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ok i'm back,

sr beat ny 2 nil what a bummer. but according to some complicated if someone wins by 2 and someone loses which is highly impossible or something or rather along the lines of that, ny's still in the running and they're going to be playing sr again in the finals. OR SOMETHING.

anyway, it was tons of fun hanging out with the soccer girls. house of steam potato chips anyone? 18! 19! haha loy fatters :P
went out for dinner at j8 with jiayu, michelle and manprit at kfc. jiayu bought a chicken burger from MACS when we were eating at kentucky fried CHICKEN. like what the. bought photo frames and watched michelle and jiayu step on each other's shoes. haha jiayu was walking in front and michelle and i disappeared down another corridor. when we saw her coming we were going to run down another one and realised the one we chose had a dead end LOL. so we pretended nothing happened until she stopped akimbo in front of us. HAHAHA

i'm hungry. and ohmygosh i'm in hose.

oohh i had this fantastic idea when i was in the shower. it'll be so awesome if i rounded up a bunch of soccerettes to play against my church guys! haha yea i thought it'll be prety cool. anyway,

i made it for morning worship today yay! and they sang still, my redeemer lives, there is none like you and WITH ALL I AM. which i havent sung since elim days in nz goodness gracious me. but i lovve that song though. :D

ended school at 11.30 today. but only left at about 1 ish coz that's when we can, and that was through the sas bridge that has a funny name. our class splintered once lectures were over. everyone's faces have this tired drawn look, like they can't be bothered to be sociable anymore. and i know exactly how they mean. my expression is probably mirrored on their faces. for the last 2 months all i've been doing is meeting new people, adapting to new surroundings, new everythings and it's really tiring. i hope our class will weld soon. maybe class outing will do the trick. or tutorials or SOMETHING. well, that's something to pray about at least.

argh, i havent spoken to rachel about cell leading yet. this sunday! hm. i don't think i'll play soccer this sunday.. i'll have dinner with the family.

hokay

i'm back, school finished at 11.30 today muahaha ya anyway.

right - wednesday. it was a really good day COZ: argh i can't remember properly now. OH YEA. we got our classes :) then i lost them and then i found them, then i went for the saints for Christ meeting! and that was awesome coz they sang ALL my fav songs - from the inside out, spirit touch your church.

it was a real comfort from tuesday and i was thinking maybe i'm just not supposed to join soccer at sa. there's definitely a reason why i didn't get in on tues, which i suspect is to make sure i dont neglect other things in my life like family and schoolwork so it's a blessing in disguise.

k that's not all. then me and ely went back to ny! for the cca bazaar and michelle got into ny yay! it was such a good unwind to just play with them again. or just sit in the middle of the field and have a chat.. coz yes, that's what the soccer girls do haha!

then there was ron the couldbecoach guy and that was pretty interesting, he was kinda up himself but he made his sales pitch on himself pretty good even if there were a few backfires. yup but he made me want to stay in ny. SO. i guess he was pretty effective. ah well, yes. so that finally convinced me to join saints for Christ as my proper cca in sa, and play soccer with ny on the side. and i'm beginning to like the whole arrangement :D

ok so that was wednesday which was the awesomest day in my week.

thursday, umm, nothing special? but it was good coz i brisk walked from the station to school in attempt to make it on time for morning worship. i was 5 minutes late but it's nice to start the day by saying good morning to God :)

ohmygosh my ct was a P.I. like what on earth.

soccer tryouts #2 were supposed to be yesterday and i didn't go and i felt a slight twinge of regret on the way home. went back to make aunty ek kian's birthday card for my sister (who would like to make a shoutout to herself -.-) so now she owes me. but it looks pretty though :D

ely and jacinth both got into sa soccer! whoohooOOooo!

right, going back to ny to watch the ny vs srjc guys game.

Everlasting God
Chris Tomlin

Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won't grow weary
You're the defender of the weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on wings like eagles

wow what a day.

it just works out so much better when you pray about a day :)

today we found out our classes: i'm in 08S20 - quite a clumsy number but the people are pretty alright.. can't wait to have pe together though *loves class pe* ooh and i wonder what house we're in. i really hope it's gomes. i'm sorry but i dont think i could bear to be in a house called HOSE.

