InkBlob-ted

A ReVAMP!

2006-11-26T10:27:00.000-08:00

Finally.

I hereby declare this blog "resurrected" from the depths of destruction.

YAY.

Kudos to Tessa for finding this blogskin!

Jo :)

2006-10-24T20:07:00.000-07:00

OKAY THIS IS THE LONGEST HIATUS THAT I'VE BEEN ON.
MARCH TO OCTOBER.
Whoa.
Okay, I don't have much to say. Lost track of things.
Well, one thing's obvious: it's close to the end of the school year. In fact, I only have one more day of school since I got no school today-Thursday.
I'm sad because I really love my class. I didn't get the EC letter, so I may not be in the same class as the majority of my classmates because it's mainly their dream to be in triple science so they'll most likely jump at the opportunity now they got it.
Maybe I'll appeal for EC humanities. I don't favour triple science, I think I'll probably get crushed by my classmates again. Always at the bottom I am. Makes me feel uber stupid.
Jo I think you'll be sad for different reasons. But remember, I'm still your friend and we've only seen each other for, say 5 times since last year. Your friends will still be your friends even though you may not see them everyday.
Anybody looking forward to next year?

Tessa

2006-03-25T02:02:00.000-08:00

I have a feeling that our blog is dying yet AGAIN. How many lives does our blog have? 9 like a cat?
Inkblobs has 9 lives just like a cat. Heehee. LAME.
I think it's because now we both have our own blogs (well I've had mine for very long already and Jo's just got her's). Oh, that and the fact that the March holidays are just over. And that Term 2 is starting. Another 10 weeks of long, tiring school before a month off. Well, even then, people have to go back to do projects and have CCAs etc. Crap. But I shall not dwell on holidays now because school's only just started again.
School. Our lives revolve around it; it's the unhappy centre. I don't like the way Singaporean children have a much tougher and pressurising curriculum compared to those of other countries just because we are such a small country. And it's not helping that some parents and their kids are so kiasu and kiasi.
It sucks that we have to wake up from 5 onwards and sometimes come home at 8 after school. But this is not the worst scenario yet. I'm quite sure that we won't mind school so much if we didn't have so much homework/ so many school hours. Yet it seems that shortening the hours/starting school later/lessening the homework load is impossible to be done.
Everyone is roped in then. Parents, teachers, well everyone will worry. Parents worry whether their kids get enough sleep (most of the time, no) or whether they will do well in their exams. Teachers worry whether their students will grasp what they are trying to teach and whether they will do well in the exams also.
It's a stressful life for everyone. No wonder we are all growing grey hairs. Ugh.

Tessa

2006-03-16T21:50:00.000-08:00

I LOVE MY LIFE.

LOVE GOD.
LOVE ENCOUNTER CAMP.
LOVE CHURCH.
LOVE MY CELL LEADERS.
LOVE WORSHIP.
LOVE FRIENDS.
LOVE DAD.
LOVE MUM.
LOVE MEIMEI.

I FEEL SO LOVED.

see my new personal blog for more!

CLICK!!

FINALLY MY OWN...

2006-03-13T02:43:00.000-08:00

It's the end of the term.
The end of the first term.
School revolves around our lives, don't you think? The GOOD: that's where we get our friends from. The BAD: the pressure and everything else. Isn't it crap.
I don't mind studying, honestly. I don't hate school.
But I absolutely hate it when before a test, people will be doing last-minute study and they will be, like, 'Eh, test me, test me!' Then another person will give them a question and they will go on and recite everything they have memorised. And make me feel so pressurised and make me think that I haven't studied enough. Or they will go, 'Eh, I didn't study, I'm going to fail lah' when they are only waiting for people to say, 'No, you studied so much, then you so smart, won't fail'.
I hate people like these.
I hate them.
It's irritating, and with 2-3 tests every week, it's getting on my getting-more-fragile-by-the-day nerves.
Crap. Maybe I'm just in a lousy mood. Grrr.

2006-03-04T04:02:00.000-08:00

A few months have passed into our year of Secondary Two.

January, February, the start of March.

Things haven't been easy, compared to last year. I'm not sure about the rest of you since my last year was very relaxed. Since this year, things have hit us. Hard. Piles of homework, mutiple projects, mutiple tests. And new changes like being not the youngest in the Secondary section, juniors. And for me, (Jo I know you are in the same class as last year), a different class. The second of the top 2 classes (most other people insist that both classes are of the same standard but I beg to differ). But I feel I'm at the bottom of my class. People will go 'But you are STILL in the best class'. Bah. What can I say?

Things are difficult, but we will get through them together like we always have. Sometimes, we take life too seriously...then again, we never have time to see if we are.

Tessa

2006-02-22T02:35:00.000-08:00

Happy Thinking Day, guides! I don't really know what it's for, but Happy Thinking Day all the same haha.

