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Today, we had the first "Food Friday" ehehe. Me and Tikah only, though.
I started off with a Math Morning with Yanta.
Philosopher Tan pondering the complexities of life with his hashbrown.
The fabulous Chef Tan seasoning his... I don't even know what this is?
I was late, as usual. He wasn't even surprised anymore. This guy apparently seasons his jam-spread bread (buns?) with SALT. He says it's nice I can't even? One day I will regret these captions but HAHAHAHA Professor Tan in his element.
So I froze in McDonald's doing math with Tutor Tan while hearing my stomach grumble. I AM SO EXCITED??? Yanta said that if I get a distinction (A1 or A2) for my A. Math during the prelims he'll treat me to sushi!!! How can one not be motivated after that? And then when I told Rochele that she said she'll treat me to froyo if I do omg. This is so much motivation (why is it in the form of food) that I'm literally all pumped up for math! I should print out pictures of sushi and froyo to paste on my wall and motivate me when I'm down. But anyway, I was anticipating the start of Food Friday so much that I couldn't focus properly plus my stomach was like *le war cry*. But Yanta said something that made me un-hungry so that was good.
When it was finally 12.30nn, we left the dreary seats of ice to meet Atikah. Yanta was so relieved I couldn't stop laughing. "Spending too much time on a Saturday morning with Zinc is bad for health," he said. SATURDAY. Folks, I introduce you to your nerd neighbour. Study until the common sense part of the brain explode. Tsk. Anyway, we saw Bernice and her friend! She was so pretty how can someone be so pretty and have such un-mortal-like hair? Her hair is just. I look at it, I look at mine, I am sad. :( It's okay. I've a long way to go to achieve good hair.
Atikah and I almost couldn't make the trip to City Hall! We were complaining about how long it was ahhh hunger really makes a person crazy. When we reached there, we literally homed in on Sushi Express. We speed-walked with a purpose, man. To consume SUSHI. We were really terrified that the restaurant would be closed but it wasn't! Yayness :))
We were seated at the sub-belt seats. The ones on the left in the picture. It was kinda hot but I think it really felt like a Japanese sushi bar hahaha. I was shaking when we sat down because I was so excited HAHAHA. And... I grabbed 3 plates of sushi at one go. Ate some, and then remembered that I was supposed to take pictures for Rochele.
Angle angle filter filter. Haha. Their grilled (broiled?) salmon sushi is the best. I think half of what I ate consisted of that. They use an actual (mini?) flamethrower to grill it, and when they do, the aroma fills the whole restaurant. It was beautiful. I ate a lot! No regrets though. Now you will all find out for yourselves what I am like when there is sushi and I have money.
And I wasn't even finished. Oh, the plate on the top was the miso soup. Now, miso soup is fantastic on its own, but they really make a mean miso soup. I always get some whenever I go there.
I am a happy girl. Atikah ate so little omg made me feel so fat :( which I am HAHAH not the point but seriously.
A whole parade of salmon. Don't mind the camera quality!
I'm sure you can infer which stack is mine. Please don't make fun of me gosh but it was so good! 19 plates in total, the bill was $33.55, I think.
And the best part, was that we had even MORE food after that.
il Gelato de Bruno offers 24 flavours. They even have sugar-free, and vegan options. Must bring Karen here, they don't use milk! :)
There's nearly always an offer here! 2 (small) cups for $4.50. One scoop each. Atikah got mint and I got the... I don't even know? Carapino? Garapino? I can't remember... Sorry for the bad picture, a boy was insisting on smashing his face against the glass... I guess he was really eager for the gelato!
The green one's mint, obviously. The other one is mine. I'm practically salivating now as I type this, thinking of the gelato... Ah...
I said we needed to walk around to digest a bit hahaha. We were broke so we "window-shopped". We went into the Body Shop, though. Their strawberry body mist smells fantastic! I'm tempted to get one for me but I know I won't use it.
