Missing Yunnan Trip

I just spent the past 15 minutes or so watching the video Mr Lee created using photos taken during Yunnan Trip. The memories flowed back, particularly those I spent with the kids there. Seven short days (to be exact, five) yet enough memories to last me for life. It's been a fruitful and memorable experience and I seem to be never done with blogging about how much I miss Yunnan. Yes, becos' it's not the end. It's the beginning and there's a 'to be continued...' after it.

I am aiming to finish my work, due by tomorrow, no later than 1am today. It's gna be quite hard for me to wake up in the early morning to do them, as my auntie is sleeping in my room tonight. Besides being impolite to do so, I doubt I can wake up that early without my grandmother's superb power of nagging that can pull me out of bed.

My Nanjing buddy cum godsis will be coming over to Singapore really soon. And my auntie will be returning to Indonesia. Her departure one day before her arrival. Yes, feeling sad. But I am sure we can keep in touch.

Alright, it's back to reading the comprehension passages for the GP in-class assignment tomorrow. Otherwise I won't even be able to catch any sleep tonight.

Last-minute CIP crisis

I have a last-minute CIP crisis to deal with right now, plus a whole stack of notes to read and digest and think about, a china studies case study to complete, tutorials to prepare for tomorrow.

Sometimes I get so weary, I just want to break away. Break away to my dream-world, perhaps this is the reason why it's getting hard for me to wake up these days, becoming a deep sleeper. The dream-world's definitely more ideal.

As I was telling Yi Ling just now, how I wish that time could just stop, allow me to finish my work and get a good rest before continue ticking away. It's a want and a CANNOT. How can it be possible? Otherwise, would it still be called 'time'?

I really have too much to do, yet so little time. Or rather such poor time management.

Blogging is not a waste-of-time activity to me nowadays, it's a form of relaxation, be it venting my frustration or simply voicing my thoughts. It does help in making me less weary a little.

Never-ending work requires a never-dying attitude to tackle them.

All the way!

Cheers ^^

Reached home early today!

Today is like one of the few days which I get to reach home before 5pm. In fact I stepped into my house at 3.15pm! Yay.

Since I've reached home early, I should get started on work earlier and not spend my time doing unconstructive stuff online, despite being very tempted to do so. Self control! I just found a whole folder of articles uploaded by Mr Cave on 5A's yahoo group. Uh oh. More reading materials. My China Studies file is already bursting with notes. I better start reading them tonight, otherwise more notes will be distributed tomorrow.

It's time to work hard, and work SMART (:

Off to doing work. More posts later, if I manage to complete some of my work.

2nd Bowling Lesson

Yoohoo. Went to Mt. Faber's SAFRA for bowling lessons just now. Today was fun! But my no-gutterball aim has not been achieved. Learnt the four and five-step footwork plus some releasing techniques. Yeah! Ultimate fun-ness. whee. Bowling is just so fun (:

Shu Min gave JAYYE disneypooh lollipops today. I got a 'pooh'. Really cute. Feels really tempted to open the wrapper and taste the candy... but SM said it's supposed to be an 'eye candy'. To be admired and not eaten. Hmm. Interesting. Let's see how long I can contain my temptation then. Yun Yin and Jue Hui received a 'piglet' each. Eileen received an 'eeyore', which looked depressed. 'Tigger' symbolises SM, and it's her favourite colour too. Yay! I took photos, shall upload them to our common blog soon.

My morning started off wrong, making me feel very angry. I woke up 4am this morning to work on my EoM and was about to print the document at 6am when my printer refused to work. Yes. It hanged or whatsoever, it just wouldn't print! I was so flared up, I spent so long trying again and again that I almost missed my bus (My dad's on standby to drive me to school lah ;) ). Grr.

But I felt happier after listening to Fish's songs on the bus, like 暖暖, 小手拉大手 etc etc. Seeing my friends in school made me even happier. And SM's lollipop gift really made my day all smiley and bright. Friends can do wonders, I believe so. Thank you, my friends.

There's chemistry test tomorrow and I find chemical bonding really hard to undestand. But I shall try to think positively. Afterall, it's all in the mind. If I think that the topic is hard to grasp then I will never get it right. I shall just try my best and leave everything else to tomorrow.

My schedule for the rest of the week is so packed! Othello play on Friday, excited. C.A.N Distribute on Saturday. And urm perhaps yoga on Sunday?

Good news! My Nanjing godsis will be coming over in August! Hooray! Cheers!

Alright, it's time to mug! Good luck everyone! 加油!

Life is like a box of chocolate; you'll never know what surprises it has for you!

Happy Day

我想说 其实你很好 你自己却不知道
真心的对我好 不要求回报...
lalala...

