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Hey! It has really been a long time.. If it wasn't because I felt so bored from studying maths, and started browsing the net.. could have totally forgotten that this place even existed! .. oh man! .. but since I found it.. I can start complaining here.. =P yeah!

Anyways.. yar.. Maths is so tedious now... can't stand it! Ah! .. it's like I can spend one whole hour on one question.. and still never get the answer.. my 'careless mistakes' are playing hide and seek with me! so so frustrating..

And besides that... Yesterday I went to the hair salon for the sake of spending finish my vouchers which are going to expire real soon.. and guess what? hahaha... I told the stylist I wanted to highlight copper colour without exactly knowing the colour of copper.. so... he went behind and do some mixing and came later with a bowl of orange dye... [at that time I was like.. gg... ] ... :/ in the end... monkey hairstyle!! ... haha! but it's ok... coz the colour's gonna fade away in a months time... :)

K ... BACK TO WORK! Jia You to myself :D

Bored =)

Hey!

This is gonna be really short coz I'm just feeling a little bored studying english! ... Can't believe I've gotta do this... I'm always lost on how to start! :/ Whenever I look at the question I could literally feel it staring back at me.. haha.. Oh man! My initial thoughts of being able to escape GP/English after A's didn't come true :(
[haha... let's hope I didn't make any grammer mistake in this short paragraph :)]

BYEEE! =D

Can't think of a title to summarise everything here :P

ok... it's been a loooong time... so this is gonna be a loooong post...

Anyways... Here are my most recent FEELINGS! haha! =D

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1) GREAT!

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because... i'm gonna end work real real soon and will be looking forward for all the camps line up ahead for me! Additionally, my dreams to travel after A'lvls finally came true!! Went for a cruise with my family to penang and phuket =) ... THEN ... to cameron and genting with my crez friends! =D I LOVE travelling! really wished I could go somewhere further like Switzerland or cruise to Alaska though.. [haha.. i'm always wanting MORE.. which is BAD!] =/... :)

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2) Blessed...

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really GLAD that I could study what I've always wanted =) ... almost didn't get in :/ GP really kills... :/ anyways.. I'll be going NUS for Chem Eng... =)

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3) yet... sad too =(

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that so many pple will be going somewhere far away for their studies and I really wonder when I'll ever get to see them again :'( ..

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yupz... now for some recollection.. =)

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Cruise Trip!

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It was my FIRST time! ... so I was pretty excited! =D ... Sentosa has always been one of my fav places in Singapore... coz there's the beach... sea... horizon etc... what more can i ask for than to spend 4 whole days enjoying all these on a cruise?! It was super RELAXING ... promise :)

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Here's my favourite spot in the cruise... our cabin's balcony :) ... where I can watch sunrise, sunset, enjoy the sea breeze and the sound of the waves :))) sadly my mom forbids me to go out there at night coz she's scared i'll fall into the sea!! .. HAHA! funny lar... [really wished she won't worry so much bout me sometimes =P ... then I'll get to do more stuff :P]
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played a little golf there too.. with this friend we met from India... =)
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and yes... food is NEVER a problem there... in fact.. the problem is that there's TOO MUCH FOOD! ...we are like eating 6 meals a day and I had seriously grown fatter!!! ... soo.. throughout the entire cruise journey... I refused to take the lift and go for the stairs instead [part of my exercising plan.. haha.. talking about that my plan to run at least once every week failed severely!! :/ ahh!! :(]

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family pic ... taken near the port in Penang

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here's the stilt village... one of the places we went to in Penang... and the food there is really great! ... oh man! ... I've really been eating super a lot! whenever I see nice food.. my stomach will like automatically make space for them even though i'm actually full :/// ... [k la... maybe I should be happy... coz i'm no longer underweight :) ]

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here's the greedy elephant we rode on... it's really greedy man! ... apparently the intelligent elephant knew we bought a bag of bananas to feed him... so... when he wants bananas... he'll just stop moving... stretch his trunk backwards... yearning for the bananas! haha.. rebellious elephant!

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Aside from all these... I love the musical and dance performances there! =) ... especially the ballroom dancing... =D really wished I could learn... ... [have been wishing that for a long time already... but time always hinders :(]
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AND... there's this place in Phuket that I really wanted to go .. the James Bond Island... but sadly we couldn't coz there isn't enough time :((

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Overall.. I HAD A GREAT TIME!

