Church camp was a blast.

Learnt so much I can hardly contain it in my brain.

This camp was somewhat more relaxed. Like fewer altercalls and all. BUT. People still see drastic changes in their own lives. I say Edmund Chan is good. But of course. God is better!! =)

The hotel apartment was darn nice. 3 bedrooms. A dining area. A living area. Balconies. That all led to this one gate which was just by the pool. So it meant that whenever we opened the gate, we'll immediately be 2m from the water's edge. BEST APARTMENT. Haha.

Gracie went into the room first and immediately chose one. Jeanne and I chose the other one just opposite. We left the mega huge masterbed room to Chiaying and Cheryl Teo. Nana and Gracie slept in the room Gracie chose. Unfortunately for Gracie, she chose the smallest room in the apartment. Mine led to the toilet and even have a balcony. Like. DIRECT POOL EXCESS. Woots. We all kept laughing like mad after Gracie realised the room she chose was the smallest.

During camp I asked God to break my heart. Haha. Like you know. When you feel like you're not exactly close to God anymore. Then you need like a wake up call. Yeah. I asked for one. And got it like almost immediately after camp.


Had the biggest quarrel with my mum. Madness.


Then after a few days, I realised we quarrelled over nothing. OMG.


I knew it was from God. Haha. And I thanked God for it.

Oh man. Haha. I was just talking to Kingsly and he was guessing my CCA. Then he went," Ah surely can't be debate. You're so gullible, you'll believe the opposing team!"

HAHA. Rargh.

Yesterday and today were Jonah days. Haha. Let me tell you why. Hold on tight, here we go! ( Oh yeah forgive me, I'll be using a lot of thens. =))

Yesterday.

Woke up, finished gp compre 1.

Went to school, handed up compre, then went to the airport at 4 plus to study with Jonah. Poor Jonah sent his brother off at 4 then had to send Ramos at 11 at night. So we stayed at the airport doing work.

The airport is condusive to study. It's quiet and bright enough to study.

Finished my compre 2 there. Woots. I learnt from that experience that I can study only outside home. At home, nothing would be done.

But I also finished my maltesers and cheapo version of kinderbuenos.

Studied till like 8 plus then had Sakae Sushi for dinner.

Limited resources. So I only ate chawanmushi, cha soba and tamago sashimi. More than enough for me! HAHA.

Jonah took like 4 minutes to finish a whole set dinner. WOAH. Power.

Then, went to Swensons and met Jonah's friends. I made some friends too. =)

Ramos went in at like 10 45pm. And he took quite a while to say goodbye. Haha. It was pretty funny.


Reached home close to midnight. Fun fun day.

Today.

Woke up at 11 40am. Supposed to have reached school at 11 45. So I rushed like a madman and made it to school by 12. Eh. Not bad eh. Haha.


Consulted Mrs Ho about the lit essay and all. My gosh. I seriously suck at it. Mrs Ho asked me to watch some stuff on youtube, buy books and videos. Heh. Quite cool aie? =)


Went to PS to find the studd I wanted but NO HARVEST. =( Everywhere didn't have to stuff I wanted. Rargh.


Was kinda emo so I rode the MRT up and down for a while before going home. Didn't feel like going home you see. HAHA. Eh but I was not emoing due to not being able to find the stuff I wanted. I was emoing due to another minor reason. Haha. But I shan't state it here. SO EMBARASSING!

Got home, then went out to kovan with Jeanne to find suspenders for church camp's last night.
HAHA. 4 of us. Gracie, Nana, Jeanne and I are planning to go as BOB THE BUILDER!! =))

Came home without anything cos the shop we went to only had 2 suspenders.

Then Bryan and parents went out for dinner. I was being lazy so I asked them to bring back.

GUESS WHAT. EXACTLY THE SAME DINNER. HAHA.

But this time, Sushi Tei. Which is better.

Chawanmushi, soba and tamago sashimi.

I can live with it for the rest of my life.

Did some sneaky stuff. Haha. Some stomach filling sneaky stuff.

Oh dm I should start exercising soon. HAHA.

I can't believe it either.

I actually started studying!!