Tessa

2006-02-21T04:04:00.000-08:00

deleted the post. no point anyway. haha. i guess i misunderstood both our actions. so paranoid. =)

2006-02-20T05:40:00.000-08:00

looks like fun.
yeah go describe me!!

http://kevan.org/johari?name=jocheng

looking forward.
jo

2006-02-18T19:24:00.000-08:00

People who have the courage to spam others' blogs should also have the courage to put down their names. And I mean their real names. Otherwise, what's the bloody point of upsetting people and wanting people to change when we don't even know who you are?
If you want to publicise a bad image of a person on his/her blog by creating ugly comments then BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO PUT DOWN YOUR OWN NAME. If not, you might as well not bother.
Which brings me to another thing. Why don't you just SPIT IT into the person's face personally? Give the person the ugly truth face-to-face? Why don't you? Huh?
Anyway, at least other people are cute, and because you aren't, you're FREAKING JEALOUS. And you're a spiteful, hateful, shitful, loaded with crap, messed-up idiot.
You're a freaking coward, and you know it. Happy spamming, whoever you are.

Tessa

2006-02-14T03:19:00.000-08:00

Here to save our blog from destruction again.

yeah. happy valentine's day before i forget.

***
Life's been really gOod. *note sarcasm* I don't know why, it seems I have lost that passion for work, for study. Oh for that matter, why do we study anyway? Quench our thrist for knowledge? For the sake of education? For the sake of showing off you can study? I really do not understand. Well, maybe I do. But I guess I still wonder at times. Everything here is so routine. Go school, (CCA), come back home, do homework, revise, sleep. It repeats itself. On and on. A cycle. We don't really have a lot of fun these days. Of cause there's exception. But it's not me. I miss those childhood times where everything is so innocent and happy and free. Living and enjoying life. But what do we do now? No time for life. Every day do the same old things. This freaks me out. And tires me so. Also what I find ridiculous and amazing is that we students can sleep at unearthly hours of 2am to 3am!! Some even 5am. HAIZ. That is so unhealthy and it's destroying us. Oh gosh. And why all that competitiveness and showing-off. It's killing me. Can't take it. Before test people go around "Can test me this?" "Aiyoh I vely scared leh""Die lah! Never learn this"... Some people give you more stress by reciting completely whatever that could be tested. Added unneccessary stress. And this type of peeps practically piss me off greatly. YEah, we know you are pro but please, keep what your brilliant mind has learnt to yourself. It'll soothe my burning anger if you're the ones who are brilliant but help other people who are weaker, like a friend of mine. And after test people go around asking "Eh wat answer u put for mou2 mou2 question?", plus those ego-ed peeps who go "YES!!! i got it. oh my gosh. EEKS!!!" *dots* Probably I'm saying this too harshly but seriously, I do think people are too self-centred and only do things for their benefit. It's hard to find people who are really true in their words and actions. It's difficult to build a close and truthful relationship with somebody else. It does happen, however. But currently not me. Which to me is something that I'm praying for. Because I feel now, I do not care if others turn against me, ignore me, treat me with ugly stares blah blah, if I had a real friend, I would be very much happy. And I can live life. The way I want. Not tied down by any constraints. Not held back by work and stress. Enjoy life. Live life. Be life. And appreciate what God has given me. He seems so faraway sometimes. but I have to seek Him first before all things that are blessed will happen. He's the only one I can find solace in in times of need and helplessness. Grace be to Him. :)

Come to think of it, study isn't bad. but I hate all that competitiveness and people running to that top of the pyramid. Well some competitiveness may do us good. but too much'll just break us. Unless you've got really strong perseverance and motivated self. Oh for pete's sake. What rubbish am I talking about. Main point I want to say is that all that matters is our: SELF CONFIDENCE. No matter how bad we may seem at things, we have to be confident that we're still good. We've done our best. But our limit we may never know, I must admit. Anyway life in itself is a learning journey. I realise whatever troubles, problems, difficulties(esp people), all that are just stuff to make us grow. Imagine us being well taken care of, jiao1 sheng1 guan4 yang3, meet any cuo4 ze2 and then cry and break down and feel sorry for ourselves. That is seriously pathetic. I was like that once. That was real dumb I tell you. No use at all what. We fight and we learn. Don't ever feel sorry for ourselves. We're human. We are capable of lots of things. Just study and work at our own pace. For our biggest competitor is ourselves. Not others. Not everything has to be perfect. Just do my best. Don't let others affect me.

Makes me think of John Donne's "Death be not proud". (though a bit out of point)Had a lot of fun analysing and reading it. Truly, absolutely agree with him. What we are waiting for is not that fame and glory and certificates and degrees and results... The ultimate is eternal life. Life on earth and death are just phases. Moulding us into better individuals worthy of entering that wonderful place with Him. (exclude death of cos) So I tell myself. All these pain and suffering will end soon. I'm waiting.

jo

2006-01-27T04:30:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Haven't posted for sometime, but this is gonna be a short post because my dear sister wnats to use the laptop. She's glaring. *laser gaze*

Anyway, tomorrow is the eve of CNY. Aren't we all glad? Lots of goodies to eat, lots of money to get, new clothes, new shoes, the works.
The sad thing: I heard many people are sick with flu/sore throat/fever. And I'm kind of 1 of them. So, drink more water, have more rest, and hopefully you'll recover in time, okay?

So, HAPPY (chinese) NEW YEAR!!!

Tessa

2006-01-18T01:46:00.000-08:00

flaming people on tagboards isn't good. but u really wanna flame, flame more refinely can. and don't be anonymous.

i got flamed by somebody i know, but dunno who it is. how frustrating it was.

aiyo. but i don't mind. cause i have never been flamed by others before. new experience. i thank the people who have somehow "scolded" her(i'm sure) (esp brokeNN angel, i dunno who u r but thanks :D)but i won't, instead thank you for your comments and i will work on it. be more sincere if that's what you mean.

