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. sanity check
 
 
. carbon dating
 
 
. frozen time
 
 
28.2.03
oh ya...
havent explained the STUCKED part of my day...
andrew kinda msg-ed me asking me what time i'm going down to train today...
hmm...
wasnt very possible coz i had meetings and needed to come home to study for tmr's maths...
and of coz...
blog in my blog...
but what he said was true....
i cant really train tmr...
coz of meeting with that impt guy i dunnoe who...
sunday we'll be packing up our boards and sails liaoz...
monday will be down to the train station liaoz...
piangz...
damn rush...
but really bo pian...
damn sad that alwaz have to reply andrew's sms with a...
' i'm not coming down today...
finish quite late..
sorry...'

feels as though i'm letting him down..
sucky feeling...
thing is he has been doing alot for us...
really...
haiz...

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if there was one word which could describe your day...
what is it?

STUCKED

am home really early today...
like 1700...
i kinda slept past my stop...
and when i woke...
i was kinda like near YC's house...
which is kinda far from my house...
hahha...
but dont think i'm the oni one...
this AJ guy...
i think his bus stop is before mine...
but i think he missed also...
saw him taking bus in the interchange...
muahhaha...

had movie fest meeting..
which was pretty cool...
just sit there and think of wonderful movies to screen...
but the tough part is getting these movies...
and whether or not to charge these pple...
but we thot not...
just give them a chance to enjoy themselves...
after the sucky CTs...
and lessons...
hope you guys will support movie festival even though i'm gone...
council has been great...
letting me be part of the ad-hoc even though i cant be there...
do support...
coz i think they'll be putting alot of effort into it...


eh...
lala has been really farnie today..
dunnoe why...
but she made me laugh alot...
hehhe...
sometimes it's frenz like these that can blow your morning blues away...
something which i appreciate very much...
love you 01...
you make me a really happy girl...

though many of them think i bu nan bu nu...
=P


someone asked me why i felt so much for the klass before...
i din know how to answer him...
but its just that..
when you have spent like one whole year...
cramming lectures/tutorials/practicals with each other...
you kinda create that bond there...
maybe its that i value friendships alot...
so everyone out there means something to me...
even more as a klass...
though not many are going to look back and smile at the thought of 0102...
but i would...
think abt how we laughed at each other during tutorials...
how we had fun playing soccer at PC's house...
how HF's tennis ball came flying to my face...
the times i laughed...
the times i cried...
or simply how we sat together to eat sometimes...
=)

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27.2.03
if there was one word which could describe your day...
what is it?

HAPPY

dunnoe why also..
things have been quite okay today...
been eating alot..
but i guess food makes me happie...
am damn heavy for my height...
but like i told stella...
i choose to believe its muscles...
*pengz*
kinda freaked her and merv with my dec training program...
but clarification...
i'm the weakest one there liaoz leh...
sometimes even need sam to beach my equipment for me...
looney too...
dunnoe what i'll do without these guys man...
they rock...

kk...
need to get back to my online meeting for movie fest...
woohoo!
it'll be my first event w/o me being there...
coz i'll be far far away in penang...
wohoo!

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26.2.03
quarrelled with mum...
kinda bad...
she and dad is planning to go to penang too...
i dunno for wad...
its going to be totally pointless so i dun understand why they are even planning it...
she insists that they are worried coz i havent ben giving them enough details...
and when they ask...
i tend to get really frustrated...
coz the times they asked was after training...
and i was damn freaking tired to answer any of their constant probbing...
cried a number of times...
seriously there is no pont in them going...
wont even see them even if they're there...
i know things i did in the past has caused them to lose confidence in me...
but the thing is i'm almost 18 now...
and am changed...
i dont lie to them anymore...
i dont hide things from them anymore...
why cant they trust me???
really cant understand why...


took cab down to ECP today...
fixed up the pulley system on my laogong...
he looks pretty good with it...
fiercer looking...
and more proficient...
WQ and SK were the oni ones who were there when andrew taught them how to set up...
WQ did help me...
but most of the time i was left bending over her sail and trying to see what knots were used...

uncle ben wasnt quite understanding too...
din understand why we had to take such a long time with the pulleys...
1. its my first time putting one up...
2. i had minimal assistance..(except when sam offered to help me saw the screws...i kinda did everything else myself...including buffing the airblock)
3. need to trim some of the stuff up so that they could be used...
=P
and he kinda niao-ed us for taking the whole day...
i'm really trying very hard liaoz...
but its really not easy on me...

but looking on the bright side...
just received 2 shirts from singapore sailing...
with a small singapore flag sewn to the sleeve...
dont really know wad it means...
cause we're definitely not from the national team...
maybe just a token of appreciation for us representing the country...
even as lousy surfers...

will sign off from here...

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25.2.03
aint much to say today...
kept falling asleep...
in tutorials...
lectures...
civics...
bleh...
dunnoe why i so tired...
haiz...

will ciaoz to ECP tmr after sch...
so chaam...
i think have to take cab there...
piangz...
waste money again...
but thing to look forward to is rigging up my laogong with a brand new pulley system...
shiok...
andrew has been really nice...
buying the stuff for us...
woohoo!
glad that he's ard...

he sms-ed me today...
saying that penang has been blowing 12-18 knots religiously everyday...
kinda worries me...
coz 18 knots is really quite jialat...
cant handle...
would probably be doing chicken gybes...
and farnie tacks...
aint good when you haev so many gaoshou ard...
so paiseh...
but the trip will be fun...
though i'm not supposed to say that...
imagine...
10 whole days with 5 crappy people...

woohoo!
really cant wait..
=)

will get down to work liaoz...
and try to get an early nite...

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24.2.03
guess wat...
nature masters for o2 is out liaoz...
kidna happie...
coz they took a vote...
and i got in as montana nature master...
woohoo!

Orientation 2 Nature Masters
Cielo- Grace Hui
Fuego- CK
Oceano- Shi Shi
Foresta- Shou Wen
Deserto- Cher Chin
Montana- Me!

just hope HR dont come up with more changes...

