and it happens again

Somehow I know that there is this great force out there that will force balance upon what's happening in your life.

Consider my previous post. And a few hours after I was feeling really down I was given a second chance. And I took it. Or at least I made the initiative to take it. News ain't out yet about the result but it's okay I guess. If I fail this time I won't be as sad, also :). Though it's a good thing if I get it ^^

These kind of turn-around events has happened to me almost everytime I had a heart-shattering experience -- not that I have many to recount though.

To do today: study finance, read MPW, and wash choir wrap.

First day of June

It certainly doesn't feel like I haven't been updating the blog for two months. But in truth, yes it's been two months since I last wrote in this blog.

So what has been happening in these two months? Well firstly I have exams which fortunately I did quite well in. And after that is the results announcement. And I went back to Indonesia (twice -- the first one I went to Jakarta for weekend, went back to Singapore, and finally went back to Malang in the end of April.)

Stayed in Malang for around 10 days and went back to Singapore for choir practices. Other than that there isn't much thing happening nowadays.

Sometimes I blame myself for wasting such precious times. But still I can't get my lazy bum to bring me somewhere

I really have no idea what else to write for now. I'll probably write more later when I have an inspiration =)

=]

I'm very happy today :). Why? My parents came to visit ^^.
The bad thing is that I will be busy for the upcoming weeks =(, so I can't really keep them company most of the time...

Oh well, nothing much to say!

AS midterm

Yesterday I took my AS midterm.
*pray to God that all will be well*

Sorry, no idea what else to post.

How come a lot of dailies posts lately?
Because there's not many interesting things that happened other than daily life (classes, projects, etc) - a sign that school is getting more hectic.

Oh, I miss the first half of the term.. It was still hectic, but not only for schoolwork. I managed to survived THREE productions (HONK!, Choir [twice], and GAYA). Sigh...

But I guess it's nice to be busy although it might be stressful sometimes. *can't imagine what I'm going to do when I'm not busy*

I have to start planning for my summer holiday. Do something useful.. Maybe, start up a small business? and treat it as another project =D. 8).

My Life is Extreme

I just finished crying my ass off =(
Got my FIRST D+ today after getting my FIRST A+ on Monday

You've seen the extreme.

I'm so very pissed.

NUS Choir Concert

title: Varsity Voices

I watched NUS choir concert today.. With empty stomach... which sends signals to my head and making me having a headache.

Actually the concert is quite good (better than ours I think), but I could not really enjoy it. The sound and harmony is nice, the arrangement is quite good also, and I really appreciate their performance but I can't enjoy it because all the songs they sang are very serious songs. Of which I can't really process. And having empty stomach & headache didn't help.

I went with Ernest and met with Kenny, Jiaqi & her friends, and also Jeth there. Was quite surprised because at first I though more choir members will come along. It appears that I'm wrong haha.

Kenny is being emo as to when we are going to be as good as NUS choir (and cross-finger, VJC choir)

NUS got the championship and full mark for choir 2008 grand prix in St. Petersburg; the same grand prix we're going to attend this June. I know we're not up to their standard yet.

Anyway, a good choir ability is necessary. But, for me, I will still enjoy coming to SMUCC although it's not as good as NUS. Why? not the situation, not the abilities, but for the sake of singing =).

finally, a swim in the last 6 months

As a water element girl -- based on my astrological horoscope: cancer, I basically love to swim. I can recall swimming since I was 2 or 3 years old. Back then my father would 'throw' me into the pool and let me do 'waterproof -- moving my limbs in order to stay floating', a great survival skills should I be within a deep water area.

I did quite a lot of swimming. And soon, swimming became natural to me. I used to join the swimming club in Malang which had 2 practices a week. It didn't last long, though.

The thing I hate most when going to swim is my medium-long hair. It is so ma fan to have long hair if you like swimming. --basically, I'm very lazy to have to wash hair every time I swim. Especially, back then I swam in a public place so the toilet is not that clean... Figures.. (SMU Gym shower is much much better -- best so far, haha).

Since I came to Singapore, I've always had an easy and accessible swimming pool - just below my condo. It is logical that if I like swimming then I should have make use of it. But during my 4-5 months stay in Singapore, I've never swum even once. Until today~.

Actually, even today, the laziness to swim also came back because then I only just finished having my late lunch. With a full stomach, exercising is really a big no no. However in the end I managed to beat my laziness and swam. Such a shame that the wind was quite disturbing just now; it made the water colder and not calm enough for an enjoyable swim.

I only lasted for around half an hour just now. The water was freaking cold, and the length of the pool is super long (I think it's the longest length I've even swum before -- half of it feels like what it usually is in Indo). But is it just me? Or is it a fact?

It could be that I was lacking in exercise -- which is why I felt going one length of the pool is really exhaustive.

Need to train more, need to swim more =). and make something out of my 2009 resolution ;)

Night Safari on October

So, after some devastating moments we went through, yesterday night we decided to go to the Night Safari.

The idea came out of nowhere but oh well, it's been quite fun because at least we did not only see animals of the night but also.....

Creatures of the Night

wow, that rings a bell... yeah, the Phantom of the Opera!

I love this musical show! I saw one live in Las Vegas last December :D

Anyway, back to the trip. The Night Safari has come out with this event starting on October to celebrate Halloween (and of course, to attract tourists - not that I mind)

We reached at 9:10. At first we want to go for a Halloween cocktail ride but it's fully booked. So in the end we only buy the entrance ticket and the tram ride. Before we went in... we bought B&J's (Ben & Jerry's) ice cream and took pictures in front of the B&J's logo. I'll post along the pictures later :). Unfortunately we don't have the chance to take pictures together (my sister said that's the hard part of traveling alone or with one another person: cannot take pictures of ourselves!).

