Writings of her highness

2011 - the year as I see it

2011-12-26T11:37:00.088+08:00

2011

a year full of firsts, a year full of ups and downs and a whirlwind of events.
The one and only post for this year shall make up for my lack of blogging throughout the year.

Definitely started off the year with a bang. Remembered that when the clock struck 12 to mark the start of 2011, we have relatives over at the house and we're sorting out berkats while the makciks were doing up the siren dara. The big brother got married and we have a new addition to the family, Kak Nona and Haris. The very first wedding from the Zain family. Yknow you watch people getting married but when it comes to your own family member, the feeling is overwhelmingly different. I get to see my parents sacrificing almost every weekend trying to make the whole event a smooth sailing one, and the brother becoming the man he is.

On the blessed morning of 1st January 2011 or 01/01/11 at al-mawaddah mosque, is where the nikah ceremonial took place. no photo can hide the teary eyed parents.

the 'sanding' over at our place the following day was graced by a never-ending stream of guests whom my parents welcomed whole-heartedly. and being the adik pengantin was a new title for me.

So after the wedding, the big project was over and I had to look for something to do. Somehow, I chanced upon a tuition centre where I became tutor for a good seven months. On my first day, which was also my probation period, I made a kid in my class cried. but the centre hired me anyway! okay no need to panic, that's the only time I made a kid cried throughout my tutoring days. I've grown to be more tolerant of kids and enjoyed their company over time. one of the best time would be during their post-exams period, where I found myself being closer to the kids. did all sorts of activities with them and even an excursion with them to do longkang fishing. an enjoyable experience it has been.

26 January

Mendaki Club dinner over at Rendezvous Hotel. when girls are too free, we look for events like this to attend!

3 February

visited Universal Studios Singapore on chinese new year with the family and we got to blow kisses with Marilyn Monroe! the impersonator that is. Being me, I totally enjoyed the rides, the adrenaline rush especially for the cylon and human roller coaster, which were way too awesome, that we just had to ride on it thrice. Besides that, I got pulled by the one of the dancers, the one with high jambul in particular in front of Mel's drive-in to dance with them on stage during their performance & had lots of fun singing/dancing to lion sleeps tonight! hahaha one of my tak-tau-malu moments. and had a chocolate bar with our family photo imprinted on it! a fun-filled day definitely that brought out the kid in me. so now apparently the new transformers ride is even more awesome than this, a reason to go back there!

7 February

Haslinda's Bday surprise which turned out be a successful one!

19 February

The Wanted Showcase at movida! had our fangirl moments with Effa and her friend. and the entrance ticket was only the cd, that's all! so it's definitely worth the watch and we stood in the crowd in some kind of moshpit you can call it on the dance floor among screaming girls us included hahaha!

20-23 February

First ever holiday trip with friends solely!

the view from where we had our dinner of the resort's private beach where we spent our time lazing. amazing isn't it.

love this hut that overlooks the beach.

the sandcastle we built (okay a kid can build a better sandcastle than us but we tried!) and our measly attempt in salvaging what's left off it hahaha

on our way to snorkel!

no parents, no teachers, just friends, and we're all girls. excited giler! HAHA So Naf, Effa, Tyra, Ik and Syat head off to a quaint little island offshore of West Malaysia at Pangkor. not very far I'd say but the company was beyond fantastic. funny how on our first day, we got robbed off our keropoks and snacks by a furious naughty monkey that was not even provoked. Naf, Effa and Tyra fled off quickly but my fight-or-flight response was just bad, so I'm not much of a help myself. Hid behind Ik who was poorly holding on the plastic bag full of our foodstuffs but had to let it go so that the monkey would not attack us. we laughed it off, though kinda shocked when heading back to the rooms. Missed the six of us squeezing into a room despite having 2 rooms. the kinda cool touristy bus that fetched us from the ferry to our resort, the blasting of music in the room and watching downloaded movies till late night, the sunset we enjoyed over dinner at the beach. effa panicking when snorkeling cause she thought the strap on the life vest was a water snake and all sorts of nonsense while we're there. I really love you girls!

4 March

just had to mention tyra's birthday celebration (i know your bday is on the 2nd) in particular out of the 11 of us cause it was specifically on the day before A'sresults and we had one another to calm our nerves. I was seriously quietly freaking out and just stayed till late, not wanting the following day to come.

5 March

cake is courtesy of Ik ;D

just had to meet up with the girls once more in the morning at awfully chocolate, (where I get my supply of free chocolate cakes, chocolate ice cream, basically anything chocolate!) before heading off to school. the dreaded trip back to school. A's, I wouldn't say that I'm overjoyed but I'm satisfied. and this is in consideration on how chemistry was such killer that I totally refuse to think about it. I know I have done whatever I wanted to. and this is when I'm at the cross roads, I don't know how many nights I spent not sleeping just thinking over and over again. The next 2 months must have been the longest months ever, waiting for THE letter. at some point of time, I found myself just feeling hopeless, but I'm over that.

1-4 April

Trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with the parents.

the streets of Ho Chi Minh, outside Ben Thanh Market. look at motorcycles parked outside the building, no cars at all.

So the three of us had a kinda spontaneous holiday trip to the city as a form of my post-A's treat. My first thought when we reached was that there're frigging a lot of motorcycles there. there're motorcyclists practically everywhere! visited cu chi tunnel, amazing how the soldiers dug such a deep tunnel to hide themselves during the world war II. and took the boat to mekong delta, which area was previously under the khmer empire. trip there was an eye-opener of different culture different from ours

12 -14 April

These are the days I feel like a parent beaming with pride. went back to anderson after ages to visit the malay dancers and what not Cikgu Asnah and Cikgu Suzy cause it's SYF!

Anderson Malay Dancers who attained Gold for SYF this year, thus the group to redeem itself after getting a Gold with Honors back in 2005 when I was in sec 1. I was actually feeling rather nervous watching them, all three of them, perform as if I was the one dancing! Here's a video of one of their rehearsals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAFGT3ni2o&feature=related

NJC Junior High team's turn to perform, really admire those non-malay who took up the cca and they performed with pride. they really make me miss this really tight njc malay dance family.

Watch them here, worth watching I'd say!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAQO1YxspE

NJC Senior High team's Cerminan Maya item attained them the highest consolation, thus maintaining the Gold With Honours! Their performance was hair-raising kind of great! those who have no idea what contemporary malay dance is, you can start by watching this. They are stunning I dare say, watching it again gives me goosebumps! Cikgu is such a genius to come out with a choreography of such. hat's ore, they;re featured on a tv show on onto, that's how good they are!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwKDR0FUREc&feature=share

so you can guess I watch dance videos during my pastime.

came down with the ASSes, somehow we're always stuck together (malay dance, mldds, exco, getting frustrated over 852) no matter how much we bicker and complained so much on how we really don't like nj. and to add on, Shairah used to be my boarding roommate, classmate and not forgetting compatible hahaha! kudos for putting up with me.

17 April

Run 350. Akmal's, mine and Effa's first 10km running event! my cheap-thrills, training and running buddy :D Both of us have always wanted to take part in some running event ever since after O's but finally we did it after A's!

this photo of our tired faces says it all, it's definitely an accomplishment for us. our timing is just decent but Akmal's 52mins timing is really good.

25 April

Maroon 5 concert! The best concert ever hands down. Adam Levine has such stage presence he makes performance seemed effortless. All I need was my heels so I won't drown in the crowd and have a great time grooving to his songs.

6 May Sleepover at Naf's! ;D

7 May

NIke Goddess 5k Run with running buddy! we were already in the mood to continue running so we signed up for this right after run350.

all sweaty but Nike surprised the runners with gerberas for the first few hundreds and guess what! out off the thousands who too part, we came in 74th position! I'd say not bad for amateur runners.

the finisher's trophy is really pretty!

9 May

Avril Lavigne's Concert!! Finally caught her live and she is real good. what you hear over the radio is what you get! complicated, skater boy, losing grip, love her good ol' songs!

11 May

Birthday present arrived early! THE letter arrived. Super ecstatic and at the same time so grateful when I opened the envelope. and so the course of my life for the next 4 years is kinda decided with that one acceptance letter. my worries was put to rest.

14 May

NJC CCA Colours Award. In the name of representing, malay dance, I was the only one who decked out in any form of traditional costume, my baju kebaya. Kinda honoured that my efforts for the 2 years was recognized.

21 May

What day dyou think this is? teehee

one thing I want to mention is this rainbow cake, just look at the colorful layers, labour of love from the mum and sis. the colours are not according the colors of the rainbow cause they wanted to add a layer of pink instead. awesome isn't it??

A cake from the njc malay dancers or in particular Ms Khoo, the motherly figure in malay dance. I mean, she's the only teacher whom I hugged every time I see, how often dyou go up and hug your teacher. She's one fine teacher.

and this was during NJ Aristal, where I did backstage work as assistant stage managers with Shairah, Eunice and Charm. I'm so used to being on stage, so once in a while it's nice to see how a performance goes about from a backstage point of view. and having to work with all those controller buttons was just cool.

huge cardboard card which Rahs forced me to put on. Haslinda decided to be more racy as compared to the cardboard that says 'Hi I'm Aqilah. Give me a hug It's my 18th birthday' which she made for me last year. they brought me to this Indian place to have briyani served on a real banana leaf. but before that they made me travel all over first. remember looking like a fool smiling over my phone and Shairah instructing me to take x no. of steps forward, then another x no. to the back, right, left wherever saying that I was being watched from wherever she was. things you all made me do! Love y'all!

a cake from the girlfriends! effa or was it naf who piped the cak.? judging from the bad handwriting, it could be either one of you! haha and to add on, a particular embarrassing incident which I don't think the girlfriends would ever forget! why does this always happen to me, I seriously wonder! Definitely one of those things that they would keep reminding/teasing me over and over again every time we meet. but love them anyways!

2nd June

I passed my traffic police test on this very day on my fist try! just imagine how ecstatic I was when I got hold of my license! the first one to pass among the era also teehee! my parents are so cute, they sent me and gave moral support on the morning of the test. haha no longer need to balik kampong to practise driving. and on my very first drive after the test, I just had to mount the kerb and ended up with a punctured tyre on my dad's car. I did raised doubts on how I passed but hey making mistakes is part of the learning process. Alhamdulillah, my driving has since improved.

18-25 June

PERTH, AUSTRALIA HOLIDAY! First time in Australia and the best holiday ever! So I was just super elated. the sis and I had planned up the itinery for the week since it's going to be a self-drive holiday and boy we are good planners, totally made full use of the 7 days we're there. ohh and we had fun winter-clothes shopping just right before the trip. and that photo was Luciano, our lighthouse guide helping me to lower the Australian flag at the end of the day at Geographe Bay while overlooking the sunset. how often dyou get to do that! my flag-raising duty back in primary school was put into good use.

Visited swan bell tower, apparently the biggest musical instrument that is, it's kinda cool to see the humongous bells. My favorite park ever, King's Park where we do what the locals do, sit down there and simply enjoy the scenery of Perth City. The city is pretty laid back. We spent the whole afternoon picnicking at the park. And I love the serene, calm feeling I get while spending our time there.

outside Perth Mint. shops there closes at 5pm, so we visited this museum instead.

these photos of quokkas and swan are credits of Akmal, he should just be a wildlife photographer or smt, just look the quality of the photos he took.

Quokka, this cute tiny creature which looks like hybrid of a rodent and a kangaroo, runs all over Rottnest Island. Found out that this island is one of the few places in the world where you can quokkas, amazing right. They're simply so adorable, they don't run away when you approach them and they look at you with those big, glittery eyes. They're like the cats of the island.

This huge swan is such a darling to the camera, it's huge cause it stood at the height of my shoulders. The swan does not budge when we approached it along a jetty at the river, it even turned turned towards us for Akmal to capture a nice photo of it.

Visited Busselton Jetty, this is not just a jetty like any other, This jetty stretched so far out into the sea that we took this cute red Busselton Jetty Express Train to get from one to another! at some point, it seems like the train was precariously positioned on the jetty, cause there's no barriers so if you open the door of the train, it opens out to sea! Cold wind accompanied by drizzle out in the open sea made it one chilly train ride.

At Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse. first time being inside and on a lighthouse. This lighthouse overlooks the Indian Ocean. The ocean wide view from the parapet is simply breathtaking and I was just taking in every moment we were up there.

And at Lancelin, we went sand boarding! yes, sand boarding in a dessert in the middle of winter. funny as it may sound, we actually did it. cold winds but super sunny weather. I just think Akmal looks better in the sand boarding photos. Going down the sand dunes was just so thrilling! and you can choose the difficulty by simply going over to a steeper sand dune.

spent one whole day Margaret River, which was a 4 hours drive away from Perth. There were acres of farms and vineyards everywhere, and within each farm there's a shop, so we went factory hopping. First stop just had to be the chocolate factory! You get to watch chocolate making in process at the place itself! The shop sells loads of chocolates, there's even a chocolate cafe and even free tasting. I'm in a chocolate paradise. Then we visited cheese factory where we enjoyed free tasting of a wide range of cheeses here too!

cows on the farm of a dairy company. the sheeps on a nearby farm are just too shy. They ran away when we walked towards them.

Adorable Koala bear we saw at Caversham Wildlife Park. This one really looks like a replica of soft toy! They simply look so huggable, but since they're sensitive animals, we can't do that.

Sunset at Fremantle Harbour, where we spent a whole day there. we even visited fremantle prison, which was my first time stepping into the premise of a prison. It may not be serving it purpose anymore, but the visit there was quite a new experience.

26 June

School of Design and Environment (SDE) orientation camp. So this camp marked the start of my uni life. I didn't have enough rest before leaving for the camp. remember landing in Singapore at 5am in the morning and at 8am poof I left for the camp. super shagged but I'm always up for this kind of thing. the camp was super super fun but it could have been better if my mind wasn't floating in lala land throughout.

2-3 July

Ilsa Tari Camp. just had to jump at the chance of getting back into dancing since the start of the year. Remember playing hider and seeker from Running Man on the slope of NUS, and it's definitely a more fun version of hide and seek. some resort to hiding behind coconut trees, just too hilarious. and ever since that camp I've been involved in quite a number of Ilsa's performances, not to mention the big scale production!

11-14 July

Pangeae Orientation Camp. one of the best camps I've ever attended. The company, having evac as on orientation group was just as great! though super exhausted from running around National University of Stairs and all over Singapore, I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I think I'm the most enthu during this particular camp. and the effects of a spinner camera is really cool!

18 July

the last camp, BEMS camp, so I attended 4 camps in total, in my attempt to soak in uni life as much as possible before the semester starts proper.

22 July

Revathy's Birthday surprise and picnic by Botanic Gardens. the surprise was kinda leaked out earlier thanks to me who came late and bumped into the birthday girl before that. epic fail which was kinda hilarious, but it's a great day anyway!

And so from August onwards, it' s been about shuffling between lectures and tutorials and getting my brain to work once more after an eight months break.

11 August

anuual iftar with the favorite girls ♥

30 August

first day of Hari Raya with an expanded family.

one thing I love about living on the ground floor, there's space in front of the house for gatherings and off course to play bunga api.

31 August

with Arabic classmates on the 2nd day of raya in school. One of the modules that I really enjoyed. see the malays planned to wear baju kurungs to school, like it's racial harmony day or something.

Someday during Syawal

The whole of mum's side, I just love this photo!

Jalan rays with kampong melayu nus year 1s who always lepak central forum. first time jalan raya with a mini busload of people, they're just so kecoh!

25 September

Jalan raya with the girlfriends. and we didn't spend time on public transport, thanks to driving license(s). Love how we're all look so colourful without even planning! ohh the friends I hang out with.. 7 years and counting!

1st October

Involved in my first ever production with NUS Ilsa Tari, Contengan Hidup Luahan Tidak Berketepian. It's definitely an experience to be involved in a big scale production. ohh and I kinda like being in my next favorite place, backstage rooms with their bright bulb lights where it can make one feel like a star. Practices that stretched till late night after a long day in school, catching the last train back and looking like a zombie in school the next day paid off. A big thank you to those who come down to support! and look at the big pink bouquet the girls got me, I love it a lot!!

12 October

Mohamed Khair Ashayr is born!

22 October

finally, a complete photo of all the cousins plus their children over dad's side Kak Iszi's wedding.

28 November

post exams shopping as a stess relief with my real estate kakis! then it's off for a day spent lazing at sentosa! it's really funny how we played charades while wading in the waters. I love how convenient it is to get to vivo then sentosa from nus.