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had a pretty okay day today...
sad thing is...
din get any homework done...
in deep shit...
but dunnoe how..
need more sleep than anything else...
fell asleep during mr yip lesson lor...
so paiseh...
piangz....
call my name and ask me not to sleep...
but really...
dunnoe how long i can tahan this lifestyle...
weekends really burnt at the beach....
weekdays in sch...
with council...
maybe should start blogging less...

post-talentime days have been good...
council's getting closer...
esp after thrashing on sat...
suddenly everyone's asking you whether you need help with stuff annot...
actually no...
just need everyone to do their part...
that'll suffice
crapped alot with mr tan today while taking down the talentime backdrop...
hehhe...
he's quite farnie...
really...
talentime changed the council...
its been great..

finally got approval for the penang trip liaoz...
principal was really nice...
asking abt my windsurfing....
and alot of stuff...
he's really nice to talk to?
and his chair is quite comfy...
he kinda worried abt my studies...
but hope i can catch up larh...
maybe in the hols have to pia my butt off...
also bo pian...

now go study R-OH...
wish me best...

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23.2.03
just came back from dinner....
was full...
was a cheap 53 bucks...
considering we ordered yummy soft shell crabs with pork floss...
prawns with tofu...
ribs...
cuttlefishes...
and a big bowl of hot and sour soup...
heheh...
damn full...
hahhaa...

went to beach today...
fix up equipment...
my poor laogong got a big crack on his side...
dunnoe how i hit it...
was quite bad...
but got it patched up with some epoxy stick...
did the daggerboard markings...
haiz...
will have to ciaoz from sch on wed...
so that i can go do up my pulley system...
sucky thing...
pay so much money...
haiz...
really cant spend so much money when i'm out in future liaoz...
but at least...
before i go penang...
i just wanna splurge on a nice pair of boardshorts...
and not with the two OP ones i had for almost 3 years...
they're pretty good...
but they're so worn...
that they're pretty cool to sleep in...

so excited...
andrew keep talking abt how fun it will be...
really lor...
will be with them for 10 days...
away from sch...
away from council work...
woohoo!
and all the nice penang food...
yummy!
really cant wait...
actually dont really have to wait...
its just abt 10 days away...
which isnt long...
really...
=P
just hope they dont force me to take the chem test earlier...
i'll just puke lor...

but its also quite scary...
andrew say there alot of sea snakes and jelly fish...
freaky...
they say sea snake bite...
can die in one hour...
gosh...
and i thot sharks were scarier...
just hit me today how dangerous my sport is...
when andrew told us abt their training beach in china...
one guy got killed by a shark...
and at the high speeds our equipment are going...
gosh...
its really freaky...
but damn shiok...

its quite ineteresting how they cure jelly fish bite though...
andrew was telling us they pee on it...
and we kinda laughed at the thot...
either that or vinegar...
trust me...
i'll bring vinegar...
i wont want any of the guys pee-ing on me...

ya...
gosh...
so the guys must drink alot of water...
hahhaa...
so can cure all the jellyfishes bites...
bleah...
so yucky...

kinda remembered something...
soprandi's 19...
so actually...
he still can go for mistral youth...
well...
hope he does...
kinda wanna see him again...
=D

oh ya...
just realised...
sam really got a very good body...
a little skinny...
but his muscles ah...
bod really V shape lor...
and his tan damn freaking nice...
*envy*
piangz...
feel so inferior...
and two of the guys lighter than me...
piangz...
must lose weight...
i must i must...

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love life...

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22.2.03
supposed to meet our team manager today...
edwin low i think...
but in the end...
he fly our aeroplane...
have to go be guest for the IVP...
the WSF competition between the universities...
alwaz liked to go jisiao them...
but no chance today...
andrew briefed us alot today...
and despite having no water time...
i kinda learnt alot..
i think Andrew's a good coach...
he's been doing alot...
really...
appraciate all of it...
i dunnoe how...
but the niceness of our seniors kinda pressures us into going for penang...

but am having financial trouble...
i took so damn freaking long to save the money i have now...
but have to blow it now just for a trip to penang to get thrashed...
dunnoe whether it is worth it...
kinda like i dunnoe how long i'm going to continue WSF-ing...
i love the sport...
but the equipment is really too expensive for me to follow up...
a simple bag to put your sail costs 100 + bucks...
another to put your board is yet another 100+ bucks...
really...
though SSF paid for abt 600 bucks worth of stuff for us each...
we still have to fork out 600 bucks plus...
argh...
hate money matters...
even orientation 1 oni used less than 400 bucks...
but kinda no choice...
will have to part with my hard-saved money...

the guys were really sweet today...
coz WQ din want to type and print the minutes during today's debrief...
no one volunteered so i did...
but when i casually said i had a lot of homework to do over the weekend..
all three of them volunteered to do it..
how nice if council was like dat too...

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sucky GP test today...
one of the questions mr wee gave us before came out again...
though i wanted to challenge myself and do something different...
i din...
wanted to play safe...
my heart cant take anymore stress liaoz...

after that slacked awhile in CR...
wanted to play bball with shouwen...
but stupid guy din bring shorts...
so taught him how to play Freecell instead...
hahhaa...
he was so impressed i could solve it so fast...
muaahhahaha...
passed all my top secrets to him...

then played bball 3 on 3..
amanda and yishan sick...
so shishi...liteng and me played...
did really badly...
coz all the teams we met got at least two sch team players...
and the non-sch team players were club members...
sucky thing...
but i had fun in the third match...
when we knew we die liaoz...
just laugh and play lor...
hehhee...

was shuttling between 11-14 and bball court...
had a GM...
and a thrashing session for council...
kinda said alot of things that have been in my mind for ages...
then a number of us broke down...
glad that something i said became a quit msg for one of them...
council is a COLECTIVE term....'
yeah...
it is...
but felt good after crying...
coz been really stressed lately...
tend to cry really easily...
coz of talentime...
Mistral Asian Championships in penang...
tutorialz...
AJ ideas...
parentz kept worrying abt my penang thingy...
kinda grr abt it...

dad made me cry yesterday...
it was so minor that i forgot what it was...
i just simply started crying all the way home in his car...
kinda glad that i din manage to give YC a ride...
or else so paiseh...
dad felt so bad he kept saying sorry and trying to make me laugh...
which dad will do something like dat?
but i couldnt stop...
sometimes i kinda wish the penang thingy didnt come...
really...
though its a good chance...
the fact that dr ben fought it for us makes it all the more un-miss-able..


