After a boring week in the hostel with not many (close) friends, these 3 days have been a great relief. There are still some people who are not back yet (like Yi Jian, who was still here when I just came back, and Wilson who lives in Muar). The Indonesians are back too... Lita was sick for 1 week when she was back in Indonesia and her house was covered with red dust for 2 days because of the volcano eruption. Julian is still sick now... Hmm... I hope Winnie's OK...

Well, since football fever has catch on, I think I should say something about it. he problem is I'm not SOOOOO interested and I don't really know the names of the players. But anyway, I regreted not watching England vs Croatia which ended with an English victory 4-2... but I'm sure the hostel management would not have allowed us to watch in the wee hours of the morning even if we asked for permission.

Some of my friends sneak out from the hostel around 2am to nearby Simpang Bedok to watch the matches at a kopitiam. I don't think I would try that... even though it's quite easy and I know by theory that you'd have to sneak past the guard (which shouldn't be a problem as he is most likely to be sleeping in the TV room or even watching some of the matches) and also use a route to evade the security cameras (quite easy too!). The guard has been betting I see... he was quite furious when Holland lost I think... and he's nagging almost everyone on football these days... *sighz*... How I wish I could have a nice huge TV with live coverage on the EURO matches with friends and food around...

Back to reality... June Common Test coming up soon. In fact, the Chemistry Practical Test would be this Friday... my pace of revision has been accelerated now... Hope to maintain at least 2 A's again for this test. Won't be easy I suppose, but I'll give my best. Ganbatte!

Well, haven't been blogging for ages (nearly 2 weeks!)....
Wait! I can explain... first, I went back to Malaysia and my home connection is the(gasp) dial-up type and there's always a lot of noise in the connection and I keep getting disconnected. Second, I was quite lazy mah....

OK. Went back to Malaysia 2 Sundays ago. First time I was taking a bus straight from S'pore. And it'll be the last time too. Coz I've realised that the Singapore ticket back costs >S$12 but if I went to Larkin (in JB) first, I would cost RM6.95 only (at the current trading rate of S$1=RM2.22, that would be S$3.13)!!!! why should I pay 4X more? %$%@&^%&*!!!!! I'll take me longer to get back (around 1 hour), but it's still more worth it going to Larkin first.

I was rather glad going back to Malaysia. Life is much more slower (especially at my place)... And I've realised more sleeping (what I mean is adequate sleeping, because I'm deprived of it in Singapore) does wonders to my face. Of course it's still not pimple-less, but nonetheless less problematic. And the silly eyebags tend to fade away. They're coming back now I'm afraid *sighz*...

2 things I was glad to eat back in Malaysia. They are mian4 fen3 guo3 (Mee Hun Kueh or something, dunno what S'poreans call it), Nasi Lemak at the stall that I like in Seri Gading. Too bad I didn't get to eat Yong Tau Foo from the Ah Fatt stall and just today I realised I NEVER ate Pisang Goreng in Singapore before! Do they even have it here?? Oh well... Sometimes S'porean food really urks me... like putting tomato sauce into Wanton Mee... Ah.. then again, there might be some really nice food out there that I've yet to discover...

Went out with a bunch of friends on Thursday. We went to climb the stairs at Bukit Perdana Recreational Forest. It was quite fun... However, I could only get 4 people to join me... Theng Wei, Kok Hou, Joon Huan and Wee Seng. I forgot to call Wai Kit (this is not the Wai Kit of TJC18/03 !!). I tried to call Steven (5 times!) but no one picked up the phone... maybe his family went to KL or something. He's a bit detached and isolated from my batch of friends coz he has this gf...

Anyway, I didn't do much studying (expected)... slept quite a lot, played with ying-ying (my youngest sister--going to be 5 years old...she was born on 9-9-1999), watched Channel [V], MTV and other satellite TV channels... Oh, I also went out jogging with Geat (my elder brother) at Tasik Y ('Lake Y' or known to most Chinese as lian2 hua1 chi2 'lotus flower lake' no lotus flowers around though...). Only jogged 5 rounds. Tried to do some chin-up and stuff... I'm helped my brother too. I'm glad that he's taking exercise seriously now...he's getting leaner...

Oh well, that more or less summarizes the events that took place back in Batu Pahat (BP). I'm planning to go back again only at the end of this year and not in SEP coz the prelims and A-levels will be coming up. Hmm...we (me, Wai Kit, Ching Mien etc.) are also planning to tour Malaysia after A-levels but there's no fixed date yet. We might start from up North in Langkawi and may visit places such as Penang, Ipoh, KL, Fraser's Hill, Melaka etc. Someone thought of going to one of the Eastern islands though... I don't know... could be rather costly. But I'm sure it would be enjoyable (last year we stayed at Wai Kit's house and we couldn't finish visiting places...didn't have much time to savour the delicious food as well).However I would definitely have to learn how to play Dai Dee, Bridge and Hearts before I go...

OK, back to reality. Thank you for reading this lengthy blog. you don't have to read further coz this concerns the boring life I live for the past few days.

Gosh! I wish I was back in BP! I can't stand it here! I know now it's very conducive for me to study but I just so bored! There's no one here! (Of course there are, but not the ones I'm really, really close with)... Another thing is Chen Hoay broke up with someone and he is really irritating me everyday! He can't study but there's no way I can help him so he shouldn't make me not study as well right? Argh! Ching Mien! Wai Kit! Where art thou??!! Oh well, I've got some progress at least. And I can go to school to evade Chen Hoay... But I can't go everyday... I know I'm feeling lonely but Chen Hoay is making me seek solitude! Feel like calling Jeff and Cliff out, but I don't want to distrupt their revision... maybe I'll call them up? I dunno...