Yeah, kinda late start but HEY. At least I started. =))

I should drag myself out of the house everyday from now. Seriously. The past few days at home, nothing done. Out for a few hours today. Boom. Finished all my homewok.

Jonah asked me to go study at the airport since he was gonna be there alone for quite a few hours.

Send brother at 4, send friend at 10. Woah. As if 1 departure is not enough.

So since I was home alone ( Working parents, holidaying helper and disappearing brother- he was like gone when I woke up. Tsk. ) I decided to be a saint. Haha. A saint being a saint! Get it? HAHA.

Ok. Nevermind.

So yeah, I went to the airport and actually studied. And finished the other compre due only this friday! Woots!

AND AND AND. I read about one and a half chapters of A and C. LIKE HOW MUCH DID I DO MAN.. LOTS! Hey. A and C is like. Greek.

Had Sakae dinner. Woah the airport has changed quite a bit. Pretty pretty.

Since I had limited resources, I only ate chawanmushi, cha soba and tamago sashimi. THE FRICKIN' SASHIMI WAS A RED PLATE! Like a few pieces of egg hello! Plus I could taste the condensed milk in it!! HOW *ahempoorqualityahem* haha. Aiy. Doesn't matter. The soba was good.

After that we went to Swensons and met Jonah's friends. Then sent Ramoose ( I hope I spelt right) off. Jonah and his friends are quite funny. Haha. The retain curses and failed card tricks.

Reached home at 11 close to 12.

Weh.

Fun fun. I should go out study more!

=))

The VEGAS person came over yesterday and I told her what I wanted in my room, how it should feel, some stuff I needed to have, the feel, the blah the blah.

When she asked me some questions about my tastes and preferences, I realised how much I have been influenced by the friends I have made and been hanging around with this year.

I've changes so much, it's hard to believe who I am now. And is this really me, or is this just a shadow of all my friends?

So how do I go back to my past self. Oh wait. Do I want to go back to my past self?

Or can't I just start from where I am, and create a new me. One that I'm happy with? One that is real? One without a mask plastered on my face?

I'm going to be myself, a person that can be influenced by people, but still has her own life and character. I'm going to be one who behaves the same outside and at home.

I'm going to have my own ideas and thoughts and tastes and preferences and yeah, people might see a bit of "other people" in me, but I'm gonna own it, it's gonna be me.

I shall try not to be overly affected by the world around me an work hard creating myself and being myself. Just one mould and no more than that.

So watch out, here I come! WELCOME. =)

This whole week. Dance from 9 to 5. Like working shift. Tired. Very tired. But worth.

RAPTURE - SAJC DANCE CONCERT 2007

21 JULY 2007.

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2 PM OR 8 PM. (8PM SHOW SOLD OUT)

$16 for 2PM SHOW. ($20 FOR 8PM SHOW)

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I'm only in 2 dances. Out of like. 12 or more dances. But still.. COME! =))

After dance today, went to Bugis and met the cheerleaders. Talked for quite a while about clubbing and all. Then bought a HUGE card for birthday girl. Madness. SO FRICKIN EX.

Emo-ed for a long while. After hearing some stuff that left me puzzled. Confused. Down. Shocked. I just didn't feel right.

"It's hard to say everything's fine when it's not.
But don't apologise. It'll make me even more sad.

I have never been so happy ever since I met you.
But ever since I met you, you've also made me cry.
And at times, I feel so much pain where my heart is.

Nevertheless, around you I can truly be myself.
And I love it.

So tell me what I want to hear.
Cheer me up like you did before.
Make my frown disappear
And turn my pout upside down."

HELLO PEOPLE I just came back from China! Ni Hao! =)


Woah let me tell you how much fun I had on the trip. I went there as a stranger to the whole tour group and came back knowing everybody in the same group. WOOTS. Awesome. Made some pretty good friends there too! HAHA.

Day 1: Cabbed to the airport at like 5.40 am. MADNESS. Slept in the cab. So tired. Did last minute packing the day before till 1 plus in the morning. Haha. I was so afraid I would miss something out. Ah well. That's what Singapore does to you. You more or less turn out kiasi, everything BETTER BRING in case something bad happens. I brought a thick bath towel. HAHA. Plus all sorts of chargers even though I knew someone else in the trip would definitely bring them. Heh.

