Archive for May, 2007

Posted on Sunday, May 13 at 1:31 pm

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I will never forget the times i spend with you guys. The fun we have during our sectional practice. To tell you the truth, the first time i led you guys for sectional, i was feeling soo freaky nervous. I scared that i will teach you guys the wrong thing. Actually, teaching you guys during sectional was quite stressing for me. Cause many of you have music background and came from music bands in your secondary school life. But i didnt have any background music. For one point of time, i felt depressed as i couldnt do much as a sectional leader. You guys are much better than me. For the first few months as SL, i was afraid that you guys will speak bad things behind my back like “ee.. SL dont know how to teach one.. i can even teach better than her“. Thank you for giving me the respect and being obedient during sectionals. Although sometimes, i couldnt control you guys to keep quiet, but at least you guys followed what i instructed. After many sectionals with you all, i gained my confidence and no longer nervous when conducting.

Thanks for enduring my “cold” jokes during practice. I dont want to be too strict with you guys during sectional. Hope that you have been enjoying the sectionals i have with you. I just hope that you guys can treat me as friend, instead of a distant friend as i have the sectional leader rank. I tried to make sectional a meaningful yet not too stressful one.

During the preparation for SYF, the ex-band people like yvoone, maisarah, ai ling came in. And i had to teach them the basics all over again. Like how to use ur wrist to shake the angklung, using the alternate hands to play different notes, how to control the loudness and softness. *sounds familiar?*

You guys are very initiative like suggesting the March holiday we had 2 months before. Can see that you guys really want to strive good results for SYF. Fun-loving peeps. During the preparation for SYF, ms wee did some changes to the songs, and highlighted the part the angklungs need to decresendo or cresendo. But sometimes, you guys forgot to do so. And i had to remind you guys again and again. You must be complaining that im too naggy? =P But, our hardwork paid off. We got what we deserved!

I will miss you guys.. You all are like my children. I have to worry for you guys everytime. Remind you guys about your mistakes, telling you what to do, what not to do.

A sms that i sent to you guys yesterday evening: “Darling, today is a memorable day. thanks for adding colours to my life for this one year plus. I will always love you. ur angklung sect leader may06-may07”

Thanks for the sweet messages replied from Hendra, Maisarah, Marilyn, Fahmi, Yongsheng, Yinwhee. I was soo touched.

The sweet replies:

1. “Aww.. We will miss u too.. =). we will always remember u..Dnt worry. Even though we are far apart physically, u will always be in our hearts”- hendra
2. “Love u too! Thankew for guiding me in Angklung =)” - Maisarah
3. “Woohoo! Ok. XD. Yup no prob. Niang~ Happy mother’s day! Hahaha!” - Marilyn
4. “Ok. ure welcome..and i would like to wish u the best in everything u do. cheers!! Stay happy and smily.. :)” - Fahmi
5. “I will always miss your fun teaching and the worry tat you had for us.. It is really fun to have you to be my seniors… P.S: Please dont cry, always be happy.” -YongSheng
6. “Hey “mom” hahax. Happy mother’s day! U are the best mum (in sch) ever.. Best wishes in ur future endeavours..Forget me not.. =D” -Yinwhee

Shall we have KBOX together during june holidays? =)

Posted on Sunday, May 13 at 12:00 pm

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This will be a long entry, updating from wednesday 9 May to 12 May. These are the things i will talk about in this entry:

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   1. Last CCA Practice- Institute Day Full Dress Rehearsal
   2. Most Valuable Player for Volleyball?
   3. Handing over the position
   4. Spiderman3
   5. Phantom of the Opera
   6. Institute Day and lunchING-dinnerING with darlings

Wednesday 9 May 07
We had our Institute Day Full Dress Rehearsal. Officially, it was the Year3s last CCA practice. Harmonis storeroom became a temporary changing room of the girls. It’s kinda strange to have so many girls in a room changing. Then, we had our group photos in Harmonis for the banner.

And we had this kueh and cake.

Thursday 10 May 07
We had our last volley tournament with jl’s group. I admit that jl’s group is much much stronger that us. But, i still believe that we should not give up until the very last second of the match. Initially, my group’s result was lagging far behind. When it was my time to serve, i served the ball and the opponent didnt catch it. But, because of my serving, i managed to close up the difference. It’s kinda “爽” when i got to serve so many times and the opponents didnt catch it.

We had our chemistry mock exam, 3 hours. For the whole day, we had only one break at 10am++. So, when i was during the mock exam, my stomach was growling so loud like no one business.

