-=The Starlit Field Beyond the Flames=-

2010-02-16T16:36:00.002+08:00

Here's the thing,

Talking about ideal girlfriends/what I look for in a girl
+
Infront of someone who you used to like (and she knows you did sincerely)
=
AWKWARDNESSSSSSSSSSSSS.

It was a good heart to heart talk though.
Oh found out Singapore American School girls are not like local school girls too HAHA.

Anyways, I'm booking in in.. 2 hours time =(.
Hope I get to book out this Friday and not Saturday morning =S. I have tennis appointments with my MI brothers on Saturday morning =S.

Who are all those "her"s and "she"s in MOST of my previous posts?!?!

2010-01-12T09:39:00.003+08:00

LOL!! Title says it. I can't really remember.
Maybe if I try REALLY hard I will.
Or its just me NOT wanting to remember because I ALWAYS go emo thinking about girls etc.
And especially at times like this when I have absolutely NOTHING to do (School, band, etc to keep my mind busy).
Well its all in the past. BUT my friends have an awesome saying: "Old flames can light up again" LOL. So true. Happened 3 times already!! Note "HAPPENED", so not anymore =P.

P.S. This song Zane Ang Wen Suan let me listen to is FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a Irish/Celtic traditional music and the Pan Flute/Pan Whistle player from the "band" is freaking pretty too!! Super cute too!! =D=D.

P.P.S. I don't think anyone checks my blog anymore LOL. So its like I'm writing to myself haha! Self reflection I guess? (Oh wait.. I got Facebook and Twitter for that! LOL)

HAPPY HAPPY 2010!!

2010-01-03T23:22:00.002+08:00

So its 2010!! Like finally. And I'm hitting 20 soon =S.
Can you believe it?! I've been single for 20 years!! LOL. Story of my life - being single haha.
I've seen lots of people put "getting a boy/girl friend" or "getting a NEW boy/girl friend" as their 2010 resolutions. Well not for me =). I'm going into NS real soon (Feb 4th 2010) and I don't think I'll be committed to my love-life at all.
Plus I changed over the years. I'm not the guy who thinks I NEED a girl friend anymore lol <- I was despo right?

2009 has been a great year for me. I got really really close to the closest friends I have (mostly my classmates and band mates), got closer to those special to me ( =D ), made lots of new awesome friends, and etc. Names will not be mentioned cuz there are too many =P.
2009 was also the year I took THE most stressful exam ever: The A Levels~
I remember I was so stressed that I started losing hair during the final preparations for the exam. I kinda miss school~
Now for the regrets... I guess I regret falling in love again in early 2009 to mid-ish 2009. What an irony eh? "Regret falling in love"? LOL. Now its just something I'll look back and laugh about =). Oh and not being able to spend time with my Secondary school friends!! =(. We planned lots of outing but I don't remember going for any =S.

2009 was the first time going out on New Year's eve too!! =D. With the prettiest girl ever too!! Right Pretty MaMa!! XD (Not sure whether she still checks my blog though =S LOL). I swear I was the luckiest guy ever that day! XD. Oh oh and something I'll remember forever: Me literally laughing out loud while walking back to my house reading the Christmas & New Year's card she wrote me!! LOL. Why? Only she knows the reason LOL.

Oh and first time going for countdown with friends!!
With some of my friends whom I got really close to over the past few days: Qiao Ying, Yue Wei, Marcus Chen, Lincoln, Kaisheng, Tong, Samuel, etc. OWL was supposed to be there too but he was having fever =S.

I drank like crazy that night and started the new year with "an awesome hangover" LOL.

Would love to go into details on what crazy things we did that night (when we were all drunk) but I'm too sleepy right now~ =P.

Happy 2010 everyone!

Avatar = Greatest movie ever

2009-12-23T22:18:00.002+08:00

I'm so in love with Avatar!!
Neytiri is like so pretty!! =D=D.
And the soundtrack OMGOMGOMG spine chilling.
Graphics are awesome, especially in 3D.
Plot of the movie is awesome too.
I'm soooo feeling the "bond" between me and the movie LOL!!
May Eywa be with you! Haha.

Anyways, this was my first post in like.. a decade!
I just HAD to blog about the most awesome movie I have ever watched in my entire life =D.

So about my life past few days.
Been going out frequently, to ECP, bars, movies, etc.
So I'm totally broke... I still have to prepare Christmas presents for those special to me!! =(.
I know only poor people say this but.. I really hate the fact that we need freaking MONEY just to chill out with friends and stuff. And why the hell must the drinks in bars be so expensive?!?! LOL.
I drank 3 glasses yesterday, and it wasn't enough so I bought another shot. The shot didn't even get me high =S. Plus it was $10... Money wasted! Lol.

Hope to go out again with my band drinking people again~ Oh and the gang from the mass gathering Qiao Ying arranged too XD.

GUESS WHO'S BACK?!?!

2009-09-28T18:19:00.003+08:00

THE Korean is back!! WAHAHAHA!!

Hmm but I have nothing to post about lol.

Just played tennis with Siva in school.
Playing tennis with him works out your facial muscles and your abs. Why? Cuz you laugh like crazy XD.
But he's damn good though. If you don't count all the mistakes and the funny/dumb things he did LOL!!

Anyways, A levels coming~
Can't wait til I get it over with.

P.S. Do you think its okay for a 19 year old like me to date a 15 year old girl? LOL I think its okay~ =P.

Band Investiture and Barbecue

2009-06-18T15:59:00.003+08:00

Band Investiture and Barbecue - 15/06/2009

2009 band investiture with MISB was the first ever band investiture I have ever been to. I didn't even know what "investiture" meant until I asked Abu haha.
Well the investiture was in LR1 and was carried out formally.
The emcees, Yong Fu and Natasha, started the event.
First it was Mr. Zachery Lim giving us a speech on how much the band have grown and about overseas programs for the band to give them more exposure to the public. Year 3s are allowed to go but I'm not sure about the guys because we'll probably go in NS in mid-December.
Then all the year 3s were given the graduation certificates since we were "graduating" from band. So Young was the only one not present -.-.
Next up (I think) was speech by Zane, our ex-vice-president of MISB during its growing stages. He kinda summed up what I wanted to say also. About how much the band means to me, and seeing how much we've improved over the years. Zane's a good speaker lol.
After the 2 long speeches, it was video time. They made a "video" (Powerpoint slides actually) of how the band progressed over the past 3 years. I got to relive the Novallennia days again as well as the days when we had our first ever public performance in school thanks to the awesome pictures taken. The chalets we had too. Thank God there was no picture of me drunk haha (Because I got drunk every band chalet LOL).
The presentation of the new committee members came next.
After everyone went up on stage, they all took the pledge!! Haha I thought it was pretty cool =D.
Haha and Hafizah took the Librarian post!! =D. Lets hope there is another January 27 baby joining the band so she can pass down the post to him/her LOL!!

Oh and someone catwalked in LOL ;)

That was about it for the investiture haha.

Next up, barbecue.

Barbecue was straight away after the investiture. We had to go change (no way in hell I'm going to a barbecue in school uniform) so Zane, Cindy, Yong Fu and I went off first because Zane and I had to get our clothes at our homes. Since Cindy and Yong Fu had nowhere to go, they came over to my place to change lol. Thought Cindy wasn't gonna go for the barbecue since So Young wasn't going lol. We kinda killed time at my place actually. Cindy was playing with the keyboard and Yong Fu was watching my brother play Left 4 Dead. In the end we all changed and headed to Westmall. Cindy takes damn long to change la!! LOL =P. Tsk and Cindy said I looked weird/funny wearing a hat =S lol. Plus she found it weird that I was wearing jeans to a barbecue. I always do!! Haha. Oh and not to forget her making fun of my luggage bag! Calling it a "kiddy-bag"!! Lol.
So we met Zane at Bukit Batok station first and waited for the rest so that we could all go to ECP together.
Had lots of fun telling jokes and all with Zane, Cindy and Yong Fu during the MRT ride.
When we reached ECP and our barbecue venue, it was like seriously about to rain. My lighter (Zippo) couldn't even light up because the wind was too strong. Plus we couldn't even play Volleyball properly!! Cindy's Volleyball "smash" is super funny!! Her's is like giving someone a bitch slap!! The ball flies towards her, and she just slaps it away to the side LOL!!
Since we couldn't do anything, and we didn't feel like sitting around while the barbecue pros were starting the fire, Cindy, Yong Fu, Anling and me went off to cycle/rollerblade. Anling convinced Cindy to go haha.
So, Anling and I skated, while Cindy and Yong Fu cycled. Damn fun =D=D. Cindy tried to race me then nearly lost balance =(. Should NEVER try that next time!
Anyways, Yong Fu is the only one on a bike whom I can't catch up to on a rollerblade. Probably it was because of the blades. I had piece of shit wheels which didn't even roll properly. Never gonna rent a skate from that shop.
Even Anling was complaining! Luckily no one fell that day haha.
I couldn't take much photos while skating because there were too much people and the road we were going on was too narrow -.-. Next time I will more =).
After resting at Mac for a while, we headed back to the barbecue. There, Cindy's camwhore session started using MY camera haha.
Jojo was there that time also haha. She wanted me to teach her how to skate. I swear, she just put on the skates and just started skating! I didn't have to do anything except like show her how I skate. Really fast leaner lol.
Then it was time for us to return the bikes and the skates to the shop so we went back.
On the way to the shop, I kinda bullied Anling by suddenly appearing right in front of her. It kinda scared her LOL!! Super funny.
After we came back to the barbecue pit, it was camwhore time again haha. With Cindy, Jojo Helmi mostly haha. Helmi kept on taking unglam pictures of me -.-. Haha Cindy took my camera thus, most of the pictures are taken by her like I mentioned in the Facebook album.
Soon after that, lots of people had to leave. Jojo, Helmi, Yong Fu, and lots more =(.
After a bit more of barbecue-ing, the drinks came in. CY started drinking with the others while I was trying to learn how to cycle. THEY STARTED WITHOUT ME!! =S. I gulped down half a cup of my Johnny Walker before we changed venues to this hut since it was about to rain, heavily (Didn't rain in the end though lol).
Then at around 10pm, Zane had to leave =(. Thought Eddy and Cindy were gonna leave as well but they stayed. Infact, Cindy stayed overnight!! XD. Plus Eddy stayed to take care of me lol. I still remember Eddy threatening me that he'll twist my nipples if I didn't drink the water lol. I think everyone drank abit that night. I drank 8 half-cups (Or maybe 7, not sure) of Johnny Walker, then for the last cup I mixed CY's Vodka with mine. It killed me lol. All I remember of that night is Cindy, Yvonne, Wei Lian, and someone (I think it was Aaron-Isabella lol) playing cards. The next thing I realise is I wake up on the bench, and realized most of the people were gone. Cindy was sleeping lol. So I went back to sleep also haha.

The next morning, Yvonne told me I fell off the bench I was sleeping on, then sat up on the ground, and just stayed there. I DON'T FREAKING REMEMBER THAT!!

Haha overall barbecue was awesome. I think some of you know why =). I was freaking happy/high haha!! =D=D=D. Just by thinking about it makes me happy =).

Oh by the way, Mei Hui, if you're reading this, I didn't say it that day. You know what I'm talking about. I could have killed the mood if I said it then. Maybe next time, on a date probably, I'll say...

Save me

2009-06-11T22:15:00.003+08:00

Sometimes I really really REALLY feel like crying but the damn tears just won't come out.
Like right now.

I want to find my other half, whom I can pour my heart out to.
At the same time, I'm hoping that my other half is her.

ANYWAYS

No point talking about that.

Someone save me from this boredom...
Again, at the same time, I'm hoping this someone is her.

I think I'm super relaxed when I'm playing soccer or rollerblading. (Seriously considering buying a pair of blades so I can blade around everywhere...)
So until then...
ECP anyone?

Millennia Institute's Official Opening, Fun day with bandies =)

2009-05-17T23:05:00.011+08:00

Yesterday, 16th May 2009, was Millennia Institute's official opening day.
Since the school wasn't officially opened when I was PU1/PU2, it means I've been schooling at a "ghost school" until now.

Of course the official opening was a prestigious event for the school, staffs and students so there was a really grand celebration which was prepared. Our band performed also and we were the first item. This was my last performance as a MISB member and as the section leader of Clarinet section as well as the librarian. So the performance meant alot to me.

So the whole event started with us playing 2 very easy pieces: Pechabel Canon and "Lei" (Chinese character). I wasn't feeling nervous at all this time. Was feeling a little sad though because it was my last performance. When we were playing the 2 songs, I suddenly felt all happy. Yes, I'm a little bipolar. Played all the notes with so much emotion to it.
After the Guest of Honour walked in, we had to play Overture No. 2 by Dr. Kelly Tang again... Was kinda getting sick of the song but still played it with my heart. After we finished playing the song, the curtains started to close and that marked the end of my final performance.
I'll definately go back to the band even after I graduate to perform with them or to act as like an advisor to the band and my beloved Clarinet section.

Anyways, after the performance, all the band members went into one of the classrooms to wait for the GoH to walk past so we could greet him. While in the classroom, I took photos with lots of my bandmates. Afterwards, we all went down to join people for the MI carnival.
I went straight to the basketball court to meet my classmates first then to the canteen where most of my bandmate's stalls were located. Then I went to watch Transcendence to support all my friends who were performing.
All the performers really did well but I say the best performer ever was none other than Zane!! When he was singing his solo, everyone around me was like "Wow... This guy can sing!". Haha then I was like "Yeah yeah! Thats my friend!! Woohoo!!" XD.
Shima, Jojo, Farith, Mel, Hanis, Wan, and Terry performed super well too.

After the end of Transcendence, we (Cindy, Zane, So Young, Yong Fu, Sae and I) met up to go to CSC (I don't know what it stands for) to play pool. Sae was the only one who couldn't play pool so we taught him how to play XD. We were all super hungry that time so we just played pool for an hour. Zane was super pro haha. First match was Zane and Yong Fu VS Me and So Young. So Young and I got trashed haha thanks to Zane. The second match was Me and Cindy VS So Young and Sae. Cindy and I were winning this time haha =D. Then all of a sudden all of us couldn't make any pockets because we were all playing safe (Trying to make difficult shots for opponents) haha. So Zane and Yong Fu joined So Young's team to help them out for a few shots. Talk about unfairness! XD. Even though it was like.. 4 on 2, we (Cindy and I) made some awesome shots to keep the lead. Then Cindy put in the 8 ball for the win XD. Wish I had some pictures to post hah. I really enjoyed the pool match =)=)=).
After pool was arcade time. We went there to play photohunt as usual XD. Our goal was to beat the high-score some other people set haha. First attempt was a failure because of some really difficult images and fat fingers XD. Second attempt, I was so determined to beat the high score so I pressed on all the different items as fast as I could haha. In the end we beat the high score like by alot! XD. Entered our name initials as the high scorer name.

Then as always, we went to Westmall to have our dinner. This time to the food court though haha. Had my pork meal from the Korean store as always. No one really talked during dinner because all of us were super hungry I guess. Then we saw the dudes who were playing pool at the table next to us. Cindy was the first to see them haha. I saw the guy, I was like "That guy looks like a monkey". He seriously did! With round ears that were attached so close to the cheek bones!! Monkey boy. At least he didn't have the face-you-want-to-bash-up. If he did, then my appetite would have been gone haha. Its called a jae-su-up-nen-ul-gul in Korean haha.

After dinner was arcade again. At Westmall arcade though XD.
First game we played was the game where you get to throw balls at the screen. Super fun, especially the mosquito stage. We were all so hyped after the game haha. We all went to play whatever games we wanted to play after that. I went to play the Rambo game with Sae haha. My accuracy improved alot since the last time I played. In the end we both died at the Heli stage.
Went to find Zane, Cindy and So Young after that. Cindy and So Young were playing basketball haha. They JUST managed to get to the 2nd stage haha. Then they wanted to get on the simulator thing. So I treated them the ride XD. They were both like laughing all the way haha. So Young being more spastic than Cindy that is.
After that Cindy said she wanted to play Time Crisis 2 like at the same time I wanted to play too (Does the sentence make sense?) so I got to play with her haha. We were seriously enjoying our game until I ran out of credit on my Time Zone card. When Cindy went to top up, this kid came and started to play with me. Couldn't say no cuz he was just a kid... Was hoping he die really fast but this kid was seriously pro haha. He joined int he middle of Stage 2 then went all the way with me to beat the boss XD. Cindy watched for a while then went off to see the others play the dance game. When we beat the boss I smiled at the kid then said "Good game" haha.
Zane and Sae were playing the dance game that time. Speed was super slow! Haha. Sae was doing pretty good at that speed but Zane kept on missing LOL. After watching for a while, I went off to play Crisis Zone (The SMG game). Managed to beat the game with 2 credits... Could have done it in 1 but I was being too careless during the office stage. I beat the boss with just 1 life left! XD.

After arcade, we chilled at the entrance of Westmall (The one with the benches and the stairs) for a while before deciding to go to Eddy's house to drink and chat. Time was the problem then because it was like 10pm and Yong Fu lived in Tampines. So like by the time he gets back home, it would have been like 2am IF he hung out with us. So Sae and Yong Fu both decided to go home, leaving the 4 of us to take the cab to Rail Mall to buy ice for the Whiskey Eddy was bringing down. Cindy was complaining because Eddy was bringing down Whiskey and not Vodka LOL. For me, any alcohol thats 40% and above is fine =D=D.
We met Eddy at his Condo at around 11pm, found a good place to sit down, and then we just laughed. At nothing. LOL. Zane was laughing because of Eddy, and Eddy was laughing because of Zane. Whenever Zane and Eddy laughed, So Young, Cindy and I laughed LOL. Then when the laughing stops, Eddy and I both look at each other, then starts laughing again HAHA. It was chaotic and super fun haha. No one can NOT laugh when Eddy does his high pitch laughter XD. Oh and Zane finally got to see how he laughs LMAO. So Young took a video of him laughing with the in-pain face XD. We laughed at the same thing we did last time LOL. Eddy's imitation of someone, then THE PHOTO So Young has in her phone, and Zane's face when he was laughing XD.
After laughing nonstop for like 30 minutes, the drinks came in XD. I drank the first glass with the ice. Was kinda disgusting but I forced it down haha. I say, all alcohols taste better when you don't mix and don't put any ice in it XD. I only felt high after my 3rd "shot". Was kinda glad Cindy didn't drink too haha. I wouldn't want her to get in trouble with her parents because she drank. AND I was super glad because her dad came over to fetch her since we all lived in the West and she in the North. At around 11:50pm I took the bus back with Zane. I was super drowsy (Drank like 6 shots as promised) and didn't pick up the things Zane said to me during the bus ride XD. I sent messages to So Young, Zane, Cindy and Eddy saying that I reached home and stuff but apparently, I typed gibberish because I was super drunk haha. Was kinda amazed at myself for walking home alone from the bus stop I got off from XD.

So yeah, it was a super fun day I had. Can't wait til I go out with them again XD.

P.S. The name was mentioned in this post, and I don't care whether people find out =).

Weakness, Confession

2009-05-14T19:28:00.003+08:00

I admit. I do have a weakness for pretty/cute/adorable/attractive girls XD.
I bet 1 wink from them and I'm gone LOL.

Right... I'm bored right now. SMSing is getting boring too. Its boring when there is no reply haha...

Anyways, I was gonna confess my feelings this Monday or something. Which was why I put "I'm not afraid of rejections anymore" as my Facebook shout-out message...
I'm really not afraid anymore.. but I don't think I should confess... I mean she might have someone she likes etc...
While I was typing this (Which was like.. 10 minutes ago), at the back of my mind, I was thinking this: Its always a good feeling to be loved/liked. So if a person likes someone, he/she should just go ahead and tell that special someone that they like him/her right? No matter what the responses will be. Its not like people confess to others so that they can hear the replies/answers they want to hear.
I guess if you didn't hear the answer you wanted to hear from that special one, then you either wait paitiently for that special one to see things about you differently (more than a friend) or just simply move on.
I don't think I'll ever be able to move on completely hah...

Okay, mom's coming back. Gotta go~ =P.

P.S. I need tips on love. Anyone care to share? LOL

SYF

2009-05-07T17:24:00.002+08:00

It was my first and my last Concert Band SYF competition.
No I'm not a first-timer to SYF. I went for the Millitary Band SYF competition with my YI band before.
I was freaking nervous when it was not even 24 hours before the performance time.
I ALWAYS feel super nervous before any competitions, performances, or sporting events.
But they don't affect me much. I was damn nervous when the band was performing infront of our Vice Principal on the SYF day and I didn't screw up at all.
Nothing much happened before boarding the bus to RP where SYF 2009 Central Judging for Symphonic Bands was held. Everyone was either eating bananas, chocolates, chatting, or was re-confirming their parts/score/instruments etc. Oh one thing happened. Someone (I really don't know who) kinda bent my reed. My favourite reed. Luckily I had 3 other spares...
Some of my friends messaged me wishing us good luck. Was really touched seriously because the school didn't even make an announcement about us going for SYF and yet they still remembered.
So at around 11:45am or something, we left for RP.

When we got there, I saw 2 familiar faces: Hazmi and Latiff. They came down to watch other bands perform and to support us I guess. Thanks a kazillion to them for the support.
I thought our band could sit around for a while before going into the Tuning room. We waited outside for only 10 minutes before the dude told us we had to go in.
Everyone was pretty tense/concentrated inside the tuning room. Including me. I was freaking nervous. After doing all the tuning our conductor, Mr. Wilson Ong, told us not to feel nervous. He told the band to scream at the top of our lungs to get pumped up. After that monstrous shout I let out, I felt better. Felt the adrenaline getting pumped into my body.

A few seconds after that, we were already backstage lining up in our concert rows. I tried not to feel nervous and just concentrated on playing the 2 pieces we were playing.
We stood at the backstage for about 5 mintes before we were allowed to go in.
I stared at the judges (With my awesome killer stare) when I stepped foot on the stage. I saw other bands watching as well. First thing I thought of was the Hwa Chong exchange and how I wanted our SYF to be like a revenge time for us.
Then the emcee announced our band and Mr. Ong walked in to start us off.

I don't really want to go into details about how we played. I'm in no position to judge our band anyways. I just want to confess that I did make a few mistakes here and there for both songs... I'm not proud of it, thats why its a confession... I was super upset when I made those mistakes that I wanted (And still wants) to kill myself...
I think mistakes that NEVER happened before and those that we thought would NEVER happen, happened during SYF.

After the performance, we asked our friends who were the audience about our performance. Everyone said we sounded okay and that we can get a Silver. Kinda got my hopes up.
I didn't really think of the result until the very last minute thanks to Xian Hua and the scissors, paper, stone game. I really really thought we could at least clench a Silver. Why? The opening when we played Finale (Our choice piece) was super grand. The ending was not bad as well with all the dynamic changes and accelerandos.

When the dude announced our results, I just couldn't believe what I heard.
"Band number 7, Millennia Institute: Bronze". I swear this will remain with me for the rest of my life... Its made a scar deep in my heart that it made it to my top-5 scar list (Ouch moments).
I just sat there, trying to control myself. I heard lots of *sniffs* all around me from where my fellow band-mates were seated...
I was feeling sad, disappointed, and angry at the same time...
Sad because it felt as if all the hard work we put in went to a waste... Disappointed because we didn't meet our target of getting a Gold award which, I still believe that we're capable of achieving... Angry at myself because I know I could have performed kazillion times better...

I think after hearing the results, I was like a walking time bomb. I tried to smile but the smile just faded after 0.5 seconds. Didn't feel like talking to anyone. My fists were clenched and all (But I was angry at myself).
Others would say we did fairly okay for a starting band that never took part in SYF before. I disagree.
I still don't think we deserve this kind of result. If they grade us based on the effort put in, we're definately a Gold with honours band.
I'm okay now but the scar will always be there to depress me I guess...

This kinda made me realise how important my band mates are to me and how much I love them (Yeah call me gay or what I don't care).

I really hope the other band members recover quickly too so that we can put up an awesome performance for the teachers of MI and the GoH during the MIOO and proove that we can do it.
So come on guys, lets put ourselves together and surprise the whole school during MIOO!!

Love is the best remedy. So always remember our teachers in charge: Mr. Zachery Lim and Ms. Huang Shijin, and our conductors: Mr. Wilson Ong and Mr. Lim Lip Hua loves us all.
And I love you all too. Feel the Korean love and cheer up yeah guys?

SYF approaching...

2009-05-02T00:18:00.002+08:00

6th May; MISB's SYF competition date.
Today's date: May 1st.
5 more days left.
3 more practices left.
Pressure's on us since all the other CCAs that took part in SYF got a gold. We're the last Performing Arts CCA to go for SYF. Our Principal has told the school "We hope the chain-of-golds will not break". Pressure. Stress. Madness.

Yes our target is a gold although some say that we're being too ambitious.
I say they're totally wrong to say that.
Let them hear our recordings. Let them listen to our sound when we're at the actual SYF venue.
We sound great. We sounded so great (in the recording today), that I was seriously, SERIOUSLY touched. Although I didn't tear, I totally understood how Mr. Zachery Lim felt earlier that day.

In my previous posts, I mentioned about the humiliation at Hwa Chong and how I wanted the SYF day to be our revenge time. Its gonna happen.
Back at the Hwa Chong exchange, our band wasn't even prepared well enough. That time we only practiced on our choice piece, Finale - Peter Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2: Little Russian, only for a week. A FREAKING WEEK. Or maybe 2 =P.
NOW, our band is used to the piece already and know which are the important parts to be heard and all.
I guess we're around 85% perfect. The remaining 15% can be polished during the remaining 3 practices.
We've put in so much effort, and time to achieve this 85% perfection in such a short time. Surely we can polish up the remaining 15% in 3 days. Surely. I believe.

So my fellow bandies!! Lets all work hard for the remaining 3 practices and really really really put up a good one during SYF. My tips would be to not do whatever things you did during the Hwa Chong exchange, and really clarify your parts with Mr. Ong or Mr. Lim. They don't bite so approach them if you need help on any sections of the piece!! And please really practice during sectionals!!

Alrights, got nothing much to say anymore.

Off topic:
Haha about someone again.
Hanging out with her that day was super fun. It was a for a short period of time but it was still very memorable to me =). It was kinda like the first time I really talked to her. Okay, I'm trying not to give out too much hints. Maybe if she reads this she'll know which day I'm talking about. Can say the fist time I called her too.
I guess I'm back to my old self too. Not being over protective and stuff. Just by seeing her face )makes me smile too =)=)=)=)=). The more I get to know her, the more I like her. And I'm not jealous of other guys are close to her and stuff.
Plus I can't stop thinking about her. I keep thinking stuff like, she should be doing this, doing that, should be reaching home, at where, etc.
And I want to be there for her whenever she needs something or maybe someone. And most importantly I want her to be happy. Even though it means I won't be part of her happiness (Taken straight from the quote).
Only word to describe this is love.

Say those 3 "magic" words to me and I'm yours forever...

Past blog entries

2009-04-26T14:13:00.002+08:00

3 years has past since my first ever blog post.
I was nearly brought to tears reading some of my previous entries just now. Especially when I read all the posts mentioning Tae Hyung e hyung, Sae Hyung, and Chie.

Miss those days when the Signature Park gang was still around. Those days when we all went out to the swimming pool at night or to Chie's house. I MISS CHIE SO MUCH RIGHT NOW =(. Plus when I saw her picture in Facebook, wow... Wanted to go back in time.
All those time spent playing squash together with Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung. Marco polo, ice-tag, movie outings, all the videos we took, the pictures. Memories which will always make my laugh/smile. I still meet them quite often so there'll be lots more memories to come.
The things I did for Chie. That dare at the basement. Will never forget.
Haha back then, the only girl I could think of was Chie so I wasn't all depressed or anything like how I am these days.

I want to create the remote control from Click with some additional features like THE REWIND BUTTON. Can't believe that awesome remote from the movie didn't have that function.
Off point.
I think everyone should create their blog and write about whatever things that happened to them every week or something. That way, they can always come back anytime to their blog, read and remember the moments. Lol. Those who don't update their blog often should at least blog once a week. Like me.

Going seriously off topic now.
I was quite disappointed that day.
When I sat next to her, she didn't even say a single word to me. When I tried to start a conversation, it just didn't seem to start. The awkwardness level was 99%... The first time she sat next to me it wasn't like that. It seemed as if we had tons of things to talk about but had no time.
Maybe she sensed that I like her. I don't show it to others but I'm sure it'll be super obvious to her. I don't just ask anyone out to one-one movie if they get bored of doing homework.
It feels like she's avoiding me sometimes. Like she talks to others no problem but its different when she's talking to me... It feels different...
I don't know what to do... =(

Humiliation

2009-04-19T22:02:00.002+08:00

Band exchange at Hwa Chong was disastrous.

Our band was the most unprepared band there and we actually performed.

We were the 7th band to perform (Out of total 9 bands) so we got to listen to other bands perform first.

All the other bands had more members, and were about 90% prepared for SYF.

Our band on the other hand, lack members, and we JUST RECENTLY changed our SYF choice piece from boring Grade 4 piece, Cantilena, to Grade 5 piece, Finale from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2: Little Russian.

Go listen to both songs if you people can find them online. Cantilena is WAY easier compared to Finale.

I kinda understand why Mr. Ong changed the choice piece. Cantilena will never get us a gold, no matter how well we play. Plus we'll be at a disadvantage as all the other bands' choice pieces are all around 9 minutes long. Cantilena? Like 3 minutes...

When Mr. Ong changed the piece, it gave me a little hope. That if we work hard for Finale, we'll be crying tears of joy on the SYF day because we achieved a Gold award and not Silver or anything below. Finale WAS something I looked forward to every band practice. Not anymore. Not after the exchange.

