at some fish shop..

im attracted to the scales..


at animal resort..yesterday..

cutie little bunnies

and a puppy..


Countdown 06 to 07..

a few days before countdown..

candid..

it's Christmas Season !

yea..christmas season is here.. other counries are having snows ..but singapore..rain..wad a pity.. it has been raining for so many days.. just summarised wad happened from last week..

band camp:
1st day: water bomb fight in the heavy rain
2nd day: superband and watch 'mr holland opus'. had meiji strawberry milk.
3rd day: 'amazing' race at the zoo..meiji alumni came in 1st place. haunted hse preparation..and being the 'ghost'..
4th day: bought chocos for section(5 pple)..playing throughtout the night..slept at 5am..6.30 am woke up..
5th day: 1/4 awake..

stayed over at harold's hse on the eve of christmas' eve..

christmas day: walking around in town..from orchard>somerset>dobhy ghaut>bugis

hmm..haven update my blog for more than a week le..was kind of busy and lazy.. shall start from last monday..

4th dec: went along with the others for cchysb and fjsb music exchange.. get to know some of the fjsb trumpeters..

7th dec: trumpet section outing..initially, the activity was some paddling boat at some reservoir but was changed to cycling at east coast. however..bec of the rain..we went to escape theme park..had not been there for like 2 yrs..quite a no. new rides there.. and finally..i get to go for a ride in " Go-Kart ".. the first time i played..with no experience at all..i came in first while competing with syak,sheryl and zong yi.. a lucky feat..

9th dec: grandma's bdae..had dinner in a resturant in Carlton Hotel..i think its called ' wah lock ...restaurant' .. the 'cousin' table was very 'full' ... a table suitable for 10 seats..was like crammed for 13 pple..and yet..it was still not enough to hold all the cousins in one table..

mahjong brings about joy.

10th dec: a day-off for visiting my dad's side grandparents.. had nth to do at home..thus..instead of lazing around at home..i went to esplanade library alone to find some scores for reference.. i wanted to borrow "Arban, a conservatory method book for trumpet " ..but it was not available again..was just borrowed 2 days back..which was 8th dec..have to wait till 16 dec.. anyway..i photocopied some other scores from another method book..i cant just go back empty-handed right? ..

11th dec: went for band practice..but during the afternoon..i found myself shivering with cold..while my face and eyes were burning hot..felt so tired and dizzy..went straight home after band..upon reaching home..i reached for my thermometer..a measurement of 39 degrees..wow..tt's high.. went to the nearby clinic..waited like 2 hrs till it was my turn to see the doc..well..during those 2 hrs..my fever had subsided..got some medicine for sore inflamation..

12th dec: after a night sleep..my head still felt heavy..ocasionally with sudden pains in my head.. continued reading 'Eragon' though..my bro went to sentosa with the 'normally-hang-out cousins'.. at 4pm sharp..yishun was facing a thunderstorm..a sudden huge surge of lightning struck across the sky...(and my window).. a blackout occured.. 2nd time this month.. went to the storeroom and did some adjustments..everything was back to normal then.. 7pm..went out to buy dinner for my mum and myself..while walking..i noticed a rainbow across the sky..was very beautiful..i kept admiring it.. focusing on how the 7 colours blended naturally to form 3 obvious ones...

a rainbow across the sky brightens up my day

out with cousins..

ok..finally i got 1 day to go out with my cousins...was really busy during my prelims and o levels period..yet they can all go out and play during tt time..a ha..but not now !! im more free than them now..so free tt im gg to become a statue..

ok..lets back to wad the main topic was.. met up with my bro..den with harold..lolx..were supposed to meet harold at the first cabin of the mrt..and he said at the FRONTEST part..yet..he dunno waited at where..well its in the first cabin..but the back of the 1st cabin..dotz..we were in different frequency then..as a result..we missed 2 trains at 2 stations..and were later for abt 30 min..nvm..dun think cheryl wld mind..

we really had no idea where to shop first..since its like..so boring..we got nth in mind to buy actually..we decided to go to suntec..as tt's where we had not gone for a long long time..quite a old place bah..we used to go there when we were very young..primary 3/ 4 ..i think..we also went to MW to get some candies from Candy Empire..i bought again 2 'chocolate-coated marshmallow'..nice and cheap.. $ 1.00 for 1 roll..abt 10 cm long and diameter of 2 cm..

esplanade..taken from a view from marina sq

next stop..we reached esplanade.i suggested to go to the library..as i wanna check out some music stuffs..before gg to the library..we were at ' Mrs. Fields ' and bought some ' semi-sweet cookies'.. $ 1.80 each... share it with my bro.. its sweet and..u get the kind of feeling after eating some honey..i dunno wad's the word to describe..its " intangible" ..dotz..

