~Awaiting Release - Set Me Free...

Wednesday 21/02/07

MOVED to http://deoracion.livejournal.com... more or less anyway. If you don't see any template change here, it probably means I'm sticking to livejournal. haha... I know most people don't use livejournal (or at least, I don't recall anyone who views this blog having an LJ acount) but do drop comments and leave your name so that I know who made what comment. I think I'll be talking a lot about school life so I do hope that doesn't turn off any of my older (yesh... OOOLLLDDDERRR) friends.

Thankies to all for the support!

Tuesday 13/02/07

Anyway, O level results were released on Friday. Did reasonably well. Check mg webbie for details on class of 06

Yesh... So lai once more finds herself in a sulky mood - perhaps due to the endless (seemingly... we finish one massive article of doom [which incidently clocked over 2.7k words] only to be dumped with another on the very same day, I've got my CV [or however it's spelt] to write by Thursday or I'll have to say 'bye' to my scholarship and there's still all that GP and Math stuffs along with a Lit test on thursday and a yet to come surprise test from mr barnard) amount of work, perhaps due to the fact that I'm tired (tiredness broods gloominess I tell you) or perhaps due to the fact that something's coming up soon...

On a side note, I feel like switching over to my livejournal account (it's the same url as this one, just change 'blogspot' to 'livejournal' so that I have one less blog to maintain. The former was set up for the purpose of our class blog but now I find myself posting in about 3 or 4 separate blogs that it's really getting a little messy. You'd still be able to post comments on posts I make if I really DO make the jump over but what the heck.

Anyway, don't mind lai. She's feeling somewhat irritable today. o.O

Monday 05/02/07

Eep! >.<

http://www.moe.gov.sg/press/2007/pr20070205a.htm

Tuesday 30/01/07

Dra, jam and lai went back to gatecrash mg today and managed to disturb a number of teachers, including Ms Bong, Ms Teo (who's noticeably pregnant now ^^"), Mrs Tee (with her new perm), Mrs Hor, Mr Ling, Mr Loh, Mrs Lee, Ms Or, Ms Cheong and Mrs Pandian (did I miss anyone out?). Haha...
Me <3 MG! ^^

On another note, today's Michelle's birthday! haha. A few of us decided to throw her a little birthday surprise thingy. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to her in the morning before assembly and bought a cake for her to eat later. If I'm not wrong, there was a part 2 to this but lai wasn't there as she had to run off for math tuition >.<

Photos below taken from my phone's camera so excuse the lousy res:

Before...

Many bites later...

Baoxia trying to chop the cake though 'stab' should be the more apt term. We had to keep the cake in the freezer behind the fishtank (our student lounge) until later that morning so the cake ended up almost rock solid. haha. =P

Baoxia likes the cake!

Yesh... HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAOXIA!!!!!!! YOU'RE 17 AND OLD NOW!!!!! ^^

Monday 29/01/07

Ok. I shall do some proper blogging (mainly because I'm procrastinating and don't really wish to get back to doing my history essay)

Let's just start by saying that it doesn't really pay to be very blur in a new school environment because this results in you getting CS. lol... -_-". Poke me in school if you want the whole story.

Onto the OAC Orientation Hike 2007! Yay! haha... Ok. So we're back from feeding the mosquitoes in Ubin (I've got about 4 mosquito bites on my legs which are very itchy... Must resist... Urge... to scratch X_X). We spent Saturday hiking around the island to various checkpoints, some of which we played various games at before finally gathering at the Northern Beach for a mini 'war games' thing (waterbombs galore o.O). We then trooped back to the campsite to set up camp before going off to cook dinner. haha... The guys in my group went a little overboard when they bought our stuff (the final receipt reflected a purchase about 2.5 times our budget). We had kimchi instant noodles, some other kind of dry instant noodles and abalone/chicken instant noodles... Chicken curry... 2 cans of campbell soup... sausages... baked beans (note that these food items were only for our dinner. we had other stuff for breakfast and lunch). After dinner was campfire, then a night hike and the next morning we had a 'Miss' OH competition (go crash the s60 blog for pics... haha... I'm going to get killed for this =X or maybe I'll upload pics of the entire hike if our GIs finally send out whatever pics were taken). I know it doesn't sound very fun but you'll have to be there to enjoy it =)

Go Vitix! Most spirited group for 2 years running! ^^

Anyways, we had another round of interesting conversations with our History teacher today (as one of our seniors say, he is king. haha). If you can, you should sit-in during his lessons and laugh along when he digresses (or we make him digress) and tries to defend his own stance about polo mints and what have you (speaking of which, we made an 'offering' of polo mints on the table today and he promptly dumped his file over it and pushed it to the other end of the table saying he 'won't be tempted'. lol)

Yesh... So poke me if you want more stories of class and life in HC because I'm not so comfortable posting everything online for the whole world to see.