GOSH.

xin yan's really fuming. haiz people, if you were in her shoes, you might not have the courage to stand in front of the class and tell us to pull up ur below ankle socks!!! how many people will do that? hello? 1 in 40? and she doesn't keep her feelings to herself which is dam good for her... some people just keep their own feelings to themselves, then after that cannot tahan then burst like a balloon. WTH. not happy just say. angry say. frustrated say. worried say.

hah. some peeps just don't understand people's hao3 xin1.

TSK

anyway i'll be behind every person who fights for what is right and good.

God rocks by the way.

jo :)

2006-01-04T01:14:00.000-08:00

If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's anonymous tags.
ANONYMOUS, whoever you are, you better get the hell outta here. You are not welcome.
Get lost. You freaking, useless piece of shit.
Next time, if you want to write stuff like that about people, instead of being the bloody coward you are, why don't you write your name?

TESSA

2005-12-31T07:00:00.000-08:00

Teeheehee...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

what fun.
2006 is coming!!
whoots.
fun and happy times lie ahead.
i'm sure.
cos i'm not gonna make the mistakes i made this year again.

Things i'm looking forward to:
1) Sec 2 life
2) PSGL, how will it turn out to be? it'll be interesting...
3) Building stronger bonds with classmates
4) Good-bye to monitress duties!! YEAH MAN!!
5) Sayonara to Japanese. I'm sad. But I really can't manage with you around. Maybe some other time yea?
6) FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany... oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah yeah yeah
7) More active blogging life... haha.. see if i can la
8) More Girl Guides!! Pumping and footdrills!! but sad.. Ms Ng's left for SCGS.. TSK!
9) More literature... romeo and juliet??? oooh.. is it nice ah?
10) Reading harry potter (if my mum allows)

Some things in 2005 left undone:
1) Watching The Chronicles of Narnia
2) Watching King Kong
TSK TSK TSK ! ! !

haha... i guess that's all...
happy new year again!!

jo ;)

2005-12-28T03:09:00.000-08:00

KING KONG! Whoo!
King Kong is nice.
If you're gonna watch it, here's the storyline. I'm not gonna ruin everything for you.
Ann Darrow(Naomi Watts), Carl Denham(Jack Black) and Jack Driscoll(Adrien Brody) are the main characters in the story! They, together with the ship VENTURE and its crew get to the island, which Carl believes to be an island not yet discovered, called Skull Island.

And you know the rest. Ann gets kidnapped by those people living on the island as a sacrifice to Kong. (they are really quite freaky. No kidding.) Jack(Driscoll) is determined find her because they have had a previously romantic encounter on the boat. So they set out and...you know...you know.

Good movie. Nice action.
There was a part with really big gross worms that really freaked me out. Didn't like that scene.
But other than that, good movie. No doubt.

Tessa

2005-12-20T17:07:00.000-08:00

Whoa, whoa.
Jo? What's going on?
Okay, I can tell you are obviously very pissed at somebody.

I changed my blogskin by the way. And in case you didn't know my blog was changed about three weeks ago, I think. So my cbox and everything is renewed except for the posts.
See it at
www.blackpavement-.blogspot.com

Do tag! Okay, maybe I don't know any of you obviously because we have never met and you are all Jolene's friends but never mind, just tag! It doesn't matter. Just say a hello (:

Tessa

2005-12-18T16:51:00.000-08:00

Darn.
In two weeks, school will be starting. Not like any of us need any reminding, by the way. A whole new year. A new level. Secondary Two! It's really quite unbelievable. We'll be mini seniors. But we must be NICE seniors. Some of my friends told me that their seniors hate juniors. I think that is quite sad, really. Oh well.
There's one thing I'm quite afraid of actually. As you all should know, my CCA is Symphonic Band and I play the flute. So I'm quite afraid that my juniors have already played flute in their primary school and that they'll play better than me. I'm a bad player, okay...Serious. I may play the flute and the piano and the recorder but that doesn't mean I play well. Urgh. Imagine if my juniors play better! I'll feel so inferior to them. But THANK GOODNESS they won't beat me in drills. Yep, they won't. I'm so much better in drills than playing.
But other than that, I don't think there's any other thing I dread. Except that my grades will drop? I must maintain my grades. I'm such a freaking lazy bum and I totally enjoy slacking. Which kind of sucks. I would love to be hardworking.
And I hope the juniors will be nice. Hopefully they won't be bitchy idiots who try to fit in with the cooler seniors by lowering their belts and stuff. There are people like that. I haven't lowered my belt, okay??? But I do wear ankle socks. The prefect's forever telling me to pull my socks up.
Other than that, I mostly keep to the school rules. But I want more ear piercings! I pierced a second hole in my right ear and my sis took the other in her right ear too. But mine had an infection and the stupid earstick fell out while I was in Australia so the damn hole closed, what else. And my school doesn't allow earstuds, only earsticks. Transparent. But no one listens to that luh. Including me! I wear black earsticks. SO if I want to pierce more, I have to put a plaster over the earstud for two weeks until it's relatively safe to remove the earstud and slide in the stick.
Next year there will be new pinafores. I am so relieved that I entered the school a year before that happened. The new pinafore is *eek*, according to the description the VP gave. And there will be new school socks!!! We have to wear them in 2007. But the new pupils will have to wear them, I think. So I have to treasure my ankle socks. I hope the school socks will be ankle, but I know that is quite unlikely cos they will give a rule saying that the school crest must be visible. And you know my school crest, right?
Hmm. Raise your hand if you think my school year's gonna rock.