So back to the topic. After the 6th band performed their marvelous choice piece, we went up on stage. When we played the tuning note, I realised the acoustics of the stage there was WAY different from the RP one. When I played MF it sounded like FF.
Set piece: Overture No. 2 (Set piece for SYF).
As a band, we started off great. The balance was there and all.
Everything was fine for this piece I guess.
Well I have to admit I kinda fucked up at the Clarinet melody part (Bar F). What can I do? The fucking high D won't come out properly. I blame the reed completely. SOMEONE broke my best reed, Zonda 3 1/2, back at RP so I had to use a substitute.
So other than that, nothing really went wrong for this piece. I'm just disappointed because I know I could have made that section sound as good as, or hell, better than how other bands played it. I'm not a show off, I know my capabilities.
Choice piece: Finale
This song, when we played it during the exchange, was fucking disastrous.
I think everyone at least made a small mistake.
Again, I'm disappointed in myself for screwing up at the semi-quaver running notes part towards the end of the song. I think I was tired or whatever, I just couldn't double-tongue there, and had no breath.

I'm so not gonna let our band put up another humiliating performance ever again. I want the band to get a Gold. We seriously deserve it after all the long tiring practices we had, all the study/social time we had to sacrifice for band. Plus the results show it. Last year we got a Silver for the National Band Competition. It was the first time playing in a competition so we were quite satisfied with a Silver. Not to forget the year end performance we had last year. Almost everyone said we sounded great.
I'll at least perfect the parts for the Clarinet section. Its the least I have to do.

Speaking of being humiliated, I think people lose hope after going through such experience. Not me though. I'll make the SYF performance our revenge time. I hope other band members feel the same way too, about wanting to perform well during SYF and having a good laugh about the horrible playing at the exchange.

Its better to aim high and miss than aim low and hit.

Phew, I got most of my frustration out.
At times like this, I wish she was with me. Someone I can talk to (Of course, all the "fucks"s will be replaced when I'm talking to her =P)
I wanna see her!! =(.

Yay!!

2009-04-11T21:44:00.003+08:00

I can play Bella's Lullaby on a Piano!!! Haha only the melody part (right hand) though.
My left hand is retarded... So I can't play the accompaniment (left hand).
What I'm proud of though, is the fact that I never even learnt how to play the Piano/Keyboard and I can play it.. quite well HAHA! In addition to that, I don't even have the score for the song. I composed it myself.
I'm writing Serenity songs for my Clarinet part. Again, I don't have the score haha. Making one for myself by ear because I want to play it while reading the score XD. Thank God I have a Keyboard heh.

Anyways, for the entire day I've been wondering whether to message her or not. I want to get to know her more... Be more close to her so that who knows one day I'll be there for her or vice-versa. But I guess I didn't want to like know her through SMS... I'm a different person when through SMSes. I want to show her the real me, like when I'm really with her and not only by words. Maybe in time, she won't find it "weird" anymore haha.

P.S. I really hope our band gets Gold with honours for the SYF that's coming up. I'm seriously willing to put in my best for the band already. Pressure's on us that's why haha. Hope Finale: Symphony No. 2: Little Russian can guarantee us a Gold. We can do it. I just know it XD.
Go MISB!!!!

Piano... Solo Clarinetist

2009-04-10T15:49:00.004+08:00

I've always had this special thing for music ever since.. I was born.
When my mom had me, she always listened to classical music. Guess this is why.
So my first instrument was a Clarinet. Started playing when I was Primary 6 in SAS.
Back then, I didn't know anything about music so I wasn't really keen in picking up other instruments. I've changed over the years.

I want more than mastering my Clarinet. I want to master almost every instrument (Or at least know how to play nicely) from Eb Clarinets, Soprano Saxophones, Flutes, Violin etc all the way to Guitars, Trumpets, Pianos, etc. Whatever instruments that have solos or awesome melodies, I want to learn them. It was kinda to impress my friends (mostly girls) with music. Yeah, you guys can say I was a Casanova junior when I was young =P.

Out of all the instruments, I wanted to learn the Piano the most. The reason behind it is kinda amusing heh. I wanted to start learning the Piano after seeing Chie being SO impressed with Tae Hyung e hyung's Piano "skills" (I don't know what to call it haha). The two of them would talk about different pieces they could play. Of course I couldn't join in the conversation because I only played the Clarinet.

So why do I suddenly bring this topic up on wanting to learn the Piano?
Thanks to songs like Carter Burwell - Bella's Lullaby, and my blog song (instrumental version). Beautiful compositions.
I want to learn Piano so badly but there's no time =(. I know if I practice hard, I'll be able to play at least like an intermediate player after 2 months or so... Oh well, until then, I'll master my Clarinet. Tone, sound quality, all the possible alternate fingerings for different notes etc. I got no problem at rhythms so once I master these, I'll at least be considered as an advanced player by others and will qualify to be a Solo Clarinetist with minimum requirements. Hopefully.

10,000 hours of practice makes a genius. Never stop practicing~

Definately

2009-04-08T20:18:00.003+08:00

I'm definately falling in love again.

Just by looking at her makes me smile even during difficult, tiring times.

I have to really force myself to look away whenever our eyes meet.
Its like there is a mysterious force which draws me towards you.

Its because of her I enjoy "doing" the most tiring, and time consuming thing I have to "do".

Its definately love, the feeling I have towards her.

I remember in the one of the posts, I mentioned I was gonna wait?? Hell no. I can't.
Hope she SMSes more haha...
I'm so gonna make the first move. Kinda shy though. Wish me luck? =P.

2009-03-31T19:23:00.002+08:00

You guys went a little overboard today.
Not gonna mention much about it here.
I went a little overboard as well.
I only say those kind of stuff when I'm fucking pissed off.
I swear, I could have gone into "action mode" today if somebody slightly pushed me or something.
I got nothing else to write...
I just hope whatever happened today, doesn't happen again...

I'm supposed to be "Mr. Nice-guy" in school.
So please don't make me lose my good-boy image =P.

Earth Hour, Sick...

2009-03-28T23:28:00.002+08:00

8:30pm today was the Earth Hour.
My family turned off MOST of the electrical appliances (Most because we can't live without TV or computer). Then I looked outside to see whether other people were doing the same. Almost NONE of the houses were totally dark. They had at least their living room lights on. I was like "WTF?!...".

Earth Hour was super boring. My brother was playing Left 4 Dead and I was down with the incurable-allergy only Tae Hyung e hyung and I have. He told me he was down with the allergy yesterday so I knew it was my turn today lol. My mom was sleeping and my dad was out playing golf. Actually, we don't really need the "Earth Hour" to save energy because we do that all the time.

Anyways, right now, I'm still thinking about the thing I was thinking about this morning... Was thinking about all the eye contact moments I had with her. Maybe to her its just a friendly "hi" but to me its like.. "*Gasp*!! I made eye contact!!" Lol.
Hah. But guess what? I decided not to think too much about it. After all, she must have her "him" cuz she's nice, friendly, pretty, etc (all the good characteristics).
And plus, its probably because I don't want to end up hurt again.
So the best way for me is to hope and pray that she makes the first move on me LOL. Highly unlikely because we're not THAT close and we don't really know each other =(

Like I quoted, "You will know that you love someone when you want him/her to be happy. Even if that means you're not a part of their happiness."

What do I do?!?! XD

2009-03-28T09:15:00.002+08:00

Its been a while since I blogged.

Lots of things happened since the previous post, like.. movie, ECP, 07S2, band, and family lol.

Won't be writing about them cuz people will complain that my posts are too long LOL.

One thing on my mind right now... There is this someone I can't stop thinking about...
Don't give me that "Here he goes again" face cuz I'm freaking serious.
I don't know what to do!! I mean we know each other and get like eye contacts and all but I don't know how to approach her. Or whether I should... I'm an high "I" person after all and high "I"s are supposed to be afraid of rejections =P (The PU3s will know what I'm talking about).
Its okay for a girl to make the first move right?? Lol...

No one knows about this except my brothers in 07S2 (S7) I think... XD.

Anyways, gonna watch I am Legend on HBO~

Quote

2009-03-14T15:03:00.002+08:00

"You will know that you love someone when you want him/her to be happy. Even if that means you're not a part of their happiness." - Unknown

I found this quote on the web... Its an awesome quote, to people like me...

I'll be okay. Eventually.

Marley and Me, Facebook

2009-03-01T21:01:00.003+08:00

Watched Marley and Me with Mei Hui (As promised) on the last day of Feb XD (Yesterday).
The puppy that came out in the movie is freaking adorable!! The grown up one however, is like THE major pain in the ass haha. Good companion too.
Well the story revolves around Owen Wilson's character, Jennifer Aniston's character and the dog Marley. Its like Marley is with them no matter what haha. Oh and Owen Wilson's character is a freaking awesome guy. Like he doesn't really get mad at people, especially his wife haha.
Okay so, not going into details of the movie (As always) haha. The movie was funny most of the time. It was super sad when Marley got sick and all. I kinda knew how the movie had to end so was uh mentally prepared for the ending haha. Lots of people cried. Like I heard sniffs everywhere. The loudest coming from the person who sat just besides me, sharing my Coke and my potato chips XD. I didn't cry. Seriously. Don't know why, but no matter how sad the movie gets, I don't cry. I mean I feel the sadness and all but no tears haha. It was the same case when I watched the movie Click in the cinema.

After the movie, Mei Hui and I were supposed to go all the way to East Coast Park (ECP) for a rollerblade session (Me teaching her haha!). Note the phrase "supposed to go"... Yes, it was freaking raining when we came out of the cinema. So we decided to hang out at Westmall instead.
Went to the arcade first to play Photo Hunt and a similar game XD. I so need more practice on Facebook. I'm not good enough to put my name on 1st place haha. I played Crisis Zone II (Or is it Time Crisis?) and Rambo too because Mei Hui wanted to watch haha. I sucked =(.

Then it was like an early dinner time haha. Ate at Sakae Sushi for the first time! XD. Mei Hui's treat cuz she had the discount credit card =). Was super bloated after eating at Sakae. We still shopped around for a while in Westmall. Went to places like Starhub, Popular, Comics, etc before leaving XD. Kinda reminded me of my 17th Valentines day. Right Mei Hui?? XD. I still owe her a rollerblade session =D. I'm so paying for it!! =) can't wait.

Oh at Comics, I saw FEAR 2 and FEAR 2 magazine. I think FEAR 2 is gonna be like R21 because Alma's gonna walk around naked while haunting the player. I sure don't mind that but it makes it less scary HAHA! I mean, naked teenage girl scary?! Nah =).

Met someone new in Are You Intersted again. Had a mini-chat with her just now and she was like "play online pool with me" haha. I was like.. "Er I gotta turn off my computer soon so yeah. Bye!" XD. I'm still on the computer writing this blog entry haha! I think people add people in Facebookf or games and shit.. which I don't really like. I had a couple of invites from random people regarding my Crusades. My Crusades profile is.. pretty good thats why.
But I sure don't mind adding nice people who wants to get to know me or just chat with me on Facebook. Only girls though =P. I met 2 really friendly girls, one 3 years older than me and te other same age as me XD. We kinda became instant best friends LOL. Its cuz like I can tell anything about me without being embarrased and all, and they can be my perfect gossip buddies WAHAHA!

I love Facebook!!

My 19th birthday, Valentines Day

2009-02-15T22:47:00.003+08:00

January 27th 2009 was my 19th birthday. It was Chinese New Year too so I didn't really expect my friends to remember haha. Well, at least for my Chinese friends. Zai was the first to wish me through SMS =). I never really got to thank everyone who wished me, so here's a super belated THANK YOU to everyone who did wish me =).
My birthday itself wasn't that great because all the shops and all were closed because of CNY. In fact, I don't even remember what I did on Jan 27th XD.
Jan 28 was the day where all the "surprises" were haha. I knew about the "cake ceremony" my classmates planned because Jon's phone was fucked up and he sent me the plan for the "surprise party" haha. I almost thought he did it on purpose. So, I had my face smashed in the cake again. I had to lick this toy, which was covered in cake, clean and etc.
After having band (nothing special happened in band that day), I went out to meet all 3 of my brothers to go watch Inkheart. It was like to celebrate my birthday too.
Oh not forgetting the presents I got =). My classmates (I think only my brothers in class though) got me Left 4 Dead, the game I wanted to get so badly XD. I was super happy when I saw the packaging haha. Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung got me Red Alert 3, the game I wanted as well but never made it to my wish-list haha. Thanks so much!! =)
I'm like playing those 2 games like some hardcore game addict. Only on weekends so don't worry =P.

Moving on. Yesterday was Valentines day. Usually Valentines day is one of the saddest days for me because I always don't get a date (except for my 17th Valentines day XD). This time around, it was special too because I went out with my secondary school classmate, Mei Hui!! XD. I went out with her on my 17th Valentines day too. She's the only one who went out with me during Valentines day.
So, I was kinda nervous and all, thinking of nice greetings waiting for her to come. When she did, my mind went blank again haha. It always does!! Like wtf?!... Can't believe she actually recognized me haha. We didn't see each other for like 2 years!! Haha Mei Hui certainly got prettier =). Maybe thats why my mind blanked out XD.
We met at Jurong Point and the place was seriously swarming with people, couples more like. Mei Hui was super hungry when we met, so we decided to grab something to eat first BUT everywhere we went, it was full and the waiting time was like 45 minutes!! WTF. We had to settle for KFC-take-away and eat at a nearby playground HAHA!! It was memorable though so I liked it =). We had lots to catch up on so we talked about like our school life, and much more personal stuff. I think it was the first time telling a girl about myself in detail haha.
After the under-the-night-sky dinner, we went for the movie New In Town. I thought I wasted my money on such a bad movie at first. The movie turned out to be awesome haha. Romance and comedy, always a nice combi. I'm pretty sure we both enjoyed the movie to the max haha.
After the movie we went out for a late-night drink near our place. Didn't want her getting drunk so bought the cheap 8% Vodka instead of the 45% one haha. Mei Hui's a light drinker unlike me (hardcore XP). While drinking we talked nonstop about our secondary school life, how we're doing now etc. After drinking the 8% Vodka, I think MH was feeling a little tipsy already HAHA!! I didn't feel anything =(. Walked her to her place then I walked like 2km back to my place, reaching home around 1am. It was definately a special, and memorable Valentines day XD.
Now I have someone whom I can call anytime to have light drinks with =). Or talk my heart out to when I need someone to talk to.
Thank you for making this Valentines day special again =).

P.S. I just realised I never got a chocolate from MH!! =S.

I love Facebook <3 =)

2009-01-25T23:37:00.002+08:00

I love Facebook for letting me stay in close contact with my friends =)

I love Facebook for all the games (Applications) they have.

I love Facebook: Are You Interested for allowing me to meet new friends (girls only XD).

Met lots of new people *cough* girls only *cough* on AYI =D. They're all seem nice, and uh "interesting" haha. Not enough "Matches" though... My face is not good enough!! =(. Our of all the "Yes"es I clicked, only 25% clicked yes back. Either they don't use the application anymore, or yeah, I'm ugly =(.

Its the eve of Chinese New Year today. Shao's birthday also =).
Wishing everyone a happy CNY and wishing Shao a happy birthday =).

1st week of school!!

2009-01-16T20:08:00.002+08:00

Haven't been able to go near the computer for a week because school started.

I say, first week of school was.. F U N ! !

My class name changed from 07S7 to 07S2. Its the only thing I'm kinda sad about.
Met new classmates too. Not exactly new because I've known them for the past 2 years thanks to the Geography class and the combined Bio lectures. They're all nice people; really friendly.
Met some new teachers too. Again, not new because I've known the teachers either through band or during class. Out of the new teachers, I think I like Mr. Jaron Pow the most. Ms. Yani would be the second. Mr. Pow teaches super well!! In his class, you gotta put effort to doze off. He catches everyone's attention when he's talking, makes sure everyone understands all the concept, and many more. Same goes for Ms. Yani too. Ms. Yani, she listens to everyone's opinions and comments on the stuff she thinks is good only. She adds the "however" part but doesn't criticize. So its very easy to say out your opinions and stuff.
What else is new.. I guess thats it.

Two of my favourite teachers left our school as well...
Mr. Liau Chee Mun, and Mr. Alvin Saw. My Chemistry and Geography teachers respectively.
Can't believe they left... Mr. Liau got transferred to Pioneer Junior College and Mr. Saw was offered lots of new high pay jobs so he decided to take it I guess (Just found out today from Ms. Huang).
I'm so missing them right now... Both of them equally.
I was the Chemistry Rep last year so I got to know Mr. Liau much better than anyone. The things he does for his students and all, I don't think most of the students know. Plus, his teachings are perfect for our class. Gives lots of examples, there is lots of interaction with the students, and no one is afraid to make mistakes infront of him since he will correct you, nicely.
Well, for Mr. Saw, Shao Wei and I were kinda his favourite students HAHA!! My assumption because he allowed us to do almost everything (Even skipping class for Shao Wei LOL). Mr. Saw also kinda taught me lots more things other than Geog. Things they don't teach at school I should say. How to cope well in University life and all too.

Besides the teachers, some of my classmates also left...
Shao Wei, Gerlaine, Aish, Fifi, Samuel, and Iszaki...
So missing them in school too... At times though since I'm always "distracted" by work and the new canteen food (Which is heavenly compared to GT).
I miss Shao whenever I look at the fish pond and like when I'm slacking off in school after all the lessons for the day. If I still had Geog classes, I would have missed him more since it was the only subject we were so active in class while slacking HAHA.
Gerlaine, I miss her whenever we have our Bio practical or have our Bio lessons in the lab! We used to have fixed seating in the Bio lab. Then the using super big water bottle as the pillow during Bio, the pencil case with lots of things to press, etc...
Aish, I miss her all the time. Even times like when I'm talking to Vaani, when I'm cracking my knuckles, when I need someone to bully besides Vaani, etc.
Fifi, her "Shane!~" HAHA!! And all her wildness XD. Oh and not to forget, the Super Sonic she showed me during the class chalet!!
Samuel, I still see him in school. Very often actually XD. Still sad he's not in the same class as us though...

Nevertheless, it was good seeing familiar faces again. Especially a few people whom I managed to keep in contact during the holidays =). I may not be of great importance in their lives, but they are to me.

Going further back...

I had a class chalet and a band chalet during the last week of holidays. Just gonna talk about it briefly.
Class chalet was super fun because like most of us turned out and stayed over (Or stayed until late night). The card games and the murderer we played was super fun. We all laughed our heads off.
Band chalet was fun too. Not as fun as the class chalet though. I got freaking drunk during the chalet! =D=D. I drank Whiskey CY brought like some crazy drunkard. Could have finished the whole bottle but I didn't want to get wasted and stuff so I decided to stop after drinking like 3/4th of the bottle =P.

Okay, got nothing else to blog about. So signing off.

P.S. Ladies fill in the blank: Girls like guys who are ___________

LMAO!!

Anime, Songs

2009-01-06T09:46:00.002+08:00

I suddenly miss all the animes I used to watch.
Samurai X, Gensoumaden Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, Ranma 1/2, Gatekeepers, Groove Adventure Rave, Vandread, Star Ocean EX, and more.
Why all of a sudden?? I was browsing through lots of old songs just now and most of them were Japanese songs which were the intro or the ending song of an anime series.
I just listened to Lambada Ranma and I was like laughing all the way. Listening to all these songs brings me back clear memories of SAS too. Since Tae Hyung e hyung, Chie, Taka, and I were all anime FREAKS that time HAHA!! Miss them so much right now... =(.

I also found lots of songs which, whenever I listen to them, makes me go emo haha. Want me to list them down??
너에게 쓰는 편지 feat. 린 (Letter for You feat. Lyn) - MC 몽
Sunny Day - Fujiki Kazue
Misumeteitai - Flow War
Butterfly Kiss - Rave
The One - Limp Bizkit
BK Love - MC Sniper
Better in Time - Leona Lewis
Hold On - Limp Bizkit
Heart of Sword - Samurai X
1/3 No Junjou Na Kanjou - Samurai X
추억이 들린다 - 성시경
Save Me - Remy Zero
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Greenday
Remedy - Seether
Truth - Seether
Fake It - Seether
And many more I guess.
Some songs were sent by my friends either recently or some time ago.
Memories, memories... These songs remind me of moments in my life that I wish to relive.
I'll try not to listen to these when I'm with friends haha =P. Of course there are some people I'm never emo with, like Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung HAHA!! When Tae Hyung e hyung comes back, we might be having a Signature Park gang 2 reunion with Hong Cheol e hyung LOL.

Alrights, I'm off to preparing for class chalet!!
If you want any of the songs mentioned above, I'll be glad to give you the album or send it to you XD. Afterall, sharing is caring.

I've been thinking...

2009-01-04T22:52:00.003+08:00

While watching this really sad Korean drama, many things came into mind.
Its about love I always think about. How in dramas or in movies they make it look so easy to get the girl of your dreams when in reality its not...
Thats not the topic though. Its a what if scenario I thought of while watching the drama.
In the drama, there is this guy who is really loved by 2 girls.
I'm not gonna go into details. The guy is dating this one girl, who loved him for 7 years and did almost everything for him. The other girl is pregnant with his baby (Which he didn't want at the time) and refuses to go for an abortion (Good choice!! =D). Both girls really, truly love him so eventually he'll end up hurting one of them.
So when I saw this scene, I literally said out loud (In frustration) "What do you do when you're in that kind of situation?! (The guy's situation)"... I mean if you don't want to hurt either of the girls...
Maybe I'm in this situation too... Or at least was in...

People say love is kind, love is happiness right? Well, its not true to a certain extent (My opinion). All I got in return for loving that special someone(s) was pain (Yes, special someoneS. Because I had lots of special someones =P) and this maybe true to most of the people, I think. I've experienced all kinds of rejections (And am proud to announce). My crush/love thought of me only as friends, gets attached with someone else, likes/loves someone else, simply didn't like me, felt the relationship is not going to work out, not their type, went overseas, was in different schools, thought I'm too kind/too good for her, that I was her number 2 and many more. I've heard everything above at least 2 times. 1 word to describe how I felt: Ouch. And only ouch because I was too used to them. Except for first few times though. First few times it really hurt but after that they were all just "say-ouch-and-move-on"s.
Maybe thats why people call me a pimp or a player because I move on too fast -.-. Loving 1 girl for like 4 - 5 years have taught me to move on fast and don't waste time on someone who considers you a friend and nothing more. So can't blame me for having characteristics of a player...

Amazing what 1 scene in a drama can make me think about. No wonder I get occasional headaches.
I'll still stick to Min Min's advice. "Can look at girls without feeling guilty if your single".
Thanks again Min, for such an awesome advice =P

HAPPY HAPPY 2009!!

2009-01-02T00:31:00.002+08:00

James is back!! Internet started working just yesterday XD. Its the only and the best new year's present I have ever got from my dad XD. The past week without internet was seriously hell haha.

Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! =D=D.

Its a fresh start for everyone. 2008 was an awesome year for me. I got to spend time with almost everyone I know like my family, 07S7, MI band mates, MI friends, 4E2 gang, SAS besties, Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung, Taka and Chie Miyauchi, and many more!! I am kinda disappointed I didn't get to hang out with Min Min, Mei Hui, Won Il, Yohan, Lee Hui Min (As if she'll hang out with me XD), Jessie Namla and many more...
Later in my life, if I have a chance to go back in time, I'll definately go back to year 2008. Lots of special memories I have. 28/06/2008, 13/11/2008, 18/12/2008, 24/12/2008, 25/12/2008, and many other important days I can't recall. I forgot when we had the last SAS gathering, and the day before Chie left for Japan... The day before Chie left was the day before the SAFRA run.

Hmmm so year 2009. What are my new year's resolutions?? Well not really a resolution but somethings to fix and to do in 2009
Well... I'll just list them out. In no particular order after number 4 I guess
1. Put God and church before myself and any other thing
2. Family comes first over friends
3. Be as nice, kind, friendly, and caring as possible to my family (And make sure my dreams don't come true...)
4. To not get angry (Like even when a disgusting bug enters my room -.-)
5. Conserve water, energy, and money as much as possible
6. Be Mr. Nice-guy in school especially to girls (Yeah, call me a flirt. I don't care anymore =P)
7. Make full use of my time (Like when I get tired of studying, I'll exercise or practice my Clarinet instead of playing games)
8. Study smart and hard for A levels
9. Play games only on weekends
10. Treat others as how I would want them to treat me
11. Don't procrastinate
12. Try not to slouch
13. Try to make people laugh
14. Make more friends
15. Become a far better Clarinetist than I was last year
16. Try to master keyboard and guitar
17. Work out more intensly
18. Swear less (This one WAS "Don't swear". BUT I seriously can't talk without including some vulgarities at times. It sounds so weird without the word "fuck" being in my phrases sometimes -.-)
19. Change my favourite phrase to something else (It was "See ya when I see ya" before. Then it became "KNNBCCB" since it fits into all the nursery rhymes XD.)
20. Learn some Chinese and if possible, some Malay as well
21. Learn Japanese by playing KOF and watching Anime

So ya. I have more but they're kinda personal. One of them, I thought about it after talking to So Young and Hilmi in school after the band concert. The one about getting into relationships. And what Min Min said before long time ago kinda supports this too XD. "You can look at girls without feeling guilty if you're single" HAHA!! Best quote ever, thanks Min!! I'll go and include it in my Facebook profile. So this one would be something like - try to stay single (?). Or it can also be - be a player (!) haha =P.

Erm yeah. Thats all. If you people want to call the list above, my "new year's resolutions" you can. But it sounds more like my to do/to fix/want list to me XD. Oh well. Happy new year! =D

Musique Unifiante 2008

2008-12-19T18:14:00.003+08:00

Musique Unifiante.
I think it stands for music (In our school) united because it was the first ever combined concert the Angklung and the Band had. I think we should do it every year in December. The theme Sleigh Ride is also good but Angklung doesn't have that much (Or none?) Christmas songs so they probably won't be able to play lots of songs. Since Angklung (AKE) is super supportive towards the band, I think the least we could do to uh "support" them is to have a combined concert with them yearly. Some may disagree with me on this though, including AKE members.

Our preparations for the concert were "intense". As the MCs said, we had practices almost everyday for 2 months from 8am to 6pm. Our practices became hardcore nearing our concert day 18/12/2008. Practices were from 8am to 8pm sometimes.
Plus we got "scolded" (More like lectured) by all our conductors at least once because the attendance was so bad. This, they had to understand as some of our band members had diploma courses which clashed with our band practice times.

Nevertheless, we managed to pull off Musique Unifiante really good. All the people I know who came down to watch the concert said the band really improved alot. Was really proud to be in MISB after hearing that.

Before the concert, when we were still having rehearsals on the stage, I wasn't feeling nervous at all. Probably because I can play the parts with my eyes closed (Memorized the piece, sorta). During our final run through, the only song that I was worried about was Short Ride In A Fast Machine. I kept thinking the band was gonna break down during the piece. The other worry was the 1st Bb Clarinet part + Eb Clarinet solo part for Jungle right after Jon's Flute solo. Since the 3 of us, Hazmi, Shi Hua, and I, were the only 3 playing the melody. Thought it would sound a bit messy because of the grace-notes. Besides that, I had confidence that we were gonna sound awesome even to the ears of non-musicians.

Straight after the rehearsal, Qiao Ying called me =D. Was really glad she came, even as a usher because when I asked Sok Theng whether she was going, I think she said she wasn't going XD. We took photos at backstage and all =). We were probably the first ones taking picture since we took even before the concert started XD. The concert was starting so she had to go to the reception counter to usher people in. I had to be ready backstage along with my band mates.

At around 7:24pm we walked in the stage. I took slight peeps at the seats and most of them were still empty. Was really disappointed then but not for long as swarms of people rushed in just before the 3rd (Last) bell went off. As the peopled walked in, I searched for my family and friends. Spotted my brother first as we also have the access to "Wonder twins power" XD. I spotted Shima as well!! I was like "Omg! I see Shima!! Shima's here!!". Hopefully for the next concert, she gets to sit with the band on stage and perform with us. I saw Wei Lian and Shiying walking in also. I'm the loyal supporter of Kim Seng Wind Symphony, and Wei Lian's the loyal supporter of Millennia Institute Symphonic Band. Wei Lian's my first ever Clarinet mentor. Then along came Mr. Lim Lip Hua to further guide me on the right path to becoming a better Clarinetist. Then along came Hazmi and Ansar too XD.
I expected people from my class like Gracie, Claudia, Jon, Shao, Shane, Liane, Gerlaine, Apple, Siva, Haikal and many more to surprise me at the concert day by showing up for the concert when they all told me they can't make it. I was expecting too much. I loved it when Gracie, Claudia, and Jasmine surprised me during the last concert, Musical Inspiration, by turning up for the concert when they said they couldn't make it. Back then, most of my classmates came over to support me. I still remember the "GO JAMES" chant they did which over-powered all other chants from the audience WAHAHA! Feeling was great of course. Its just too bad I didn't get to experience it again this concert.

Anyways, after the 3rd bell, Aaron Teo tuned the band and the MCs started the concert off by greeting the audience and by saying "Enjoy Musique Unifiante" or something. Then the lights went off and Mr. Lim Lip Hua started us off on the first piece, Short Ride In A Fast Machine. It started off great and I managed to even-out all the semi-quavers the whole Clarinet section had to play. Then after about 5 bars, the other sections came in. Everything went well for the piece. The Trumpet section solo at the "Slowly" bar was fantastic too!! I heard them play (I think I heard Hui Shi the most) while playing my own parts which means the audience could hear them clearly as well. Oh and none of my section mates got lost for this piece like for the first time!! WAHAHA!! Plus we played at a reasonable volume so that the audience could hear us faintly in the background. My brother said he heard all the parts clearly and they were all perfect XD. Short Ride In A Fast Machine is really a concert starter XD.

The next piece we played was Celebrate which was conducted by Mr. Wilson Ong. Mr. Ong's conducting was kinda different from the way he conducted us during the rehearsals. He conducted with more passion and emotion. For this song, the whole band managed to remember all the dynamic changes and didn't play wrong notes (Or at least I didn't hear any wrong notes XD). Plus all the solos were great too, especially Xian Hua's solo!!