At 4, we finally left City Hall to go to my place. Karen joined us too! To make cheesecake :> I don't have a good picture of it now :( while we were waiting for the cheesecake to settle in the fridge, we watched the Princess Diaries. I love that movie. While watching the movie, I said that it should be Fat Friday instead, because we'd be fat after that. Fun, fun, fun, Oh wait. It should be Fun Friday! Haha. Oh, then the cheesecake took too long and they had to leave, they couldn't stay over. I was so sad that I called up 3 people to ask them to come over but, well, it was too late. It's okay. Alone time is good too, I used it to type up this post. Adios amigos :))
Labels: baking, cheesecake, food, food friday, friends, gelato, sushi
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We've been on so many choir trips lately! I wanted to blog about them but I didn't (obviously) so I shall now! The SOTA soundtest, the exchange at Temasek Secondary, and the latest, the "concert" at Christchurch Secondary! (so many articles in one sentence. I'm sure that's a grammar no-no.)
Gold Choir Exchange @ Temasek Sec:
We had the exchange on the 9th of March It really seems like ages ago yet not at the same time. So our conductor, Mr Lim, likes to have choir exchanges (he has 9 choirs wow overachiever HAHAHA). As the name implies, it was for Gold/Gold with Honours choirs. We were the only silver. He said we were the "underdogs". I think we did pretty badly though. We were the first choir up and we weren't good. Before that, when we entered the hall, he had us go up on stage to listen to us for a bit but he got fed up with us instead. :( Temasek was right there and he scolded us so badly. It's no wonder that we think he's biased towards them, right? Not that I wouldn't be either, they're always fantastic and we're either good or very bad. And he likes them a lot (obviously). At the end of it, he said we were okay. But, you know, some of us heard that some people in Temasek said that the thing was from the worst choir to the best. Which, in total honesty, is true, I mean, we're the only Silver choir there! And they were fantastic as usual. But there was no need to say it explicitly. Anyway, pictures! :))
In Temasek's toilet with Charmayne, Lercy. Liyan, Shu Qi and Natalie :)
We tried to take a troll picture I failed so terribly JUST LOOK AT ME. Natalie though... Looking fabu, gurl.
And then we took a nicer picture. Atikah looks nice here I think! I look............. beyond words.
With Karen, Atikah, Hong Jie, and Mae :> on the bus back. I like my hair!
SOTA Soundcheck:
We had our soundcheck on the 12th of March! Apparently we were right after Temasek... High expectations to live up to. But Mr Lim said we were good! All of us were so high after the soundcheck and we listened to our recording on the bus home... Stacy was even dancing. Not much to say, talked with Jermaine for a bit before the soundcheck, I really hope she gets to wherever she wants!
I look so weird here but :)
Blocked out but picture with some juniors and Natnat :D
Christchurch Secondary:
21st March. Also Calvin's birthday. We sang Happy Birthday to him the moment he stepped in (for a choir, we sang hideously). And then Natalie and Thad were chanting "taupok, taupok," and I was looking at them weirdly. And they thought I didn't support it BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS?? And then they told me. So apparently a "birthday bash" doesn't mean a party... Ouch.
I look ok here, Karyn's like all "DIS BE MA HOMIES" and Thad is just fabulously awkward when will I get used to this? ((never))
LOOK. NATALIE'S SHOWING TEETH. I look like I'm itching to start a fight HAHAHA but I needed to post this because Nat's TEETH.
Tikako and me :)) I lurb this picture of us ehehe.
Karyn, Cleo and me. Looks like my head popped out of Cleo's head ahahaha.
(Blogger truncated my post and I can't be arsed to retype.)
Labels: choir, general updates
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The last March holidays I'll have. I feel so old. Just talked with Karyn, gosh, she's gonna be sec 3 next year and I FEEL SO OLD. Is this how my mum feels watching me grow up?
Anyways. My March holidays was fun! I really let myself relax. I don't feel as stressed as before. It's both a bad and good thing. But I'm gonna treasure what relaxation I had because O LEVELS IS IN 207 DAYS.
Over the weekend I cleaned my room... I couldn't take it anymore. It's amazing how messy I can get. And how fast. I took a picture and I was horrified by my own room hahaha but I don't have it anymore, cleaned up my whatsapp photos too.
So then on Monday we had our mock exams. Gosh I nearly blanked out in the middle of it. I thought, “what if this were the O's?" and I freaked out. I don't think I did too well. need to brush up on my continuous writing because my arguments are so shallow I don't even believe myself. After that I think I slacked around a bit and then went home. Packed to stay over at Anne's! I'm the worst packer, I brought so much shit and Anne was like, are you packing for a camp? >.> had so much fun slacking at her house! I felt so guilty though, because we were supposed to study but we ended up slacking, We made Shepherd's Pie on Monday and had pancakes for breakfast on Tuesday. It was so good!! I foresee me making more of it in the future.
