amor de mi alma

yo no nací sino para quereros

I was born to love only you.

Wow. Amazing lyrics. By the way, "amor de mi alma" means "love of my soul". Awwww. Every now and then, you come across a great song...be it in choir or even on the radio that strikes you and somehow, you can't seem to forget it. Sigh. It's such a beautiful song I'm amazed at his composition.

*lost in the music*

habito del alma misma, del alma misma os quiero

keeping the faith

To anonymous,

Hm...yes, I do believe that some things in life are truly "mysterious and profound". But how is silence an answer? I don't question the fact that yes, keeping the faith is important especially in a world like ours, but really, what has it got to do with me thinking about stuff? Hm...maybe you'd like to clarify that - whoever you are.

***

Woke up at 6.10am today for CIP...off I went to school, trudging along...

I managed to meet Gerald at the class bench and we decided to go check out the noticeboard about what to do. Found out that we had to go to the high school side to assemble.

Dragged ourselves there.

Realised that there was no bus.

Began to be suspicious about the programme.

....

Then the hard and painful truth dawned on us...

The programme starts tomorrow.

*distinct silence*

And I woke up at 6.10am.

PFSH.

myriad 05*

Pounding hearts...coarse voices after the tiring rehearsals...scoldings from miss lim...but...

Myriad 05 was a HUUUUGE success!!

Yippee! I'm so glad! wahahahaha. I really felt that the performance was a fantastic one. I haven't felt that "high" after any performance, even when I was in RV choir. The best song that night I felt was bin-nam-ma! wow. Like how felyna said eng siang (not sure who he is...but still...) said, the song was so intense you could have used your hands to feel it. Wow. That's a great compliment. I'm sure everyone was so focussed on the song that we were headed towards a common goal - to sing our very best onstage. "Sleep" was...bah. It was ok...considering we only spent a week learning it. "Night" was beautiful! The sopranos were so powerful at the end I could even hear them at the back! hahaha...But I still love bin-nam-ma the most. The feeling was just...well, there. I think every chorister would know what I mean...when everything in the music is in place and you add that tiny little bit of magic to finish it off and the end result just leaves people bewildered. yay. Love it.

Shuxian really thinks that I'm nuts now that I love the choir so much now, considering I was almost a choir un-enthusiast in the past. But hwachong choir is so different from rv choir! I mean...everyone in hwachong choir is so passionate about singing...it's almost scary sometimes. It's like one big family!! Wow. Sure, I've regretted once or twice in the past about joining the choir again. I can't lie about that. But fact is, each time I go for practice and I feel the warmth of the people there...the time just passes very quickly and it's just so enjoyable making music with them.

People may not understand what on earth we're singing and may criticise us for singing like "ghosts" (you know who you are...grrr...), but I'll still stand by the choir. Hwachong choir rocks!!

"You'll never sing alone." (that's unless you're a uberrrr zai soprano soloist! =P)

***

That being said, I had to drag myself out of bed today to attend the church outing today. I can't deny the fact that I wanted to lie about having slept late even though my alarm went off and I actually woke up. *gasp* tsk tsk tsk. Me and my evil tendencies. But just as I was about to hide in my comforter and seriously retire for the rest of the morning till noon, God suddenly reminded me about the sermon on promises - that once a promise is made, you should fulfill it. Arrrrgh.

So, being Grumpy the dwarf, I dragged myself out of bed and washed up before I went to church to meet the guys to go to Sentosa.

Oh well...can't say I had a fabulous time since I didn't really want to go. And the problem is, I didn't even get to do street evangelism! That was the only thing pushing me on to go...to gain some experience in sharing Christ with others. Ohhhhh hell. I did enjoy the sea breeze though. It was a good time for me to reflect on the past term...on stuff that happened lately. I get very introspective when I'm at the beach...and I can spend a whole hour just gazing out into the horizon and pondering about *meaningless* stuff.