After Celebrate, Mr. Lim came back on stage to conduct Cantilena. When I playing this piece, I really played with lots of emotion especially at the Clarinet melodies. I get really sad whenever I'm playing this piece because it reminds me of something although there is absolutely no link between that memory and this song XD. OHHHHHHHH AND I HEARD THE "Ap-ple, ba-na-na, wa-ter-mel-lon" melody AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE SONG!! XD. Super funny how Mr. Lim taught the other section the rhythm. I swear I could have burst out laughing if I wasn't concentrating and serious when I was performing on stage XD. The 5/8 bar and the 6/8 bar melodies also sounded good too. In short, perfect or excellent performance of the piece.

Next came the piece Jungle which was a little different than the other pieces we played (Conducted by Mr. Ong). Jungle is more energetic at certain parts and more calm at parts like the Flute solo by Jon. My brother said the Flute solo (By Jon) was awesome haha! Oh and the thing I worried about (The Clarinet melody being messy and loud), that was no problem either. My brother said it wasn't loud and messy at all XD. But he did say people were silently laughing when we did the monkey noise and the bird noise before the Flute solo XD. OMG I can't believe I forgot to mention the Percussion here!! =(. The rain-sticks, conga, tam-tam, cabasa, everything came in perfectly. Especially the cabasa (Right?? The "gong-like" sound before the flute solo) XD. I know because I actually smiled here when I heard everything being played perfectly XD.

Ponyo was next, and was conducted by Mr. Lim again. Lots of people liked this piece I think. Even the performers enjoyed themselves on stage (Like me XD). Hui Min's Clarinet solo and Hui Shi's Trumpet solo (Both sounds the same but at different parts) were also great! 2 thumbs up XD. I was thinking of the MV of Ponyo Jon showed me on his phone while playing the piece XD. And for this song too!! The drumset beat during the Tango part (If I'm not wrong) got the whole band going XD. I'm sure it got the audience going too because lots of them did say Ponyo was one of the pieces they liked XD.

Oh and our band performed the world premiere of Decade, composed by Mr. Wong Kah Chun. It was composed by him so he conducted the piece of course. Decade was super nice too. I mean the composition is nice but we performed it nicely as well. I squeaked during Decade. A super soft one though.. AND MY BROTHER HEARD THE SQUEAK!! -.-. Everyone makes mistakes right?... XP.

Last piece we played for the audience was Last Christmas, which was performed last year's Sleigh Ride. I thought of my previous Clarinet section... Yi Zhen, Xian Hua, Yvonne, Liyana, Mui Wen, Saw Wah, Wei Lian... Now Xian Hua's the only one still in the band with me. Oh I miss them XD.

I didn't really get to see the AKE perform.. because I had to be backstage preparing for the encore pieces. The encore piece, Suri Ram, was super fun to play because everyone was like all "not serious" and having fun haha.

After the concert everyone went crazy and started taking photos. When the AKE were doing their cheer they said something like "O~ Re O~" HAHA! After hearing that I shouted "O Re O!!" Then Hui Shi (who was just next to me) followed me then everyone followed HAHA! "O Re O" is like our band cheer now XD.

So overall, the concert was a success!!
Congratz to all the band members, guest players, teachers (Mr. Zachery Lim and Ms. Huang Shijin, and the conductors (Mr. Lim Lip Hua, Mr. Wilson Ong, Mr. Wong Kah Chun) who put in so much effort to make this concert a success =) (Especially my beloved Clarinet and Flute section~ XD).
I want to thank everyone who came down to support me/the band/the performers too =). Especially my parents because they came down to support even though they were so busy. Qiao Ying for the rose and for coming down to support me~ I was super surprised (And happy like mad) when you gave me the rose~ XD. Will never forget.. =). Oh and thanks to the supporters from Kim Seng Wind Symphony (Wei Lian and Shiying) for coming down too XD. When I said Shiying's name, my voice kinda squeaked so it sounded really funny. She nearly died laughing haha and she's still making fun of it -.-. Maybe after my A's, I'll join Kim Seng along with CY. We kinda planned it out already. Wahaha then I get to perform with Wei Lian again =D. Oh back to the "thankings". I'd like to thank OWL and Kamal for being the only 2 out of 20-something in my class to come for the concert to support me. Really appreciate it guys, you guys're the best!! Especially Kamal since he's super supportive of whatever I do XD.

Bolt

2008-12-17T21:23:00.002+08:00

Watched Bolt with Shi Hua today!!
Actually didn't have any plans today but since I wasn't doing anything that time and since Shi Hua's friend overslept, I decided to go catch a movie with her at Cine.
Her friend is horrible!! (No offence). The friend WAY overslept -.-.

Before I left the house, Shi Hua said her phone battery was dying... Thought it would last until I got there but apparently it didn't... I called her cell right after I reached Orchard station (We were supposed to meet at Takashimaya) and got the "The Singtel customer you are calling is not available" message... I was like "Oh shit!... HER BATTERY DIED!!! How am I supposed to find her?!?!" haha. Thought she was waiting near the Orchard station so I searched like everywhere. I went to all the exits like at least 2 times before she called me using her "steam boat friend's" phone.
So lesson of the day: Always decide on the meeting place FIRST that is easy to find~~ XD.

We had a choice to watch between Bolt or Twilight. We decided on what to watch by scissors-paper-stone haha. Shi Hua won so we watched Bolt.

So, about the movie (SPOILERS AHEAD!)
The dog is freaking cute!!!! OMG. Why can't real-life dogs look like that?!
The storyline of Bolt is VERY similar to Toy Story 2.
Bolt is just a normal dog who thinks he's like a super dog who has to fight all these villains and save his person, Penny, from danger when its actually all a movie scene. Nothing's real but Bolt really thinks he has all these powers and stuff. It was really awesome in the beginning. But later on, when Bolt "ran away" it became freaking hilarious!!
I like the cat, Mittens, as well. She's like a really sweet character. Expected the hamster to be really cute but it was kinda freaky haha.
Later on in the movie, it became really sad because Bolt's character "The super dog Bolt" was replaced by another dog. So when Bolt found his way back to the movie set, he saw the other dog and Penny hugging and all. So Bolt thought she forgot all about him and stuff.

I'm lazy to describe the ending =P. I have to go sleep soon anyways. So I give the movie 5/5 stars XD. I enjoyed it so much haha =). Hope Shi Hua did too XD.
After the movie we went down to the Koufu to grab something light but ended up chatting for like 10 minutes instead as we weren't hungry and Shi Hua had to go to the steamboat with her "steamboat friends" XD.
So boring day turned to an awesome day haha =D. Thanks for calling me out!! XD

Band concert tomorrow... Hope we pull off the concert well... Hope everyone would be allowed to play the Decade piece too... Farith and So Young especially...
Can't wait for the overnight at school tomorrow after the concert!! XD.

I'm such a cry-baby -.-

2008-12-14T22:05:00.002+08:00

I woke up crying today. Like seriously in tears and silently calling my mom...
Its because of the dream I had today... This is like the 3rd time having such a sad dream and all 3 times, I woke up crying... I thanked God it was only a dream too. First thing I did when I woke up was hug my mom.
Not gonna talk about the dream. Only God and I know about it since it was like a message from God.
I swear, if the dream comes true, I'll be a completely different James... Perhaps God is letting me have these dreams to prepare me for the worst...

Anyways, because of the dream, I decided to go to the Korean church today to accompany my mom. I figured since my dad will be having his 36 hole golf game with his friends (Its his birthday today), my mom would be all alone during mass. I wanted my bro to come along too but "his soul was sucked into the computer" <---- Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung's favourite quote HAHA!! So I took a long bus ride to my Korean church which is located right next to SMU. All my childhood memories (When I was in Singapore) are mostly from there. Back then, Wynn and Jun Yo Han were around... This time around, I had no friends there cuz Wynn went to the States and Yo Han went back to Korea. I missed them so much.
It was raining after the mass so my mom and I shared umbrellas to her office. I swear, people around said we looked like couples HAHA!! My mom will make a perfect girl friend =). My dad's so lucky. I need to find someone just like my mom. Understanding, caring, funny, loving, pretty, cute, etc. She's the whole package!! XDXD.

I have to go for band early tomorrow to find out whether ALL the members, including guest players, have their own individual scores and black files. Hope Mel comes early tomorrow too =D. Can't wait for this Thursday... I'm finally gonna be free!! =D.

Counter Stike Source: Zombie Mod, Left 4 Dead

2008-12-13T23:42:00.004+08:00

Can anyone, and I mean ANYONE, teach me how to play the Zombie Mod in CSS??...
Oh I have to be able to play the Zombie Mod AND normal games.
And can I play Zombie Mod with bots?? PLEASE HELP!! =).
My bro finds all these ZM videos on YouTube and they look fucking fun!! =D=D.

OHHHHHHHH!!! And Left 4 Dead looks freaking awesome too!!!! I SO WANNA BUY IT!!!
I would have bought it through Steam... BUT I have to save up money for Project Origin and stuff... T^T. Left 4 Dead will have to wait...
"Don't fuck with the Witch!!" <--- haha. The Witch is my favourite "zombie" in the game. Her "cries" freaks me out. The "You Startled a Witch" message too.

P.S. Lots of hot chicks showing up in Westmall these days =D=D. Especially near the Breadtalk area where the clothes and all are sold at XD. I'm gonna go to Westmall almost everyday to buy my Milos and the Almond Chocolate she told me about =).

Upcoming Band Concert

2008-12-12T21:39:00.003+08:00

You shouldn't expect too much in life. The more you expect, the more disappointed you get.

I asked my classmates and my close friends whether they were free on the 18th for my band concert. It was the second time asking for some. First reply was from Liyana via Facebook wall message. She said she can't make it because she have something on that day. I was super sad (See Facebook Status Update) but "Look on the bright side" being my favourite quote/moto, I just thought 'Oh well, at least she came for the previous concerts' and didn't really bother. I mean if she can't come, she can't come. Nothing I can do.
Most of my classmates can't come too. Most of them have something on that day. Or maybe just not interested. Maybe both. I don't know. So far, of the 40+ SMSes I sent, Yi Xian (Still going? =P), Kamal, Crystal, Siva, Wei Lee, and Wei Lian are the ones who confirmed with me that they are going for the concert (My bad if I left out names). Hope other band memebers are having better luck in selling their tickets. I really really hope it'll seriously be a full house this time... Always do.

The band is sounding better and better these days. Well at least better than how we sounded at the previous concert =S. I still hear quite a number of wrong notes though, whenever I'm in front of the stage arranging scores and all. Oh well, practice makes perfect, so... P R A C T I C E ! ! !

P.S. You completely forgot about me already =(

Standard Chartered, Philharmonic Winds Concert

2008-12-08T19:16:00.002+08:00

Yesterday...
I COMPLETED RUNNING THE 42.195KM MARATHON!! OMGOMGOMG =D

Reported at 5:25am at the starting point to meet Shane, Siva and Kamal. Haikal, Shao and Jon didn't come -.-.
The 4 of us, had no actual trainings at all. To train for 42km marathon in my opinion, you have to run at least 4km everyday. Reason why I didn't train? B A N D.

So the race started and Siva was running with his bag... So I gave him my bag too HAHA! =P.
The four of us ran together until like the 2-3k marker. Then Siva decided to walk while the 3 of us carried on jogging.
Near the 5k marker, I lost both Shane and Kamal. Kamal ran ahead since he's a super fit long distance runner, and Shane told me he was resting a bit so I ran ahead. It was my MP3 time from then. I would have been super bored if I didn't bring my MP3 along...

I didn't stop jogging besides the times when I had to stretch or to stop for drinks at the drink stations. After running for long, I thought I ran at least 13km. When I saw the 10km marker ahead of me, the first thought I got was 'Oh man, you're ass fucked James'. I jogged at a very constant pace though, until I reached ECP. Decided to take short walks for 2 minutes before jogging again for 1km. I used my MP3 as a timer so I listened to my songs for 2 minutes before running.

ECP was super depressing... It never seemed to end. Somewhere in ECP, I started having foot cramps. My legs were still okay then. Due to the foot cramps, my pace slowed down like alot. In the middle of ECP, I had to take a long rest because my left leg was cramping. Foot cramp + leg cramps = killer combi. Thats Keng Guan saw me haha. I was still stretching so he went on ahead. After the stretch, I continued to walk because the foot cramp was seriously unbearable... While walking I saw Sylvia (Is that how her name is spelled?) running ahead of me. It was like 22km marker and she was still running... *Salutes*.

Well, eventually I caught up with Keng Guan at around the 24km marker (Not 27km marker... My bad). We both still had a bit of energy left to jog short distances. I think after 27km marker we didn't even have the energy to walk... We slow jogged from the "Drink Station Ahead" signs to the drink stations. Then took a short break before walking again. We were so glad when we saw the 30km marker. We walked and talked all the way until we reached the F1 tracks (40km marker). Thats when I started regaining my energy to jog again. Keng still couldn't jog because he injured his left knee before I met him. We walked until the very last 195 meters. Thats when I started my sprint. Its like my "tradition" to sprint to the finishing line. I am a sprinter anyways... I was so glad I got to run to the finishing line and not drag myself to it. Keng too.
Keng was super supportive throughout the marathon. Plus he kept me company so salutes to Keng Guan too =). We took 8 hours to finish the marathon... I HAD NO TRAINING BY THE WAY~ =P.
Oh during the race, when I was still running, I saw this quote on someone's jersey: "Jesus loves you. Run to him". After reading this, I was like "I HAVE TO RUN!!!!" haha. It was the most encouraging thing I ever read during the marathon.
Oh and another thing. I saw dopplegangers of Gerlaine and Audrey during the race!! Kinda freaky. It was like "Hey! I see Gerlaine/Audrey!" *Looks somewhere else for 1 second then looks back* "Hey... Where did Gerlaine/Audrey go??...".

So after finishing the race, I got my finisher's t-shirt and the medals after handing in the championchips. I had 2 (One for myself and one for Shao Wei) so the dude who was collecting championchips was confused. I kinda mumbled that I picked it up from the ground HAHA! I didn't get 2 shirts though cuz they needed the bib number...
I didn't see any of the helpers like Qiao Ying, Cindy, Shima, Hui Shi, etc during the race either... The only people I know whom I saw during the race were Shane, Siva, and Gerlaine...
I met Kamal after the race, who finished the race in 5 hours and 30 minutes... Salutes to him too XD. I thought I had to wait for Shane and Siva to finish since they had my bag and phone but apparently, Siva finished before me so all my belongings were with Kamal. I was like "How the hell did Siva finish before me?" haha. I mean he ran with his bag!! -.-.
I called Gerlaine and Gracie too to check on them where they were but apparently Gerlaine was still running with her phone was off and Gracie's phone battery was dead -.-.
Oh and by the way, Audrey didn't run the race... She had back injury so she couldn't run... Hope she's 200% fit for the marathon next year since she missed it this year!!

Anyways, to conclude the 42.195km marathon, I'll have to say it was the biggest ass fuck I have ever had in my life... Need to have guts, the strength, and the will-power to run that. I'm glad I finished it even though I probably walked half the marathon =P.

On to my next topic: Phil Winds concert.

Guess what? It was on the same day as the marathon... I was always half dead when I reached the Esplanade AGAIN at 7pm... People who turned up were Mr. Zach Lim, C.Y., Shi Hua, Pei Qi, Jean, Eileen, Yvonne, and Keng Guan (Again also) haha. Keng and I were seriously half dead. Plus we were a bit feverish -.-.

Phil Winds concert was awesome as always. It was Mr. Leonard Tan's (Our previous MI conductor) last concert with the Phil Winds... Super sad to see him and Mrs. Tan AKA Ms. Wee leave... He's such an awesome conductor! I want to learn from him haha. I realised I could learn from him just by going to Phil Winds concerts last year so I tried my best to go to every Phil Winds concert since last year. Of course because our Mr. Lim Lip Hua and Mr. Desmond Chow were performing too =).

The repertoire for the concert were all classical songs. Quite a big change from their previous concert "Phil Winds goes Pop". The first piece they played "The Earle of Oxford's Marche", my all time favourite song, brought lots of memories. Its probably the only song I remember playing when I was still in Singapore American School =D. Other pieces like "Music for Prague 1968" and "La Fiesta Mexicana" were awesome too. The Saxophone solo too. Wow, breath-taking... Combination of what it seemed like demi-semi-quavers plus double tongue pulled off perfectly!! Vincent Gnojek - Truly an awesome Saxophonist.
Oh the Chimes played by our very own, Ms. Wee was super good too when they were performing "La Fiesta Mexicana". When I told C.Y., he was like "Of course! Ms. Wee is playing it!" XD.

We waited for Mr. Lim to come out after the concert. He didn't take his time to pack things this time cuz I messaged him XD. Or else he would have took at least 25 minutes to pack his things haha. He came out covering his face with his concert attire HAHA!! Group photo with him on Facebook!! All thanks to Jean for the camera and Shi Hua for posting it on Facebook =).
Mr. Desmond Chow, the solo Clarinetist in Phil Wind, didn't come out for a long time again... Probably because he's the Phil Winds website manager (If I'm not wrong...). I wonder whether he still remembers me. Gonna have to ask Mr. Lim to ask him whether he does remembers me or not XD.
I didn't get a chance to say bye to Mr. Tan and Mrs. Tan. They were too busy (Has lots of supporters). I'll see the both of them during our concert anyways =).

I wonder who's gonna conduct the Phil Winds now since Mr. Tan is leaving... I'm so gonna miss him and watching his conducting T^T.

Anyways, long live Phil Winds and all the best to Mr. Leonard Tan in the states!~

So that concludes yesterday. Nothing much today except taking more than 50 steps just to walk like 3 meters XD.
Oh and thanks again to Keng Guan and Shi Hua for their concern~ =). Love you guys!! =).

Tomorrow's the day my wife and I will be united again!! Can't wait!! =D=D

P.S. Thanks for the energy boost =)

OH NO!! MY WIFEY!!!!

2008-12-06T22:04:00.002+08:00

O M G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll seriously make a horrible boy friend!! T^T.
I left my darling Clarinet in the Center Stage today after band practice!!!! ='(.
I miss you Clare!! I want to hold you in my arms!!!! T^T.

My Clarinet is my wife. AND I forgot... Since my Clarinet's gonna be left all alone for 3 days, its like the same scenario as a guy ditching his loved one for 3 days!! =(.
I'm super sad... And feel so insecure... The only people who has access to Center Stage are the teachers, the staffs, and the cleaners...

If teachers or staffs find it, they'll probably tell Mr. Zach Lim that they found a band instrument. IF cleaners find it though... I don't know what they'll do... FUCK!!!!

It's all my fault... Stupid me. Fucktard me. Forgettful, irresponsible, etc.

I prayed to God today in church. My Clarinet was the only thing I could think of after band practice. Lunch with Edward, Jojo and Mel kept my mind off it for like 30 minutes since we were all LOFAO (Laughing our fucking ass off).
Edward is super funny!! Jo and Mel got cramps cuz they laughed too much again. Same as when Jerrold was around.

P.S. I wish I had like 100 cupid arrows that'll make people fall madly in love forever with the first opposite gender they see. So I have 99 backups in case the first one doesn't work XP. My wild fantasy.

You, me and an angel with a cupid arrow. How I wish...

P.P.S I MISS MY CLARE!! =(

Destroyed my laptop!!..., Congratz to TH!!

2008-12-05T23:48:00.004+08:00

I think people will think I'm a very violent person after reading this post...

Here's what happened.

I played a Starcraft match with my brother on my lap top. My brother uses the desk top cuz he can't play on the lappy. So after the match, we decided to take a short break to grab something to eat and left our computers on. When I was preparing my noodles or whatever (Don't remember what I ate that day), the lappy freaking restarted for no reason. I had absolutely no problem with that cuz the lappy starts pretty fast. So when I came back, I had to do the "Ctrl + Alt + Tab" to bring up the task manager so I could close all the shitty software that makes the laptop lag. When I closed the task manager, the laptop froze again. I waited for like 5 minutes until the laptop made the "error" noise over and over again. I got seriously pissed and slammed my fist on the laptop like 15 times before switching it off -.-. You people can say its how James takes out his anger. I tried turning it on straight away cuz my brother was waiting for me to join the game. The laptop didn't turn on... So I got more pissed I punched it like lots more times. I even wanted to throw it on the floor (Didn't do it cuz my CD was inside). Stupid laptop. I'm damn sad now though =(. My laptop needs Tae Hyung e hyung's miracle touch XD.

Only my family members seen the "bad/violent" side of me.
Mainly cuz I usually smile/laugh when I'm outside (Besides the times when I emo).
Maybe I shouldn't keep everything inside for a long time before "unleashing" them on something or someone who did nothing wrong -.-.
And stupid me, I just HAD to punch it with my right fist... I broke a freaking thick protector screen before with a single punch before!! Just imagine the damage it caused to the laptop's interior.

Okay, moving on (Zane's favourite quote last time XD).

TAE HYUNG E HYUNG IS FINALLY DONE WITH NS!!!! =D. Thats what the "congratz" is about =D. We're probablly gonna hang out everyday after my concert or something =D.
Badminton, squash, visit to Signature park, Movie marathon, PC 방 (LAN shop), sleep over? HAHA!!

P.S. Why do I miss you so much?...

Quarantine

2008-12-04T22:51:00.002+08:00

Watched Quarantine today!! Like finally!! =D.
I wanted to watch it the day it came out actually...
Sorry Jo! I couldn't wait! But I'd rather watch a funny animation movie with you guys (Like Kung Fu Panda) than watch a horror/gore movie~

Gracie planned the thing cuz I forced her =D. She asked lots of people and I thought those people were gonna turn up for the movie so I brought my camera along. Met up with Shane, Jon, Saw Wah, Gracie and Claudia at BK in Westmall to have lunch first. Then, to my surprise, Jon, Shane and Saw Wah left!! =.-. So Gracie, Claudia and I were the only 3 watching the movie.
Its okay though since we had a great time just by ourselves =P.
Wah, but Gracie's super picky!! She wanted to go to a Cathay Cineplex that was not in town and where there was Ben & Jerry's nearby. I couldn't think of any place so we just went to Plaza Sing XD.

Before the movie started, we went "food hunting" at Plaza Sing because Gracie loves food -.-.
Ya so we bought food from Carrefour and smuggled them into the cinema.
Before the movie started, we saw the "Yes Man" commercial. Its looks super funny!!!! WAHAHA! Who wants to go watch?!?! I'm free everyday after the 18th December XDXD.
And so, the movie started. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD =P
The movie started with the reporter filming a documentary on the everday life of the fire-fighters. All was good until the fire-fighters they were assigned to got an emergency call. Apparently the neighbours at this really old appartment called the fire department cuz they heard this old lady scream with an "un-human-like screech" or whatever. There were 2 cops already in the scene but they had to wait for the fire fighters to bust the door open. I forgot the old lady's name but apparently she was "infected" with this special rabies virus (Which is explained later on in the movie). So the police went into "help" the old woman even though she had blood stained all over her night gown and had white foams coming out of her mouth -.-. Seriously, if I was the policeman, I would have shot her straight away CUZ I would have known that she was a zombie already (Watched too much zombie movies). I would have shot the little girl, the other policeman who got bitten, the firefighter, the other teenage girl who looked grossly sick, etc. The later part of the movie was all about them trying to find a way out of the building, trying to survive, and etc.
Some gory scenes in the movie: When the fire fighter who was bitten walked out of the little room with his left leg dangling (Because the bone was like almost completely broken), and when the "CDC" people (I forgot what they stand for) drilled a hole in the fire fighter's head to get a brain sample.
Some "surprising" scenes were: When the camera man was looking into the attic, when the little girl suddenly attacked her mom -.-
There was a bit of suspense too when the vet-dude found out that it was rabies.
I don't understand why some people give the movie a negative rating (according to Zane)... The movie was both funny, and thrilling!! I give it a 4/5 stars. The camera wasn't so shaky as compared to Cloverfield too so Siva can go watch without vomitting probably =P.

After the movie we went to eat Hokkien Mee at a food court near Gracie's house cuz she said it was "good". First time trying a Hokkien Mee, and I liked it!! =D. Kelly joined us after her AKE practice too. She was super tired haha.
Ya, so thanks to Gracie, Claudia, and Kelly for making today super fun~ =D.

P.S. Jo! Lets go watch Bolt together with our band mates =D. Oh and there has to be drinks!! XD. And Claudia! Lets go watch Yes Man after my band concert PLEASE!! =D. This time I'll organize~ HAHA!!

The end of drama The Great King Sejong

2008-11-30T22:32:00.002+08:00

OMG today was the last episode of the drama "Great King Sejong (대왕세종)"... Its a historical drama about the greatest king in the Joseon (조선) times. My ancestor =D.
The drama was awesome from beginnng til the end. As the drama progressed, my respect towards the Joseonese scholars and Sejong grew. The way they speak and argue in terms of politics is seriously WOW.
The first few episodes were about how the 2nd son of Taejo (태조) would become the king instead of the 1st son.
Later part of the drama focused on Sejong's reign. About the territory expansion to the Yalu River (Currently North Korea)?? I forgot -.-. And creating the new writing system. Now I realise how "special" Korean is. Korean can describe certain things other languages don't even have words to. Feelings, objects, or just "action words" like *sigh* etc. No wonder foreigners find it difficult to learn Korean! Only those with Korean blood can learn them perfectly =P.

Oh, and my blog song is the OST from the drama =D. Super nice!! (Well at least to me). Ask me for the track if you want =D.

Hmm... I wonder what other historical drama KBS World will broadcast since Sejong's over... I hope they do on General Yi Soon Shin haha. My all time favourite figure when I was young.

P.S. There is something I'm really bad at afterall! -.-

Ragnarok

2008-11-28T10:01:00.002+08:00

I started playing Ragnarok Online again =D.

Playing on Spiritus RO (Private server, absolutely no lag, no wipe, 100% free).
So do tell me if you play RO and want to play on the server I'm playing on~
I can give you free items/money etc XD.

While playing RO, I found some "links" to the Ragnarok comic book series which was canceled half way, and the game. When I was doing the Thanatos quest, I actually read all the carvings on the walls in the game when I didn't have to. Then I came across this: "I am Thanatos". 3 words told me lots of things. It meant Thanatos was actually a human in his earlier life before becoming one of the most strongest Boss Monsters in the game. Then I remember the scene in the comic book about this guy called Tanat fighting the Demon King Surt. The appearance of Tanat looks exactly like Thanatos!! And the appearance of Tanat looks exactly like Assassin Loki!! So... Loki is Tanat reborn in the comic. Thanatos is the "evil" self of Tanat...
Imagine if this was a low rate server... I would have lost confidence to fight Thanatos the moment I found this out cuz Tanat is freaking strong in the comic -.-
Of course, at the end of the quest, my level 500 Assassin Cross manhandled Thanatos =D. It didn't drop a card though...

All I need to make my character Godlike is Thanatos Card, Kiel-D01 Card, Tao Gunka Card, and Amon Ra Card... Which are all freaking hard to get!!... I killed these MVPs more then 100 times already... Card drops at a 0.01% chance... So I have to kill them 1000 times just to get 1 freaking card... Hope I have that much time though, and hope the server don't close down or something.

I think I'm gonna restart sketching comic characters again =D.

P.S. Playing Sudoku with Gracie is super funny!! Haha.

Class outing, Down with a bad cold

2008-11-25T22:47:00.006+08:00

Yesterday was the 07S7 + 1 07S5 class outing!! Was really excited cuz we were gonna rollerblade/cycle again at East Coast!!
Can't be considered a class outing though. Cuz only 6 of us (Not including OWL) turned up... Hmm, pathetic.
I didn't really care about who were gonna turn up though. It was good as long as we all had fun.
So the peopled who turned up were: Claudia, Gerlaine, Kelly, Jon, Wei Lee (OWL), Shane (Was late), and myself.
Jon and I were on blades again. Gerlaine was deciding whether to cycle or blade until I told her "Blades are only for cool people". The others were cycling.
Lucky Jon has his own blades so he didn't have to spend any money. Gerlaine and I had to pay $10 for 3 hours. It was WAY cheaper than other shops since they were offering 50% discount to all bladers. The blades stank like omg though... The wheels on my blades didn't spin properly too so I had to put in extra effort just to go fast, which was fucking tiring...
We travelled in packs. We didn't leave anyone behind. Can't believe Gerlaine forgot to take out her camera from her bag!! HAHA!! So I brought mine instead, thus I was the camera man for the day.
We went to lots of places like the bridge place, the jetty, the round place thing we went to last time, etc.
Haha and I was finally taller than OWL!! Gerlaine kept on saying "This is my ideal height" when she was on blades XD.
I tried to race OWL, who was cycling, on the crap pair of blades I rented. Bad choice haha. You wait until the time when I get better pair of blades... =D
Carl's Jr. came after that. I wasn't really feeling well NOR hungry that time so I couldn't eat properly -.-. Drank too much isotonic drink before, during, and after rollerblading... Yeah, I'm weird.
So, overall, the "class outing" was super fun (Even with a small number of people).
Hope we get to stay out even later next time people!! Sorry I had to leave early that day -.-
Can't wait for next time~ (Of course it won't be East Coast. Right? =P)

Okay... So about today...
Was down with sinus the whole day today... Fever and headache in the morning only... Whenever I get sinus, my body becomes extremely cold and I start sweating. So even a slight breeze makes me feel cold cuz of the freaking cold sweat...
Thank God for creating Starcraft though. I literally forgot I was not feeling well when I was playing with my brother.
When my brother went out, I spent a few minutes hugging our rice-maker (I don't know what its called in English...) and playing with fire in an attempt to keep my body warm. I think I burnt away all the hair on my arm today... Lots of thanks to my SAS friends for buying me the Playboy Zippo lighter =D.
Heat is my source of strength.

Okay, I'm literally dying right now so gonna end this post... (Cuz I'm sick)
Time to play with fire again~
Don't worry nothing will catch fire. Except for me that is =P

P.S. How would it feel like if your blood is boiling and you're still well alive?? XD.

KSWS, Stuff I want to blog about...