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kinda quite grr...
when some pple tell me that LOST wasnt good...
they might be rite...
but we had our reasons for putting them in...
so i must clarify...
our criteria for auditioning were...
Profiency...Style...Creativity...Presentation...
though they din score well on the first two...
they did really well in the latter two...
these were indeed very important...
we rejected one grp...
though they were good....
their entire dance was an N'sync MTV...
we know coz we are constantly watching MTVs to come up with new dance...
another coz their steps werent original once again...
we're talking abt talent in talentime...
so why should we credit a group just for practising hard enough to look good...
if we can spot the lack of originality...
the audience would too...
LOST did well...
i feel so...
though they had a little prb with the beat, timing and style...
they had the guts to showcase something they came up with...
something different...

dear daddy and mummy...
know you wont read this...
but i'm sorry for being mean and cranky the past couple of weeks...
mood fluctuations have been quite bad...
can be really happie one moment..
but really =P the next...
just going thru a really trying period of time...
will be back to normal soon...
or at least when my workload fades out...
sorry...


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21.2.03
talentime is finally over...
its been great...
feedback from the 18th...
principals...
teachers...
have all been good...
really..
our efforts finally paid off...
kinda glad...
coz we shed tears..
stunk of sweat...
just for this...
glad everything turned out well...
just ran on stage and hugged every gal i could find...
really...
i din cry...
was too busy clearing up...
but almost did...
dunnoe why but talentime really meant alot to me...

keep gushing abt AVA i dunnoe why...
but...
hey guys...
good job today...
with no regard for the little screwups...
i think you were power packed...
admire your professionalism...
and that added wit too...
enjoyed my time in the control room...
glad i din sell that 'seat' for 50bucks to another councillor...
hope this talentime stint...
made a difference in your life too...
i dunnoe how...
maybe by giving you a better understanding of your stuff...
and a good look at all the chiobus talentime had to offer...
you guys rock...


but thats not all...
council...
you guys' been great...
dunnoe what to say..
but really the success of talentime is the fruit of all our hardwork...
happie to see everyone working together like tat...
its been a wonderful experience...
thanx alot guys...


having bball 3 on 3 tmr...
kinda stupid...
coz play awhile then need to ciaoz to NSC for meeting with team manager...
sucky thing...
abt penang trip...
actually kinda worried abt it...
coz aint very prepared...
havent even got our pulleys and stuff...
meng say there got alot of jellyfishes...
freaky...
andrew's been really sweet these days...
co-ordinating everything for us...
he's been doing alot as our coach...
and i thank God we have him..
w/o him i dunoe what we'll do...
actually dr ben, mr tan, meng, and all...
really...
we wont be anywhere without them...

better go bathe liaoz...
and sleep early for GP tmr...
or else will fall asleep during the paper...

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20.2.03
jud emailed me!!!!
so damn freaking happie...
its the first time hearing from him after he flew off to canada...
seems that the temp there has been between -10 to -30 everyday...
wondering how he's taking it..
that poor guy is so freaking skinny....
just hope he's happie...

but that aint the only reason why i'm happie...
i dunnoe how to put it...
but talentime made a great difference to my council life...
everything...
everyone...
just feels all so much nicer now...
finally feeling the bond...
even stronger than after o1...
really...
esp the talentime ad-hoc...
we just work and work...
but have loadsa fun at the same time...
it's stressful ya...
but its been great...

fighting over the finalists...
crapping with KT and Liteng...
quarrelled with alwin over buying dinner for AVA...

but he smsed me the next day to apologise...
really glad to see it...

frustration over undone work...
worries over finale night...
queue cutting by AJC-ians that got us freaking tired...
bullying Alwin with the YOU JERK song...
working with AVA

it was all a great experience...
truly...

i dunnoe how to control my excitement for tmr...
the oni thing that is dampening my mood is the R-X test tmr...
and my undone tutorials...

but other than that...
i cant wait...
TALENTIME 2003

been missing alot of trainings...
sianz...
dunnoe how...
falling behind the rest by alot alot...
shucks...
will try to run tmr or something...
i have to...

been doing AJ Radio for the past week...
been crapping everyday with gracie...
heheh...
been fun...
really dont care abt our image liaoz lor...
just play...
love the songs i played today...
really beautiful...
maybe thats not the word...
but i simply loved them...

now...
its time for my well-deserved bath...
and GP essay chiong-ing...
woohoo!

life is beautiful...

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19.2.03
was tempted not to blog...
considering the amt of work i actually have undone...
but couldnt resist writing down everything that happened today...
nuthing much really...
but the nice-ness of talentime kinda really got my moods up...
was even seranading to my daddy...
so close by the carpenters...
woohoo!

talentime really got me away from the girls in my klass...
kinda feel left out of alot of conversations...
but it's also my fault that i have to run to the CR at every break...
damn freaking hectic...
hate it...
but must do work...
and be responsible...
kinda sucks when you're on the floor rushing deco stuff while some other person is on the comp playing Solitaire...
really sucks...
but bo pian...
try to ask them to help whenever i can...