[secretly I wouldn't mind if we got quarantine in the middle of the ocean coz of swine flu :) ]

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Cameron and Genting Trip:

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thanks to eileen for organizing it! =) ... went for this trip just 2 days after I came back from my cruise trip... omg... super tiring actually... I was like praying hard I won't fall sick :/ anyways... i was really excited coz it was the first time i'm travelling with my friends!! =D away from mummy who will always forbid me to do stuff :)
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here's the tea plantation @ cameron highlands... the weather there wasn't as cold as I expected it to be though.. must be global warming.. haha! =D
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yay! we could both squeeze into the seat!! =DD

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Mish's birthday! =D so we had a little celebration there! =D let's hope our cres style of birthday song didn't wake everyone up =)

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Hmm... let's see what else we did there... there's a strawberry plantation where we get to pluck our own strawberries =) ... that was very good exercising coz eileen and I climbed really really far up... we figured the 'dangerous zones' would have nicer strawberries coz less pple would have gone there =) .. oh yes.. the honey bee farm was scary... didn't like the idea of free-roaming bees there... back at home... I'll even scream whenever a bee flies into my room... really scared of them :S

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In Genting... we went to the theme park and thankfully it rained so I didn't have to sit the sky tower ride with them :) ... haha.. genting was like more fun! ... though I've been there so many times already but I don't think i'll ever be bored there coz there's just sooo many things to do... :)

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yup yup... it was great once again... when we were about to reach Singapore... we all got a little emo coz we don't know when we'll be able to meet up again... each of us are going to diff courses and diff uni even... well... stilll... i believe that FRIENDSHIPS WILL LAST FOREVER! right? :)

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Much Ado about Nothing:

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k.. this is where we had dinner before going for the play =) .. and I LOVE this setting... felt like I'm in England.. having an English style dinner =)
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anyways... it's an open air concept... where we had picnic and watch the play at the same time.. =) ... Adrian Pung's acting is really good man! he's so funny and he always has his own individualistic style when he acts... yup.. the play was good!
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Wolverine:
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went to watch this with Jess =) and as usual... I fell asleep again!! haha.. I think out of 10 times I watch movie... 9 times I'll fall asleep =) and thanks so much for helping me fill up the parts I missed =)))))
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and this was taken in plaza sing at about midnight!!!! =D

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kay!! ... I'm getting a little tired typing already.. haha! my brother just came back from camp today.. =) and he was complaining to me how he had to kayak like crazy coz his partner.. which was a girl.. didn't do anything but play with the water.. HAHA!!! =D sooo hilarious!
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anyways.. that's all for now! =D

Life has been reeeaaal busy!! :/ :)

Still... I just gotta squeeze some time to reflect on my life... will NEVER EVER want those memories to fade away... =)) k... where should I start from?? haha! [that's the prob... always!!]

Workshops!:

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With primary 5 students from ACS primary!! They are really fun to teach but it's real tiring to control them as well... because they're ALWAYS running around... playing with gloves... squirting water at each other... you can never imagine how 'lively' lessons were! HAHA! ... One week of workshops... tire me to the max!!! but hey... it was fun! and I'm definitely going to miss teaching them... ... :)

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Baking:

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It was my FIRST time since my last home econs lesson which was in Secondary 2 I think, where the choc cake turned out to be a BIG cookie because I forgot to add baking power :/ ... Went to Mish house to bake this time! =) did a little modification to the recipe coz we really really couldn't figure out what some of the ingredients were.. haha.. anyways.. the cake turned out to be... erm... quite edible... :/ ... but the lemon cookies were really NICE! =) Thankfully! :)

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Class outing:

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At douby =) .. sadly I couldn't make it in time to join them for dinner =((( ... but I went for the post-dinner activity =) .. haha! I arrived only to find that they were doing... nothing... haha! ... super lame actually.. sooo... in the end... we went for supper at Mcs and played cards till I was really really tired...

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More meet-ups with CREZ friends!:

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Yup... finally got to meet alyssha after sooo long... we were supposed to go for Mish's church event coz she was dancing... So... thinking that it's going to be like a performance... we brought her flowers!!! .. and we ended up being the only ones who brought flowers there so funny! :/ :) ... haha.. anyways.. the dance was nice! =) hope to meet up more often! =)

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AND:

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Here's wat xiang jun sent me recently... thought it was really really meaningful :)

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"When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand
where the winds of forgiveness can erase it away.
But, when someone does something good for us,
we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

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Yupz... that's about all I guess... :)

lost... confused...

Life isn't on the bright side all the time..