We finally got the take-home pack of froyo after eyeing it for so long. It was expensive but sooooo good. It's bigger than my head in this picture hahaha.
I think this was one of the few moments in my life where I "camwhored" with a friend.
The story behind this is that we were arguing over who had the longest hair. And this picture says that it's me. BUT I DISAGREE! LOOK AT HER HAIR! It's so beautiful :') hahahaha.
We pretty much did nothing except eat, sleep and watch movies. I'm serious. But it was really relaxing hahaha.
The next three days I had choir. It was really tiring! I feel like we don't accomplish much because at every single pause we just have to break into chatters and Mr Lim is really busy so he always gets calls and whatnot. On Thursday we had an exchange at Christchurch... Before that I finally went to Atiikah's house! Kimi is so kawaii hahahaha. We took crazy lots of pictures at Christchurch Sec! Mr Lim said we're getting better :) though if Temasek were there we'd be skewered and roasted HA HA HA no. On Friday, Atikah, Karyn and Natalie came over and we made cookies :)) they were so good but so bad... Oh, I think I'll have a separate post for choir stuff! Too much to say, and too many pictures to spam. Even though many of them were super blur and there was the ever-awkward Thaddaeus.
It seems like nothing much happened but I didn't even have a moment of proper spare time during the holidays, I don't understand this. Labels: appreciation, choir, crazy friends, happy, holiday, picture post, time flies
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“Genius itself is not en règle; it comes into the world to make new rules."
~ George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Labels: quote
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
~ Epicurus
Taking a moment to appreciate what I have achieved and what I am now capable of. I may not be the best, but I don't need to be the best. All I need to do is be the best me I can be. From consistently failing amath to getting a C5, an A2 in emath, B3 for chem from my C6, I am glad.
Labels: appreciation, motivation, quote
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I'm gonna be so busy this weekend :( English compo, chemistry worksheets, history, math... I feel like I forgot something.
We got our CA1 marks back today!! A1 for English, I could kiss the slip. A2 for emaths! Shocking. B3 for everything else (sad) and C5 for amaths. Improvement, D7 to C5. My L1R5 is 17 and L1R4 12. Not very good, but not too bad. I improved, but this isn't accurate. I must get A2 for everything by prelims. Must must must. Think my English really can't make it to A1 for O's, but I shall aim optimistically. Imagine if I got these results for O levels omg I'd cry. Okay, not really. I wouldn't be sad or happy. My L1R4 must improve by 4. Must.
Practised the set piece with Atikah after AP today :) it went okay. I could do with more practice. Waited for her to finish her AP and we went to Ikea for the meatballs. 10 for $1 heh. I bought four candles at Ikea! Chocolate, cinnamon rolls and two other unidentifiable but sweet smelling ones. $11.80 in total. I'm gonna have sweet smelling dreams :)
Gold choir exchange with 12 choirs tomorrow :/ it's not gonna be fun...........................
Labels: CA, results
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Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank. It's name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Treasure every moment that you have, treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Labels: motivation
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Laughter is the best medicine.
Labels: picture post, quote
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Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future,
Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.
~ Rumi
Time flies, but don't look back. Carpe diem.
Labels: motivation, quote
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Lately I've been feeling quite down in the dumps. That's why I haven't been blogging much, what's the point of a motivation blog that's all sad and depressing?
I've really been thinking a lot lately, and that's not really a good thing where I'm concerned. Definitely feeling the stress. I don't look it, but I'm screaming inside. 11 S2s for SYF, I don't know how we'll cope. We could barely have been heard as it was. Then again, Mr Lim did purge out the rather soft ones. I'm not saying they're bad, because I would have said they were in the past, but I've seen plenty of improvement in them, so they aren't bad. Definitely not. In my honest opinion, I believe that they're the ones who practise the most. Other than Wee Nee, I think. I'm very frustrated because I feel a need to tell them off but it's not my place, definitely not my place. I'm equivalent to a sec 2 in choir, but less. They're all fantastically talented. I'm not. But don't they want a Distinction? They all said they did. I personally feel if we do our utmost best, it doesn't matter where we go. If we get Distinction this year, I'm not sure how I'd feel. I feel so responsible for the section not being as good as the other sections because I suck so bad. I'm betting the socks on my feet that Mr Lim only kept me on because I blast. I'm really trying, but I never have a conducive environment for practising, especially because I seem fine by myself, but with the other sections... Well. Also feeling rather ugh at myself because I can only sing 2 octaves.