After finishing the ice cream we boarded the Halloween Tram. It's much like the usual tram, going around the safari with someone explaining the animals. But this guide voice is so creepy like and there are occasional scares. The Halloween Tram also went through the Gate of Hell made for people abusing or hurting or hunting or killing or skinning or .. or .. or ... animals. This place is quite creepy. Some of the so-called 'actors' acting as scary scary ghosts actually scare us and some even boarded the train (Holy Sh*t!). It was not really scary but it was very heart-shockingly surprising.

After the tram ride we also walked around through the trails. One of the trails was the Halloween route. And again, got people scaring us. My sister was the one screaming though.. I did not scream but I was surprise and scared as well (I'm not a girl who screams when I'm scared). The walk was quite long and we were exhausted when we reached the entrance again. By the time we boarded the taxi to go home it was 12+ and we got 50% overcharge T___T.

Pictures:

update til now

After the two highly melancholic posts, I think it's appropriate to give something less saddening to you all :). (and also I am trying to entertain myself out of my saddened self).

School's been fine so far. I don't think I'm coping up that well for the lesson but I guess time is all I need to adjust. Probably won't get a high GPA or something but I'm quite enthusiastic that next term will be better.

One week recess is about to end in... two days (counting) - although recess does not feel like a recess at all.

However, some entertaining things had happened. DESA practice, for one. DESA is abbreviation for Dance-Eat-Sing-Act - a performance by SMUKI (SMU Komunitas Indonesia) to be performed next Friday (Oct 17). At first all these gamelan practices felt really boring but on combined rehearsal - it's a different case.

It is safe to assume that all SMUKI-ers are quite out of their mind -- especially after today. So after rehearsal those who don't really have other stuffs to do (me, for instance) stayed behind, helping the Narojeng (sp?) dance team to practice. During the vacant time, however, they turned the rehearsal to live-band performance; starring Ernest, Sylvia, Sugiek, and several others xD. Quite entertaining, they are.

Also, I've never thought that Hiubert (forgive the weird name spelling), could perform the sissy dukun very well. He's super funny and I cannot stop laughing. For those reading this post, DESA next Friday really SHOULD NOT be missed.

You will get a preview of Indonesian culture, as well as entertaining show, and... of course, FOOD! (Padang cuisine :3)

Phew, what a relief

Hi there!
It was quite tiring today...

Actually I only have one class, Acad Writing.. And that's half the length of the usual class, making me go to school just for 1,5 hours. Haiz, even the journey from my home to school and back is 1,5 hours (sometimes even more). So, yeah~ Wednesday is annoying.

After class, I went to print some readings for the next essay assignment. Before me there was a girl who was taking such a looong time to print. Her ez-link card balance was not enough to do all her printing jobs (which is sooo many). Then after she managed to set her mind which documents needed to be printed it was my turn. I only printed 2 documents 12 pages in total, 48 cents in cost.

Then I waited for her printing to be done. And guess what? I think she took my prints with her. (Yeah, probably she did not keep track how many pages she printed as after the machine finished printing, the stack of papers was like 3 cm thick. I stood dumbstruck, gazing at the printing machine waiting it to print my documents. But of course.. it never did. My 48 cents were gone inside the 3 cm stack of papers.....

Therefore, I need to turn my laptop back on and reprint. Super time consuming, grrrr....

Anyway, I managed to get the printing job done and I depart from school. First, going to concourse to draw some money. At first I feel like eating Koufu but then again I changed my mind to try the new Justacia in Dhoby Ghaut. So I went there and ate and paid. After having dinner I decided to go home from Dhoby Ghaut but before that I planned to top up my ezlink card first. Imagine my horrifying self when I found that my matric card which I put behind the ezlink card, which I carried those two blasted cards everywhere as a long necklace, is gone (FYI, matric card is used to go inside and outside my school, and sometimes enter GSRs - group study rooms. I lost it therefore I cannot enter the school.)

I was in a panic then. I backtraced my route to Justacia where I ate dinner and found nothing, then I walked all the way from Dhoby Ghaut back to school and still found nothing. Then I went to concourse and I still found nothing. And so I reported to the security. The officer asked me to fill in lost item report. But even before I filled the first field, another officer asked my name.... and guess what? They found my matric card. And I have to collect it at SCC in library building.

Thank God. Phew....................

Such an Uneventful Day

Hey :)

In this post.. I would like to write about what I did yesterday (Friday).
Well.. I slept at like 4 am and that was when I remembered that I have a library training section on how to conduct proper and useful Google search at 10 am. I hoped that I would be able to wake up and set my alarm at around 8 am. But the effort was meaningless. The moment I woke up and checked my phone it was already 10 something. So definitely late.

I truly hope that it will not be a problem not to attend the session. I hurriedly mailed the library and told that I was not able to make it.

That done, I still had some time until my project meeting for Business Law at two.

Let's just skip this part and proceed to the meeting

Oh ya, I need to tell that from my house to school it will usually take me 40-50 minutes. So I have to leave at around one in order to reach school at two. I arrived on time and the meeting proceed.

Our group meeting today was not too productive. We covered the issue we want to talk about already and we spent like two hours without progress. We finished at four and I grabbed some light refreshment to eat on my way to the MRT station.

I reached home between 5 pm and 6 pm. After that I went online for a while and decided to take a late nap. I slept at around 6.30 and woke up at 9...

I was planning to do some readings for business law but in the end I spent my time reading fanfictions and MSN-ing (haha.. no wonder here...)

I guess that summarizes my boring and uneventful Friday.

*sigh* Such a boring post...