AVA:
been great working with them so far...
though i'm the oni ger in the control room...
i dont think anyone of them treats me like one...
except for the times they offer their chairs to me...
but been cool...
even weiding was sweet to have asked me to be careful not to get bumped into...
eh...
been working with name-i-dunnoe-how-to-spell alot...
coz of lighting...
damn professional...
but he let me play with the colours...
fun...
but the guys say my lighting sucks...
oh well...
YC and yuzhe were doing soundboard...
and the way they sit....
is...
erm...
not very appropriate to write on public blog...
hehhe....
rare to see YC so cool like dat...
with the walkie talkie on his head...
hahha...
yuzhe even cooler than YC...
hahha...
and he's been really helpful during the auditioning period...
running ard for us alot...
though they bully me...
they've been great fun...
even the J1 guy doing the CDs and cassette was really nice to talk to...
'jay chou' our curtain man...
hahha...
could talk more to him than before...
and seen him smile a whole lot more...
hehhe....
last but not least...
eugene...
grr...
that guy ah...
though i dunno him that well...
he can join forces with the others and suan me full force...
really lor...
i think i in control room do nothing except stand there let them suan...
i think YC's is rite when he told me AV pple are nice pple to work with...
=)


talentime looks kinda good...
happy to see it...
really...
our hard work...
hope everything goes well on that day...
=)

kinda got my budget for the penang trip...
excluding accomodation and race fees...
we have to fork out abt 400 plus...
sucky lot of money...
dunnoe how i'm going to pui it all out...
but damn freaking excited abt the trip and my team mates...
but not very excited abt how my sch work is going to turn out after that...

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18.2.03
was pretty fun today...
crapped my way thru AJ radio with gracie...
hahah...
was fun...
din even know wad we playing...
just kept playing...
muahhaha...
simply love it...

day wasnt much...
just very busy with talentime...
hope everything turns out fine for friday...
really...

cramming in the control room with the AVA guys and 'jay chou' really fun...
should see the amt they crap...
buay ta han...
mr wee also...
hehehe...
nice working with them...
kinda takes the stress outta everything...
=)
just in case YC sees this...
dear AVA...
thanx alot for going hungry with all of us...
your support is invaluable...
and we really appreciate it...


really mesmerised by some of the grps...
woohoo!
da best man...
really...
some of the songs..
i really just sit there and stone...
cant do anything...
i mean its not very often that you get this impressed by pple of your level...
will buy the talentime VCD...
watch it over and over again...
man...

andrew emailed us abt the penang thingy...
if everything falls thru...
will leave on the 5th of march at nite...
this means i'll be missing chalet...
how wonderful...
dont wish to...
coz am already quite away from the klass....
i love 01...
really...
=( sad...
but penang's kinda impt...
will oni come back on the 15th...
so will be missing my movie fest as well..
darn...
stressed...

hope God gives me strength to pull thru all this...
my mind's not ready for all of this...
my studies is taking the biggest blow...
my academic suck...
seriously...
in this society where paper rules the day...
there is no use for being good at a sport...
good at organizing...
i dun even know wads expected of me...
kinda taking life as it goes...

but...
Always look on the bright side of life...
i will...

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17.2.03
oh ya...
promised mervin i'll add this on my blog...
kinda spitted on him today...
with chicky rice...
coz angel said something really funnie abt the angels looking like moths..
so must pubic apology...
hey merv...
really sorry...
but couldnt help laughing...


couldnt laugh much today too...
after yesterdaes leg raises...
sit ups and all...
stomach muscles kinda hurt like hell...
so effectively...
my whole body is aching...
ouch...

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day today wasnt that great...
many werent very happie with the talentime finalists...
but well...
the ad-hoc has been thru shit to sieve these pple out...
since the decision has been made...
i should stand by my ad-hoc...
to pple who aint very happie abt the final results...
everyone who auditioned were great..
in his/her own way...
but you havent seen these amazing pple...
we judged by quite a number of criterion...
and its not anyhow that we selected these pple...
come for Talentime and see for yourself...


was cramped up alot in the CR today...
din do any homework...
had to get the deco going...
and the give out the tix...
woohoo!
you should have seen the response...
was really good...
just hope that all who have taken tix would come...
and not leave empty seats ard...

skipped PE...
wanted to do gym...
coz mr lim told mr koh abt me liaoz...
so guess i'll be skipping the next couple of afternoon PE as well...
freak...
calf muscles hurt like hell after yesterdae...
feels damn tight...
and painful actually when i walk...
argh...

joined bball 3 on 3...
not that i really want to...
but shishi's kinda keen...
and not good to burst her bubble...
so can oni play if the match on sat morning...
coz must train in the afternoon...
hope i dont break some ankle or anything...
damn prone to bball injuries...

kinda quarrelled with dad big time abt the penang thingy...
he's kinda worried abt the conflict between the two sides...
after wad dr M and PM goh exchanged...
he's kinda worried that i might get into trouble there...
but he din realise how big this is to me...
this is world asian championships..
and its so nan de that SSF would pay for us...
he kinda shouted at me...
i started crying...
real bad...
coz am already under loads of stress...
talentime...
games fest...
homework...
tests...
SSF...
training...
council...
andrew and seniors are bent that we have to go...
but sch and parents think otherwise...
even mr lim kok wee knows that my studies kinda suck...
and ask me to think abt it...
i dunnoe how...
i really dont...
sometimes i kinda wanna run away from it all...
i dont have enough time for everything...
there is this pack of negatives that have been in my bag for a month...
supposed to develop fotos and send to jud in canada...
but never found time to do it...
i just want time for myself...
really...
just the slow walk home that was so familiar just last year...
now...
i stay in sch so late that my parents will pick me after 7...
really at least 12 hours in school lor...
grr....

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16.2.03
happy birthday PC!!!
hope you liked the prezzies we got you...
=)


kinda sad...
just remembered that i scrapped the fin of my new board...
sad...
so its kinda terrible now...
ouch...
heart pain...