Bio has also been on my mind a lot lately. Not just because of the upcoming SPA, but because of my marks on a recent test. 33/50 is not good. I've recently realised that I'm not as stupid as I thought I was. If I managed to get the scores I did last year when I didn't take my studies seriously, I can do better if I do. Here's to hoping March will bring me to understand the complexities of Chemistry so much better. Rethinking my poly course as well, since it's rather Chemistry-heavy and Chemistry is one of the things I struggle with. Due to the small details I need to memorise, I think. I'm better with a big picture of noticeable details than everything at once. I think Mrs Kang is disappointed in me even though she doesn't show it.
Chemistry is not difficult.
Chemistry is fun.
Chemistry is a friend.
(End: propaganda)
I really must buck up on Bio. Been neglecting it for amaths, as many of my friends know. (Not that I have many. Oho. Wordplay?) I think April will be bio month. May will be humanities and June amaths again. July and August humanities, September emath, October full steam revision. The year is really very short. I feel like I've wasted so much time, which is true, but also not because I've done a lot on amath. I've also come to like trigo better.
Life isn't its best, but I am content with what I have.
Everyone knows of fantastic Thomas Edison tale where he failed to make a lightbulb *insert a fantastic number here* times, but continued until he found a way to make the lightbulb. The point of telling you this is to repeat what he said.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
I've always found this a good way to look at things, but only lately have I employed this outlook. Every single time I fail to produce my desired outcome, I am motivated to try again, thinking, “Okay, so I can't do it this way,". We are constantly learning. It's only whether we process them and classify them as “learning" or not.
Labels: choir, motivation, olevels
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Today, we had the first "Food Friday" ehehe. Me and Tikah only, though.
I started off with a Math Morning with Yanta.
Philosopher Tan pondering the complexities of life with his hashbrown.
The fabulous Chef Tan seasoning his... I don't even know what this is?
I was late, as usual. He wasn't even surprised anymore. This guy apparently seasons his jam-spread bread (buns?) with SALT. He says it's nice I can't even? One day I will regret these captions but HAHAHAHA Professor Tan in his element.
So I froze in McDonald's doing math with Tutor Tan while hearing my stomach grumble. I AM SO EXCITED??? Yanta said that if I get a distinction (A1 or A2) for my A. Math during the prelims he'll treat me to sushi!!! How can one not be motivated after that? And then when I told Rochele that she said she'll treat me to froyo if I do omg. This is so much motivation (why is it in the form of food) that I'm literally all pumped up for math! I should print out pictures of sushi and froyo to paste on my wall and motivate me when I'm down. But anyway, I was anticipating the start of Food Friday so much that I couldn't focus properly plus my stomach was like *le war cry*. But Yanta said something that made me un-hungry so that was good.
When it was finally 12.30nn, we left the dreary seats of ice to meet Atikah. Yanta was so relieved I couldn't stop laughing. "Spending too much time on a Saturday morning with Zinc is bad for health," he said. SATURDAY. Folks, I introduce you to your nerd neighbour. Study until the common sense part of the brain explode. Tsk. Anyway, we saw Bernice and her friend! She was so pretty how can someone be so pretty and have such un-mortal-like hair? Her hair is just. I look at it, I look at mine, I am sad. :( It's okay. I've a long way to go to achieve good hair.
Atikah and I almost couldn't make the trip to City Hall! We were complaining about how long it was ahhh hunger really makes a person crazy. When we reached there, we literally homed in on Sushi Express. We speed-walked with a purpose, man. To consume SUSHI. We were really terrified that the restaurant would be closed but it wasn't! Yayness :))
We were seated at the sub-belt seats. The ones on the left in the picture. It was kinda hot but I think it really felt like a Japanese sushi bar hahaha. I was shaking when we sat down because I was so excited HAHAHA. And... I grabbed 3 plates of sushi at one go. Ate some, and then remembered that I was supposed to take pictures for Rochele.
