Saturday, September 25, 2004
had eng oral today... haha overslept... mom woke me up and fell back to slp... 2nd time this week... tired... met in art rm got split up... got ms fiona tan as my examiner... not too bad... we were outside forming alliances... so funny... and yuan hao was doing a pic. description in chi while jeraldine translated... so funny when she translated the shu yus and cheng yus... while waiting for announcement we were crapping away... everyone in the grp except for stephen didn't have to take chi oral... coz we are hcl peeps... so stephen asked yuan hao to help him... jeraldine rd the qn out and yuan hao started giving a super chim ans... we were like... ohman! than the conversation was bout val. day... we all burst out laughing... damn funny... they were saying yuan hao had no past experience... ok... so we got realease while the rest had to go for chi oral... *awwwwww* went to jec with nabi and bize to meet ashley... ate kfc while waiting for library to open... met grace and sam... they tagged along... waited outside lobrary... ppl started gathering and they were like standing sooooooo close to the door... nearly pressing on it... we were like ok... than we went into the cafe and waited... when the doors opened... me and bize almost died laughing... my gdness... seriously! ok... the moment the doors opened... everyone ran in... i was like shocked lar... never seen anything like it before... although nabi was telling us that it was the same at woodlands library... than i started to think it was funny... bize too... so when ashley and nabi were rushing for seats grace, me sam and bize were taking our time... with me and bize laughing our heads off... than this man went running towards the seats and he knocked this book off, and he juz ran off without picking it up... grace and sam were like speechless... than sam started saying that they sld go back to their own countries... started doing hw, emaths graphs... gana the 10 graphs coz i didn't bring emaths file... argh! got told off by guard for studying... double argh! matthew, nat, rj and linus came... sam and grace left with thm to watch dodge ball... joined ashley and bize studied chi... i think we have adapted ourselves to study in jurong east library... after that incident we didn't get caught... they were mean enough to make me the look out... so everytime i spotted the guard we wld use huge reference books to cover our stuff... had a close brush, the guard was juz at the table behind us... left bout 4.30 to go bowling... bowling alley crowded so we went to play swing... so lame... went in despite being overaged... we were kinda worried the guard wld come and scold us... bize and ashley did encounter the guard... imagine... monday... "will the 4 fairsians playing on the swings at chevrons see me" went to imm bought that lame ice cream where the ice cream man plays tricks on ppl... ashley got fooled horribly... haha... 1st the man gave hime the cone with a pathetic bit of ice cream... than removed it than he gave him the cone agn and removed the ice cream... than he took the entire chunk of vanilla ice cream from the tub and attempted to put it on the cone... there was this guy watching who went "OH MY GDNESS!!!" for nabi... the guy gave her 2 cones and she didn't know... than when she took it the man pulled the cone out of her hand... for me... haha... was lucky... i only had 1 trick played on me... he stuck an extra bit of ice cream and pulled the entire cone away... ashley became some laughing stock.. haha... than went to jec to meet hamidah coz nabi needed to pass her something... went home and watched xi yuan lu... than yi tian tu long ji... taped it... now im here typing this entry... haha
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8:37 AM
Saturday, September 11, 2004
whee! happy birthday to me!! woke up bout 9+? dunno lar... went out for lunch at swensons with my mom got a 1kg cookies and cream ice cream cake... yum! than went to meet nabi, chari and looloo and cityhall... was early... so took the train to lavender and back... kinda spastic... haha.... than waited for them... was hiding in a corner so they didn't see me... ended up waiting 50 mins for thm... all coz we cldn't see each other... haiz... only 1 person called me at 12 midnight... last yr 2 ppl called... haiz... actually 3 ppl wished me ard 12 last yr... can't expect cal to wish me coz she had drill com the next day... watched anacondas... went in after the movie had started for 3mins... lesson learnt: dun sit beside chari when watching horror or suspense or whatever... she grabbed my hand till damn tight... pain u know! the show was quite nice lar... no other show to watch liao... haha... than we walked ard talking crap... went to commonwealth to meet cal... actually suppose to meet her at bouna but she overshot... went to marche... that girl complained that the queue was too long and she was hungry... called mom to ask for recommendations... went to crown prince hotel... but the place she rec. wasn't there... so ended up eating at hotel phoenix... quite k lar... had jap. buffet... cal was forcing sushi down my throat... the ice cream was nice... haha... the stupid service charge was damn ex... without the +++ it wld be ard $60... but after adding service charge and gst... it became about $70... rip off... treated cal... so romantic... only me and calista... ok... snds so lesbian... went to heeren bout 9+ to take neoprints... left heeren bout 10+ reached home bout 11+ cut cake! wheeee!! pig out on more ice cream... haha... over dose of ice cream... its been a long day... haha... but i prefer being 14...