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crazy day today...
went to NSC to do gym work...
andrew was kinda crazy...
had to do three sets of everything...
one minute each...
cannot slack...
or else he will ney ney us...
rowing...
assisted pull-ups...
hangs...
leg raises...
wall sits...
leg pumps...
knee raises...
sit ups...
calf work...
the fitness rider we call the power ranger...
gross stuff...
lucky we din wear shoes...
coz originally wanted to have water training..
so i din have shoes...
or else he would have made us run some 5.5...

understand why he's working us so hard for...
mistral asian championships...
i read the notice of race...
kinda struck me how big the event is...
we're going to get all the hot shots gathered at one place in penang...
though we are nowhere in standings...
but its a great chance for us to gain experience...
exposure to internationals...
but its in 3 weeks time...
kinda a tad too fast for me to prepare myself...
dont know how i'm going to do it...
but i have to...
=P
SSF gonna pay for the accommodation and race fees...
with the latter costing a couple of hundreds of bucks...
and the former....
at least 300 bucks...
dont know how...
but i've to confirm soon...

dennis wants me to do punlicity for games fest tmr...
dont know why...
but i think i'm up there more times than the council publicists even...
gosh...
hope no one things i'm trying to qiang feng tou...
just that they throw me all the lame stuff to do...
*bleah*
hope i dont screw it up big time..

freaking tired...
tmr's PE i dunnoe how...
but thinking of talking to mr lim kok wee...
whether i could maximise PE time to train up annot...
considering the fact that i havent got the chance to build up...
though i cant train with the team 3 times a week...
at least i'm able to build up...
so maybe skip PE to do gym?
i dunnoe...
will talk to him...

really...
aint enough time for everything...
hope i can manage missing sch for one whole week...
the saddest thing is...
might be missing klass chalet as well...
argh...
dont like that...

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15.2.03


which smilie are you?


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freaking long day today...

physics test was horrid...
was having a bad stomach ache that got me running to blk 3 twice for the toilet...
grr...
then was trying hard to gek...
so was breaking out in cold sweat during the paper...
couldnt concentrate at all...
think i'm going to fail badly...
really...
dunnoe how....
esp when mr Ari is in charge of welfare comm..
i think he's going to kill me...

then busied myself with talentime stuff...
yucky stuff...
so little time...
but so much to do...
argh...
but good thing is...
i managed to grab the best seats in the house liaoz...
if AV allows me in, that is...
coz offered myself to watch over the control room...
in case i'm needed there...
so have to see how...
kinda excited abt talentime...
coz the bunch of us really worked damn hard for this...
i think some of them almost got quite heated while deciding who's in and who's not in the finals...
opinions differ...
and there's bound to be conflicts...
but i guess council's getting more mature...
we've grown up...
peace prevailed...
i've learnt to take things easier...
and not feel shortchanged when i see pple ard me slacking while i'm working my butt off...
at least i know i'm making my presence useful...

starting to like the council culture...
yesterdae was studying with, of all people, shouwen...
he's farnie...
really...
never had the chance to really get to know him...
but he's cool...
others in council too...
dunnoe why but have been working with alot of the council couples...
hhehe...
quite interesting to have them around actually...
kinda cute to see them all smiley at each other...
really..
council room has become a sort of refuge for us...
the pple who work our butts off...
those who slack...
from council work i mean...
would most probably be hiding some other where...
library perhaps?
so that we cant catch them to do work...
really...
got alot of ghosts in council...
but those who work...
are kinda making a great team...

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rushed over to training from sch...
was late...
the rain was quite heavy so i had to wait it out...
then run to beach...
really appreciate mr tan...
thanks mr tan...
i really dunnoe who else would have done wat you've done for me today...

there was no wind in front of europa...
so if i had to sail down to NSC it would take forever...
so mr tan kinda borrowed the boat...
and dragged my rig to where there was wind...
quite some distance away after the jetty...
he's the best..
really...
dotes on us like we were his kids...

i said no wind rite???
but when there was wind...
it was spectacular...
i got slammed a couple of times...
really lose balance and got thrown forward...
pain leh...
but bo pian...
for the love of the sport man...
=P
training was tough today...
even though i was pretty late...
tried to do some carve gybes...
but ended up flaring them instead...
aint good...
coz will lose speed like that...
tried to visualise the gybe liaoz...
will try again tomorrow...
if i can finish my homework and proposals by tonite...

wind got light again when sailing back to europa....
tough...
but pretty cool...
coz i saw a football...
which reminded me of wilson...
the ball in tom hanks' castaway...

a jumping fish...
kinda skipped past me...
over my board...

a beautiful bird...
dont really know wad it was..
but it was really pretty...


beach at NSC was really yucky...
today 15th day of lunar calendar...
so tide was super low...
stepped on some yucky barnacles...
and i-dont-know-wat...
and got cut...
sam too...
small small ones...
but bled...
ouch...
sam was really nice today...
waiting for me to beach start coz he knows i would lag behind...
helped me alot knowing i have difficulty carrying my equipment...
the board is approximately 17kgs...
the sail is abt 5m tall...
hahha....
more than twice WH's height...


have to train harder...
penang is in 3 weeks...
how to compete with those amazing pple???
piangz...
they can beat me hands down lor...
but maybe soprandi will be there...
but then again...
he's 19....
overage liaoz...
argh...
andrew wants us to train thrice a week...
not very possible though...
max i can give him is twice...
and thats sacrificising my sunday...
even God got to rest on sunday...

will try to get some work done now...
so that i can sail in peace tmr...

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14.2.03
now things get a little messier...

Dear sailors,

I've some good news for you.
For the 5 of you ie. Steff, Wanqi, SK, Sam and Loong Huat, SSF has agreed to sponsor 50% the trip to Penang for the Mistral Youth Asian Championships. This event is from 8-14 March. You'll probably go up 2 days before and come back the day after. Effectively, this works out to SSF paying for accomodation and registration fees, while the sailors pay for their own meals and transportation of themselves and their equipment to and fro. The 5 of you, please revert back to Andrew (BTW, he's your new coach effective from 15 Feb) ASAP whether you can or cannot go. If need letter to excuse you from school, Andrew will settle for you.
Andrew, please take over from here.
Thanks.

ben


dr ben has been persuading SSF to sponsor our trip...
and now that they really did...
all the more we cant let andrew, mr tan, dr ben, and all down...
gosh...
and i was thinking of ponning training tmr...
i dont know how to tell talentime adhoc...
seriously hope that they'll understand...