On another note, the other a14 (lai's class is 07a14! A14 is hot to go! =X) blog should be up soon so I may end up posting there too! ^^

(it just occured to lai that she sounds very hyper right now. blame the lack of sleep or mosquito bites or whatever you want ^^")

P.s. Lai will stop emo-ing until about next week I think =P. Thankies!

Thursday 25/01/07

It's Thursday evening and lai's being awfully cranky. If you haven't already noticed, I tend to swing either to the land of the hyper or the land of the half-dead zombies. I think it's the former today.

This post is basically to say "hi" to any a14 peeps who have sucessfully managed to dredge my blog up from a whole pile of rubbish and I really must congratulate you if you've actually managed to find this on your own. haha... I'm just sprouting nonsense. Me needs me sleeps... X_X

hmm... Ok... Other updates...

I'll be off on an overnight hike on Ubin this weekend so don't be surprised if you can't find me anywhere. Work has started to intensify and my new blog layout is only about 1% done... and there's still that off-chance that I'll probably just go scrap it all and start again because it doesn't look all that great. haha...

Yesh. So lai needs to go off and work on organising her History notes (which are not even half done yet) before continuing on to do research for her history essay too... =S

Till next time =)

Friday 19/01/07

I don't know why I'm being so emo nowadays. Somehow I'm trying to convince myself that this in a sense, isn't 'betrayal', it's moving on. I weighed out everything already, the pros the cons, and am at least relieved to say that I didn't give up... That I loved, laughed, cried and worried all the same during all those times spent. Yet still, such thoughts keep seeping into my subconsciousness at night. I woke up with tears in my eyes last night, hurt by the words that, in reality, were never said and perhaps, never even thought of by those I heard 'said' it. It's a pathetic excuse to say that I can't control my subconscious thoughts because this all just shows that I can't let go. I'm still holding on.

Every memory of lookin' out the back door,
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor,
It's hard to say it, time to say it,
Good-bye, good-bye.
Every memory of walkin' out the front door,
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for,
It's hard to say it, time to say it,
Good-bye, good-bye.

Look at this photograph,
Everytime I do, it makes me laugh
Everytime I do, it makes me...

Thursday 18/01/07

Ok. So orientation's finally over and this week could be said to be our first proper week of work this year (except that we're all still kinda moping around and slacking). My subject combi's history, lit, econs and math, all at H2 and lai's lecturers (except for maths) are all old british men with certain opinions about other people of certain nationalities (o.O) who all like "tiger juice". *coughs*

Hmm... What else can I say... Nothing much really (because lai's being lazy). Anyway, a picture says more than a thousand words so if you're actually interested, you can click on the below links and watch the named video on youtube.

Unofficial Orientation Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQGuU-MXrk

Apollo Fac Dance
(note: 'Apollo' is the name of the faculty [kinda like a house] I'm in. Each fac has its own fac dance which will be performed during the inter-fac dance competition sometime later though the difficulty level of the Apollo one is so high it'll probably take lai the next year to learn it for lai can't dance -_-" However, the vid quality's a little low and there's so much screaming going on you can barely hear the music in the background =P)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH15g2epNjQ

Saturday 13/01/07

Yesterday was such a dreadfully emo day. Haha... It was campfire night actually but I guess people were crying for various reasons. Quite fun nonetheless, though I hope the class(es) really bonded after all that's happened. =)

(If you haven't noticed, I'm getting dreadfully lazy in blogging. I'll try my best to keep updated but the past two weeks of orientation have really been draining...)

Wednesday 10/01/07

"I survived Helm's Deep."

No, seriously, our fac experienced first-hand today what it's like to have "enemies" converging on you from all sides while we tried to protect our "fortress". I'm speaking metaphorically of course but it's not too far from the truth either. To put it shortly, we at the front-lines got trampled over, bowled down then climbed over and crashed into by guys at least twice our size. Not to mention those three waves of people that came crashing into us as well. So much for "war games" =P

Thursday 04/01/07

The past two days have been so much fun that I'm afraid of the off-chance that all this will be pryed away from my fingers in the near future. It's easy to ignore the nagging murmur at the back of your head when it's the holidays and all but that murmur grows as clear and loud as a gong would, should it have been struck just by your ear, just with the inevitable passage of time. It sends you reeling. Spinning. Dulling your senses to the extent that you wonder if whatever that is before you is merely a dream - some figment of your imagination you coined in desperation and want.

Enough with the dramatics. Go enjoy your orientation lai. Same goes for everyone else. =)

Tuesday 02/01/07

School. Yay. -_-"

Thursday 21/12/06

laiyee is sick, laiyee can't swim and laiyee got suddenly and unceremoniously dunked into the deep end of a swimming pool by her juniors today.