***

Daniel posted another entry about true love VS infatuation. Sighhh. How should I put it? I don't think we should be questioning ourselves about whether what we feel for another person is really true love or infatuation. Afterall, marriage is not a question at the moment - at least for most of us.

I'd say that infatuation is just falling in love with love - that you like the idea of having someone to love you and to have someone to love. True love however, deals with the fact that willing to make sacrifices for the other person, accepting the person's flaws and also connecting with the person on a deeper level.

Awwww hell.

Who am I to define true love and infatuation? I've got myself confused many times...It's hard...but the trouble with love is (uh oh. Reminds me of Kelly Clarkson. *shudders*) that it clouds your judgement...and any normal teenager (with a similar low IQ like mine) would not be able to judge for himself/herself objectively anyway. I'd like to follow my heart. It's not just about gaining experience about love. I think that's a really crude way of putting it. How can you have someone enter a relationship with you just so that you can experiment with love and find out what works and what doesn't? Feelings come at a price...and the stakes in love are frightfully high. No point playing if you can't pay the price.

***

Aaaack. I'm such a rambler sometimes I can't even take it. =((

Shall be off now to sleep. Long day ahead of me tomorrow. bahhh.

10.15am

It sure feels good to be able to wake up at 10.15am! Yay. It's been such a long time since I've managed to sleep in and just be dead to the world. Hahaha...

Today's supposed to be the third day of the EEP. I chose song composition as an EEP. Frankly speaking, it's informative but it's downright boring. Maybe it's because I just don't have the knack of composing pop songs that can appeal to the masses unlike some of my other coursemates like Levina. She can really think of very creative melodies. Amazing...especially when Yihui and I were sitting by the keyboard and squeezing blood out of stone just to compose 4 pathetic bars of music. *pained look*

If there's anything I've learnt from this EEP, is that I'll try not to buy pirated CDs anymore. A lot of work goes into producing just one song you hear on the radio, from composition to mixing to mastering...and all these involve the work of many people. It's so demoralising hearing my teacher say that he slogs "6 and a half days a week, 14 hours each day". To think that I'm complaining about my work! That kind of hours are insane especially if you ask to to compose pop music. Oh gee. I'd rather cut off my fingers than compose 5 songs for Maia's album. Lol.

Classical music has its own beauty. Praise the Lord.

bounce. I need more bounce.

I mean...in terms of my sound, not action, you silly. We're singing this african song called "Kaun'ga Yachee" (say kah-ooo-ng-ah ya-chee) for the concert. It's a simple piece..but it's hard to have the right feel for it. Oh wells. I need to have more "bounce". Arrrrgh. *hops around the room like a mad bunny*

I can't believe I actually hesitated when I was about to say the word "boyfriend". Does it mean anything to me? It was surprising how it struck a raw nerve...and even though I appeared to be perfectly fine, I was actually trying to keep myself from drowning in self-pity again. It's a horrible feeling...lapsing in and out of it. Night seems to be able to accentuate every single emotion within me...even those that I've sought to suppress for a long time. Sometimes, I try to numb myself with all the work around me, immersing myself in the countless tutorials...attempting in vain to hide it all inside. But when I'm in bed...they just come back - all at once. It's like a thousand images all flashing in your mind for attention...only that you know you can't afford the time and energy to give them any. I can't bring myself to anyway. Once, I gave in...and it hurt so much I just broke down.

I hate it when I expose myself like that. But I suppose not many people will read it anyway...so it's fine.

save me from this place-

my mind's aflight

The evening hangs beneath the moon,
a silver thread on darkened dune.
With closing eyes and resting head
I know that sleep is coming soon.

Upon my pillow safe in bed,
a thousand pictures fill my head.
I cannot sleep, my mind's aflight,
and yet my limbs seem made of lead.

If there are noises in the night,
a frightening shadow,
a flickering light,
then I surrender unto sleep,
where clouds of dream give second sight.

What dreams may come,
both dark and deep,
of flying wings and soaring leap.

As I surrender unto sleep,
sleep.