Angle angle filter filter. Haha. Their grilled (broiled?) salmon sushi is the best. I think half of what I ate consisted of that. They use an actual (mini?) flamethrower to grill it, and when they do, the aroma fills the whole restaurant. It was beautiful. I ate a lot! No regrets though. Now you will all find out for yourselves what I am like when there is sushi and I have money.
And I wasn't even finished. Oh, the plate on the top was the miso soup. Now, miso soup is fantastic on its own, but they really make a mean miso soup. I always get some whenever I go there.
I am a happy girl. Atikah ate so little omg made me feel so fat :( which I am HAHAH not the point but seriously.
A whole parade of salmon. Don't mind the camera quality!
I'm sure you can infer which stack is mine. Please don't make fun of me gosh but it was so good! 19 plates in total, the bill was $33.55, I think.
And the best part, was that we had even MORE food after that.
il Gelato de Bruno offers 24 flavours. They even have sugar-free, and vegan options. Must bring Karen here, they don't use milk! :)
There's nearly always an offer here! 2 (small) cups for $4.50. One scoop each. Atikah got mint and I got the... I don't even know? Carapino? Garapino? I can't remember... Sorry for the bad picture, a boy was insisting on smashing his face against the glass... I guess he was really eager for the gelato!
The green one's mint, obviously. The other one is mine. I'm practically salivating now as I type this, thinking of the gelato... Ah...
I said we needed to walk around to digest a bit hahaha. We were broke so we "window-shopped". We went into the Body Shop, though. Their strawberry body mist smells fantastic! I'm tempted to get one for me but I know I won't use it.
At 4, we finally left City Hall to go to my place. Karen joined us too! To make cheesecake :> I don't have a good picture of it now :( while we were waiting for the cheesecake to settle in the fridge, we watched the Princess Diaries. I love that movie. While watching the movie, I said that it should be Fat Friday instead, because we'd be fat after that. Fun, fun, fun, Oh wait. It should be Fun Friday! Haha. Oh, then the cheesecake took too long and they had to leave, they couldn't stay over. I was so sad that I called up 3 people to ask them to come over but, well, it was too late. It's okay. Alone time is good too, I used it to type up this post. Adios amigos :))
Labels: baking, cheesecake, food, food friday, friends, gelato, sushi
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We've been on so many choir trips lately! I wanted to blog about them but I didn't (obviously) so I shall now! The SOTA soundtest, the exchange at Temasek Secondary, and the latest, the "concert" at Christchurch Secondary! (so many articles in one sentence. I'm sure that's a grammar no-no.)
Gold Choir Exchange @ Temasek Sec:
We had the exchange on the 9th of March It really seems like ages ago yet not at the same time. So our conductor, Mr Lim, likes to have choir exchanges (he has 9 choirs wow overachiever HAHAHA). As the name implies, it was for Gold/Gold with Honours choirs. We were the only silver. He said we were the "underdogs". I think we did pretty badly though. We were the first choir up and we weren't good. Before that, when we entered the hall, he had us go up on stage to listen to us for a bit but he got fed up with us instead. :( Temasek was right there and he scolded us so badly. It's no wonder that we think he's biased towards them, right? Not that I wouldn't be either, they're always fantastic and we're either good or very bad. And he likes them a lot (obviously). At the end of it, he said we were okay. But, you know, some of us heard that some people in Temasek said that the thing was from the worst choir to the best. Which, in total honesty, is true, I mean, we're the only Silver choir there! And they were fantastic as usual. But there was no need to say it explicitly. Anyway, pictures! :))
In Temasek's toilet with Charmayne, Lercy. Liyan, Shu Qi and Natalie :)
We tried to take a troll picture I failed so terribly JUST LOOK AT ME. Natalie though... Looking fabu, gurl.
And then we took a nicer picture. Atikah looks nice here I think! I look............. beyond words.
With Karen, Atikah, Hong Jie, and Mae :> on the bus back. I like my hair!