This past month have been filled with much disappointments.. I wake up every morning only to find myself confused over my future.. It's a really really terrible feeling... and I hated it.. and thank goodness I've got school to go to... because spending time in school with jess and wu duo really cheered up my days!! :) and work'll keep me busy... so that's good! but still.. I really can't help but feeling sad sometimes =((

I really can't wait for this period to be over... can't wait for everything to be confirmed.. like e.g. what course I'll be taking etc... only then will I have a peace of mind... because there'll be something for me to work towards again! =D Unlike now... everything is soooo undecided... ahh!! can't stand myself.. seriously.. for being sooo indecisive... if only I had realized the importance of GP earlier... Life wouldn't have been so hard for me now...

Made a wrong choice in JC... can't afford to repeat the same mistake again... Uni will be a new chapter of my life... and I hope I can give my best in it... then I'll have no regrets!!!

For now... I need the strength to carry on.. I think I'll have to believe in HOPE ... all I ask for now is just for that terrible feeling that I have every morning to go away... so I can have a clear mind to do all my applications... and make the best out of everything that I have...

Dinner time! =) ...

and I'm looking forward to expedition at Ubin next week!! [if eveything goes according to plan.. haha.. ] =)

Let's summarise the fun times I've had!

I've been so busy lately... with work... with stuff that will perhaps affect my future greatly... 'SOUL SEARCHING' --- it's certainly something that is not easy... Next 3 weeks will be filled with anxiety... A'lvls... interview... resultS... I guess what that's keeping me going and calm is hope.. and faith... ... You'll have no idea how I'm feeling right now... -lost in myself-.. haha.. !!! watever... put that aside... and let's recall some fun times! =D
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Outing with cousin:

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To the esplanade roof top!!! Really really nice place to go to and talk about everything under the sky! .. haha! =D I totally enjoy the view and atmosphere there!! =D ate at Thai Express! =D After dinner, my cousin brought me to Harry's Bar!!! was really scared to enter at first... coz I'm not even sure if it's safe... sooo... I drank a non-alcoholic drink.. =D but there was a live performance there!!! I looovvveee the songs they sing!!! ... reached home a few min before 12 again... and my mom'll give me this look AGAIN!! .. HAHAHA!!!
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Dance lesson at ATTITUDE:

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Lyrical Jazz... and it is super boring.. haha... didn't get to learn any nice dances so I decided that I won't go again... well... but the intensive warm-up really tired me out completely... giving me muscle aches the very next day... first time I actually EXERCISED after soooo long!
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Family gathering:

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To the botanical gardens... lame rite??? ... well... anyways... the 2 little cousins kept me busy and brightened up the atmosphere there too!.. haha.. botanical gardens is actually quite a good place for family bonding !! =D ... had a really nice dinner that day... visited the Orchid Garden etc. etc. =) and I treated almost everyone to ice cream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D .. now that I'm working.. haha! =D

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Trip to ICES (at Jurong Island):

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ok... this was emo-ish... I went back to visit my research mentor and end off my attachment with ICES... bought him the England's finest biscuits from dempsey (and it's really nice.. haha.. I like it myself!)
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I always felt so welcome whenever I return to ICES... the level of encouragement.. smiles.. that the pple there give me made me feel as though this is my second home.. I almost cried when I left the building...

haha.. I took pictures when I was in the bus... on my way out of jurong island... and the bus driver must have thought that I was crazy or something!! Can't believe I had sooo much feelings for jurong island!!! I must have been crazy... but I guess that's where I was given the opportunity to try out something that I really like... and enjoy... Yar... I hope to be able to go back some day =D

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Friday the 13th.. haha!! :
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A STAR interview... !!!
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Went for lunch with NG after that... the serving was just soooo big and I'll never be able to finish it.. haha!!! anyways.. thanks for the lunch! =D
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Back to school... for a meeting...
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Then to dental.. to get my braces out!!! =D ... I felt as though I had no teeth! .. haha.. ok.. maybe i'm beginning to miss my braces.. haha.. as for now... no one is to look at my teeth!!! .. until I get them REALLY white!!! HAHA! =D

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Friday the 13th sounds like an eventful day...

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V-day:
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A perfect day to find out more about CHEMISTRY! =D .. went to the NTU talk myself to find out more about chem eng and chemistry... met kevin, van and my dance friends there! =D ... so I wasn't lonely after all...
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Went shopping with my dance friend and some new found friends...
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Reached home at around 11 plus and my whole family gave me this look... hahaha!!! they're crazy lar.. !!! =D
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Alright... off to cousin's party now!!! =D but before that... pizza for lunch! =D

let's see... it's been a week already... sooo many things happened.. soo busy with work... soo tired.. and soo little time for myself... ...

