Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Fireworks Festival 2008

Update: He finally sent me a picture taken by his dad.

I actually wanted to update on the Fireworks Festival that very Saturday night when i came home, but Wayne later told me that his dad had taken pictures of the fireworks, i decided to wait. Apparently, i'm quite done waiting, hence you guys can see this post. xD He hasn't sent me the pictures, so i just randomly stole some off from the internet. The power of google.

Anyway, the Fireworks Festival was held on the 22 & 23rd of August. I caught them on both days, at different location. On the 22nd, Wayne and I went outside of Marina Square to catch it. Not a very ideal location because we were kinda blocked by some buildings, but i must say the sound effects were still superb.

The contrast on 23rd's made 22nd's viewing really lousy. We managed to get seats right in front of the Esplanade, the river. We were just beside the floating platform where they shot the fireworks from; and directly across the river, the major shooting took place. Aside from the slight drizzle, the crowd was less than affected because we all had the best front seats for a performance, free-of-charge.

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It was a spectacular display by the Korean team this year. They even synchronised the fireworks with Da Chang Jin's theme song. Truly Korean huh.

Before the fireworks began, there was a band performance at the outdoor stage in front of Esplanade. They played songs like apologize, hotel california, sweet child of mine etc. Fantastic entertainment for that night. =D

Thursday, August 21, 2008

O.M.G

Today is officially the worst oral i did for any major examination. I don't remember doing so badly for PSLE, or any internal school exams. Today proved to be the first like for many other firsts i have. I am still horrified over how i performed today. I shall not elaborate on how badly i did, but i really really want my A1 for English.

The onslaught of Prelims starts today with English paper. What a great day huh, compo + compre + oral, the full package comes altogether.

I am too stoned and tired every day that i hardly bother about the surroundings. Everything in my mind is about studying and studying more. I've never felt so much stress in my entire life before. I lost that touch and ability to keep myself calm whenever i need to. Furthermore, i think my mental strength and will is deteriorating. I realised i've been giving up on many things really easily. I need to find back that perseverance i had trained when i was a skater enthusiast. Climbing back onto my feet after each fall. Trying again and again until i got it.

I've been so busy with everyday's life that i have lost the big picture of what i really want.
Each day i come online, i stare at my private message on MSN "Do you think about the future?"
My mind goes blank. I have too much thoughts about the future that it's all just a fuzzy picture.

Maybe i shouldn't think so much.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Unbelievable...

Today i'm shocked, stunned and very surprised. Expectations, hopes... give me much disappointment.

I am still in awe.

My maid left yesterday so i'm maid-less.
It was back to the usual, me being the maid when there is no maid.

So naturally, it is very, very easy for my mom to say "Hey we can live without a maid~!"
Because, i am the one doing everything and not complaining about responsibilities that everyone in the family has. I do as much as i can for the basic housekeeping like ensuring there's enough drinking water every day, clothes to be washed, hung and folded. The rest is not really as necessary, say sweeping, moping etc.

Having been trained to do all that when i was living at How Sun Walk, i assumed my 'maid' roles when there isn't any maid around from time to time.

Today, i have a really long day. We had school, A-math IR till 4.30, then in the night, tuition to 9.30p.m. When my mom came back at 7p.m, i asked a simple favour from her to help me lay the clothes out later cos i just put them in the washing machine.

Me: Mommy, later can you help me lay the clothes out ar?
Mom: Why you so gan chiong wash the clothes so fast?
Me: Aiya, can help me lay cos later i end tuition very late already.
Mom: You wash so easy, then laying so difficult, ask me to do.
Me: *Speechless*

Am i supposed to feel angry? Or do i have the right to be angry? Because till now, i still don't know what i said that went wrong.

All the past times that i've been washing, laying, folding, doing all the little things here and there to tidy the house up, i've never uttered a single word or complained to my mom because i thought it was natural to contribute something to the house when there isn't any maid to help out.

What shocked me the most was how she could just say that laying the clothes out was such a difficult task and i had to ask her to do it when this is the FIRST time i'm asking a favour of her to help me because i know i'll be mentally and physically drained from the day's activities when i come home from tuition at 10p.m.

And if you are wondering if she did lay the clothes out, guess what?
Deep down, i knew the answer that she would lay when she got home after sending me to tuition.
The surprising thing was, when i reached home, the clothes are not laid, nothing is done. Everything remained in the same state as it was when i left the house.
In the end, i did everything.

I feel miserably sad.
I try very hard to do my part and keep the family together, for everyone to be happy.

Sometimes i really don't know if anybody in my family understands what a family really means.

Monday, August 11, 2008

The past week or so

On 27th July, Big baby had a friendly basketball game with the Japanese School at Changi North. I saw a cute ang moh guy and couldn't help staring at him throughout. Then, filled with jealousy, big baby said "Stare somemore la! Stare somemore..." XD
When i'm here typing this paragraph, it reminds me very strongly of the descriptive paragraph i wrote about "A Perfect Person". And, i assume Vic is laughing her head off right now. Maybe i was fantasizing about the ang moh guy in my short story.