Friday 11 May 07
Had lunching with my sunshines at KFC Westmall, and went back school for Handing Over of Position Ceremony. It was a surprise for our juniors as they didnt know that we will be here because of the Handing Over. When i came to school, i heard the sound of the angklungs. The Year1s were outside harmonis, learning how to play the angklung. I was excited and ran up the stairs to see my little cute darlings. The yr2s were shocked that we came and thought we just had our consultation with teacher so dropped by Harmonis.

When i reached Harmonis, i saw yongsheng conducting the year1s. I feel like taking the baton, and conduct the practice myself. I started to think of the past, when i was in that same particular spot, conducting and teaching my darlings year2s. Seeing all my darlings yr2s taking the role and responsibility, 让我感动到差一点儿哭出来. After waiting for year3s to arrive at Harmonis, Ben gathered everyone into the room. It was the time. The time when i need to step down as Angklung Sectional Leader. The time i have to stop all duties as a Angklung Sectional Leader. Shirley was the first one handing over her Kulintang Sectional Leader. Both of us didnt really want to be the first few to hand over, as we know what will happen after the handing over. But Ben didnt listen to us, and just announced Kulintang and Angklung successor first. Then Ben announced “angklung sectional leader… nirwani.. “ I handed my position to Nirwani. Hugged her and told her what a sectional leader should do. She said “ok. you also must take care ok? i will miss you. dont cry. good luck for your a lvl“. That moment, tears started to flow like bursting tap water. Both shir and i went to hide at a corner, hugged each other and cried. 

From shir’s blog:

when she return, she look at me, and i look at her. our tears welled up, and we just hug and cry. we “dragged” one another to the little corner on the right hand side of the room, and cried like crazy. tears flowed and never ended. i don’t know we’ve cried for how long, sher gf, edith darling & jannah babat saw us cry, and came over to comfort us. but we just cried and cried. non-stop. then sher say, we have to witness the emerging of the two chairman(s), then we went back to stand at the whiteboard area. many people saw the two red-eyed SLs. =x

After the whole handing over ceremony, Hafirah gave a word of thanks to us. I can sense that she is sad to see us leave too. I couldnt stop thinking but cried again. We cried more jia lat than before. Images kept flashing in my mind.. the times we spent together. Sher and jl came to comfort us. Asrida and Nadiah came and hugged me, telling me to take care. And i started to cry again. Many huggies that i will never forget. the warm hugs and greetings from them.

Spiderman3 was great! the animation in the movie. But i was frightened 2 times during the movie. I only managed to watch Spiderman1 recently on Channel 5. That means i’ve skipped SM2 and watched SM3. I like Harry Osborn, much handsome looking than Peter Parker. But sad, he died during SM3.

In the evening, i met 7 of my CCA Darlings for Phantom of the Opera Musical @ Esplanade. Got me, shir, ben, fathiah, tzekiat, daryl, grace,claris, pearlynn. The musical was fantastic. We sat at the last row of the Category 4. It was so far away from the stage, and so high up. Luckily the bino that i brought came to its use. Without it, i wouldnt be able to catch the actors and actresses facial expression. POTO is everything a good musical should have. The nice and majestic backdrop, the music, the costumes, the choreography, the singing, the orchestra. Obviously, POTO exceeded my expectation. It’s really worth it. If i got the chance, i would like to watch it again, but i wanna go for the Cat1.

cam-whoring session started.

Saturday 12 May 07
Like wat TK told me, i should enjoy my last performance, my last time in CCA. So, when i reached Harmonis in the morning, i greeted alot of people, and was 自high-ing. Shir and i got addicted to the phantom songs, we couldnt get the songs out of our mind. I started to sing “all i ask of you”. All these songs are addictive. You can get the melody easily in the mind. Then, changed to our costumes and put makeup. I helped some of my daughters to apply eye shadow. At least, this is the minimum i can do for them. Had cam-whoring together with shirley. Our aim was to take photos with each and everyone in CCA. While waiting for the cue to go get ready for performance, shir n i went around Harmonis to take photo with all the members. I went to the shelves to take my camera out. Just as i turned, my head kissed yi chuang’s head. It was very pain. Can hear the loud “kok” sound. Leong was very sweet. He helped me rubbed my head. It was much more better.