-Charles Anthony Silvestri

I'm totally enamoured with the lyrics of "Sleep"!! Ahhh. Doesn't it paint a really beautiful picture in your mind? It reminds me of the countless nights during which I was suffering from insomnia...and partially also because I was either thinking of something or someone. Awww heck. Bottomline being - the lyrics rock. Another compelling reason why you guys should come for the concert. I'm desperate. We're going to sing really nice songs on that day...no hardcore choral stuff. =)) So please support your schoolmates/classmates or whatever!!

Anyway, I had a productive weekend last week. Attended two concerts in all. =)

ACJC choir concert - Personally, I feel that the overall performance of the choir that day was good. Not exactly remarkable or anything memorable...but good enough. They definitely deserve the gold with honours that they were accorded with. In terms of the programming, I thought that there were a few interesting songs...like "The Beautitudes", where the choristers actually turn and face each other...and there's a short section where half the choir actually speaks. Cool. However, there were too many hardcore choral works which I felt didn't connect with the audience. Not that the pieces were not good. In fact, I felt that they were done pretty well. Just that it isn't something an average layman will be able to appreciate. Oh wells. The choir sang really well.

There was this particular soprano in the alumni choir that's super strong. She has so much resonance in her voice that I could hear her even when I'm sitting right at the back in the circle seats. Technically, I htink she's far beyond any of the choristers onstage, but because she's so brilliant, her voice really sticked out like a sore thumb. She could have done with a solo part! ahahhaa...

HCI String Ensemble concert - Wow. It was an eye opener for sure. I enjoyed the octet performance the most because they were so in tune with each other and at least I couldn't tell that there were any major screwups. Credit has to be given to the soloists for the Four Seasons! They were all very very very good! I'm not kidding. It's no wonder that they all have their diplomas - I think. Hahaha...Mingtse, you played really well! =D

We sang Binnama during practice today as usual...and there's this part where the basses have this weird humming part. Hahaha...Miss Lim commented that the only girl in the choir who can probably do the humming part good enough's Jilyn and she officially made the quote of the day.

"You mean I can sing the bass part?"

LOL!!!

what on earth are they singing?

I'm still left with 4 tickets to sell. *frustrated* arrrgh. Why why why. I've tried to come up with plausible reasons why people don't want to come for our concert. Here goes.

1. People don't understand what on earth are we singing. What's bin nam ma? Some rude word hurled at our mums??
   
2. People are bored by us standing about on stage making funny facial contortions. But do you know that it's awfully difficult trying to come up with actions to accompany our songs? The last time I was in a choir, we had to go into formations and do actions while singing. It was excruciatingly difficult trying to recall the lyrics, have good technique and yet get the actions right! urghs. And someone commented that we didn't sound too good on stage. What's new?
3. "I can't appreciate choral music!" Arrrrgh. That's why all the more you should go in and listen with an open heart and at least try to get the message. I mean, we don't sing silly tribal songs and go "ooo ah ah!! grrrr" you know.
   
4. "I don't have 12 bucks" Lies, lies and more lies.
5. And the winning excuse goes to..."I have to go out on that day". *screams and tears the head of my teddy bear off*

Alright. That being said, I'm quite glad that at least there are people going for our concert. Afterall, we've practised so hard and the least anyone can do is to go and listen with an open mind - even if you haven't been in a choir before and know nuts about singing using your diaphragm. =)

I'm waiting to hear the string ensemble play tonight at our school auditiorium. Hm...BenJ will be coming too! So that's great. Hahaha...I bet he's going to make a lot of remarks about our "cheena"-fied auditorium. Point being, what's with the garishly strong headlights at the side and the red *gasp* walls? Well...at least it's big though. Not "big" big, but just big. If you get what I mean. =)

Today's a special day. I made it through the newspaper!! Yessss. Go me, go me! One small step in becoming a better GP student. It doesn't matter that I read the Sunday Times filled with a surprising amount of tabloid news...but at least I'm making an effort! A small one nonetheless. =)) Read the article about the female scholar slamming NS guys yet? In my opinion, any self-respecting man who's completed the gruelling period so affectionately known as NS should read it. How can anyone, including me, who's never been through NS, ever say that men should not complain about their NS days? It's an unjustifiable comment that will send any NS man irate! Argh. I don't think girls will ever realise how hard it is in there...so they'll think that it's men's fault that we're trying to be whiny over here...but seriously, will they ever understand? OH wells. I'm not exactly looking forward to NS, but I sure won't lambaste NS men for being so whiny about how much their instructors have been "tekan"-ing them during their NS days.