Wah... still quite sleepy...
My 24-hour creative writing competition challenge just ended. I wrote 2 Chinese Poems, 1 san3 wen2, 1 English Poem and 1 English Drama in this period. It was basically like this: We had 5 venues to do our writing and we stay at each venue for 3 hours. There were 1-hour or 2-hour breaks in between where we ate stuff and rested. The guys and girls had their own designated rooms (Rm 109 for the guys, Rm 110 for the girls). There were only 4 guys and (I think) more Year 1's than Year 2's...

Venues:
4-6-2004(Friday)
9.00am Dancers in the Wind
2.00pm Sports Complex
7.00pm The Scope (the real one)

5-6-2004 (Saturday)
12.00am Room 135
4.00am The Pond in front of the General Office
7.00am-9.00am Our respective classrooms to finish our work

We also had a word and item(s) that we had to employ in our writing that were revealed to us at each venue (except the last):

9.00am A saucepan and "Depression"
2.00pm A laptop computer playing a movie and "Exhaustion"
7.00pm Shoes and "Boredom"
12.00am A box and figurines (toy) and "Exhilarating"
4.00am A cup of coffee and "Addiction"

Anyway, frankly I have not much hope of winning anything (hey, there were 4 LEP students loh!)...but at least it was an experience (and we had free food for every break time too!). I just felt like trying something new...
Hmm...unfortunately TJC at 3.00am was not as spooky as I hoped (can't they save on electricity?)...

Missed Jeffrey's Chamber Ensemble Concert today because I was still in the competition. I didn't know it would clash. Sorry again! Well, I'm sure the concert turned out fine...

Going for Dance Club's performance tonight... not that I really wanted to but Ching Mien forced me to buy the ticket (with 50% discount) as he realised he had to go for some Christian choir's concert or something with his church (don't remember).

Keeping myself fit is very important to me now... I shouldn't be complacent in my chin-up training... Many people are helping me...thanks guys. Ching Mien suggested that we jog to ECP from the hostel and in the end 4 of us went (Jiann Hooi, Ching Mien, Wai Kit and myself)...(In the words of Wai Kit--Ching Mien you're crazy!).

Went to Leslie's blog yesterday (haven't read it for quite a long time). I was so shocked when he mentioned that Desmond blogged too! Anyway, I found Desmond's blog and it was so beautiful! So Most Beautiful Blog goes to Desmond and Most Interesting Blog goes to Leslie (read it and you'll know!)...

OK... nothing else to write now...ZZZZzzzzzzzz

Last day of school (for this term)... a rather boring day. The students were not interested in studying and we had 3 consecutive Chemistry periods cancelled. A little more than half the class was present for Physics. Got our Physics paper back... Got 33.5/40! Yippie...haven't been getting good results recently so I was quite happy...

Anyway, after lunch I continued to stay in school for the next 2 and a half hours or so for Physics 'S'-paper lecture. However, when the lecturer arrived, the lecture hall was locked, and there were about 10 people around only, so it was cancelled! *@$%&*$^!!!! (No vulgarities) *Arggh!!!!* Could have enjoyed a good afternoon nap...

Went to watch TJC Drama Club's performance at Marine Parade Community Club with Ching Mien. Yi Jian went with Lita and Minh Huong while Chen Hoay went with Rohit. I was actually rather afraid we would be late as I didn't exactly know how to get there but in the end all was well. Me and Ching Mien both thought the drama ended a bit too early and we were wondering what to do afterwards... so we just 'lepak' around Parkway Parade. The drama performance was OK lah... I especially enjoyed the 2nd piece (forgot what was it called). It was based mainly on the idea of 'Life is a stage and vice versa' kinda thing... The 1st piece was called 1900-desperate and the 3rd piece (the most cheeem one) was a bilingual play called Jia(ng) (I think it was written by Mr. Marcus Tan). Jia(ng) is about Jia1 (Family, Home) and Jiang1 (the 'check' when playing chinese chess-- in this playing signifying 'moves' or 'steps'). Didn't quite understand it so it's no use for me trying to explain...

Went for Chem lecture on Saturday. It was about transition elements... Stayed in school for the next 3 hours waiting for the choir session (the last official one for me) to start. The 'old' committee announced the line-up for the 'new' committee...Benedict actually got Vice President! Good for him, but he needs to be more outspoken (and brave?). Anyway, I was shocked when Mr. Chung awarded me a prize for being the Most Improved Choir Member. Got a nice cute moo-moo mug from Robinsons. The 'award' was actually given to 3 people. The other 2 were Emily and Ivan. Special prizes were also given to people who went the extra mile to help others... the recipients were Cailin and Teresa. An award was given to our beloved choreographer 'Honey' Eudora.

Went for TJ Chinese Orchestra (CO) on Sunday. Sadly to say, the performance didn't really captivate me... there were these wierd tunes sometimes. I like the yang2 qin2 but as for every CO there are only 2 yang2 qin2 players, I could hear much from them :( ...

Went swimming on Monday morning (11.30am-1.30pm) with Ching Mien, Yi Cheng, Wai Kit, Dominic and Chin Lin. That explains the mild sunburn I have on my face and arms now... After eating lunch back at the hostel, we went out to Tampines Mall to watch 'Shrek 2'... It was a cute movie!!! Especially Puss-in-boots, haha! A must see for those who enjoyed reading fairy tales when they were young. Actually, it is only interesting if you know ALL the fairy tales involved in the story.

Wow! As you can see, the holiday has just started and I have been so busy already... still have the 24-hour writing competition coming up... wish me luck!