Tessa

2005-12-12T23:36:00.000-08:00

hey guys im back from perth.
sorry i can't talk for long cos tmr's my guides camp which is till saturday.
and i haven't packed my bag.
or finished sewing my scarf. (sewing!!! urgh)
and my senior's hp's batt is low and she's out so i can't ask her wat to bring.
she'll be sending me email on wat to bring. by 5pm!!!
-____-
DAM.
if it wasn't for the SIA internet booking website, tis perth trip would not have been so long.
oh shoot i really gtg.
talk to u someday abt my trip, why it was this long(as in the next day is my camp), feedback to tessa's feedback on my feedback on HPGoF and my camp.
bye

2005-12-02T02:16:00.000-08:00

I hereby announce that this blog has been returned to its former glory by its owners, namely Jolene and Tessa. Jolene has been a very good girl while Tessa has been very bad because she has neglected this blog for 89 donkey years when she went to visit Mars.

Dear Readers, thank you for reading. And tagging.

okay, i'm crapping. but all this is true. except the Mars part. and at least i'm blogging! whoo!

your best crapship,
tessa

2005-12-02T01:38:00.000-08:00

okay i've been super bad. haven't blogged for months! absolutely no temptation to do so, but i feel i have to follow up since jo posted recently.

some feedback about your recent post, jo:
1. HPGoF was really really nice overall.
2. i think the quidditch cup was short as they wanted to only wanted to introduce this guy called viktor krum. oh, and they wanted us to see the dark mark.
3. isn't HP and LOTR about the same length? i mean, both are definitely more than 2 hours. i wouldn't say there's a whole lot of difference. maybe LOTR would be about half an hour more or something, but then what really matters is the quality of the movie, not the quantity.[in this case, length]
4. i like ron and fred and george too. there's one super funny part where ron was wearing the dress robes and he mentioned that they looked like and smelled like his great aunt tessie.
5. i wouldn't compare GoF with CoS. cos' after all, aren't they directed by different directors? so we can't really say which show was better, because each director would have his own style. but that's how i think. no offence, really.
6. what is wrong with hermione? or are you talking emma watson? what, she grew taller? prettier? i thought she acted quite well in this show. so did the others.
7. oops. skipped a point. i agree that it's not dark enough. i actually sort of expected darker. my friend and i were actually discussing HPGoF the other day, and we both thought the darker, the better. cos' if the show is so 'shallow', i really wouldn't have that really good feeling that i managed to remember what i read like, 5 years back. (haven't touched HP books since then; they were borrowed from my cousin) in this case of HPGoF, i did! so, i was happy.
8. snape, comical? comical, snape? these two words don't go together. i think he has a way of saying his words so that they curl of the end of his tongue. did what i just said make sense? i doubt it. never mind.

the neoprints we took, one word for them: GREAT. the quality was good, and in most pics everyone was smiling. but, yeah, haha, daph got blocked out of one. i think i looked like crap though. ugh.
and i think our birthday plan for tricia was a tad too messy. as in, not well organised. oh well. we'll learn with experience, hopefully. not like we're gonna have another trip soon. sigh. miss all of you loads. loads and loads and loads and loads of misses.

oh, and, jo? jess came with us to buy the cake. but no matter. it was money worth spent.

for the moment jo is overseas in australia! she just went off yesterday night, no, wait, this morning at 1pm. we sms-chatted around 8 last night before she went to bed. bet she spent the entire plane journey playing mario. haha. we'll ask her when she gets back.
which just reminds me, i haven't blogged about my trip to australia. wanna read about it?

love,
tessa

2005-11-24T21:44:00.000-08:00

geez people. keep saying tis blog's dead. but it's not anymore. for now. haha

anyway.

i enjoyed tis week A LOT. okay? LOADS.

monday at 1.20pm i went with tessa, grace, tricia, jac, daphne and jessica to watch HPGoF at tampines mall. atiqa couldn't go cos she had to go australia. dam. (bloody hell) haha. anyway it was fantastic man. we got the 2nd last row. yeah. u might say "SO WHAT??". but i luv sitting behind. sitting in the good seats. i just luv the feeling.

i think HPGoF:
1. a bit too rushed
2. quidditch world cup so short!!!
3. voldemort not scary enough (seriously)
4. should have been longer. i dun mind. like LotR. :D
5. ron's REAL FUNNY
6. twins too
7. dark(not enough) but humorous--> wat a nice combination
8. not as good as CoS
9. acting of actors better(though hermoine was a bit shocking. dunno why la)
10. heh. i still like snape. so friggin comical.

oh and there was this part where people weren't supposed to laugh. then got this boy say:"我的脚麻痹了", translated into english(err singlish),"i got leg cramp"... LOL... everyone started laughing... spoilt the whole thing. haiz

i like HPGoF anyway.