I heard that there's going to be a blogger convention coming up. Hm...that'll be pretty cool for a change. Anyone'd like to go?

"Choir, this is very important. It's so sad, you know? You guys practise so hard and yet no one wants to come and watch you sing!" -Miss Lim

little superhero girl

yippee. I've bought the corinne may CD!! Love her songs loads...hahaha...

Anyway, the choir finally managed to piece together "Sleep". Oh maaaan. It's really really very difficult 'cause the phrases are very long and the fact is, the tempo is like lento! Baaaaah. Heard the seniors sing their songs and they soooo rock! hahahaha...especially "amore". I'm going to grab that score from Lippy or something on monday and photocopy it. Shaoning's going to learn it too!! yay. And then we can sing it together...hahaha...yippee.

I've been sms-ing all my friends from choir to come for our concert 'cause the programme really rockssss. Arrrrgh. Too bad Kat can't make it. Booo// It's such a pity. And fact is they don't have a choir practice till next saturday...so she can't ask her friends to come either. arrrrgh.

glad that mingtse bought a ticket from me. yay!! =DD One ticket down, four more to go.

Wahahhahaa.

Save Me by Corinne May

I drift I burn, I fly
When you sing lullabies
I'm helpless, I'm yearning
I'm like putty in your hands

I laugh, I dream, I cry
When you take me on a rollercoaster ride
You see me through and through
You see just who I am
Just take my hand and

Save me from this place
Heaven knows I'm falling
For you, my sweet embrace
Heaven knows
Heaven knows I've been waiting for you

I had a dream that I
Was falling from the sky
At 90 miles an hour
I was bound to crash and die
But out of nowhere you came and rescued me
There must be some grace in the touch of your face
I'm so happy that I've found you
I'm no longer afraid

Oh 'cause you
Save me from this place
Heaven knows I'm falling
For you, my sweet embrace
Heaven knows I've been waiting

Before I met you
Life was slow-mo
So slow-mo
I thought I had it figured out
But you came and turned my whole world upside down

Save me from this place
Heaven knows I'm falling
For you, my sweet embrace
Heaven knows
Heaven knows you've come to

Save me from this place
Heaven knows I'm falling
For you, my sweet embrace
Heaven knows
Heaven knows I've been waiting for you
Waiting for you

chase me*

Yeeeeah. Corinne May totally rocks! I love that song! I'm gonna get her CD soon...by hook or by crook! hehehe.

Today has been an exhausting day. Started off well with maths tutorial. For the first time, I felt good doing maths 'cause I actually can still remember the cosine formula!! And I can do question 11 of the tutorial! Wow. I really loathe maths sometimes. But there's no denying that once you solve the problem, you actually feel quite good about yourself. Yeeeeah. Therapeutic maths - how about that! =DD

I managed to squeeze myself into the Biology Olympiad training team! Yippee. The study notes are horrifyingly thick. Just imagine - it costs a whooping $11.30. That's like 4 times more than all the genetics notes combined! *faints* And there'll be further selections...so I'll have to do mug biology for the block tests and make sure I get at least a C for biology! hahahaha.

GP lesson today was fruitful, even though it was only a period long. yay. I love GP sometimes 'cause it makes me think about things around me...and it sure does make one feel really intellectual. Hahaha. It's thought stimulating though.

