Wednesday, March 30, 2005

:: Manolo Blahniks ::

haha.. yeah, changed layout again.. just couldn't stand the last one.. it looked so wrong..

this tahm, i've got a Manolo Blahnik layout.. hope no one misunderstands me as a materialistic person, it's just that i like the shoe artwork they do.. yah lah, it's branded shoe.. i prefer them to Jimmy Choos too haha..

so, i'm quite happy with this new layout and am intending to keep it this way for quite awhile.. or at least until i find another picture i like.. also enlarged the font size for easier reading.. =) i notice most blogs now have puny font sizes that are quite hard to make out..

yay!! shoes!! =D

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4:02 PM

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

:: Those were the days... ::

hahahhaa nostalgia-ing again.. this time lets turn the clock back to an earlier period..

primary school.

primary school went by in a blur.. i was so young, so immature. some things i used to do seem so silly now.. but i remember those days vividly because i did some embarrassing things at that age.. fashion faux pas, bickering with classmates, "i don't friend you", being a prefect and hollering at latecomers, standing under a basketball hoop and LOOKING UP while my friend scored.. (my spectacle lenses came out) yes.. even peeing in my uniform.. you name it, i've done it.

what's so amazing about primary school was how thick-skinned i was. i guess we were less self-conscious then.. on the journey to self-discovery.. grappling for an identity we can call our own.. yet wanted to fit in and be like the crowd..

primary school was a time of 50cent noodles, scented erasers, magnetic pencil cases, sweet valley and babysitter club books, fashion disasters, french fries at the kopi tiam opp. the side gate, and parents picking kids up from school, maids gathering in school canteens and playgrounds gossiping..

yah. turning sailormoon cards from the machine... 20cent each... i get happy when the shiny ones roll out.. i still keep all of them.

primary school was a time of having to hold hands with your partner, walking in two lines, having to read a book during assembly, colourful bean bags during pe, relays during sports day, and a time when there were only 4 subjects. before PSLE, our form teacher made us swear: I will get 4 A*s for my PSLE, or else i shall choke on tofu.

primary school was a time of eco-gardens and shallow school ponds, hopscotch and zero-point during recess. once i was playing hopscotch, and as i hopped, i turned around to find my wallet missing.. (we use it to throw onto the boxes mah) this malay boy had stolen it and ran off.. i couldn't catch him. three years later, someone suddenly returned me the wallet, with no form of identification inside to indicate that it was mine.. it's really bizzare and mysterious. how did she know it belonged to me? how come it came back to me 3 years later, with only a haagen daiz membership card left inside? unsolved mystery...........

i remember much about my primary school years. those were memorable days indeed.

2:47 PM

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

i applied for SMU today.

they asked me for an extraordinary talent.

how do you define "extraordinary"? it means something special right? i understand that what they asked for was whether i had any significant achievements outside of academic results, like if i've won a Nobel prize, an Oscar or an Olympic gold medal and whatnot.

but alas, i didn't have any of those. but oh, how desperate i was to fill something into that box just cos i didn't like the idea of leaving it blank! i'd like to think that i have an extraordinary talent, because i think i am an extraordinary person! furthermore, an extraordinary talent doesn't have to be backed up by awards and certs! if the talent was extraordinary, they wouldn't get enough people to start a competition in the first place!

so i craaacked my head for anything that would come close enough.

singing? does 1st runner-up in TPJC Songfest count? if only i had joined Singapore Idol, that would have given me something to talk about.

blogging? i'm no xiaxue, and most of my friends who visit are slogging away in army.

puzzle bobble? oh no, i could never write that down either.

so in the end, i decided that i would write about......

how i can do impressions of cartoon characters from movies, and how i can memorise chunks of scripts and deliver them from the tips of my fingers, anytahm, anywhere.

i think SMU may very well call me up for an interview simply because they want to sample a minute of my demonstration, laugh themselves silly, and in the end brutally reject my application.

but hey, i find this talent extraordinary. and it took an extraordinary amount of pluck to write it down! i hope they appreciate humour, or i'm toast.

ohhhHHhh..... what have i done? >.<

2:10 AM

Friday, March 11, 2005

on this cloudy morning @ 7:30 AM....

*mum and jean goes jogging.*

*several junyuan pri sch students roaming around, staff crowding around center tent.*

apparently having sports day.

mum: *jog jog jog*
teacher: excuse me, we are having sports day.
mum: orh. [beat] what time does it start?
teacher: 7 am.
mum: orh. *snigger snigger*

why my alma mater become lidat ah?

