went to red rain's rock concert today!
for the ignorant, they're a Christian band from NZ & AHHH THEY ABSOLUTELY RAWK!
& e following days shall be busy so im not certain i'll be blogging. but i'll try! =) if you're reading this, li-en, im watching A WALK TO REMEMBER again, & embarassingly, im gushing out tears like my nose spews out water when my sinus acts up the same time i get a cold. im certain im the wimpiest person alive who cries in nearly every movie i watch. e movie i havent cried in so far i think, would be sky high or something. yeah, i actually even weep when i watch chick flicks. grr, so dignified.
LI-EN, IN THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT, LANDON WAS GOING TO GET REMARRIED. thank goodness they changed it.
i'll scan in a pic of my ticket & e tee i bought sometime, when im boliao and not lazy. =)
i was green-ed at 12:25 am
Saturday, May 27
Often, in the midst of gravest cares, after a day of struggle against the whole diplomacy of the continent, he retired at evening into his apartment, and there, exhausted with fatigue, bowed down with sleep, what did he do? He took a bundle of documents, and passed the night in reviewing a criminal prosecution, feeling that it was something to make head against Europe, but that it was a much grander thing still to save a man from the executioner.
a weak, cowardly king, perhaps. but an honourable one, nevertheless. in his own right, he was admirable, but they found fault in everything he did, from his choice of wife to his inability to control the clergy. he truly loved his people and country, and what more can we ask for an involuntary, incapable ruler?
ladida. i feel strangely free. light. like there's nothing on my shoulders, when i know theres a gazillion things i'm meant to do. random things i got from reading the papers and SSO concert booklet just now:
- international book expo at suntec next week!
- linlaoshi ( my chinese lit teacher ) is on the papers as one of e 'inspiring chinese teachers' awardees!
- aung san suu kyi's metal barbed fence is being torn down as i type this, and she might be set free soon!
- there're about 10 or so concerts that sound interesting so on average i'd be going for one concert a month, if one includes non-sso performances!
- there's this downloading programme thingum, $2 per song, you buy like valued cards at popular w/ password & stuff.
- im wonderfully blessed =)
watching grease tonight! hope it'll be fun, my dad wanted me to go because he felt i needed to understand the popular things of HIS time! ahahaha.
i was green-ed at 10:23 am
Wednesday, May 24
is the communal art.
needs no study of instruments
nor knowledge of note-reading
nor a canary's voice to enjoy.
doesn't mean concert halls of grandeur
nor ballrooms aplomb with crystal
nor backstreet alleys with graffiti.
is the pattering rain on ground
the whooshing of the waves breaking over sand
the drone of the driller.
is the child giggling when tickled
the chirping of the cuckoo
the chants from the monks of all faiths.
forces the smile tugging on your lips
the tears from your eyes
the impulse for your feet to move along
your hands to clap.
is the merry chanting of working farmers
the family carolling on Christmas eve
the olympic gold medallist singing his national anthem
is the most powerful thing on our planet.
doesn't recognise country or skin colour
is life.
i was green-ed at 10:50 pm
Monday, May 22
no music today! so after sabbats, went off to esplanade with lishin! ate a dome-thingum, e really nice one @ breadtalk, then showed lishin around the uber-expensive shops at esplanade, treated her to mrs field's cookies/brownies/muffins! which were great. didnt have time to drink milkshakes at e library though.
managed to photocopy some of e piano diploma scores! really nice =) will go put them in e file later. then also photocopied three entire marimba books, double-sided & all so they can be binded all nicely. whee! i <3 color="#000000">library@esplanade. although the piano & keyboard percussion section is e only place i zero in on to. ahaha not e point!
the two types of people who piss me off to the nth degree
1) ahaha. jayne would know about this one! =) have complained to you about it a lot of times. thank goodness you dont do it. anyways. i cant stand it when people complain and whine about having too much stress, too many things on, no time. look, we all have a choice in life. you cant take the stress, you drop 3rd lang or something, or find a slack cca. & i think we should all remember that everyone is just as busy, if not more busy than we are and NOBODY has a right to complain.
2) i dont like it when people act poor. as in poor as in kelian. like talk about how other people are rich and can afford this and that when they cant. may i say - what utter bull. see your many blessings and count them one by one.
okay shall change topic now. am thinking of finding a cell group to join, i think itll really help me in everything i do? asked my mum about it, she said i can if i truly want to, but she doesn't want my grades slipping. sigh. i really need to start studying. the fact that i got an average A1 through the skin of my teeth for CA marks (75 on the dot) should really remind me that i NEED TO STUDY YOH! as in i only studied for maths and physics in semester 1, & maybe thats why i did okayly. if i've studied for chinese i might've gotten 1 more mark to make an A2, darnnit.
no more talking about marks! yes. too depressing. time coordination.
haven't been blogging for so long i cant talk properly! lol. my marimba came on saturday and its absolutely gorgeous, but the mallets they gave me are wrong - glockenspiel ones. so e marimba sound's ambience is completely lost kuz bell mallets are plastic, not yarn, & are much harder, so e sound they produce are much more ... unmarimbaish.
teehee. anyways! have a nice day. will try to blog again tomorrow! & oh. im having a fetish for disney princess movies! my goodness. yeah. its e effect of playing disney princess series uno cards. ariel, mulan, pocahontas, jasmine, belle, aurora, cinderella, snow white! technically i only like the first five, whees. wanted to watch 'the new world' or was it? some movie thats pocahontas, in human-actor form. yes. shall go watch it some day. dvds out already.