Good ol' choir practice at the end of the day. Ahhh. I love the choir people. They make the practice so much fun! And we finally get to learn the song "Sleep". It's an awfully beautiful piece and I just love it to bits. The harmony for the basses is frightfully difficult but I think when we actually piece it together, it'll sound really good. Quite sad that the year ones don't get to learn "Amore" though. It's such a wonderful song!!! The last time I heard the seniors sing it, I was extremely captivated by the song. Just sat there absorbing the music...ahh.

*plug for concert*28th May, 12 bucks at the Victoria Concert Hall. =)) Please please please come!! The programme's really interesting!!

I sound awfully desperate! Bah. Good reason though. I haven't managed to sell a single ticket. Time to do my part for the choir. So PLEASE COME!! hehehe.

Teeny weeny castles?

Yaaaaay. Had a lot of fun at french class today trying to build cardboard castles from templates. LOL! I took some pictures using my lousy phone camera and I'll try to find some time to upload them from my phone to my laptop. If I can only find the infra-red port. Hm...But it's uberrrr funny how pathetic our windows looked. Hahaha...

I managed to survive another onslaught of bio practicals. Uh huh. Go me! I spent eons trying to draw that silly table though...'cause I just couldn't seem to fit my values into the width of the paper. I forgot to use the silly syringe to top up my measuring cylinder!! Arrrrgh. And to think I reminded my friends to use everything they see in the basket. *gags* Talk about that!

Yesterday, there was an article about the restrictions on blogging...like flaming the government and trying to diss someone online. Ha. Thank goodness I'm not that dumb to do that! Hehehe. I agree that if reasons are justified, it should be ok, but the fact that some people posting rude remarks about minority races *cough* scholars*cough* is just plain unacceptable. Gee. People appall me at times.

It feels good to have Christian friends in class whom I can count on to help guard my tongue against spouting all sorts of vulgarities. Sure I'm not your typical gangster on the street with a cigarette in one hand and gesturing rudely with the other. But I do use the "s***" word rather often. Bah. I seriously should stop using it. And when was the last time I didn't use the words "wah lau"? Arrrrrgh. I'm quite sure that didn't come back until I entered rv. lol.

I'll be changing spectacles soon! yippeeeeee.

Neverwinter Nights!!

Yay. I finally had time to install my neverwinter nights. I know I know...this game's been around for quite some time now. Almost a good three years. But the fact remains that it's a fantabulous game! Quite a pity that I haven't gotten a chance to try it out much thanks to the downright pathetic stats of my computer last time! yaaaaay. Time for some good ol' gaming!

Now now...where's that FF7 disc I ordered. The person seems to have vanished into thin air. Baaaah//

Just in the middle of forming a sphere of magic to kick some butt!

rrrrRRRrrr...noooo...mess...with...meeee!!

heaven and hell are real!

Gospel Sunday today. The church invited a guest speaker from Hope Sanctuary to give a special evangelistic sermon on the realities of heaven and hell. As a christian, well, I felt that it further strengthened my faith because I know God has promised a place in heaven after I die. But for non-believers, I guess the message sent across was a little different. As hard as I tried to persuade my mum to go for the sermon, secretly hoping that she'd convert, she didn't. Bah. I'm terribly worried about her salvation! *sigh* I'll just have to pray about it I guess.

Something was quite perplexing though. The pastor mentioned about people having "visions" after they died about hell and heaven...and some of the accounts that he mentioned included people seeing the "half demonic and half human creatures" which are part of the Buddhist's impression of hell. Yet, if it is true that these demons exist, why aren't they mentioned in the Bible? And so what exactly is hell? Does it include the hell that other religions talk about? I wanted to ask the pastor after the service about that, but I guess they were all too busy trying to receive the new believers. Oh wells.

Yay! Just one more baptism class left before I become a communicant member of the church and to my baptism ceremony! Yippee! =)) Mav asked about the need for baptism..and well, it's true that although I'm a Christian, it's important that I go for the baptism ceremony. This is because baptism is a public declaration of one's faith and that one is "burning his bridges" so to speak...And people who were baptised as a baby should also go for confirmation classes, which are exactly the same as baptism classes except that they don't get baptised a second time. Just thought I'd explain that portion. Oh yes...and after you get baptised, you become a member of the church and you have to participate in elections of deacons and elders and the such. =))

Managed to finish my chem tutorial and biology tutorial. Yesss. I love productive weekends. I'm sooooo not a mugger, thank you. Real muggers mug a lot more than me! =))

Have a great weekend (whatever that's left!).

