where do I go.

title: Diving trials + FAM!
date: Friday, November 20, 2009
time:8:58 PM

Trials were pretty good, despite the pouring rain, thunder, and lightning. I miraculously dived better than usual so maybe I shouldn't have gotten into the team, since those weren't my usual dives. I'm still unconvinced about doing well when there's so much pressure or stake at hand because I'd normally crack under pressure.

Mmhm. Can't wait for Penang, although it's going to be wayyyy scarier than Macau for a whole lot of reasons. EMILY LOH HUI YI you better go too ): I like team outings, especially when they're overseas yay :D Except that this time we're going with the rest, and I wonder what it's going to be like with their parents and all tsk.

Farewell Alma Mater (FAM!) last night was pretty fun (: The theme Viva Las Vegas was kind of forgotten, as expected. Food was okay, performances were slightly disappointing other than Trisha's one (!!!) and Brenda (Miss FAM!)'s teh tarik-pouring performance.

Trisha made the entire audience feel like DYING HAHAHAHAHA. Yunrui and I were honestly about to die from laughing so hard and I think everyone else felt the same way too! We were cringing, laughing, and practically crying from watching her dance on stage like that HAHAHAHAHA. Priceless, seriously :D

Brenda's teh tarik one was COOL. She basically poured teh tarik here and there and poured from one cup to another with her arms around a teacher, and then she poured while turning in rounds haha! Extremely entertaining :D I still thought Trisha's was the funniest but okay they all deserve to win but there can only be one winner! Trisha won Miss Personality though!

Photo-taking/camwhoring was crazy. EVERYONE was EVERYWHERE taking photos with ANYONE they could see, and the whole place was an utter chaos once the photo-taking frenzy began.

Might have been a result of 2 trainings a day (or maybe because of my cough), but I felt really lethargic and just plain horrible in my dress so I didn't really get into the mood of taking photos. There are probably quite a lot on facebook though, although half of them I didn't feel like posing for. I was so, so tired and my feet were killing me.

This is why I hate heels. I need them, but I hate them. I don't know how high my heels were (maybe 4 or 5 inch at most) but every step I took felt like a stab in the heart D: Plain torture I put myself through man.

Training today was alright. I don't like diving off 1m but it feels quite slack compared to diving off 3m so I guess it's okay.

Tim was damn retarded though. I think his dumb-ness has no limits. We somehow tricked him into taking off his shirt on the 10m platform and posing there LIKE A MODEL FOR ORLA TO SEE HAHAHAHAH.

"Eh who wants my black cookie? I don't really like this one."
"Huh then why did you choose it?"

"Because I didn't like the other flavours."

"So why didn't you take 2 chocolate chip cookies then?"

"..oh."

FTW.

Can't imagine life without the diving team now, actually!

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title: TOMORROW.
date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
time:9:34 PM

YOG DIVING SELECTION TRIALS TOMORROW.

I need a score of 155 for 6 dives, and in yesterday's training I did 170. Which technically means that I should be able to make 155 except that I become a nervous wreck under a great amount of pressure.

155 COME ON.

Wish me luckkkk.

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title: -
date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
time:9:30 PM

I SRSLY THINK I'M BIPOLAR.

But speaking of mental disorders, Angie's msn PM is so cute. "I may be schizophrenic but at least we have each other" HAHAHA.

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title: fly me to the moon
date:
time:8:03 PM

Tomorrow's gonna be crazy. "Crazy" here may be good, but it can also turn out really badly. I'm still trying to stay optimistic about it though.

Well House of Horror - 7 Sins of RGS (i.e. Haunted House) was brilliant! (: I think we (406) did a great job of scaring people, including THE P, VP, and many other teachers.

Training sucked though, big time. Sigh why do I only get good trainings once a month or something. But Orla's going all hardcore, making us train twice a day during the holidays in preparation for trials + Penang comp. I still don't think I'll make the 155 mark for the YOG team but we'll see.