2008-11-24T00:11:00.003+08:00

Went to watch Kim Seng Wind Symphony perform today with C.Y., Yvonne, Keng Guan, Hui Min (MI CL ASL), Shikin, Hafizah and Xian Hua.
I became a loyal supporter of KSWS after my "senior", Wei Lian, joined.
Their performance was great. I kept thinking to myself whether I can join their band after my A levels... I probably can, as a reserve incase one of the Clarinet player can't perform for the concert or something... Such a bad player like me probably can't join those bands IF they have auditions...
Anyways, they performed familiar pieces like "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Pirates of the Carribean". They are 2 pieces IJC/MI band played so I have the scores.
I saw some familiar faces among the performers besides Wei Lian too. There was Sze Hou (JB boi), Shiying and Andre!! All 4 players we know played solos!! Freaking awesome. Wei Lian's Solo came in around the end of 2nd or 3rd song~ Then he played another solo for the Pirates. Awesome tone quality!! Wei Lian's awesome! Andre's solo was the starting of the "Howl's Moving Castle". Again, awesome tone quality and pitching. It was really amazing. Sze Hou's solo was the timpani solo during the first song. Super nice since the drums and timpani were the only 2 instruments being played. Then Shiying played on the drumset for the "Music from the Incredibles". She certainly got the band and the audience going there haha.
5/5 star concert. A must watch/listen!
Hope I can join their band in the future...

Hmm besides that, I really want to blog about lots of things that are happening in my life.
But I can't...
I really want to talk about these things to someone... Someone whom I trust with my life and someone whom I don't feel awkward talking about those things to... Aish was probably the only friend I let everything out on. She's seen the bad side of me as well as the good side of me. I'm sure most of you only saw/know the good side of me though... Aish is someone I can cry my heart out to. I miss her... Like she said, she went off at a WRONG time... Curse you Aish!! Tomorrow you'll have multiple bird shits falling on you!! Grrr...

P.S. Waiting patiently

Family outing, Class outing, Band outing

2008-11-22T23:39:00.003+08:00

Had our family outing today~ Nothing much really. Just having dinner and shopping in Westmall. Its been a while since my family had dinner together in Westmall. It was always to Sushi Tei at Holland Village the other times haha.
Ate Korean food again~ I'll never get sick of that store. The "nice" auntie wasn't there today though... She probably recognize me as the handsome Korean boy who never gets sick of their store HAHA! "Shameless".
Had a little guy chat with my dad and brother today when my mom went to buy her food. The conversation started with me spotting a girl who looked like 3 of my friends combined haha. So I found her really pretty and told my dad and bro to see her (Of course take secret glances!). Both of them were like.. "She's so not pretty...". My dad even said "You're not like me... I don't have that bad taste..." in Korean!! OMG. Then my dad went on to how we should find girls haha! Super funny. My dad was like "You can date 3-4 girls at once! Like how I did when I was your age (and dating your mom)". Of course its a joke!! He also told us about how he used to just approach random girls and ask for their number as a dare! Omg its something I don't think I can ever do haha!! My dad's my idol =D
Ya then my mom came back so we dropped the topic XD (She knows what we were talking about though).
After eating we went to Sol Mart (솔마트) to buy food which are shipped straight from Korea. I accidently said "Ssbal (씨발)", which means fuck, out loud in the shop!! Thank God no one else were Koreans (I know cuz no body turned their head to stare at me) (And yeah, my parents don't really mind me swearing now =D). We purposely talked extra loud in the shop after that, to tell everyone we were Koreans haha. We acted as if we own the store too. Pointing out differnt chips we used to eat when we were still in Korea haha. Super fun with mom and dad around too.
Was supposed to get a new phone today but the freaking Singtel shop was fucking crowded... Guess I'll have to wait... I don't know which phone to get!! I'm kinda low on budget so I'll just get the free one this time... Haha! Anything's better than the one I have now...

Hmm ya so family outing done~ Class and band outing left.

Class outing is on Monday!!!! Woo hoo!! Like our first ever outing after the exams... Kinda pathetic haha... Hope lots of me classmates will show up.
Gonna have to leave early during band practice though. I'll just take the section photo, photocopy scores and leave I guess. DAMMIT! I'M GONNA MISS LUNCH WITH MY BANDMATES!! T^T (Supposed to be Pasta).

So class outing coming up. Next one I gotta prepare for is the band outing which JOJO will plan. Jo! Hurry up with the planning!! And turn 18 fast so we can all get drunk =D.
Can't wait for band camp and band chalet also!! We're gonna sneak in drinks again to band chalet haha! And this time, I'm gonna ask Edward, Alex and Derrick to save up some of their drinks for me too... Hope Hilmi comes =D

Hmmm even with all the fun events coming up, I still feel kinda sad. Something's missing...
Oh well. I'll try not to think about it.

P.S. I can delete my MSN account already -.-

Band Practice(s)

2008-11-22T00:49:00.003+08:00

Today's band practice was so tiring!! Well at least to me cuz I didn't get enough sleep (Slept at 3am).

Worked on Celebrate and Jungle today. Jungle's such an awesome piece to play (Because I play 1st Clarinet =P). Mr. Ong told us (Clarinet section) to work on the semi-quavers for Celebrate before we had to do sectionals. I took sectionals today since I was lazy to photocopy scores. The semi-quavers in Celebrate would be much easier if the notes are not tied... From 3rd beat, 3 semi-quavers are tied, then another 3, then 2 by it self and accented... Gotta practice alot... We decided to split parts so like it would sound as if we're passing the music around. Gotta make sure we play as smoothly as possible. So ya, sectionals was awesome today. Had to raise my voice though cuz it was so noisy with the brass practicing their own parts and all. I got to conduct again! =D. I always feel like being the Student Conductor these days instead of being a Librarian. I mean I did learn conducting (Although some people are not familiar with my conducting... -.-) =P.
And~ Special thanks to Shi Hua for that SMS today!! XD. It actually made me LOL =D. Haha thanks to you too for being so patient with my teaching haha (Like I said through SMS =D). And don't practice so hard until your teeth hurts okay?? =).
Oh and I kept squeaking today!! Its either my 7 year old Clarie or the reed... I hope its my reed... Don't want to send my Clarie for repair for the first time. I took such good care of it for 7 years now! I rock!

So, after the band practice, Mr. Zachery Lim ordered us "Chewy Juniors" because of our commitment to band. Clarinet section got 2 each cuz MOST of us turn up for band practices everytime, and on time as well. Not only the Clare section, but others too of course haha. The usual people who turn up for practices. Edward got to eat 3 pieces!! The 3rd piece he ate was actually supposed to be Mr. Lim's if I'm not wrong since Ms. Huang couldn't eat haha! =P.

Anyways, my fringe is annoying the living hell out of me these days... I so need a hairclip (Following SOMEONE's advice =P). Get me a hair clip people! =P. Why're you laughing? I'm serious! Or a hair band too. I don't mind.
I remember Hui Min (From YISS 4E1) say I look as if I'm literally sick/ill/diseased cuz of my long hair haha! Ouch.
I don't look like that right?! =S. Hmmm but I prefer to be called "a guy who looks as if he's gonna die of disease" than a freaking "geek". Please! I'm not a geek! If you think I am, then you don't know me well at all -.-
I'm just smart and good looking thats all =). HAHA! Jk!

P.S. I want to go out with you! =S

"Fear Alma again"...

2008-11-20T18:54:00.002+08:00

I'm gonna talk about games for this post.

Alma is back, and she is as scary as fucking hell.

I went to the FEAR 2: Project Origin website recently (and just now) and saw a new "Alma" video.

First time watching the video:
I saw the freaking video alone in my room with volume at 50%... Bad choice.
I thought it wasn't gonna be scary. After all, I know how Alma looks like and she wasn't that scary. In the video though, the unexpected scream by a little girl caught me off guard. The video was lagging so I managed to see a pair of red/orange eyes when the scream was heard... I had no idea what I saw. I was like "HOLY FUCKKKKKKKKK!" and my family came rushing in my room haha. I told them I saw a ghost. Only my brother knew what I was talking about so he was the only one who stayed.
Second time watching:
I felt less afraid since my brother was with me. I was still disturbed by the spine-chilling scream though so I turned down the volume to like 10%.
The scream was still heard LOUD AND CLEAR... And this time, I definately saw a pair of red eyes. My brother claimed he saw someone's hand though. So downloaded the Alma video so we could watch without experiencing any lag.
Third time watching:
Download was complete. The video played without any lag this time...
We were expecting to see a pair of red eyes/someone's hand ONLY JUST AFTER the scream. We were caught off guard again when ALMA, that freaking scary girl in red dress, appeared (jumped more like) in the screen screaming her lungs off. Scared the living hell out of the both of us. The rest of the video was nothing though. It just showed the new physics engine in the game, how the player will be experiencing paranomal activity and what Alma will do to the player in the game. The Single Player physics is fucking awesome. I don't know whether my computer can run the game without any lag... (Need to upgrade my fucked up graphic card).

I get chills down my spine just by thinking about it.
After the video, my brother was like "I don't think we can play this game...". And I agreed HAHA!
I'm still getting the game no matter what! I'll nearly get heartattacks though since even FEAR was scary to me when I first played.

But I still love Alma when she appears as the little girl in red dress =). I hate the naked/deformed version of Alma though...

FEAR 2: Project Origin comes out in late Feb 2009. Can't wait.

Short Ride In A Fast Machine

2008-11-19T23:01:00.004+08:00

OMG! It was the first time playing this song (for me) in band today!!

F R E A K I N G B O R I N G ! !
The Clarinet part is a freaking ostinato!
BUT
I love this piece. HAHA!
What I mean is, I love hearing other PROFESSIONAL wind bands performing this piece but I don't like to play it.

Its a challenging piece for the Clarinets cuz we have semi-quavers all the way from the beginning of the piece til the end. Divisi all the way.

So ya. We (the Clarinet section) really have to work on this piece. It requires teamwork to play our parts perfectly so everyone has to be perfect. The perfectionist side of me emerging -.-.

If you guys didn't hear the song before, go check it out at YouTube!! Its awesome seriously! Unless if you don't like band music...
So ya, those coming to the concert! There is a sneak preview to how the opening piece of the concert will sound like! =P

P.S. I wonder how my wonderful classmates are spending their holidays... Not mugging all the way I hope... XD

-.-

2008-11-18T22:31:00.002+08:00

Okay... I think everyone thinks I'm like super anti-Japanese haha.
Which is SO NOT TRUE!! XP. I just consider Japan like the main economic rivals to Korea thats all =D. I love Japanese songs! I love Japanese games like Resident Evil and King of Fighters! I love Japanese anime series like the Saiyuki series and some old ones like Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X haha. I love their language, even considered learning it. Gave up long time ago though haha. Its just too hard XD. And 2 of my close friends are half Japanese!! The Miyauchi's haha; Taka and Chie. Taka's like my brother and Chie, she was the girl of my dreams for like 5 years? Before I finally gave up haha.
So please don't go telling other people, who love Japan, that I'm anti-Japanese. That would be making the 2 of us, or whole bunch of them and me enemies or something, which I do not want haha.

Oh and another thing. I AM NOT GAY!
OMG.
Oh and the "boy friend" thing, its only a joke! Please! Haha.
Plus, I'm a Catholic. Its against my religion to be a homosexual. So ya =).

P.S. Only your thoughts and opinions matters to me. I don't care how others see me.

Nothing to be sad about

2008-11-17T21:42:00.004+08:00

I realised during band that I have nothing to be sad about.

I thought it was gonna be another fucked up day for me but it turned out otherwise.
Band practice started today at 8:30am. I couldn't join my section for sectionals cuz I had to photocopy conductor scores (All by myself too!! =S). Maybe it was a good thing, me not joining sectionals cuz I kinda did a self-reflection while photocopying scores. I had no one to talk to so I silently talked to myself. Like a loner right?! After like 3 hours of photocopying scores/self-reflection, I felt way better.
It was seriously nothing to be sad or angry about. Sorry for all the angry/emo posts =S.

When I went back to the band room, I received warm "hello"s from my section mates, band mates and my "boy friend" HAHA!! =P. They never fail to make me smile and laugh during band. I didn't really act all sad and stuff today so my band mates probably didn't know I was feeling a little sad haha!
But still. Yvonne, Shi Hua, Hui Min, Xian Hua, Cindy, Pei Qi, Jojo, Zane, Derrick, Keng Guan, Jonathan, and to those whose name I missed, thanks for making every band practices awesome, and most kick-ass ever!
Can't believe CY wasn't there though -.-. No wonder band felt.. empty. HAHA!

P.S. So Jo! When are we watching the movie?! Haha. Call my "boy friend" and "Master Shifu*" along as well this time!! =D. AND HILMI MUST COME!! Too bad Seaweed Cow Zero (Kim So Young translated in English) will miss the movie outing this time. Jojo, you organize everything! Cuz I'm too lazy to do so =P. Tag me back girl!

_

2008-11-17T00:14:00.005+08:00

Somebody beat the living hell out of me so that I can't remember how to be sad anymore...

Piece of shit.

Maybe one of the reasons why God created me in a way so that I "heal" fast is because I get "hurt" easily (Both physically and emotionally I guess).
Could this be the effect of bipolar disorder?! If it is, then I really am bipolar...

I so fucking need a punching bag. I've seen people practice on them and hell, they're the greatest tool to release your anger at...

No peaceful sleep tonight...

P.S. I want 45% alcohol Vodka again... Not some shitty cheap ass 8% alcohol ones they sell in 7/11...

Standard Chartered Marathon, Tiring band practices

2008-11-16T14:35:00.004+08:00

3 things that are bothering me like hell these days

I heard from Kamal that the run shit was in early December...

I'm freaking running 42km and I didn't start training yet... Guess I'll walk lots of times.
To whoever reads my blog in my class, wanna go to East Coast and run our asses off? It'll be a great "diet" plan for those on diet too (Siva).

I guess you guys are okay with any day... I'm the problem huh? Because of my fucked up band schedule -.-... How about this coming Saturday? From like 4pm to 7pm?? Then we can have dinner, go to Jon's house, etc =D.
Or we can just meet in school and run around the track (Cuz its close to my house =D).

Oh ya and people! 18th December is my band concert!! Come support yeah? =).
Some people MUST come =P.
And spread the word too!!

Problems I face in band: being a section leader AND a librarian at the same time.
Pros and cons of being a section leader:
Pros: None
Cons: Teachers come after me when members are not turning up (HAHA! Makes me feel guilty), lots of things to do like arranging parts and making sure everyone has equal number of 1st Clarinet parts... (Can we drop the switch-part-for-every-song system?... I want to play 1st all the way =P), have to message members before the day of the band practice to remind them to blah blah blah...
Of course I have assistants but it still gets tiring working double posts. (I hope Saw Wah and Yvonne agree with me for the pros and cons part since they were SLs too XD)

Yeah, and so being the librarian also, I have to go for band practices early to photocopy scores and stuff... With So Young not around I have no one to push my tasks to since Mel's always so busy with percussion stuff [Not blaming her =)].

I can't wait til I step down from the double post, which will be like after the SYF next year. Therefore, I can't wait til SYF next year =P.

P.S. Am I being ignored?...

Not my day today

2008-11-15T15:21:00.002+08:00

Yeah, title says it.

Today is/was a shit day for me (At least until now and probably later too). No reason. Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of bed or something...

My brother was cursing Star Sports for not showing NBA on time. Usually I'll agree with my brother and will curse too but today I got so fed up, I shouted at him to STFU. I think it was a little too loud... The neighbours probably heard it cuz I kinda heard an echo.

Then my fucked up MSN just had to piss me off even more. I couldn't sign online when my brother's account was working fine.
I got pissed off for no reason again when playing Solitare too.

Even my favourite e-sports, Starcraft, failed to get my mind off things...
Facebook too. Its boring going to Facebook these days too... It was really fun last time though.

I think I'm gonna go drinking later. Light one though. Don't think I can get past today without it... Lets hope I don't go around my house punching everything =S

Sigh... How I wish you were here and maybe have a similar day as Thursday (Only longer)...

Nah. I'm angry at myself, never to you.

Why is it that I'm always angry when I'm sad?...

Chocolate

2008-11-14T18:19:00.002+08:00

If a chocolate given to you represents a portion of my love towards you, the world will run out of chocolates.

Yes I'm certain, and I'm not gonna hide my feelings now.

WAHAHA

2008-11-14T09:10:00.004+08:00

I was feeling a mix of happiness and nervousness (Don't know whether I phrashed this correctlY -.-). I felt mOre nervous than when I was presenting my OP or even when I was playing a solo dUring a band concert. At the same time, I was literally jumping around my house in joy like some retarded, over-groWn kid (Not litErally!). It was the same feeling I had just outside the O-hub.

I got ready and all by 6:30pm exactly. Checked and re-checked to make suRe I wasn't "drEssing up" too much. I had everything planned out in my head (BBad choice though... Should have wrotE down on a paper or something). So I mAde sure I had enoUgh money, made sure I wasn't forgeTting anything, and made sure I dIdn't get too sweaty.
Took a bath like 2 times too. Washed my face with soap 6 times to try to get the ugly pimple on my face to disappear.
I also kinda made a list in my head (Again, a bad choice) on where to go, what to do and stuFf like that if there was time left before leaving my hoUse.

So, I reached the pLace by 7:20pm-725pm. Went up to the rendezvous point and waited like 10-15 minutes. We met at the rendezvous point and as soon as we did, everything I planned and whatever vanished into thin air. One word to describe; Beautiful/pretty/gorgeous. The glasses look uglY?! No they don't! And its impossible for the wEarer to look ugly =). The word ugly and your name together would be an oxymoron. Same goes for my name too HAHA!
Ya so since the plan I came up with vaniShed, I can't say that everyThing wEnt accoRding to plan AND everything didn't go accorDing to plAn haha.

We bought tickets to 007: Quantum of Solace and still had around 30 minutes to spare. I started hating the place cuz there were no place to shop around and stuff. In the end, we just got chips from the supermarket to smuggle in the cinema. Yeah, so after that was movie time alreadY. Really should have ate dinner first before watching, but again, I didn't want you reaching home so late even though there were no curfews. I can't be selfish (Nicer way of saying XD) =)

I have to say, the movie was better than the first one. No scene where James Bond gets his balls bullwhip-ed over and over again though.
The new bond is too aggressive too... My ideal James Bond image is the Pierce Brosnan-as-James Bond image =).
And I'm damn stupid! Jacket/sweater just HAD to be in the washing machine TODAY!!... OMG. I'll bring my sweater along everywhere, everyday even though I'm wearing long sleeve... Or hell, even though I'm going to a freaking desert.

There was a little plan change after the movie. We didn't get to eat after the movie cuz the potato chips and the popcorns did the job. Ya, and so in the end I got to find out where your house is.

Thank you so much for making a normal day one of the most happiest days of my life! =)
Hope it won't be long before the next one? =P.

P.S. 3 Ferrero Rocher per week!

For the sake of blogging

2008-11-12T23:59:00.003+08:00

Here I am, blogging again for the sake of blogging...

Been busy lately even though I'm done with PW and H1 A levels.
No offence, but band has been (still is) eating up my holidays these few days.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays I have to go back to school in the stupid cleaner-like school uniform to play my instrument, Clarinet. Do I really have to?... I mean I have my own instrument and all. I practice like everyday at home, so why not let me stay home and practice by myself? After I master my parts, the rhythm and playing together with the band will be a no problem.

Anyways, enuff whinning... I have to say, these few days, the band actually sounds good to me. There are no more off pitch sounds, wrong notes and all... When we played Cantilena today, it was the first time I actually "felt" the music strongly while playing in MI band HAHA!
The song "Jungle" sounds awesome too, although I have to admit I wanted to play movie pieces than songs like Jungle for this concert... Concert's coming up soon... We all better practice hard.

Hmmm... Nothing else to blog about -.-
Haha I hope I don't give a bad impression or anything later today (13 November 2008, Thursday) =S
Surprising how a nobody like me gets this oppotunity =)
Lets enjoy the Ferrero Rocher and hope I get my wish...

P.S. Some of you may agree with me that all you get from love is pain (note: SOME). I want to experience the "good side" of love...
I pray to God, Jesus my lord, wish upon my shinning star...

Oral Presentation

2008-11-06T23:25:00.003+08:00

My oral presentation (OP) was yesterday, 6th of November (My brother's birthday) at 10:30am...

So our OP started with Jasmine starting off with the "Imagine" thing.

Jasmine's presentation was okay. Her voice could be heard, she talked quite fluently, and she didn't have any cue cards. It was probably one of the good (note: not best) presentation Jasmine managed to pull off.

Next up was Cheryl. She also started off her part of the presentation brightly by smiling. She seemed to be interacting with the audience for her introduction but that soon faded. I could tell she was nervous. Can't blame her. There were 4 assesors, 1 external moderator, and 7 audience staring right at her, and at her only. I would say her actual OP wasn't one of the best she has presented so far. It doesn't mean that it was bad either. It just means she was good, but could have done way better.

Vaani took over the slides after Cheryl. She started off by interacting with the audience by telling them to close their eyes. The assesors were supposed to close their eyes also but they didn't... Her idea of going close to the audience also went down the drain when one of the assesors asked Vaani to move back. I guess Vaani was a little taken aback at this which greatly affected her overall presentation. Vaani's presentation, like Cheryl's, wasn't bad either. She kept on refering to her cue cards and stammered here and there during her part of the presentation.

My part came next. My heart was beating so fast when Vaani went to her final slide. When Vaani said, "Now, I shall pass on the presentation to James..." all the nervousness disappeared. Yeah, I'm "weird" like what many of you think =/. I started my part with just a normal introduction, nothing fancy. As I was going on to my first slide, I glanced at all the assesors and they were like all smiling, giving me the "Just go for it" face etc. It was super encouraging. Throughout my presentation, the assesors kept on nodding for each point I said and I had to make constant eye contact with them to score for my "Awareness of Audience". It was surprising that I didn't refer to my cue cards at all, although I was holding them. My "cheesy" ending was also pulled off quite well, even though it was a last minute thing. "Samsung Electronics, its not that hard to imagine" HAHA! Can't believe I actually said it. All the assesors were laughing/smiling as if they knew that I was Korean and was promoting a Korean brand haha! (Or maybe they really knew =.-)

It was, however, the RTQ (Response to Questions) that killed me. Jasmine, Cheryl, and Vaani were able to answer well for their questions. I blanked out when I heard my question. I kept thinking 'Oh shit, why didn't we cover on that?!' haha because the question was "What would we do to spread the idea of smart homes to the low income people" or something like that. I guess the reason I blanked out was because I was thinking of the answers for the questions my group members were asked haha.

Overall, I'm satisfied with my oral presentation =D. It would have been more encouraging if more people turned up for our OP though. Everyone over slept or couldn't come because they had something else on...

The Sun rising in the West tomorrow?

2008-11-04T21:02:00.003+08:00

OMG!!!! CHIE GOT FACEBOOK!!

THE SUN WILL RISE IN THE WEST TOMORROW!!

Haha cuz she was like "I'm too lazy to get Facebook". So the fact that she got Facebook means she wasn't being lazy, which there is only like 1% chance of happening. Thus, the Sun will rise in the West tomorrow. Haha! I have no idea what I'm saying.

Whats wrong with me?...

2008-11-04T18:15:00.004+08:00

Had OP Mock today with Mr. Teng (the Environmentalist Activist Group teacher) and I seriously screwed up.

I'm really at fault really, because the slides I was supposed to present were edited COMPLETELY by my group member like 12 hours before the presentation... I have to admit, I was freaking pissed off yesterday because I had to change MOST of my speech, and I didn't even know the content I was supposed to present.

My previous speech, was perfect. I didn't freaking need the little notes at all when I last rehearsed it. It was all memorized and I knew freaking well about the content I was presenting. I didn't understand why my previous slides had to go actually. My group member just changed it without telling me. Didn't even mention WHY her slides seemed better. I talked with my friends yesterday on MSN and they told me to go talk and reason with my group member... I didn't because I was so not in the mood to talk to that person. Maybe I wouldn't have been as pissed off if she told me beforehand that she was gonna change my slides...
Oh well... Forgive and forget; my moto (?) haha.

Right, so because my content was edited, my Mock OP was fucked up. I had to refer to my cards like alot beacuse I wasn't sure of the content I was presenting. My confidence was like non-existent too... Ms. Zhang said my hands were shaking uncontrollably. I didn't really notice it though cuz all I could think of that time was "Get this over with", "This is fucked up", "Can I stop?...". I bet if I used the previous slides, I wouldn't have been nervous at all. Like what Ms. Zhang said, I think I only present well if I know what I'm talking about. She mentioned me talking in band (making announcements and stuff) and told me to imagine as if I'm talking to my band mates during the actual OP. Not a bad idea, but I make lots of jokes and all haha (at least to my Clarinet section). Haha Ms. Zhang also asked me who in our class will make me all calm and stuff haha. I was like.. "no one"... Haha!

Lets hope I don't screw up for the actual OP.

P.S. No point mourning over a spilled drink... Lets prepare for whats coming =)... Cheer up...

When I'm mad

2008-11-01T15:32:00.002+08:00

When I'm mad and sad at the same time, I go "LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at almost full volume (only when I'm alone that is).
Bodies - Drowning Pool, kick-ass song, stress relief.

I can't wait for 6th of November!! From 7th onwards, I'll probably be on my computer 24/7. Unless people ask me out or if I have to go buy lunch for me brother.
My brother's turning 16 on 6th November. I REALLY want to buy him his AND1 shoes but I don't have the money... Anyone wants to share? (Even though you don't know my brother and all =.-). My parents are probably gonna say "We can't be wasting money on buying presents nowadays" if I ask her for that extra cash. And its damn true these days... Thanks to the recession fuck.

FUCKING MONEY'S THE PROBLEM!!!!
Lots of things to buy, but no money.

I wonder how those people, whose money just flows in their doorstep, spend their money. Nothing against them, but just curious.
And yet people still think I'm "rich"... Fuck no I'm not. I live in a freaking HDB and gets $0 allowance (no allowance). My wallet's empty most of the time these days.

I'm gonna fold 1000 cranes again like last time when our family had to suffer from IMF back in Korea. No, its not to wish for my family to be rich (that would be selfish =P).
I know God is letting us experience this for a good reason. Who knows? If I never went through the hard times during IMF in Korea, I might never have felt pity to the poor like how I am now.

=.-

You know what? I have no fucking idea what the fuck I'm talking about. I'm in a state of "mixed emotions" right now haha. Happy, sad, angry, frustrated all at the same time.
Gonna be a good boi and study for Geog now...

Apologies if my excessive use of the word FUCK offended you =.-

Izure, minna shinen desu yo

2008-10-31T19:01:00.004+08:00

I'm not supposed to be blogging =P. Just take it as me taking a break from studies

Had nothing else to do so I decided to make a random post.

Tae Hyung e hyung messaged me today!! Like finally. He said he was gonna get his driver's license!! Which means the next time we go lanning, we won't have to ride a cab anymore HAHA! We'll probably share the fuel price =P.

Anyways, I'm feeling freaking tired right now. Probably because the first thing I did when I opened my eyes was to turn on my computer. I can't study in the morning anyways. Like all Koreans, my brother and I played an intense match of Starcraft on a map my brother customized. Okay, from here on, I don't think people who doesn't play Starcraft will understand anything haha. It was intense because MY fleet (Not Kel-Morian) consisting of 25 Terran Battlecruisers got annihilated, for the very first time. Reason? 3 VS 1 situation. My brother was happily defending his base, a computer Terran was seriously doing nothing useful. 3 Protoss manhandled my fleet in all directions. It was heartbreaking really... We won in the end though =D
Yeah, thats the reason why I'm tired =.-. Enough about games.

I've been thinking really hard recently about certain things... One of them is regarding love.
If you're sure you love that person, you should "go all out" right?... But what do you do if you know or think that person is already attached? Or if that person wants to be just friends?... And what do you do when you're rejected? I'm sure everyone has different answers...
I think almost everyone has experienced this "situation" at least once. Except for the really lucky ones who got together with their first love.

Shit, emo post again =.-
Shall blog later again if I can. I'm sure it'll be a happier post.
Haha I think I have bipolar disorder (thanks Samuel's PW group); first part of the post is happy, but the later part is super emo. HAHA! Go search it up if you don't know the term!

P.S. I used to think loving, or hell even liking someone who is already attached was wrong (as in we shouldn't)... But I think I'm in that situation right now... What should I freaking do?! =.-

End of School, Preparation for A's, Band Practices, Quarantine is out!!

2008-10-31T00:08:00.003+08:00

School ended and I don't know whether to feel happy or sad.
Come to think about it, school was the place where I actually laughed-out-loud everyday (besides when I'm meeting the Lee brothers). All my friends in school, especially my classmates, never fail to put a smile on my face. Now some of these are going to change since some of my besties in school are leaving... I guess this is how my SAS friends felt when I was leaving. Afterall, I WAS very close to all of them. I'll definately keep in close touch with all who are leaving. Either through MSN, email, SMS, or through Facebook.
Facebook is becoming VERY important in my life these days.

Being PU2, school ending for me also meant that A levels were approaching. I checked the calendar on the last day of school only to find out that my Geography exam was next Monday. I don't think I need to worry that much though. My concept for all 3 topics are perfect, its just, I need freaking case studies to back my concept... Plus my time management is horrible!... 4 DRQs (Data Response Questions) in 1 hour and 30 minutes... Which is like super slow... This Monday, I'll just rush DRQs so that I have 2 hours left to do my essays. Oh well, ganbatte Ja Mess!!

Despite the fact having A levels in November, I still had to go back to BAND because I am the Section Leader AND a Librarian... Had to photocopy scores, arrange parts again etc... Band concert's coming up... 18th December. Hope the band out-performs the AKE =) <--- Evil smile. Oh and I hope all my friends can come for the AKE/Band concert too!! I'm trying to convince as many people, who are not interested, to come and *cough* SOMEONE *cough* is REALLY hard to convince =P (You know who you are)

Okay, gonna end here cuz apparently, my stupid keyboard is freaking noisy and it woke my parents up... Why can't my mom just sleep in the master bedroom?!?!?!...

P.S. QUARANTINE IS OUT!!!! WHO WANTS TO GO WATCH?!?! I'm available after the 6th of November (My brother's birthday) =D

Reviving blog!

2008-10-28T22:31:00.003+08:00

Haven't been blogging lately due to preparation for A level Geography.