Just one more week. One more week.

good ol' saturday

Nothing like a good cup of hot tea and well...no school! Yay! Last week has been a crazy week filled with tests and exams...but through it all, I still think that school's not that bad. Nope. I'm not a mugger...It's just that studying can be fun! Especially during GP...ok. That's if Miss C didn't pump us with so much work.

Now now...let's review the past week.

GP essay test - No one ever said GP was easy, but at least this time, I felt that I came up with much more pertinent points than before. Well, even if I don't do better this time round, I think I tried my best for the question.

Chem SPA - Ha. How should I put it. It was rather disastrous. My titres were 13.00cm3 and 13.10cm3. Great. So when I calculated for X, I got 31. Which was obviously wrong. Bah...I managed to "repeat my experiment to get two titres consistent within 0.10cm3 of each other" and arrived at the answer of 12. yay.

French controle - Yay. This time it was muuuuch easier. Thank God.

So now...I'm musing about pointless stuff. And yet, I still have to complete my tutorials. baaaah. Oh never mind. School rocks. =D

sean prawn

porrrrrk. I saw the link to my blog on my cell group's blog. It's "sean prawn"...WHAT ON EARTH is that?? Nick...tsk tsk tsk. But nice rhyming anyway. hehehe.

prawn. porn. ok. bad rhyme. whatever. anyway, I had to paint the banner yesterday after choir practice (which wasn't so much of a practice since we had a debrief on SYF...) That was really a good example of LDMR aka Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns. For those of you who don't happen to do econs out there *cough cough*trip science*cough cough* people, it just means that there were far too many people there to do anything 'cause there were too little things to work with. Ohhh wells. So two altos started talking to a whole bunch of tenors...and yada yada yada...they came to the topic of porn. OH lollers. Adora(ble) was horrified at how many guys actually watch ****. tsk tsk tsk. Ghastly.

Happen to be in school now with this rattle-ly keyboard that happens to be shaking horrifyingly with each letter that I'm typing. Scary. It's making a whole lot of noise too...now where's the librarian...

I should be doing maths now...argh. Wish me luck for tomorrow. Can pray for me too! 'Cause I've got Chem SPA, french test and maths test tomorrow! *prances all over the library* I'm seriously screwed tomorrow. bahhh.

mother's day

It's mother's day again. I love my mum! Arrrgh. I feel so horrible for not getting her anything for mother's day and her birthday, which happens to be two weeks before mother's day. Ahhh heck. I'm a pathetic person. I think I'll take her out for dinner sometime. =)) Anyway, mum, I love you loadsssss. Thanks so much for waking up every morning at ungodly hours just to make milo for me. Oh maaaan. "Parents are God's greatest gifts to everyone." That's what my pastor said...and I agree with it totally. =D

Went to church as usual today. Finally had a chance to catch up with my buddy, Shu. Arrrrgh. It has been such a long time since I've managed to catch hold of her (not literally of course!) and have a tete-a-tete with her. It felt good, I guess...to be able to chat with a good friend. Shu...thanks for being my buddy since the good ol' choir days. Even though you hate choir people now *oh well*, I just hope that we can remain buddies forever, yeah. It's mushy...yeah...but still, show some appreciation for your friends! It's hard to find good friends in jc, alright! =)


shu and me inside the chapel today. yeah yeah. I look as horrible as ever. What's new? lollers.

Shu commented that it seems as though I'm living life at large now. That's true...to a certain extent. Ok. Strike that out. I love my life totally now. I know I know..it's hard to swallow that, but seriously, it's going well. I love all my subjects...I've got the drive to study...I've got a fantastic class in hwachong. Everything's in place. Tests are still a pain in the ass. But who cares? I'm thinking happy thoughts.