forgot to mention. we took neoprints before watching the movie. cool. we were like cramped in the neoprint room cos got 7 people. nvm. then daphne was blocked in 1 neoprint. hahahaha... and grace had tis amused face on the neoprint. lol. heh. nice pic anyway.

and that day was tricia's 13th birthday!! we had tis plan. but she sorta spoilt it a bit by coming straight to tm... heh anyway i shan't go into details cos a bit complicated.. haha... ok. the thing is we went to century to take neoprints. then went to toilet. wahh so nice. got sofa. and make up stations. wateva u call that. and girls,ladies and women were applying make up. -___- i dun like make up dunno why. maybe i'll appreciate when i get older. heez. we hid in the cubicle, two by two, to write in the group card tessa had made for tricia. i think tricia knew we were up to sth. maybe she knew wat but i really have no idea. oh forgot to tell u. me and tessa went to basement to get a small lil' cake for tricia when we were having lunch. then cos we haven't write in the card yet so cannot give cake. so we decided to keep the cake in jac's bag. then we went to neoprints and toilet. SO.. we had wanted to celebrate in the toilet when nobody else was in the toilet since the ambience was really nice.. (no kidding!) (it would have been such a memorable birthday celebration.. hoho) when there wasn't anymore people... the chance. but jessica was still writing i think. then when she came out, people came in. haiz. so there. plan foiled. it was 1.10pm. dam. so we were running and walking back to tampines mall. we got on time. bought popcorn and hotdogs then we went up. just in time sia. phew.

after 157 mins...

we led tricia out to this place outside but still in tampines mall. and took out the cake. AND GUESS WHAT? THE CAKE WAS DESTROYED...*sniff... cos it shifted here and there in jac's bag. and the box was like 2 times of the small lil cake. so that's why. wasn't jac's fault. anyway tricia was so nice about it. she took one piece of mango and ate it. VERY SOUR, she says. and i was like each second looking at the cake.. feeling a bit *disgusted look*... we threw it away. heh

im tired. i'll blog till here.
cya peeps.
jo=)

2005-09-12T09:26:00.000-07:00

wells.
im not having exams, so i'll probably keep posting. but of course when i have the time.
not like i do.
forget it. i just dont organise my time well. im a un-self disciplined, un-organised person. its in my BONES. haha.
wads there to post. hmm.

well i'll be having this band public performance tomorrow. today is the rehearsal. i think its for the opening of this new Tuas desalination plant? yeah. i'll be excused from lessons from 12.45 tomorrow. yay. but then i won't be having my geog test. oh well. considering i havent studied much.
and i'll be having my Grade 5 piano exam next monday. AARGH!! im scared.

tessa

2005-09-09T21:18:00.000-07:00

tis is probably gonna be my last post till exams... i wanna concentrate and do well in EOY. yay! and proceed to sec 2. :)

piano exam's tis coming wednesday, 10.25am. cool. yeah rite. my hands are too frigging small lah! (sorry for language) and hands too stiff lor. must relak! teacher always say... haha. ok lor. nvm.

holidays do not seem like holidays.

muawhahahaha.

homework almost completed. whew.

can't think of anything to write now so i guess this'll be the end of my post...

cya soon.

jo =)

2005-08-29T19:50:00.000-07:00

how to look at yourself with rotten teeth

get some brown chocolate. not white, cos then it won't work.
let it melt for awhile in your mouth.
lick your front teeth, both upper and lower.
stand in front of the mirror. preferably by yourself.
grin like an idiot.

nice, huh? i did that yesterday with my sister and brother. we laughed like lunatics. and by the way, you better not let your parents catch you doing that. or else you may be banned from eating chocolates. don't say i didn't warn you!

tessa

2005-08-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

Eek i haven't posted for so long. Geez. Anyway let's talk about the cross country race...

OMG!!! I just love MacRitchie Reservoir! 3.2km some more sia... Though none of 101ners got into top 20, I am contented that I finished the race. Heh. I didn't think I could do it. But I COMPLETED THE 3.2KM RUN!! Am I proud of myself. Ego man... (Sorry a bit LAME...)

Hui Kin said she slowed me down, but I think otherwise. I was the one who kept stopping to walk cos really got no energy to run. So I slowed Hui Kin down. Sorry Hui Kin... :(

Well next year still have chance. Su Huan and Jac 不要灰心... Gastric pains are really a pain. :) Oh and btw Jac do take care of your health. :)

After the run, I waited for my dad. Then waited for like half and hour in the car. Traffic congestion lor. What to say.

On Saturday was my auntie's "meet the parents session". She's getting married next January. Wohoo! Can have more cousins! lol. "Meet the parents session" was basically meeting the other party's parents+bro+sis...

It was quite an exciting occasion.

Except for the dress I was wearing. It was white, with some frilly thingy on the top... *puke* I detest wearing dresses. Well maybe those that will not suit me. Not true actually cos I RARELY wear dresses anyway... harhar.

HAH. And I'm gonna be something "maids-of-honour"... *puke again* What an INTERESTING name huh... But better than Flower girl. :P

Yesterday we had a SPCA talk for Assembly. Very enriching. Ms Sebastian was so humorous, yet you could feel her love for animals. She shared about some of the cases of animals being abused. So sad. There was this dog who was old and loved his owner a lot. But the owner did not love him anymore and just abandoned him at SPCA, saying he was gonna die anyway. Haiz can't stand this kind of people.