This song has been stuck in my mind for the whole of today. Singing and singing, humming and humming. LOL my high-ness did scare a few people but at least I made them smile (: cheers!

Starting on my EOM only now. I've been procrastinating to do it, reason being 'I don't know how to do.' Sounds dumb but yeah, it's an excuse. I have to start on it anyway and hand it in tomorrow. Fortunately it's only draft 1 ^^

Chemistry test on Wednesday. The ionic equilibrium practice Mdm Koh gave is such a killer. I attempted all the questions, with quite a few blank. Gonna study Chemical Bonding soon.

wheee bowling tomorrow! Excited. Lane 1 rocks! Shall aim for no-gutterball tomorrow!

For now, it's EOM... to be completed =)

To live is such a blessing. That's the reason for us to all be happy (:

I miss JAYYES

I realised I actually miss JAYYES. The good old times. Perhaps things have not changed but it doesn't feel the same anymore. Studying is anti-social, it just adds on to the distance. The memories are so close to my heart, yet so distant.

Or perhaps it's just me; paranoia has always been a part of me I guess.

落叶归根 (王力宏)

举头望无尽灰云
那季节叫做寂寞
背包塞满了家用
路就这样开始走
日不见太阳的暖
夜不见月光的蓝
不得不选择寒冷的开始
留下只拥有遗憾
命运的安排
遵守自然的逻辑
谁都无法揭谜底
喔～远离家乡不甚唏嘘
幻化成秋夜
而我却像落叶归根
坠在你心间
几分忧郁几分孤单
都心甘情愿
我的爱像落叶归根
家唯独在你身边

I miss alot of my past experiences too. Those carefree days. All I can do now is to hold the memories close to my heart, and enter one or two of the scenes in my dreams. Becoming an adult gradually is no fun and not easy. JC schooldays are passing so fast I don't know where I am going. Sometimes I just wish to have some silence and time to reflect. I value silence greatly these days. But silence is hard to attain.

If I have three wishes, I would wish to be a kid forever, living trouble-free days with my childhood friends. Secondly, let me meet and know JYYES earlier ^^

Where's my fairy godmother?

OKAY IT'S BACK TO REALITY. CHEMISTRY REVISION & EOM - TO BE COMPLETED

Fairytales... essentials in my life (:

Friday the 13th

Today's Friday the 13th. Black friday, some may say. But for me, today's been an excellent day! I have never been so attentive in class. I was cheerful, happy and optimistic. Yeah and my communication skills were great!

Had a wonderful chat with Mr Lee and Yi Ling in the canteen after Yunnan trip training. Then had another wonderful chat with Yi Ling on the train. Really, it's been a great day. I was enjoying myself every second. Just that my eyes were really dry and tired, due to a late night yesterday. Stayed up to prepare the indemnity forms for Project C.A.N and the briefing today.

And the feeling of having done your tutorial rocks too (: It's been a long time since I prepare for my tutorials haha!

Mdm Nora did not return us our test paper today. If she had done so, perhaps it wouldn't have been that great a day already. Yah, but I am still anxious to know if I have managed to score a passing grade.

Aw I am tired. Shall sleep early. I seldom have the chance to do so. Gna wake up early for yoga class tomorrow. whee!

Tomorrow shall be an even better day! -cheers

I love the library!

Nature has herself appointed that nothing great is to be accomplished quickly, and has ordained that difficulty should precede every work of excellence.
- Quintilian, eminent Roman teacher of speech

How true. Bear this quote in mind should you face any difficulties, be it in your studies, work or life.

I stayed online longer than I intended to. Shall go offline right after I finish editing the documentations for Rainbow Connection's flag days. Really trying to help as much as I can.

Gna get back my Chemistry common test tmr. Aw. I hope I don't score too badly.



I am starting to love books and the libraries! But I have one bad habit. I love to borrow/ buy books but I can never finish reading them before the due dates or before more books pile in. Yah. I am quite determined to read more!

To Ning Li, Melinda, Yuan Lin, Pei Yu and Francesca: Good job for today's presentation! Thank you for your efforts and time (:

Motivational quote for Rainbow Connection

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all - Dale Carnegie

LET ME BE YOUR PILLAR OF HOPE;

YOUR RAINBOW AFTER THE STORM;

& THE BRIGHTEST STARS IN YOUR DARKEST SKY.

As long as you believe, nothing is ever too hard.

I believe in you!

Rainbow Connection, ALL THE WAYYYYYYY! (:

Civil Services Talk at Orchard Hotel

Yesterday has been a fruitful day. Managed to finish the storyboard for CPA with Shue Ling the morning then we had our lunch at Food Republic at Wisma Atria. The roti prata and teh tarik rock! Haven't eaten roti prata for years already. Serious. Cos my mom says it's fattening and I should not eat it. Bleah.