-_-"

Not fun, though that could be partially my fault for not telling them before hand. *sighs*

Monday 18/12/06

After much deliberation last night (I think I'm steadily becoming nocturnal... I will anyway if I can't recover from jet lag. E.europe time is some 7 hours behind us so I kinda fell asleep for 3 hours last night, woke at 1.30 and couldn't sleep again until about 4 or 5 -_-"), I finally decided to get myself back writing, if only for a while. haha. Sadly, I can barely remember where I left off almost a year ago and haven't been seriously doing any writing - school or not - for the longest time, hence I'm trying (in vain perhaps) to recall everything again (yes, even how to write)

If you actually bothered to notice, I took my FP account link off the 'links' drop-down menu a number of months ago, basically because I tend to get a little embarrassed when people close to me start talking about my writing. I don't think I'm that great of a writer and have only written a few things that I can say I'm proud of (being truthful, not modest) and hence only continue to do so for the fun of it and also because of the support of few. Ah well, what can I say.

Anyway, another thing besides jet lag has been keeping me awake for a while. It's a rant, so be warned.

I wonder how many of you have actually decided on a future you want to embark on in time to come. Perhaps you have, perhaps you have not. I'm more or less decided but haven't put the full-stop on it yet because I like to keep my options open. Call me cautious but I think it's better that way.

Anyway, what really bugs me is the way some adults seem to always try to dissuade you from doing this and that - and with reasons I can hardly agree with.

It's quite... obvious that these people don't really know me well (unfortunately. I really dislike it when people speak without considering how the latter feels or thinks or perhaps even his/her personality). Perhaps you could argue that they are simply looking out for my welfare but I can't help but feel a triffle insulted.

I've been asked to "think twice" about my semi-decision, citing reasons that it's going to be a "hard life" for me and that the "pay won't be good unless you rise up to the top". Furthermore, I've been told that I "don't know what I'm getting myself into" and have heard comments that insinuate the reason behind me choosing to pick up this line of work because I bought into various TV series belive it's all "fame and glory" in this line of work.

Perhaps, like I've already said, they probably mean well but to hear the same thing being said about every other job myself or someone chooses is annoying me a little. I won't know how others feel but for one, I'm not a money-grubbing, materialistic person who only cares about fame and glory and who dares not to take up challenges, believing that life is supposed to be easy. If everyone was so afraid of having a pay less than 5 or 6 figures and also afraid of spending long hours at work, would our society have progressed as far as it had? How many people were saved in hospitals due to the work of doctors and nurses who have to practically work around the clock saving lives? How many inventions were made by people who DARED to do something out of convention? Having people (yes, 'people' not just a single 'person' or 'persons') rub such ideas down my throat in the kind of tone that makes me feel that they somehow think I'm a foolish little whelp makes me feel somewhat insulted. As if people my age can't make their own decisions without thinking through clearly. I know I often question the maturity of our society but at least give some breathing space for our youth instead of thinking lowly of them and discouraging them every step of the way. Not everyone fits into the general idea of that foolish whelps that others may see us as, even if we haven't seen much of the world in our 16 odd years of life.

Enough of that. Ironically, I think I'm making myself look rather immature by going on and on about something someone else said but it sucks when no more than 3 or so adults have actually encouraged me to go chase after my own dreams. It's pretty discouraging.

Whatever. It's nothing to get worked up about. People are just so conversative and passive nowadays.

Saturday 16/12/06

Lai's back! To be exact, she just touched down in Singapore (after freezing for about 10 days up north) about 2 hours ago ^^. Hope you all weren't expecting anything from me because lai was rather broke. I only had 20 euros on me which you can't really do much with in a place where beer is cheaper than water (most of the times) and most things, other than snack food, cost more than 10 euros X_X

Anyway, the PAE webbie thingy doesn't seem to be really working yet (as in, I don't know how to get my posting results from there) but I kinda know where I'm going already thanks to the letter the gov sent me regarding the extension of the EESIS.

I'm kinda aware this blog needs maintenance but that'll have to wait for later (also when I get my holiday log done up X_X), especially since it's about equivilant to 12am over there in E.Europe now. Jet lag. =P

Yup. It's great to be back. ^^

P.s. I do hope my Christmas cards I sent out didn't get lost in the mail =S

Friday 01/12/06

eh heh heh heh heh heh... So much for blogging more in the holidays. haha. Lai got lazy and refused to move her computer up and down just for the sake of internet access. For the same reason, I haven't even started thinking of a new layout XD

Anyway, I'll be away from the 6th (actually, 5th midnight) to the 16th this month in some random part(s) of eastern Europe freezing away in a jacket that's so thick it makes me look like a fattened 'cha siew pau' *coughs*. It's not like we had any other choice in terms of tours anyway, since we always book our holidays so late. This tour was booked last weekend, which still doesn't beat our Japan trip in 2003 where we booked our tour on Sunday and flew off on Thursday. XD

Yeah... So see you all when I get back I guess. ^^