let it snow
7:49 AM
Friday, September 10, 2004
hm... have been thinking about this... yup and i have com up with a list of things im afraid of... here goes... things isabel is afraid of [in random order]
1. spiders (fine with the small ones... its the huge ones... eeeeeee!]
2. insects
3. lizards
4. the dark
5. being alone
6. playing solo
7. pain
8. rejection
9. heights
thats bout it... will cont. to think bout what really freaks me out... don't use those fears to bully me...
let it snow
10:02 AM
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
had band today... sia came... so sian... we spent almost the whole of band prac. going through the 1st movement of singapura suite... shucks... was like so sick and tired... than she tested us, sooooooo scary... heart was beating SUPER fast... as if it wld juz pop out any moment... had to take deep breaths to calm myself down... played... and screwed it up... band prac. finally ended... was so sian today... played all those lame games in the store with a bunch of friends... played concentraion, wheres the peanut, multiple of 3 game and all those games like fuzzy wuzzy... bize is sooo lame! he developed a new clap... called the bra clap... sicko! can ask him to demo... ew! after that we went to clementi macdonalds for lunch... the whole hoohaa of scratching cards... cont. playeding fuzzy wuzzy and bize took a long time to guess it... than we played johnny whoops... gavin was super funny... he kept getting it wrong... than we started telling stupid jokes... sirong looked kinda diaoded... haha... than we all left... went to westmall to photocopy scores for the stupid saxophone section... 30 pieces of paper in all... $3... ex... and i got a paper cut... *pain*... anyone knows of an excessible place with reasonable photocopying rates?
let it snow
9:50 AM
Monday, September 06, 2004
last day of nyaa... we played this lame game called tarzan, gorilla, jane... haha... my grp won... yay! than it was breakfast... after that we packed up... many of us gathered earlier coz we had alot of time... started playing concentration game, the multiple of 3 game, and singing the peanut song... haha... came up with some super lame story and ppl kept repeating... -_-... had our final debrief... the instructer once agn commented on my reaction to the spider... they were saying bout some taking part in competition and putting a spider behind me... -_-... he actually sd something that meant something to me... ok... snds so corny... he sd i outshined myself... i dunno... but its sorta an interesting experience being leader... never had such an experience before... argh... we gotta buy a compass for thm... coz we lost 1 of the compasses... got ice cream! whee! but didn't eat... coped sl's... went onto the bus everone was dead... haha... no one in the mood of playing stupid games... finally got back to spore... gave the peel of the fruit to the instructer as a present... but he didn't take it... lol... so lame... sat ard with nabi... i kept complaining that i didn't want to go home... ended up taking bus to clementi than taking cab home... easier to get cab at clementi lar... me and nabi had this crazy idea to watch movie... quite mad... when ppl come back from camp... they slp... haven't heard of anyone watching movie... ate lunch, unpacked... lazed ard... fnd out that i was gonna be late... reached 5 mins late... haha... went to jp to watch cinderella story... too lazy to change... was in my stupid pe shirt... saw 2 of my seniors there... the show was super nice!!! dun mind watching it agn... yup... super touching story... almost cried... but so far there hasn't been a movie that has made me cry... will fairy tales come true? so sweet...