25 December

xmas date with loves. happy pills :D

so 2011 has been an eventful year for me, thanks to the long post-As break. well, there are times I wished I had done some things better, things I wished I had a better judgment of. but nevertheless, I take it all in my stride. 2011 has been a good year, shall 2012 be a better one!

credits to my humble strawberry shortcake-a-free-gift-from-northpoint calendar to keep me informed of the lists of major events in my life this year. my verbal diarrhea on blogger which allows me to relive these days while typing it like it just happened yesterday. This definitely not extensive but it's what I'd like to share for now. Akmal's awesome dslr for the really nice photos.

my life feels like an open book now.

some moments stay gold forever

2011-03-10T13:52:00.007+08:00

blog has been dead.

anyway, let me share something interesting. here is a real life remake of the house that is lifted up by balloons in the movie UP. and there's actually a documentary on Nat Geo about the making of this Balloon House. It took a team of scientists, engineers, world-class balloon pilots, a 16X16 ft house, 300 balloons that fill up to 8 ft tall when inflated and tadah, there you have it! I really want to feel what it's like in one of those!

and can anyone enlighten me about the Sages of Sivanas, where can I find them? Does it even exist in real life? I'm really wondering.

we say yeah with fists flying up in the air

2010-12-03T18:54:00.005+08:00

'A' Levels is done and over with! Like finally! and that means liberation for the next at least seven months. I have been anticipating for this time ever since jc starts and it's now over and it simply feels great. So what is Alevel to me right now. Well, I could just say, been there, done that :D

as you can see, I have a photo of PPG here, in support for violence against children. and that's one of the tv show i watched late at night after my last paper! frankly, i don't how does posting a photo of a cartoon from my childhood actually helps but maybe I'm just finding a reason to post a picture of this long loved cartoon of mine on this space. :D

today was rather interesting. I opened a letter and to my surprise, there sealed in the envelope, was my ic and ezlink card. I lost it along with pretty rose gold motorola phone like in august last year! august 10 to be exact. I'm really intrigued on how after this long while suddenly these two rather important cards are back with me. who found these cards? where have it been all this while? well, both of the cards may not be functional anymore, but there is indeed a kind-hearted soul out there who sent it. all that is written on the envelope is my name and address scribbled in blue ink. but this left me to wonder further on what has happened to the lost phone and my pouch.

let life begin from today onwards :D

keep on thinking it's a time to fly

2010-10-16T20:42:00.003+08:00

last day. farewell assembly. it would be an even better day if only it was the ultimate last day to step into the school in the grey uniform. but the day was surprisingly rather pleasant.

'Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. '
Abraham Lincoln

cause you know we'll make it through

2010-10-09T13:26:00.004+08:00

GIRLFRIENDS <3

exactly 30 more days and my mind is in a boggle.

a blueprint for the doubtful self

2010-09-15T20:48:00.005+08:00

Believe while others are doubting
Plan while others are playing
Study while others are sleeping
Decide while others are delaying
Prepare while others are daydreaming
Begin while others are procrastinating
Work while others are wishing
Save while others are wasting
Listen while others are talking
Smile while others are frowning
Commend while others are criticizing
Persist while others are quitting

-William Arthur Ward-

b'cos i'm being taken over by the fear

2010-07-10T23:07:00.006+08:00

i found a new love today, a love i can't deny. a love i know won't fail me anytime. a love that makes me feel accomplished at the end of the day. a love that i can turn to even when times are bad. but i know i shouldn't indulge myself in this love too much, at least not before A's, cause after that things might change. but i think it's nice to have something more to love for the time being. and what is this love? FLEA MARKETS! hahaha i bought two dresses for 19 bucks, which is such a steal! once in a while before i think about the bigger picture (quoting you shairah!)

today is a good day. as i was walking home from the busstop, an adorable golden furred cat accompanied me all the way. it purred at me, make circles around me and kept blocking my path, but really it didn't bother me much. it's treating me like i'm it's owner who has been gone for a long while, but no i don't own a cat at all. it walked me to my front door and when i walked in, it purred again and walked away. for a moment, the cat reminded me of the cute cat with glistening eyes from the shrek. maybe i might consider having a pet cat but can it not grow. i just want it to stay as a little, adorable kitten all the time. or maybe i should get myself a pet like paul the octopus or mani the parrot and use it as an animal oracle to predict the results of world cup (which i don't watch at all). but at the same time, maybe i might not consider a pet all as all my previous pet fish and turtles ended up dead, and i wouldn't want the same fate for the pet.

it's a long way to greater heights.

Aint gonna work for life when we know we can dance on

2010-07-05T20:42:00.004+08:00

i've been thinking about what to do with this much abandoned blog, so as for now i shall give this space some life.

One recent (or quite some time back) post on facebook really got me laughing to myself and into arather nostalgic mood. Athirah Mustaza: As I'm trying to mug for mids(/As), I suddenly thought of pre-Os back when one fine day four girls stayed back to tie braids and the principal stops by for a chat. Story spread about how the girls chose to tie braids instead of mug. Erhem mugging for As now, a Rafflesian, Victorian, one in temasek & another in national. Dear tyra, you really made my day that day as i was slogging it off in front of my notes that.

As things haven't been too eventful for me, I'm quite glad I've done something rather fulfilling other than burying in notes. and that's the camp sh22 organised for primary school kids or should I say little tyrants. they're adorable, they're cute but at the same time they're capable of being out of hand and really bugging. However at the end of the day, they're still the innocent (okay, maybe with some exception) little ones.

Watched eclipse and dearjohn over the long break cause cts are over and also cause of youth day holiday in lieu. These stories are can pull the strings of the heart however sometimes I feel that it's making life seem too idealistic. People in general will leave the cinema having expectations of their life should be roughly based on what they just watched. Sometimes they're realistic but more often than not it may be something totally out of reach. It's like a momentary escape into the surreal and once the story is over, you're back on normal ground. Things are still going on as it is. It's not that i'm totally against movies, it's nice to watch one once in a while, I'm just having an internal debate about the worth of watching one.

Pick, pluck, pluck off, gather. Carpe diem, seize the day. :D

Fear not when, fear not why, fear not much while we're alive

2010-05-24T13:48:00.008+08:00

i am really really grateful to have such an fabulous group to work with :D

the first ever indian wedding that i've ever attended. thanks rev! and i think i can really blend as one of them while clad in the punjabi suit. hahaha

this is really fabulous poster (but not when i'm suppose to wear it while walking around the shcool!) thank you haslinda for making my bday much more colourful. hahaha

a massive attack anyone? we decided to have one :D i love them all!

reading my geepee notes while balancing on a gym ball on top of blogging right now. awesome. everyone should give it right it a try, it gives a total new perception of gp.

a night of glitz and glamour: ARISTAL

2010-05-08T23:16:00.002+08:00

we really are a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious family. this is a result of all the ups and downs. the physical trainings and flexibility trainings. all the bruises and sweat and tears and blood we shed. all the hitting of kompangs, shaking of hips and doing bridges again again is worth it now. we proved what it is to have grace, energy and power. the journey is definitely not free of obstacles but we just came out more united than ever. <3 NJMD 2010

let's dance in style, let's dance for a while

2010-03-21T10:21:00.004+08:00

today my dad went off to medan again for his youth expedition mission trip with his students. he loves giving help to these unfortunate kids, though it means putting up with tha mosquitoes-infested underdeveloped area and he doesn't mind lugging with him 50 kg of extra cargo of used clothes for the kids though it means more excess baggage tax and taking a flight at such an ungodly hour of 4am!

my point is why can't have the liberty to choose to live doing what we love and being paid to do just that?

and so i'm off to boarding school for the whole term. which means goodbye to home and nice home-cooked food and hello to curfews and bad internet connection. all the best to me surviving outside home and to my prospective roommate.

warmth is where the love is

2010-03-16T22:32:00.005+08:00

Nobody could ask for a more AWESOME family than this ♥

performance watching and a two-day camp which is full of ups and downs just bring us all even closer.

Sometimes you feel like you fall hard, real hard, you just need to find a way to get around things. Sometimes you feel like you're in a situation whereby nothing could get any worse than this, but this is when you learn to gather yourself and get back on your feet. Sometimes you feel like you're not living up to expectations but others tell you otherwise, maybe you should believe them. Sometimes when faced a difficult situation, compose yourself and think thoroughly before you act. Sometimes when you have lots of fun, don't forget yourself, don't forget the others, don't leave anybody behind.

we learn form mistakes, we gain from experience. :D

hey soul sister

2010-02-27T18:14:00.010+08:00

i just knew it. too much of a good thing just spells out bad. i can be having laughing fits on one day, thanks to some wonderful people who made my day. i actually laughed so much till my throat hurts. and on the following day, i injure my ankle, and a super rip off doctor said that i can only recover in three months time. which also means i have to refrain from any physical activity and that includes dance! and by the time three months is over, i would have stepped down. this is so depressing. but, those around me though told me that it's a matter of two weeks for my ankle to heal. yknow, i shall choose to listen to them instead.

enough of these mind numbing thoughts. on a lighter note, february is rather a good month. nothing can get better or maybe more hectic than having six birthdays to celebrate in just three weeks and this include throwing a surprise twenty first for kak siti cum aida's twenty second. i really appreciate all the help and the three weeks of planning! and i found out party shopping is actually quite fun. just look at the photo cake, isn't that just adorable. and digging out for old photos is like finding a buried treasure. on top of that, there's dinner with ikimaliah , ice cream buffet for aisyah's, surprise for haslinda at her house and kidnapping of shairah for ice cream. i love them, they're awesome.
♥♥♥

3 idiots

2010-01-16T23:37:00.004+08:00

Today is a good day. okay maybe that's an understatement, it's a great day, now that i'm in the mood to update my blog.

for the record, i watched my very first hindustan movie ever in the cinemas, which also means it's the longest running movie that i've ever watched. and it's been ages since i last watch a hindi movie, on top of that, hours of just sitting can really cause me to get butt cramp, what's more it's in a i've-never-heard-before rex theatre. but it's kind of worth it, i think even those who despise a long hindi movie will find 3 idiots rather different and really uplifting. and today is like a trying out new things kind of day. i've never even heard of kulfi before, and all I know i stepped into this really cool vintage kind of shop to try it out.

sometimes we're too engrossed in the rat race, sometimes we're brought down by life events, sometimes we just feel like lose things out but all that doesn't matter when there's two other idiots behind you and of course compatible. hahaha, i love them for bringing me out and around.

A for apple, B for ball, D for donkey and S for screwed. it's just a laugh riot.

ALL IS WELL :D I believe in that and so should you.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of course two is better than one

2010-01-07T01:29:00.003+08:00

Okay it's 2010 and this post is seven days late to even wish a happy new year. Neither have I made any reflections of 2009 nor have I made a resolution. New year doesn' t seem so new anymore. I'm still the person as I was seven days ago, well at least I feel that way. and 2010 doesn't spells out good. Feels like I'm stepping into the new decade on the wrong foot but right now I can't figure out what is the culprit. A turmoil is going on at the moment somewhere.

Been indulging on my newly dscovered guilty pleasures, self denial, indiffrence, false comfort, pure ignorance, drowning in songs and of course my new iPod touch! "I'm superficial, yeah whatever" but it seems to be a right thing going on.

Shall look forward into the year with an open mind, well i'll try though I kind of know what eventually to expect.

and feel the shine of a 4am sunrise

2009-12-17T12:14:00.004+08:00

the wonders of nature, geography lesson coming to life. standing within a caldera next to mount bromo. breathing in air that's polluted with sulphur particles. just look at the crater behind that's constantly belching ashes and smoke. and for the first time waking up at 3am to watch sunrise in freezing cold weather.

however sometimes holidays are overrated.

in everyday life

2009-11-27T18:16:00.005+08:00

today my dad went inside starbucks and ordered three coffee. 2 hot one and one cold one. and when asked what type of coffee, his answer was simply one that is not too strong and bitter. it's his first time ordering, so his actions are excusable i guess. the barista (including me who just stood there watching hahaha) had a good laugh listening to this and my sister came to the rescue of course or he will insist of just having coffee. this kind of remind me of miss swan

i love them.

selamat hari aidiladha :D

aspire to excel our motto, preparing for tomorrow when it comes

2009-11-26T16:31:00.006+08:00

he looks like a miserable kid sitting right in front of the teacher waiting for his results when in fact he has known that he's the top psle student in huamin primary. wow. i'm really proud of dear akmal.

and i sang my primary school song for the first time after eons of not stepping in its premises. a rush of memories of being a huaminite.

building ties

2009-11-23T11:22:00.003+08:00

my mum's classic sanggul mak inang and pretty ferrero rocher's nest.

days of not sleeping boils down to this one day. red red roses are just so pretty. thanks to those who came down and help and also by simply being there.

beyond all the mosquitoes. mud and mess

2009-11-21T09:01:00.004+08:00

positively ignited with coconuts!

while i'm away collecting bruises and aches and mosquitoes bites, here, singappore is collecting more aand more water. it really flooded here. unbelievable.

IGNITE.fire. burn. YLTC youths leadership training camp 2009. 23km trek from school to sarimbun with my 7 kg heavy backpack ;( failure at packing, ended up with too many extras. lunch at a factory canteen. shoulder aches. pitching of tents. floorboards. disc profiling. ants-infested tents. queuing for toilets. morning exercise. 200 plus jumpping jacks. double dangle duo. zipline. milo pool. challenge pppool. slide. climbing through and on top of tyres. outdoor cooking. mass tins. solid fuels. meal bags. cream of pasta, curry pasta, pprego ppasta. take your ppick. marshmellow dipped in melted nutella. packing up.long bus ride to tanjong piai. checking in bunks. pproper bed. climbing coconut tree! drinking coconut juice from freshly plucked coconut. solitude walking. inno inno inno. singing or rather screaming ranndom songs in the dark. fireflies! running for the toilets. kampung morning exercise. ppositively ignited. buddy group. sherwood. balancing beam smeared with mud. linking arms. mud fight! hair caked with mud. more coconuts. unofficial coconut drinking session. team challenge. record 25 min timing. jetty jumpp in the drizzle. freezing cold. trek 3km in the drizzle. piai expedition. more mud trek. sprained ankle in mud. campfire. 3 ppowerpuff girls or rather guys. final challenge. 5km run at 4am. paintball! is really painful. screaming made me the easy target. getting shot on the arm, leg, butt and neck! more bruises. more aches. more cramps. more mosquitoes bites. lethargy sweeps in. custom checkpoint. so many shades darker. nothing beats the fun we had though.

am very proud of akmal right now. he made such an inspiring valedictorian speech in front of the whole school. they have such a thing in primary school nowadays. wish i wasn't away on camp to catch his speech.

tomorrow is the D day. my house is a mess, as i know it. time to get the mess off. i really can't wait.

what about sunshine, what about rain

2009-11-11T22:39:00.010+08:00

and i wonder where akmal inherits his reserved vibes from.

yknow how i wished PW would be over really soon is exactly the same feeling i had before promos. but now, when both are over, i'm like okay i'm not progressing much or lack thereof. so what now, i'm quite disorientated i guess.

there's been depressing or rather uplifting talks. we know or better still acknowledge that each and everyone have flaws and areas which we’re good at. just like how involuntarily certain actions are. at the same time, we have the choice to accept or simply brush it away.

been handling ribbons, organza, satin cloths, styrofoams, hot glue gun, more uhu glue, prettyy prettyy red roses and simply more flowers. and surprisingly i kind of like it.

still nowhere here nor there.

beneath the candy coated clouds of strawberry avalanche

2009-11-01T12:17:00.006+08:00

spent the weekend lazing around the house which was surprisingly refreshing indeed and listening to nostalgic songs, from carole king's you've got a friend to jackson 's i'll be there. this is on top of everyone just humming to the tune. just how nice.

i have been in deep thoughts of what is afterlife going to feel. like, how are we going to be then/ it feels like looking into an abyss which i just can't fathom. thanks to sisters' keeper movie, which ending is sadly different from the book. however, i'm glad to have my fellow ppg there ;D and the talk over coffee beans' hazelnut ice blended and warm chocolate cake is just something i need though it left me with a slight moment of sudden sugar rush.

''Even though you're retarded and can't even spell your name, I still love you.'' you made my day totally! soon okay, i hope it's really soon.

yknow i want or rather i need some enlightenment here though i doubt so i will. am currently wishing a hassle free week.

count from one to ten and get composure

2009-10-22T22:45:00.002+08:00

in one day yesterday

huge eye bags, slight sore eyes still, sleepy bus ride, officer cadet school, hot hot sun, eating ration food, stuffing rather weird orange ear foam, shooting 15 blanks on SAR 21 pistol/gun/rifle!, stuffy bus ride without air con, bus break down, going to town clueless, fried mars bars! with compatible hahaha, cloudy over a chance of meatballs, walking around ps aimlessly, and finally more pw.

the contact lens is you and my eyes is mine, i've got my eyes on you!

okay bye

a myriad of costumes

2009-10-18T13:17:00.002+08:00

9 DANCES UNDER 4 HOURS. isn't NJMD just simply awesome?!

from the gorgeous, though small backstage dressing room with its own bathrooms, to the chaotic costume change in between performances for only 5 min, to having my very own esplanade's backstage pass, to performing in front of a crowd at esplanade's concourse and of course the superb company of beloved malay dancers.