MICHELLE GOT INTO NY!

tired, mum's a chasing me off.

i'm going, i'm going

sigh.

i dont usually sigh much. but that's not what i'm sighing about. um.

today seemed so long even though i had a 4 hour break at school - sort of getting used to sa now, i can actually find my way out of the school so that's a start :)

well today we found out our classes, even though they said that they weren't going to put it up today and it wasn't going to be of any use looking for it. what the. yup, i'm in 08S20 NOT in the same class as jacinth :( aaand for a really annoying reason chem is my stupid h1. instead of china studies. booooooooo. i'll have to go get it sorted soonish.

yup, soccer tryouts were today, we didn't run much thankfully, even though methinks i'm pretty fit compared to any one time last year so yay for that. no yay for the fact that i didn't make the first 16 which sucks terribly. but i'm going for thursday anyway. hums

going back to ny tomorrow! missing them to the max (quoth ely). jacinth wants to meet jiayu! HAHAHA

my internet's being stuffy and not letting me get onto msn.

ethel, aly and jeli: MISSING YOU TONS! *hug*

yesterday was sunday! i love sundays :D cell was awesome and service too, aaand so was soccer after haha. wore my new ny pe shirt muahaha, brandon wore his cjc one lol.

gah what on earth is WRONG with some person. mmf grumbledy

well today i wore my sa uniform after trying for a long long time with improvised tools to get the stupid drawstring into the shirt but it looks good in the end :)

i'm teaching kel fizzix over msn. amazing

had a chat with jy after school, stuck around a bit to see my friends :) they all look so different in their new uniforms!hm

dinner now, later.

i had soccer today at ny :) but i played badly - i have no idea why but i really sucked so i'm glad that jacinth didnt come and watch me play heh heh :P it was probably my last match playing with my ny team which sucked. and still sucks. and is suckerish to quote michelle, or sucks man to quote chungjiayu.

but i had fun anyway, especially after :) we were just mucking about on the field (me, peiqi, shell, jiayu) and i wish i had my camera with me so badly. GAH. oh then i saw peifen and amanda! having their ogl workshoppy thing :D

thanks jiayu for letting me keep your shirt :) but no thanks to your offer to sign it haha

went to amk hub after for lunch, had macs to work off the morning's exercise and met janelle there. watched michelle practise her negative hairdressing skills on her poor victim janelle - took photos with my phone, couldnt resist mate, they'll be on picasa soonish ;P

i can't bear to leave. i've been feeling terrible all day, detached. and even eating my valentine's chocolate from my box of fun didn't help. and neither did watching the notebook even though ryan gosling is so very very cute :) why is it so hard to unattach

. bought the sa uniform - it's nice

Into The West
Annie Lennox

Lay down,
your sweet and weary head.
Night is falling.
You have come to journey’s end.

Sleep now,and dream
of the ones who came before.
They are calling,
from across a distant shore.

Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see.
All of your fears will pass away.
Safe in my arms,
you’re only sleeping.

What can you see,
on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea,
a pale moon rises.
The ships have come,
to carry you home.

And all will turn,
to silver glass.
A light on the water.
All souls pass.

Hope fades,
Into the world of night.
Through shadows falling,
Out of memory and time.

Don’t say,
We have come now to the end.
White shores are calling.
You and I will meet again.
And you’ll be here in my arms,
Just sleeping.

What can you see,
on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea,
a pale moon rises.
The ships have come,
to carry you home.

And all will turn,
to silver glass.
A light on the water.
Grey ships pass
Into the West.

yay i got into sajc! have i said that before? oh yea i think i did. anyway i'm glad i'm there :D and i think i've said that before too

feeling rather accomplished because i managed to find my way from school to the mrt station without getting lost OR following other people muahaha :D

yesterday was the one day orientation. whee. had an hour of mass dance - thank goodness it wasnt more - and subject combi talk and boring admin stuff like that. then it was supposed to be games after that but jacinth and i left.. she went home and i went to ny to play soccer :P which was really fun even though for the first bit it was just me and the j2s. jiayu asked me to play on saturday at 7.15 in the morning! the bad thing with numbers is that you can't caps them: SEVEN FIFTEEN IN THE MORNING!! yep. but oh well it'll be tons of fun coz we're playing against the j3s heh heh heh

my blisters that i got on monday playing soccer burst yesterday.