Lots of things happened. Not in choronological order mind you.

Aish, who is my stress-relief/punching bag/person I tell EVERYTHING to without feeling embarrassed or whatever, left Singapore for good... Surprisingly I was sadder than when Chie left Singapore. To tell you the truth, my eyes were kinda tearing at the airport. I bet all the guys felt as sad as me too even though they didn't show it.

Then there was the dreaded promotional exercise. The day when the promotional status was released was a very somber day indeed... Some of my classmates had to be retained, some asked to leave the school, and super-annuated*. School will feel different without them, I can feel it already.
I saw some of their faces when they got back their report books. They all had seriously heartbreaking face on them. Couldn't bear to watch. There were no comforting words to give either.
I was however glad and relieved to know that many of my close friends and I both managed to get promoted to PU3.

Anyways, here is a question: Does love change people or people change for love?
They are different, although they might sound the same.
Okay, I was gonna write down MY interpretation of the two BUT apparently I forgot HAHA!! So too bad! Make your own interpretation.
I think people change for love, like me.

P.S. I think I'm gonna keep my blog posts short now.

What if..., SAS

2008-09-18T21:34:00.003+08:00

Been thinking about this for quite a while now. "What if I stayed in SAS until I graduated?"... What led to me thinking about this? Facebook. I was looking at the list of "Friends you may know" and came across profiles of my old SAS friends (those I wasn't so close to). Maybe I would have been best friends with them if I stayed in SAS... I saw Edward Teonadi's profile and was like "Holy shit, Ed's not small anymore and his mole is gone!". We were pretty close ever since 6th grade because of band. Ed, Cookie, and I were pretty close in beginning band, and intermediate band where we all played the Clarinet. I can find their writings on some of my SAS scores. Then I saw Sandy's profile. He definately grew alot but he still looks like the 8th grade Sandy to me. We weren't THAT close but I still remember him being in one of my PE class (7th or 8th grade, I'm not sure). I doubt he still remembers me though...
I kinda get depressed thinking why I had to move when I think of all the times I spent with my besties in SAS. Sunny, Jeff, Will, Rock, Hahneol, Wynn, Tiffi, Tiffan, Huei Yu, Chi Chi, Da Yeon, Katherine, Calvin, and a few others (I can't remember anyone else who used to hang out XD). Shit, I fucking miss them a lot right now... Even though I got to see all of them before they left Singapore. That was like only for a day though... I swear, if I stayed in SAS we'll still be like best friends (Them and me that is). We're still good friends, seeing how none of them forgot me and still keep in touch with me. I hope all of them make Singapore like a rendezvous point to meet up and stuff so I can see them again.
Hmm and IF I stayed in SAS, I would have gotten close to Tae Hyung e hyung while he was at school! We never really got to enjoy school life together. Only the bus rides... Haha.
Okay, now, the main reason for my emo-ing. Chie. Yes, I mentioned this in earlier posts of how I loved her for like a long time (5, 6, 7, 8 years?). She was someone I really couldn't forget. My first love. I told myself I'll let her go like thousands of times but I couldn't. I guess my relationship with her (as in love) was going pretty well until I had to move to a local school in the middle of 8th grade. I never got rejected by her and she did tell me she liked me too before... IF I fucking stayed in SAS or hell, a bit more longer, who knows? Chie and I could have been together haha. And even though I moved schools afterwards, we still lived in the same condominium. Its all in the past now... She's now in Japan anyways...
Me moving to a local school isn't all bad either. Yes I missed my friends like crazy at first, but I got to make new friends in my secondary school. Only some are in contact with me though. Again, those I was really close to. After my secondary school life was my MI life I'm going through right now. Now I'm thinking it the other way. If I stayed in SAS, got graduated and went into like an American college, I wouldn't have met 4E2, her, 07S7, her, her, and her =) (Now you get why I put "5, 6, 7, 8 years" above? =P). And most importantly, Tae Hyung e hyung would still be in NS when I would have been like long gone from Singapore IF I stayed in SAS cuz I wouldn't have gotten the PR thing.
SAS was the place where I started many things so I can never forget that place, and the people there. I learnt English and Chinese/Mandarin there, got an American accent there, learnt an instrument (My plastic Clarinet), fell in love for the first time, played mass dodge ball, kick ball, baseball, basketball, tennis, badminton, rugby, rock climbing, sprints, poems, taught Korean, had my first ever band concert, first ever dance (with a girl, Katherine) on a prom night, went to a prom night/dance, and many more. Its where I learnt and did most of the stuff for the first time. I'll never forget my 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade years there...
Oh and back to the "what if" question. IF I stayed in SAS, do YOU think I'm still the James right now? Haha SAS is a wild place so maybe I wouldn't have been the James I am now. Who knows?...

Goodbye Chie...

2008-08-27T15:43:00.002+08:00

Last Sunday, 24th August 2008 was one of the sadest days of my life. Chie Miyauchi, my first love many others would say, left Singapore for good to Japan... Although her mom will still be staying in Singapore, I won't be able to contact her often... So as a farewell party, Chie invited me and some of her friends, Kiyoko, Tammy, Bella, and Karin (I knew everyone except Karin) to a dinner somewhere near the Esplanade on Saturday evening. Before I went there, I got her a small farewell present, which was why I was late for the dinner. It was good seeing Chie with all my other SAS friends. Kiyoko and Tammy didn't change at all. Bella grew taller, other than that, she didn't really change either. As for Karin, I got to know her during the taxi ride and the dinner. Really enjoyed dinner with my SAS friends and especially Chie... We took a cab back and I thought to myself that this might be the last time I hang out with Chie, unless she comes back to Singapore to visit. I was hoping that I'll alone with Chie under her lobby BUT apparently Karin was going to her house... So my plan kinda failed... I was serioulsy SAD... Anyways, I gave Chie her present and took ONE freaking goodbye picture with her cuz she was cam shy haha... I'm so gonna miss her... Hope she comes back to Singapore for Christmas with Taka so we can all hang out together again... All the best to Chie in Japan!

P.S. to Tae Hyung e hyung: Chie told me to say goodbye to you cuz she didn't have your number...

OP, Badminton, Sok's PW, Fifi's birthday party, Signature Park gang reunion

2008-08-15T21:57:00.005+08:00

Recently, we had our PW OP (Project work oral presentation) and once again, I fucked up JUST like the first time. It seems like whenever I go infront of a group of people to give a speech, my tongue just ties itself to a knot. Can't blame myself only though. Most of us went up to present without knowing how our slides looked like... Jasmine was late for school so my plan of glancing through the slides during the first few periods wasn't put into action. My part of the presentation was seriously shit but most of my classmates and the teachers didn't have any criticisms regarding my speech. In fact, they said I was somewhat confident in presenting my part of the slides. Imagine what they'll say if I go fully prepared with small notes and all instead of the overview of the slides...

The badminton matches were intense these few days. Everyone is getting so competitive now. Its one of the reasons why I don't like to have rankings and tournaments... Anyways, I'm always making careless mistakes these days... One of the reasons why I wasn't able to raise my ranking up. I don't really care about ranking though since I'm up against my closest friends.

Hmm quite a lot of things to blog about... Next up is Sok Theng's PW. I have to say, her PW topic is similar to what I wanted to do, on musicians. She did her PW on this blind singer. Truely touching and inspiring. I kept on telling myself through out the exhibition that if a blind person can be successful, why can't I? So it got my hopes up haha. Last up for Sok's PW was this maze thing. Everyone had to go through different obstacles in the "maze" while blindfolded. I went through a similar thing before (Going through a maze while blindfolded) when I was young so it was like nothing to me. Of course I needed guidance on where to go and stuff. One word to describe the PW. Fun.

Fifi's birthday party was on Saturday in the same week as Sok's PW exhibition. The theme was childhood memories, which I detest. I was shy, emo and was a loner when I was young. Not in Korea but when I came to Singapore. So, thinking about my younger self, I dressed up in all black (To show the emo part). I went to the party earlier to help out with the decorations. At 5pm the party was scheduled to start. 4:45pm (I think) I got my make up on. Courtesy of Gerlaine haha! She put eyeliners for me to make me look even more emo. If I wore dark blue jeans and white long-sleeved shirt (No collar), I swear I would've looked like L from Death Note. Lots of my friends mentioned that. Anyways, most of the people didn't dress up. Even Fifi. Oh! Tina was there too!!!! Haha I missed her like crazy AND will miss her like crazy. She didn't change at all haha. Games came next which were like super chaotic. Some had to eat marshmallows* with wasabe or green chilli in them. I got to eat the normal ones 3 times haha! Lucky me. The candy collecting was uber chaotic. Following right after that was the birthday song for Fifi. Shao Wei took my shirt off saying "Fifi! You're birthday present!". Wth. Haha -.-. I wouldn't have mind if I was drunk BUT there were no Vodka. In the end, we had nothing else to do so most of us went home. Again, it was very fun.

Now for the main event, Signature Park gang reunion. On Monday, 2 days before our brother Taka went back to US, we decided to hang out in Signature Park, our home. I went there first to get the card from Chie's maid, Siti. She was so happy to see me haha! She called Chie out for me too =D. Again, I couldn't stop smiling =) She was still so angelic haha! Only thought of happy thoughts I have with my Signature Park family and nothing else to depress me that day. We played squash as usual. As usual, Tae Hyung e hyung was super funny, and our "warm up" match turned out super competitive haha! As usual, Chie refused to run and my brother and TH took turns copying how Chie played while Chie and I sat outside catching up on good times. Can't believe she's leaving Singapore... My first. TH, my bro and I decided to swim so we headed down to the bottom pool. We swam for like 10 minutes until the fucked up thunderstorm came. TH and I were competing who will the last one to leave the swimming pool haha. We both decided to get out BUT he took off his feet out of the pool last so he won haha. Then Taka, Chie's older brother, did something right for the first time. He booked pool for us from 8pm to 10pm haha. We were seriously impressed. Pool match was super funny as well. I have the video of TH VS Taka. I played a match once with my bro and once with Chie. My bro improved a lot. He almost beat me! Haha. As for Chie, you can say I went easy on her as always haha. In the end, I scored both the black ball and the cue ball so I lost =( =). It was an awesome day... Last day hanging out with Taka too. As for Chie, we're meeting her tomorrow! HAVE to take pictures... I have none with her =(. While at Signature Park, I though of all the little things I did for her and all the things she did for me. Can't believe she's gonna leave... It feels as if a part of me is getting ripped away from me... I'll make the last day with her as memorable as possible.

Drinking

2008-08-09T18:31:00.003+08:00

I drank again just now. Can't seem to stand all the anger and the sadness inside of me without Vodka these days. Its only 8% so don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Vodka has different effect on me depending on my mood. I get either sad, angry, happy, or just drowsy depending on which mood I'm in while drinking. I'm kinda getting addicted to it. There was no Raspberry* one today so I took the Cola one. Tastes as good! I'm kinda surprised at myself actually. Last year, I told almost everyone I don't drink haha! People change I guess... Anyways, been thinking about "love" alot... I'm gonna settle somethings... Since Chie's leaving, I'll just be like real good friends with her just like Jessie... I've been thinking alot about certain someone in MI too... Ever since I met her and made friends with her, I couldn't stop thinking about her... Even though we're friends now, she'll still hold a special place in my heart. I'll do whatever I can do for her as a friend too... No more awkwardness between her and me now. I just want her to be happy. And if I can make her feel happy or brighten her day when she's down as a friend, I'll be more than happy to be her "friend" =). Hope my friends don't disturb me though haha. I'll just give them a really "weak" jab on the arm if they do XD. Haha Vodka brightened my mood already. Gonna watch NDP now. L8ter!

Thursday, Reunion

2008-08-09T12:25:00.004+08:00

I detest Thursdays. I have all my H2 subjects on Thursday plus GP. Chem and Bio are fun. Math and GP are exact opposite. I guess Math would be fun if my home tutor taught us. Being in a "better" class, we have this other teacher to teach us. I can't seem to adapt to the new teaching style. His voice is so monotonous that it makes almost everyone sleeps during class, even me. Speaking of sleep, I've been using extreme measures to keep myself awake in classes; hurting myself to keep awake (self mutilation to you people -_-). If you take a close look at my left arm, there are lotsa scratch marks or my initials, JL, carved out in block letters. I do these in class, to keep awake and it works! Yeah, anyways, I'm kinda self teaching math to myself these days. If there are questions I really don't know, I ask our home tutor, not our math teacher. GP lessons are as bad as Math lessons... Can't seem to concentrate for 2 full periods. When our teacher said "You're talking nonsense. You're wasting my time" to one of my classmate, I kinda lost the feeling of respect towards my teacher. According to my friend, GP teachers are supposed to argue back saying stuff like why they disagree or whey they think the other argument is bad. By saying those things she clearly prooved to us that she's not a reliable GP teacher... Later in the day was PE. Mr. Ser organized this "mini tournament" thing since we already learnt all the different types of shots. I was ranked 2nd. The tournament started and my friend Haikal challenged me and I lost -_-. My fucking killer shots were all going to the net and my back-hand and fore-hand smashes weren't even smashes at all. Maybe too many things were going through my mind, especially after I heard someone playing the piano backstage... I was sick also but so was Haikal. I swear, it was not my day. I lost to Shane, and Siva also. Whenever I smashed, the shuttlecock went straight into the net... I swear I could have destroyed the fucking racket if it was mine (Andy Roddick characteristics haha). I was swearing under my breath alot too. Speaking of swearing, one of my Year 2008 goals was try not to swear no matter how pissed or angry I was. I think I was doing a good job until recently -_-. These days, the word "Fuck" HAVE to go in some of my sentences in order for the sentences I'm saying to make sense. Like "I'm fucking tired", "You fucking bitch" etc. I hope I don't do it during OP. I was kinda shocked at myself when I said "You motherfucker" to Shao Wei when he tried to trip me. Bet he was shocked too haha. Oh saw her playing badminton again this time with Mr. Ser. Mr. Ser is damn good but she wasn't bad either. The atmosphere between us still feels kinda awkward... So I can't get myself to approach and talk to her yet... This is probably called a third party...

Anyways, I met with Taka and Tae Hyung e hyung yesterday to play squash. Chie was supposed to show up too but she was at her friend's place... Thinking of her leaving Singapore for good makes me even more depressed than I already am. Anyways, us 4, Taka, TH, my brother and I, played squash just like how we used to like 1 or 2 years ago. When it came to matches, I kinda played super seriously when the others were enjoying themselves. Unlike the badminton match, most of my critical shots went in. After squash Taka had to leave so the 3 of us decided to catch a movie at JE. On our way there, memories of that day flashed in my head. Her first and probably last treat to me was there; Apple Greenland. Anyways, we watched Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at 8:30pm. The movie was quite intense, with lots of action scenes and all. It was a little different from its predecessors though... Not enough humour from characters Rick and Johnathan, no Ardeth Bay, FUGLY actress for Evelyn, not in Egypt, the bad guy is not a mummy, and no Scorpion King. According to the book "The Revenge of the Scorpion King", Alex and Rick are supposed to be fighting the Scorpion King again because Anubis brought SK from the dead so he can raise the armies of Anubis again. I guess they decided to do something different this time... Some of the things that didn't make sense were: The 2 Chinese bad guys surviving after their car was fucking bombed by Johnathan, the Dragon Emperor controlling fire even when he was a freaking human, why The Dragon Emperor didn't just transform into a fucking dragon and killed both Alex and Rick etc. Through out the movie I was hoping Ardeth Bay to come out even for just a brief period of time... He never did. I give the movie a 4 star rating.

School life

2008-08-01T23:33:00.002+08:00

Thurday was a really fun day for me. Even the lessons were fun. Siva and I started talking about stuff during our GP time-assignment. Siva's damn funny! He wrote down all the quotes from different essay questions as his topic sentences. I wonder what kind of arguments he came up with though. I say, although he acts childish, he's really a smart guy haha. So I assume he knows what he was doing.
Math came next and for the first time, no one dozed off. Except maybe Shane, who was just resting his eyes haha. The questions we had to do were quite easy so I had fun with my GC, learning how to draw hearts and stuff. I got distracted by this and left my brand new line paper under the table!... I think I'm thinking more optimistically nowadays. I was like, oh well, at least the person who found the papers will get to use them or something haha. Maybe it was because that, or maybe because of going to church every Sunday haha.
Straight after math, I went down to the canteen to get my chicken chop with rice. I don't understand some people who waste their break studying/revising... Nothing is more important than eating. Nearing the end of our break was the class photo taking. 3 people were missing from my class... John, Sam and Fifi... Oh well, at least all of them are in last year's photo...
The whole class went for Chemistry a little late cuz everyone wanted to grab something light at the cafe. Mr. Liau, probably being the most caring and understanding teacher, didn't scold us or anything for being late (You'll know Mr. Liau better when you become a Chemistry Rep like me haha!). Chem was fun as always. Mr. Liau makes lessons fun nowadays. We're gonna have another quiz on Nucleophilic substitution on Monday... Great...
Biology was awesome too. Mr. Imran's teachings are more easier to understand now. The group answering thing was awesome. Shao was like doing his best to get points for the group (Yes, it was like a "if you get the answer, you get points" thing. Hard to see him like that during Chemistry or Math though haha.
PE came next. Heard the sports group people had to do physical training. Some of my friends complained. As for me, I would rather have physical training than games. Badminton with Mr. Ser is fun, but it doesn't really get me worked out. When we were sitting down listening to Mr. Ser, I saw her and Sok Theng play badminton at the furthest court from us. When we got to practice, I couldn't help looking at her XD. My buddy Haikal, took advantage of this and made me lose quite a lot of points. Yeah, and then I got really fed up, not with Haikal but with something else maybe. I gave Haikal some impossible-to-return shots (mostly net shots and super fast smashes). Too bad she had already gone to the back stage to play the piano. Should have seen the awesome shots I made HAHA! =P. When I heard her play the piano, I had flashbacks of her playing my Clarinet duet pieces with the broken piano in the SAC. Good times. Best times. One of the happiest memories of her I guess? (Actually all are XD)
After badminton was soccer time for me. Realised my skills were a bit rusty... I couldn't do step overs as fast, couldn't juggle the ball well, no ball control, and inaccurate shots. Oh well, at least I'm good in all sports. You just teach me how to play, and I can play well. Basketball, badminton, soccer, tennis, squash, floorball, volleyball... Everything. Just bring it on haha. Anyways, playing soccer with my classmates (guys and girls) was damn fun. Gracie was bimbotic as usual haha!
Yeah, so that concludes my Thurday. Awesome day! Wish everyday was like that.

Friday though, wasn't really a good day. My cynase came back! So I was literally dying during the Geography test... I was like whispering fucks and shits very frequently. The test was okay because it was an open book test. A level standard though. Shao's notes were freaking awesome. I swear, if Shao just works a LITTLE bit hard for his Biology and Math, he can be one of the top 10% of our cohert. Really hope he stays in MI next year... Won't be able to bitch about people or talk about personal life anymore if he leaves... I don't really like bitching but yeah, with Shao, it just comes naturally haha.
Just before band, I saw her at the canteen. I still don't know how to react whenever she's around. Sometimes I wish that we never told each other how we truly feel. I mean she is attached now (if I'm not wrong) and I still... Yeah... We could have been like meeting up after school in the canteen, waiting for our CCAs to start and stuff... Right? =). Or I wish she just told me she's together with another guy. Only this part. Anyways...
Band today was H O R R I B L E... Only like 15 of us out of like 35 turned up for practice... It was pathetic attendance... Most people had MI mart to prepare for and some were absent from school... So we had sectionals instead. During sectionals, I played the duet piece my mentor, Wei Lian gave me, with Aaron and Fikri. Didn't sound bad, but not good either. All three of us were sight reading so the dynamics weren't there yet.

Thats all I have to say for this entry. Its 12:37am now... I gotta wake up at 8am later to prepare for my tuition... -_-. I'll try to make my posts sound as cheerful as possible because I think my previous post, the super emo one, kinda made her upset... I just want her to be happy and by writing it like the previous post, it doesn't help her at all...

P.S. I want to know who the lucky guy is =P

Bad day

2008-07-31T00:02:00.002+08:00

Not my day these few days. I might be laughing and smiling in school but my mind is usually elsewhere. I guess my fake smile seem so sincere because no body can recognize the dagger stabbed deeply in me. I smile to make my friends feel happy around me actually. Only a few people actually know what happened. Will's word of comfort and advice was awesome... It was the best I've ever received. My good buddy Will became a cool, wise guy. Siva and Shane were awesome too. The duo never fail to cheer me up. Siva, being the more experienced one, had more to say haha. Last year, I was the one giving advice to him, but that all changed after he got together with his sweet heart. As for Shane, not really a word of comfort but made me laugh with his lame jokes haha. As for John, Haikal, Kamal, and Iszaki, I don't think they know. Shao Wei, as usual, was the one to talk me out of it. His reaction was the same when I told him about old times, when I used to like Chie and how she got together with her guy. He goes like "Oh, shit/fuck, that sucks dude!" Haha! They're awesome people... My brothers of 07S7... Can't do anything in school without them. Hope everyone makes it to next year... I won't be able to stand another close friend/brother leaving the class... Like how I saw Tina leave last year...

I still can't forget the SMSes. I try to remember only the happy memories. But that message gets in the way. She thought about what I said for quite a long time before she came up with her decision, which means she thought it through like carefully and made up her mind. Now I'm doing the same thing with what she said... Usually when the girl I like say those things to me, I just give up on going after the person straight away... Strangely, I can't seem to do that with her...

I didn't care what kind of person she was actually. I sure will like her just the way she is. I will change to be the type of guy she wants. And we can find out more about each other on the way. Like how Siva and most of my friends did... Maybe it was something I lacked?... Only she knows. But I thought of her words over and over too... And I won't... I can't...

Sigh, anyways, photo taking tomorrow... I'm gonna make my rhino/unicorn/astro boy/jimmy neutron/horny/tip of the ice berg hair style tomorrow (The hair style I used to do when I was in SAS). The weird names to describe my hair were all given by my friends -.-

P.S. Forgive my poor English if there are any. I was typing super fast...

Her

2008-07-24T22:20:00.003+08:00

I think I'm in love again... With her... But those words she said to me pierced my heart. That night I couldn't sleep properly. The day after she said those words was so not my day either. I couldn't and can't remember 90% of the things people said to me that day... I kept thinking to myself that she needs time and I have to be patient... I once heard a lecture saying love is patient, love is kind. I think I get what it means now... I'm gonna wait for her... Hopefully she will have faith in love again... And of course I hope to be the guy she turns to... I will wait...

Had a chance to talk to her today... But my friends were around and old habits came back... I was freaking nervous when I saw her (Old habits). More like nervous, sad and happy at the same time when I saw her. It was a confusing feeling... If my friends weren't there I would have been Mr. Emo through out the entire day... They were the source for my laughter today.

I miss her...

RCR, and PW

2008-07-20T16:48:00.004+08:00

Went out yesterday for Rock Climbing. It was a project work thing set up by her group. Meeting time for me was actually 10:30am but I went there at around 9:50am. Didn't want her waiting thats why... Thought she was alone but it turned out that lots of her/my friends were already there. Met new friends there like Hanis, and Din. They were there earlier because they were the belayers for the group and had to be briefed in advance to "not waste time" I guess. The place looked like some abandoned warehouse but the rock climbing place was pretty nice. Was a little small though. They should expand it. Anyways, the early birds got to try the wall first. I tried one of the hardest walls to climb. Managed to get up 3/4 the wall but couldn't find any more "rocks" to grab on to -_-. Everyone had trouble on that wall and I think I'm the only one who went up that high! Soon, the rest of the "participants" for the rock climbing came and we were all assigned to our groups to climb the wall. I was in the same group as her! My buddy Kamal, Sok Theng, and Michelle were also in my group.
First up was the normal rock climbing. The wall our group was assigned to was way easier than the rock I climbed before so I had no problem with climbing all the way to the top. Soks was the belayer (surprisingly!). I guess I weighed as light as her -.- Blame it on my super high metabolism rate!! I start sweating in aircon-ed rooms -_-...
Next up was the rock climbing blindfolded... Was damn frustrating because I couldn't decide for myself where to go. Kamal's directions were good though. Its just when I got up half way, there were no more rock things I could reach for...
When the last one came, I was already freaking tired. But I still had to climb twice to get the puzzle... The last puzzle piece, I really couldn't climb anymore so I changed with Kamal haha XD. Kamal is damn good at climbing too XD. So is Hanis and Kenny.

And so that was the end of the rock climbing session. She didn't really get to climb much because she was so busy... After the rock climbing was late lunch. Had Korean food as usual haha and I treated her again =). We had to rush down to West Coast for our obstacle games. The first few games were good, like tug of war, and dog and bone... It was all fun until I saw her cry... Some bitch made her upset... Shall not say anymore because it'll be vulgar all the way. I felt seriously sad after that... When everyone went out to the play ground to play, I just stayed near by, waiting for the teacher to finish talking to her group members. I was glad she had such wonderful friends like Hanis, Maisha, Aishah M, and her clique. I searched for words of comfort but I guess I was too shocked and sad that time... My brain's freaking useless at times... Kamal accompanied me all the way, talking to me and cheering me up =). Thanks Kamal! Really appreciate it bro!! Maisha also joined us and we just started to talk. Then the rain came and I just had to go over to the tent area where her group was to help and provide shelter from the rain. Especially her. I'll carry 2 umbrellas next time -_-... Felt so sorry for those who weren't under the umbrella... Anyways, I wanted to send her home really badly... But my parents were literally screaming at me...... Was really sad seeing her go off... I would have beaten myself up if she was all alone... At least Maisha was with her through out the 506 journey... I really gotta get myself a driver's licence and a freaking car or a motobike so I can driver her home next time... Next time, I hope I can be the one to comfort her... Sorry... I sent her a message though and she called me at 11:30pm haha. I guess I fell asleep waiting for the reply because the phone was in my hand hah =D. Really hope she won't be sad ever again...

Anyways, about the PW part, I'll write it some other time... For now, I'll just say that PW fucking sucks! I'm so hating it!!

I'm so in it =)

Anger

2008-07-16T21:08:00.002+08:00

She's angry because of this moron in our school. Shall not say any names here.
She already has a fever and he's making her even angrier...
I couldn't tell the guy to get lost (Shall not say bad words) either cuz I don't even know him. I only know his name and how he looks like...
Felt so useless -_-... I couldn't like back her up... So sad T_T...
Anyways, the guy eventually went offline...
Its always best to ignore those *ehem* "total jerks" (Not saying bad words) right?
The only way to solve the problem with those kind of people is usually to ignore them...
Thats what I do anyways...
I haven't been able to go out with her these days... Maybe after this Saturday she won't be too busy? Hope you're not! =)
Hope she gets well soon!...

Bad Luck

2008-07-14T21:52:00.002+08:00

It never goes well for me...
In my life, there is no such thing as a happy ending.
Its always just when I think things are starting to work out...
Maybe some of you know what I'm talking about.
I wish none of this had happened...
I don't feel like talking about it now... I'm just too tired of all this.
I just hope she gives me a chance...
I guess pain is all I get from love...
Fuck shit. Okay I'm getting angry at myself now, so tata...
"I hate myself"

You Don't Mess with the Zohan, NBC

2008-07-02T00:03:00.005+08:00

You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Watched it right after the Biology Mid Year paper with my classmates, Gracie, Gerlaine, Apple, Claudia and Saw Wah. The movie was okay in my opinion but I'm sure the girls didn't really like it. Its sexual humour so yeah... Go watch if you want to see Adam Sandler having sex with old women haha. Went around shopping at somewhere (I forgot...). Yeah... I give 4 out of 5 stars for the movie.

Haven't been able to meet Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung recently either... I was always the busy one I guess... Due to late night band practices... Those night practices are all over now. Cuz NBC is over... Yesterday was the big day. Everyone was so prepared. The only ones nervous were Mr. Lim Lip Hua (Our conductor), and our teachers... I could tell cuz Mr. Lim was shaking when he lifted his baton up... Mr. Zach Lim and Ms. Huang, our teachers in charge, were also acting kinda different too... All this changed right after we finished performing... We were the first band to perform so it was quiet when we walked out of the Victoria Concert Hall... Some of the band members cried even before the results because they made a mistake during the performance. Its actually okay, everyone makes mistakes and nobody's perfect. Soon we were the one nervous as fuck, waiting for the results. Not me though. I knew we tried our best and I was proud of it. Some of us didn't go in to the VCH to watch the rest of the performance. Instead, we watched the preparation for the NDP. Fireworks were spectacular and I couldn't help thinking of her that time... Finally the results came out... Again some of the band members cried. We got a Silver. It was way above my expectation so I was happy for the band. We're a new band and our choice pieces were grade 4 also (easy for me though). We made some speeches after the results. Edward is a natural leader. So is Alex. They really brought our spirit up by their speeches. Everyone was so dead that day. Except me. She called me because she was at IMM and was going to drop off in front of the school so I can join her. We waited for 506 together. I was feeling super happy that time. Was feeling nervous as well. 506 didn't come for a while so my band mates eventually caught up with me... Most of them saw her. They probably came up with wild conclusions... During the bus ride we were sharing earphones to listen to music so I kinda leaned against her. Wanted to hold her hand, but thats only what boyfriends do right?... I gotta ask Siva quick... Yeah I do like her. But that doesn't mean she'll like me back too... Of course I hope she likes me back... Anyways... Congratz to the band...

I have no luck in my love life... Thats why I've been single all my life. Last time I was a pussy so I didn't seize any opportunity... Won't let my bad habits come back...

Goodbye Wynn, Reunion, Kung Fu Panda, and Chin injury...

2008-06-12T16:02:00.002+08:00

First up, my first Korean friend from SAS, Wynn left Singapore for good last Monday... Didn't really get to hang out with him ever since I became lazy and decided to go to the nearby church (St. Mary's) and not the Korean Catholic church... I'm sure gonna miss him... He was generally close to my family because his parents and my parents were like "friends" and he liked to make fun of my brother alot... We always used to talk during mass about like random topics. Games, soccer, wrestling, school, and like bitch about others. Kyu Ho was there with us too but I lost contact with him long time ago -_-. At least I had dinner with Wynn on Sunday. Will and Da Yeon were there too. Hahneol joined us a bit later. It was hard seeing a friend for the first and last time... I was both happy and sad. Oh well, he said he was gonna visit us so I guess its not the last time. I wonder whether we will go on the Korean TV show, Happy Together when we grow like damn old XD.