Then, it was SHOWTIME. darling shirley was feeling so nervous. At the backstage, she was recalling and trying to play the songs in her mind. Mr J came and told us that it will be our last time playing these 2 SYF pieces together. The curtains drew open and many eyes were staring at us. We successfully played the two songs- Di Tanjong Katong and Dance Fantasy. After performance, we shifted our instruments back to Harmonis. Before dismissal, i requested for our CCA Cheer.

I FEEL… OOOH AHH… SO GOOD…. OOOH AHH… ALL THE TIME… OOOH AHH… SO GOOD… OOOH AHH… ALL THE TIME.
WE’ve GOT A FEVER, WE’re HOT, WE CAN’t BE STOP.
WE’ve GOT A FEVER, WE’re HOT, WE CAN’t BE STOP.
WE’ve GOT A OHHH-EHHHH-OHHH-EHHHH HOT HOT HOT.
OHHH-EHHHH-OHHH-EHHHH HOT HOT HOT.
WE’ve GOT A FEVER

Then the yr3 girls got this flower from grace. thanks alot girl.

Then continued cam-whoring. I think i’ve accomplished my aim of taking photos with everyone.

Then, we had our Year3s group photo.

I will really miss them alot. Maisarah came and thanked me for guiding them throughout her journey in CCA. I promise i will come back and visit you guys, ya? Once your mummy, always your mummy. Forget me not. I will love you guys forever. Thanks for the laughter, cooperation during our sectional practice.

After phototaking and changing, Yi hong and i went home to put our barang barang before meeting the rest of the yr3s at Plaza Singapura. The rest were making their way down from school to PS. Yi Hong and I reached PS first. We were supposed to have our year3s farewell lunch at Pizzahut, but unfortunately, it was closed down. So, we went Swensen instead. Waited for 45 minutes for the table for 16 to be ready. Then, a short while, the rest came and everyone seated together in a long stretch of table. 16 people sitting together from one end to another.

my breaded kok kok keh..

Grace was sitting one seat opposite of me. I was happily enjoying my chicken and didnt notice that she took my fries. so blur of me. TK joined to the “stealing fries” gang. The tables beside us and opposite of us celebrated their friends’ bday. When they sang bday song to their friends, we joined in the fun. sang and clap loudly.

my sticky chewy chocolate icecream

The funniest part was we made fun of jannah. She ordered the Firehouse Happy bday icecream. When the waiter came and lighted up the candle, we sang happy bday to jannah so loudly and the two other tables joined in. (but its not her bday la)

While waiting for our food, sher, shir and i went to the washroom as i need to take out my contact lense. When i just removed my contact, shir called me to take photo together. I didnt wear my specs so i didnt know where shld i stand, cause shir wants to include the girl in the background. Walking back to swensen, we saw this “是大的咯!”

There’s a mothers’ day menu package. That means mothers can get a FREE GOODIE BAG WORTH $260 FOR MOTHERS. So, do i have qualification to get the free goodie bag? I got 20+ sons and daughters! Shir also have many sons and daughters!

After lunching-dinnering with peeps, went shopping around PS with yihong. Long time no shopping. Went yamaha and tried the electronic keyboard. Then, we continued to shop around PS. We came to this DIY shop, selling nice vintage design paper. And those flower petals, buttons that you can use to decorate ur notebooks. Went Marks and Spencer and bought my dutch shortcake, and went home.

Posted on Saturday, May 12 at 11:23 pm

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Sorry, this entry is supposed to update you guys about the happening stuff, but when i was looking at the photos i wanted to post in my blog, i thought of the nightmare i had in jan. It was a big secret that i didnt even share to my closest closest friend. i’ve been thinking that everything will be over, so i didnt  tell my friends too much about the incident. Now, i’m back to the nightmare. the nightmare that i had in jan. a nightmare that i really want to remove. i wished that didnt happened. but what is done, cannot be undone.

people make mistakes. people learn from their mistakes. but, will they be forgiven? i feel so terrible right now. who is willing to listen to me, and not judge me like what others did? I feel so lousy.

I’m not as strong as I think. I am just a weakling..

Posted on Thursday, May 10 at 11:15 pm

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I hate this, but I have to face it. She has to face it. He has to face it. We have to face it. We will be stepping down from ccaofficially on 12 May 07. I have to say good bye to my darlings especially my juniors. and my boyfriend and girlfriends. the sister club peeps. I cant imagine what will happen on Saturday. Flooding in bukit batok? Perhaps with the ”bilateral ties” with shirley, we will be able to flood the Harmonis first.