Went to meet the others at Orchard Stn. Whoa alot of DHS people. Then we walked to Orchard Hotel. Met Wen Jian and other guys from DHS and the guy and girl from VJC whom I met at MILK run. Then Yi Ling and I went to the MOE and MCYS booths, then to one of the rooms for the MOE talk. So we went from one talk to another over the next few hours. And left at about 6pm.

Went to Taka to grab some snacks. Bought tako pachi/sausage and cheese. Tasted great. But the attitudes of the personnel at the stall really have to improve. It was not a pleasant experience though it was just a few minutes.

Spent the whole morning updating the CIP records for my class. Finally it's completed. Now I should get started on my work, but starting to feel hungry. Aw my brother doesn't want to accompany me to PP. I need to get Othello novel... No idea why I don't feel like going out alone today. hee.

缘分真爱开玩笑; 它开的玩笑却一点都不好笑.

但我为何一次又一次地相信缘分呢?

Painting for Rainbow Connection

Just finished painting my contribution to Rainbow Connection. Extremely tired now. My painting skills' really horrible now. I have problems mixing the colours to get the ideal one. Tho I get the shade of green which I love to bits, the mixing for orange colour was terrible. An intended bright orange turned out a dull one but I have no choice but to make do with it, otherwise I will never finish painting. And I have not painted for a very long time! Evidence being that the acrylic paint tubes have started drying up and look disgusting.

Shue Ling will be coming over to my house tomorrow morning to work on our CPA project presentation before going down to Orchard for the PSC talk. I hope I can get some homework done since I have programmes on Sunday too. Oh yah, just remember I could not go for yoga tomorrow. Aw have not attended yoga lessons for about two weeks.

Having a blocked nose now, how irritating. Had interclass today after school, played for one of the girls' soccer match. I can't play soccer at all. Most likely cos' I am phobic of physical contact during ball games. And I seriously do have a fear of soccer ball, volleyball, netball etc. Nicole can tell after she watched me play a game of netball.

I can walk normally now, not limping anymore. But my ankle is still quite swollen. It's pretty obvious, upon comparison with the other ankle. Still can't decide if I am going to visit to a Chinese physician. Shall see how bad my ankle gets first. Who knows, it may heal in no time and I can save the money ^^

Time to go to bed. Goodnight!

Maths Paper returned

Felt extremely tired this morning that I actually slept throughout the bus journey to school. This seldom happens, unless I am really drained out. Mrs Chan returned us our Maths Common Test paper today. My marks can be considered to be average I guess. Quite a few careless mistakes though. Considering the amount of time and efforts I had put into Maths revision, I think my marks is fairly reasonable.

Tomorrow's Friday. Finally! Then comes the weekend. My weekend's filled with programmes already but still I am still looking forward to it. Not that I hate school lah, school's pretty fine. Just that weekends are just different, different experiences.

I shall go and have my beauty sleep now. Hooray. I am able to sleep one hour earlier than yesterday. Great achievement!

缘分到底可信吗?
缘分让人又期待又恐惧.
我决定了,
不再对它有任何期望.
就让缘分带给我意想不到的惊喜吧 (:

Year 5 Interclass

I won't say today's been a bad day for me. But some unexpected things did happen. I spoke too loud during CSC lessons today and apparently I said the wrong thing! That's really bad. haha! I almost got bashed by my classmates =S The irony is that I seldom speak up in class and once I did, I actually said the wrong thing. waha!

Hm I did not feel sleepy during lessons today. good good. I managed to sleep earlier last night at 12am. Tonight may be quite hard to have an early night. Because our interclass ended at like 7pm, reached home at 8pm and till now, I am blogging and have not started on any work yet! Gna start work at ten.

I think I sprained my ankle. It looks as swollen as how it did when I fell in Nanjing. The injury is back to haunt me. It's pretty bad that I sprained it during interclass lah. I didn't quite care cos more excited about participating. Yah first time in my life participating in interclass (: Quite fun but netball's a complicated ball game, not easy too. I still prefer basketball. Bruised my knee too. My right arm ached too. What to say? Simply injury-prone.

I am still left with two CSC essay assignments (one close to completion), three GP podcast journal entries and of cos CIP matters. Alright. I shall go get started doing my work. But I am feeling tired. I should start exercising more and not let my clumsiness overtake me. It's getting pretty bad, really. Injuries everywhere. Plus my legs are already ugly ><

Tomorrow's gna be a better day. MUCH much better and less injury-prone day.

Cheers (:

Hope Shu Min's jaws get better. Take care, girl!