Think. Happy. Thoughts.

Amen! =D

bored of studying

OH well. I got so bored I went to update some of my golden retriver's pictures to post on my blog. Isn't she cuuuute? Hahaha...Her name's Sandy, by the way. We've had her for a few years now...and I know her temperament so well. She's just one big fat lazy dog. Haha.

I'll be leading bible study tomorrow! yay.

nice doggy!! 

ohh...she's so tired, isn't she?

hm...past past participle?

I think my chemistry teacher's living in a time warp. here's the proof for it.

"I think some students understooded wrongly the concept."

Like what in the heavens is understooded? Past past participle?

Understooded (verb) Perfect past participle of the verb "understand".
Eg. I think I understood what you were saying, but previously, I was a little confused, so I understooded not.

Lol...now I think she can understand, understood and understooded. OH whatever she means. Crappy grammar drives me up the wall.

French lesson today was fun. Watched some programmes and some commercials while learning how to write proper advertisements and "testimonials". Had loads of fun! Yay. I'm just wondering why they must have the lesson at 5.30pm. People are hardly awake at that hour! Awww hell. And I feel so bad about monsieur who has to keep a monologue like 99.9% of the time because our class is just dead quiet.

Project work has been great. What's with coming up with ideas that are constantly rejected? My brain juices are officially sapped...zero...zilch. Nothing is up there. And I have to think of two new ideas for discussion. That's easier said that done. Oh well. At least my juniors will have to undergo the horrors of project work as well. Tsk tsk tsk. Some minister's evil plan about having students "work harmoniously in groups and to learn essential skills". whaaaatever. The only thing I'll ever learn is how to be more tolerant of the insane amount of work that I have to handle.

Next week's the hwachong hell week. Declared officially by yours truly. Let's see now.

Chemistry SPA (science practical assessment, mind you.)
Maths test (of which there are two topics which I've never seen in my entire life...)
GP essay test
French contrôle (equivalent to a CA...but just crazily difficult)

Hm...how am I going to survive next week is entirely up to your imagination. And my sympathies really go out to mingtse. Seriously. She has to endure like 6 hour practices after school for four times next week. OK. That's really baaaaad. I'll keep you in prayer, mingtse. =)

Now now now. Thank God it's Friday. I think I'll be "sick" tomorrow so that I can skip sports day. 7.15am? Over my dead body. As of now, I think it's close to that.

syf 2005

wouldn't you like to be there as well?

well, that's besides the point actually. thing is, hwachong choir got GOLD WITH HONOURS!! wheee....I'm overjoyed! hahaha...I felt quite bad initially because rj got gold and they appeared so sad. In addition, they were sitting right behind us all the time. argh...and to think that we were screaming our heads off when we heard that we were awarded with gold with honours. In fact, I think our heads really flew off our necks when they further announced that we are one of two choirs to be able to sing at the SYF choral presentation. hahaha...it's really the top honours that any choir can receive and I'm so proud of the choir.

Hwachong choir really means a lot to me...not just because it's done well, but also because of the people. Just like what Miss Lim said, no one in the choir really has an attitude problem. Each and everyone of us is working towards a similar goal...striving to do our best for the choir.

Now I really understand why suwai said "two weeks into hc and I know rv can never become what hc is to me now". I really do. =))

sharing of my testimony

OH yes. I so so have to blog about this.

I had to share my testimony in front of the whole congregation today. At first, I was thinking I wouldn't be such a wimp (oh wimpsy...which my uncle sooo strongly insists on. whatever!) about going up there. But when you're actually up there sharing and looking and how many *disinterested* faces there are in the crowd, you actually get quite nervous. I guess I didn't appear as nervous as I should have because Jonas commented that I looked extremely calm. Blah. Oh well. Hahaha...it was a good experience nonetheless.

Now that I've shared my testimony, the next big thing will be my baptism...which I can hardly wait. Oh well. =))