sa's nice. but when i went back to ny yesterday i felt like i went back to pl or something because i knew it so well. it's strange, the first time i went to ny everything seemed so harsh, and in technicolour - too strong for the eyes. but after a while it's just part of the place, the colours soften and the pillars and gates dont seem like they cage you in. im just waiting for that to happen with sa though. today jacinth, tracie, priscilla and i walked in a huge circle just trying to find the side gate to leave.

chose subjects today :) i'm doing H2: physics, maths, econs. H1: china studies (IN ENGLISH), chem. well that's what i put as first choice anyway but i'll most likely get it, methinks.

i guess my camera's gone for good :(

posting came out today! i got into sajc yay :D and ely's there too so we're going to join the soccer team together haha.

i'm actually not sad at all that i didn't get vj strangely enough. yesterday i fished my phone out of my bag and because i didn't lock the keypad it went into my calendar and entered something into the 18th feb (yesterday). and when i saw it i completely froze because the letters that were keyed in were VJ. and i was excited for a while then this creepy feeling stole over me and i felt really weird. these things dont just happen and incidents that are so called coincidence arent ever coincidence. and it can't be anything good if you feel strange. so i'm pretty glad that i didn't get into vj actually.

now it's just how i'm going to say goodbye to ny.

ahhhh, last day today.

i just journalled 3 and a half pages and now i'm drained of what to say. oh except: WHERE THE HECK IS MY CAMERA?!??!

gah.

last day of pae. missing everyone so much now, and i can't put it into words just yet. 'for me the grief is still too near' - one of legolas' lines that weren't so terrible. it hasnt sunken in yet, and i'm just so afraid of when it actually will..

results tomorrow. at 8 am?! oh man. not the nicest thing to wake up to in the morning..

argh, v tired from training.

whoever said promises were meant to be broken was obviously someone who had commitment issues.

reflecting back on last week, it was so unbelievably fun. even though i slept at my latest on a schoolday and was going around with eyes wide shut for the rest of the week.. it was as if everyone knew it was going to be the last week together and decided to just BE themselves. valentines day was especially fun, cherishing those you feel have made a difference, no matter how big or small, they've made in your life. the reason i made cards for my soccer team and not for my og was because i just feel this bond with them. we all chose to play soccer, and we're all of a certain kind, and we werent just randomly put together in a team. we all want to be there. and i'm just going to miss them so so much. i'm already hating the day when they have training without me.

life's like an hourglass glued to the table. maybe fun's not quite the word to explain it. maybe it was fun in the way that i tried new things, i was busy. i actually had things to do. i like being occupied, and compared to last year that's a whole new experience - so maybe that's the element of fun. of doing new things. but of course fun comes with a cost. tiredness, busyness. priorities reshuffled and things that are important being shoved down and down the list. i want God to be my only priority. just like the girl from church. things that i like may not be the things that i need. and i just have the swallow the bitterness and push it away.

don't squander time - that's the stuff life's made of - gone with the wind

wow it's friday already, posting's coming out on tuesday, last offical soccer training on monday *sob*

ungh. this week went by really really fast, hm, let me try and remember what happened.

o yeah! my sunday was very very fun :D went to church wearing my new necklace haha yay, and after service hannah and the rest of us had a discussion of this saturday which included baked fish, fizzy punch, a MAJOR major death glare, a very confused brandon and tessa with a sore neck. then we went to rachel's house for cny cell gathering and john choy made the yusheng thingy! so we all lo heid and it was tessa's first time haha. and we found out that our cell's in chrage of doing the easter programme for tng and we had a discussion. once again, i'm just sooo glad i joined now and not before :)

at 3ish i left for heng siong's house for an og cny gathering and i made my way there all by myself and was might proud of it :P yiying, lichun, gina, amanda, elysia, joshua, fernando and zuyao were there.. played mahjong (i won once!) and ate bakwa til about 5.. then i left for church to play soccer with brandon and other church guys!

that was tons and tons of fun, they were all skeptical when i got there, they asked if i was looking for the captain's ball (so captain's ball is an acceptable girls' sport and soccer isnt???? hmph.) and i'm like NO i'm here for the soccer. hmph. yeh, so i was on brandon's and royston's team and it was a bit strange at first, but the guys were kinda decent and actually passed the ball, though it was brandon who did it first HEH. yeh, and I SCORED A GOAL! yay :) i didn't even aim i sort of just kicked it out of a tackle and it happened to hit the wheely barrier thingy that we were using as a goal :D and it looked really nice though. pity i didnt see how it happened. *loves soccer* that was soooo my highlight of cny. even the $110 bucks for 2 hours of visiting couldnt compare.