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title: YEAH.
date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
time:9:34 PM

I AM HAPPY :D

Today has been a great day. Other than the fact that Chinese O's were alkajkdhfsh, everything else was awesome (:

I finally bought my prom dress! Thanks to Fuxin, who clearly has an eye for pretty dresses hidden in corners of shops, specifically, Bebe. But then I heard that a lot of people bought their dresses from Bebe and that's.. kind of a bad thing. WHAT IF I TURN UP IN THE SAME THING AS SOMEONE ELSE HONOES.

This is one time when it's easier being a guy, because they all look the same in their shirt + pants + tie anyway so there's nothing to worry about.

So yes, I bought my dress at long last yaaaay. It didn't look very nice on the hanger but we all know pretty dresses never look good on hangers anyway. It's a dirty shade of (un-shiny) silver with a very very faint tinge of golden glitter, and it's a halter. So if you haven't bought your dress, DON'T BUY THIS ONE or if you know anyone who has something like this from Bebe as well TELL MEEE D:

Then we had the Pascoe Vale Jazz music workshop! I don't think we're learning Jazz exactly, the song we're performing sounds more.. aborigine-ish? Tribal-like. It was really cool and fun learning under the tutelage of these professionals who flew down from Australia though :D Our singing instructor is this superrr amazing lady who has her own wikipedia page apparently!

Look out for our performance on Friday morning at the amphitheatreee (:

And training was great. This is the first training since Thursday's training in Macau (that was ages ago) that I'm actually doing good dives. 103B and 401B weren't too good but other than that everything was fine, for once in a long time!

Happy happy happy :D

Oh oh and the cherry on top of my cupcake was the fact that Mr Xu TYPOED the document he sent to us - the jazz music class is NOT from 1.30 - 6pm; today's lesson started at 3.30, and tomorrow's lesson's from 10-1pm ((((:

Which means it won't clash with training, and that's good because I'll probably miss Friday's training. And maybe even Sunday too.

YAY HAPPY.

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title: CHINESE.
date: Monday, November 09, 2009
time:10:17 PM

TOMORROW IS THE DAY.

4 hours of Chinese, ftw.

Ignore the previous post, I just had to ramble a little after realising what I got myself into unknowingly sighhh.

May God be with me tomorrow, and may the inner Chinese genius within me show through D:

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title: GAH.
date: Sunday, November 08, 2009
time:11:49 PM

SIGH.

I need a teleporter. Or I need to learn to split myself into two (or more, depending).

Let's see. There's the Pascoe Vale Jazz Music workshop as part of MEP and Arts Fest that I have to attend, and it'll be held on Tuesday and Wednesday from 1.30 to 6pm. The performance is on Friday morning.

But guess what! I also have training from 3-7pm everyday! And YOG selection trials are on the 18th!

And guess what again! I have to facil the L9/Con3 church camp on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

Which means I'll be missing A LOT of training.

OH OH OH ANDDD there's the class chalet on the 17th! But trials are on the 18th remember! And prom's on the 19th!

ARGH.

On top of all that, I need to find a prom dress, shoes, accessories, AND practise all the 12 songs for the darn camp.

I am truly, thoroughly, screwed.

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title: make you feel my love
date: Friday, November 06, 2009
time:10:42 PM

..I don't know what we were doing hahahaha.

Farewell Assembly today was a mixture of emotions.

Although I missed three quarters of it (and am feeling really bad about it now), the last segment of the graduation assembly was pretty emotional for many of us ):

I didn't think I would cry until one by one people around me started crying and a person crying usually creates a chain reaction ): It didn't help that we were singing songs like Dedication, our batch's graduation song Keep On Walking, Vitamin C's Graduation, and of course our own school song.

Singing the school song was so difficult because we kept stopping to choke down tears ): Graduation on the other hand was less difficult because we gave up trying to control the water works.

Sighhh we may find RGS horribly annoying, we may complain about some teachers there, we may dislike many fellow students, but at the end of the day we're ultimately RGS girls at heart, Rafflesians, and the most awesome school in Singapore (:

I don't want to graduate ):

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title: when disappointment sets in
date:
time:1:35 AM

Sigh.