Next up is the reunion with the SAS friends. Those I was close to/our gang only though. Tiffi, Shi Yu, Huei Yu, Chi Chi, Katherine, Da Yeon, Sunny, Will, Hahneol were all there. The meeting place was supposed to have been at Botanic Gardens but it was changed to Tiffi's house instead. Tiffi's driver picked me up at Balmoral Plaza at around 3:00pm. The meeting time was 2:30pm. People only starting coming in at like 3:45pm XD. Everyone was like shocked to see me. They were like "Wow... Is that JAMES?!?!" haha. Especially Tiffan, Sunny, Hahneol and Huei Yu. Can't blame them, its been like 3 - 4 years since they last saw me. Will said my accent sounded a little weird XD. Get this clear, my accent didn't change/get ruined XD. Something wrong with Will maybe cuz the others didn't complain. Had loads of fun there. Played Pictionary and watched DVDs which were not released in Singapore. Pictionary was awesome. Katherine's drawing "skills" and my team's guessing were fantastic until we got to the harder words... I remember Tiffan had to draw "House of God". So she drew a house and a cross on top of it. Everyone thought it was a cathedral, church, cross, etc. Hilarious. Oh, and I was taller than Sunny!! Like FINALLY!!!! He told me he got shorter because he ran too much haha. Whatever =P. Sunny was exactly how I remembered him to be. Will and Hahneol on the other hand, changed alot. Probably because I only knew their "nice" side? Haha. Too bad I didn't get to see Jeffrey, Lyndon, Cookie, Kelson, Edward Teonadi etc... Oh well, meeting my gang was good enough for me. Everyone matured both physically and intelectually haha. Would surely want to see them again before they start leaving like Wynn T_T...

Next up is Kung Fu Panda. Watched it with Hilmi, Joanna, So Young, Keng Guan and Yvonne at Vivo City. The movie is damn hilarious! It was even funnier cuz I sat next to Hilmi in the theatre. We were like lauging/talking so loud during the movie. The other people probably hated us. Anyways, not gonna give spoilers here to those who didn't catch the movie yet. Had dinner after the movie and went up to the Sky Park to chill and play those hand games haha. ABC, the rhythm game etc. So Young didn't join us though cuz she had to leave early -_-. We wanted to get ourselves a drink (well, at least I did) but none of us had that much money left after dinner and the movie. We started to talk about our most recent band concert too as we were listening to the recording of our concert on my MP3 player. Hilmi like spotted thousands of mistakes haha. Thats how bad we sound. I say, individually, we sound better XD. Anyways, had an awesome time there with them. Can't wait for next year's band camp or whatever. I'm so gonna invite Yvonne, Keng Guan and Hilmi to the camp too. They will be forever missed when they leave the band...

Okay, I'm kinda rushing this cuz my mom's about to reach home anytime now and when she does, I have to turn off the computer -_-. Last up is my chin injury... Here's what happened. I slipped forward (thank God) on my bathroom floor while showering and hit my chin hard on the basin... Thought there was nothing wrong at first until I saw the crimson red water which flowed down the drain. I seriously couldn't feel any pain at that time, only a bit of numbness. The cut was disgusting. 2cm in length, and about 0.8cm in width... I think I saw my bone as well cuz I saw something white sticking out. Despite the little accident, I had to go to school for a Project Work meeting. When my friends saw I was bleeding like crazy, they freaked out and told me to go see a doctor immediately XD. (Of course I put a big fat plaster, but the blood kinda leaked out -_-). I messaged my 3 brothers, and only Tae Hyung e hyung called me back to check on my status. He told me to go get it stitched immediately as well because the would could get infected. And so I did... At NUH... My parents brought me there. It was like the first time in 10 years visiting a major hospital. Previous time was when I was hospitalized back in 2nd grade. Had to wait for freaking 2 hours just for the freaking "operation". According to Tae Hyung e hyung, my wound could have got infected by then -_-. So after waiting for 2 hours, it was finally my turn. The stitching was damn fast though (to me). All they did was stick 2 needles on my chin, one next to the wound, and one directly in the middle of the cut. That hurt, but the pain only lasted for 2 seconds and then I couldn't feel shit. The doctor got to work straight away. She, yes SHE, actually tied the string shit so hard that I actually felt the cut closing up even though that area was numb. I had to do a total of 6 stitches, which is not bad. This was already a week ago. Today, I got the stitching off. It hurt a lot today. Thought the doctor accidently cut my skin... Anyways, thats all for this long entry... Its like putting events that happed in the past 3 weeks in this entry so it has to be long... School starting next week! Next Wednesday for me though... So sad!! Didn't even get to see all the people I miss!!...

Band Chalet

2008-06-07T15:46:00.003+08:00

Band chalet on the 1st of June was just like a regular barbecue outting minus the fun and the swimming pool. It would have been fun if we got to actually get together and cook though... We had nothing else to do while the food was being prepared so some of us (So Young, Shi Hua and I) decided to take a walk outside. We ended up in the kid's corner after seeing Yvonne and Keng playing there haha. My first ever birthday party in Korea was in "Play Time" (kid's corner with the slides and all). The kid's corner became a war zone when almost all the band members went there to play. We started throwing the plastic balls at each other. Hillarious. An arcade was also near by but they only had shit games... And Yvonne got her phone stolen by a group of boys I think. The person who took the phone is a fucking low life. Seriously... Ruined the whole "party" mood.

The new band committee members were also announced... CY clearly didn't like the fact that we didn't get to vote for our own members... THEY shouldn't have decided it by themselves...

Anyways, CY was super emo after that so Aaron, Farith* and I decided to accompany him to downtown east. Got ourselves a beer and headed off to the beach. Had a LONG talk (since CY was super emo) until Hilmi and gang arrived to join us. This is where the fun part of the band chalet began. Yvonne bought us vodka!! Or maybe Hilmi. Everyone (including Hilmi) except the Malays were drunk. People were fighting over the freaking bottle just to get a sip -_-. Jojo was super drunk and she was like shouting/singing super loud at like 1am XD. Super funny. Had a little trouble getting back to the camp cuz everyone was tipsy. Hilmi was being the responsible one despite the fact that he was super drunk and carried Jojo back haha.

When we got back, Su started telling ghost stories which were seriously freaky. Hilmi told us the army ghost story too which were like as scary as what Tae Hyung e hyung told me XD. Night life with friends is super kick ass!!

Heard my SAS friends graduated. Guess they're all gonna leave now huh? Except a few who has to stay in Singapore for NS.

Blog revived!

2008-06-01T16:50:00.002+08:00

Been a while since I last blogged... Didn't have the time to blog/was lazy haha.

First up, the MISB (Millenia Institute Symphonic Band) band concert on the 17th May, Siva's birthday. I have to say, even with the time constraints we had preparing for the concert, we didn't sound THAT bad... Lots of people critized about the band though haha. Like my friends XD. I think we deserve criticisms -_-. My only comment is that we (some people ESPECIALLY) need to practice hard. I don't really know about the other sections, but I heard lots of wrong notes from my Clarinet section... Thats the thing I was kinda disappointed about. I told them I didn't want to hear any wrong rhythms/notes but there it is... At least we sounded not bad for the easier songs... XD

Anyways, I feel like stopping now so I guess I'll update some other time XD.

P.S. I got rejected! =(

Death Note, and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate

2008-02-29T21:00:00.005+08:00

Yesterday was the first time watching the movie Death Note for me because I missed the first 2 Death Note movies. I thought I was gonna have a hard time understanding what the hell was going on but thanks to Tae Hyung e hyung, I understood the story line perfectly. His brief 3 minute summary of the first 2 movies told me all the points I needed to know to understand the third movie.

So the movie kicked start and I finally got to see the actor who was acting as "L". My first impression of him was "Wow, I think he'll be unbeatable in a fight". Besides that, L seemed like a dark character who didn't give a shit about anyone else. Thought he was a selfish SOB who uses the Death Note to kill whoever he wanted haha. He turned out to be a completely different character from what I expected. In the end he was still dark/emo but cool at the same time (Well most guys are like that. Right? XD). He had a big heart and was very caring although he didn't really show it to his peers (Maybe because of his looks...).

Enough about L. In the movie, I didn't like it when L burned the Death Note after writing his name in it. With the Death Note, he could have just killed all 5 bad guys at the same time. My friends were right. It was a "L movie" NOT "Death Note" since the death note only appeared in the movie for like 5 minutes... I hated the reason behind why the "bad guys" wanted to spread the disease. It was seriously a "what the fuck?" scene during the movie. I literally said it out loud for everyone to hear. They wanted to what? Build a new ecosystem? What the fuck? Seriously. What a lame reason.

Alright besides the retarded/fucked up reason, the movie was funny overall. Of course with Tae Hyung e hyung, every movie becomes funny XD. I spotted quite a lot of mistakes during, and I mean DURING the movie. One scene, when the girl (Maki) was getting the injection, the needle didn't even go close to her skin nor her arm. The other scene was when the crazy bitch (one of the bad guys) stabbed one of the scientists on their way to the lab. The knife CLEARLY struck the person's left shoulder BUT the dude had blood stains on his heart. I'm not saying the movie's a failure because of the mistakes. I'm just saying its funny XD. Speaking of the Maki girl, in the movie, she was freaky. Especially because she reminded all of us of Alma in F.E.A.R.. "The 9 year old girl in red dress".

So thats the movie. It was okay (except the reasons to spread the virus) so go watch! I REALLY wanted L to fight physically though. Like jump around, kick, punch etc. Oh well.

Moving on to the next topic. As you all know, my older brother Tae Hyung e hyung bought me all 3 F.E.A.R. games for my birthday. I've completed the original and the first expansion pack. Second expansion pack now is being a major pain in the ass. The second expansion pack is mostly during the events of the first expansion pack, Extraction Point. The explosion have allowed all the "creatures from the dark" to come out to Earth and wreck havok. If I played Perseus Mandate without any F.E.A.R. background, then I would have had a heart attack. Thanks to F.E.A.R. and Extraction Point, I can now face spirits with no problem at all. Alma however, is still a threat. Fettel (Alma's second son/second prototype) is still at large and is after me. I lost my teammate, Lieutanent Chen. It was kinda sad to see him die like that even though it was just a game. He later appeared right behind me as a zombie looking spirit and scared the hell out of me though.

After I finish Perseus Mandate, I'll probably write a summary of the storyline in F.E.A.R..
P.S. the quote "The dead stay dead..." from F.E.A.R. = BULLSHIT! Haha.

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point, and New house...

2008-02-23T22:20:00.003+08:00

I nearly had a heart attack yesterday when I was plaing Extraction Point...
...
Nah I'm exaggerating. I just got really freaked out.
I encountered 4 hellish freaky moments yesterday when I was playing Extraction Point...
First was when Alma (bad) appeared right infront of me all of a sudden when I was going down the subway station...
Second was in the room covered FULLY in blood when those "things" came out of no where and scared the hell out of me. They were like invisible and only appeared for a brief moment when they were assaulting me/biting me/clawing me or whatever they were doing.
Third was the crawl-space I had to go into... I met a dead end and was planning to go back the way I came from when Alma [good (I think)] crawled out. That part wasn't the freaky scene. It was when I realised that I was in a completely different crawl-space that really freaked me out. Whenever I took a turn, the entire place just changes. I felt like a rat in a maze and the bad Alma as the hungry rat-eater in the maze or something.
Fourth scene was the REAL scary one. Good thing I had a preview of the scene when I checked out Youtube. Shouldn't have though. The video was titled "Scariest scene in FEAR Extraction Point". In this scene, you have to climb up a ladder. Now in F.E.A.R., you can't crawl up the ladder like how you do in Counter Strike or in any of the Valve games. You have to actually holster your weapon and then crawl up. Very realistic. So I was crawling up the ladder, when I receive a signal from "Unknown origin". Straight after that, Alma sticks her head out from this freaking hole behind the ladder and reaches out at me. I already knew this was about to happen since I saw the video BUT I was still scared shitless. Alma is amazingly freaky even though she's naked and is a 15 year old girl (in her actual self). Her movements reminds me of how the mom in Ju-On moves.
So those were my near death moments in Extraction Point. Now on to the "hell yeah, bring it on!" scenes.
First scene was when the good Alma (the one in the red dress), suddenly appeared like 5 meters infront of me in the subway tracks and then eliminated the Replica Soldiers (my enemies) infront of me. Before she appeared, I had 50 health and no armor. So she actually saved my life there. Before the good Alma disappeared, she whispered "You're safe now...". Now this quote gave me strength to carry on to the ladder scene. I actually had a ghost watching my back!
Even after this scene, she kept on appearing at random times saying "Hurry" and stuff. Jankowsky, who was my FEAR team partner who died, also appeared. It was a kick-ass feeling.

That was all yesterday though... Right now, I'm in the "Auburn Memorial HOSPITAL", standing right infront of the "Maternity Ward"... I couldn't get myself to continue when I saw those words... I hate it when I hear like a baby crying in the middle of the night... I guess there is something I'm really scared of XD. Tomorrow MORNING, I'll TRY to make my way through the Maternity Ward...

Enough about FEAR Extraction Point.
As you all know, I moved to a HDB on Monday... My first day was hell because of the noisy cats outside the HDB blocks. They sounded like they were either mating or fighting... The shower's a killer too. I can't shower in near-boiling water anymore like I used to in Signature Park... The water is freaking cold... Sigh... Guess I'll have to adapt to the freezing cold water...
Well to tell the truth, my HDB unit looks WAY larger than Signature Park. My room is like twice the size as compared to the room I had in Signature Park. I can walk to school too if I feel like exercising. I usually take the bus though because I'm lazy. It takes less than a minute... Bus rides became boring because of the lack of time I spend on the bus haha =P. Anyways, other than the cats outside "meow-ing" at 3am every morning, my house is okay.

I miss Signature Park so much though... Maybe her too... T_T

Jumper, F.E.A.R., Resident Evil 4, and Gerlaine's birthday party

2008-02-16T20:48:00.003+08:00

I've always fantasized about havig this power to "teleport" or in this case, "jump" around where ever you see. The hell, I even tried to "jump" around when I was young. When I saw Jumper, I was reminded of my childhood days. The movie was awesome. Hayden Christensen's character, David, was this "Jumper" who "jumped" into the bank vault to get freaking rich over night. His character still reminded me of Anakin Skywalker. Cocky, arrogant, bold, brave, never in control of the situation and freaking strong haha. I didn't like Samuel L. Jackson's character though. He didn't act anything like Mace Windu this time. I won't give spoilers though. Anyways, its a movie worth your time and money so go and watch!

After the movie, Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung bought me my "birthday gift" haha. I felt a little guilty accepting it though since my birthday was over almost a month ago. I'll consider it as my lunar bithday gift then haha. Lunar 01/01 is my birthday which is not so far back. So they got me F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) which is a freaking scary game. I've managed to beat the game in total of 6 hours. Beat the game just today haha. There were a lot of "near heart attack" moments for me in game... Alma wasn't the little girl in red... It was just the memory the 1st prototype (which is the character I control) has of her... Her actual self was... Oh my God freaky... Alma looked JUST like the mom in Ju-on... Her crawling was super fast... Besides Alma, there was Paxton Fettel I had to hunt... Paxton Fettel is the 2nd prototype. The 1st and the 2nd prototypes were Alma's children... Paxton Fettel had this telepathic link with all the clone soldiers. The AI of the soldiers were damn realistic... They side stepped like a freaking pro counter-strike player. Good thing it was in easy mode... Or else, I would have freaking died at the beggining. One advantage I had over them was the "slow-mo" mode. Basically, I go in super speed so all the enemies seem to move damn slow. Now I know what the director dude meant by "The best way of killing horror is to explaine it". When I found out that the 2 prototypes were Alma's children and when I found out Alma's last name, I understood everything and wasn't really afraid anymore. At first I couldn't understand why Alma wasn't killing me or why she was haunting me with her memories... In the end, I manage to escape on the helo (helicopter) BUT Alma crawled up the helo and crashed it. Now, I'm starting on F.E.A.R. Extraction Point... Alma's prescence is always near this time... LOTS of blinking lights... Anyways, THANK YOU TAE HYUNG E HYUNG AND SAE HYUNG FOR THE KICK-ASS BIRTHDAY GIFT!! =D.

Hmm besides F.E.A.R., I also got Resident Evil 4 computer version from Shainaz. Resident Evil 4 was freaky as well but I enjoyed controlling my favourite RE character, Leon Scott Kennedy. Thats why I was so disappointed when I found out that Leon and Ada didn't come out during the Resident Evil: Extinction... Since Albert Wesker came out, Leon and Ada MUST too haha. Anyways, I beat the game in 2 days. Salarzar and Saddler were giving me hell. I'm beating the game for the second time now to unlock the different costumes for Leon and Ashley. Since I got my hands on the infinite rocket launcher, it'll only be a matter of time for me to beat the game again.

Moving on to the next topic, yesterday, 15th Febuary 2008, was Gerlaine's birthday party at Settlers near Clarke Quay station. Her actual birthday is on the 22nd Febuary but she celebrated early. It was a hell of a party. I met new friends too like Yurica*, Hui Min, Cassey, and many more. I was one of the first to reach the place on time so we played this board game. Rayson and I were going crazy. If only Gerlaine joined us... She was too busy directing people to the right place. I, being the sharp one, managed to find the place myself haha XD. Took a lot of photos there. The dress code was those Indian clothings which I didn't have... I just realised that I don't have that much Indian friends who actually HAVE Indian clothings. The only one I knew was Siva. He lent his to Shao though. We took a lot of pictures there and I realised that Shao can be a very good photographer. He knows where to go to get the right angles and stuff haha *cough cough* =P. Anyways, I had a fun time there XD. Hope Gerlaine did too haha. Thanks again Gerlaine for inviting me! XD.

JaMess out

18!!

2008-01-27T13:25:00.000+08:00

I FINALLY turned 18 today!! Thank you to everyone who wished me on the 25th or via SMS/Friendster/Facebook.

I have to admit, my birthday this year was a lot more memorable than last year's. My classmates and my band mates actually prepared something for me! Not on my actual birthday but still.

25th January 2008, Friday, was Shao Wei's birthday. Since my birthday landed on a Sunday, I thought no one will actually celebrate or even remember. Apparently, almost everyone in my class has Friendster so the birthday reminder thing reminded them a week before. I didn't know though. When I got to the tables at the back of the canteen, I saw 2 cakes. Here I thought someone else had the same birthday as Shao or something. I thought everyone was celebrating Shao's and "someone else's" birthday until Apple told me to come stand with Shao. I was seriously dumbfounded but realised that I was that "someone else". Everyone sang "Happy Birthday" and then we blew out the candles. The funny thing is, Shao only had 2 big candles (20 years old) and I had like 1 big one and 8 other smaller candles (18 years old).

After the wishing and all, was the "take the candle holder out with your mouth" thing. My cake was supposed to be the jelly topping cake while Shao's was the whip cream chocolate cake. I knew that because of the jelly topping on my cake, none of the cake will get on my face. I was about to tell Shao to go first, when Fifi told to switch cakes!!... So I got the choco cake instead... When I was taking the thing out, Fifi smashed my face in the cake XD. Shao's face was smashed in the jelly cake too but his face was clean while mine was like white cream everywhere.

Cake fight came next. I think it all started with Fifi smashing the choco cake on Shao's face to make it even. It was chaos after that. Cakes flying, people creeping up behind people to smash cakes on their faces etc. Wish I had pictures to post up but my friends didn't send them to me yet.

So that was it for the celebration with my classmates part. Yes, I had to celebrate again with my band mates XD.

So after the boring band practice (yes, boring because not that many people actually turned up...), we rushed off to Mui Wen's secondary school to watch Liyana Lim perform. The performance overall was okay but the noisy people pissed me off XD. Haha so after the concert, we (Yvonne, Yi Zhen, Xian Hua, Mui Wen, Darren, Liyana, Darren's older sister and I) met at a MosBurger in some plaza. I think it was Tiong Bahru. Just when I was about to get something, Yvonne and Mui Wen suddenly went out and Yi Zhen and Liyana told me to accompany them to "shop" around. By the time we went back to Mos, there was another cake with the candles lit and all... So I had my 2nd birthday celebration at Mos with my Clarinet section. They gave me birthday gifts to me and all at like 11:30pm XD.

I'm grateful for having such kick-ass, caring, funny friends!! =D.

So, yeah. Thank you to everyone who wished me happy birthday and prepared a surprise party and all =D. I want to write more and all but I'm kinda outta time XD.

Once again, THANK YOU ALL!!!! =D

Happy New Year, AVP2, PU2 and Night Safari!

2008-01-06T21:49:00.000+08:00

Okay let me begin this post by pointing out that there is a typo in the title of the previous post. Its supposed to be MERRY not MARRY XD.

Anyways, like 5 days ago, it was the end of year 2007. Lots of memories flashed past during the count down for me.
Memories like how I spent the first day of 2007 with Wei Jian, Yu Ting, Sharon, Zilah at Wei Jian's house. I remember I didn't sleep at all that day. Sharon, Yu Ting, and Wei Jian all did though. So on the first day of 2007, I had panda eyes, and was REALLY tired. Remember how we said we were the first ones to walk to Westmall? XD.
My birthday was also memorable in year 2007 because Wei Jian, Jin Yu, Sharon, and Yu Ting called me out to give me my birthday present XD. It was the red lens Oakley sunglass I wanted to get for Christmas in year 2006. Its such an expensive present that I didn't let people touch it at first XD. Thank alot for the shades guys! Will never forget! =D.
And then in year 2007, I went to a new school and met new friends. When I first went to MI (as in the first ever lesson), I was quite nervous since none of my Sec school friends were in the same class as me. I had Dina though, the FIRST ever friend I made in MI. I got to know her during the orientation since she was in the same OG as me; Hesper 3.
Knowing Dina on the first day was comforting since I had someone I knew to talk to XD. Later on the year, I got to know all my classmates. Other than Dina, the other 3 people I was close to during the first week of lessons were Kamal, Gerlaine and Apple =D. Gerlaine and Apple are the ones who "encouraged" me to eat more in year 2007 too. They still do XD. After them it was Tina! Who always asked me to teach her new words or phrases in Korean. I got to know Xia Ning who was REALLY close to all the Indian girls in my class like Aish, Vaani, Priya, Rajee, Nithiya*, etc. Next was Gracie and Cheryl on the bus. After knowing Gracie, it was the Chinese girs XD. Claudia, Kelly, Saw Wah, Jasmine, etc.
Haha other than that I remember doing all the flips, jumps, hand stands with Shao Wei, forming a "brotherhood" thing with Siva and Shane, forming another group thing with all the guys in our class, being called a Korean Mafia by Haresh because of my new hair style, being called a Korean Born American Bastard by Haresh LOL. I don't know why he added in the bastard part at the end XD.
Haha and then there are my band mates. FIRST one I ever knew was C.Y. who sat next to me during the band "get together" thing XD. Band back then was quite small so we had to join with the IJC band. Got to know Wei Lian, the greatest Clarinet player I have ever met thanks to the MI and IJC combined band. Although he took all the solo parts for first Clarinet, I still respected him. He was seriously good so he deserved it XD. I got to know my homie, Kim So Young Amy, better during band too! When I found out that there was another Korean IN THE SAME GRADE as me, I was seriously overjoyed! And when she said she was gonna join band, I was even more overjoyed XD. Wished she played the Clarinet but she played the Flute. The section I consider rivals of Clarinets XD.
After the MI/IJC concert, the band became a little bigger. With people like Yvonne and Yi Zhen joining the Clarinet section too. Near the end of like the 3rd term we performed at the first ever "Transcendence/MI Night" where lots of people show-cased their tallents. Our next performance was "Sleigh Ride" which took place near the end of the year. I got SO close to my Clarinet section through all the band practices we had before the concert day. Especially during the band camp. Our last concert was also memorable since Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung joined my family to watch me perform. Too bad the other 2 Signature park gang members (The 2 Miyauchi) didn't/couldn't come.
Near the end of the year, how can I forget all the movies I watched with my brothers Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung XD. We watched almost all good movies together and then spent time in E-Zone and Burger King afterwards. Things like how Tae Hyung e hyung beat Virtua Tennis 2 twice in one day, beating Puzzle Bubble twice a day also, screaming our ass off trying to dodge all the lasers in all the plane games, and finally making all the HILARIOUS jokes/stories that will definately make everyone ROFLMFAO-ing (Rolling on the floor laughing my(THEIR) fucking ass off). Some jokes will require people to first know Eleven and Three LOL. Memories of 2007 that I'll never forget unless I get amnesia or brain damage or something XD.
2007 was the year that I got to hang out with Chie alot too. I thought I got over her but I guess I was lying to myself. Yes Taka, I still do have feelings for her. You call yourself my brother and you don't know how I feel about your sister? LOL. 2007 was the year when Chie called me out for the FIRST ever time to play squash. December 3rd was the date. I made a little memo to myself on the calender because I was damn shocked when I saw her message. Its usually me who calls her out XD.
Anyways, that was year 2007 for me. A seriously good year. 7's my lucky number XD. There are stuffs that I didn't write like hanging out with Min, Kok, and Wei Jian at West Coast, etc BECAUSE it'll take too long... So sorry Min! XD.

Okay moving on the AVP2 which I recently watched with all the Lee brothers. It was the first movie I watched in 2008 too. The movie was better than the first one I guess. This time there were no alliances between each races. In the first movie, the main character girl made an alliance with the Predator against the Queen... WTF? Lol. And in the 2nd movie, there were lots of bloody scenes. AND there was PREDALIEN!! So damn... Er ugly, I mean cool XD. Some kick ass Predator technologies came out also. Like the pistol I used in the AVP game came out etc. Oh ya and there were some oral sex scenes between the Predalien and the hospital patients/pregnant women in the hospital XD. Yeah, thats about the movie... Lol as always, we went to E-Zone after the movie and screamed our ass off because of the plane game. Went down to Burger King next to eat and make jokes again, then we went home XD.

Sigh... Year 2008 January 2nd was a both sad and a happy day for me because I was going back to school. Going back to school for me meant two things... First, it meant I couldn't hang out as often with Tae Hyung e hyung, Sae Hyung and Chie... BUT I got to see my MI family (classmates AND band mates) again! I don't really mind studying so going to school to learn doesn't really bother me. This year, I'm Pre U 2. Which mean more homework, projects, tests, and more stress... Hope I do well this year!!

Last up on this LONG blog entry is the Night Safari trip with Chie, Jessie and Wesley. Jessie came back to Singapore on January 2nd 2008 so I decided to hang out with her on Friday 4th January. Since Jessie didn't see Chie for like a long time I called her along. Luckily, Chie could go out on that day. I met up with Chie first and took a combination of bus and MRT to the Chua Chu Kang station to board 927 to the night safari. While waiting, these two people approached us saying that to get to night safari, their bus was faster and free etc. I thought they were faking but they actually had the tickets to night safari and were selling them there. Indeed their "bus" was faster and the ticket price was the same too. AND it didn't feel awkward anymore when I was alone with Chie. Last time, I used to like touch my nose when I'm talking to her, or look away as soon as we make eye contact etc... Maybe thats why she ditched me for someone like Koki or Yusuke*... I was a total gayass fucktard asshole who had no dick etc. Guess I changed since this time I could like talk to Chie none stop XD. When we got to the night safari, the "native people" were dancing and were playing with fire. I LOVED how they extinguished the fire. They put the edge of the stick which was on fire in their mouth. And I LOVED how they blew out fire like how a flamethrower would with their mouth by spitting out gasoline. After they finished we found Jessie and her "friend" Wesley. Wesley was another ex-SASer who graduated 4 years ago. So he was like 2 years older than Tae Hyung e hyung. Now speaking of Jessie, she was more darker than last time I saw her XD. Probably too much tennis. Hmm the night safari was really fun. Especially when we went inside the cage thing with all the bats. Chie and Jessie were scared XD. Bats don't bother Wesley and I AT ALL so Wesley and I scared them XD. I saw lots of animals but couldn't take any pictures of them since it was dark and flash photography wasn't allowed. I found Wesley to be a pretty cool guy. Very friendly too.
My favourite part of the night safari thing was the tram ride. I sat next to Chie and had a hell of a time making fun of the tour guide with her XD. AND being amazed at the huge elephant, buffalo etc XD. Wesley and I made fun of all the animals there too.
Haha at the end of the day, we went to Jessie's place to collect my "present" from Jessie. Felt SO guilty since I didn't or couldn't get anything for her. Wanted to say her night safari ticket (which I paid for) was her present but she stuffed $32 in my hand saying "If you return this to me, I'll get really mad" etc. So I just took it XD.
At the end of the day, I kinda didn't want to send Chie home but being a good boi, I ESCORTED her to her lobby. I didn't really want to go home that day since I had so much fun XD. Being alone with Chie before we met Jessie will probably be one of the happiest moments in 2008 XD.

National Treasure, 2 concerts and MARRY CHRISTMAS!

2007-12-25T16:25:00.000+08:00

Here is a series of events that happened last week and this week.

First up, I went to watch National Treasure with Tae Hyung e hyung, Sae Hyung, and my brother. The movie was good. I say it was better than the first one. The first one had too much clues in the Declaration of Independence if I remember correctly... National Treasure 2 or Book of Secrets had some funny and "Oh my God" moments. One scene was when Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) had to create a scene in the museum place to get himself detained by the security. His acting was damn good and hilarious. The other scene was at the end of the movie when Riley* got his Ferrari back. It was tax free and he drove it straight into another car. Heart breaking. Good thing they didn't show us the Ferrari getting damaged =D.

