I realise despite my pathetic lack of updates here, I'm actually keeping to my aim of at least 2 posts a month! :D

So, thinking about what's been happening since I last posted, things have just been great. And because I narrate and it's boring, I have cut my post into lovely little bite-sized bits for you to chew on the relevant parts. :D

( The invitation to Pulau Tekong )

( Exciting news :D )

( I heartzz 10S06G. ) 

( Week 1 Part I )

( SHOPAHOLICCCC )

( Week 1 Part II )

( Saikang Sunday )

( Week 2 Part I )

( The first of April )

Day-by-day recounts are honestly a boring way to recap one's life. But oh who cares, as long as it's nice and detailed for me to jolt my memory 40 years down the road. :D Anyway, I love my family and my friends and because I have lots of time to think on my journeys home, I reflect and am very thankful I have great friends. :D Love you all v v v much. 

Oh, did I mention my renewed love for Peanuts? (the comic strip, not the food) Charlie Brown is so darn lovable and pitiful. Some of the things he says are so sad and painful but true. It's so annoying that everyone bullies him but well, he's Charlie Brown so he lives through it. I'll be your friend even if no one else is Charlie Brown! 

 I am extremely proud of my mum. She's been learning to play the piano for a few months now and just a few hours ago, she took part in this mini piano concert her piano teacher held. There weren't a lot of people, probably around 30, and my mum is a good 10 times older than most of the other students in the room. But she still went up to play her piece. Nevermind that everyone else is a few decades younger or that she made mistakes here and there, she finished playing her simple piece and all I could do was clap very very loudly for her. How many of us would actually dare to do what we want the most against all odds? It definitely wasn't easy for my mum to even take lessons in the first place(some teacher even rejected her), let alone take part in this. But she did, and she fulfilled this little wish of hers. For this, I truly respect her and her courage to go for what she wants in life. 

On another note, attending this little concert really made me think. It was hosted by these two piano teachers for their students, mostly children aged from 5 to 10. They've probably only just started learning, judging by their standards. Those who played longer pieces paused at times while some played only with their right hand. However, one thing which really stood out was their strength to go up and play a piece they haven't really perfected, in front of complete strangers without their parents in the audience. As such, every single note they played was truly enjoyable. Not to mention that they're completely adorable. :D This little boy sitting next to me called Peter was so super cute, he was talking to his mum before the concert started saying that he was scared no one would clap for him. 

Back to the point about parents, yes, can you believe it? Parents weren't allowed into the room! Granted, the room is tiny, only just about enough chairs for the students but still. For one, the teachers should have gotten a bigger venue or split it into two concerts. Or they could allow the parents to stand. I can bet that all of them would rather stand than have to wait outside. The thing parents long for is to see their child doing their very best up on that stage and then when they arrive you tell them "Oh, but parents aren't allowed in. There isn't enough space.". Wth right! So they have to spend the next one and a half hours taking turns to peer through this tiny 30cm by 30cm window in the door, trying to spot their child. One parent was even taking a video through that window! By the end of the concert, you could totally see all these oil marks from their noses on the window. It's terribly sad and disappointing. At least the children have all gained something from tonight. It was probably the first performance any of them have given to others and for completing their piece no matter how they played, they deserve a big round of applause.  

Because Vince wants a post dedicated to them. :) so, thank you and love you all very very much, upmakers! For all the hours we put into making masks which we didn't use, sticking tape onto shirts which we also scrapped, slapping gunk onto the costumes, slapping more gunk on, making gunk, piaking gunk onto the poor sea-creatures' faces, scraping gunk off the floor and basically all the saikang we ever did. And for having the most fun ever together while doing all that literal shitwork. You all are the best saikang sistazs one could ever wish for. Yes, even if half of what we did was completely useless, it was a marvellous 2 weeks. :D 

And to the HH Dramafest cast, you all were amazing and mindblowing. Every time Chanel and I watched the rehearsal and the preps, we felt like crying. Really. Thumbs up to you all for putting all you had into the play, it's all of you who make the play so powerful. Congrats to Claire and Nabil for their prizes too! No one deserves them more than you two. 

Of course, there's the rest of the awesome crew who in addition to their own jobs, helped make and piak the gunk. :D Haha you all did a fab job. Everybody loves gunk. 


So.

It's been a week since DF has ended and as always, there are the withdrawal symptoms. As Chanel and I were saying, there'll be this tiny feeling of emptiness when we walk past the windy benches at 3pm on our way home. And having to think about tutorials instead of chinese-looking sea monsters just feels incredibly sad. Am missing you all sososo much HHDF09 :( 

Oh god I've really missed you all so much even though I see you all in school everyday and we say hi. It's just so amazingly easy and fun to talk to you all! Yay really love you all :D Can't believe we talked for so long. We should totally have regular girrll outings. And ruixin, we need more ppl to come for the next class outing so our class won't die! 

RIJ V-day culture is really quite different from RG's. Not as hyped up or celebrated like it was in RG. Quite surprising actually. I miss that whole atmosphere during Vday. Not that the 101 roses thing didn't stand out. Haha, amazing that like almost the whole school knew. Talking with OG mates is so informative and entertaining. :) I also can't believe we could just sit at the food court and talk crap for hours. 

Anyway, I'm loving my OG my class my ex-classmates and my friend :D more and more with each day which makes life super fun and great right now. Keyword is now though. It seems set to become all tough and urgh because lessons are really starting-starting next week. Just talking about math is depressing. But I do have some damn comical lecturers. 

Maths: "Sorry, my mouse is a little spastic."
Physics: points to some physics equation, "Check this out!" 
Econs: "The world is unfair.. because the sun makes us all unfair." 
 