I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth turns, slowly

2009-10-03T12:31:00.006+08:00

beloved family on raya morning! and every year it's always this same pose haha. i've decided to do something different this year, which is to give each and every one of them hari raya cards, how often do you receive cards nowadays. and crafting letters is easier than i thought.

when raya is about getting together, we'll still gather no matter the place is. though the mood is rather different. we'll still play with the typical fire crackers (bunga api?) and pose for the choreographed photographs. we'll still mould the play-doh just like reliving our childhood. we'll soak in the atmosphere in the presence of our loved ones. when raya is about reminiscing, there's tend to be tears but at the same time we'll laugh at our old selves every now and then. watching video which harks back to 1995, that's fourteen years ago! just lightens up the mood when everybody gets cracked up esp from seeing the retro outfits that we used to wear or rather what my mom used to made me wear hahaha

we are the best entourage, i'm really so excited!

wake me up when september ends

2009-09-12T21:09:00.000+08:00

wait, I shouldn't even wait for September to end, I have to wake up now, like right now! (so why am I on blogger?, idk why either!) Looking forward to hari raya when in fact the main thing at the back of my mind is the long awaited (yah right!) promos. September holidays come and go and right now there's no exact reason for me to be in a celebratory mood. Hari raya last year was already sacrificed due to o's and each year studies will overwrite this festive season. And it's not as if I have been mugging enough considering that I've been out lately and I'll end up in a lost. I just wish there's a permanent medical leave for studying/exams like they have for PE. Well, dream on, that won't be of any help at all. On a lighter note, I've just had the best iftar ever, a whole spread of buffet with loads of desserts, which is definitely my weakness for breaking fast! I think I'm superficial at times, materialistic things makes me happy but it's exactly those things I need, or rather want. And I miss Malay lessons all of the sudden. Minda saya amat bercelaru sekarang ini :(

nothing else i can say

2009-09-06T14:17:00.000+08:00

the awesome eleven :D yeay, finally a full attendance! i know i'm quite (maybe a lot) lag, but everyone knows is the thoughts that count right! hahaha, nurul sayang semuanya banyak-banyak!

my voice is non existant at the moment :( strepsils, lozenges, whatever medicine there are is not helping at all!

our awesome family :D

2009-08-16T12:07:00.000+08:00

a bumpy week indeed which end with a bang. i lost my handphone, which means i lost my contacts! i lost my ezlinkcard, i lost cash. D: i've been really careless these few days and i've got only myself to blame. at least idk how my brother managed to retrieve my number, so people with you're reading this, can sms me to say who you are so i can re-save your number, thank you! my contacts are really very pathetic right now lah please. and i lost my slippers at the dance studio! had to walk half barefooted (thanks eunice if you're reading this!) to get myself at $3 slippers ahaha but it turned out that it was cikgu afterall who was the culprit, he called me to say he had kept the slippers! -.-

to think about it i really spent a lot of my time on malay dance this week and i expect next week to be the same, there's going to be a performance as well! and seniors' farewell was a success i guess, thanks to every single soul who contributed and came :D wow the i still think the projector thingy with the makechift screen is cool. from the food (thanks to the person who ordered the food! i really wonder who) to the sing a long session to the dunking in the pool! i love malay dance can!

i really hope for a better week for the days to come.

sail the seven seas

2009-08-10T08:33:00.000+08:00

I've been hyper these few days and i've got the long weekend and great company to thank to! saturday's training at the new PA was totally refreshing. learned the umbrella dance and zapin (i really miss dancing zapin!) it felt like 'finally i'm doing a proper dance after syf!' hahaha btw head down to charm's house and played WII of friday after NDC! wow i made a homerun playing baseball for the first time ever, not bad for a total newbie huh. and yesterday head down to padang. my dad cheated my feelings by saying that he got tickets for marina bay when it was actually for the padang. but nevertheless, padang was rather hyped as well. seeing the whole crowd there lighting up candles at night iks knida cool.

and today! beloved mother's birthday, time for a buffet and more fun :D i'm lookng forward to this and i'm already looking forward to next weekend! can't wait, malay dance is the bomb! i want the next 4 weekdays to be over soon hahah.

and Bio SPA tmrw :( but there's german immersion prog at the same time, time for the feast of the eyes ahahaha.

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2009-08-07T22:06:00.000+08:00

as of 12.34pm today at the 56th second on the date 07/08/09, it is 123456789. cool huh. hahaha.

and i found a really bad combination of being in rush, being in need of the toilet badly, being in need to reply to an important sms asap and being in need to be somewhere else at that very moment. i ended not being able to my business, sending the wrong sms to the wrong person and being even later than i should be.

another long weekend :D but i do not need to plan for my weekend, it has been planned for me. haiss.

bright and early for their daily races

2009-07-26T21:15:00.000+08:00

this is the 2nd time of the year a moth decided to kind of visit my house and stay put at the wall for a long while. i really want to know if there's a meaning behind this, it's quite interesting i think. and btw the news featured on berita herian and based on some stories i heard, the makcik going around selling crackers is on the loose. this kind of thing kind of scare me okay.

and i just attended my 2 years old niece birthday party, gosh she's so cute in her birthday dress and she has a cookie monster birthday cake, how adorable is tha haha. btw finally attended a ymc session after ages. well seeing the sec2 batch carrying out the ymc initiation makes me think back of how we were like when it was our time back then, well, i can't imagine it actually. (i'm only seventeen and i'm already reflecting, makes me feel so old!)

btw, i finally watched harry potter during the day off, yes finally a day off at NJC on racial harmony day. yeah kind of get me questioning on what on earth am i doing watching this movie, at least better than wacthing jangan pandang belakang congkak, which was a definitely lame ttm kind of show.

lastly i love my girls night outing plus loads of camwhoring! time to plan our next date! :D

when functions is not functioning

2009-07-15T22:21:00.004+08:00

yes mr mraz, life is indeed wonderful. how apt can your lyrics get.

CCAs are no longer suspended due to H1N1, thank goodness or going to school everyday will be a chore. and a performance is coming up soon, yeay. btw, i a have only two freaking hours of lesson today,of which, one hour was pe and ther rest of the time was spent rotting, how wonderful right. haha.

btw akmal got his first stitches right on top of his eyes! this clever boy has just got to injure himself while playing soccer. and i thought it's something scary but he thinks of it as an 'achievement' as his first stitch is earlier as compared to my elder brother. wow, what a thing to be proud of. maybe it's time to learn from him that i should take pride in every little thing that happened.

time doesn't stand still. one year on. memories still linger. still vivid like it was yesterday. still loving you. still missing you.

the limelight is somewhere else

2009-07-06T21:18:00.004+08:00

it pays to read the straits times yknow, omg young classified actually published the photo which i sent to them on the papers! haha, how often does that happen? and supposed to watch a movie today but goddamn cathay is so wonderful has only three shows on screen. ended up aimless all the way. watched transformers on the day before CTs and it wasn't great at all, it totally lives up to it's half star rating. and CTs are just superb, i feel like like even if i don't study for it i'll get the results i deserve. Ct over, been enjoying the five day break and now i'm dreading school tmrw. a proper lesson resuming after like six weeks? or maybe even longer,espiecally it's since the 9th week of the previous term! at least we get to miss 2 hours of lesson, well i hope so. I'm very Mens right now, thanks minahs for the minahspeak haha. btw Michael Jackson is gone, and my parents won't stop bringing up the story when I imitate the infamously crotch-grabbing movement of his while dancing to beat it. and swine flu has hit a thousand over people in the country and it won't be long before it hits another thousand I guess.

I know this paragraph lacks coherence but it's the way I want it to be.

as everyone keeps talking

2009-06-11T22:05:00.004+08:00

i still can't believe that i bahas (for the first time ever!) and i actually survived, hahaha wells, i'm just simply glad i didnt end up dancing or something on stage. i still think it's our fate to make wak tanjong two times in a row! they've been a great competitor i guess. and i'm proud that our team at least made it thru the quarters without a coach to train us. this whole perkampungan has really been an experience, thank you all!. dengan itu, izin saya mangakhiri hujah dengan mangatakan bahawa saya amat bangga dengan kumpulan pembahasan kami, hidup bahas njc! :D cheydibah ahahaha

now it's time to focus on PW and CT and revision packages and everything else.

and i love weddings, this time i gave out the rampai, as always. and i also found out i'm now related to a primary friend of mind! wow what a small world.

the best is yet to be

2009-05-31T21:05:00.004+08:00

I LOVE MY GIRLFRIENDS (ATHIRAH, EFFA, HAZWANI, IKMALIAH, NAFEESHAH, SALMAH, SYATIRAH + AISYAH, AFIQA, AINUL WISHED YOU THERE) THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOM-EST (PREVIOUS) SUNDAY :D yknow i miss you girls like mad, thank you for the time and sorry if i made 3 of you swear so much over the candle hahaha, next time yeah?!

I'M SO PROUD OF NJC BAHAS TEAM! (NADIAH, AIN, SHARAH) this is just beginning, we may have lose to opposition but we still made it through the next round, against the same rival, unfortunately or maybe otherwise, idk. we'll make it through :)

PERKAMPUNGAN BAHAS IS FUN! yeah, though sitting through 7 hours of bahas doesn't sound interesting at all, but yeah zoom NUS, food & desserts (better than the malay stall obviously), hunt around town and of course us the nj family team has made up for everthing. and i officially did my first dikir ever! :D

HUAMIN 20TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER! meeting up with the teachers and finding out they still remember us is just sweet.

lastly and obviously, MALAY DANCE IS LOVE! omg today's performance watching may not be the most superb performance ever but spending time with the dancers just made my day.

'pelajaran adalah punca utama tekanan yang dialami pelajar Singapura' para penyanggah sila mengupas mauduk ini.

omg, my current stress factor now is this mauduk, can that point be counted? but at least i'm one burden less now, gpp is submitted like finally.

i'm seriously sleep-deprived :( staying up late nights and early nights isn't good for me. and my eyebags are not helping either. june holidays has started but there's lecture at 8am tomorrow, just great.

and there's one less

2009-05-10T22:56:00.002+08:00

It's Mother's Day and i love today and i love my mom a lot :D

btw, i woke up this morning and realised that there's a palm-sized butterfly in the toilet! it's really pretty but really, how it got inside the toilet in the toilet got us clueless. and my grandma said that having a butterfly in the house a sign that someone of high rank is coming, and i really wonder who hahaha. and the butterfly was in there for the whole day though we left the door open for it to escape! but at the same time also this reminds me that somewhere around this week, i saw a dead butterfly in school. it wasn't really dead but maybe more of dying.

okay i couldn't get anymore random than dedicating a post to rant about butterflies.

the sky is blue, the grass is green

2009-05-08T19:09:00.004+08:00

performance at malay arts festival last week :D finally a dance after like a month or so, but the stage is rather cramped. if you watch carefully, theres one plate rolling in front somewhere in the middle of the dance haha. btw the syf dance itself is on facebook and idk how to relink it and put it up here.

this week been rather uneventful unfortunately except for that i was horribly late not only for assembly but even for lesson on wednesday! tsktsk. thought of taking a supposed shorter route but ended up in a worse jam! and half day on monday! that's for all the GWHs the performing groups has been getting. catch wolverine in cinema, a first movie after school in 5 months and it wasn't that bad actually, considering that i don't really watch comic marvels movie. and yeah i blow my allowance in one day

and and i found out that anderson's portal still have a photo of me under the malay dance section, okay that's random.

i should and i shall make full use of another long weekend.

within the four walls

2009-04-27T21:09:00.003+08:00

now i truly understand that ignorence is bliss. i'm fine with not knowing anything at all, i'm happy with the way things are right now. i really don't want to know, at least not now please D:

"every wrongdoing in this world is a form stealing. when you lie you steal the person's right of knowing the truth."

I should be studying but,

2009-04-21T19:52:00.006+08:00

free cone day today! I'm a happy person right now, eventhough the queue itself took nearly an hour, I really don't mind Hahaha nothing beats chilling other than a cone of ben and jerry's :D and I watched my first ever tennis tournament today also, while bathing under the sun that is. And I want practice to resume like now! It's only been a week, but it feels kind of week to be free after school. Glad the dinner went well :D Four tests this week, just great. One down today, three more to go, but yknow, the norm.

sixteen going on seventeen

2009-04-12T20:31:00.003+08:00

♥sss

a fulfilling (literally) yet unproductive long weekend.

are we human or are we dancers?

2009-04-08T22:06:00.004+08:00

NATIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE MALAY DANCE SYF 2009

GOLD AND GOLD WITH HONOURS! <3

JUST SIMPLY AWESOME! I'M SO PROUD OF EVERYBODY :D

pushing beyond the limits

2009-04-04T17:43:00.004+08:00

"doing this dance has meant staying back past the side gate closing time and having to find other ways to get out of school; missing dinner at the hostel and eating cup noodles, or missing dinner at home with our family; coming back to school for most of the holidays and having training even on a Sunday; zombie-ing around school all the day from the lack of sleep and looking like abused kids with countless bruises."

"doing this dance has also helped us forge new friendships with special people we would otherwise not have met; discover determination, resilience and character in ourselves that we never knew we had; most of all, given us the experience of working together with the people in this team who are no longer just fellow school mates and dancers, but have become close friends we can call FAMILY (: "

yes, i also found my compatible in malay dance! hahaha, njc malay dance is love :D

dance to a different tune

2009-03-29T21:13:00.003+08:00

that brother of mine. had one of the most best weekends so far. went out with beloved cousins for a buffet spread at furama city centre. wow, super bloated at the end of it all, and of cause lots of camwhoring, our favourite :D

malay dancers joget to the song imsomnia by craig david and warm up to HSM songs HAHAHA. i seriously think the school have to thank us malay dancers, we clean the floor everytime there's practise using our very own tshirts lah especially during siderolls haha. can you imagine one of the days when all venues are full, we have to resort to practising at the canteen, wow, the super clean canteen. and obviously we had the most effective warm up since the floor was super disgusting.

and PW has started. rawrs, i don't know what to do and how to do my PI. emergency or conservation?

like a hard candy with a surprise centre

2009-03-22T19:00:00.003+08:00

Seventeen more days! :O and a new bruise on the sole of my feet, great.

i realised that whenever i have somehting on, it will someway or another clash with any of the malay dance practices. yesterday, GPA, i would have miss it if i still go for my practice, gah, a tinge of guilt there but yknow the sudden spirit of Anderson just surge into us and i felt not so bad after all. eventhough the performances (except for the dances of course!) were a little too cheem for me to understand, yknow it's not a waste afterall since i love meeting up with you girls :D

and while sunday (yes, malay dance on a sunday!), i missed the whole afternoon session of malay dance camp to attend andre's farewell barbecue. though i left early, it's kind of worth it meeting up with 2/4rians. and when i reached school, it was time for the night walk! omg, the SLs dressed up and they're kind of scary, though at some point of time i kind of find them rather hilarious. yeay our singing group rocks, thanks for accompanying me with the singing out loud. malay dance is love, really.

hahaha, tutorials are still not done and i'm dreading school tomorrow :(

chewing my invisible gum

2009-03-13T19:35:00.006+08:00

the handle to my jason mraz's fan broke :( but i got myself a jason mraz tshirt! it's still the highlight of my week right now.

i should not be accident prone espiecally at times before syf like right now. just today, i slipped and fell while i'm just simply walking. well, the pavement was wet and i fell so horribly that my right knee bled, it's painful right now :( haslinda! your accident prone aura has been rubbed on me hahaha. that's for right knee, as for my left knee, it now has a huge ugly bruise, thanks to the backrolling, siderolling, twirling and all. it hurts so much that i have to wear a knee guard during practice and it's really uncomfortable though it kind of help.

we received our costumes for syf and it's like green and orange. what a combination right. wells, at least the costume is wearable i think. omg, i still don't know why the canoe team wants to recruit me into the team. they train like everyday and obviously there's like so many other people in the school who is way much fitter than i am. i think i'll suffer if i am to join them, furthermore my life is slowly being owned by malay dance right now. yeay to a practice-filled march holiday.

i collected my o level cert already . that's beside the point actually, 'cause ms mok doesn't remember me lol, kind of expected it though. btw, i think anderson's malay dance is really doing a great job so far for the syf :) i want twice a week practice again, and not four times a week, or worse still six times a week for this holiday, it's just great isn't it.

i shall not conform to murphy's law. "If anything can go wrong, it will" i shall believe in Murphy's Metalaw instead which is "Knowing Murphy's Law will never help." :D

inilah liku-liku hidup

2009-03-07T19:56:00.003+08:00

i just want to blog about something i found so hilarious. yknow the lightbulb joke about the different JCs. i came to realise that NJC fits into the joke perfectly. during math lecture sometime this week, the lecture theatre experieced a black out, only the lights from the projector are on, weird right. when i thought the teacher is going to wait until the light supply is back on, he didn't! instead he continue with the lecture while here we are sitting the dark.

and i still can't get over that my copper oxide actually exploded during chem practical, even though it happened like last week. the table had splotches of thick black liquid on it and it's really disgusting. i suck at doing practicals on my own. basically, i suck at chem. i need a kind hearted person to slowly explain all the basic concepts to me.