After the movie we went straight to E-Zone again to play Virtua Tennis 2 and Puzzle Bubble. In Puzzle Bubble, I got all the way to Stage 16 until Tae Hyung e hyung challenged me and took over my game. All of us wanted to go to the "?" stage and beat the game. But when I clicked on the choose button, the cursor was on the "X" stage and not the "?" stage. That like destroyed the gaming mood. We beat the game once then decided to beat it again just to go to the "?" stage. "?" stage was nothing much. It was just the same thing but harder. And the ending was different too. In "X" stage, the little dinosaur dude gets many friends which in the "?" stage he becomes the king.

Again after E-Zone, we went to Burger King. Its our routine. Movie, E-Zone, Burger King, bus stop then go home. At Burger King, Tae Hyung e hyung shared with us his NS stories again. How he met all these cool friends and some gay fag, dumb fuck racists during his BMT. I hope I get to meet lots of nice friends when I go there and not some dumb shits who insult my country. Good thing Sae Hyung's gonna go with me though. As well as all my friends who used to go to same Secondary school as me. I've never been hated (as far as I know) in any school I went to but I get the feeling BMT is gonna be different... Who knows?... Tae Hyung e hyung also told us his encounter with the supernaturals too. This clearly freaked out Sae Hyung and my brother. This didn't really bother me though since I always believed that there are spirits around everywhere and that they won't disturb me unless I disturb them first. Sae Hyung got freaked out so much by Tae Hyung e hyung's "HEE HEE HEE!" when Sae Hyung asked what'll happen if someone accidently touched the Red Tape that was around the forest. The "HEE HEE HEE!" wouldn't have been as scary IF Tae Hyung e hyung didn't describe the spirit he saw in the forest. Head only, red eyes, mouth super wide (as in the smile is from one ear to the other), and on some random tree. I wonder what'll happen if you shoot bullets at it though... Because I think that'll be like the first thing I'll do if I do encounter them with weapon in my hands.

Okay so moving on to the 2 concerts I went to. The first one was Tina's alumni band concert, and the second was Wei Lian's Kim Send Wind Symphony concert.

I went to Tina's concert alone since all my friends couldn't make it or didn't want to go. On my way there, the MRT was freaking crowded and this really sweaty man like walked past me when he was getting off... The smell was horrible... I'm never going on the MRT around like 6pm anymore XD. Tina was a MC at the concert and I saw a side of her I've never seen before. With thick make ups etc (from far away, the make up looked thick =D). The concert overall was good but I say the Primary school band performed better than the Secondary school band. The songs played by the Primary school band were also more exciting too. Tina's secondary school band played 2 exact songs our band played. 1 was Under the Double Eagle, and the other was Enka Medley. Under the Double Eagle was nice and it was the opening piece. When I heard it I was like "Wow this band is good". I took back my words though when I heard them play Enka Medley. The Clarinets were WAY too shy. I couldn't hear ANY Clarinets at all when they had like 13 Clarinetists. People said they could hear me and my section play at our concert when there was only 7 of us... Oh well they were probably afraid to play the high high D and E...

Next concert up the following day was the Kim Seng Wind Symphony's concert. This time I went to the concert with my section members Yvonne, Yi Zhen, Xian Hua and Liyana. We were late for the concert though... Since Xian Hua finished her work at like 4:55pm when the concert was starting at 5pm... We managed to hear only 1 song in the first half and it was Enka Medley 2. Their band was seriously good. The sound was balanced, in tune, and the soloists were damn good too. There were some squeaks though. Like those really bad ones. They didn't bother the music though. Can't believe such a excellent Clarinetist like Wei Lian had to play 3rd for the concert... He said he was too lousy compared to the other Clarinetists so he couldn't play 1st... Then where does that put me?... After the concert, We all decided to go eat with Wei Lian with his other friends. His friends gave him a brocolli as his present at the concert. It was supposed to be a flower. Wei Lian later dunked it in the trash can in front of their face XD. It was funny.

Finally for today's post... Hmm nothing much to write about actually since the its only 5pm... Well anyways, ITS CHRISTMAS!! =D. Haha Merry Christmas to everyone =D. I managed to send message to everyone in my contact list on Christmas Eve. The message sending took damn long. There was like a SMS traffic jam or something. Took total of 45minutes for my phone to send the messages to everyone. I even sent messages to people I've never messaged for like 2 years? I sent to Tiffany Fan, Hahneol, etc. Wasn't expecing replies from them but Tiffan replied XD. Thought her number changed or she deleted my number from her phone book for something. I sent messages even to Sunny, William, Wynn etc when I knew they weren't really gonna reply. Last year, I sent a message to Wynn and I think he said something like wasting his SMS and stuff XD. Haha but not disappointed even though they didn't reply though. I got a Christmas Tree message from Tae Hyung e hyung and a Merry Christmas message from Sae Hyung too =D. Takahide called me at like 1am to wish me Merry Christmas too. He wanted me to go out to hang out with him. I rejected immediately.

Haha I think I'm going out later for a family dinner. So I'm gonna stop here. MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!! =D

MI Symphonic Band Concert

2007-12-17T20:41:00.000+08:00

On 15th December 2007, my band, Millenia Institute Symphonic Band had our first ever band only concert entitled Sleigh Ride. Our band practiced VERY hard for this concert. The songs we prepared for the audience were Sleigh Ride, Disney Movie Magic, White Christmas, O Come O Ye Faithful, Last Christmas, Pop Culture, Enka Medley, and Jersey Boys. Songs like Disney Movie Magic, Pop Culture and Jersey Boys had short versions of famous movie themes making the concert a little more worthwhile.

The concert was due to start at 5:30pm but it started at 5:40pm instead. Probably to wait a little longer for the audience to come in. Due to last minute ticket selling, we couldn't get full house. All the VIPs I invited came though. All except one who went to a Japanese karaoke like a gay fag. When the audience was entering the Center Stage, my band mates spotted my brother immediately. They were like "I saw your brother James" or "Isn't that your brother?". Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung sat next to my brother too. While waiting for our conductor to start us off, I noticed that my 3 brothers were laughing uncontrollably while waiting for the concert to start. I kinda knew they were laughing at me since they made funny hand signs to me and looked at me straight in the eye. I thought they were making fun of the Santa hat everyone was wearing.

And so eventually our conductor, Mr. Lim Lip Hua, entered and started us off with Sleigh Ride. Our first piece started off nicely. So did our second piece, Disney Movie Magic. For this piece, I played 2nd Clarinet. And the last 2 pieces before the interval which were White Christmas and O Come O Ye Faithful, I played 3rd Clarinet. I came up with the suggestion that we, the Clarinet section, switch parts =D. It was to let my section mates have a chance at playing the 1st part which is usually more challenging. However, I still got the first parts for the more harder pieces like Last Christmas and Enka Medley. The Clarinet section was busy switching seats because of this though... Our conductor always wanted the first Clarinets to be seated at his left and the third Clarinets to his right.

So after playing those 4 pieces, the body percussion came... Basically, body percussion is something like self mutilation. Or if you put it in nicer terms, its to create music using our bodies. I had to beat my chest, belly, knee, and clap my hands along with 11 others. C.Y.'s and Tze Kiat's* solo parts were funny though. They really looked as if they were gonna fight or something.

So the interval came after that and I went straight away to meet my lovely parents and my 3 brothers. I found out that they were counting all the mistakes the band/body percussion made, making fun of me hitting my chest and how I cleaned up the stage and set up the stage again before the intervals. My brother took a video of me cleaning up the stage... He should have took video of the band playing so that I could hear what we sounded like from the audience's perspective. They also said they memorized the body percussion parts as soon as they looked at it XD.

Anyways, the second half of the concert started off with us playing Last Christmas. A familiar piece to most people who listen to Christmas carols/songs. I made a mistake during this song when I was looking at Tae Hyung e hyung and Sae Hyung. I forgot to watch the conductor so I went straight into Coda when I was supposed to repeat. Fortunately for me, the Coda part and the repeat part was almost the same so people couldn't really hear my mistake. This happened through out the second half because Tae Hyung e hyung told me to look at them when I'm playing. They said they were gonna do something funny. So in the next song, which was Pop Culture, I memorized 4 bars of Flinstones just to look at them. I think I made eye contact but none of them did anything... -_-.

Then my favourite song of the concert came. Enka* Medley. AKA Chinese grandma song by Tae Hyung e hyung LOL. This song was the song my section forced me to play since it was one of the more challenging pieces... I wanted Yvonne or Yi Zhen to play though... They didn't want to in the end, although they were able to play the piece... Enka Medley was my favourite because it had lots of running notes, and the tempo became fast for some time too. I love fast, catchy songs. The last song listed on the program booklet was Jersey Boys. We played this song without any mistake also (at least thats what I think...). After the song ended, our conductor smiled at us and went backstage. The smile was to tell us something like "Do you think the audience will shout encore?".

The audience, except a few people like my brothers, parents, friends and a few others I don't know, WERE ALL DEAD. Oh my God... They didn't even clap properly (according to my brother). So my brother had to clap as loud as he can to get them to actually clap. Even though the audience didn't shout encore, our conductor came out and told the audience that we prepared one last song for them. The last song was called Santa Rocks the House. This song was super fast too. I think the audience liked the song alot too since they clapped very loud after the song ended.

So that was the end for the concert. Friends I invited all left so early... I couldn't get a chance to thank them face to face... Tae Hyung e hyung, Sae Hyung, my brother, and my parents stayed all the way though and for that I'm grateful =D. Haha I got to give Tae Hyung e hyung his birthday present too =D. Hope he will like it XD. Haha now I'll like to thank everyone who came to the concert to support me XD. THANK YOU ALL!!

After all my supporters have left, I took lots of photos with my band members. Especially with my lovely, angelic, Clarinet section, and the guest players. I'm gonna miss them when they're gone... Especially Tina, Liyana, Derek, Edward and others. We will keep in touch though. Especially with Tina since we both support Thailand in the Sea Games XP and since she's my one and only TINA XD. For Liyana I'll see her whenever we have Clarinet section outting or barbecue XD. Derek and Edward, I can keep in touch with them through my brother in band, C.Y. XD.

Oh well, I can't wait for our next concert with them =D. People who came to support, once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH =D. Hope to see you on our next concert too!
JaMess out

Bali Trip

2007-12-08T13:45:00.000+08:00

I finally went overseas after like 4 years! It was awesome going on a plane again. We went to Bali on Monday (3rd December) for 3 days and 2 nights. The plane we got on, was freaking small compared to other planes. And the plane looked old too so I was worried that maybe one of the wings might tear off or something XD. Before reaching Bali, we managed to see the most beautiful sunset. The whole sky was crimson red with clouds providing some more special effects.

When we reached Bali, our personal driver, Madae*, came down to the airport to escort us to our villa. We didn't sleep in a hotel -_-. The road to the villa was damn rocky and narrow. It reminded me of going back to my grandparent's place in Korea. The villa we stayed in (Sitara Padi Villa) was HUGE. 3 rooms, swimming pool, huge living room + kitchen, etc. Only bad thing about that place was that the annoying insects were everywhere... Especially in the toilets since they were outdoors behind our rooms. Had trouble sleeping that night because of some of the insects that managed to enter our rooms AND because of the gay skin rash on my feet.

Second day in Bali was all about shopping, looking at some tourist attractions and eating. Before we got started on the tour with our driver, I freaking had to go see a doctor because my feet were swollen and I couldn't even point my toes down... I had to get an injection on my ass because the doctor said it looked serious... Why on my ass? I told her to inject me on my arm but she said it'll hurt alot -_-. Psh whatever. I was gonna tell her I'm the type of kid that carves my name out on my arms and stuff but that would have given my mom a heart attack and my dad would have killed me XD. After the injection, I felt SUPER giddy, sleepy, and tired. I couldn't even stand up by myself for like 10 seconds after the injection. Probably because of lack of sleep, and light breakfast. BUT my parents kept on saying I'm weak blah blah blah. Wanted to tell them to stfu. 10 seconds after the injection though, I was perfectly fine. The rashes on my feet were immediately gone too so we proceeded on with our tour. First place we went to was this beach (forgot the name...). The rocks there had like volcanic features on them. They looked like cooled lava but felt like graphite... We didn't get to spend that much time there because of my dad... All he did there was step on the rocks, then walk back to the direction we came from. Next up were some random places where tourists go. One of them was a paint house and the other was the silver smith. After lunch, which was so poorly served, we went to another beach. People were actually swimming here unlike the first one we went. As usual, I did the first thing I do when I go to beaches; to look for hot babes. Lots of Western people were there but I didn't see that much hot babes. Both the beaches were damn freaking long. The third beach we went to, had the crystal clear waters. Wanted to swim but because of the freaking injection and the rashes, I couldn't. Last up was the dinner by the beach (again...). The meal they served kick ass. Finger licking good, cheap, good service. We did go shopping too but didn't buy much. Most of the things there can be bought in Singapore anyways. But difference between Bali and Singapore is that Bali has like 100 times more shops than Singapore. I saw wide variety of shops in the street like Zara, Bossinni*, Billabong, Converse, Nike, Adidas, Ralph Lauren, and etc. Women's paradise.

Our flight time on our last day was at 4:10pm. So we decided to just chill around in our villa until 1:10pm. Surprisingly, my dad, who can't even swim, actually got inside the swimming pool. I wanted to but the ass injection was still hurting. So we left for airport after saying thank you and goodbye to all the villa staff for their kick ass service. At the airport, my dad got so pissed off at the staff for being so "stupid" and asking him to walk through the metal detector again and again. He said the word "stupid" infront of the security guard too. They deserve it. What kind of dumb ass asks the person to walk through the metal detector over and over again?... My dad's anger didn't stop there though... We later found out that our flight was DELAYED because of some gay reason. So we were like 4 hours early for the flight. The airport in Bali was small, and didn't have that much shops either... No game shops there too (Maybe I expected a little too much?). Nothing bad happened on our flight to Singapore though. Overall, the Bali trip was fun but it sure was nice coming back to a more developed country XD.

Was gonna write about the pool game on Thursday with Tae Hyung e hyung and yesterday's band practice and the Phil Winds concert but I'm feeling lazy right now.

So shoppers, go to Bali to shop! XP

Hitman + 10KM Marathon

2007-12-02T22:24:00.000+08:00

First up, Hitman. Watched Hitman with Tae Hyung and my brother at Westmall again. We seriously had nothing better to do on that day so we decided to watch the sneaks (again). Better than staying at home switching games from new computer to not so new computer right?

Anyways, we didn't talk much while watching Hitman. Usually we comment on the movie scripts, sound effects etc, and comment on the hot chicks that come out in movies (well at least I always do!). This time, we weren't so lucky... The action scenes were damn nice in Hitman though. The chick... I give her 6/10 for face and 4/10 for body -_-. I'm being nice here... Seriously! We all liked Agent 47 since all he cared about was to complete his job no matter what the cost. Another thing I liked about Agent 47 was that he wasn't like invulnerable. When the 4 agents fought with dual swords, Agent 47 got hit and stuff too WHICH I didn't expect to happen. So it kinda got me cheering for the "good" guy instead of the villans in this movie.

What really pissed me off was the mother f-ing detective... He said the f-word lots of times in the movie. Usually the effect of the f-word is to get the audience laughing or to create this really cool mood. Like I'll go like "Oh sweet, this dude's really gonna blah blah blah". BUT when the detective dude said it in his queer British accent or whatever his accent was, it has like no effect. Might as well not say at all... I think he wanted to look and sound cool during the movie or something... Some nude scenes too though. Thought the movie was M18 when those (I note, THOSE) scenes were shown. Oh well, the actress acted as a prostitute so... Yeah... Overall, its a good movie so go and watch it!!

Second up, the 10KM marathon I had to run today. Woke up at 6am to have breakfast then to call a cab so that I wouldn't be late. Decided to meet Siva at the Raffles MRT station first. When we were walking towards the starting line the race was about to begin. We were the last few to start. ALSO Siva had sprained his ankle and I had skin rashes on both my feet... Luckily, I applied Tiger Balm to the rashes so it didn't itch as much during the race. Haikal also joined us when we were crossing the start point. Around 500 meters into the race, Haikal AND Siva had to go to the toilet -_- ditching me to run alone all by myself.

The run was okay until those old uncles started to slow down like FISH (The f-word) because they were tired -_-. Mother FISHING slow uncles blocked my path like completely... How gay right? And some people cut across right infront of me then slows down almost immediately as if they were doing it on purpose... I stared into the person's eye whenever anyone did that until they chicked out and looked away while running. Dumb shits. Oh another thing... Whenever I ran behind a VERY VERY sweaty person, my nose picked up some nasty stench... Ugh... Gross. Sick. Nasty. FISH!

Other than the old uncles, the people who cut across right infront of me, and the nasty smell, the marathon was damn fun. It was like people everywhere. Certainly a challenge too, both physically and mentally. When I was passing the 2KM mark, I thought I ran at least like 4KM -_-. When I saw the 2KM sign, I was like "WHAT?! 2KM only?...". It was very discouraging XD.
The only times when I walked a little were when I wanted a drink at the drink stalls. Then it was constant run all the way till 9KM mark. The last KM, I managed to sprint it all the way. My breathing during the sprint was damn asthmatic -_-. When I breathed in it sounded like "heeeee" and when I breathed out it sounded like "hehhhh". Yeah, very weird XD. Towards the finishing line, saw this cheer leading group. And honestly, they were hot! There was the band performing for us too which gave me "powers". Was quite disappointed though. Since I never got to see the hot babes from our class! =(. Didn't know exactly when they were starting so didn't go to the starting line to cheer them on like Johnathan... John beats the flirty JaMess, wow!... Haha, joking! =P.

After the marathon, we (Siva, Kamal, Haikal, and I) headed off to Long John Silvers to have our brunch. Then I had to rush to church. I don't know why but when I got off at the City Hall MRT station from the shuttle bus, I lost all sense of direction and was lost -_-... I walked towards the wrong direction so I couldn't go for the Korean mass. Thanks to Haikal and his "shortcut" AND thanks to Siva's limping =P. Don't blame them though. It was me who lead them to the wrong place.

Anyways, I'm going off to Bahli tomorrow afternoon with my family. Hope I have a fun time there... Like FINALLY I get to go on the plane again! Tomorrow, Tae Hyung goes back to NS... If he goes back, then my life's seriously gonna be damn boring... Hope he gets the doctor to extend his medical leave period... Hyung nim, movies to watch: I Am Legend, The Mist, AvP2 etc! XD

Oh and P.S. Good job for completing the race my fellow 07S7~! Lets go for the half marathon next year! =D.

Looking back

2007-11-24T11:13:00.000+08:00

Lots of things happened past few days. Movie and E zone with the other Lee brothers XD, us finally buying a guitar, and band camp XD.

Okay, so the first movie we watched after we watched Game Plan was Beowulf, an NC16 movie which my brother who is 15 got into. Sae didn't come that day because he had school I think. My bro bought the tickets for the Bee Movie and he waited for us in the bathroom to get in. The movie was awesome, especially the graphics and all... I thought it was the real actors on screen but actually it was an animation. All three of us panicked in the beginning of the movie because we thought we came in the wrong theatre. Why? Because of the monster Grendel*. We only started to enjoy the movie when the character Beowulf showed up and beat the crap out of the monster butt naked. Its no wonder it was animation. The Sean Bean wannabie actor, or maybe Sean Bean himself couldn't have jumped around butt naked like that without his private parts getting filmed. Overall, the film was great. Except the disgusting shit face Grendel*. I loved the part when Beowulf shouts "I am Beowulf!" and cuts off Grendel's entire left arm! Yeah yeah, some people will say I'm sadistic, but that who I am =P. As usual, we went to E-zone after the movie and played Puzzle Bubble from what I remember. I also remember that I lost to Tae Hyung because my advisor, Sae Hyung, was missing T_T.

Another movie we watched on 21 Nov was Enchanted. This time Sae Hyung also came with us. The movie was so hilarious! It was like the real world was turning into one of those Disney products. Also the girl who acted as the princess in the Disney world acted very well. Acting like a real princess and stuff. But I say Prince Edwards was the best XD. We all laughed like hell when he said "Thank you for taking care of my bride, peasants". Overall, I give the movie 5/5 stars. Since it is a Disney production, I assumed that the evil villans to look funny too, which they did. Especially the dragon thing.

Last up is the band camp. One word to describe it: FUN. Heh on the first day, it was band practice first, then the games. Band practice with Mr. Lim was okay, but a little too short... We could have worked on a few more pieces by extending the time. The games in the afternoon were fun too. First we played ice breakers to get to know each other better. I got to know the whole band better. Like Zane said, I talked with people I don't usually talk to. Our Clarinet section is like united too. It was impossible to separate the 5 of us (Yvonne, Yi Zhen, Darren, Xian Hua, and I) there. Only because of admin matters, going to toilets, and the different sleeping times we weren't together throughout the entire camp XD. The second game was the bucket game were 4 groups of 4 had to lift up the bucket full of water with our legs. Made new friends during this game too. Derrick and Jasmin, the guest players from different secondary schools XD. The bucket game was more like a workout for most of us. Everyone's legs were cramping etc. Sectional practices came next but the Clarinet section and Derrick went out to Seven Eleven to buy our selves dinner since the school food sucked. On the way there, the girls saw a dog in the sewers and wanted to give dog food to it. But the dog disappeared in a blink of an eye into the darkness of the sewers. We gave up on giving it dog food so we just bought food for ourselves. The sectionals with the Clarinet tutor was awesome. The tutor taught us very well. I can long notes and high notes longer, and louder now. It was our free time after the tuition and we ate dinner which was cup noodles and the guys played ball afterwards. The girls soon joined. Played a match with the girls while the commitee members prepared the night walk. The night walk was fun but could have been more scary. The school was completely dark and So Young, Yvonne, Keng Guan, Zane and Siew Li had to scare us while we walk down the corridors and stuff. I was the first one and I had to tell them tips on how to scare people... Since I was the first one up, I decided to scare those who were coming next XD. Managed to scare most of the girls. I got Michelle and Joyce damn good XD. I got Ms. Zhang too when she came up and she sprayed water at me -_-. We were supposed to sleep right after that but Yi Zhen, Hafizah, Darren and I managed to stay up all the way until 6:15am. Yi Zhen finally got all of us to sleep though XD.

Okay the second day, Mr. Lim didn't come so it was sectionals again... All of us were falling asleep and I had this cam war with Yvonne and Yi Zhen XD. Third and fourth games were all about water and getting wet -_-. We had to go through an obstacle course with our eyes covered and with the people watching throwing water baloons at us. When I was the spectator, I threw water baloons at Cheryl and Xian Hua XD. They found out afterwards and got their revenge... C.Y. betrayed me and poured a bucket full of water on me which was supposed to be poured on So Young XD. I was the most wet person there I think. Ester, the lost girl, was drenched too. The most dry person was probably So Young and Yi Zhen... When I got home, I went straight to sleep until like 7am today.

Tiring but fun week XD. Hope its the same for the upcoming week XD.

The Gameplan

2007-11-10T22:51:00.000+08:00

Yeah, the title says it. I watched The Game Plan yesterday with Tae Hyung, Sae Hyung, and my brother. Had to rush to Westmall after band because we always have to clean stuff... Was pretty disappointed at Chie's message, which I saw right after band. She said she couldn't come because she had piano tuition. Tough luck huh?...

When we reached Westmall, it was around 6:15pm. We found Tae Hyung and Sae Hyung playing the tennis game in the arcade, both equally matched I guess since they both beat each other once (we only watched 2 matches XD). I, as usual, played Jurrassic Park to put up my name on the top 5 list again. The gun on that machine, is serioulsy FUCKED UP. Can't aim properly, doesn't reload properly, and doesn't shoot properly. I STILL managed to put my name on the top 5 list even with the shity gun. I probably had to die there anyways since the movie was about to start.

I was seriously horrified when I saw the Gameplan poster because I saw this little girl, wearing PINK ballerina* suit* standing next to The Rock... Well, overall, the movie was great. The little girl didn't look as bad in the movie either and The Rock's acting skills were great. The story line was good too. The Rock can be a seriously good dad if he everything his character did in the movie. I rate the movie 4 stars, but it would have been 5 stars if Dakota Fanning acted as the little girl XD.

We decided to go to Burger King for dinner after the movie. The 3 of us, Tae Hyung, Sae Hyung, and I ate the same thing so my bro was, as usual, the odd one out. We talked about soccer and how all the clubs except the club we cheered for sucked. We all supports different clubs... Tae Hyung supports Arsenal, Sae Hyung supports Chelsea, my bro supports Liverpool, I support Manchester United. But we still get along VERY well. Soccer can't break our friendship XD. We made fun of other people's names too. Some names we made fun of were Mr. Lesley (Mr. Les)*, Mr. Gaylord, Dick, and a girl's name we hated individually. The Mr. Les dude really exists so we created some scenarios. Like, when someone calls him it would be like "Hey, Les" or "Hey... Aren't you Les?" XD. These people would be like the MAIN victims of name-jokes because their names sound funny in the first place XD.

After dinner, we went up to the arcade again. I played the air plane game, and puzzle bubble with Tae Hyung and holy shit, both the games were intense! The air plane game was like a coin waster game but we still played, both trying to stay alive as long as possible. My jet, the Flying Pancake kicked ass. My bomb summoned 2 really large bombers which shot at enemies while it blocked all the projectiles the enemy shot at us. Tae Hyung's jet was Fock-something*... His bomb wasn't to the defensive but more to the offensive. This "long thing" came out which looked like a huge nuclear bomb or a huge dick, that drilled at incoming enemies before getting blown up. We made a perfect combination. We were like screaming like crazy while trying to dodge the impossible number of lasers, missiles, and enemy fighters. I kept screaming for BOMB because it was our only hope of survival in the game. We managed to beat the FIRST chapter. We first thought we beat the entire game but when we started again with the SECOND chapter, we got pissed off. We both eventually died since all the enemies were damn strong...
Next came puzzle bubble for me. 1 on 1 duel with Tae Hyung. Oh my God... Another intense game... I was screaming for the colors of balls I needed. And when those balls didn't come out, vulgarities just automatically came out. Both my brother and Sae Hyung helped me in a way. My bro, according to Tae Hyung, kept on giving him depressing comments like "Oh you're gonna die" or "Oh, you're gonna miss this shot" XD. Sae Hyung on the other hand, laughed when Tae Hyung was about to lose, which encouraged me as we played more matches.

At 11pm we left the arcade. Most of the games were swiched off and there were like almost no one still around. Everyone in E-Zone probably heard all our screamings XD.

And hyung, you're right XD. It is more fun when its only us XD. But I wanted her to come so badly though XD.

Beowolf is next on our movie list right? XD

Signature Park gang reunion

2007-11-08T11:36:00.000+08:00

I had a hell of a time yesterday. Tae Hyung called me in the morning telling me that he can come over to play squash with us. Immediately went down to book the court from 5pm to 7pm. TH came over at 3pm so we still had lots of time left. TH wanted me to show this girl who was "stalking" him. Belinda Goh. According to him, she added him in Facebook.com AND MSN. Should have video taped his reaction when he found out the sweet.poison person in his MSN was her XD. And the thing is that she's in my school, MI.

After SMSing all my friends who are in Business course we decided to play Orange Box (Half Life 2: Episode 2) because TH suggested it. Kevin came home that time too. When TH was playing, my bro made him so damn nervous by saying stuff like "you're gonna die!" etc. When Kevin took over, it was the BEST. TH told him to fight the bosses. Kevin nearly had a heart attack trying to out-run the 2 bosses up the hill. Hillarious. We were all like screaming like crazy XD.

We didn't eat lunch so we decided to eat raw noodles with the damn f-ing spicy powder soup. TH nearly died because he ate this dark orange one. Maybe next time I'll cook it XD.

Squash came next. We started playing so damn intensely when it was just a warm up. We as in TH and I. Kevin took over me after like 5 minutes and god, he improved like f. TH was still in his top form. Used the combination of wall shots and cheap shots to both of us XD. TH, you're still the best (even with the surgery). Only drawback was that he had to play barefoot because his slippers tore... He couldn't slide around and was having blisters XD. Couldn't share shoes either because none of our shoes fit him. Chie didn't come down today because she was out with her friends. Not really sure who those "friends" are. Probably her boy friend? Oh well, I had loads of fun with TH XD.

We wanted to swim after squash but TH couldn't due to the fact that his surgery wound might get infected if he swam. Swimming pool's a nasty place, especially here in Signature Park... 2 BIG pieces of shit were found in the bottom of the pool last time. I was the first to find it -.-. Still remember that day TH? XD. Even without those incidents, its still a nasty place because of those old or nasty people with random diseases swimming there...

Decided to go back to my place and TH shared with us some cool NS stories. He got to use a grenade launcher and a bazooka XD. He makes NS sound damn fun too. Hope I can go under him when I join NS =D. He's the 3rd sergeant in his camp so he gets to control 300 people there, give orders and stuff. How cool is that? XD.

In the end, TH had to leave. We followed him anyways. Called Chie along down to 7-11 too because she was home that time. It was Signature Park gang reunion for me. Except Taka and Hong was missing that time T_T. Stuff bought at 7-11 was my treat XD. I'm treating people alot these days. Volunteerly* not forced.

Gonna meet them again this Friday (tomorrow). I know there is band practice but come on... This is supposed to be the holidays. Plus its a day after Deepavali... No schools! Even for SAS... Oh well, its not confirmed yet so who knows?... If TH or Chie calls me out, then I'll go with them =P.

Woo hoo!!!!

2007-11-03T23:12:00.000+08:00

Just because the title is "happy" doesn't mean this post is gonna be all heavenly too.

I was damn angry yesterday night because my mom told me that these two Korean slut-bitch-fucking-aunties were bitching about my mom and saying stuff they themselves weren't even sure of (something like how our Father could get banished from Singapore instead or something like that). I mean they're all in the same freaking community; The Korean Catholic Church Community and they still bitch about stuff... My mom DID make a mistake that upset our Father but they didn't have to go and tell him that he might get banished from Singapore because my mom made a SMALL mistake. What the fuck? Before I went to sleep, I prayed to God to help my mom rise above all this and that no one will get in trouble and stuff... I also freaking hoped that I would see the two dumb-fuck Korean aunties who bitched about my mom in my dreams so that I can beat the fuck out of them.