I know when the day come, i would not be able to have to courage to think back about the past 2 years in cca. the wonderful memorable moments we spent together..like going to ‘harmonis” toilet during breaks, gossiping together, lunching together, cam-whoring together, crazying together, changing together.. all these little things will always remain in a special place in my heart.

cca is jus like my family, where i can find wonderful friends who will be always available for me whenever i need help. They are much much much much closer to me as compare to my classmates. Although we only meet each other for two practices per week, but these are the times i cherished alot, and really enjoy.

The first time i stepped into the MR located at the 2nd level back in ttc. We had our Yr1 orientation. It’s wonderful to know that my long-lost kindergarden friend yi hong joined cca. During the orientation, we sat down in a circle, introducing our name, class, previous cca, and why we choose CCA. Sitting beside me was this girl. Long hair, tanned, skinny. It’s Claris. Like what other schoolmates do, we complained about the school, and chatted about our future plan. Her future plan was to go Uni to study mass comm.

Then, got to know sherlynn and 3 of us became very very close friends like sisters. whenever we got break, we will buy drinks from the vending machine. Sher likes Chrysanthemum Tea, Claris and I likes Lemon Barley drink. So, Sher is CT, Claris and I are LBD. CT..LBD..

Throughout my 2 years in cca, we went for many performances like the 2 performances at Lau Pa Sat in 2005, 24 Feb 06-Henderson Home CIP, 20 May 06- Institute Day, 22 May 06- Grand Copthorne Hotel, 08 July 06- SYF Opening @ IMM etc..

Our first performance was at Marina South Carnival @ Marina. Our first time carrying instruments, our first time learning cheer from liangkai:

That time, everyone was very excited. We had fun together, transporting our own angklungs up the stage. Our Lau Pa Sat performances were our 2nd and 3rd performance. Before the performances, we reached school early for practice. And had Nasi Pattaya specially prepared from Al Ameen.

Next, we had our cca annual JB trip. On the way, Claris and I were singing and sher became our hard core fan. We did Batik painting, lunching at kinda outdoor environment, saw the malay dancing. We only managed to reach Singapore at about 9+pm without going for shopping due to limited time.

2006. It was sad to see our seniors stepping down and leaving us. The fun and laughters that they’ve bought to cca. We had a surprise party for them, secretly locked them out of MR and decorated the room. We were quite scared tat our seniors were outside eavdropping. So, we tried our best of the best to minimise the noise. We organised PU1 orientation. Nora, Shi Hui and I were group leaders of one of the group.

Our first performance with the juniors was at IMM. it was my first time playing songs on the bell. I think it’s Lord of the Dance. And shenandoah on the melody. Our seniors came and supported us. sher, claris and i had a big big lollipop each from them.

cca has students from 2 campuses, and we had problems to make everyone unite together. Before the seniors stepped down, they chatted with us about our batch and improvements we should make. I seldom talk to the “bartley” people since i’ve got my own clique. Shir is the bravest of the few “bartley” people to step out and chatted with us. slowly, my clique and her clique cling together! We went East Coast Park on 15 July 06 together. It was a wonderful yet scaring experience for me. I’ve never cycle before and then i had to cycle. Pok, xx came along. 3 of them plus me, sher n claris rode from one end of the ecp to another end. leading the few of us were xx and sher.. They rode the FASTEST! i was at the middle. pok and claris rode behind me to ensure my safety. They tried to call me but i was too too concentrated on cycling.

2006.. 31 Aug was sher’s bday. went kbox with sher and 2 of her classmates. I had my first 56th bday in Lau Pa Sat on 06 Sept. then i saw claris carrying a box of cake along to lau pa sat.. and i really tot that it was sher’s belated bday cake. after our dinner, we opened up the cake box and took out the candles. amazingly, there were alot of candles.. resembling 56. O.. it was meant to celebrate pok, pear and my bday. the september babies. There, we had foreigners from china, japan etc. to sing bday song for us. =)

05-07 Dec 06.. had chalet at downtown with replicas. learnt to play mahjong and was quite addicted to it.. and i won one of the rounds!

2007. we shifted to the new campus. finally, we can see more miake-ians everyday in school. we performed for the japanese exchange students and they were so kawaii. We had ake camp on 15-16 Mar. During these 2D1N camp, we really enjoyed ourselves alot! training for our SYF. and had our meals outside everytime. 26 April. The day which everyone was waiting for. THE SYF DAY! All our hardwork really paid off. the night practices that we have.. and we got what we deserved. GOLD!

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