I love thursday :D Jason Mraz is just plain awesome! i rock man, everyone around me is so dressed up, i came up in school uniform :) only that i did feel a little bit of guilt after that, i kind of ditch practice and beside that yknow my tutorials are piling up.

hello cikgu i know you read my blog and if you come to read this post, yknow you're welcome to tag anytime :D

omg the date is confirmed. 8 April it is. i'm full of anticipation right now. i know we'll own it, way to go! :D

can keep chilling like an ice-cream filling

2009-02-22T22:10:00.006+08:00

yeay i met up with them! yeay school tomorrow! which means more malay dance practice! (shall go to school with a positive thinking)

i can do a backroll and a sideroll and also bridge! i'm so happy that i kept doing it again and again but now i have bruises on my shoulder, hip, knees. but i'm fine having them, it's the pain i have to endure. i also have a swollen eye ;( can dust just like disappear and stop infecting my eyes.

till next time.

not even the second best

2009-02-14T20:49:00.004+08:00

let me see it's single awareness day. had the malay dancers lunch for singles today after practice today haha. btw, i didn't drop my plates today yeay! initially wanted to dine at pizza hut but we'retold the wait is 40mins to 1 hour for a big group like ours so wells, we settled for pastamania which wasn't that bad acually. we played "we've never" in the middle of dhoby ghaut, such a nuisance to the public haha. btw, now the number of malays in the group has increased to five. and from next week onwards, practice will be 4 times a week :( i'll reach home at nine everytime there's practice and that's late, but you see syf is 7 weeeks away i think, and everybody needs to work hard. i'm feeling attached to malay dance already despite being part of the group merely for two weeks.

i'm lost during lectures :( espiecally for chemistry. i might as well be a copying machine during lectures, cause all i do is copy whatever the lecturer projects without understanding. gah for once i actually appreciate ms mok's way of teaching. and i didn't know alpha and beta applies for biology as well. while on friday, watched some Tang Quartet performance. apparently in NJC, we must complete at least four arts appreciation events in a year, interesting huh.

the travelling has been taking it's toll on me. i actually went home feeling exasperated last wednesday. i was suppose to be on OG outing but i decided not to go. I was suppoe to be out giving my cousin a birthday surprise but the plan was ditched. i was suppose to go for MLDDS orientaton, which by default i'm already in but i didn't. haizz. i'm still adjusting to life in jc. right now i feel like orientation gives a very superficial view of what jc would be like for the rest of the year.

hello when are we meeting up? :( i'm lacking the company of malays. glad i found a malay kaki.

DanceFloor Is THE Place To Be Right Now

2009-02-07T21:04:00.005+08:00

National JC has been welcoming! yes, my appeal to njc was accepted! when i received the call on monday night, i screamt over the phone hahaha the teacher waited for me to calm down first before telling me the what to do. interview by the teacher (which i was only informed of an hour before! which means i have no time to prepare!) earlier on the day was nerve wrecking but i think i managed to pull it through. didn't actually think that being in malay dance would help me getting me a place in the school, a blessing in disguise i guess. i pangseh-ed jon, the only person whom i talk to the whole day at ajc. so i reported to ajc for the first day only and the rest of the week is orientation at njc :D

Orientaion has been great, OG 16 is really the OG to be in. i have yoke kwan and vanessa from andss in my OG as well. had station games, where everybody smelled of watermelon and detergent and at the same time drenched. had mass dance where we danced to please don't stop the music and some other cute song. had external hunt where we travelled from boon lay to newton. had showdown, where we threw waterbombs all around the field and of course to the OGLs. had Dance Party, the greatest wrap up to the orientation. there's DJ and disco lights and lights are off and everybody just danced! we're the first OG to do the train around the hall, others are copycats haha this is so so much better than dancefloor and yeah OG16 rocked the dancefloor! :D

Malay Dance practice has been rather different in NJC which makes me think that dance practice back in andss was rather slack. this is cause it's a plate dance and i have absolutely have no prior experience dancing with plates. on the first lesson, cikgu, the instructor counted that i owed him $4 (50cents for everytime i drop a plate!) but eventually he lost count as i kept dropping it continuously and i owed him none lol. i'm going to grow fat soon, i had 2 cakes in a matter of a week! haha thanks to the teacher i/c who buys cakes everytime everytime it's somebody's birthday. btw, out of the 25 plus dancers in the troop, only three, including myself are malays! i like practrising at PA dance studio, it's the same size as a real stage so we really have a big space! haha. now i have aches on my shoulder but yknow, doing malay dance after a great deal long time feels good.

lecture starts next week already, time really do fly very fast when you're having fun. and so i'm taking bio chem math geog. i'm so not fated to do econs, but i'm fine with my subject combi. btw, we're not referred to JC1, instead we're called SH1 (Senior High One). haha it makes the batch seems old.

on the fence at the moment

2009-01-31T17:28:00.003+08:00

i'm already in anderson's jc malay dance, and that is before the school/registartion even starts! omg now that i have joined the group, i'm feeling quite bad. what if i got into njc, i'll be joining njc's malay dance and pangseh-ing ajc's malay dance. i'm in a dilemma. i really want to join national jc, but what are the odds of me gaining an admision. just imagine this, as of 11am yesterday, i'm the 127th person to appeal into njc. omg! i'm quite bumped when i got to know i'm posted to anderson but that fact is sinking in me, slowly at least.

talking about malay dance, i had my last dance class today. whee, i love the classes and since school is already starting, i won't be continuing with the lessons , though it's really fun. i don't know when is the next time i'll have more free time to join more dance classes. after a's maybe?

i love naf and also my unofficial godfather hahaha thanks so much for accompanying me all the way from yishun (they fetched me from home!) to andss to njc and to east coast, with a stopover at vjc. we sent in our appeal forms and my fingers are all crossed. i'm just simply relieved when my form plus cca records, testimonial and results have been handed in to the school. had 4/5 barbecue yesterday at east coast as well (such a bad timing right) and cleverly, they booked two pits so we're separated to 4/5A and 4/5B haha. i love long bus ride with you lah. :D

the week has been rather eventful. lunched over at effa's then went out for bowling with them. don't underestimate the slow one okay. haha. omg, yknow, there's such thing as an invention of the great elevator. so when you have a baby in a pram, please use the elevator and not the escalator. omg, i pity the toddler who fell down from the escalator :(

went supposed school shopping on thursday but none of the stuffs i got is related to school lol. how ironic. wani's birthday party later, i'm quite lazy only.

skipping stones

2009-01-27T12:08:00.004+08:00

i want to snorkel again! haha that's random.

watched the solar eclipse yesterday. dragged the whole family to watch it at lower seletar since the sun was not visible from my house. at first the sun looked the same to me. and my dad was like look look, it's happening, referring to clouds covering the sun. hahaha. only when i wore the sunglasses then i realised that the sun was actually crescent-shaped. cool right. the wonders of creation.

whee, i love long weekends. just lazing around the house is actually quite fun. i shall enjoy myself for the whole of this week before school starts. it's just a matter of which school right now.

here is something i found out yesterday: an ox is a castrated bull! :O and i thought when an animal is castrated, it'll surely be dead by then hahaha it's the year of the ox this year.

Survey the state of the soul

2009-01-22T22:09:00.005+08:00

my nose is like a running tap and my throst itches still. :( but i still went on swimming and it got worse. but i don't mind falling sick at the moment. when i reached home today, my brother was like why are you so dark? naf your sunblock didn't help lah! hahaha. and today was swimming at jurong. we practically have the place to our own and had real fun. haha no school on a january, that's the first time in twelve years? or maybe even more.

gfs are love, great company for two days straight :D wani's birthday yesterday! when i thought i just turned sxiteen, wani is already seventeen, that's a big number. surprise at her house was a success though it took her i-don't-know-how-long to open the door hahaha. lighted and relighted the candles till she appeared. played truth or truth, murderer, taboo and charadess with food that we brought since it was a potluck.

the cutest math teacher ever! with the ss teacher. anderson homecoming on saturday was just okay. but it's kind of nice seeing ex andersonians coming together. cca open house was also held concurrently and i really miss malay dance and the dancers.

i feel an air of change right now, though i know politics as little as i know soccer. firstly is the inauguration of barack obama. watched the taking of oath and i'm really impressed that an african american is the newly elected president. it proves that minority can still prevail. secondly, is the budget day. singaporeans should be really thankful for the new scheme. i think the government made a good move in this situation.

am feeling really grateful right now. :D

You Can't Play On Broken Strings

2009-01-16T12:04:00.004+08:00

just opened my inbox, and tadah this photo at clarke quay. thanks ik for the photos. dyou notice a pattern? hahaha

i have decided on my options of JCs. as i want it, national is my first. as much as i'm tempted to go victoria, i have to settle anderson as my second choices. the distance of the school matters to me. i don't know what i'm getting myself into, i really don't know what to expect in jC. the thought of a new school and a new circle of friends kind of scares me, seriously. well, change is inevitable.

i kind of miss school.

You're the best definition of good intention

2009-01-14T12:52:00.003+08:00

"Here’s your March music remedy. International man of melodies, Jason Mraz is yours on March 5th at the Singapore Indoor Stadium." He's going to be back in Singapore again! anyone, please? i really want to go for this!, or it'll be the third time i'm giving it a miss, which is a big NO. "So get onboard people, on this incredible musical journey you can’t miss. "

i'm still making up my mind on the schools and subject combination. went for jc open houses, so far i have a vague idea of how jc life is going to be. now the book that i'm constantly reading is definitely JAE 2009 information booklet.

i've been indulging on ice cream for the past three days! hahaha. on sunday, my cousin treated us, including myself to ben&jerry's ice cream. had cake batter & cheesecake brownie which are really lip smacking. on monday, my dad treated me to swensen's ice cream, had the sticky chewy chocolate. while yesterday, my elder brother bought a baskin robbin's ice cream cake for me. omg, ice cream is like the best dessert of all time.

where's the light?

keputusan peringkat o

2009-01-13T00:08:00.004+08:00

pagi ini, saya sangat takut dan berdebar-debar kerana pernantian itu satu penyeksaan lalu perut berkeroncang terlalu sangat sehinggakan saya pergi ke tandas lima kali untuk menjawab panggilan asli (nature's call in malay?)

perasaan saya berkecamuk apabila mendapatkan keputusan peringkat o saya. saya ingin bertutur dalam bahasa melayu sekarang kerana saya hampa dengan keputusan bahasa Inggeris saya. disebabkan itu, saya merasakan saya harus terus memartabatkan bahasa ibunda saya ini. walaubagaimanapun saya agak terkejut akan keputusan bahasa melayu lanjutan, a1!, satu pencapaian bagi saya. walau begitu, nasib menyabelahi saya kerana bahasa melayu lanjutan boleh menggantikan bahas inggeris bagi L1 saya. dengan itu, saya mendapatkan sembilan markah bagi L1r5. apabila sudah ditolak dengan markah bonus, saya mendapatkan lima markah. sekarang, saya ingin sekali ke makatb rendah kebangsaan. kelab tarian melayu disana seperti memanggil-manggil saya.

saya sepatutnya disepak kerana sudah membuat persetujuan dengan effa bahawa kami tidak akan menangis tetapi saya tidak dapat menahan air mata saya apabila ternampak huruf c bagi subjek pertama yang jelas terpampar dalam kertas keputusan saya. mata saya sekarang masih merah daripada menangis. saya menyayangi emak saya kerana menjadi bahu bagi saya menangis dan datang daripada tempat kerjanya untuk memberikan sokongan moral. saya ingin berterima kasih kepada rakan-rakan kesayangan kerana mereka menceriakan saya.

bagi mengakhiri ini, saya tetap amat bersyukur ke atas keputusan keseluruhan saya.

damn english.

Before It Crumbles

2009-01-12T09:42:00.004+08:00

the judgment day is today! my fate is going to be determined soon. i sound as if it's the end of the world or something similar. omg, as of right now nothing is more important than o level results. i'm scared, worried, nervous, anxious and all the verbs which has similar meaning.

diverting from the thoughts of results, i've been really having as much fun as i can before results. though i really wish results won't dampen my mood in one way or another. 2/4 chaletwas fun though not really great. had the usual barbecue fare at the HomeTeamNS. watched the sunrise without the sun in sight. walked for 40 mins at midnight to and fro downtown.

and i'm dark all over again. spent the whole day with beloved cousins at sentosa. i took the luge for my first time ever and i had fun, only that how i wish it could last longer.

i'm scared shitless still.

The Grass Is Greener On This Side

2009-01-07T10:38:00.003+08:00

pet chopz is very adorable. my younger brother has it's drawing book and i just got myself it's mechanical pencil with all the goofy monsters/creatures. i want to find the pencil case, but i have no idea where to get it from. and we named some of the monsters leopard, Night Before Christmas, Bobo, Pink Panther, Shrek, Spiky haha try to match which names goes with which monster. we have yet to come out with names for the others though.

in one day i heard so many foreigners praising about singapore. one particualr man was like, "in singapore i know orchard road the best. it's a place most popular with tourist." another comment was like "this place is clean, safe and reliable." haha, i know i shouldn't be eavesdropping on people'sconversation but they simply talked so loud that it seemed like they're addressing the crowd.

finished reading the kite runner, which to me is such a heartwarming story. while here we are enjoying peace, sometimes even to the extend of taking it for granted, people on the other side of the world are in political turmoil. and those who suffers the most are the innocent ones, children. i wish for world peace. and with that, UN should send Gaza humanitarian aid, they are in great need.

i have been relying on music too much to bring myself to sleep. silence has been lately been deafening to me.

A Fresh Start It Is

2009-01-05T23:31:00.009+08:00

Happy 5 days after new year haha.

I went on gmax reverse bungy! omg, after a super long time of waiting. had planned to take this particualr ride with effa even before o's even started and yeay the time has arrived :D it does not help that it drizzled and that the person who works there tried to scare us out. i screamt my lungs out when we were released in the air that they can hear me across the singapore river haha and it felt good, worth the $30, even more expensive than a single entry into escape theme park unlimited rides. and those looking for real thrill, should really give this is a shot.

watched bedtime stories. and i think butsy is really cute espiecally with his huge eyes! he has his own bedtime bell haha. and that reminds me that i got a mosgquito net for my room. not because there's mosquitoes in my room, there aren't any actually, but basically because of the net is pink haha. now i have this net hanging over my bed.

watched fireworks for the new year's eve. camped along esplanade 3 hours before the thingy even started with donuts, ruffles and chocolates, and people were already pouring in. it''s somewhat a night picnic haha. got a good view of the fireworks and on the way back, watching people get sloshed on the streets somekind scared me. what's dissapointing is seeing those malay kids who got totally intoxicated. gah, it totally opened up my eyes on how twisted people can be, but who am i to judge others

i'm dying to know when the results will be out! though i think it's most probably to be on the 12th, i want the official announcement to be out.

Ain't no reason we should be in a fight

2008-12-31T15:02:00.006+08:00

last post for the year. yeay?!?!

Quoting from somewhere "Friends are the sunshine of life." John Hay (1871) that's why i chose this photo, the glare represents the sun. oh wells, i think i sound cheesy.

i totally missed out on updating about belated raya outing earlier, on the 19th. haha, wells, it full of camwhoring (as usual!) and of course eating. i ate to my brim. all i know, i'm bloated at the end of the day.

i shall do a quick recap of the year.

2008 is full of ups and downs. let me see no doubt, the most downside of 2008 when i'm totally at rock bottom is definitely losing my beloved grandmother 5 months ago. D: i still can replay the scene vividly right now of the very moment i received the news. gah, i miss her so much. sometimes i felt like i didn't spent enough time with her, sighs. thanks so much those who comforted me.

this year i attended my first ever prom and an official concert. i got my first wedgie, thanks to the masterminds. i mug my ass off and finished my o's with the exception of getting results :X (it's probably out next week!) i had the best performance with the malay dancers, during speech day!, which was my last performance with themm, and even treated them donuts. i'm learning a different genre of dance, where i'm a newbie still. :D i went zoo with loved ones after ages haha. where i learnt my lesson not to point to a monkey and say it's your friend to because i am that person's friend. i don't know how to explain this clearly lol but it goes something like that.

i still have yet to accomplish some goals of mine this year. there's next year to do so, i hope.

My Candle Burns At Both Ends

2008-12-30T23:29:00.007+08:00

finally went out with su after eons. and ended up taking photos at a playground ahaha. watched yesman, it was whacky espiecally with jim carrey and his rubberface. can't imagine saying yes to every single thing on earth.

maybe i want to learn korean hahaha that's a dream on for me particularly since i still am not able to understand/converse in mandarin despite 2 years of csp lessons. i kinda miss csp lessons, from the teacher giving us longan, or maybe it's lychee to the teacher who made us sing some cny songs haha and i realise i don't even remember his/her name.

chace crawford was on elllen hahaha i screamt in front of the tv when he came out and must have sound like weirdo. see what watching gossip girls episode after episode have done to me.