spent like 2 hrs in the library... its so cold in there..the air-con there is damn power..but..its just too cold.. i dun like it.. :P .. borrowed 2 cds..both for trumpets.. oh yar..i forgot..while borrowing the cds..i was rather shocked by the borrowing-machine. after inserting my ID card..it said ' You have outstanding fees ...' and i quickly went to check out how much i owed such that i have accumulate an " outstanding" record. and u know wad?? it turned out to be just $0.60..diao..i was expecting like $10 plus or smth..

the stuffs i borrowed
had dinner at Marina Sq food court.. the stall i queued up sells some mini wok..and..i find it rather amusing and irritated by the cashier.. when i was waiting for the food to be served.. he kept saying, " no worry, food no good.can refund.no worry." and he kept repeating it..well in both mandarin and english.. but..their food is really gd..and also can be seen by the rather long queue of pple... no wonder tt guy was so confident.. " no worry.food no gd.can refund." lolx..

our very own concoction: Curry Chicken Claypot Rice.

(it's not really safe to eat.we mixed some fish soup, scrapped-burnt-rice from the claypot, chicken bones and ribena.)

walking back home

my mind just cant put you aside

hi...my friend, jian kai, just sent me some cool video links..its really impressive.. i myself wld prefer the 1st option( its abt someone playing both the drums and the piano ' professionally well')
..try to watch both of them when u are like me..rotting at home..dying of boredom..lolx..

1) http://www.break.com/index/stop_motion_piano_and_drums.html
2) http://www.break.com/index/crazy_taxi.html

graduation..

yesterday was our big day...just like what mrs sim said... its the our graduation day..and since its OUR day...we have to commit oursleves wholeheartedly in everything we do on this special occassion... and this day..was my first time to see the whole sch(sec 4s) singing the sch song so passionately and clear...really touching..i guess...many of our sch mates cried.. and some hugged each other... its was a touching sight for me... but i didnt cry..it was almost only..

CCHY rocks!!

i hugged ms ang 2 times i think..lolx..

having steamboat after graduation ceremony...

class 4H..taken on the last day of mock-exam period..

haha...dunno why they have this 'sudden' inspiration to take photos in the toilet..but..nice experience though..yea.. =)

i like this shop...too bad im not the owner of it..

a huge size of toblerone..i cant even fit the height of it into my mouth..

king-size kit-kat mint crisp..bought one of these..hmm..yum yum..delicious..

Cousin's wedding

ok...yesterday was the chinese paper 2 prelim exam...very boring..seeing tt most of the pple from my class not retaking...im sort of distracted..haha.. however...doing the CL paper 2 for 1 & half hr, time seems to pass very quickly.. most of those retaking the paper finished it in 1 hr..but not me..i fully used up the time.. lolz...

yeea!! gg to attend my cousin's wedding dinner tonight..which means i can relax and chat with my other cousins..whom which we seldom met up..except on special occassion such as ah gong ah ma bdae... :)

so..yea.. had a great time at the wedding dinner...chatting with my cousins happily.. which was the first time i managed to chat and laugh so much with them...last time wasnt like this..perhaps it was because of my 'shy' character... diao... but its true... i had a cousin(Cherie) same age as me..which means she's also taking her 'O' levels this yr... so..haha..before the dinner start...we discussed abt school subjects and stress..blah blah blah...

the feast started at 8.30... and i was so hungry.. keep eating the roasted nuts and drinking my orange juice to keep my mouth busy...haha... and at the same time taking photos...lolx..i guessed we were the 'vainpots' or 'stars' there...lolz... we took photos..other people looked at first..quite paiseh.. haha..perhaps the 'photogenic and always-take-photos' genes were in our blood..cant help it... see a camera..we posed.. lolz...

during the dinner..cherie did quite a number of silly stuffs:

1. she was eating some nuts( which my dad brought)..and she couldnt finish..becos of those oily stuffs and pimples..so she decided to put them ' aside' .. and was caught red-handed by my dad..lolz..she was so paiseh..and my dad was standing beside me for some time...den cherie didnt dare to look at my dad...lolz..
2. she dared us to raise up our hands high into the air for 5s..lame...
   

Yam paste with almond..a Teochew and must-eat delicacy...the last dish of the night..