Then today some sec1s set up a stall for SPCA. I bought a poster plus 2 badges. Yay! Support SPCA! SPCA ROCKS!! :D

Yep am happy.
Jo :)

2005-08-13T21:36:00.000-07:00

12 aug
oh shoot i haven't posted for so long.
tons of updates, but basically i'm now juggling reserch for my project and blogging on my fingertips so i can't really update everything at the moment.
i loved my presents for my birthday party!!!THANK YOU JO THANK YOU JO THANK YOU.

13 aug
ok there was an interruption yesterday.so i've forgotten what i intended to say.
hmm.
i must be mental.i actually use proper english.
whatever.
anyway my auntie gave me my birthday present yesterday before my piano lesson.
IT WAS A BILLABONG WALLET!!!
thank you gu gu for the nice present.
last year most of my presents were bags.this year they are wallets.
oh goodie.
thank you everybody for the presents.

love
tessa

2005-08-09T13:19:00.000-07:00

oh btw i forgot to mention... i met mimi on msn yesterday and a few days ago!!! (fyi: mimi is our class thai exchange programme fren:))

and she hasn't started school yet! no fair... she said a few more weeks... omg... that is SO NOT FAIR... but thankfully Singapore turned 40 today... holiday today... 2mr sch holiday... pheww... at least there's a breather from school... and i can revise biology in peace... :)

and those who want to contact mimi, tis her email and online diary... psycix@hotmail.com... http://diary.yenta4.com/diary.php?pulverizer... go see it... it's full of x-men... heez... anyway am talking to her in msn now! :D

yep tata for now...
and before i forget...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!! LUV YA 4EVA!!

P.S. tis is a photo of mimi, sam, me and hanqing... we took it b4 mimi went back to thailand... ^^

2005-08-08T16:44:00.000-07:00

on saturday, i met mrs chia again!!!! yay!! but it was just a brief "hi mrs chia!!" cos u noe the entrance of tampines mall, which link to century square rite, i met mrs chia there. my mum was walking so quickly, she didn't see mrs chia... mrs chia still looks healthy, yeah that's a good sign...

then at 5.30pm, i went to tessa and stacey's birthday party. my parents fetched tricia and dave too. we were one of the earliest guests there... haha. anyway i had a great time there. met tessa's sec sch frens who were really the hyper type: chloe, marilyn, yi shu... chloe was a very nice girl, chatted with her a bit... marilyn was the outspoken one, yi shu was the harry potter fan... heez they were all nice ppl actually... :) although i still felt a bit awkward around them...

the bbq pit was 37... and we cycled and ran from there to the spider web thingy... took about 20 min... and that time was 8 plus already so very dark... we only played for like 5mins? and had to rush back again to cut the cake... but nvm it's all in the name of fun, peace and laughter... chloe ran there and ran back... wah stamina real good lor!! she still very humble say she's one of the "not so good" runners in st nicks track n field... :P

the carrot cake was nice but the chocolate cake could be improved... heez... it was baked by their dad... so sweet :D anyway i went home at abt 10.30pm with my sis, tricia and dave... last to go... harhar...

i had a fun time there... hope there will be more! tricia i tink u r next!!
- jo ;)

2005-08-08T16:27:00.000-07:00

ok enough said.
it's not that desperate.
last last week i had sabbaticals: i joined food adventure and renewable energy. yay!

both of them rocked my world. i tink that week was the most enjoyable one since i came to nanyang... (so late ah u may say. but it's true lor)

for food adventure we cooked indian cuisines, malay cuisines, chinese cuisines... all very delicious. i enjoyed frying the kueh dardar... very fun. but still jac fried the kueh dardar the best, so round and cute... and i very clumsy lor... i knocked the batter over and it spilled onto my skirt... my socks and shoes also kana hit... haiz so sticky... i rushed to the toilet with jing ying to wash the skirt... good thing it came off... jing ying so nice lor, help me wash too... thks man... :D

then the 4th day we went to Oh Huat Farm... so interesting... so many spices and other nice plants... the guide tot my name was agnes... so weird dunno why lah... anyway we got to eat the plants and stuff... and smell them too... then we went shopping!! in their store i bought something for tessa for her bday cos tot the thing was very sweet... hoped u liked it...

the last day we invited teachers and family members over to taste our food... my mum and grandma came... they both said the food very good... yay! well done aepers...

i still liked the renewable energy better... cos we were just concentrating on the construction of a solar car over the 5 days, it's good in a way as u can worry about less things... anyway we also went to singapore poly to see the solar panels... very interesting de... (a pic's on top... sun ran, trixie, leny, hanqing) hee... i used a plank of wood dat was in the store room... my dad helped me "saw" the wood using a penknife... ty dad...

i painted it black.. my fav colour... using acrylic paint...

the last day we had a solar race!! we had preliminary round, semi-finals and finals... the process is a bit complicated so i shan't say much... i got thru the preliminary round and semi-finals, and won the finals. :) the finals was a very funny cos each race had 3 rounds so i started late on the first 2 rounds... 1st time was bcos i let go of it earlier and so i pulled it back but by then they had started, but good thing i came in 3rd out of 4 cars... 2nd time was slow reaction to the instructor's command but i came in 2nd. the last round i came in 1st cos 2 cars crashed and another one dunno wat happened.. heehee... the prize i chose a mini version of a solar car... was all very cool...

sabbaticals rock man!! there will be more to come... yay!
-jo

2005-08-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

heyz im not a very faithful blogger.... harhar
hui kin say i never update one...
ermmm yah true lah...
busy mah...
aiyoh...
test...
fail liao...
mummy i wanna cry...
test was easy and tricky...
but my mind was so blank...
sad, really, i will revise better next time...