SOTA Soundcheck:
We had our soundcheck on the 12th of March! Apparently we were right after Temasek... High expectations to live up to. But Mr Lim said we were good! All of us were so high after the soundcheck and we listened to our recording on the bus home... Stacy was even dancing. Not much to say, talked with Jermaine for a bit before the soundcheck, I really hope she gets to wherever she wants!
I look so weird here but :)
Blocked out but picture with some juniors and Natnat :D
Christchurch Secondary:
21st March. Also Calvin's birthday. We sang Happy Birthday to him the moment he stepped in (for a choir, we sang hideously). And then Natalie and Thad were chanting "taupok, taupok," and I was looking at them weirdly. And they thought I didn't support it BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS?? And then they told me. So apparently a "birthday bash" doesn't mean a party... Ouch.
I look ok here, Karyn's like all "DIS BE MA HOMIES" and Thad is just fabulously awkward when will I get used to this? ((never))
LOOK. NATALIE'S SHOWING TEETH. I look like I'm itching to start a fight HAHAHA but I needed to post this because Nat's TEETH.
Tikako and me :)) I lurb this picture of us ehehe.
Karyn, Cleo and me. Looks like my head popped out of Cleo's head ahahaha.
(Blogger truncated my post and I can't be arsed to retype.)
Labels: choir, general updates
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The last March holidays I'll have. I feel so old. Just talked with Karyn, gosh, she's gonna be sec 3 next year and I FEEL SO OLD. Is this how my mum feels watching me grow up?
Anyways. My March holidays was fun! I really let myself relax. I don't feel as stressed as before. It's both a bad and good thing. But I'm gonna treasure what relaxation I had because O LEVELS IS IN 207 DAYS.
Over the weekend I cleaned my room... I couldn't take it anymore. It's amazing how messy I can get. And how fast. I took a picture and I was horrified by my own room hahaha but I don't have it anymore, cleaned up my whatsapp photos too.
So then on Monday we had our mock exams. Gosh I nearly blanked out in the middle of it. I thought, “what if this were the O's?" and I freaked out. I don't think I did too well. need to brush up on my continuous writing because my arguments are so shallow I don't even believe myself. After that I think I slacked around a bit and then went home. Packed to stay over at Anne's! I'm the worst packer, I brought so much shit and Anne was like, are you packing for a camp? >.> had so much fun slacking at her house! I felt so guilty though, because we were supposed to study but we ended up slacking, We made Shepherd's Pie on Monday and had pancakes for breakfast on Tuesday. It was so good!! I foresee me making more of it in the future.
We finally got the take-home pack of froyo after eyeing it for so long. It was expensive but sooooo good. It's bigger than my head in this picture hahaha.
I think this was one of the few moments in my life where I "camwhored" with a friend.
The story behind this is that we were arguing over who had the longest hair. And this picture says that it's me. BUT I DISAGREE! LOOK AT HER HAIR! It's so beautiful :') hahahaha.
We pretty much did nothing except eat, sleep and watch movies. I'm serious. But it was really relaxing hahaha.
The next three days I had choir. It was really tiring! I feel like we don't accomplish much because at every single pause we just have to break into chatters and Mr Lim is really busy so he always gets calls and whatnot. On Thursday we had an exchange at Christchurch... Before that I finally went to Atiikah's house! Kimi is so kawaii hahahaha. We took crazy lots of pictures at Christchurch Sec! Mr Lim said we're getting better :) though if Temasek were there we'd be skewered and roasted HA HA HA no. On Friday, Atikah, Karyn and Natalie came over and we made cookies :)) they were so good but so bad... Oh, I think I'll have a separate post for choir stuff! Too much to say, and too many pictures to spam. Even though many of them were super blur and there was the ever-awkward Thaddaeus.
It seems like nothing much happened but I didn't even have a moment of proper spare time during the holidays, I don't understand this. Labels: appreciation, choir, crazy friends, happy, holiday, picture post, time flies
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“Genius itself is not en règle; it comes into the world to make new rules."
~ George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Labels: quote
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
~ Epicurus
Taking a moment to appreciate what I have achieved and what I am now capable of. I may not be the best, but I don't need to be the best. All I need to do is be the best me I can be. From consistently failing amath to getting a C5, an A2 in emath, B3 for chem from my C6, I am glad.
Labels: appreciation, motivation, quote
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I'm gonna be so busy this weekend :( English compo, chemistry worksheets, history, math... I feel like I forgot something.