..all the couz..with the groom & bride..

erm...so far i only have these few photos...ok..there's still more to come...

oh...haha...finally visit my own blog..well...now's the prelim period..very busy studying... study till want to faint.. T_T ... the amaths paper 1 was hard...ss didnt finish 2 qns...how?!?! omg..my results would be devastating!!! ..how to sit for O level for this kind of standard??

been listening to Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest soundtrack...haha..i kept listening it over and over again... very nice.. tml 's the elective georaphy and a.maths...must remember to bring 'string'...well..tt's all i've got to say... :)

a week of sch..

well..its been a week since i have not even visited my own blog..lolz...been very busy lately...becos of the prelims...( science prac..) well...i suppose i did fairly well for my chem prac...HAHA.. my properties..

on wednesday...zy,sd,jr and fazli all came to my hse..which i dun really want them to come...dotx.. but in the end..we all played monopoly( Worldcup 1998 version) ...lolx...its a crazy game!!.. all the properties were bought...and anywhere u go..u will have to pay $$ to others...tt's so 'dangerous'..thus..the best way is to go to jail.. squat in there..waiting for ur 3 missed turns to finish...watching the others paying u $$... tt's so cunning.. so lame.. anyway..we still dun know who's the winner... i was like losing alot of $$ actually..so too bad.. :P
..all in jail..
friday...during mdn sue's class..she tested me on some S.S contents..lucky i got it correct..just happened to flip thru the page before she tested me...lolx..and now she know my name..im worried tt she's gonna test me everynow and then of her lessons... :( haiz...

anyway...ms ang was very kind and generous...she gave the whole class Mid-Autumn festival presents...dotx... the gift included some sweets, souvenirs from Thailand, a lantern...and a note from her on each indivduals... haha.. my purple elephant...some pple wanted to trade with me...i said ' NO!'

ms ang's note for me..yea!!

anyway..yesterday night just watched " Hokkien Bond" in youtube..haha..very funny..i guessed some of u have watched it liao... its only abt 3 min..so.. go view it...take a break...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFPDJb_APLE

TKWO workshop

hmm.. today was the immediate workshop for trumpet...and other instruments: clar and trombone.. i think today was the earliest day i woke up throughout this sept. holidays..lolx..the rest were like..erm...10 to 11 am plus...

reached ACSI..and omg..their sch is damn big..more like a office building to me...esp the insides...the carparks..the structures...

we were registering our names in the sch..when jason found tt there's error in his participating details..he claimed tt he was participating for the immediate lesson only..which the error was for advanced(observer)...then..he suddenly remembered tt he signed wrongly on the edusave form given to all of us..lolx.. he made us all rather worried..due to his CARELESSNESS!!

next...we were in the lecture theatre..waiting for the instructor, Ms Mamiko Ando..trumpeter of TKWO. the no, of participants turn out to be very much less than i expected...because..before the application form was ready...we had already decided and informed our teacher..for applying the workshops for us... Ms Mamiko arrived...and we all remained silent..well..throughout the whole thing..hardly any pple were chatting away...

Ms Mamiko's playing is superb..impressive...her warm-out exercises were crazy enough..fast and a wide range of low and high notes... then... she introduced to us when she started playing the trumpet..and how she was impressed by a trumpet playing...from the song " Olympic Celebration "( i forgot wad's the tittle..)....omg..she was super loud... goose pimples were felt by nerves of my arms and face...

well..though the workshop was gd..but..there was 1 thing tt spoiled my mood...u see...4 pple were late for the workshop..and when Ms Mamiko was conducting the lecture.. they just walked into the lecture room as if nth happened..then..when Ms Mamiko gave us a break of 10 mins while she went out ...these 4 pple went out of the theatre and played their instruments... then..when Ms Mamiko returned to the theatre...and the break had ended...those 4 pple were still outside playing their instruments!! somemore.. Ms Mamiko had to personally go out of the theatre and ask them to come back in...this is truly ATROCIOUS!! dont they have any respect for Ms Mamiko?! plus..Ms Mamiko is from TKWO...all the more we shld respect her..she's trying to be as humble as she can..i can see that...because she did told us of some of her difficulties in playing trumpet...

there's too much for me to blog everything i learned from this workshop..they all need understanding..so..yea..i understand can liao...haha...at the end of the workshop..Ms Mamiko played a small piece for us..a concerto...but i didnt hear clearly wad the tittle was...gonna check it out 'soon'...i actually wanted to take a photo with Ms Mamiko..but she left in a hurry..so..haix.. so sad... :(

after which...me,zy,jason and jr all went to jurong to have lunch..jr 's having the advanced workshop..so he left for it first..while the rest of us went to IMM...wanted to go to Band World..never been there before...but..mr toh was not in..and their shop was closed..though we knew tt the staff were in the warehouse..we walked past it...but none of us have the 'courage' to enter...