GAH IM SPEAKING SO BROKENLY.
i was green-ed at 9:50 pm
Saturday, May 13
watched pride and prejudice, we did. heh. then i bought some unknown whiteandpurple flowers for ma for mother's day and to apologise for being an arse. gave them to her when i got back and all she said was dont disturb me and went back to sleep, but im forgiven and thats good. =) dinner at ubin seafood, then we went to take pics @ e merlion, and went up mt faber but hardly saw anything, & went home dead beat.
today woke up, went to orchard! first to john little's where they were having a sale, i bought jeans! which i havent worn since forever. and yay they're quite pretty jeans. after a long time dillydallying, we went to limefleamarket and bought random bits of rubbish then ate, went to bukit timah to eat chinchow, and back home. i went for guzheng and came back, practiced piano for an hour, showered and HERE I AM NOW!
so anyways. zhuanglaoshi said we can all go for guzheng exam grade 4 next march! which's quite kool but it does add on a flurry of problems. kuz my piano dip will be in march too, so i'll be really busy first quarter of next year. and if i want to do LDP, which i do, very badly, im gonna get seriously stressed out because ldp is mainly first four months too. SNIFF. if only -
aiyah. shall not worry. shall think of happier things. like how i got coldmountain for three bucks today. NYAHAHAHAHA. oh erm btw, anyone interested in going for NJC's guzheng concert on march 25th, tickets at 8 bucks? =)
i was green-ed at 7:02 pm
Friday, May 12
have found a new way to destress. listening to international fm 96.3 between 5 - 9pm, when they have the music interlude thing, really works. =)
i was green-ed at 7:15 pm
Thursday, May 11
you've known me for more than 15 years, do you still not know that i dont show love by smiling or i love yous or hugs or kisses. that i am freaking incapable of showing love in any way and that im already trying? that the reason i stress myself out and want to excel in everything is because thats my way of showing my love for you - to make you proud. why dont you understand the reason i sleep 4-5 hours a day (more than enough for some people, but i reckon i need 12 hrs a day) is not because i want to rebel or act cool but because i AM a slow worker but i try to complete my work on time and fit in other things as well. why cant you see how hard im trying and stop picking on my faults?
im sorry, but it hurts. and you wont ever know that.
i was green-ed at 10:34 pm
anyways, today was really quite a piss-off day, considering pn being absolutely URGHish and dood, he NEVER ever checks our socks or name tags or skirt length, then today, suddenly came around and got grumpy. so he ticked off everybody whose socks he claimed he couldn't see. (which includes me) and which i also think is very unfair. because yes, my socks are low, but so are my shoes, which means if you lower yourself a bit you can see the NYGH clear and obvious. gah. & so he sent off to an email (to our parents) and even said he's SICK OF TELLING US TIME AFTER TIME and we're like blink blink. really?! when he never mentioned or hinted about it. not even a 'pull up your socks'. grsh. anyways, its not like ma and pa will care. they see me wear my socks almost everyday and they dont give any comment. and we dont get demerit points by having low socks, especially not if the NYGH is clearly there for the rest of the world to see.
and i dont think it was right of him to say our out-of-school activities might affect our marks. (refers to ronnie) maybe he should understand that some of us simply dont care about the subject.
and SPA. haha im doomed for chem larh. am quite surprised to realise that i dont really care. i mean, chem is absolutely not one of my priorities right now. maybe it was at the start of the year, but things change, whether its the subject topics, the method of teaching, the expectations, the test formats, the teacher. and now i dont hate it exactly, but i like it no more. i think chem is too much overanalysing. why do we want to what direction electrons spin in? or what the properties of magnesium oxide are? or stuff like covalent ionic and whatnot bonding. it doesnt help us in our lives, at all. what, the world is dying and you're there magnifying something that is so tiny and pointless?
now think physics. its a completely different world, equations, diagrams, solid facts. nuclear power is physics. creating things to promote safety, stuff like sunblock lotion. physics! a leaf falling when the rain hits it, or when the wind blows, is physics. the chubby child on the swing set is physics. everything is physics. and tbh is a rawkass teacher who's very kool. might be saying this because i comparatively do better for physics than chem, but the reason i do better is because i study for the tests, while i barely touch my chem stuff (except to read through it in the free period before chem. nyah!). and the fact that i bother studying means i care about it. and yay anyways physics is <3ed. color="#009900">my list of priorities as follows, as in time allocation.
1. God/church/etc
2. time with family! - bowling, tv, sitting around, tennis
3. friends!