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woohoo!
vday today was kinda great...
the atmosphere was pretty with lotsa flowers all around...
chocs and all...
but really glad some of them really liked the gel bottle...
esp cass...
=) kinda really happie that it made her happy like tat...
its quite funnie actually...
there were actually 3 guys who said i was the oni girl/person to give them anything...
dont know wad to say in response to that...
but hoped the choc would at least bring a smile to the gloomy mugging all physics students have to go thru today...

actually wanted to mug my way thru the afternoon...
but last minute got talentime meeting...
5pm to 7pm...
great...
amazing ya?
how they alwaz seem to put meetings at all the right times...
esp grr when we have the yucky physics test tmr...

now pia-ing physics like siao...
dont think will have chance to do TYS...
coz already falling asleep liaoz..
but havent gone thru tutorials...
and reading lecture notes din help a single bit...
dont think i would even pass...
my physics really CMI...
haiz...
why cant i be even three quarts as good as XY?
i'll be contented...
really...

will get back to physics now...
really kanbate!!!!

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13.2.03
today kinda wraps up talentime auditions...
been tough...
i kinda got really stressed when this band came in with all the amps...
guitars...
ya know...
the jammin' stuff...
had alot of trouble with the power...feedback...
=P kinda gave up...
feel bad...
but YH and siaowen and gang were quick enough to pick up where i left off....
sorry guys...
but some of the dance groups earlier kinda got me pissed...
so the feedback screech was kinda the last straw...
love you guys...


day will be really quick tmr...
two lectures...
then performing for the JC1s during mass civics...
v-dae!!!!
woho!!!
so happy...
ran ard to get stuff for the people...
hope they'll like it...

dear shuzhen...
its your b-dae tmr...
i kinda scared that i'll miss it..
like i alwaz did with other pple b-dae...
its kinda cool having a birthday on v-dae...
but i really hope you'll enjoy it...
will try to date you for a birthday cake tmr...
uut HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY...
you've alwaz been a great pal...
=)


in sec 3...
v-dae was pretty...
we couldnt meet up on the actual day...
so 13th of feb did fine...
made me sit with my eyes shut...
but me being me couldnt keep to that...
peeped and saw him taking the bouquet out of the fridge....
was farnie...
he said it was the oni way to keep it nice looking...
they were in my then-fav colour...
a lovely shade of blue...
roses werent the sweetest flowers...
in my opinion...
but it made him seem all so sweet...
and the platinum with diamond dust...
made it seemed too good to be true...


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walking in the rain that day...
i kinda thot of you...
i dont why it so happened that way...
but it made me feel so blue...
sometimes i really wonder why...
why fate just passed us by...
maybe it was never meant to be that great...
my eyes just filled with dew...


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12.2.03
pretty cool day today...
went shopping abit with lala and laoda...
haiz...
really lor...
laoda attracts a darn lot of attention...
hahhaa...
so we alwaz walk far far away from him...
=P

bought alot of stuff...
sorry peeps...
all the girls v-dae prezzie the same...
coz abit no inspiration...
but put alot of effort in it...
so hope you'll all like it...
=)

spent alot of money today...
dunnoe why also...
maybe coz its been a really long time since i last went out with the sole aim of shopping...
heh...
walked alot...

but enjoyed going out with the both of them...
crapping with lala...
making fun of laoda's height...
hehhe...

was thinking...
compared to others...
my life's kinda 'boring'...
as in...
sch-home-sch-home-beach-sch-home kinda life...
but i think its really how you live it that really matters...
i think sch life for me...
on its own really is a new challenge everyday...
council with their ever-pressing deadlines...
class with the ever mounting load of work...
little bits of these have made jC life totally unlike the boring eeky thing that many has made it out to be...
in fact...
its totally unlike that...
staying in sch religiously until 7 or 8 everyday isnt by choice...
but it gives me the opportunity to see the sch in a state which not everyone has seen before...
the serenity...
to be precise...
a homely feeling that makes you feel just rite...
that giving up the prestige of being in RJ or HCJC or VJ...
or even the wonder of being with my frens in TJC....
was actually worth every single bit of it...
its not everyday i feel so passionate abt my work...
or my life as a whole...
and since i feel this way now...
its a good feeling to share...

cherish life...
and things that go your way...
you'll see things you've never noticed...


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11.2.03
this is pretty cool...
from seniors webby....
rachel...
hope you dont mind...


"I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at seventy-five miles an hour.
I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and ten children applaud, and I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire: the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.
A slow death is not for me.
I don't do anything slow, not even breathe."


Armstrong, world's greatest athlete...bar none...

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its a pretty tuesday ya??
though came to sch with quite a lot of stuff to do...
but managed to meet all deadlines...
and had fun today...
dunnoe why but i super crappy today...
laughed alot...
even cried coz i laughed so badly at PC's comments during GP...

one of my councillors got pretty stressed abt stuff today...
broke down...
kinda normal...
really...
under the stress i'm going thru...
its oni a matter of time...
now just acting totally out of character...
woohoo!

total defence skit today was fun..
muahahhaa...
did stupuid stuff...
made fun of ourselves...
fight chinese opera with some of them..
really crapped to the core...
but at least you could feel the klass spirit in them...
which is really cool...
finally feel that the klass is coming together...

was having GP discussion with XY, pinjin and HF...
hahahahah...
never had any groups with them before...
so today was a gd experience...
really...
kinda enjoyed it coz it was damn funnie...
talked abt everything else under the sun...
how xiyang composed the song that toh wei sang for talentime auditions...
abt my WSF competition in penang...
XY's talents...
discovered that pinjin is actually from computer club...
realised that HF's really quite farnie...

we din really discuss much...
coz i think i was talking way too much...
abt other irrelevant stuff...
=P

talentime today was pretty good...
lotsa singing...
realised that we have really great singers in AJ...
MATHS...
you guys did fine...
i dont know wat the judges think...
but i think you were great...
at least you all can sing...
unlike me...

had freaking alot of problems with the auditorium stuff...
but i enjoyed the performances...
oh ya...
took foto with our very own ZHOU JIE LUN!!!!
hahha...
cher chin lah...
we think he really look like Jay...
esp after the rap today..
so COoOOOOoooooLL!

like lala said...
i had an exciting day!!!