Queueing at the counters already when Junnie shook me from behind and gave me a shock. The guys were so nice. They slept over at Junnie's house to cab together and send me off. =)) Saw their sleepy eyes. Dm funny. Haha.

Rachel also came, later also looking dm tired and we all spent a whole 15 minutes eating Macs breakfast together. Woots. How lovely. So much for laoshi giving us time for breakfast.

The plane ride there was 4 hours plus plus long. I slept for 20 minutes and thought 2 hours had passed. HAHA. Yingjing and Cuicui beside me ( I didn't know them that well yet) laughed with me when I went, "HUH" after realising I still had 3 hours and 40 minutes plus plus more to go on board.

At Shanghai Airport, we wasted like an hour finding baggage. Rayson and Daniel's baggage were missing. My goodness. After a while, Daniel's baggage was found but we left the airport without Rayson's. He was dm pissed. HAHA. Kept swearing.

Lunch was horrible beyond horrible. Seemed like oil and salt is free in China. EVERYTHING had too much oil and too much salt. BARELY EDIBLE.

After lunch, on the way to WUXI, the airport called to say Rayson's baggage was found. Apparently someone took the wrong bag. BUT WE WERE HOURS AWAY FROM THE AIRPORT. So we did the next best thing. Maglev train. OMG. Frickin' COOL.

Horrible restaurant to airport by bus: 2 hours.

Horrible restaurant to airport by Maglev train: 7 minutes.


Oh yeah~ Dm cool. Saw the maglev on tv. But didn't think I would really get to travel on it. Haha. The train travels at 431 km/h and reaches the airport in no more than 7 minutes. Half the group (including me) paid 80RMB for a trip on it to and fro. For fun. Haha.

Collecting the bag took half an hour. So meanwhile, the rest who went to the airport for fun shopped and ate. Heh.

By the time we finally reached to hotel in Wuxi, it was LATE.


Rargh.


Morning call at 6.30. What the toots! No sleep man.


Breakfast was horrible. No surprise.

But going to the Water Dunno-what City and 3 Margin City places were nice. Oh yeah. There was a film set at the 3 Margin City place. Dm cool. Saw all the equipments, cameras and lights and all. And all the costumes. They were filming this period drama. OMG cool!!

After a horrible lunch, we visited a pearl factory and I got a pearl free! Haha. They opened an oyster for us and started rolling pearls across the big meeting room table. So I took one. Heh.

Got the red ink stamp thing at the factory for 100RMB. So ex. But the calligraphy was good. The shifu curved well and nice. =) PRO.


Spend 500RMB and get a free pearl ring. So thats what we did. Glenn, Warren, Sharon and I shared receipt. And since Warren spent 200RMB on his stamp thing, he got the ring. HAHA. He told Sharon and I to "fight it out" but the ring was like eurgh. Then Warren gave it to laoshi. HAHA.

After the pearl factory, we went to a teapot factory. Saw the biggest teapot in the world and saw many pretty cool teapots made of 'purple sand'. SOSOSOSO tempted to get one but miraculously, didn't.

Day 3 was spent in Hangzhou. Went to the West Lake, "Lightning Wind Pagoda", Yue Fei's temple and the "Ten Thousands Pines School" where Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai studied at. The School was SO NICE! I don't mind studying there if I still lived in that era. Everything was so beautiful. Really.

Laoshi and Dyan raced up the many flights of steps leading to the school. So funny. HAHA. Got t on my cam. Wheee.

Oh yeah, went to see the "Fly Here Mountain". They said it flew here cos it's the only limestone structure around miles of granite. There is even a story to it all. Pretty cool.

Travelled to the Mei Family Village, famous for its Dragon Well Tea. Everyone's surname there was Mei. Haha. Bought $40 worth of tea. My goodness. So darn ex. And I didn't buy the best tea! The Miss Mei who introduced us to the different grades of tea showed us 3 grades of tea at first. Then the Mr Rich from my group asked if there were better grades. The Miss Mei was surprised. She said that if nobody asked, she wouldn't introduce it since every year, quantity produced is very little. Woots. PRO.