4. practicing piano
5. academics
6. cca
whee :) soon marimba should overtake academics. heh.
academic subjects priorities as follows:
1. physics
2. maths
3. music
4. chinese
5. chinese lit
6. chem
7. langarts
8. ih
WHEE!
aiyah the only reason i shall stick with chem in jc is kuz i'll need if i want to go into engineering, which i do. have thought about accountancy, but if i do take accountancy, itll mean giving up physics and that is too much pain to bear. =D
csm tomorrow! much slack and hanging around doing nothing. hahahaha lovely week in general, minus pn pissing me off. popo & alicia came on monday and they're leaving tomorrow, so we had dinner with a few random relations today at crystal jade, toa payoh hdb hub. then tomorrow night kehshin-jie and li-shin-jie are coming! hahahaha things rawk. will go to limefleamarket on saturday!
and the 27-28th may limefleamarket is gonna be so kool. theme's on sports and wellness so i can go hunt racquets and see if they have head nano titanium s4! :) and stuff like tees. whee! oh talking about that, im gonna watch GREASE with pa on the 27th, he says i need to appreciate his generation's theatre! and im like er okay but it should be fun larh! and on 28th im going with jayne to watch RED RAIN's concert! yep i got tickets already, its free and they're a pretty kool Christian rock band. yay cant wait!
i was green-ed at 12:15 am
Monday, May 8
thusly i decided to embark upon e journey of reading a truly lit-teacher-approved-book, LES MISERABLES! and i finally understand what i've been missing - im only done with like 10 pages or so, the font is SMALL and the books are thick (comes in 2 volumes) but its really one of the best books i've read so far - each character, each story, and hugo is so ... philosophical and wise! haha. really rawks. AHH ITS SO GOOD.
but itll take me until e end of year of finish, judging by my current rate. i've even highlighted wonderful quotes inside e book and whee here's one i felt was prettay:
Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes Evil.
yay french lit is much harths. shall go find lady of the camellias and count of monte cristo and hunchback of notre dame. YAYERS. i've read them in either abridged versions or chinese translations, but they lose much of e meaning and all the really kool quotations from deep within. so yeah. =)
i was green-ed at 8:42 pm
Sunday, May 7
so piglet came along and extended its hand, said: "hi, i'm piglet!"
shaking piglets hand, wong pok too replied by saying, "hi, i'm pok too!"
read it out if you dont get e joke. got me cracking =)
i was green-ed at 8:33 pm
Friday, May 5
with time, it can create the best artwork
but once the rain pours
it's washed away.
(perfect, wangrong.)
okay yes, so that was my meagre attempt at translating! yay. translation is much fun, just mafan. and whee im all hyper, its friday night! and for once, (thanks to GE) i have nothing on tomorrow morning =) all's quite kool.
and next week is practically a four day weekend kind of thing, vesak day on friday and thursday's combinedsportsmeet which means much slacking! hahaha sarah cheang and i decided to have a picnic of sorts. apparently last year they roamed hwachong and found an airconditioned drama theatre or smth, & slept thru e entire sportsmeet! TUT TUT.
so i'd better get started on e smp lit rev by 11pm so i can finish by 2pm? & brenda won't murder me. haha nobody to blame except myself, of course. but IM FREE TOMORROW MORNING TO SLEEP MUAHAHAHA. & my apologies to jasmine lol promised to stay up with her until 2 yesterday, but i fell asleep @ my desk around 11.30? then woke up @ 4.40 in shock, rushed a bit of work and went off to school. feels very useless, but i was relatively energetic during the day, until about 12, because 5 hours of sleep whee!
then after school went to jayne's house with erzi (yingming) and played badminton! sigh i really dont dare to smash anymore, past experiences = not good. my arm hasn't acted up in a while though, i think, not that i'm in any hurry for it to, but. today my knee was wonky & on tuesday it was my ankle! GARH IM DISINTEGRATING. but im all fine now. had a nice sleep on the bus home! piano was quite fun indeed, and theory too, and thank goodness the seasons by tchaikovsky is still on the rack @ sonare! plans to buy it next week, $30.80, can larh! i havent actually heard the pieces though, only saw e scores, but considering its tchaikovsky & that it looks darn nice, everythings much fun and im determined to get it!
there're some times i really resent the fact that im not talented/gifted in the musical sense. i have trouble with aural, sightsinging, composing, etc. i practice an hour a day just so i can be equal to people who dont practice at all. BUT IM NOT NATURALLY GOOD so its really ... annoying. i dont like being average, but my piano grade is considered just that. average, plain, normal, expected. MUTTER.
ms foo says i can start la cathedrale engloutie soon! =)
and my marimba comes first week june. HAHAHAHAHA LIFE RAWKS.
except that i realised i got something quite major wrong in the physics test.
darnnit, i want a1 for physics so badly im willing to fail three other subjects for it.
sigh. but still, life kicks ass!
OH AND I GOT MY PRETTY AQUAMARINE COLOURED LAPTOP BACK!
it looks oh so nice and its repaired and its so much faster than my old one WHEE!
i was green-ed at 10:22 pm
Monday, May 1
but there're too many.
& i know the logical idea that 99% of the people i ask would say, is to pick one and get on with it.
but i dont want to just choose one or a few.
GAH.
i was green-ed at 5:42 pm