Everyone seriously groaned at that last one. The way she said all her corny jokes, it felt like she wrote down on her set of notes "Insert joke about ___ here" at different places.

Oh and lectures are very interesting things. The whole lecture theatre really just stares down at you if you suddenly do sth. And the way the whole lecture theatre knows what reaction to show when the lecturer says funny stuff is hilarious. Like some secret unspoken collective knowledge. Hahaha.

Okay, I am going to start hardcore mugging tmr (or more like later today) or I'll seriously lag behind in everything. Life damn tough. Sigh. 

 So it's THE Orientation post. 

I've been suffering from orientation withdrawal symptoms which is a really good thing but yeah, the feeling sucks. I miss orientation, I really do. Not because its end means the start of school but because it was just so awesome. 

HH06 O'ut of Ideas, we weren't exactly the most enthu OG around but I'm really happy that in the end, all turned out well :D It was supremely fun doing all those activities in the 5 days with all of you and i do hope you all agree. Sure, there were all our silent-dunno-what-to-say-or-do-now times but they're pretty much non-existent by now. And we all know now that playgrounds are our thing. Haha, we should have OG outing to WCP to test the play area! 

Thank you everyone for everything, OGLs Mengmei Elson and Leon for following us around and entertaining us, Jiisan and Baasan Zhiming and Xinqi for leading us and the rest of the OG for being part of this OG. Love you all muchly. Hopefully we won't disintegrate and end up daoing each other in the corridors, that'll be very sad. 

And for memories sake, a recap on the past 5 days. Just so that I won't ever forget what happened (this totally works, just like my OBS recap post) 

( Not done yet! Don't click :D )

 Yenlin thinks people should blog a lot when they're free and while that's apparently not the case with me, I guess I should update a little. Haha. 

We're still, still on JIP. It's really very annoying when you have to go to school for just one talk from 8-9 and then have to hang around till afternoon for whatever interviews/tryouts you have. Wasting time is really very very hard when 1. You don't have your own classroom to sit around and do whatever you want in, 2. You can't use the computers in the library, 3. J8 has gotten so very boring and 4. You live pretty far away and it's tiresome to go home and come back. See? Doing nothing has never been so difficult before. This is where the "I miss RG" thing kicks in and you wish you actually have a classroom. And that you can actually sit anywhere/know where to sit in the canteen without making any grave mistakes. And that there's no awful cca woes to worry about. And that you actually have Orchard to go hang around. And that you know where whatever room is. (so you don't have to u-turn in the middle of a crowd when you discover you have no idea where you're going - aka what we did this morning when we didn't know where the stupid seminar room was) Okay, this list can go on and on because of my attitude right now - irritatedd. Hrmph. 

The talks are all pretty standard. Sex ed was more like Dating 101 or sth. Graphic calculators are so cool but oh so heavy and expensive. PW is scary, it'll be like the biggest PT we ever embark on. And econs is scarier because getting an A looks almost impossible. 

Had my first elective today - Econs at work - which I originally was very reluctant to go for (please don't ask me why I signed up for it in the first place, I swear my brain was frizzled that day or I was possessed or both) but it's actually quite fun after all. The guys at Yakult were really funny. One of them can go work for the govt if he ever loses his job, he can help to raise birth rates. Oh, and the free bottle of Yakult didn't hurt :D Apparently, S'pore's Yakult is one of the biggest bottles internationally. They sell it in teeny 65ml bottles in Japan! And we're the only country that provides 4 different flavours and straws. The Sunshine factory smelt extremely good, especially since we were all hungry people. Did you know that the rejects from the factory (talking about the bread here) are made into animal feed? And some fish farm requested for pandan bread because their fish liked it! Hahaha gourmet fishes. 

Polymers elective tmr which is easily the best choice I ever made. I mean, what kind of idiot picks an elective on a day when she has NOTHING ELSE? So smart right? Sigh, I hope it'll be fun. And that I'm only being overly pessimistic because I haven't found anyone whom I actually know-know going tmr. Right now I'm trying to convince myself that going to school to learn how to make candles is more productive than staying at home and rotting my ass off. It's working, i think, maybe. 

Can't wait for orientation to start, and to know who's in my OG. The lack of concrete information is so frustrating. 

 First 3 days of JC life have passed. Or more like first 3 days of induction. It's just been talks and programs and more talks. But it sure is fun looking around the school. RI(JC) is huge, like huge huge. Kinda embarrassing when you get lost though. Haha, and oh yes, the winds suck. Hopefully it's a this time of the year thing. 

It's interesting though, how some things are in JC. So new and different. Mmm.

On another note, just started watching Code Blue and i'm hooked. Only  the gory op scenes sort of freak me out and I have to try to avoid watching them. Haha i suck, i'm such a coward. I get scared too when i read detective stories and can't sleep at night. I should get an award for being super wimpy or sth. 

 Well, I've moved. 

It's about time actually, i've had wantingtheworld for 3 years now and I should move on :) 

So, Alllergy shall be my new little corner, for when i need to share, rant or simply make a record of my life. Haha. I have this newfound liking for livejournal, this is my 2nd account. The other one is a secret :D I love the mood themes especially, so very fun. I think i'll really be inspired to post more often here. I shall aim for at least twice a month! Haha, that beats my aim when i was at blogger. I only aimed for once a month there, and even failed once. (No posts for Nov 08!) 

Okay, tmr's O level result-collecting, may I be blessed with an A so the possibility of having to study chinese again is reduced to a satisfying 0%. It's not that I hate chinese, it's useful to be able to understand it, but studying it can really be a big pain. 

Good luck everybody!