let it snow
9:37 AM
Sunday, September 05, 2004
woke up bout 6.30? was super tired... had a fitful slp... dunno how the rest can slp so well... didn't dare face a certain side coz i was scared... haha... lame... brush teeth, wash face... blah blah... went out assembled... breakfast... than it was activities... we did this thingy called sherwood forest... a series of obstacles... 1st, we swung across this pool of gross water with a rope.. got splashed by the water twice... haha... the water went into bize's mouth... than we climbed this thing called the suicide window... u have to climb this rope and get across... was stuck at the top... scared of heights... haha... managed to get down... than we went to this suspended rope bridge... they very bad... make grp leader go 1st... everyone managed to get across.. yay! than it was this log suspended by chains across a stream... the log cld move... so 2 ppl held the chains while we crossed in line form... held hands for support and duck walked across a few at a time? haha... after that was this thingy with suspended tyres and u were supposed to use those tyres to get across... wasn't sure how to go about it... was super tiring... got impatient and ended up almost falling in... ended up swinging in the tyre as if it was a swing... haha... somehow managed to climb up and got across... than it was that no man's land thingy... a series of 11 obstacles? was fun... started out with postman walk... didn't do that before coz i was confined in the tcher's rm while the class was doing that at kota tingi... coz of my leg... was fun.. haha... was looking at the fishies in the water before starting... than it was this wall thing... we used the electric fence method... zr and syang lifted us up jiayi stayed at the top to hlp us... danial went over 1st than me... and i went down the wrong way and the instructer was like... "don't go down like that!!!" slid of the wall without any injury thx to instructor and daniel... the rest of the grp came and most of the gals almost got off the wall in the wrong way... than it was this suspended bridge with no handles over the water... majority crawled over... a few of us stood up and walked ard the end... jiayi and zr walked... cool... jiayi stepped on and fell... came out with his pockets sticking out... haha... but he still crossed it properly... we went on to this monkey bar... had to use it to cross to the other island... we were all like... ohno! haven't monkey bared for sooo long... sure die... went on... felt as if i was bout to slip when i was in the middle... sped up... reached without falling in... poor sl... missed the rung and fell in... went on to the next... not very sure what it was... remebered the cabbage, goat, fox and farmer thingy... haha... coz there wasn't enough time so the game was off... we were ferried batch by batch across... haha... than it was this net thing where we had to slide across on our butts... stupid shorts... sldn't have worn that pair... argh... the instructer was torturing us... shaking the net... he sd to teow..."say im handsome"... and he started shaking the net... than teow was like "ok ok! u are handsome!" he tried to make me do the action to some stupid thing but i kept shouting "no"... haha! i win!... ok.. whatever... we moved on to this line of stumps sticking out, but we were told we had to cross by going into the water coz it was dangerous... one of the instructers fell in and got something pierced through his body... ouch! than it was the obstacle that we were all saying get prepared to swim over... the floating tyres... was the last gal to go.. none of the gals managed to make it to the middle tyre... was wondering whether i cld... esther was funny... she took quite long to climb onto the middle tyre and the guys were shouting "push!" and when she got on they sd: "its a boy!" and the instructer was the baby... and she called him baby boo... lol... my turn... ran over.. made it to the middle tyre... than chionged to the end... almost fell in but reached just on time... i was like... wow... amazing... was the only 1 in grp 2 who made it over... i heard there were 2 in grp 1 who succeeded... since i was dry they asked me to hlp thm clean their specs... than they were like "get isabel wet!" i ended up jumping into the river... so lame... next... it was this thing with rungs... had to climb and slide across... my stupid shorts kept getting caught on the rungs... i was screaming for sl... and the instructer was laughing at me... than there was this nail sticking out which got hooked to my shorts... had a hard time getting it unhooked... argh! took a short cute by jumping onto the bank frm dunno where lar... 2 of my members fell in... and we made half a rung fall and damaged some wooden plank... haha... than it was this thing with a rope sticking out of the water, with a log underneath where u are supposed to hold the rope to guide yrself... the whole thing was falling apart and infested with spiders... saw 1... freakd out than had this string of spider's web stuck to my hand... was screaming my head off.. than touched this spider and flicked it into the water... cldn't stand... started swimming to shore... and everyone was laughing while sl was screaming "isabel! dun leave me alone!" went back to hlp her in the end... shaun, zr and syang imitated me screaming... whacked thm... and they were commenting on my reaction and the speed i swam.. the instructer sd he was the