We got our CA1 marks back today!! A1 for English, I could kiss the slip. A2 for emaths! Shocking. B3 for everything else (sad) and C5 for amaths. Improvement, D7 to C5. My L1R5 is 17 and L1R4 12. Not very good, but not too bad. I improved, but this isn't accurate. I must get A2 for everything by prelims. Must must must. Think my English really can't make it to A1 for O's, but I shall aim optimistically. Imagine if I got these results for O levels omg I'd cry. Okay, not really. I wouldn't be sad or happy. My L1R4 must improve by 4. Must.
Practised the set piece with Atikah after AP today :) it went okay. I could do with more practice. Waited for her to finish her AP and we went to Ikea for the meatballs. 10 for $1 heh. I bought four candles at Ikea! Chocolate, cinnamon rolls and two other unidentifiable but sweet smelling ones. $11.80 in total. I'm gonna have sweet smelling dreams :)
Gold choir exchange with 12 choirs tomorrow :/ it's not gonna be fun...........................
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Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank. It's name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Treasure every moment that you have, treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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Laughter is the best medicine.
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Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future,
Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.
~ Rumi
Time flies, but don't look back. Carpe diem.
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Lately I've been feeling quite down in the dumps. That's why I haven't been blogging much, what's the point of a motivation blog that's all sad and depressing?
I've really been thinking a lot lately, and that's not really a good thing where I'm concerned. Definitely feeling the stress. I don't look it, but I'm screaming inside. 11 S2s for SYF, I don't know how we'll cope. We could barely have been heard as it was. Then again, Mr Lim did purge out the rather soft ones. I'm not saying they're bad, because I would have said they were in the past, but I've seen plenty of improvement in them, so they aren't bad. Definitely not. In my honest opinion, I believe that they're the ones who practise the most. Other than Wee Nee, I think. I'm very frustrated because I feel a need to tell them off but it's not my place, definitely not my place. I'm equivalent to a sec 2 in choir, but less. They're all fantastically talented. I'm not. But don't they want a Distinction? They all said they did. I personally feel if we do our utmost best, it doesn't matter where we go. If we get Distinction this year, I'm not sure how I'd feel. I feel so responsible for the section not being as good as the other sections because I suck so bad. I'm betting the socks on my feet that Mr Lim only kept me on because I blast. I'm really trying, but I never have a conducive environment for practising, especially because I seem fine by myself, but with the other sections... Well. Also feeling rather ugh at myself because I can only sing 2 octaves.
Bio has also been on my mind a lot lately. Not just because of the upcoming SPA, but because of my marks on a recent test. 33/50 is not good. I've recently realised that I'm not as stupid as I thought I was. If I managed to get the scores I did last year when I didn't take my studies seriously, I can do better if I do. Here's to hoping March will bring me to understand the complexities of Chemistry so much better. Rethinking my poly course as well, since it's rather Chemistry-heavy and Chemistry is one of the things I struggle with. Due to the small details I need to memorise, I think. I'm better with a big picture of noticeable details than everything at once. I think Mrs Kang is disappointed in me even though she doesn't show it.
Chemistry is not difficult.
Chemistry is fun.
Chemistry is a friend.
(End: propaganda)
I really must buck up on Bio. Been neglecting it for amaths, as many of my friends know. (Not that I have many. Oho. Wordplay?) I think April will be bio month. May will be humanities and June amaths again. July and August humanities, September emath, October full steam revision. The year is really very short. I feel like I've wasted so much time, which is true, but also not because I've done a lot on amath. I've also come to like trigo better.
Life isn't its best, but I am content with what I have.
Everyone knows of fantastic Thomas Edison tale where he failed to make a lightbulb *insert a fantastic number here* times, but continued until he found a way to make the lightbulb. The point of telling you this is to repeat what he said.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
I've always found this a good way to look at things, but only lately have I employed this outlook. Every single time I fail to produce my desired outcome, I am motivated to try again, thinking, “Okay, so I can't do it this way,". We are constantly learning. It's only whether we process them and classify them as “learning" or not.
Labels: choir, motivation, olevels
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Zinc Tan
Singapore Polytechnic
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I like Japanese culture, TV, books, food, and photography.
We write to taste life twice ~ Anaïs Nin
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