Anyways... last friday was camp fire night! ... NG and KZ came too... and... we played ... er hem... 'board games' at the roof top... the 5 of us.. including jess and FW.. hahaha.. let's hope we don't get into trouble... :)

Then... we went back to the staff room... shortly after... we were greeted by some mysterious person... and all at the same time... the lights in the staff room went off!!! ... ahhh!!! scary..................

Took lots of pic that day... apparently we were all in camwhore mood.. find them in facebook! and we made a video too!!

Ok... OFF FOR DANCE !!!!!!

More fun times!

Life in the staff room has been rather entertaining lately...
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Before assembly.. when you are half awake at your desk.. Suddenly.. Mr Yong arrives and started becoming high over soccer!! Even teachers began to amuse themselves with their self-made chinese new year deco... After lessons... ffw and ain would just like TOTALLY go crazy... haha... I won't even bother describing the things they did!!! hmm.. though I'm kind of the youngest amongst them.. I sometimes feel otherwise!! =D Hahaha... but it was fun =D
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Work has been alright so far =) just a couple of presentations to prepare.. boards to design... and papers to mark... etc..
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here's wat the teachers did!

and there's some more!

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CNY celebration in school:
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Teachers were given free oranges!!! =D .. If I had known I wouldn't have brought.. =) Anyways.. now there's like this whole plastic bag of oranges on my desk and I hope they'll still be in a bearable condition when I get back on wed.. :/
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Nic Goh and Kevin went back too... and I guess they were the only 2 that greeted Mrs Cheng OUT LOUD! .. and ya.. how did you all know that day was my birthday ar?? funny lar! how come I dun even know?? =)
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Played orientation games with Ms Ang's class... Double Wacko with an Umbrella!!!!! {OUCH} The funniest part was when ffw distracted this girl by making her pose for a pic... hahahaa.. sad.. sabo-ed her partner... ...
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Wanted to go back to Crescent... but sadly it was too late already =( ... soo... we decided to go out for lunch and shopping instead.. Lunch was at some teppanyaki place in Cine... We were like talking halfway and suddenly a HUGE fire appeared in front of us!!! Shock of our lives!!!!
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haha... Ms Ang scared of sun =D

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Lunch!

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Post New Year Prep:
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Went to the salon... trying to make my hair SLIGHTLY neater and not so messy.. haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyways... I went shopping in NTUC all by myself !!!!! [first time man!! Coz my mom went to do her hair too... =.=] while my brother and father went for badminton =.= ... anyways... It was quite fun!! shopping in NTUC by myself... pushing that huge cart and carrying a shopping list and a pen!! .. hahaha... I'm like 10 times more efficient than my mom because I dun take sooooo long to choose a pack of 60 cents vegetable! ... lol... because of this... I was kinda late for class dinner :/ ...
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Class dinner:

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Ate at fish and co... at the glass house... after that... went walking around in Plaza Sing for a while.. then... played some cards at the coffee club and had a light supper =D

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Yeah... done.. back to CNY activities =D

first? or last?

First class outing in the Year 2009... ...
The 'class size' is already beginning to diminish as more and more of us step into NS..
This photo... it really have a different feel and I guess all of us look SLIGHTLY more mature now.. =)
Dinner was at NYDC... and it was freezing cold in there...
Post-dinner activity was relaxing... we played some games... sang some songs... talked.. etc..

Well... I hope we'll keep in touch still alright.. =)

School's STILL the best!

School's been FUN so far! =D

Though I haven't exactly started with teaching yet.. but it was STILL not as boring as I had imagined...

Just look at what I did today! :

• Went for morning assembly
• Had breakfast from 8 -10 am !!!!!
• Work a while...
• and before we knew it.. it was LUNCH TIME!
• Corner seats are REALLY condusive for slping... hahaha..
• Work a little more.. [haha.. it wasn't exactly work actually.. more on upgrading of my Microsoft Words skill :/ahh.. !!! ]
• AND..... before I know it.. time to go!!! =D
  

Yesterday? :

• Went down to the biopolis with some students..
• I gotta direct the bus driver to the place coz he didn't know how to go.. and neither did I ... so I was practising my 'reading signboard' skill? [HAHA.. thankfully it wasn't that bad.. =D ]
• There were talks on UK and US universities and it sort of made me regretted a bit not applying for US ... =(
• and I also begin to think whether I had applied for the right course.. oh man!!
• Suddenly felt stressed over scholarships and uni stuff..
  