Watched the West Lake Cultural show after dinner. OMG dm exciting!! The stunts were madness and the performers were crazy. Like seriously. Dm flexible and not afraid of death. Haha. They fly in midair with only a piece of rope slung over one leg. THATS ALL. SIAO

At night, laoshi brought a few of us J1s to the supermarket. MY HEAVEN! =)) Chocolates, titbits, biscuits and ice cream!! OH MY TIANS. Woots..

Taxi fares in China are dirt cheap. Can you imagine. Even if it's 10RMB, divide by 5 is $2. Cannot even ride in a Singapore cab for a second!

Went to Hangzhou School Number 15 the next afternoon. Prepared for it in the morning. The students were all very enthusiastic about everything and for Moral Ed, the students conducted the lesson. Haha. Did Clay art during their art lesson as well. Cool stuff. Everyone there were very eager to learn english so in class we did the pledge in english. And they applauded like they saw magic. Haha.

In Suzhou, saw the rocky lion park, where the lions were actually rocks from Tai Lake, went to the Silk Factory and Embroidary Factory. Was very impressed at the embroidary factory. Everything was very lifelike and the artworks were stunning. The prices were stunning too. Haha.

And the silk factory was very.. comfortable! HAHA. During the tour around the factory, they led us to this place selling silk quilts, pillows and everyone started grabbing bolsters and pillows and cushions. Haha. I didn't waste much time either. I just plonked myself on the quilt on display immediately while the lady was still explaining stuff. HAHA. SO SO comfortable!! =))

At nights in Suzhou, we walked the streets nearby the hotel and had supper in this dumpling shop. Very good dumplings. Laoshi bought 60. HAHA. Madness. We helped him eat so many but there were so many left over.

Then cos laoshi turned 28 on the trip, we surprised him by giving him 28 muffins. There were 28 students on the trip, so just nice, 1 give one. HAHA. And there was cake. The candle was so coool!!!!!!

It was a lotus, Then when you lighted it, it opens up and fireworks appear!! OMG DM COOL.

Dyan's father was in Shanghai, so when we were there, we skipped the museum visit and went out with her father. Dyan, Benny and I. Uncle was so darn PRO at bargaining when we went shopping. SERIOUSLY. From 150 plus to 35RMB. AWESOME.

Got a few shirts and a pair of shoes. But thats all. =( Met Joanne for dinner and she gave me like a million DVDS and 6 packets of Henniu. I bought an extra bag to put everything in. HAHA. Joanne's chauffeur then sent us to the hotel where the rest of the group had dinner. SO GLAD we ha dinner separately. BEST MEAL on the trip. No fight.

Joanne's chauffeur is 22 years old!! Thats like dm young. Haha.

Then in the car on the way, we were laughing at my chinese. Oh yeah. How fun. About how the chinese in Hangzhou told me ," Wo yi ju hua ye ting bu dong." In english, ," I don't understand a single word you are saying."

Woots. Brilliance eh. And all I asked was scrambled eggs in chinese. He was the chef frying eggs during morning breakfast in the hotel. Haha.

Nothing much else on the trip, other than the intense annoyance everyone had against the tour guide after the trip. He's dm lousy and has 7 years of experience. Nationalist, jerk. Kept praising chinese and critisizing Singaporeans. Everytime he said he had to severely critisize us, we were all," OMG. Speak for yourself." Just shut up and go home to your lovely Hangzhou where apparently everyone was pretty and handsome and gentle and healthy.

Oh no. Didn't see any chinese women quarrelling and fighting like mad. Oh no. Didn't see chinese men spitting everywhere. Oh no. Didn't see rubbish thrown just like that. In the open, broad daylight, on the streets. I so totally didn't see anything.

Everything in the chinese airport was so expensive. Madness. But I bought some stuff. Finish up my money. Haha.

Was assigned a seat next to Warren. Like couple seat right at the back of the plane. Swopped and sat next to Benny and Dyan. Haha. Dyan was assigned a seat next to Glenn. Just nice. So Warren and Glenn, me Benny and Dyan. =)

Waited for about an hour in the airport for mummy and daddy to arrive from australia.

So many other stuff happened on the trip I can't put it here. But if you ask me, I'll tell you. Shhh.