2008-12-29T17:07:00.002+08:00

it seems so far away. i love that huge sun hat of mine.

perak, langkawi and penang is such an experience. i love the time spent with family backpacking. i rode a banana boat. i went on para sailing. i abseil down a waterfall! is that cool or what?!? i went caving. i went island hopping. i visited my relatives whom i have never even met before. i lugged my 20kg backpack from one place to another. we went to starbucks more times in just 7 days than i have in a year just to access free wifi. i never did want to suntan but i'm still close to being black. i got mosquito bites despite insect repellent. i have blueblacks on my arms and legs. i had fun.

now i'm just lazing around, still feeling lethargic from all that.

3 more days to the closure of 2008.

Bask in the sun

2008-12-28T22:51:00.005+08:00

the highlight of my trip to m'sia. white water river rafting! :D

i'm so many shades darker right now from all that sun. i'm exhausted. i'm satisfied. i'm all hyper.

2008-12-17T23:56:00.007+08:00

watched twilight today, the long awaited movie for me. Edward who is suppose to look pale, looked bleached instead to. me hahaha. i want a vampire with a volvo to swiftly save me from whatever trouble, and that'll be cool.

visited effa's workplace. what is meant to be a 5-10 min walk ended up to be a 20 min walk, figuring out our direction. naf guides skill did not help much haha, and thanks for the free mocha! walked around raffles exchange for the first time and ended up at brownie factory, where i got a double fudgy goey brownie which is super nice, even the name itself is tempting. and like finally i'm able to give someone else a wedgie, instead of me being the victim :P

i figured out that my elder brother and mother don't know how to switch on the TV! can't believe that i gave instructions to my mum over the phone so that she can on the TV haha. akmal dragged me into playing this game with him http://www.gamefudge.com/Bumper-Ball and i'm a total bummer at it.

this reminds me, i want to try playing the Wii and guitar hero. however, to play this in public can be quite embarrasing. cause i just saw someone playing it and she looked rather funny with all that movements.

2008-12-16T13:14:00.002+08:00

i realised that i have my own wrtiten wishing sphere floating around somewhere around marina bay. remembered that i wrote on this thingy all the way from last year! only to be set afloat this year.and one of my wishes is for a single digit L1R5, that is before bonus points. haiz, i just had a weird dream of getting my o's result and miss mok handing over the slip to me. whatever is on that slip was blurry but i was tearing/crying :/

it's another wave of social networking programme, facebook. i just feel like putting up my own list of top 5 facebook groups online that to me is funny/bizarre.

1) I Flip My Pillow Over to Get To The Cold Side ( I would prefer staying warm though)
2) When I was your age, Pluto was a planet ( I believe it should be planet still!)
3) I Use my Cell Phone to See in the Dark ( I do this sometimes!)
4) I wish my homework was asexual so it would do itself (haha!)

and finally the one that wins my vote hands down is this group ;-
5) if this group reaches 1,000,000 i will literally cut off my dick and eat it (omg, so not worth it)

and i would love to give Afiqa a birthday wedgie as a revenge hehehe. something nonsensical that just popped in my head.

yadayadayada. i'm done with updating for now hahaha. i'm erratic.

2008-12-12T23:59:00.003+08:00

pretty cover isn't it? people say don't judge a book by it's cover, but it's the cover exactly that attracted me to read the book, espiecally since it's pink. hahah. i finished reading this book and really loved plot.

i should start doing something about the 2772 messaages in my box, of which includes 2160 unread messages! these have been piling up since forever and i have been procrastinating to clear my inbox since god knows when. gah, as much as i like my stuff to be organized and neat, to browse every message is such a chore.

the house now is a havoc right now. renovation works for the toilets have started. now my family has to settle with just sharing one toilet down from three, and it's chaos hahaha. i have to live like this for the whole of next week! ahh, hope i don't go deaf with all that noise. whats more, our next door neighbour is also having renovetions. and that's double the noise.

I really want to watch twilight! who want to watch it with me? Ahh, Robert Pattison is so hot, only that he's not the kind of person i would imagine when reading the book. but being reaistic, a person who really looks perfectly good doesn't exist. and watched wild child and bolt, but the movies are just okay for me.

2008-12-09T21:52:00.007+08:00

played soccer today, haha, of all games i know and i realised that i know nuts about soccer! the ball is like some strange object to me. come to think of it, i feel like it's quite silly for 22 people on field to be chasing after one ball. i know fans of soccer will condemn me for making this comment, but it's merely an opinion. and if you read the papers, there's this girl whose name also is Nurul Aqilah, who plays soccer. sadly, i don't feel my name is unique anymore, it's just getting too common. but i still love this name given to me.

i'm really pissed at some unreasonable people. there's this guy who shouted knn at my younger brother whose soccerball accidentelly hit his car. hello uncle, he's just a kid and that irrational act of yours is entirely inappropriate. akmal may be in the wrong, you can tell him of or smt like that, but not by using vulgar. he left me fumed but i'm glad my dad's there to save the situation.

and i just came back from kampong. it's back to the yearly affair, but, it seemed to be ages since i last went back to the place. well, this year i don't feel the celebration mood. guess everybody's too busy. what is suppose to be a gathering for all, turned out to be some get-together for just part of the whole family. wells, celebrated hair raya haji there, and we even weaved ketupats.

i just like this photo. btw, the leaves are not the ones you get from markets or bazaars, they're freshly picked from a nearby forest.

but the whole short weekend getaway couldn't be that bad. rarwrs, i really don't like being stuck in the traffic jam at the immigration. my father treated the whole family to a high tea buffet at mahkota hotel. for the weekend, each adult costs RM25, which is like s$12. for a price like that for a buffet at a hotel is definitely a steal. ate the food until the brim. i love the spread, only that they're short of cheesecake. now i feel like having a silce of a really cheesy cheesecake. haha

and we even took the tamingsari tower. i think it's like the carlsberg tower which is located at sentosa, only that i haven't been on it.

and on friday last week, helped out at the elias kindergarten graduation concert. helping them getting their makeup done is fun haha, which reminds me a lot of malay dance particularly during performances. the kids are adorable, really, espiecally this kid named syahmi, he's the one in the purple baju kurung, below and the kids are restless and i really mean it, they can't sit still and are just up to something. and imagine a crammed bus, when a coakroach decides to appear and the little grls squealed! haha, if not for afiqa who's brave enough to kill it, i bet they won't stop squealing.

2008-12-04T14:45:00.003+08:00

people schould really catch this heartwarming movie. seriously, i've not watched a movie that is anymore realistic than this. to me, the plot reflects life truly. the chemistry between the sisters is just mind-blowing, and that's because they are sisters in real life. i watched it at the picturehouse, and for the first time i went to a cinema which doesn't allow any food and drinks inside, though we manage to sneak in snacks.

YMC Graduation

2008-12-01T22:32:00.002+08:00

it's december already!, one more monthe to the year of 2009, wow. suddenly, i feel like everything is zooming past me, btw, i feel dead for the whole of today, and i'm like a walking zombie. thanks to lack of sleep. ahh, i dread waking up early.

Had Graduation Ceremony, or as they call it the Pesta YMC at Wisma Mendaki on sat. I'm glad they recognise our efforts and contributions to the MClub, only that i wished it had been a better event altogether. anyways it's always nice when us Andersonians come together with the crescentians. the games organized was okay, only that it reminded me of orientation instead of the graduation which we were attending. and sec4s are geniuses, haha.

let me see what happened, naf screamed at me just when the bus doors are closing. i alighted two stops away, only to to walk in her torturing heels (it's ill-fitted!)up the overhead bridge, while she wore my comfy pumps and went back to the same place, just to re-exchange our footwears. haha, the lesson learnt here is that never take the overhead bridge with an ill-fitting shoe.

with our certificates.

aqilah with aqilah haha!

i think i'm over for my search of jobs, officially. let me see i got job, only to quit one day later. haha, it was such a dumb job, marketing my foot. i'm required to sell pens on the streets. wth. to save myself from humiliation, guess by not showing up the next day of work is the way. i shall find other beneficial ways to spend this break.

holidays are overrated

2008-11-24T23:20:00.002+08:00

i'm an on ongoing TV marathon of Gossip Girl, and i tell you the storyline is addictive, seriously. this is like my show-after-show marathon on Prison Break during the holidays last year, only to be disappointed with a crap ending. the end of this story better be good. and i feel like i'm sounding like somebody who is obsessed over TV shows, but i guess the free time i have to spend on this is only reserved for the holidays.

btw, i have a gossip girl book but haven't found the right time to start reading it. and oh, i just recently finished reading TWILIGHT which is a love story between a vampire and a mortal. it just makes me want to watch the movie and read more on the whole series, which is three more books. can someone be kind enough to get me the other three books? just based on reviews and all that news, can get me hooked on this particular series. however I did get my hands on seven new storybooks!, but none of them is part of this series. this is what happens when I go to two book sales in one weekend. now i just need to make a date with the storybooks, a rest from textbooks.

today my mum took her don't-know-how-many-time Basic Theory Test and failed it again. and i tell you this is at least her sixth time taking the same test and not making the cut. btw, if you watch the news on suria, my elder brother was being interviewed. he gets flattered when whoever recognises him on TV, only to deny that the person was him. haha, the look on his face is just so funny!

i wanted to change this blogskin of mine, but html is just so alien to me, that i just decide to let it be as what it is until i choose to understand of what i'm going to get myself into. and holidays is turning me into a lazy person. i wanted to get a part-time job, but all i'm doing right now is just warming the chair/sofa. since i didn't get a return call from any of the jobs that i went for interview for, i've not been motivated enough to find any available ones. hello i'm free over here, and in need of little bit of money to supplement my allowance.

and this is another random feeling, i miss performing and having performances and above all i miss dancing. i would want to have more of dancefloor or something like that. well, i'm just glad i enrolled myself into a dance class. the classes have been really fun so far, only that it's only for once a week. i want to find some other dance classes to attend, any recommendation?

hoildays are overrated to me.

Graduation Ball / Prom Night

2008-11-19T22:52:00.004+08:00

grad ball/ prom night left me with an after effect that i was lethargic for the whole day yesterday and even today.

grad ball was memorable but nothing great actually. only that i get my hands on a hairdryer, which is pink! from the lucky draw. such a coincidence, i was just recently contemplating of whether to replace the old hairdryer at home. what i really like is the desserts and of course dancefloor, that i even removed my 3 inches heels to dance to prevent stepping on anybody. only that it ended too early when the DJ on the lights and started playing slow songs.

before prom, i thoght i would be the only odd one out to be wearing a long dress!

all of us looked so white. haha!

with 4/5 '08

with a portion of 2/4 '06

GFs!

other photos.

nightover at the hotel was fun, thanks naf for booking the room for us! played taboo and truth or truth. and imagine five people squeezing on a bed! that's hilarious.

Post O's

2008-11-15T09:57:00.003+08:00

i got so excited about updating on rihanna's concert that i forgot to wish my dad's happy birthday! haha. and i singapore is really small, that people will just flock the ame place. quite a nmber of andersonians were seen at town.

this was our first experience going for a job interview. but yknow what, i just don't think i would get the part time sales job i applied for. the thought of working, which is like the next phase of life scares me.

they're caught doing parapara!

before lunch

drinking starbucks at macs. lols.

i just don't feel like typing anymore, let the pictures do the talking.

PLEASE DON'T STOP THE MUSIC!

2008-11-14T09:14:00.004+08:00

First thing first, O'levels is over, like finally! however i'm so not going to go into details about it. whatever will be will be :D i still want the best though.

second thing, I had the best post-O level celebration ever, that is before prom even starts!

third thing, I can't believe I spent just slightly over $270! in just one week, even before O's officially end. i'm a horrible person, should learn to refrain mself from spending impulsively. better curb my spending, must remeber 'jimat sebelum habis, ingat sebelum kena'. but how can? I'm, still going to town today, for more splurging i guess!

I surprised myself to the amount of songs that i know, considering that she is not on the top of list of my favourtie artiste/singer, unlike jason mraz. I want him to like come back to Singapore to perform and this time, no prelims to clash with his concert, and i'll definitely won't give it a miss. back to where i'm goin at, she rocked the house down and its so worth the $188! concert tickets. yeah, that's how much it cost to have fun.

btw, i have been mentioning she, but not her name, it's RIHANNA'S CONCERT LIVE IN SINGAPORE. omg, she rocked the stadium down and got me who was initially sitting at the edge of my seat, to standing up singing along or more of screaming along! that I couldn't even hear myself, to dancing on my feet and hands in the air. it's such an awesome experience! and guess what, the organisers DO NOT ALLOW UMBRELLAS IN! hahah. according to the workers there, they wouldn't want anyone to end up opening up the umbrellas while the concert is going on! what a funny reason is that!

as for now, I'm just glad that my voice is still there, thought i'm going to lost my voice anytime soon. and i still have the songs ringing in my head till now! and the crowd was great, well at least those who sit around my side. people were standing, dancing, immersing themselves in the ear-blaring music! you just don't care when the person beside you brushed you or whatsoever, they just want to enjoy the music. and oh, jumping up and down is hurting my feet right now. i'm going to wear heel, my feet can't be stinging by then! only that, how i wish the concert wouldn't end so on and last for a short while only. it's like my celebration was short-lived, but the mood was long-lived.

this is funny!

the proud owners of the tickets!

with the flyers!

The opening. i love the curtain thingy but the mic screw up for the first song!

After concert. walked all the way from city hall to arab street. thanks aida and faez for bringing me on a DESCENT outing.

Take 1, take 2, take 3.

ikrar

2008-10-09T17:00:00.002+08:00

Saya akan tetapkan matlamat peribadi.
Saya akan mencuba dan terus mencuba.
Saya tidak akan sekali-kali berputus asa.
Saya akan mendengar dan merenung.
Saya akan membuat penyesuaian dan perubahan sekiranya perlu.
Saya akan berusaha berterusan.
Saya akan bersikap positif dan mengaharapkan yang terbaik.
Saya tahu saya dan bergembira dan berjaya!

Terima kasih cikgu :D

'o' levels nak dekat datang!

2008-09-27T22:10:00.002+08:00

hello world!

make it mine, my fave jason mraz song at the moment. :D
trumpet+beanie+bathrobe+ chasing geese? ultimate carefree feeling.

and yah i'm so going to make the O's mine! (insyallah)
a few more days and a lot more to go.

2008-06-11T22:23:00.002+08:00

today has been a fine and indulgent day so far compared to other days in the holiday.

i didn't start it off with the routine studying and mugging and burying myself in books. but i went for bowling today, after ages not stepping near a bowling alley. well, it was actually a madrasah event and ma & sofiyah were just so wonderfully late. it's just so cute that i have 12 year olds in my team and all of them are boys! haha, so i was the oldest and the only girl. it's quite nice to have them to be you supporters. and went on to play another game of bowling with my sis and akmal.

and after that, my elder brother drove us along upper thomson road, and we pick up an awfullychocolate cake for ourselves (and also for early father's day). and it really taste awfully superb. and he brought us to island creamery to have some dessert before dinner lol. it's one of nicer ice creams i have other than ben and jerry's. i had apple pie ice cream, and it really taste like the real thing. two thumbs up for it. my sis had reversO, which was darkchocolate and oreo, while my brothers had cookiesandcream and bandung ice cream! yah, there's not-so-ordinary flavours like teh tarik, pulut hitam and even chendol. and right now, there's tub of nutella ice cream in the fridge.

i just feel like writing about the food i have tried on. and thanks to faez, my cousin, i had a free cup of coffee. there's the new flavour dark chocolate mocha, which is like java chip plus more chocolate. and yknw chocolate just makes food taste a lot better, so i really like the drink.

not only that, my sis bought the new jason mraz cd! :D i'm not a fan of getting my hands on cds, but i think this is different.

and i think my siblings are funny. we played pick up sticks! haha, quite cute right? of all games, and i realise that my elder brother really has butter fingers.

and singapore has improved on the happy index. but still if you look around, be it the mrt or any public place, people still don't look any happier to me. haha, that's quite random.

a delightful day indeed.