oooh on saturday i spent the whooooooole day making cards - which was the bestest way to spend a day. or maybe second best to the paragraph above :D yeh, i think i finished the majority of them on saturday, or just more than half. soo theraputic.

ah. monday night i panicked and finished making all the outsides of my valentine's day cards for my soccer people. oh all except jiayu's and elyssa's.. umm, after school i went to get some photos developed (again for v day) and then i couldnt fall asleep the whole night. school was boring as expected heh.

tuesday i did jiayu's and elyssa's card and they're my favourites i think and wrote for all of the soccer team except one that i missed out. heh. ended at 12.30am, and completely knocked out, umm, last ct? watched the second bit of the weird ghost cartoon movie and i'm kinda surprised at how much dialect i actually could understand. strange. collected photos and they looked soooo cute! yay :)

soccer on wednesday! but i was soooooo tired from the night before so i couldnt run much. practised striking and i kicked a reeeeeally nice one in, but again i had no idea how to do it again? it even had the nice sound from the grass being sliced. gah. oh well. it was so nice to see everyone again :) had so much fun. and i'm going to miss them so so so much when i leave. gave out my v day cards to most of them and it was generally well received to put it very mildly haha. think tantrums and tugging on sleeves and whining haha. i was so glad when i heard that there was training on monday. OH and i had the yummiest most scrumptious donut from jocelyn after - it had white chocolate on top with milk chocolate squiggles and inside it was melted chocolate *faints* bought chocolate for the next day for my og and random others: v day! girded myself with a bag in anticipation of lots of stuffs yay

and i measured pretty accurately! i gave out one ferrero rocher to each and got back like 3. haha and not to mention the balloons and snickers and timeout and lollipops and marshmallows and all the yummyness OH!. AND THE BROWNIES FROM MICHELLE AND ELYSSA! oh man those were soooo wonderful and equally good. haha. oh and went to listen in for the lit poetry recital thingy in the library :D

eating peanut mnm's now. *happy place*

mum and dad's wedding anniversary too on v day :) everyone i told was like 'awwww! so sweeeeeeeeet!!' lol. went for japanese buffet at hanabe and took lots of wacked photos featuring jo, jie and wasabi wilson! HAHA. we were laughing our heads off and trying to take all sorts of macro shots and dad was sort of leaning away pretending he didn't know us hahah just kidding. it was really fun :D

and finally! today. friday, last day of the week. gave out a few more cards to the soccer seniors, and had lots of fun today! got a balloon from glenda yay! and og23s2e had lots of fun, playing the clapping hand thingy, and concentration and a little bit of truth or dare at the grandstand :) took tons of pictures of ny today at jasmine's request. saw cjy lots today :S AND gave doreen a card after such an embarassing mixuppy incident. going to watch stardust later at school with elyssa :)

my darling sister can't believe i like marshmallows over gummys. and she asked me to write it down, possibly to make me see the folly of it but i'm sorry i'm so not seeing it.

went to lit lectures this week :) LORD OF THE RINGS ALL THE WAY!! and yay for aragorn and boo to legolas who is a girlyman and a woman HA. muahaha.

geez that was a long post. can't wait for tomorrow! mission trip gathering at myyyy place :)

it's chinese new year. big whoop.

the only nice thing about it is the food, but even that has limits. i'm so glad the soccer comp finished before cny, coz i dont think i'll be able to run for a while :) i meant only to have 2 pineapple tarts this morning but before i even registered the taste they were both gone, so i had another 2 :D

had a reunion yesterday, and it was ... *hear the crickets chirp* it didn't seem so bad when everyone was there, when we were little and running all over the place with sparklers.

at least the money is good. we pre-spent our angpao money yesterday - went to vivo with jie and mum to watch the savages, which is a movie that i wouldn't really want to watch normally. it's kinda very realistic and i think i watch movies to escape from reality for a little while so i didn't really enjoy it. plus it was about death and dying. yeh. i was SUPPOSED to stay home yesterday and get down to making my cards BUT a certain someone begged me to go shopping (which is an extremely rare occurance) so i thought i'd better go with her in case she wasn't feeling well and suddenly have some kinda of breakdown while shopping. so we went to vivo, and bought tons of stuff at (dare i say it) forever 21 after much scouring.

traditions are silly, especially when you don't know what you do things for. then you start picking and choosing which traditions suit you best like buying new clothes and not cleaning the house for the first few days or whichever, and after a while the entire meaning is lost.

i can't believe you said you like cny better than Christmas.

anyway, so today we had lunch at my grandparents place, collected money, lingered for like 2 seconds and went home. played mahjong with dad et la soeurs with the minisized tiles we have :D jie said it was to make sure we dont embarass ourselves on the 16th when we have our gathering HEH.