2005-07-18T19:51:00.000-07:00

all's well that ends well...

it's a good thing that the CEO and board of directors(and the patron) have decided to step down, to let new leadership take over...

on another note i think we must still thank the former CEO and board of directors for managing NKF, although they made mistakes with the handling of funds and donations, we might just shut 1 eye and dun complain anymore cos come to tink of it, they have done quite a good job to help kidney patients. i tink the minister of health mr khaw boon wan said that NKF was 1 of the best in the world, i guess this should be enough to let them off the hook... they provide quality care for patients... from the tv, newspapers, the kidney patients were all in praise of NKF. maybe i was a bit too harsh in my previous post... the staff there had to answer many calls tfrom the public to cancel the monthly GIRO donation, so it might have been quite a draining and tiring process... if it was me, i would not be able to take it. i salute them.

anyway wats done cant be undone, so no use saying they r bad or wat... life has to carry on, so just concentrate on the future; hope the new board of directors will do a even better job than the previous one; and kidney patients will have a better life too.

God Bless Singapore!!!

jo :)

2005-07-13T18:22:00.000-07:00

hey peeps...

did ya read THE STRAITS TIMES these 2 days?? read abt the NKF CEO sue SPH?? ridiculous rite! he 1 year $600,000 salary... it's a bit too crazy... 1 month $25,000... + bonuses... i dun mind if it's some big CEO who runs a big company... but NKF gets its money from the public!! how can the CEO misuse the funds? gold-plated tap... 8 expensive cars... maintains Mercedes Benz for boss... :p rich like anything lor!! $220 million can last for 20 YEARS, not 3 years... pls give us a break... it's really no fun watching the NKF shows... 2 already these few weeks... wah... so sian... (i never watch for ur information)

now i know why my dad never calls the hotline... he said money is spent on all the advertisements, prize money and blah blah... however 1 time he did (called twice)... and he was so fuming mad after the bill came... it was $50!!! $25 each call... for some people maybe no big deal, but wat was outrageous was that the tv only put one hotline no., which was $25 per call! i feel they shouldn't have done that... for some people like us, we just watched for a little while, then call... should they have put the many hotlines for different amounts of money?? hmph!

keeping charity money is no good!!! not saying that the CEO should not have salary but pls be more reasonable! and i'm also quite disturbed that mrs goh said the $600,000 salary was "peanuts"!! do they know how much it can do to help the kidney patients?? i dun know much about how much the dialysis costs but i do know that $600,000 is A LOT A LOT OF MONEY!!

just now heard the radio, about 2,700 people have called NKF to stop their GIRO monthly pledged donation... somebody also drew graffiti on the wall... he or she wrote LIAR... in english and chinese...

i just feel it's so unfair. i always thot NKF was good. help kidney patients. couldn't understand why dad didn't make donations. now i know why.

2005-07-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

hello finally!
if you wanna read abt my trip to bangkok[and also why i didn't blog for so long]do go to
www.raindropsofspring.blogspot.com
and you'll see what i did!its real fun.

2005-06-21T21:58:00.000-07:00

so happy 2dae!! went 2 tampines mall and as my dad was driving around looking for parking lots, suddenly we spotted Mrs Chia!!!!! :D so excited! haven't seen her for a long long time. she was with her husband and 2 sons. then we quickly got out of the car and my mum started to talk to Mrs Chia! :) :) we walked to the food court where Mrs Chia and my mum continued chatting. (her husband and 2 sons went NTUC) i bought a bowl of beef guo tiao and sat down to eat, at the same time listening to the adults talk. hey u noe adults can really chat a lot, i mean no offence lah, communication is very important in our lives, especially when u see somebody whom u haven't met for a long time, it's automatic dat we'll try to xu xu jiu as much as we can; anyway as i was saying they chatted till i was finishing my bowl of guo tiao... dat long u noe... heh. and then Mrs Chia's elder son came looking for her, so she had to go... :( i tink it's a relief to noe dat Mrs Chia's okay, she looks radiant, thank God...

well i guess it's really a blessing to noe such a great teacher, hope we ex-6/oners get a chance to visit u during teacher's day!! (which is not really long, 2 months++)

jo ;)

2005-06-16T16:15:00.000-07:00

juz came back from church camp. my frez' one. very tired now...
but then it was really FUN u noe?!! :D

was a new experience for me cos my church's camps were all held in the church, so we needed to bring sleeping bags to sleep in, but for tis camp we slept in dormitories! have bunk beds+ bedsheets+aircon! cool huh? chao comfortable lor! 4day 3nite some more!