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10.2.03
day today was kinda brief...
=P ran around abit...
missed my counter duty...
argh...
sorriez...
wasnt on purpose...
din get any work done...
but touched up on loads of council stuff...

dennis...
my Games Festival Programme co I/C...
he's been great...
coz i'm kinda tied with my other committees...
and he does practically everything without a word of complaint...
Thanks Dennis...
probably wont read this...
but your understanding meant alot to me...


din see much of talentime today...
PE ended at 1730 with a total of 7 rounds around the track...
and o2 games comm meeting started at 6pm...
argh...
i hate it...
couldnt even go home with stella like i wanted to...

lala...
maybe i've phrased it wrongly in my previous blog...
not that i cant confide in you or any others...
but its probably coz i get so little time with you...
unlike last year before promos...
when we took the bus home together almost everyday...
and studied like sh*t together...
miss those times...
at least we get work done...


its already 2145...
and i havent started on any homework...
i think i can go and die liaoz...

wait a minute...
i must edit my games proposal...
ARGH!!!


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received this email...
in response to our emails abt our goals in WSF...
and our commitment levels...

"Hi Guys,

Thanks for your replies. With regard to your various levels of commitments
and interest, we would like to look further into how we can work something
out to the benefit of all and the sport. For those of you who feel that you
would want to commit yourself to the sport, please come to the National
Sailing Centre on the 22nd February at 2:30 pm. for a discussion.

From here we would be able to draw up a training programme which may be
suitable to all.

Regards,
Edwin Low


kinda gets me a little skeptical...
man...
i know how they (national sailing body) treated our seniors...
so really dunnoe how...
training with them will mean the prestige of possibly being in the national squad...
yet compromising what i have alwaz held to believe...
yin shui si yuan...
i have to answer to the coach that brought me to where i am now...
he doesnt say it...
but we can sense he dont hope to see us go...
made it clear that its our choice...
dr ben is doing all he can to bring us further...
getting us new stuff...
like the mistral ONE designs...
cheaper competition fees...
how can i join the very people that they could never get along with?
i really dunnoe how...
i want to surf...
but i can never commit my time to it...
seriously...
havent been sailing for almost 3 weeks...
feel land sick...
esp when we hit the water everyday for 3 weeks during the hols...
maybe i should talk to andrew abt this...
he should know...

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9.2.03
kinda screwed...
whole weekend do council stuff...
never touched any homework...
but got go out abit lah..
movie...
then today visited dad's fren...
and had dinner with fam...
where we met daryl....
this distant cousin of mine one year older...
who i think is quite cute...
hehehe...
=P
short entry...
need to get back to work...
=P

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8.2.03
did judging for talentime today...
met loads of really talented pple...
really impressed by them all...
i mean...
really...
when you see them off the corridor...
you wont really think they're so...
wonderful...
really...
had trouble keeping my scoring low...
was just too impressed and amazed by these pple...
with their self compositions...
amazing vocals...
i think i'll have more to look out for...
considerig we have another 3 days of auditions...
woohoo!
really happie...

went out with talentime adhoc....
crapped...
watched final destination 2 with my hands over my eyes...
the gory death scenes damn freaking gross...
eeks...
wont be able to sleep tonite...
bleah...

heard canon in D like twice today...
a guitar duo...
and a piano piece...
kinda reminded of how i fell in love with that piece...
i was never a klassical music kinda person...
but he sent me a .mid of his amateur kinda playing...
was smitten...
by the song, that is...
am reminded of him every time i hear the piece...
and considering its popularity...
am reminded of him constantly...
still blaming myself...
still thinking why...
am listening to the pieces he composed now...
Our Happy Days...
The Nearness of You...
The Girl from Heaven...(dont puke...not me...)
all written 2 years ago...
but seemed like ages since i last saw him...
or spoke to him...


kinda think back onto my lit text in sec sch...
think i'm winding up like abraham...
kinda a failure in interpersonal relationships...
seriously i dunnoe wads wrong...
and cant find out too...
coz except for rene and a few others far away in other JCs...
i dont really confide in anyone..
so i dont really see...
or know...
dont really know wad to do...
except sit and wait for the mood to swing past me....

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was reading back on blogs...
read about jud...
kinda miss him a darn lot...
miss how he'll just call me outta the blue...
and crap about everything under the sun...
feel bad...
coz alot of times on the phone i would be distracted by the TV...b|az on the net...someone on another fone or something...
but come to think of it i kinda regret...
miss jud alot...
wonder how the other guys are taking his absence...
haiz...
will write to him...
after i found time to develop the fotos for him...
SZ letter still with me lor...
haiz...
i'm so so late...
havent found time to make the trip down to AMK central lah...
ARGH...
seriously ah...
if there's anything i'll like to make...
its time...
time to go home with stella...
time to crap with merser...
time to hang out with the gals...
time to do tutorials...
time to do proposals...
time to study...
time to windsurf...
or simply...
just time to sleep...
that will suffice...
really...

