game, and the other where do i go next game. so fun!!! we were all screaming away trying to guess what was the trick to it! haha it feels so good once u know u spotted it. ifra and bush always get it so fast!! hahaha so we were trying to make it obvious after that so steph and sarah could guess. hahaha it was such a good way to make ifra do such ridiculous actions :P haha sorry ifra i couldnt help myself!! but they didnt even get it in the end.

happy birthday zhimin!! ... eww i was wearing my specs cos i had sore eye that morning...

steph liew!!! it's almost possible to die laughing!! hahaha goodness liz was so sneaky! she snapped this pic of steph. we zoomed in to her face and passed the camera around. honestly, we were all laughing so hard it hurt, and gasping for breath as burst into peals of laughter over and over again. :D

that was the first sweet sixteen party i've been to this year since i didnt go for danielle's one. shucks i really dont wanna go back to school tmr. and i dont want season to end either. i'll just grow into this fat fat blob :(

11:20 PM.

" Friday, February 2, 2007

to do the events of the past few days some justice, i shall spend time posting although im soo dead tired now :D but darn.. i dont have pictures of today's game. i was too tensed to find a photographer :P

so, on wed was our match against KC, played in our homeground! i partnered jo for second doubles. haha after my first match with hannah, i was so worried coach will never let me play ever again after i made that stupid decision. though not fatal, it was just silly. hahaha but i guess i was just excessively overworried and that shall never be mentioned again!! :D

yeah but even wed wasnt our best day. we like kept making mistakes over and over again. 4 games worth to be exact. so it ended at 9-4 but we werent particularly happy. and honestly i was quite bored of playing those not so good schools. not that im being snobbish or anything!! i just want the challenge, and the adrenaline of competition! to see whether my mental has actually improved since sec 3 or something. but baba managed to get some pretty nice pics of us while we were playing, so thats one gd thing :P oh and mg won 4-1 in the end :D

hi-five jo!! :D

going for some volley. but i bet it was a bad one, cos i dont recall making more than two decent volleys that day :P

shaking our opponents' hands :D we won!

taken by coach. surprisingly it turned out nice!! haha must be my camera, not him :P

hannah: hopelessly whining and sobbing away about how BLACK she is now.at pizza hut! AUDREY!! u are seriously the MOST DISGUSTING person at eating!! haha i cant stand u, u crazy girl!

and today's match was against scgs, our toughest opponent in our group. once again, i was so worried coach wouldnt wanna put me in, since he wanted xingting to play doubles and all that, so the usual line up would have changed quite a bit. but he changed his mind and i got to partner jo again!! yayy! (i hope we keep partnering each other for the rest of the tournament jo!)

LIZZIE!!!!! HAHAHA YOU ARE SO CUTE!!! dont kill me for putting this up!!

HAHA i love this picture!! jess looks like the PENGUIN from MADAGASCAR!!!! :D

HANNAH'S STRANGLING ME!!! help!! gasp gasp!

i tried to do one with me picking york's nose. hahaha but it didnt work!

today's game was probably the most exciting one so far. yeah ok it definitely was. we played against tiffany and nicole. at first we were like 6-3 up or something, but in the end we had to play all the way to tie breaker at 8-8! and won at 8-6. phew. talk about close. it was pretty good, cos we got to rally and do volleys and all that. and i was quite amazed that i didnt get frozen feet like in sec 2 or something when my feet were completely glued to the ground and i was paralysed with fear or something. and to think my first game was against jo when she was in scgs!! (u whacked my fingers jo!! either u or yoke mun anyways :P) haha i remember being absolutely terrified. but it's really great now that i can actually play decently and enjoy myself :D

yeah it was a really close game. but coach said we should have just finished it off and not play all the way till tie breaker. but it was fun! though we were that close to losing.. hahaha. oh but mg lost 3-2 in the end. it's ok guys!!! we can still get to semis yeah!? go mg!!!

and after that, the sec 4s, once again with jess (!!!) went to serene centre. if island cremery just had their chocolate ice cream today, it would have been such a perfect day!! but cookies and cream was yummy too.. mmm the chucks of cookie.. :D but i had to rush off to make it to church in time for worship prac, so hannah jo and i left together. on the way to church i was soo tired i completely dozed off, and my muscles were still a little tense that i felt my legs jerking twice.. haha i hope the woman next to me didnt realise.

it was great to be in church after such a busy week. there's just this calm and peace that overcomes me. when i think. oh i'll be going to church later, i always feel so happy and peaceful. actually that only applies to worship pracs, cos on most sundays it's always such a rush to get to church on time and all that jazz.

and band beloved is getting an exclusive band beloved shirt!! yayy!! so two 12 stones ppl came in to take our pictures and all. it was kinda funny. and i realised i was the third shortest in the band. -.- why am i so short... haha nvm kathleen and joan are shorter than me :P i proposed black and gold for the shirt. haha retro, i like. wayy better than purple and yellow!! (jotham's idea! hahaha)

yeah anyways tmr is gonna be a busy busy day!! leave the house at 1030. trng at 2-3 at farrer. physics tuition 4-6. then go to zhimin's house to celebrate her birthday! except that im not too sure how to get there, and the party is ruined by the fact we have to film our ss presentation thingy. hmm i better so sleep now, though i feel kinda hungry since i didnt have much dinner :P