My mom went to church to apologize to our Father today morning. Thank God everything is okay now. I also found out that I don't like it when people say stuff like "Then you're not God's child" or "Then you don't believe in God". My brother said a similar thing to me this morning before I found out that everything was okay. I nearly threw a fork at him. Thank God again for not letting such a thing happen. Afterwards I apologized to my bro too. Not directly though.

The rest of the day was awesome though. I was feeling all tired and stuff until I received a SMS. FROM CHIE!!!! Even though it took her exactly 2 days and 23 hours to reply to my previous message, I was still happy that she at least replied. The 3rd message shocked me though. She ACTUALLY called me out to play squash!! It was usually Tae Hyung or I who called the Miyauchi-s out since they were both lazy XD. Went out immediately to book the court and stuff. Had a little warm-up before she came and found out that my squash skills dropped... Probably because of my gay school shoes I was wearing.

Wow, when she came down, I couldn't freaking stop smiling... Tried to act normal though. She said she doesn't have PE in school anymore so she needed to exercise XD. The last time I had the chance to hang out with Chie alone was like 3 years ago?... I miss those days... Wanted to end squash early and have a walk around Signature Park like before but didn't... Heh her shots became weaker. Especially her back hand. Tae Hyung E hyung, remember Chie's back hand used to pwn? Now its just normal swing XD. We can bet $$ again and win lots now XD.

Went to Cheers after squash to get ourselves some drinks. Of course, it was my treat. Walked her home which was like what? 4 minutes walk? XD. I THINK we're gonna play squash really soon again since Tae Hyung is feeling better.

Hmmm by the way, what happened to my kick ass 07S7 people? XD. Enjoying the holidays? Lets hang out too! XD. Wanna go East Coast or Sentosa! XD

Chie's Birthday!!

2007-10-21T15:36:00.000+08:00

Woo hoo!!!! Its Chie's 17th birthday today!! XD. One of the happiest day of my life because she was born into this world. Been busy thinking about what to get her in the past few days. Only got what to get her when I was hanging out with Aish, Vanni, and Kamal at Jurong Point. Went out on 19th October to get her birthday present which was a key chain I made at Gift a Name shop. Never gave her such a "simple" birthday present before because the past few years I was damn crazy over her. I still am but I thought of giving her a "special" (in my point of view) birthday present this year. Past year's presents were like heart necklaces, heart bracelets, the really cool crystal ball thing (the thing you shake and stuff) and a REALLY cute kitty doll. See? Key chain IS kinda the odd one out right? (Besides the doll I guess).

Hmm I knew I was busy on Sunday so I went over to her lobby at 10pm yesterday to give her the present. Oh my GOD she was beautiful XD. When I was giving her the present, my heart was like beating FREAKING fast and I couldn't stop smiling. My voice was like so shaky so I had to clear my throat everytime before I spoke. NEVER felt like that before XD. She opened the present as soon as she got it (of course she asked me whether she could) and I think she liked it judging from her reaction =D. And she SMSed me saying my birthday card to her was "so sweet" XD. I seriously felt as if I was flying after I read the message. I wrote my heart on the card... I didn't even have to think what to write. Anyways, hope she had/has a wonderful day today! Would have taken her out if she was still single though =(...

Heard news from Tae Hyung today as well. He called me in the middle of my Sunday Mass. He said he went through an operation. His right/left hand ligament was torn (due to N.S., Chie and Taka XD) and he said his intestines "came out"... What the hell does that mean? At least he's still alive and kicking. If he's like that, then I'm like that too XD. He's like my older brother. We have the same allergies, same knee problem, we both gets sick at the same time, and we think alike XD.

Heh not gonna make this post long =P. EVERYONE! WISH CHIE HAPPY BIRTHDAY OKAY? XD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIE MIYAUCHI

IC...

2007-10-09T16:47:00.000+08:00

Post is about yesterday. Yesterday was marking day for us so we had no school. Decided to go back to school to meet up with my friends to play soccer though. Had to wait for Iszaki for the soccer ball so we (Siva, Haikal, Kamal and I) decided to go to the gym first. The gym trainee was there so he told us to do various exercises which of course, drained all 4 of us out... Exercise after exercise -_-. 40 pull-ups and the lifting 250 pounds weight with my legs was the killer for me... My legs are like freaking weak and the trainee wanted me to life up stuff that was like twice my own weight -_-. Straight after that, we went down to the basketball court to play soccer. Had loads of fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. All of us didn't play seriously so no real competition.

At 3pm Kamal and I had to leave for the movie thing. We took a pit-stop at my place to shower and get changed. We got to the theatre at Jurong Point just in time for the movie. Aish had already bought the tickets for us. When we were going in, the mother f-ing ticket collect wanted to check the IC... Everyone had it except Aish LMFAO. She was like the only one who was 18 years old and she couldn't go in for the NC16 movie. So we decided to cancel the whole movie thing and decided to chill in the arcade. Chilling in the arcade for an hour and half minutes was fun! Maybe even more fun than sitting in the theatre. I played the sniper game there again! Still didn't lose my touch on the sniper rifle. Although I got killed at the exact same stage as before -_-... How the HELL can you snipe the boss's head when he's piloting on the freaking fast chopper when he's shooting at you like hell? I just kinda gave up on that stage. Hope ALL arcades in Singapore change the guns for all shooting games... If all the guns aims at the right places, then I'm invincible in Jurassic Park...

We (Kamal, Aish, Vanni, and I) chilled in the arcade until we all ran out of money. Decided to go to Toys'R'us* to chill until 7pm so that Kamal could start eating with us. When I went in, guess who I met? HAZIQ!! XD. Hah always nice to meet my secondary school friends. At 7pm we ate at this f-ed up Delifrance... Their service is like shit... We waited for 1 freaking soup for like 30 minutes and waited for all our food to arrive for total of 45 minutes... Hmm thats it for yesterday actually... Gotta remind Aish to bring her IC or any card that has her date of birth on Thursday when Resident Evil officially launches.

Speaking of official launch date... The Orange Box coming out in like less than a day from now! The shipment will arrive in Singapore like a week after?... Hmm there are rumors of me being a game addict in my church because of my parents who doesn't even exactly know how much time I spend on the computer... I'll show them how a real game addict behaves like when I buy Orange Box. 24/7 computer time! If you guys see me with red eyes, panda eyes, or those really unfocused/blur face on me, then you know the reason =P. Pah, I wouldn't be surprised if I have to wear glasses now =P. Blame it on my parents!

About time...

2007-10-06T14:42:00.000+08:00

FINALLY my promotional exams end! Our class had the very LAST written paper which was Biology on Friday... We had Chemistry practical too but that didn't count since it was for A' levels. I was SO in party mood the day before our final exam BUT I managed to recall most of the stuff Mr. Imran taught us in Biology. Even though I didn't pay full attention in most of his classes XD. I managed to answer the Calvin Cycle and Kreb Cycle questions when I only studied for them like REALLY last minute, half asleep, and listening to hard-rock music. Hope I can get distinctions for promos -_- (Chances are highly unlikely though...).

I guess as you bond even stronger with your class, you like to have fun and stuff XD. All the guys in my class are pretty much bonded well right now. Siva, Shane, Haikal, Kamal, Iszaki, Haresh, Shao Wei, Johnathan, Samuel and I. Mutalib withdrew... Didn't know that until Naz told me... Since we're all like so close now, we can't STOP having fun. In Biology class I remember Haresh starting the mass stapler fight which eventually became Me VS Siva. And before mid-years, I used to actually study in the library like some nerd. Now, I go around school video calling Shane and Siva when they're in class XD. Or sometimes Siva skips class to hang around with me and stuff. And Kamal, he's like the most helpful in class XD. Like I said long time ago, I'll be so lost in classes without him XD. Shao and Haresh are also like the most daring, funny, cool people I've ever met XD. The girls in my class are awesome too! XD. Lol school will be so lifeless without them XD. Whoa! Should hear them talk and laugh about stuff (I didn't understand a thing on Friday after Biology paper since they were talking in Chinese -_-). All people could hear in the canteen that time were them talking and laughing XD. Totally sets the "Wooooo lets party!" mood in people. Like me.

Sigh... I'm praying that everyone of my classmates be promoted to PU2 next year... I'm sure they're all capable of getting promoted and I'm sure our home teachers will try their best to get everyone promoted to PU2...

Hmm guess I gotta stop here. My brother wants to use the computer XD

Still the same...

2007-10-02T21:56:00.000+08:00

I think I'm still the same James from the past... Nothing's changed. I CAN'T GET HER OFF MY MIND!! All the heavenly memories with her and about her revolve around me. The thing is... I'm still exactly the same... Its like I'm still the dumbass, shy lil dick just like how I was in the past... I'm like so shy around her... Plus with her brother/my friend gone its gonna be hard for me to hang out with her and stuff after the exams...

I'm like almost done with my final year exams... Results will not be as good as the mid year exam results... Like for Geog, I wouldn't score a distinction and won't be top anymore. Hate weathering... And for Chem, I wouldn't score a distinction either... I didn't have enough time for Section A... Plus, according to Genesis, they cut down the duration of the paper to 2 hours and 30 minutes instead of 3 hours... If we had 3 hours, I would have finished all the questions in all Sections... Gotta do well in my SPA (Practical) this Friday... My last paper is on Friday too. Biology... Hope I can score As for all subjects... Hope I can pass my GP too... GP was like okay but I think I went a little off point for my essay on mass media... I wrote about car-shows when I was supposed to be talking about mass media -_-...

Can't wait for the holidays to come... October 28th. AND can't wait for her birthday to come also, October 21st... Gonna find time next week to go out to hunt for presents...

Plus, Half Life 2: Episode 2 (Orange Box) is coming out on October 10th!!!! So gonna buy the game. Its gonna contain 5 games in the package; Half Life 2 + Counter Strike: Source, Half Life 2, Episode 1, Portal, Half Life 2, Episode 2, Teamfortress 2. Gonna buy F.E.A.R. and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. too. 2 of the most scary first person shooters. AND I'm so buying the Transformers DVD when it comes out on October 16th (I think). Buying lotsa stuff this month. The thing is, my parents will allow me to buy them! So awesome! Hah and Tina! I'll give you Counter Strike: Source to you as a free gift as promised XD. IF Orange Box doesn't contain Counter Strike: Source, then I'll buy you one =D. Its only $40 (Yeah ONLY because it used to cost like what, $80++?...).

Hah gonna go back to studying for Biology SPA now... Take care dudes and dudettes XD. And to my 07S7, STUDY HARD!! C'MON WE'RE ALMOST THERE!! XD

Hmm... These past few days...

2007-09-06T21:16:00.000+08:00

LOTS of things happened these few days... Just that I didn't really have the time to blog...

Well last week I met up with Min, Wei Jian, and Kok Quan to go to West Coast Park. It was good to see Min again after such a long time. (Think I last saw her at the O'level results day...). Well we took a cab to West Coast from West Mall after eating our lunch. The weather didn't look good that day... When we reached West Coast, the sky was already very dark... Didn't really get to do much there before the rain came... We took shelter in Mac/McCafe at the entrance of the West Coast Park. We all knew the rain wouldn't stop so we took a cab (again) to Jurong Entertainment Centre to ice skate! It was fun to ice skate again XD although Min, Kok, and I spent most of the time teaching Wei Jian how to skate or to keep him balanced XD. We went to play pool after ice skating... Once again, I had problems with the 8 ball... I always do... Its like a curse or something... Anyways, I don't play pool often (maybe once every 2-3 months?) so I don't mind losing or getting trashed. Wei Jian was the best. So was Min XD. Her "skills" improved alot! Last time I saw her play pool, she couldn't even hit the ball XP. Great improvement Min! XD. Okay, so after pool we all decided to go back home. A fun day really, except for the fact that the rain had to ruin our West Coast Park plans...

Hmm okay, now for yesterday's post...

It was Michelle Ching's birthday party yesterday but I had Chemistry remedial first in the morning... All we did in Chemistry remedial was the mock exam... 4 hours of "torture" (even Mr. Liau admitted that it was torture to us XD)... Thank got he cut the time short. Chemistry mock paper really helped me. There were some questions I REALLY couldn't recall and stuff (I didn't study for the mock exam =P). Now I know my weaknesses in Chemistry. After Chemistry, I had to rush back home, get changed, take a quick shower, pack my bag, then leave for Michelle's birthday party. Was supposed to meet Shao Wei or C.Y. and Abu but they were both late so I went by myself all the way to Pasir Ris MRT staion from Bukit Batok... The train ride was oh my god... Around 1 hour... I think... I just managed to reach the MRT station on time and found Michelle and Pearl. Then I saw Yvonne and San Joy so I joined them instead because Michelle had to go around the station looking for people. Around 30 minutes later, Abu, Hafizah, and C.Y. joined us too. We (the band group excluding C.Y.) decided to leave for Coasta Sands Resort earlier than the other groups. We got there only to play 2 quick game of pool before C.Y. called us off... Our band group went to Coasta Sands by ourselves again. The resort was the place where I had my church camp when I was younger so I knew the place and stuff. There were many groups so we kinda only talked among ourselves. After singing Michelle the birthday song, seeing her blow off the candles (which lit up again and again like for 7+ times; cool candles huh?), and after seeing her cut the candle we had to leave. I had to catch the last bus and stuff so our group left the party like super early. Nice party though XD. I still wanted to eat so we chilled at BK before going home. Talked about some funny-as-hell things XD. San Joy was like damn funny when he was talking about THE S6 guy XD AND SOMEONE ate the BK burger with a fork and a knife XD. Its because that person had braces, but it was still a unique way of eating a burger so I took a pic XD. By the time when we left for the MRT station, it was already 10:15PM so I knew I would miss the last bus home... We started to take some "wild" pictures in the MRT because like no one else was on it XD. Still waiting for C.Y. to send me the pictures... XD.

Hmmm thats about it for today I guess XD.

Dead Silence

2007-09-01T22:16:00.000+08:00

"You scream you die". Its the quote for the move Dead Silence. Watched this movie just yesterday 31st August with Aish, Amirah, Mutalib, Kamal, and Vanni just after visiting my secondary school. All the girls were scared even before we entered the theatre because of the huge Dead Silence poster at the ticket booth. When we were [finally] going in, the girls agreed NOT to scream at all during the movie. I think the little quote got to them "You scream, you die" The movie was cool. I loved when all the surroundings become dead quiet before the soul of Mary Shaw attacks. Plus, there is Billy the dummy along with 100 other dummies of Mary Shaw. There is the poem too. It goes:
Beware the strare of Mary Shaw
She had no children only dolls
And if you see her in your dreams
Besure you never scream...
Yeah this is a poem so I wrote it like a poem. Chills down your spine huh? Well basically during the movie, almost EVERYONE screamed except me... The movie was okay to me... Guess I'm kinda used to the horror movies now. I didn't get scared at all. In the theatre, everyone "died" according to the movie since they all screamed. Aish was sitting next to me and she covered her eyes most of the time. So I had to force her to put down her hands - .- Should have made a bet with her like last time when we watched Vacancy... Would have made lots of money if I did.

After the movie we all went down to Westmall Subway to eat. Only Aish and I ate, the rest didn't feel like eating. Played various games there. Like 3, 6, 9 (The Korean game where you clap when any of those three numbers come out), ABC (The slapping game MOST Koreans play), Set the tempo (The tempo thing game*) and many more. Reminded me of that time when Me, Min, Hui Min, Yun Peng, and others played in the food court in Westmall. Min came up with lots of games that time but this time it was mostly me. Had loads of fun. Aish didn't slap too hard this time during ABC so there was no competition. (Got a freaking blue bruise when I played with her the slapping game during class before... Guess its tennig's player's strength). Went home at around 6 P.M. and finished reading Harry Potter [finally...].

Hmm now back to talking about returning to Yusof. Met lots of people there. Of course the teachers since it was teacher's day and then my ex-classmates. Then saw my juniors. Suganthi looked exactly the same. So did Benjamin. Saw Mrs. Barnwell first, she wasn't surprised at all because I told her I was gonna go see her. Mr. Wong however was like "Oh hi James. Where's my present?"... It was like as if he saw me like everyday because he wasn't surprised at all. I had to tell him "Aren't you even happy to see me back?" or something like that to uh get him to greet me. He tried to hug me but I offered a handshake instead. The hug would have been a little too dramatic... Anyways, I saw some of my 4E1 friends; My number 1 Korean student Kai Kee, Peng Feng, Si Qian, etc.

So yeah, cool teacher's day. Hope all the teachers had a good time as well. Especially the teachers of 07S7 in MI.

10 Weird things or habits or little known facts about Jamess!

2007-08-23T17:10:00.000+08:00

Ok I think I've done this before but C.Y. tagged me so here goes...

1. I LOVE burning stuff (Pyromaniac)
2. I carve names on/scar myself for FUN
3. I'm sadistic and masochistic* (According to friends from 07S7)
4. I get VERY emo
5. I bite off my skin and only stop when I start bleeding
6. I sweat even in rooms with air-cons (Can be proved by my MI band members)
7. I always want to be the center of attention but when I AM, I suddenly have nothing to say
8. I eat A LOT but I don't freaking gain weight (Can be proved by my mom)
9. I'm a "nice" guy, but the total opposite when I'm just a LITTLE pissed off
10. I ALWAYS believe that I have a special "gift"/"talent"

Hah, yeah, some strange facts right? Now I'm supposed to tag 10 people... Here they are:

1. Wei Jian
2. Sazilah
3. Min Min
4. Kelly
5. Tina
6. Dina
7. Anyone who wants to do this thing XD

People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names.

Bad dream...

2007-08-13T22:22:00.000+08:00

Okay... So my last post was about me having the sweetest dream of my LIFE but today I had the 2nd worst dream of my life... (The first one was really sad... Made me cry in while I was asleep and after I woke up...). This 2nd worst dream was also about her again and it was like continued from my previous heavenly dream. Im'ma gonna make this short... In the dream, the girl of my life gets married to this other guy... T_T... Some of you might say its no big deal but it really ruined my mood in the morning... Thats why I thought today was going to be a *cough* BAD day (trying not to put any vulgarities anymore...). Plus I had these thought of like this dream being a kind of a message to me that she will live "happily ever after" with her current boy friend/lover... So this thought pissed me off also.

Fortunately I had friends in my class who made me laugh and stuff and they just made my day! Of course I missed my 4E2 friends because I think they are the ones who know me best besides my SAS friends I don't meet so much now... Tried to call her down to the swimming pool when I was swimming today but she never replied back... Probably with her boy friend since it was first day of school for them today after their summer vacation... Regarding the dream again, I don't think I'll ever be able to attend her REAL marriage judging from my reaction to only a DREAM and the stuffs I did in the dream too... (Was about the pull my hair out...).

Oh well, hope the 2nd dream RECENTLY (Had countless dreams about her before...) doesn't come true. Still hoping for the 1st one to come true though... Love is cruel isn't it?...

By the way, I did a moonsault while swimming today and my brother video taped it in his handphone. Awesome! Gonna watch over and over again to "improve" my back-flips. Jamess out.

Sweet dream...

2007-08-09T10:31:00.000+08:00

Blogging in the morning like for the first time... As the title says, my dream today was heavenly... Can't believe I still dream about her... I can't get her out of my head I guess... In my dream I went to the Korean mass instead of the English mass at St. Mary... After the mass, she was standing there, waiting for me... Oh hell, I want this dream to come true... Not gonna write so detailed because it is *cough* personal... I want to see her again... Quite hard to see her even though she lives in the same condominium as mine because she has her boy friend... Heartbreaking...

I've had several dreams come true before... Plus I had my "visions" come true too. Hope my dream also comes true... Hah, I guess I lied to everyone when I said "I don't like/love anyone now" or "I don't like THAT girl anymore". Oh hell yeah, I do still love her. Its just that I'm waiting for her to come to me... Even her brother considered me brother-in-law before. Her birthday's coming near... Gonna save up big bucks of money and to get her a birthday present.

Hmm enough of that... Today's Singapore's National Day. When we were celebrating yesterday, I felt kinda left out but Siva, Haikal, Samuel, Kamal, and the 07S7 crazy girls made me feel like part of Singapore. Siva's the best, because of him I went crazy too. Like screamed at the top of my lungs in the school hall and stuff. The band yesterday was great too. Absolutely NO MISTAKES. PERFECT performance.

Gonna go out soon with my brother and maybe Wynn and Sunny (my SAS Korean brothers XD) to lan and stuff. DoTa!! XD. Can't wait till I meet Sunny. Wynn, I've already met in church. He was shorter than me! I'm so proud of myself. Well thats all I'm writing today. Ciao

MI National Day Parade rehearsal...

2007-08-07T22:15:00.000+08:00

Like what the title says. Had my 2nd National Day Parade rehearsal at my school today... One word to describe how it was; sucked. Why it sucked? Well all the band members had to stand under the sun... I couldn't even look at my score because of the sun... The other thing is some of the people marching couldn't even march properly... On the tap of the snare drum, people are supposed to take a step forward with their LEFT foot but this one dude was like way out... I mean, if you never marched before, at least TRY to learn by looking at the dude infront and the side... Everyone of us (band members) were like criticising... Yeah so thats that...

Other than that, I FINALLY did a back-flip on the ground. I think Shao and I can like do front-flips so easily. We still did it on the mat though. I did the running front-flip once today... When I landed, *WHAM*, my knees bust my upper lips up. Yes it bled. Didn't hurt much though. Then came the back-flips. I did 1 successful one (I think) and 2 unsuccessful ones... One of the unsuccessful one, I landed on my stomach so I did a moonsault instead of a back-flip. YEAH! Hardcore Jeff Hardy style! BUT after I landed on the mat, my body slid off the mat and I went face first to the hard floor. Bit into my lower lip busting it like 3 times worst than the upper lip. Shao thought I bit through my lip because there was blood on the outer part of the lip... Shao was supposed to do the back-flip but he didn't!! Will make him do next time... Had to leave because the teachers came in and chased us out.

After being kicked out of the hall, we went straight to the basketball/soccer court to play soccer. Nearly the whole class was playing (yes, girls). Our class girls are VERY energetic and I guess in a way, sporty. Too bad Gerlaine and Apple weren't there (the 2 volleyball players). During the match all the guys played with like 40% of their energy. We all walked around and stuff. Even when we walked around we could still steal the balls away from the girls (8 guys VS >12 girls). Our soccer women, Dina was impressive. So was our dumb blonde (Gracie), Sut (Tina), Jasmine, etc. At least they could steal the soccer balls away from us. They should form the 07S7 girls soccer team!! (sarcasm).

Have to end the post here... Gonna get some sleep... Goodnight folks!

Oh and have a wonderful*? national day people!

Vacancy...

2007-08-01T22:30:00.000+08:00

Supposed to be yesterday's post but I fell asleep yesterday... Yesterday's lessons ended early because Mr. Imran, our Biology teacher, didn't come for school. So most of our classmates (total 13/35 of us including Xia Ning) decided to go to AMK hub to catch Vacancy. Before the movie started, I made a bet with Aish that whoever screams/makes noise during the movie will have to pay $2 to each other. Should have made the bet with Gracie... She scream at almost everything.

The movie was boring to me although most of the girls who watched with us said it was freaking scary... Come on... I've watched far more gruesome, gore, bloody, and scary movies than that... There were some suspense scenes in the movie but still not enough to scare me... Gracie screamed almost at every freaky scenes because of Shao Wei scaring her. Aish also screamed quite a few times during the movie so I thought I earned total of $6... She denied screaming though... So I only got $2... Hmm so yeah... Boring movie to me. Money wasted. Should have watched alone instead because supernatural horrors are more scarier than those murder movies with the exception of movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Saw or Hostel.

Hmm my grand parents were at my house also for a week! My grandmother came last wednesday and my grandfather is always with us. It was very nice seeing out grandmother for the first time in 4 or 3 years... I miss my grandfather too... Wish I can see him again. My grandmother seemed very healthy so I was relieved. Didn't really get to spend all the free time I had with my grandmother because I had a lot of things going on last week... I think I'll visit them this coming december...

This is all I'm gonna write today... Goodnight people...

Bad day?...

2007-07-29T21:38:00.000+08:00

Okay, my day today was close to horrible... Yes, people who asked me "why are you pissed?" or "why so fed up?", I was pissed off almost the whole day. Yes I lie. I lie every damn day.

First the rain in the morning ruined my mood because I detest rainy days unless I'm all high and stuff.

The rain eventually stopped so I was feeling a little better. But the MacDonalds delivery guy pissed me off again. First he came damn late (took 1 hour to get to our house when Mac is like 10 minute walk away) and then when he came to our house, he acted all gangsterish. So I acted gangsterish to him too. Usually I'm all nice to those delievery people but the dude that came to my house deserved a punch.

Then I had to leave for Clementi station to meet my friends to go watch Xia Ning's performance (musical). Decided to take either 174, 66, 157, or 61 to Bukit Batok station first. But none of the buses came... No buses passed by the bus stop for like 10 minutes... When 61 finally came, the driver drove the bus like so damn slowly so it took another 15 minutes for me to reach Bukit Batok station which is like 7 stops away... Wanted to shoot everyone who stopped the bus at the bus stops.

I reached Clementi station a little late because of the asshole driver. The others were also late too, most of them. Decided to leave for NUS at 2 P.M. At least everyone who came were able to get in on time. I don't think they would have allowed such a big group like ours enter if we were late so I was kinda in "panic/upset" mode during the 96 bus ride to NUS. Only 25 out of 34 (excluding Xia Ning) of our classmates showed up. Some people really couldn't come. Some people just didn't come... Oh well, not my business.

The play/musical was all on christianity so I felt kinda guilty because there were people who believe in other religions in our class... I REALLY didn't know guys... If I did, then I probably would have asked you guys first whether it was okay for us to watch... Oh well, lets just say we all went there to see Xia Ning perform. She came out on stage for like 4+ times. All the time as a dancer for different "tribes" in equador. Great job Xia Ning!!

After that some of my classmates went to Vivo City and some went back home. Why go Vivo?... From NUS, its like so freaking far away... My brother went to Vivo yesterday... He said there were too much people... I HATE places where its like so freaking crowded so I'll probably never go Vivo... I can't stand people blocking my way or people walking so freaking slow in front of me. I'm all about speed.

Anyways, yeah, nearly horrible day for me (it would have been horrible day if we were late for the performance...) but who cares right? No one cares...

Is there a need for a title?...

2007-07-24T22:56:00.000+08:00

Today began with my mom waking me up as usual... Ate breakfast then went down to catch the bus. Missed the bus so I had to wait for like 15 minutes for the next one. Had a feeling today was going to be a fun day. It WAS until after PE...

Math was the first lesson and Ms. Zhang went through transformation of graphs. Fun chapter. Math lesson was a little too quiet today. Usually if it was Mr. Ho conducting the lesson then everyone would have talked or at least whispered to one another. Ms. Zhang is seriously a good teacher. I can understand things better than when Mr. Ho taught us. Not saying Mr. Ho is bad but Ms. Zhang's methods are better.

PE came next and I still didn't get back my Onyx house shirt back... Lend it to Gerlaine during the inter-house games so that she could lend it to one of the Onyx house person, also a friend of Shao Wei's. I don't like it when strangers (to me) are keeping my property... Don't feel safe. Going to ask Shao Wei to meet him to get my shirt back tomorrow again. PE today was probably the easiest PE lesson we've ever had. 3 rounds around the basketball court, then some jumping-jacks and sit-ups. Everyone was dismissed early except for those who had to stay back for lunch time training (for those who failed NAPFA*). Shao and I stayed back to help our classmates pass whatever they failed. Helped Kelly a lot to make her pass her standing broad jump. Unfortunately she didn't pass today but with Shao's "coaching" and our moral support, she eventually and definately will. You can do it Kelly! While taking a "break" from helping Kelly Shao and I tried some hand stands and stuff. I can FINALLY balance properly when doing hand stand. Shao told me to bend my knees to balance better. Then he told me to do the flip thingy while doing the hand stand. Kick ass flip. The feeling when your fliping kick ass. Didn't really get to land properly though. Landed on all fours. Felt like doing a front flip after that. Was a little hesitant in doing it since it was my first time doing front flip on ground (only did it in swimming pools =P). My first ever front flip on ground was all good except the landing again... I think I did something like Jeff Hardy hardcore style body slam straight to the wooden floor of our school hall... Didn't really hurt though since I'm all "skin and bones" <-- (Yeah right - .- *sarcasm*).

After having fun during our PE/break everyone else had to go for their respective mother tongue venues except for me. Went up to the library to meet Priya and Kulvin as usual. Only for a short time though. Priya and I had to go down for our class photo thing... This is where my day screwed up.

I didn't know that photo taking was today so I didn't gel my hair... My current hair style, without the gel, is like all fluffy and all over the place... This pissed me off. How come I didn't know the date and time for our class photo taking huh?!

After photo taking, it was Chemistry then 2 periods of Biology... Chemistry was okay but by the time we got to Biology, I think everyone was falling asleep. I miss Mr. Alan Wong's Chemistry lessons. I miss all my teachers especially Mrs. Barnwell... Want to visit her but I don't have the free time to do so... My lessons end "late" on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have band practices until 8 P.M. on Mondays and Wednesdays. Friday's my free time and mostly probably all the teachers in YI would have left by the time I finish lessons. Saturday I have tuition and teachers in YI wouldn't be in school on Saturdays. Well at least not all...

I want the band to end early too... I think a lot of people who are living like so far away are having problems getting home on time after band ends... Like Tina, Cheryl, they freaking live in Hougang... Thats like an hours and half train ride from Bukit Batok staion... Tina said her dad told her to quit band because she comes home so late. My dad did too last time but this is different case. Tina! You can use my money for your taxi fare next time (tomorrow if your staying until 8) okay?

Oh and I gave up on trying to "win" the girl I like over (So Dina, you can stop guessing also =P). I had these problems before. The girls I go for, the girls I try to "win" over either like another guy or only think of me as their friend. Like what one or two of my YI friends before, I can look at other girls without feeling guilty if I'm single XD (Thanks Min and Kok =D).

P.S. do you think writing blogs help in GP?