I think I have bipolar disorder or something D:

It seems like post-eoys are even more stressful than the exam period itself, because there are a hundred and one things I need to do and don't want to do. And even after Chinese O's the stress meter isn't going down because there'll be more and more things to do RARGH.

I'm starting to question why I volunteered to be a camp facilitator. I'm facilitating a camp for sec 3 kids I don't know and who will probably make things difficult for the facils, and on top of that there's a whole list of P&W songs that I need to learn in a week's time or something. AND I'll have to skip trainings for the camp. The only reason why I'm not throwing in the towel yet is because I'm reminding myself that I'm doing all this for God, and not for myself.

Sometimes people underestimate me, but sometimes people overestimate me as well and I can't decide which is worse.

Diving trainings are taking up most of my time, and I don't understand why people stereotype IP programme students as slackers with lots of time on their hands. Just because we don't take O levels does not mean that we're extremely free, or that everything falls into place for us easily and we go straight to RJC without having to work hard.

Granted, it is easier for us to get into RJ since we don't have to fight for a place there, but other than that we have to work just as hard, if not harder.

It's really unfair to assume that all we do is have fun while everyone studies for O's, and that we're getting into RJ only because we did well in PSLE or whatever.

And I can't believe that some teachers from RG think like that too.

Sigh.

In other news, Rafflesian Spotlight was pretty cool! I particularly enjoyed the comedy segment.

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title: just one night with you
date: Thursday, November 05, 2009
time:3:06 PM

The irony of the world is to be marveled at.

Thaaank you for the lovely surprise it kept making me smile (:

♥

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title: just maybe
date: Wednesday, November 04, 2009
time:10:51 PM

Sighhhh.

JC subjects seem so different/difficult ): The deadline for us to choose our subject combis is 16 Nov, which means that I'll have to make a decision in less than 2 weeks.

As of now, I know I'm definitely taking Math. I'm probably taking Chem too, since the syllabus is what we've already covered this year x 10 in depth maybe and I quite liked this year's topics (organic chem!).

So as of now: Math and Chem.

My next 2 choices will come from the following: History, ELL, Econs, Physics, and Bio. Probably not the last two subjects, but it's a tough fight between History, ELL, and Econs ):

Howwww.

Training hasn't been all that great lately, although we seem to like amusing ourselves hahaha. And I did back 1 1/2 on my own without Orla's call today! :D But other than that, my dives aren't improving much sigh.

Okay time to get started on history options film review. And Chinese.

Chinese, sigh. Bane of my existence, really.

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title: you're like a label in my shirt
date: Sunday, November 01, 2009
time:11:46 PM

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I am so, so tempted to cut my hair. Short. Not shoulder-length short, but like SHORT SHORT. Like a pixie-cropped-short short.

Everyone says I'll look nice with short hair cause my face isn't square/round (both face structures aren't suitable for short hair) but it's too close to prom and I'll die if the haircut turns out badly. There'll be a million photos of me on facebook after prom and if I'm sporting some horrible butch-like haircut..

Hm maybe after prom.

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Facils meeting in church today was pretty good although I could only stay for an hour or so. I think the best part of the meeting was Joel offering me MINI APPLE CRUMBLE FROM DINO :D

And this is why I'll never be anorexic; I love food way too much to give all of it up to be thin.

Training was GOOD for a change. Conditioning wasn't as torturous as usual other than the fact that we had to do handstand walks on burning concrete ground, which resulted in a tiny blister on my right pinky finger.

Last training we practised our dives for the YOG selection trials, so we did our Penang competition dives today. There wasn't enough time to finish all 9 dives so I only got 5 out of the 9 done. I think I did pretty well (better than usual) today yay (:

And poor Tim splatted on double somers 3 times in a row today HAHAHA. I think he was having a bad day/training, which started off when we stretched his sit-and-reach pike shape. We're a bunch of sadistic kids HAHAHA. So fun to see his face contort in pain :D

Anyway.

9 days to Chinese O's,

17 days to YOG selection trials,

18 days to Prom.

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