First day of work:

• I didn't know I had to work that day..
• I thought I was juz going down to settle some admin stuff ..
• So I came in jeans and casual clothes... totally don't look like a relief teacher! :/
• Anyways.. I made new friends =D
• Mark papers.. and it's an experience man!
• Sneak into NJ's hostel and we ALMOST bumped into Ms Sharon Phua :/ ..
  

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wow... time actually flies in work... talking about A'lvl stuff during lunch and breakfast really made me feel so scared!! .. I cannot imagine how I'll feel on that day.. [just before the announcement of the results] ...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!

whole day out!

I'm feeling extremely tired today!

Yesterday... ... I did all the things that I could have possibly do in A DAY !!!

Started out with TWO hours of badminton ... [hahaha ...it is totally not surprising that I woke up with a terrible muscle ache today... ] and... my shoe kind of gave way during badminton... but thankfully my parents were nearby and they got me a new pair of BATA SHOES... Lol !!

Played pool a while... and out of dunno how many games we played.. I only won ONCE!!! .. hahaha ..

Shop at places that I seldom go such as TIMES, world of sports, and some GOLF shop.. LOL!! =D

Watched a movie... called Ong Bak 2... It was in Thai... and I didn't understand it.. hahaha.. I think only those fairy tale stories then I can understand =D

Ate SIX times... not bad.. and supper was SPAGHETTI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [I think I'll probably have put on at least ONE kg =D] - hopefullyy... ...

Reached home at 10.30pm ... luckily BUS 75 was kind to me... came right away !!!!! =D =D

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Tired.. but it was sure fun! ... and funny! .. and thanks for the book! =D

[outdoors]

Singapore Zoological Gardens... [2nd jan]

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First visit to the zoo this year... which was rather obvious since only one day of 2009 had passed since then.. =D getting there was a real problem for me... aside from the fact that our bus fares were exceedingly high now.. mandai is one area that I'm extremely unfamiliar with... I took bus 927 from Choa Chu Kang MRT... only to realize that it went back to somewhere near upper bukit timah which was actually very NEAR where I am staying! Haha.. I ended up being late!!! and I didn't exactly know where to alight.. so I kind of predicted that most pple in the bus should be going to the zoo.. and thankfully I was right! =D

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It was raining... sad... but luckily we all brought umbrellas and the sky decided to be kind to us just after a while.. the zoo hadn't changed much since my last visit last year.. except maybe the white tigers looked a little more tame now.. come to think of it... It was really funny coz we are always taking pictures with fake animals there - they're much easier to access than the REAL ones.. the kangaroos were so lazy... I didn't even get to see any of them jump... or hop... and the giraffes appear a little short to Jess.. the leopard is sleeping.. Man!! it seems that the gene pool is getting weaker when we keep animals locked up like that... some really had very little space to move in... quite sad rite...

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Although I believe that the animals are being treated well in the zoo.. but locking them up in the zoo just for us humans to see may be a little cruel.. they should be out there in the wild... surviving with their own instincts.. how is it going to be like if it was the other way round? locking up humans for animals to see? haha.. I dunno... Juz random thoughts I guess.. yet.. zoo is actually one of my favourite places in this small island we are living in... hmm..

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The monkeys are slightly luckier.. got such a big place to wonder around.. and one even tried to STEAL my food!!! ... so mischievious! ... haha!

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Not forgetting the extremely expensive chicken rice that I took there! :/

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Well.. but overall.. I think I had a great time =D

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Dinner was at swensens.. and we played pool after that.. [thanks for that! =D]
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Some Pics:

The real zebra crossings!

and the goats are attracted to my food!! .. they're really cute!

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Class Outing...
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Attendance wasn't that good... well.. I guess everyone's working now that's why.. we had lunch at Cafe Cartel and heard some interesting stories about army life.. [sounds exciting to me.. haha!]
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Went to the arcade for a while... and we were watching this guy killing some monster and I thought that was very very boring.. hahaha.. but apparently he attracted a really large crowd... Jamie said he was very pro that's why...
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Watched Ip Man... ya... and it was a nice show.. even though it was in Chinese.. the Kung Fu was REALLY good.. and the movie was a little touching too..

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Guess I had been rather bored these days... spending my time either with my parents or with my computer.. working on a presentation.. and I just helped someone with her bio research project this afternoon... HAHA!! bio!! ... [the subject that I hated in Sec 4]
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Since I was so bored.. I was looking through my cupboard and guess what I found.. my NCC uniform!!!!!! So I decided to try it on again... just wondering how I look like the last time!

Fierce rite?