last to get in... than he heard someone scream and when he looked he saw me near the other side liao... so lame... had lunch than did rafting... we took like half the time grp 1 took... yay! and our raft fit the whole grp + a cher... it was this dragon boat thing... haha... actually it looked more like a caterpillar... inspired by the chers and shaun... was the guinea pig for half the structure... fell in head 1st... argh! than the instructer made me retrieve this container... unknown to me was in this clump of hydrilla... freaked out, screamed and swam away... this lock of it was stuck to my foot... was screaming and shouting like some mad woman... and everyone was laughing... the stupid instructer... know that im scared of spiders purposely make me swim there... the water was deep... cldn't reach the bottom... gdness... haha... stuck grass in his hair twice... looked funny... finished our boat... went for rafting... was sooo fun... was in front... had this falling off sensation though... made rachel hold this yello container and whack it as a drum coz shes a percussionist... haha... and dragon boat what... yar... and our boat was blue... so fairfield colours... yea! started throwing hydrilla everywhere... haha... sooo fun.. threw 1 right into sl's face... lolx... reached back... the instructor was like... the 1st person... dun care bout her... leave her there... started throwing hydrilla at him... when i was the last 1 left... they pushed me and the raft away... -_-... got onto shore... put hydrilla on the instructer's head... *hehe*... went ot wash up and have dinner... got ready for campfire... we were led to this rm... coz we cldn't have campfire outside... than i sd: "how are u suppose to have camp fire? dun tell me put 1 torch light in the midddle..." sl sd so smart... thought she was being sarcastic.. but it was... juz that it was many torchlights... "campfire" was fun though... sang songs... did stupid actions... haha.. banana song... than we had friendship dance... it was the best friendship dance i ever had... i remeber i cldn't stand the previous ones... too childish... refuse to hold boy's hand... haha... sooo dun... wldn't have minded dancing a few more rnds... was dead tired and hoarse by the end of camp fire... wrote reflections halfway... cldn't stand it and went to slp... sooo bad... they make me off the lights... well... coz i was the last to slp... last but not LEAST... thank God for being with us and protecting all of us...
let it snow
8:29 AM
Saturday, September 04, 2004
ok... today was nyaa day... went into the band rm... crapped ard with sl... than it was filling of white cards... had to fill mine twice thanks to nabi and gang disturbing me... wrote my birthdate in the expiry of passport section... -_- we all boarded the wrong bus... sat there waited for the right bus boarded and we were on our way to malaysia... played all those stupid games on the way... like fuzzy wuzzy, black magic, the light reflects etc... reached malaysia... got split into groups... went to our dorms chucked our stuff... assembled.. got saboed to be group leader all thx to bize... we were all like choose zhenrong! shengyang! bize! than bize was like isabel... than everybody started agreeing... sooo stupid.. i was like shouting no! and i dunno! than we called ourselves "erm"... haha... we went for outdoor cooking... consisting of 3 sub groups with 5 ppl each... was with sl, zhengliang, zhenrong and shengyang... once agn i proved myself "worthy" of my name disaster girl... kicked one of the tins over... after that we washed up than went for our waterfall trek... was fun... a few ups and downs, scratched frm plants... many huge leeches... a few wheeny ones... we were given compasses and a map... didn't know how to read a compass so shengyang and bize did the orienteering... journey was pretty long... saw intersting plants... like pitcher plants... instructor showed us a leech feeding on his leg... and a place where a wildboar had digged... than some ppl saw a snake... one the way we had to cross this pond... ran and landed 1 foot into the water... turned out that one of my feet was dry while the other was wet... made it to the waterfall at long last... was great... the water fall was quite nice... than we went back.. apparently... there was a short cut... learnt how to read a compass frm bize, so bize and i brought the whole grp back... everyone crapped and we were talking bout the zhang wu ji show and we sang my 2 things... had the goal of beating grp 1 to the campsite... we ran... than we waited for grp one at the entrance where the instructor asked us to do macho claps... so lame... in front of grp one... than we took foto than went back... had dinner... some of my friends got freaked out by the cats there and shibin took 3 fishes to feed thm... after dinner... the place was super dark... kinda scary... we went for this thing called bling man's trail... told we were not to bring any torches and we wld be in a hill... thought it wld be something like the p6 camp where we juz walked in some dark place in one grp... freaked out when i heard it was a solo walk... cried at the foot of the hill... no one knew though... grp leader had to lead members up... had to drag the 14 of thm up... heavy! reached the start point... grp leader of grp 1 went 1st... than it was me... while waiting for my turn cried agn... no one knew... went up... haiz... why muz grp leader always go 1st? instructor