5:12 AM

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

muahahahaha my Eager 4 Heaven blog layout is so nice! *buay tahan self* cut and paste and ta-dahhh, a self-concocted yet non-self-made backdrop.

i've always loved the forever friends' series.. nice illustrations.. my mum thinks the bear looks like a few lumps of butt cheeks piak-ed together though.. well, two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.

alternatively, the artists of the forever friends bears may be botero's disciples. haha.

7:41 AM

Thursday, March 03, 2005

helloo everybodieee.

i've set up a secondary blog chronicling my spiritual journey. basically, all my Christian-y posts will be posted there from now on. yay!

Eager 4 Heaven can be found here. check it out mannn. God bless! =)

3:07 AM

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

:: Nostalgia ::

As you can probably anticipate, here i am yakking away about my past again.

i was tidying up my room just now, sneezing terribly bcos of the dust, when i stumbled upon my stack of autograph books. it dawned on me that i had never written an autograph for anyone in JC, and the trend somehow became lost along the way. did people find it too childish to write an autograph? have our handphones and msn messengers guaranteed that we would not lose touch with one another? were we too busy mugging to write a note of gratitude for our friends? were we assuming that we would be hanging out with each other after the A's?

i think it was due to the mugging thing. i know it occupied my final jc days more than anything else. i scoffed at KT's remark when he said in the beginning of yr 1: "from now on, you can bid your social lives goodbye". though i still hung out with my friends during JC, and had quite an active social life, i only understand the full impact of his words today. despite being socially active for that two brief years, did we really leave anything behind us worth looking back at? do you vividly remember anything that happened during those two years, or have they gone by in the blink of an eye? what "social life" can you speak of where your jc days are concerned?

if i told myself honestly, i never really forged close bonds with many people in JC, especially with my classmates. i can only name a handful of people whom i can consider close friends that i made, some of whom are even ex-ahs people i didn't know before jc...... while the few others are mostly friends from tp choir.

before A's, i mostly mugged with my ahs friends. friends who were taking different subjects from me, friends from different JCs, friends just like myself who weren't often mugging with their classmates. (ok lah, mostly leslie and shaun. i know i phrased it like there were many of them. so melodramatic.)

after A's, i hung out with my ahs friends. (this one, got many.) as a matter of fact, i have never lost touch with them through my jc years. apart from the people i worked with, these were the friends i met for fun and joy and merrymaking. these were the friends i ran back to, to spend my hardest and easiest jc days with.

as i still try to decipher what all this means, i know that this is probably the reason why i wasn't really that happy in JC as compared to secondary school. i was plonked into an environment where i couldn't really bond with the people around me and engage in gut-to-gut conversation with them. maybe we all grew too old for gut-to-gut conversation anyway. in comparison, it made my days in ahs seem nothing short of pure bliss. it wasn't just the innocence and the friendship, but the WHOLE experience at ahs made my days there beautiful. it was also the teachers, the school culture, the buildings, the daily hill-trek, the school's explicit affinity with God, the choir and the atmosphere that made ahs feel like home. it is an attachment i can never put in words, but no matter what year it is, going back to ahs will always be a pleasure. and when the paths of two ex-ahs students cross in the future, i can be quite sure they'll click pretty darn well.

before my jc friends plunder their monitor in rage, i would like to say that i am also thankful for their friendship, and i'm sure they also have friends closer to them than i am. most importantly, i hope they can also relate to my sentiments. =)

as i return to TPJC to collect my results this friday (as rumoured), i will come across many faces i haven't seen in months, as they haven't seen me. obviously it applies to most of the guys, (who have been seeing green and grime for all weekdays) but also to the girls, whom i haven't been hanging out with. regrets? not at all. i'm not paying the price of lonliness now anyway, and i still treasure my friends, whether they're close to me or not.

sumo, out.
(it can't possibly sound more wrong.)

9:35 AM

Haha, a thousand apologies for flashing a Botero Butt at you for 4 days. hopefully this entry will be long enough to scroll it down.

went Pariss buffet last night with my aunt's family.. i think my mum has decided to let me to go San Fransisco with them!!! yay!!! i shall save up for the trip from now on.. =D then i can go to the factory outlet stores to get my Guess, Coach, Liz Caliborne, Levi's and CK at cheap cheap prices..

can't stand the pads downstairs.. they're still dropping from the sky. i must complain to town council already.

is the butt still there? is it? is it? i don't find anything wrong with it though.. it's a beautiful, smooth, creamy, surprisingly cellulite-free butt. =p

lemme go catch some Oscar action now.

3:29 AM

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