我的另一半去哪里找

我的另一半去哪里找

你的气质：你的个性大胆张扬，有野心，而且清楚的知道自己要的是什么，对于喜欢的东西一定会力争到底。你喜欢追逐时尚，偏爱成熟性感的装扮，走在马路上绝对是回头率很高的那种。你的行事作风以自我为中心，有点我行我素，从不考虑别人的立场，你的能力很强，但是并不太讨人喜欢。


你的另一半苹果：你那么要强，能够与你相匹配的男人一定也要是一个团体中的佼佼者，他本身也够引人注目，是个有很强工作能力的优秀男人。不过，依据恋爱双方性格互补的原则，适合你的另一半是那种温柔多情的男人，能够包容你的任性、蛮横。他的性格比较随和，有幽默感，朋友比较多，而且人缘很好。你们很可能是工作中的合作伙伴，因为工作中的合作无间，给彼此留下深刻的印象。


索定目标：公司客户，上司


邂逅场所：公司的内部酒会上


http://astro.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-29/173740328.shtml
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Bel: 完全同意!
YL: That means Bel would have to wait till she enters the working world before she finds her beau.
Bel: Yah lor. It's okay. Good things are worth the wait (:

我的守护天使

Apparently I have not started listening to the BBC podcasts... I did a 新浪测试, 关于找出守护我的心灵的天使.

测试的结果是:

F型守护天使→纯真天使


善良可爱的你天生少心机，个性单纯，口快心直，脑子里一想到什么就脱口而出。你目前的心理年龄远远小于你的实际年龄，众人眼里的你就是一个长不大的小孩子哟！你在成长阶段有可能误入歧途，因为抵抗力不足，所以经不住坏朋友的引诱，甚至会变得无比反叛呢！每当你挨了家长的骂或被老师指责，你就感到孤立无援。纯真天使是你的守护神，他一直保卫着你纯真的本性，在你偏离正常轨迹时，让你内疚自责。你的本性是善良的，只要多接触一些上进的朋友，相信你能健康成长，拥有美好的前程


haha! Now you know why I still play neopets at such a age. cos' 我是一个长不大的小孩子啊! (:

也想知道守护你心灵的天使是哪一个天使吗? 到 http://astro.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-25/115740118.shtml 去做测试吧!

MILKRUN 2007

MILKRUN 2007

Went as a volunteer at the Baggage Deposit Counter. Hard job. Baggage collection in the beginning was still very much okay but it's when the time for baggage retrieval came. Oh man. Suffered from some giddy spells at some point of time. Totally drained out after dealing with the baggages from noon to evening. It's a humid day. And a hot day. Almost died from dehyration.

I must admit I was quite loud the whole time. It's the type of Annabel when she gets serious about work lah. And efficiency really is the key throughout the whole experience. I guess the retrieval was that messy due to the way we arranged the plastic bags. But there was not much of a choice then. The runners all turned up at the same time and we had to work fast, thus neglecting the arrangment of the bags.

Well there're always areas for improvement after such events. It was quite fun packing the bags afterall. The experience has also proven to me that I indeed have some short term memory problems. Not that good at remembering numbers you see. heee (:

I definitely didn't regret volunteering at MILKRUN today. May have been a tiring day. But it was an eye-opening experience too. Thank you Li Hui for asking me and my friends to go for this CIP. And it's great knowing and working with Li Hui's sister, Li Ping =D

Met two students from VJ who went for Paint-A-Home organized by NUS during the June hols. The girl was in my painting team then. Can't remember her name. Doubt she recognized me. I must have looked too haggard haha!

Youth Day Holiday TOMORROW!
I was still pretty enthu about organizing an outing for JAYYES tomorrow but I am all tired, energy drained and apparently not that enthu now. Fortunately, YY and Eileen have taken over the responsibility. I am sure they can do a better job ^^

Interclass on Tuesday
It doesn't exactly make sense to have interclass right after our common tests. And with such a small cohort. Okay that is not exactly an obstructing factor but well, I think being a supporter suits me the most. Afterall I have been supporting at the side of the soccer field for the past two years. So why not this year too? (:

June Holidays Homework
Have yet to complete them. I am about to listen to GP podcasts now then start on my reflections soon. As for my China Studies essay assignments, I will think of a way to complete them. Things will work out eventually, I am sure. What else can be tougher after having survived a very-tough day today?

I am more motivated to volunteer now! Shall look out for more lobangs for my club members and also myself. Oh yah one more thing up on my to-do-list, to plan the programmes for my beloved CSC in Term 3.

whee! I better get started on my GP podcasts. Have been sleeping late these days. Not good for my health. And I think my gain of kilos has something to do with my late sleeping hours. Shall try to sleep early today. Today is 1 July 2007. New day of a new month! So I shall have a new habit, that is to sleep early!

That's a way to attainment of flawless complexion too!

Tomorrow shall be a better and not-so-tiring day! (I hope. It depends on YY and Eileen actually.)

Cheers!