2008-05-25T21:01:00.003+08:00

FUN-FILLED WEEK :D

Firstly, just to sum everything up, thank you everybody for making my day. :D

Thank you Tyra and Effa for the midnight sms. Thank you fiqs, sally, faezah, benjamin, aisyah, aida, asraf, najib and suhaidah (i miss the both you larhxx!) for the message.thank you naf, effaaisyah, ik, ben and sky for the PINK! locker (sorry if you all had an eyesore), mum for the big box of kinder bueno & chocolates, tyra and syat for the erhem, fiqs and wani for the container and earrings (it' so pretty), salmah for the lovely stand, rumizah and shasha for the pretty flowers, cikgu for the whole stepdown celebration, hannah and hafiz for the PINK waterbottle, abang for the treat. thanks 4/5 and malay dancers for singing the birthday song. Thank you Ferra, Saiful, fiqs and philina for the friendster comment. and NO thank you NAF, TYRA and SYAT for the spray of deos! and the horrible informal class photo. (just kidding!) and everybody else who wish me in one way or another, sorry if i miss out your name.

retards and twister!

zoo was the bombx. i know the both of you are elated our same species over there! even the drizzle or the lemur can't bring our spirits down.

and whee thanks naf for bnjs! :D nothing beats great company and 2 servings of such indulgent ice cream!

and attended akmal's p5 campfire ytd. haha, he's campsite is exactly wherfe the sec3 camp was. it's his turn to withstand the sound of aeroplanes! and on thursday, the whole block blacked out! wonderful.

when teachers say the darndest things.
Mr Chye: 'Maths is beautiful. just like all of you here!'and many went AWW! at the same time and he blushed! haha.
just like Mr chan you are 'sweet because you have deoxyribose in you dna'

mid years has been just okay,. l1r5 is 19, that's an improvement. i really hope that can get me a silver for colours award. but that's not good enough. class msg is 24.5, 15 points ahead of the class target. wonderful msg of 8.1 for SS. and WAKE UP NURUL! 4 MONTHS MORE! shall not disappoint anybody, espiecally myself. shall make i will be at my pinnacle by then!

when things has just got even more complicated. sighsigh.

2008-04-25T22:55:00.004+08:00

it has been a real long time since i last updated/visited my own blog! well, so far this year's has been fine. i think.

SA1 so far has been quite do-able, minus the el compre, which was a killer. i need to do well in this exams, but that hope seems to be fading, thanks to english. and yeay! i aced my napha, gold for four years straight. :D

speech day performance! sorry about the quality though.

it's my last performance with them, sadly. and we even had donut factory. :D i must have looked like a fool carrying 3 dozens of donuts all on my own. but afterall it was all worth it.

i shall sum things up into one.
loads of hairspray+layers of makeup+torturing corset+practices+laughter+cries+warm ups= ♥

school+workload+studies= no life!

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours!

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

i love the underlying message in this. what matters the most is about staaying true to yourself.

177 more days! i don't know whether to be excited or anxious at the same time.

this may not be a proper update, but i still took the effort and time off to do so. :D till next time.

2008-01-12T19:28:00.000+08:00

cca open hse went smoothly. :D thanks everybody who spent time helping out. glitches do happen, but it's negligable enough for me. i'm glad that our booth is in the hall, as always, to avoid the chaos downstairs. here's the video of our performance! sorry about the quality.

this is the first time i update this year. HAPPY NEW YEAR! (though this is so outdated) i count-downed to new year while in the air!, on the plane that is.

The fact that i'm sec 4 still has not sink in me. teachers just keep nagging at the class about 'o's are not far. school is just now so hectic. they just know on how to keep our schedule packed. start right workshop, final-lap workshop, comprehension course. having time on my own is just not in the picture.

enough about the school, the holidays that past two weeks ago.

At batam,

Family picnic at changi beach!,

At KL,

the hotel we stayed in was just superb!

trying out our flipside cam! that's akmal btw.

The jamu lady in Bandung, Indonesia

i was made to drink the bitter traditional drinks and that'll be my first and last time.

2008 shall be a fulfilling year where i mug hard for 'o's, contribute as much as i can to malay dance and until the may 21st, i'll gain entry to a NC16 movie.

YMC camp!

2007-11-23T15:37:00.000+08:00

YMC camp was great! minus a few glitches here and there by LC. however, spirits are still high & good job everybody. ;D the camp is held at moe dairy farm adventure centre. it turned out that there's no farm in the area! as i initially thought.

this is during the gako-geko-piong cheer that we did with the kids.

Nature walk/hike

abg sat and us imitating the mocca guy pose, pointing to the really pretty quarry.

SMELL no evil, see no evil, talk no evil, hear no evil!

this is the group 3 guys. the one that s 2nd & 3rd from left are Umar and Omar respectively.
during the nature walk, when we first see the quarry, Umar went W.O.W (spelling it out!) and Omar just has this cute smile. haikal, the rightmost guy, is carried by abg sat during the nature walk since he's so small sized.

Dewi! she's the most bubbly girl in the group.

facis doing the hokey-pokey!

our cluttered dorm.

and lastly-

SC full-strength who made it possible. :D

i miss our late night macs supper and the bitchings and the fun time spent with the kids!

-

everybody is watching gameplan while i just watched ratatouile!

2007-11-15T14:43:00.000+08:00

blog revived :D

i shall put some life into my long-term dead blog. and let me start from where i ended which was like month ago.today is the only day during the holidays so far that i'm at home for the whole day. my cupboard, shelf & drawer are screaming at me to clear them up. but i'm putting them aside today. going down the timeline, i will just highlight sm key events.

but first thing first. has anybody seen this cat? it ran away from home. D: it's been a month since i last saw her. any details on Brownies is much appreciated.

14 November - Dad's Birthday!
everytime it's somebody's birthday in the family, everybody will go on bingeing. on yummy food of course. and the weighing scale will be more than happy to indicate an increasing weight.

here's the banana chocolate cake we bought for him. :D

earlier on in the day, went for logistics shopping for YMC camp. made rounds around the concourse for countless number of time with syat and ik. shopped for fun stuffs. and thr's definitely going to be lots of bubbles around. made our way to mendaki building and did some cheap labour work. packed allt he goodies and slacked in the staff lounge for a while. we're informed that sleeping bag is needed for the camp! no bunk beds as we were earlier told. and btw, our campsite is at dairy farm adventure camp. dairy farm? yes! i really hope the place won't smell of goats or i'll need a clip over my nose 24/7.

7 November - bio spa / ymc meeting/ singaraya!

bio spa was just okay. but it was better than the other practicals as i did not need to fake my results for it to look realistic.

the last discussion before the camp which is next week!

for Singaraya, went to watch some dance performance with the whole family. and i tell you the dances are really very pretty & professional. try to picture hiphop fuse into zapin. super cool. abg zairin, my instructor was even there to perform.

3 November - Jalan raya!
jalan raya with gfs is great. ;D nvm, naf & effa, thr's always next year.

at my house, which was the first.

at afiqa's house. her mum cooked those really small kind of epok-epok which are cute.

at wani's house. we took lots of spastic photos.

now it's all random order

26 October - two4 bbq!
it was at pasir ris park. not much details that i can really recall but i'm happy that i get my mocha frappe at the end of the day after walking all the way from pasir ris park to to the mrt station with them. <3 href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank">

and it was a full moon that day. super prettyyy.

24 October - Arts Fest
as you can see there's no exclamation mark here. how i wish i could have run the event with my malay dancers much better. shall this be a learning step for me.

23 October - Leadership Workshop!

whee! it was relly fun. group dog! yah, of all names, dog.

and this reminds me that we received andersen's ice cream voucher!

31 October - Malay 'O's!

the paper was just fine. glad it was. bw, durring the paper, the aircon which was directly above me just have make some kind noise. and i was actually expecting the worse.

29 October - Jalan raya with ex-huamin!

they went to my house first as i was the latest. and i can't possibly reach there on time thanks to school. tell,me who goes to play pool & bowling while jalan raya. well, they did.

(insert photos here when i find them in my cluttered folders)

21 October - Naf's open house!

19 October - Movie marathon!

i had quite some time persuading my dad to let me go for this. he even called me at 12, wanting to fetch me! which also mean leaving naf watching alone alone. but i didn't.

don't mind the eyebags.

13 October - Hari Raya!

loads of love <3

the tyre of my brother's car punctured right smack on the first day of raya. wonderful.

some funny convo had with naf & effa.

which remind me. my eoys results improved from last term. I'm so glad i passed both maths. :D
and there's lots of holiday homeworks to be completed. it will take ages for me to find the mood to start on any. holiday is turning me into a lazy bum.

2007-10-05T01:27:00.000+08:00

papers down, and 3 more to go. so far, the papers have been managable enough. however, i crapped thorughout the lit paper. and it's left with bio and amath. srsly, i don't feel like studying for these papers. and exam has been preventing me from going online. tomorrow, or in fact this morning i shall chiong bio (if i feel like to). some other schools had their last paper today & are celebrating, while we still have the weekend to mug and i'll be burying myself in tb and notes.

today is an escape from studies, just for the time being.

On salmah's birthday!, broke fast at swensens with gfs. :D

21 of sept is much love. ♥

have been mugging/studying/revising everyday aft papers except for today.

i shall always try to prevent myself from dozing off in the mrt. for all i know, people might just be laughing at the way i sleep. i felt mean laughing at this woman who 'danced' while sleeping.

i'm still not in the mood for raya yet. and fasting month have been good & it's coming to an end pretty soon.

2007-09-12T22:16:00.000+08:00

Happy 15th birthday Nafeeshah Bte Nahar! now you can make your ic alrready huh. haha. i want to see you carrying that pink bag! i love you :D

and effa brought her scrambled brownies just now. haha. it tasted nice still though. bake more brownies so that i can have it for buka.

and i'm thankful i have a mrs sin as a teacher. she went through the whole math lessons that the OBS people missed during the sept hol with us, so that we will not left out on anything. if not for that, i think i would been left far more behind in the syllabus than what i already am.

the first paper for eoys start this saturday and i haven't even revise a single thing!

and ymc-ers just got the news that abang satria has officially reigned from mendaki. no more witty jokes and interesting stories that he'll share wih us. YMC meetings will never be the same again without him lah. why can't he'll be with us through our camp planning as our last project together?

and there's an earthquake that happened earlier on during the day in Indonesia. Just a day before the fasting month, where people are all preparing for the arrival of the fasting month. and to think that the country to have yet fully recover from the tsunami incident, really made me reflect on the live that i lead here as to compared to them. people here are complaining about the pettiest thing that happened to them while over there, they are struggling just to meet the basic needs. easy said, it's not only there, but also on other parts of the globe, where people feel happy and grateful over a clothing they receive and a drop of water they get. sometimes, everyone has just got to slow down, contemplate about our lives and start realising about the stuffs happening around us.

and to all muslimin dan muslimat, selamat menjalankan ibadah puasa di bulan yang mulia ini. :D

2007-09-09T10:50:00.000+08:00

OBS was my best experience for a camp ever! no doubt about that. it left me with uncountable mosquito bites, aching shoulders, rope burns, a headache but the most importantly it's the values I learnt there and all the memories. and i tell you, this would not have been possible without the right people around me and of course ARMSTRONG! and Pei Lee!, our instructor.

Day 1
reached achool at o730 and the bus only arrived one hour later. and i thought the boat was going to leave for pulau ubin without us. and yah, naf sent us off with her donuts. thank you. this time round, i didn't have much trouble placing my bag on my lap unlike sec 3 camp, where carrying my bag down the aisle is so difficult. haha. we took a boat from punggol jetty to pulau ubin. and i earlier thought we're all going to board a ferry.

I was feeling nervous about getting into watches with students from other schools. however, andersonians are separated into 2 watches. and i'm in Armstrong and the other watch is Junko. some of them joked about Armstrong using our strong arms to pick up junks from Junko. Pei Lee seems like a nice person in the beginning and indeed she is.

we did some team bonding games and yoke kwan suggested we played murderer as a start. later on, we went to clear our store room, where all of our camping needs were before eating our lunch. a bun and energy bar. andre and zonghan, the water i/c filled our water bottles. and the water tasted of chlorine!

we went to learn the basic skills of kayaking. i have athirah as my partner, who's obviously was much better than me at it. we capsized and did a T-rescue with krystalle and zong han. jonathan, Junko's instructor gave instruction and said to do the koala bear thing. I thought that he said polar bear earlier! haha. in the evening, we pitched our tents and ate own-cooked dinner, which was porridge, sardines and baked beans. I can't stand the smell of solid fuel tablets they used! but a camp is all about adapting to your surroundings.

5 of us, me, athirah, monica, yoke kwan and krstalle shared a 4-men tent. the first night away from my loving bed and bolster.

Day 2
we shift our stuffs from our bag to our haversacks. we decided that everybody carry their own stuffs for easy use. gang hao even distributed the foodstuffs for us to carry. everybody is assigned to bring some stuffs, and to make sure that my hands are free, I chose the groundsheet. and this was the start of our mobile camp. our haversack was very heavy, maybe around 10kg. once we started walking, my poncho dropped and i realised i took a bag with a cracked buckle. just my luck, thanks ben for carrying my poncho. Our poncho was the thick, canvas and heavy one and not those thin, light ones given out during national day. due to the buckle, i have to handcarry one of my waterbottles. and we were required to carry 2 bottles, 2 litres each.

the first 400m of our land expedition was the longest 400m ever. i was already panting by the time, we are on top of the stairs.we stopped by the alpine rescue area, where it was such relieve to put down our haversacks. There, we have to rescue oue mascot, Ah Girl while Junko have to save theirs, Ah siang and meet them. each watch have to bring across a stretcher, and everytime a person falls, we have to start back at our checkpoint. since it rained the previous night, the logs we have to walk on were slippery. and being clumsy, i fell off the log and cut myself.

we continued trekking and Anissa has a sudden fever. Armstrong waited with her until the medical tem fetched her to the medical centre. we then continued trekking and the haversack was damn heavy on my shoulders. we stopped at checkpoints where they ahve motivational quotes for us, and i clearly remember one, "when the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be gate" we took turns to navigate. Being the navigator requires us to know how to read the map and use the compass, which till now i still have no idea how. and yah, me and yokekwan were the ra-ra leader. shared some jokes with them and sorry for being lame, it's the best i can tried. it's just one of the ways to keep the spirits high.

Armstrong was so behind time, so we had to skip checkpoints. we stopped by a shrine but not a quarry which i really wanted to go. after trekking about 7 km, we went back to the same area! my shoulders was aching and so painful. if i were to do that alone, i would surely have given up. teamwork and peserverance really helped me a lot.

we were led to our campsite, a bare, rocky and slopy ground. wonderful. it was difficult topeg the pegs but we still tried. our instructors told us about the location of our 'toilets' and i really thoguht it was a real toilet and wondered why we couldn't shower until brenda told me it's just an empty area between bushes for us to do our business. -.- the area was dark and my torchlight just decided to go off on the same night. for dinner, i shared the instant noodles with thirah. and slept with rocks underneath me.

Day 3
we trekked from the place to camp 1 early in the morning, our next campsite. there was the obs main building. we had our morning circle before headind for the simulated caving system, which was a pitch dark tunnel. we had to find our other mascots, chicken little and Anything. the humps inside were hurt my knee. i held hands with monica and wen jia as i was scared of the possibility of strying off.

it's high elements day. first we played wind and grass game. then, we had to each jump onto a mat which everybody has to pull. it was quite scary. and did belaying. i don't know how on earthe i had to belay andre, of everybody. and i would have fly when he was falling if not for athirah who anchored me down. lunch was the best meal we ever had so far for our camp as it was prepared for us already. it was filling enough.

next up, we went to the inverse tower. i partnered up with thirah. we rockclimbed, pole climbed and tyre climbed. at some point of time, i don't know how i did it, i hanged upside down with my legs supporting me over a log. lol. then, we tried the another structure, which was quite complicated. i stepped and kicked her. i'm so really very sorry for doing it. but still, we mangae to reach the top of it with each other's help. Everybody there played a big part in supporting and encouraging their friends who were climbing.

since we have already pitched our tents after lunch, we went straight for dinner. then it was briefing time. it was all about our sez expedition the next day. I tell you, the briefing really hamper my spirits. 'cuse the way Pei Lee and Joanthan said it was like it's a not easy feat. by this point of time, i still haven't poo for 3 long days! and i don't want to poo in the waters. Anissa joined us, while Yoke Kwan had to leave for the medical centre 'cause of her fever. Beofre going back to our campsite, some of us saw a ascaly animal, it may be an alligator or even a crocodile!

Day 4
woke up at 0400. me, athirah, krystalle and anissa unpitched our tents in record time. we wanted to get he toilet early and re-pack our stuffs. It is a good thing that our campsite and the toilets are quite near. i stuffed orange and happy food in the lifejacket pocket. our sez expedition leaders are Monica, effa, zonghan and jacob. they did a great job. everybody looked like ninjas with the tshirts and caps covering our faces.