This naughty boy had to fly off suddenly during the mid-week of last week. I was looking forward to spending 080808 + 090808 with him at the end of the week. This left me being very disappointed and sad when he flew to KL on thursday.

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We had the school national day celebrations. As you can tell, everyone donned ethnic costume except Cherm and me. Vic stood out with her sexy outfit that welcomed stares everywhere she went.

After the celebrations, part of the clique which included Belle, Claire, Elaina, Ruby and me, went out to Suntec to enjoy and have fun. We bombed a $122 at NYNY for a delicious but expensive lunch before heading to Raffles SC to get notebooks. Elaina and i were lamenting how we could have just headed to Soup Spoon for a much cheaper alternative. Nevertheless, the "Mudpie + ice cream" for dessert was worth everything. Heh heh heh...
Then we caught the mummy at Suntec, it was a freezing experience in the cinema. I was busy hugging myself throughout the movie.
We went Elaina's for MJ and time sure flies when we're all having fun.

On national day, i met up with Rubz at PP to 'study'. It wasn't very fruitful cos both of us were tired, lazy, sleepy, dozy; ok i ran out of words. After about 1hour and a half, we headed to Belle's for MJ session with her cousins.

Trust me, i really had nothing to do while everyone else were tired of MJ and i was just there at the table by myself building a huge pyramid out of the tiles.

The first time in 40 years, it rained on National Day. Our initial plans of heading to ECP was thwarted by the rain. We stayed on in Belle's house "chilling" out; because it wasn't exactly chilly in her house. We had 2 fans turned on at max speed and everyone were still sticky on the skin. Finally at 8, the three of us plus Belle's younger cousin Jonathan ran up to her neighbour's apartment's rooftop where we caught the beautiful fireworks display. Though it was a little far and the sound effects were bare minimal, it was still lovely to watch; away from the crowd. The rooftop offered much privacy for camwhoring on Rubz's cam-phone.

After we got back to Belle's house, her cousins left and we were left to play 3-people MJ with money involved. Ruby lost terribly, with Belle being the biggest winner - as always.
One day we must not let Belle win MJ when money is involved. XD

AND, they - Ruby + Belle, made me the bad person twice during the night. I had to hang up on Elaina twice because we were too engrossed in playing MJ and they just had to pass the phone to me to talk to her. Elaina must be thinking why is Jac always hanging up on me. It wasn't my fault. xD

Monday, August 04, 2008

Today is full of happiness

I've never laughed so hard in school before. Lit was ultra enjoyable today; not that it isn't for any other days. We were late for IR, Mr. John was busy elsewhere, and we spent only a solid half hour doing Lit with him. The rest of the 1 hour was spent catching up with each other.

Today the topic of going overseas at the end of the year with the clique was brought up again.
I'll try and recall as much as i can of the actual conversation that took place.

Vic: You cannot go on a F&E(Free and Easy) tour to Tokyo, unless you can be our translator.
Vic: Moshi moshi, where's the train?

Japanese obviously don't understand...

Vic: Moshi moshi, WHERE'S THE FUCKING TRAIN?!!

That's Vic for you.

Me: No no, we can go there and 'aishiteru~' to everyone there.

Claire: Moshi moshi, hyundai-unagi-(many other random Japanese brands you see in SG)-Nasi Lemak!

*Amidst fits of laughter with super hot red face and excruciating pain from the abs from NAPFA*

Me:*looks at Claire*WHAT?!! NASI LEMAK??

Claire: Aiya cannot think of anymore already what.

It's no wonder Vic chose Claire as one of the 5 persons she could take to a deserted island and be trapped on there.

Because i tell you, Claire's a bloody good entertainer for the record, seriously.

AND, we still haven't decided on where to head for the clique holiday.

Life's getting fun.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

What hurts the most?

Every week without fail, i will have my love meal from him. This week's really special :

Just in case you guys were wondering Energizer for DC 1 and 2 stands for, it's actually for me to get some sugar rush to do Detention. How sweeeeet of him. Heh heh.

But in any case, i haven't done my DCs and i don't plan to throw myself into hell to volunteer to do and arrange my DCs like it's MY responsibility to. Such things must be left for the discipline mistress to handle and chase after me right? xD

Then, i managed to vandalize his hand with my appreciation of his efforts.

Every week's too hectic for me to sit down in front of the computer to reflect and blog a proper post, hence the delayed updates. I don't plan on reflecting much either, i'm too busy resting/studying. Priority doesn't go to the latter though. xD

I've just caught Money No Enough 2 with my mom. There was only a really funny part, then a few sad scenes that i'm sure many people had shed tears, and there wasn't much to highlight about. The movie was directed and scripted in the voice of Singaporeans, complaining about inflation, ERP etc. I wonder how all these government bodies feel after watching it. Maybe this movie represents many voices of Singaporeans who have much to complain about.

I'm gonna end here - i know i know, super abrupt ending.