and we had games like captain's ball(where i played real rough... dats me lah, hope someday i can play more gentle... heh)... blah blah. also hav movie time! my favourite! we watched 'house of fury', a kung fu show. quite nice lah. some parts very funny. haha. there's also another thing which was fun!! BOOT CAMP!! yeah! we ran 12 rounds around the field, 40 push-ups, 40 lunges; after dat everybody smelled do 'fragrant'! very shuang rite? hehehe... plus we had worship, devotional time in groups and 2 people who shared their testimonies of how they overcame cancer. the name of tis camp was called CAMP SOS, which mainly teaches us the topic about 'suffering', why there is suffering, how we should respond to it...

all these activities will end at 12AM, no kidding! i didn't noe it would be so late. but anyway our wake-up time was at 8AM so i guess it's okay. on the last day i slept at 1.35AM cos me and 2 other frenz were playing SCRABBLE!! SCRABBLE rox! i was like practically playing everyday bcos one the campers had brought it and i tried to get ppl to play with me; not many wanted so sad... :( but then it was fun that early morning... when it was abt 1AM, and we were starting a new game, suddenly our vocabulary became more sophiscated, so funny u noe? everybody's brain somehow perked up or wat, we were like crazy or someting... haha. hilariously funny. some ppl were even madder, the lastest who slept was at 7AM, and still woke up at 8AM... wah dunno how they da han.

i hope i can go to more camps like tis in future... it's really so fun.

tata for now!
jo

(pls take note: tis post was actually written at 2:13 PM on 21 june 2005... hehx. dat day too lazy lah:))

2005-06-15T17:07:00.000-07:00

it is now 5.05pm.
i am going to bangkok.will reach...tonight!it is an incredibly short flight..3 hours...compared to flights to australia and new zealand.
am actually at the airport using the internet.its free!great.
will see all of you in 5 days!be back sunday.

lotsa love
tessa

2005-06-11T10:47:00.000-07:00

i deleted my previous post as i felt what i had written was really mean.
anyway star wars was sad.the ending was sad.the movie was nice though.
anakin completely made the wrong choice.
and we had a great fun time together.
when we were having lunch me and jess walked back and forth until we decided we wanted carrot cake.
ah, so ironic.and funny.
and we shared nachos and popcorn during the movie.
the cinema temperature was acceptable.jessica, my sister and joelle were cold though.
me,trish and jo weren't.at least,we didn't show it :D i dun know.
at the end of the movie all of us had a terrible urge to go to the toilet.we ran from the top storey to the third only to find that all the toilets were not in working condition.then we hurried to the mrt toilets.and whew.thank god the toilets were working.we were laughing away after that.
i am gonna do my homework right now or my mum will slaughter me.

lotsa love
tessa

it doesn't matter... :D

2005-06-09T10:22:00.000-07:00

aiyah u noe wat, i didn't even noe u changed the font, all look the same one lor!

yep i agree why so many problems arise when we "stressed-out" students wanna have fun and relax? why the cinema so not understanding one? it's ridiculous not having a movie time slot in the morning... bleh. :P people are free at different timings, shouldn't cinemas have movie time slots in the morning, afternoon and evening? but then can't blame them anyway... maybe they have some reasons or rules and regulations why movies are screened at particular times...

haiz... anyway hurray! 2mr hav movie session! looking 4ward to meet you guys!...

ttfn.
jo=)

2005-06-08T18:27:00.000-07:00

jolene: you are not so bad in short formed writing...like you said before..in fact i think you have improved...whether you think it's a good or bad thing is up to you.
in fact i have been writing proper language for some time...well...mostly proper.
we have some complications arising from the movie outing on friday,10th june.
WHY WHY WHY???
first of ALL the star wars show timings for friday are in the evening.which really sucks if you ask me...hello, it is the SCHOOL HOLIDAYS, for goodness sake...people like us wanna go out and have fun!
and secondly,as if having all the timings in the evening is not bad enough, daphne may not be able to join us if we change the outing into the evening.boo hoo.
why must things all go wrong when the great day is approaching?you tell me.
luckily, i told my dad and he said it is not possible for ALL the star wars show timings to be in the evening.he also said that he will check the timings for us.
jolene, i really hope there was something wrong with your eyes when you were checking the timings...please please please you be wrong.

tessa

Yep im a newbie!!!

2005-06-07T20:45:00.000-07:00

hey it really feels weird blogging for the first time in my whole life... this blog is a starter for me and maybe someday i will make a personal one too!! having conjoined blog is much convenient for me cos if i'm not free and can't update the blog, i know there's this somebody who would do the job... :D but dat doesn't mean i wouldn't come here often to update. juz to get the feel of it then i might make one soon... hopefully... but i doubt will be during this june... assignments and homework still piling up like a MOUNTAIN... haiz...

aniwaez...

THREE CHEERS FOR TESSA! this template is so sweet and cute dun u think? good choice.

hehe. well i'll stop here for now. gonna play runescape. heh. play first homework later. OOPs! the other way round lah... bye!

jo :)

New Blog..Again!!

2005-06-05T08:27:00.000-07:00

hiya!new blog again!
for me of course.
but for jolene, it is the first one!she's a newbie, a newbie she is.yep.
i have so many blogs.no wait, only 3 so far.there maybe more.
nice template?jo wanted a lotr one but i couldn't find one that suited my fancy...i found a galadriel one that was nice but when i asked my sis which one was nicer she said this one so i chose this one.

lotsa love
tessa