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7.2.03
finally...
a friday...
so tonite's blog entry could be a tad longer...
tried to sleep on the way home from school...
was tough...
ended up with a lousy headache...
and a bad appetite...
but looking on the bright side...
a bad appetite = informal diet...
but still ate as much...
or even more...
coz tonite had yusheng...
woohoo!
shiok!
salmon was a little sarce though...
love salmon...
28 bucks only got us 8 slices...
piangz...
but still...
loved every single bit of it...
esp the crackers...
yummy!

had a pretty good day today...
ended pretty fast at 1430...
then go learn AV stuff from weiding...
hahah...
cool rite??
i think so too...
coz they wont be helping us for auditions...
we have to DIY...
and me...
being so 'fortunate' to be in AV prez klass...
became the unofficial AV liaison...
=P
sucky job..
coz just stuck between devil and deep blue sea...
know that AV very busy and jialat...
but council really needs them...
paiseh lah..
bear with us..
once we step down this july..
you wont hear from us anymore...
=) but appreciate all the help weiding rendered..
thanx alot...
maybe should consider admitting me into AVA Club...
as my third CCA...
=P
just joking...

kinda happie for my bro...
got into prefectorial board...
so effectively...
the three of us got prefectorial in some level or another...
sis now in zhss prefects...
my bro now in primary sch...
me in primary too...
dun play play...
vice head prefect...
just that i dont really do my job...
duty roster alwaz use the previous weeks'...
then head prefect like wanna chop my head off like that...
muahha...
it was an interesting stint...
but after that...
in sec sch and JC....
no one could bring themselves to believe that i once actually held that post...
=P

oh yarh...
YUZHONG!
HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY!!!!
May it be filled with lovely stuff...


today did publicity for AJ Ideas...
was stupid...
i had to act as the genie...
couldnt do the fiona xie thingy well though..
lack of ability and will i guess...
nobody laughed...
haiz..
paiseh lah...
council really short of ideas liaoz...
we not some advertising agency lor...
can think or so many farnie things to do for publicity...
though AJE did some really good ones...
commendable...

we tried...
AJSC tried...

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6.2.03
even more stuff to do tonite...
just came home at 915..
bless me...
need to do tutorials...
assignments...
liason contacts...
games proposal...
gosh...

but felt the wonderful gush of wind on my walk home...
felt damn good...
that even in the worst days/nights...
there can still be things which make you smile...
=)

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5.2.03
lotsa stuff to be out by tmr...
lotsa homework...
wish me best...
add oil!!!

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4.2.03
now got aj ideas publicity to do...
why this kinda shit job alwaz thrown to me ah???
publicity is the most difficult to do lor...
family day got one whole ad-hoc to think of it...
and a couple of months as well..
but i'm supposed to think of it myself...
and in ONE DAY??!?!?!
freak...
i think i'm breaking down again...
doc asked me whether i need another day MC...
i want the MC...
but dont want my work to pile...
get me back to sch...
quick...
and not for lesson...
but to do council work..
how ironic...

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damn jialat...
i one day dont go to sch...
flag cocked up coz no one took my place...
and gracie had to do publicity...
HX forgot to do for her...
and i'm sick at home..
argh...
oh well...
then amanda sms-ed me to do up the talentime board by today...
hey girl...
i'm not even in school...
talentime board wasnt in my job scope...
KT and i are really doing too much...
give us a break...
argh...

will eat lunch..
then do homework...
bless my wednesday...
i wanna go home early....

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3.2.03
just fallen sick...
think i ate too many CNY goodies...
argh...
maybe its a good thing..
coz i havent done any homework..
argh...
gotta hand in proposals tmr...
argh...
dont care...
will mail kt...
and rest at home...
feeling terrible...
cant breathe!!!!

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2.2.03
second day of CNY pretty good...
went to visit nanny...
had a good talk with kor...
reminded me that i havent got anything in mind for my future...
kinda tried to advert engineering to me...
but it aint my cuppa tea...
really...
cant imagine me doing engineering...
even though i dont really know how engineers work...
but oh well...
i cant be desk bound either....
maybe i'll coach windsurfing...
hahh...
but i dunnoe...
like he said...
interest comes above anything else....
he seems really happie with his civil engineering...
despite how bleak it may sound...
he has godo results...
and the personality to boot...
singlehood's good for him...
or so he says...
=)

spoke to granny today...
she kinda asked...
'alexander not coming?'
kinda surprised...
but knew who she was talking about...
i introduced him as Alex when he came over one CNY...
with the hello kitties he bought to complete my family's collection...
these are still in my storeroom i guess...
granny likes him i think...
gave him a huge ang bao...
hhahah...
i think even bigger than mine...
he just has this charm...
very down-to-earth guy with no airs...

kinda explained to her that he's not coming...
did this for the past 2 years too...

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1.2.03
had a pretty rowdy gathering at our place today...
all the little devils running all over the place...
think my parents really thankful to have us...
coz we're really less hyper and more polite compared to them...
considering how impolite i actually am...
you cant imagine how they are...



went all feminine with the skirt and all...
but it was kinda tough...
had trouble walking straight..
so its back to jeans tmr...
and hopefully the tops i bought would look nice enough make up for the lack of formality...

kinda tired running after those little devils...
slept on the couch when my aunt was here...
feel bad...
but i was darn sleepy...
went ard to abt 3 houses today...
hahhaa...
hong bao not much...
but its not the red packets that count...
this year the mood not really there...
even my dad's frenz also stopped visiting each other...

thinking of that...
ever wondered how it is like when we eventually become 'adults'?
many of us might think we are...
but i can say i'm not...
i'm freakingly dependent on my parents...
really...
they're the world to me...
thing is...
my dad's 48 this year...
and growing older by the day...
know when i was younger...
when i was notty...
he'll make me cry by telling me abt how possible it was that one day my daddy doesnt come back anymore...
i would cry my eyes out...
even though i din know what he meant...
i cant imagine if he wasnt there to wake me every morning...
to send me ard in his car...
or just make his presence felt in the house...

why am i talking abt such things during CNY...
*bish*

k k...
better go work on my talentime proposal...
wish me best~

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