switched off the torch.. was plunged into total darkness... was told to hold on to this rope that wld guide me to the ending point if not i wld get lost... kept walking... was expecting to go downwards... but it went upwards instead... kinda freaked out... eyes kept playing tricks on me... kept thinking i cld see ppl ard me... mistook this tree as a white figure... was scared... walked forward... was walking half way when i heard a pigs snd... screamed... than the snd got louder screamed more... panicked... thank God there was and instructor there... the instructor switched on the torch and i was screaming bout wildboars... the light was off... in darkness agn... no hlp given... didn't know whether that was a real snd or faked by the person... coz when we asked the instructors whether they made the snd they sd no... but if it was real... thank God for my safety coz i wld have been attacked... if u meet a wildboar... u are not supposed to make any noise... walked faster... got stuck... cldn't find the rope... panicked agn... screamed for instructor but this time no 1 to hlp me... felt ard... found it tied quite low... cont.... was praying... singing christian songs in my mind... i juz wanted to get out of there... slipped a few times stepped right into a huge puddle... half way... my shoe got stuck in between 2 trees... got pulled off... had to back track and take it... worse still it was when i was recovering frm the shock of those snds... haha... avril lavigne's happy ending kept playing in my mind... when the land started slopping down... i sped up... than when i saw lights coming frm below... went faster.. shortly after i saw the orange light rushed to it... felt the rope end.. didn't see anyone... kinda freaked out... announced my no. heard the instructor... than sat back to back with cecilia... we were told not to make any noise... was sooo relieved! ppl started coming... no. 4 took too long.. instructor got worried... no fair! some ppl came in groups of 2s, 3s, 5s... they were making sooo much noise cld here thm... it was funny... we were told that wildboars were really near us... we smelt this strong smell... but it went away... crapped softly with bize and rached bout pokemon, and disney stuff... we started naming thm.. sooo lame! told to keep real quiet and lock arms... FINALLY all 30 came... went back to camp... we were told that we were near a wildboar's home... and the instructors didn't realise it at 1st... so when we came we had to keep quiet... thank God for watching over us and protecting us from danger... that solo walk was the scariest thing i ever experienced... haha.. was told i freaked my friends out by screaming... she sd she heard me and heard a pig's snd too... ok... that was scary... well... but it has been a meaningful experience... went to slp after that... was tired... o!!! me, nabi, sl and michelle got the nicest dorm... hee! the dorm with the cleanest beds... haha...
let it snow
2:50 AM
Friday, September 03, 2004
went to sch... went trough the usual lessons and stuff... quite boring... haha... managed to skip R&D presentation again... i think my grp is the last grp to present... went for band... gave gavin his pressie... we wanted to be funny... so we gave gavin a part of his pressie which was a round stand that looked like dunno what... he was like... what the heck is this... than shengyang started crapping about it costing $100... -_- gave him the actual pressie in the end he sd it was cool... yay! we got yan guang!!! haha... got ready for the parent's night rehersal... rehersed... than had dinner at a crazy time... 4.30... where we had a wonderful time playing with ice... it started with shaun's grp shooting rubber bands at shengyang's group than it progressed to the shooting of rice and war! me and sl started shooting ice at nabi and she shot back... and it was like here and there... than we attacked gavin... we were chasing each other ard... than a group of us consisting of nabi, sl, me, gary, shengyang and issac...(i think) were talking crap outside the bandrm... shengyang started calling me disaster girl and i was protesting while sl and nabi were providing evidence for that name... they brought up the mayonaise incident last yr... super funny... btw... it was all nabi's fault... she was the bugger that spilt mayo onto my skirt... than shengyang sd something he sldn't have sd and i started whacking him... than he swung his hand in some stupid action and knocked issac's specs off... and it broke... we were figuring out how to put it back when martin came and opened the bandrm... went in crapped with sl... went to change... went up for concert... sat there for quite long... than the performance started.. was playing solo... was super scared... heart beating fast... prayed before performance... and yup... a miracle happened... according to bize they all... they sd it was the best of all my solo attempts... thank God... i thought i screwed it up real bad... i was sooo relieved... while playing i wasn't really as nervous as last time... yup...o! and i didn't come in early this time... performance ended... went into band rm.. slacked... went up for finale... haiz.. they let the heart balloons float to the ceiling... wanted one... so sad... went to the band rm... asked amadea to hlp me hold my p2 foto... chari came along... grabbed it and went rnd showing it to everyone... -_- packed... and went home... haven't packed for nyaa yet!!!
let it snow
2:29 AM