Armstrong and Junko combined to become one Andersonian.and the way Jonathan pronounce it was very funny. i pangseh athirah, sorry again 'cause i initially thought the 3-men kayak was easier than the 2-men kayak. and i was wrong, navigating was the most difficult part. kayaked with wenzhen and leonard for the first 4 hours or so, before leonard changed seat with zul. there's this some point of time, we stopped by choppy waters, near to the south china sea. i just couldn't help myself but to tear up. seasicked and fustrations all mixed together and also the feeling of almost giving up. thank you aliya for comforting me. i don't know why i do it, but i bite the orange skin opened 'cause my fingernails were short. and it tasted very bitter!

we lunched on our kayaks and when jacob told us that we're going to reach, just a matter of another bend. and that really lifted up my spirit to continue paddle on. by the time we reached the shore, i was so relieved, and there's this sense of sccomplishment that really overwhelmed me. my leg cramped after sitting and kayaking for 7 long hours. trekked back to camp 2, with our heavy backpacks. but i don't think many mind 'cause all we wanted was a nice shower and our dinner. our last dinner together.

again, we pitched our tents in record time. and ate dinner. night time was the prettiest.stars , lots of them. i try to count and ot was around 30 plus. there were even three aligned stars, showing the kiblat direction. we debriefed after dinner and we shared our experience for the day. played some harry and one dot game which was really confusing and funny.
the commotion that happened after lights off

Gang Hao: I was stung by a bee. f*** ah!
Leonard: I think i also got!
Instructor: What's wrong? Are you sure it's a bee? A bee can only sting once and it'll drop dead. Show it to me.
Gang Hao: OH, then it's a wasp
some more unheard talkings.
Instructor: No. it's an ant.
people around in tents couldn't help it but to break into laughter. haha.

Day 5
our last day together. we were woken up by inconsiderate people who just chose to talk super loudly. it was the only day that all the watches camp at the same campsite and i wonder if it's everyday, how on earth am i going to stand up with them. we unpitch our tents and clear our store room. wonderful armstrong lost an entrenching tool, a camping stick and tent pole bag and everybody need to fork out a total of $19.55, which meant each has to contribute &1.30.

Pei Lee brought us to the jetty where we sat and talked about oru experience and the values we learnt. it's such a nice place where the wind just blow lightly onto our faces. all of us have to make commitment of what we're going to do when we get back from OBS and i was quite touched by that. we sang a song created byu us instantly for her. and it went like this.
Dear Pei LeeWe Thank youPei Lee Pei LeeWe love youWith a great big hug and a kiss from us to you,yours sincerely from armstrong.

i'm so going to miss OBS and everything there. but it's time to move on and apply what I have learnt there back to real life. :D

from left to right: yokekwan, me, anissa, leonard, krstalle, zonghan, andre, monica, wenzhen, benjamin, athirah, wen jia, brenda, gang hao, dorothea, saifula and pei lee! ARMSTRONG!

2007-09-02T19:26:00.000+08:00

life are just too short for us to plan far. don' you think so? but not when life expectancy in Singapore is increasing.

and how the mood of things can change in a matter of minutes. one moment my grandmother can be calling asking on my day has been with a cheery tone and the next moment, she call again, crying over the phone, seeming helpless. sometimes a situation can just change itself at an unexpected time to lost a love one, is something out of anyone's control. but it makes you want to relieve those moments you spent with them. and their death makes you reflect on your own life.

and sometimes no matter how you try to help, it comes to a point where you just can't help any more. my dad brought home an injured bird last tuesday. it was unable to fly and earlier on, it had rested on his car. it looked so frail. we tried to nurse it but by the next morning, it was lifeless. such a pity.

another week past, end of term 3. here comes the september holiday and i bet it's going to past as easily as it come. i must buck up with my studies totally or i'll be left behind. the first step in doing so is completing all homeworks.

had tuition just now, which naf pon. she went for an eyewash with NS guys. tsktsk. my another tution friend got like an a1 for his amath, while here i am miserably settling with a c6. but at least, my emath improved miraculously. and i'm struggling with trigo. formulas after formulas.

and the last week of school wasn't that bad, basically 'cos we don't have any lessons. and the teachers' day concert was much diffrent compared to previous years that it got me cracked up. and i think almost everybody in the school has received their results slip. it turned out, there's some printing error in 3/5 results slip that the whole class will only get our slip somewhr around next week. of all classes, it just have to happen to us.

OBS is tomorrow. i must have irritate my sis and bro by asking them too many questions. It's just a way for me to make sure that i do not under-pack or over-pack. i learnt my lesson from sec 3 camp. as much as i'm looking forward for the camp, i don't want to dig holes to shit! if only i can hold my bladder for 5 long days, then i do not need to do that.

the ones who always crack me up.

none other than my brothers.

2007-08-26T21:50:00.000+08:00

the beauty of a butterfly. the butterfly project was great and it would not have been so without the right accompany. whee! thank you all for the day. 852 trip with naf, effa and ranjini wasn't that bad. as i what i initially thought it would it be.

the concert line up was just good. i love the a capella group, the guy's beatbox was just so cool. our school's breakdancers and indian dancers also put up a good show. and i have one of the songs sang by the jazz band in my head for the whole day.

at adam's road food centre, where we had a late dinner cum supper.

zul is extra in this pic. he and timothy are just damn hilarous thorughout the thing. and zul can't pronounce encore. he said it as ant-core loudly! lol. and look at the amount of food we ate and the mess we create. tsktsk.

and oh yah, before tht was flag day. those little kiddos who donated are just so so cute. we're suppose to be stationed at yishun, but we, me, naf, thirah, syat, fiqs, cherie, cheryl , lanqi and xiaoling went to sembawang instead. i didn't knw the correct spelling of sembawang until ytd lah. all along, i thought it was sembahwang. haha. and the whole experience thought me generosity. though at some point of time me and naf ended up walking around sun plaza instead.

had breakfast earlier at macs with them. and cheryl was damn funny when she told us that she got the western stall holder got irritated when she said "one chicken chop, but i don't want ayam". she thought chicken chop is chilli! lol.

photos galore. :D

the reason i love sweet stuffs.

drool over this mann. chocolate fondue. :D and tht's my mum's cake.

the reason i love fireworks

the are just soo prety. other pics i have are just so smoky. and i love my dad. he stopped the car at a perfect place so that we do not need to squeeze through the crowd.

the reason i love bio.

that's goat's windpipe, lungs and liver.

goat's heart. they are just so slimy to be touched

and the reason i love myself.

this is a great self-confidence booster.

2007-08-11T23:47:00.000+08:00

i like long weekends :D can i have more of this time pls. as if tht's ever gg to happen. such a nice time to relax, but school stuffs seem to forbide me from doing so. and tmr's sunday, back to the mundane weekly routine. and my studies are in jeopardy. totally badd.

Yesterday was fun. my beloved mum's birthday.♥ had this really sweet and simple white chocolate cake and i can't find the cake photo anywhere. erghh. and my dad was being hilarious the whole time. and thanks naf for accompanying me the whole afternoon. wat is suppose to be a study date ended up as neighbourhood-walking time. it's been ages since i last walked around the neighbourhood. u watch out, when i get my hands on those, i'll make sure i get rid of it for sure.

there's chocolate fondue on the swensen's menu now. :D whee! and that reminds me of thailand. and the whole family went over to my cousin's house. and i'm an aunt alr, which sounds so weird.

i'm suddenly remembered about a bad experience. and decide for yrself if it means smt bad to you. was walking around amk central with thirah and syat some time ago. thr's this van parked by the side of the road and we walked past it. Then thr's this man who stoped us at our track, and thr, a corpse all covered in white cloth, without a coffin was carried past in front of us to a wake nearby. if i have a faint heart, i think would have a heart attack. and tht left us in shock.
and this remind me of the morbid stories that was being shared during one of the YMC session.

btw, thr's this rap version of chan mali chan and geylang si paku geylang on the radio. it's such an interesting twist to the normal version.

2007-08-09T23:55:00.000+08:00

Today's Singapore's birthday! don't you feel proud to be a singaporean, 'cos i am :D whee, i love ytd and tdy. And all this would not be possible with family & friends. watched fireworks! i love fireworks. the view tht we get wasn't tht great but it was good enough, and it's fun making ppl turn heads when u point at smt with much excitement when thr's actually nth. i had fun doing tht. hahaha.

Yesterday was great and even school was great, since there was no lesson. first thing first, i think the parade was total coolness, from the contingent to the parade commander. they can even be heard from the mps, where all the performers were. and oh yah, talking about parade, naf tried to teach me marching. it turned out that i can't even move my leg properly. haha. i don't mind learning more drills. back to mps, we, me, shasha & izah did our make up on our own for first time ever, without much help. and we tried wild stuffs like silver eyeliner. haha.

aft the dance, i was bombarded with the question on why the dance has only three ppl, tht i got sick of explaining everything to them. but it's the quality and not quantity. :D and so the dance went well. after school was loves. thanks to the three of you so much. our aimless trip ended us up at bugis and esplanade. the roof terrace and library were just so calm & relaixng.♥

see naf's act kampong-y hair. i shall upload more photos soon when i have them. :D

i think the fightings in troy are smthing different. tell me i'm slow, i don't care.

Chem SPA went out well. and math test has been a give and take thing. when i can do a question, i can't do the other. i didn't even draw the graph fr linear law. screwed.

sometimes i just can't seem to get over some issues. only time will tell it all. oh, bother.

2007-08-04T21:25:00.000+08:00

I have no life. I’ve not been online for one whole week until this morning. It proves that I can still live without the comp. I don’t like being tied down by schoolwork and all that stuffs. And on Monday there’s THREE freaking test. To think that next week will be a short and stressful week. School and more school stuffs.

See how time flies really fast. It’s been one month since I last updated and I just can’t find the time to.

The Month of July

1) FIESTRAI competition! On the 21st. though we didn’t win anything, still the main purpose of this competition is for us to gain exposure. Just like most of us did. Those dance from the polytechnics are really nice. And I know everybody did their best, despite an obvious clinch where the guy’s stick actually drop!

2) The performance for the chengdu trip ppl went smoothly. We were only informed of the performance two days in advance, like wth! It’s a total instant dance, and the first time that a dance was choreographed in only one practice. But, like what I mentioned, it’s instant so it well, was just an okay dance. And the teachers want us to perform that for national day concert, -.- frankly speaking, the dance is only appropriate for a small-scale performance. So ppl, if u watch us dance during national day, pls don’t laugh, cause I’ll feel more a like fool than what i already feel about the dance.

3) YMC Meetings have been fruitful. We planned for our CSP (community service project) and I seriously hope that when the day comes, everything will turn out well. While today's meeting was okay. Abang Satria shared with us his experience and all and it really makes me think to live to its fullest and to look on the bright side of life despite of a wrongdoing. And i get a stress ball. i wanted to get the ball so badly to the extent that i hit tyra's head accidentally. sry! At least both of us have the balls now. While during the last meeting, it was held at SMU. And guess what, I got lost in the campus, which is not surprising of me. Thanks to my brother who dropped me off at some unknown library while in a rush and I have to make my own way.

4) YMC Sec1 launch at the Arts House was a job well done by Sec2 batch. They did a great job in engaging t4e Sec 1s and all. While, our batch, were just jumping around trying to get everybody in the mood. I think the play that they did was best part of all. And we did not have sit thru a boring power point sharing session.

5) Racial Harmony Day celbration was okay. Just okay. Well, 3/5 doesn't really seem united during the whole celebration and all. but at least, we have 100% in our class wearing an ethnic costume. Furthermore, we have to sit thru the video screening which is like one of those history videos that we used to watch. And i applaud those ppl taking part in the talentime. Though some don't really have the voice, they still have the guts to go up there and sing.

6) I didn’t mentioned earlier about the O’Level Malay listening compre and oral that I had. While I think the listening compre was okay, oral was totally screwed. I was literally shaking in front of the examiners. And the topic was about good service in Singapore. I think out of the three topics, this was the most difficult.

7) I want to upload photos. espiecally the photo on a goat's liver, lungs and trachea. i really want everybody to have a look at the thing. but however, i seem to have lost the wire. errgh

8) I saw cats mating! fine, so i was bored while waiting for my turn to see the doctor. And these two cats just happen to stop right in front the clinic. lol. And i do not need to get an injection for the OBS thingy. hehe.

9) i have been feeling crappy all these days. responsibilities are pouring in and i'm adjusting myself to getting used to all this.

10) I had a lousy weekend last week. I have to drag myself out of bed. had a throbbing hedache, sore throat, cold and flu.

11) sore throat, thanks to the guides campfire. the campfre was held in the hall instead of the field. and one of the cub scouts there was like how come campfire so cold. haha. though it's in the hall, i feel it still manages to get everybody to be in the mood better than last year.

12) test, test and more tests.

August

Had bio SPA yesterday! And I screwed it up totally. I was totally caught unprepared. Mdm Loh didn’t train us properly for the SPA. But it was a good thing that the test did not involve in any heating of objects or I’ll suffocate in the room of burning Bunsen burner.

i won't let trivial stuffs let me down and get in my way. i just don't get the conflict. i don't get the whole point of this thing. when neither party bother to try. why should i? blaming is a game that is being played now. it's a easy to point the finger but still the problem won't be resolved. and let me say this, i lost a friend somewhere along the line.

i still can't find the true definition of life. why sometimes we feel like we're on top of the world while at times we feel like the whole world is against you? and why we live the the life we are living now? why people can live lavishly, spending on whatever they want while others are struggling just to make ends meet? Why we are always trying to reach for perfection when there's no such thing as perfect? Why people live in regrets? Why we get confuse of our feelings that we just can't seem to differientiate between right and wrong? why celebrities seem to get all the love in the world and beggers are being despised? Why people think that the grass is greener on the other side? Why am i living this life? Why everything always seem complicated? Why do i even study? Do i/we have any other choice besides following the system?

Sorry. i don't need any answer to all that questions. but i just want to ask these into the void.

2007-06-30T22:12:00.000+08:00

Speech day is OVER! :D yay! like finally,the long-awaited thing is over, thankfully. there'll be no more rehearsals. for the time being. first thing frist, monday had such a time consuming rehearsal, while wednesday was the full dress rehearsal. our make up fr that day is so horrible, even many said so. on a lighter note, friday is a better day 'cause it's the performance day itself. school ended at 10.10, and we're suppose to gather at 11. that's damn early, considering that it's an evening peformance. had an early lunch with fellow malay dancers at macs first before going back to school. do you know thr's a ticket office at amk hub? well, i js found out ystd despite times of walking in the area.

the make up and doing up of hair wasn't a rush, as compared to wednesday where only 2 hours were allocated for us to get ready. i don't like hairspray, it send this chill down yr spine. again, there's a lot of waiting to do. but this time is fun-ner. after we've eaten the food cikgu bought for us and getting the samping done. and oh yah, initially, we're told that nothign would be given to us for dinner. but cikqu is so nice to buy us a meal. some of us did those lame thing. it's not always that you can do this with cikgu. cikgu esfan is quick at getting the pattern or whatsoever but cikgu suzi, haha, hmm, is just like one of us. the peformance was great. well, that's what the teachers told us, but personally i think i screwed it up. my samping kept flipping to my right side and it limited my movements. but nvm, curtain call had a better end to it. performance over, it's time for wash up. as usual, washing up is a messy affair. smudged make up, dry frizzy hair, tissues everywhere etc. i will surely miss the graduating sec4s after their step down.

i'm so glad i went YMC just now after a long absence. :D it was fun,basically 'cause we hv a new project. well, that's the main reason i went fr the meeting. i took quite some time to catch up on all the things that they've discussed on earlier meetings.i didn't knw that thirah is the president fr the camp. i'm new to it, but i'm alr in the exec.comm. we're suppose to come out with a camp theme. and there're a lot fuss of 3D, (3D)square, 3Dsquare & 3Dcube. it's funny on how everybody trying to do the right calculations to it.

find the similarity of these.
i turn to you, beautiful, a genie in a bottle, believe me, hurt, nobody wants to be lonely, car wash, what a girl wants etc.

guessed it?

it's all christina aguilera's songs. she's having the tour here and the concert is tonight. wah! the tix very ex.

i seemed to have a lot of things to blog about, but i just can't put in to words.

random stuff.

my family left for m'sia without me and my sis. there're this gathering for everybody in the family tree and it stretches out as far as 7 generations! and i'm not there to celebrste it. there'd be hundreds of blood-related relatives whom i don't think i even know who would be attending, and i'm not there.

my saturday morning is calm. was in the bus, and there're a lot of toddlers around. they're so cute lah. frm those who's babbling to ths who are fooling around.

i'm so nervous to get my mt o'level oral over and done with. hope all the best for me. i need confidence to go through. thinking 'bout it now, even makes me more nervous. *deep breathes*

GST hikes takes effect fron tomorrow!
grab yr bags kiasu singaporean and grab everything before it's twelve.

Harry potter is opening on 12th of july. i'm not a fan of the book, well in fact i do not even read the series but i'm looking forward to watching the movie.

i saw something disgusting just now. i thought what i heard was just rumours until i saw it with my own eyes. see how much people change totally. i don't know what these kind of people are thinking? are they not happy with their well-being or what. in fact, i pity them. they just need sm help & support.

the world is no more straight as it was.