thus..we spent the time in wandering in IMM..with our heavy instruments..my hands were sore from it...the arms were like jelly..no strength at all...

had my dinner with my dad and bro...went popular bookshop..saw ferran..he just had a basketball competition...den...blah blah blah...nth interesting happened afterwards..except tt i realised how much hw i had not completed...sianz..tml den do..gg play harvest moon now...

a special teacher's day (2)

after our school's celebration...i was supposed to take my t.pet home...cos having a course next week :)...it was troublesome to take a trumpet along and rushed back to our primary sch...and we were so damn late... we were supposed to meet the others at 12pm..and reached there at 2pm.. omg...


we reached the sch and met up with our pri sch friends.. can recognise most of them...and we stayed in the concourse to chat, exchange no.s...figuring out who the other person is...and take photos!! and we hadn't even look for our form teacher ( we were all in class 5B)... it was like after half an hr then we went to find her... luckily we saw her...she was about to leave the sch to attend Prime Minster's rally....wow!!

yea!! she remembered me..cos i was her star student..lolx..just kidding.. :)
and some of the others lar... but we didnt talk much...she was in a rush..so ..haha..take photos with her...

class 5B of 2001...with Mrs Loo

after saying " Gd Bye" to her..we stayed in the sch...playing ' Vampire' !! a sort of catching..but more challenging..haha..yea..some pple said its childish...but its better to play the game now..than playing it 10 yrs later...lolx... and it was our childhood game... we played in the concourse...but was kenna caught by the OM...sianz.. but we continued right after he went away...lolx..played in the canteen...

it was a huge lot of us playing..abt 10...and there were also some pri sch kids there...we continued to play..but was stopped after a while...and this time..was not by the OM... but 1 of the kids just happened to bump onto my friend...the kid fell..and the back of his head bleed.. everyone was so worried...the kid probably had a cut on his head... :( the kid was sent to the general office..and we followed and waited outside... my friend who knocked onto the kid went in to check things out..while we waited outside...then...another friend went in...
it was like..erm...why he went in too...?? then..again...another 2 pple went in too...lolx...the rest of us were think tt perhaps all of us wld be inside the office too... lolx... anyway...the kid was brave..he didnt cried..but was sent to a nearby clinic..one of the teachers said tt he probably need stitchies.. omg.... everyone was just hoping tt the kid wld be fine...

waiting outside the general office
after the 'accident'..the guy who knocked him..came out from the office..said enthusiastically:' Let's continue with our game!!'.........lolx..we were like ..-_- ... but he was just joking anyway...haha..

we decided to go to North point...we stayed at BK for lunch..which was at 4pm...lolx...and we stayed there to chat..keep up with each other... our "big" grp was separated into 3.. lolx..and from wad john and eleanor were talking..pres high was indeed very 'happening'...so many weird stuffs to talk of...haha....

our grp was the last to leave..stayed there until 7.30..and my neck was aching while talking to others...my butt suffered as well...seating there for 3 and a half hrs straight.. lolx..well...hope to have another gathering after o levels...

a special teacher's day (1)

wow...this year's celebration was very different from others...let's just start from what happened on this day...

morning: it was raining cats and dogs early in the morning(haha..just some ' complex' phrases...maybe more use of them can improve my english)... i was drenched to the skin when i reached school..what a day...the rain just dampened everyone's moods...a day to appreciate what the teachers had done for us..( well...we shld be appreciating them every now and then)... my class t-shirts were ready and distributed to everyone in the class..and to the teachers who taught our class...well...their shirts were free...they were the presents from my class...it was quite ex ..but they are worth the $$..and better presents than other presents such as " pens" and etc.etc... as if the teachers are always running out of pens to mark our works...
the other cake was gone in a few minutes

well...it was really nice tt those teachers who had our shirts wore them for the day...haha.. they sure care for us...EVEN mdn sue is wearing our shirt..even though she used to refer us as arrogrant people..lolx..and teachers were thanking us for the shirts a no. of times..haha..and there was...of course..our lovely form teacher..Ms Ang!! lolx... some of the classmates baked 2 cakes..for her, which became the food for the class... and i..of course...stayed in class to have some share of the cakes..even it was during recess...lolx..well...it was the photos i wanted to take actually..lolx...

....ms ang.....
well...the last bit of our day in school..is both gd and bad..haha..the different thing abt this yr celebration is tt the concert was very long...abt 2 hrs i think...some items were entertaining...and of course.some not... and btw...we had to rush back to our primary sch and meet up with primary sch friends.. the concert was eating up our time... and to be rushed by primary sch friends is of course..not a nice moment...