I FINISHED MY THUMBNAILS!! fiiiiinally :D

it's tuesday, and school's out for 5 WHOLE DAYS :D

ok well, technically it's only 4 and a half, but i'm taking tomorrow off. ok FINE i'm skipping school tomorrow. but either way it's the same difference. most people call it chinese new year holidays, but my dear mum calls it hibernation which indeed puts a festive spin on the whole thing. i'm just going to use this time to start making and finishing the cards i have to make for valentines plus brandon's 21st's.

i should get started. i really should. *stares at computer screen and ignores previous statement*

mrrrgh i want to watch sweeney todd.

oh i had the fantastickest nap just now, i came home and just knocked out on my bed for like 2 hours. YAY. sleep is good.

um highlight of the short week? ok contrary to popular belief it's not looking through all the hilarious photos from saturday out with the soccer girls, though that was pretty funky.. just went to elyssa's facebook and her third album is like she's jiayu's personal paparazzi. or paparazzo or stalker or whatever the singular of the word is.

my internet is being stuffy.

where was i? oh yea, highlight was the lit lecture that i went to yesterday! coz we were looking at lotr *melts* and plus the teacher is an aragorn fan who calls legolas a woman (ha!) so yea, i enjoyed myself lots and lots :) it made me want to read it again, so i picked up where i left off in the holidays just now. yay. i love my lotr books coz it's hard cover and red-fabricked-bound and has allan lee's paintings illustrations. and reading it's made me want to start writing again but i really dont know how to carry on now that i've stopped for so long. plus what the lit teacher said about writing from experience has made me think about how on earth i'm going to continue. but i really do love lord of the rings.

happy birthday hannah! i really like the card i made for you if i dont say so myself :) anywhos, it's to the drawing board i go to make little pretty thumbnails

soccer people my photos (and some of elyssa's) are here

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i love the after school parts of school.

especially the soccer part of the after school part of school.

i really wouldnt have thought that i would play soccer.. i have to thank wesley and hamish for introducing tennis ball soccer to me when i was like 9 :)

we played srjc last saturday, we were being scared by ms audrey into thinking that they'd be super rough, but judging by the number of bruises it wasn't thaaaat bad. (compared to the games after anyway) yup, i was in the starting 11 (yay!) playing centre mid, so it was like tons of running and not very much getting the ball but oh well. they won on a dubious penalty. bleagh

then on wed we played gess (the german school). we saw them playing on sat against uwc and we were like *jaw drop and stare* and not just coz they were blonde and big and tall but coz they whacked the ball as if it was... nothing? yuh, so we went into it like whatever man, played centre mid again for the first half of the first half and i was soooooo glad to get subbed off for the first half of the second half, i dont think mid is really my place - went on as defender for the second of the second coz jiayu was standing in as goalie and i was feeling reeeeeally sorry for her. so needless to say we were creeeeamed by the tall big blondes but that was the funnest match ever :D oh and they spoke to each other on the pitch in german. we tried for a while in chinese but gave up in the end HEH.

oh that was after school, we took the bus there and as we were going down the slope out the gate of ny, we were like 'is everyone here?' everyone sort of looked around and suddenly one of us said 'where's manpreet??' then jiayu bolts upright and screeeeeeeches into ultrasound 'manpreeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!' and everyone sort of turns towards the back window half expecting her to be running after the bus waving her arms or something LOL.

today was our last match. against uwc, which was like full of aussies. nuff said. they were even huger and bigger and blonder than the german girls and yeah. much rougher. got hit in the stomach like twice and rammed in the side when helping ke li in goal. but i dont think i'll get bruises there though. lost count of the score - played for the WHOLE GAME and by the end of it i was sweating like i was weeping. went for lunch with the team at ps and everyone was bullying jiayu with all the pointless-meaningless-after-exam games. took tons of photos and they're on picasa here

jeli and aly AND ETHEL are coming to ny on monday! yay can't wait :)