2007-06-24T15:21:00.000+08:00

i thought only human pee when they're scared, but even cats do. well, at least my cat did. She's so scared when disturbed by a stray cat that she peed right at the doorstep. lol.

went vivo yesterday. and there's these two men dressed up in the london soldier costume, complete with the black thing on their head. they marched around the area and for a while i tought they're cute. i can't imagine if singapore NS men wear that kind of suit here. haha. whee, had b&js.:D naf!, i'm still waiting for it.

school is opening tmr. omg. and the first two periods are bio and chem. wow, what a great way to start off the term with. i don't like it when i thought i have finish the burden of homeworks, then i realised that actually there're questions, a lot of them being left out. errgh.

i just feel like putting up this song here. an all-time favourtie. ;D

the malay version

2007-06-23T00:35:00.000+08:00

Genting was cold. :D :D :D

fine, this is suppose to be a family holiday. and yah, so much of a family holiday. only me, akmal and my
parents went, but still we had so much fun :D

let pictures do the talking.

we didn't do much on the first day except for dropping my nenek off at the kampong before carrying on our way.

And, we watch this acrobatic/magic show.

second day :D

this ride is so cool. i feel like i'm flying like spidey! wait, do spideys fly? lol.

i can't believe myself tha i actually took this ride. it's like falling from a reeallly high building. akmal barely reaches the minimum height, but he actually did and he took the ride with me.

on the indoor theme park, gondola ride. see that really nice ferris wheel behind.

see all that mist and it was actually drizzling.

aim and take shot. they even hv archery thr.

third day

blueberry mufifn for breakfast made my whole day. :D
my dad drove to KL.

we took the eye on m'sia. another nice ferris wheel. i want to take the singapore flyer when it's open, but i've still yet to take the reverse bungee jumping.

and we went up menara KL. then, had nando's chicken for dinner, which was really nice. they should open an outlet here.

fourth day was spent at my nenek's kampong.

Lastly, Happy Father's Day! haha. this wish is soo late. but hey, it's the thought that counts. :)

see that ice cream in front of us. :D Baskin Robbins should also be open here.

i want my phone back :( repairs are suppose to be done by this sunday but my phone is in such an un-reapair-able condition that they're going to take the whole week! i'm now left to use my bro's noob phone that's super irritating. good thing it's only temporarily.

And today's speech day rehearsal is a tire, a bore = a waste of time. i just don't like rehearsals. i want speech day to be over. only one week to go. hmm.

i'm bored.

You Failed Your Driver's Test

You only got 3/10 correct.
If you have a driver's license, it needs to be revoked!

Are You a Good Driver?

haha.

2007-06-14T20:44:00.000+08:00

so far this week has been going well. :D

starting with monday, went swimming at jurong swimming complex. :D before that, went to jurong entertainment with effa to grab a bite first. then we met up with naf at chinese garden. we killed time by by walking around the area since sky and ben are 1 hour late! even i'm not that bad when i lost track of time. when we reached there, we rented the big floats. we went to the lazy river first and made a few rounds. the guys capsize us a few times. and mind you, the pool is only about 0.8m to 1m deep.

this pic is so big that i have problem resizing it.

under one of the nicer trees.

infront of the pagoda which we climb the steps to the 7th storey.

we went to the slides next, which was like never-ending, then to the wavepool where i tried trekking. it's funny on how i just can't trek. the sprinkles wasnice beating my back. up next was the long blue slide before going into the swimming pool. we had a 'race' and eventhough ben gave me & naf a headstart, he still finish first. he's fast lah. not long after, we returned the floats. thank you all for making my day :D

while on tuesday, i brought akmal out since i'm suppose to take him out for at least one day during this hol. we went to s'pore discovery centre siince he really wanted to go there. well, the place was fine with the exhibitions, tours and all. i feel so good as a sister. met up with my parents soon afterwards to have dinner. then around nine, went to watch fantastic four sneak preview at great world city. my eldest brother got free tickets! and gave it to us. since it's free tickets, it's also free seating. akmal is so funny. he was carrying the nachos when he accidentally slipped on the steps and all the chips went spilling on top of the cheese. Silver surfer is hot.

i think this is a cool camouflage.

on wednesday, i did my homeworks. i'm quite satisfied with the amount of homeworks i've completed so far. and i found an alternative way to do my geog even without my file. i'm happy enough that i've finished 3 questions of the whole assignments. 3 may sound little, but there are many parts to it. and i'm confused whether 3/5 need to complete the math online lesson since it is first stated compulsory for 3/5 but later part of it, it's for 3/2 and 3/4. and i'm like, huh.

today, i took up my mum's challenge of wanting me to cook. instead of cooking, i bake muffins. :D i did my own variation and i shall call it my white cocolate chip muffin with walnut top.

i was trying to amuse myself while waiting for the the smallr muffins to bake.

since i did a smiley face with the bigger muffins, i might as well do it with the smaller muffins also.

baby amni. one of my far relative. she's smiling all the time but she's just about to cry when i took this pic.

staying at home for so many days made me realsie that there're quite a number of aeroplanes and helicopters that are always hovering above my house espiecally during the afternoon, making it very noisy. an aeroplane sound like a thunder striking for a long time. i have no idea how i'm suppose to stand up with all that noise when they open up a much bigger seletar airport.
going to genting in two days time and i've yet to pack a single thing. i hope global warming didn't change much of the cool temperature there.

APM :D

2007-06-09T13:53:00.000+08:00

i'm a happy happy person right now and i got my dad to thank to. :D He bought tix to APM!. He's seriously like one supersuper dad. The event started at 2030 but he only bought the tickets at 1900 and told us only at 1930. Just one hour just before it start! but nevermind, we are given superb seatings, unlike the time during singapore idol, where we sat right on top. i love it when taufik, azmir and irwansyah sang together. hady sang the zainal abidin's song really well. taufik, siti and gita, some indonesian singer sang the songs that are nominated for the most popular song. and i realise that i like indonesian bands! not one in particular, but in general, all the bands. they have great songs. i had a great time screaming for the artistes. i strained my throat just after i'm cured from an irritating sore throat. tsk. how can mawi take away the most popular male artiste award from taufik? nevermind, taufik still won the singapore's best song award. and none other than siti won the best female artiste award. if astro can show it live, why can't suria.

two weeks of holidays has went down the drain. i attempted on homeworks but i just can't seem to complete any. everything except maths is less than halfway done. i can stare at a single chem ws for half an hour and only written a sentence. it sound so pathetic. well, it is. i can't do chem on my own. i need somebody to explain to me all the concepts and all. and geog just turned me off from doing it. i misplace my geog file. how am i suppose to complete the asignments. maybe it's not too late to come out with a timetable. but being me, i know most probably i won't follow it. i guess i'm better at doing things last minute.

watched shrek3 the other day with my sis and akmal. it was such a cute movie and the kids around us, their laughs are just so adorable. if life were really is a fairy tale. there will no such thing as studying. all everybody cared is being rescued by some prince charming or even an ogre. haha.

i love weddings. The whole spirit just bring all generations the relatives together. so, my 2nd cousin got married. and there're three new-born babies! i want to put their photos up here but i'm so lazy to upload. see what holidays do to me. so complacent that i have more time to complete all the stuffs that i've initially wanted to do. i don't like proscrastination, but that's exactly what i'm doing.

went for ambience IV, the band concert the other day with effa. she actually forgot to take along the tickets with her. My ticket was also with her. good thing she hasn't board the bus. we were a few minutes late, but we didn't miss anything since they're warming up when we reached. we sat somewhere nearer to the back and the main thing i can see only those heads infront of me and those standing band members. the pieces they played was really nicely done. the guest band played an even nicer piece. and the grand finale was really grand. while i was enjoying myself at the band concert, my family pangseh me and went to the suntec IT Sale. My brother bought a brand new lappie for us and it's orange, same colour as my handphone. really interesting.

naf is back from phuket alr. i miss everybody. really hope i get the permission to go tmr since it's a sunday.

2007-05-29T20:23:00.000+08:00

threefive!07 aim high!

i think this monkey is too cute that i just want to put it up here, though this pic is like so last month.

2007-05-28T10:17:00.001+08:00

there's chem extra lesson later. rawr! i'm so reluctant to get out of the hse and make my way to school. today is the first day of holiday, like hello. i should be hibernating at home. fine, i shouldn't be complaining as it just won't change the situation and it's good enough that i don't have to go to school earlier.

went to my cousins' hse over the weekend and we watched the story Mukhsin. it's such a nice nice story. if i were to watch it in the cinema, i would probably be sniffing away. go watch it people.

i shall TRY to enjoy myself. i really hope there's a slot for two4's chalet.

happy holidays everybody :D

2007-05-25T20:43:00.000+08:00

today is sports carnival. :D from today, since syat gave me that look, i made a new promise to myself to not waste any more food. and don't you ever make me feel guilty again. and at the stadium. there's even milo. my energy-giver. at first we need to show our coupons but then later on it was free flow. the coupons are such a waste. and naf was so cute with her two plaits which one side is done by me and the other by syat. so, it wasn't propotionate.

malay dancers came in second in the inter-cca relay! yea. i'm so proud of everybody. so, there's me!, marina, khairi and JR. and as always,i'm the first runner. my hearing is good okay.lol.

see that pretty medal that mdm lim said they had spent more on it this time round. i think mdm suzi is even more excited about the race than us lah. before the race, she kept prompting us to run our best. so nice right?

3/5 may not have won any track events or games today but we did win the class flag award. :D

the words on the arrow is aim high when it actually is pointing to the middle. haha. but really i think our flag is outstanding compared to other classes. what colour is more attention grabbing than red? and see the clouds behind, it's so pretty.

i think the staff race is cute. the teachers only need to run a few metres, even lesser than 50m before passing on the baton. is this the right spelling? heck. i'm still waiting for syat to upload the class photo. and oh i think our school really have weird people. while quite a number skipped school and only came for spots carn., sm weirdo came to school and skipped sports carn.

yesterday, we received our results slip. i improve in everything! except forlanguages. but still, i'm a diamond. had parent-teacher meeting session and my parents sure did talk to mrs sin longer than the allocated time. nevermind, it's for my own good.

we also had phototaking yesterday. and i'm really pissed at her. firstly, our phototaking is at 10.30am but she did not release us. not only she has us waiting, she got her own class waiting for her. -.- wat really irritate me, she informed ms mok that our phototaking is during her lesson that got her nagging at us. nevermind naf, it's all about patience and endurance.

besides that, i was cheering for the wrong reason. i thought i would be standing, but considering the number of boys in our class are like polarbears, those sitting down are all girls. mrs sin is squashed between me and naf. lol. i'm accepting the fact that i'm short.

nice nice song from the spiderman3 track.

15th birthday

2007-05-22T21:32:00.000+08:00

i'm officially 15! sweet fifteen that is. 15 just seem the perfect age to be. don't you think so? and, thanks everybody who made my day :D thank you very much.

i think i will just keep the mug as a decoration in my room. it's too nice to be used. and thanks for the one week supply. haha.

i'm so glad my dad brought the whole family to Eatzi to have dinner. the steak was really tender. The chocolate mousse is so yummy and even the cheesecake and mango mousse was superb. naf, do the honour of counting the amount of calories here. lol.

besides that, school was such a blah. results after results after results. such a great way to celebrate a birthday. both my chem and bio have the same exact marks. good thing for a person who thinks she's going to flunk her bio. my mum kept on asking me on why i flunk my emath. sm careless mistakes and those questions that got me really blank, like duh. i kept on insisting to her that i just fail it, not flunk it. it makes a big different you see. from my SS paper, it's proven that i can't do source-based qns. i'm definitely going to be a diamond. the one that sparkles. :)

and malay dance after school was enlightening. first time i'm actually using that word to describe the practice. we reflected on the SYF and all though it's like a month ago. everybody, or at least i did have a good laugh at chickens. lol. you tell me, what do you think of one of the judges who actually referred us basket girls and stick boys. what is that suppose to mean? we use baskets as a prop but we're not basket girls.

talking about malay dance. the video that i've been waiting to be uploaded in youtube, is up at last. sorry for the blurred and unstable image.

today is another plain day. we've received our math holiday homework alr! -.- like wth. efl was all the way until 3pm, with break in between. i can't stand twit anymore. don't do any twit face or talk anymore twit to me, or i'll just ignore you. it's so irritating.

anugerah today is so funny. the guy contestants can't dance and they looked as if they are forced to do so. they are so kental lah.

haha. thanks salmah. i realised that mistake. it's actually chanbara and not some other apelling. guess i got the name mixed up.

and oh, i realised that i forgot to update about the sports heats last week. for sec3 girls, there were supposely to be 4 taking part in the 100m. but since, 1 didn't turn up, there were only 3, which mean it's confirm top3, as long as we complete the race. how pathetic. at least i came in 2nd and that's only a fluke.

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln.

live life to it's fullest. :D it's more than just academic and exams.

2007-05-18T22:54:00.000+08:00

1 more week to june holidays :)
kiss goodbye to mid years.

today, we did chabana, which is also known as focus stick. i've never even heard of that kind of martial art before. well, it was a new experience and quite fun , though it was a little bit quite retarded also. those who came to teach us were nice. i don't mind getting hit by the stick as it only leave a temporary pain.

yesterday was such a waste of time going to school. sudoku? graphic calculator? *yawns* and i'm asking myself why didn't i skip school. and i realised 'cos i wasn't allowed as i came back 1 hour late the day before after the supposed time for me to reach home. but hey, nevermind it's worth the fun :D and the bruise tht is turning blue black. i really don't know what's the cause of it, but i guess it's when i was cycling.

since wednesday was a holiday, went ecp with naf, effa, ben, asraf & si kai. oh yah, thanks naf for the donuts. i like the air the beach and btw, it's sea breeze, since it's in the afternoon. bloody geog, they tested on the topics i didn't focus on. walked for around half an hour to the nearest bicycle kiosk and we rented for two hours. we was even retarded-ly looking for four-leaves clover.

at the underpass

it's like having the whole beach to ourselves. i think thr's smt wrong with the bicycle seats tht naf & i took. it's damn narrow and our butts hurt. and i have a bee crossing my path. a bee, how pathetic. it's a good thing it wasn't squash under my bike's tyre. i want to learn how to do the drifting thing they did. but i knew better not to learn from unreliable ppl. lol. and i like the formation thing that we did. however, i really don't like getting boxed up. it's like being tortured to cycle faster. we even stopped by two jettys just to get some fresh air, but i only get the stinky smell of fish.

and oh, there was even a chirping sound following us around. effa thought it was bird following us, even i thought so. as we cycled, i srsly thought it was an owl making that sound. haha. until sky cycled beside me, that i realised that it was his bike after all. and he said smt like his bird will be the last one to chirp. lol.

we left the 2nd jetty just 7 mins to be exact before the rental hour is up. effa, asraf and ben went first and they're fast lah pls, while me and naf lagged behind with sky accompanying us. later on, went to the breakwater and waste time. they built the sand wall and it was really funny. we got hungry and went to eat at bk and only made our way back around 5 plus. kutu 853 never arrived even after we waited after more than 15 mins, that we ended up taking 76 to amk. the way back was waayyy slower. my mum was clearly not happy with me coming home late. phew, i was saved from the nagging. but the silent treatment sucks, really.

while on tuesday, was the last of paper, which was chemistry. i'm so glad that chem leave me with a good feeling for the exams. after that, we were supposedly to go sentosa, but the weather was obviously not on side, so we, as in effa, naf, kenn, azizan, ben and sikai went bowling. randomly separated ourselves and played 5 straight sets. i don't like being the last player 'cos the faith of the 'team' lies in your hands. the end scores was really close.

and oh, the past 2 weeks or is it 3 weeks. wells, after our english paper, went to macs to study with naf, then to kfc to eat, then to ljs to accompany ranjini who wants to eat there and lastly to bk to study again. lol it sounds retarded. we even saw ms tan who was eating at kfc, then study at bk. then, naf, effa and i just impromptu planned to go swimming at the swimming pool at naf's hse. :D

the pic i stole from naf's blog.

we played with a 20 cent coin. it's wonderful to know what a coin can do, besides spending it. we have to search for the coin and it was fun. and naf was really trying to torture me when she asked me to dip straight away into the really really hot jacuzzi tub. but it was a nice feeling after getting use to it.

I can't believe myself that i actually watched two movies during the past exam period. it's the most movies i've watched in the shortest time i can even remember. i should not be wasting money on movies, but really good movies are coming out. shrek 3 seems really cute.if my results shows that i've flunk each and every paper, i have something to blame besides myself.

Happy Mother's Day! mak, which was last Sunday. I love my mum so much :D though she's really angry at me for the other day. thanks to my dad who indirectly saved me.

2007-05-17T21:20:00.001+08:00

i hate the feeling of being lost :(

mid yrs are over

2007-05-16T08:54:00.000+08:00

I've been on undeclared hiatus. And since exams are over, i'm back updating. however, i will only put up a proper post soon, but not now obviously. wait until i get the events that have been going on organised. it's been two weeks since i last went online and i feel so deprive without the comp.

Happy holiday-ing for the day Andersonians. :)

banana pancakes is just a perfect breakfast to wake up to.