Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010 Time: 8:34 AM
ITS REALLY BEEN A WONDERFUL YEAR I GUESS... EVEN WITH THE SHEER MADNESS OF HAVING TO PULL OFF LECTURES, TUTORIALS, PW, CHINESE AND CHOIR AND I THINK I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT THIS YEAR HAS SEEN NOT ONLY ME, BUT THE PEOPLE AROUND ME GROW, TO BE MORE MATURE, TOLERANT AND SADLY, IN SOME WAYS, JADED. (BECAUSE JC LIFE REALLY DRAINS THE HELL OUT OF YOU) BUT I'M NOT SAYING I DIDNT HAVE FUN THROUGHOUT, IT WAS FUN! ALTHOUGH NOT TOWARDS THE END OF THE SCHOOL TERM BIT I DONT THINK I WOULD HAVE HAD IT ANY OTHER WAY. JANUARY WAS MOSTLY CHOIR FOR ME. THEN THE DAY CAME TO COLLECT MY O LEVEL RESULTS AND MY FEELINGS GOT CHEATED BY MRS TAN COS SHE CLAIMED I DID REALLY WELL (WHICH WAS SADLY NOT THE ONE DIGIT NUMBER THAT I REALLY WAS HOPING FOR...) COMING INTO MJ CHOIR, I REMEMBERED THE FIRST PRACTICE, IT WAS RAINING SO HEAVILY AND I TOOK 359 IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND ENDED UP 8 STOPS LATER OUTSIDE SOME OTHER SCHOOL (AND WAS NEARLY LATE, AND VERY FLUSTERED) SO THEN FEBUARY ROLLED AROUND AND WE HAD ORIENTATION BEFORE CHINESE NEW YEAR CAME. I HAD SO MUCH FUN (AND I THOUGHT MY CLASSMATES WERE REAL NICE - WELL MOST OF THEM STILL ARE...) AND FINALLY MORE GIRLS CAME FOR CHOIR! I THINK THE FIRST ONES WERE YING TING, GWEN AND JIA XUAN RIGHT? HAHA MARCH = ITALY THIS WAS REALLY THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR. EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT, THE COMPANY, THE WEATHER, THE VIEW, THE FOOD... I COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON, TRUST ME. JUST THE FEELING OF WAKING UP EVERYDAY TO THAT SPECTACULAR VIEW AND GO DOWN FOR BREAKFAST TO SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HAVE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BONDED WITH THROUGH THIS SHARED EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING THESE SONGS, WANTING TO PERFECT THEM TO THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE LEVEL POSSIBLE AND FINALLY PERFORMING ON A WORLD STAGE, WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST FEELINGS THAT ONE CAN HAVE. OF COURSE WE WERE DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE WON CATEGORY CHAMPIONS AND HECK, EVEN THE GRAND PRIZE, BUT A GOLD 4 IS RESPECTABLE. THIS WAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, AN EXPERIENCE THAT HAPPENS ONCE IN A LIFETIME. [OKAY THE FOLLOWING WILL THEN BE JUST EVENTS THAT OCCURED THIS YEAR ...] LIMELIGHT =) WHAT A NIGHT. I BET MOST OF US WERE SIMPLY ON AN ADRENALINE RUSH (AND WOULD GLADLY DO THIS EVERY NIGHT) LEARNING THE CHOREO WAS A PART THAT I KIND OF DREADED... (DUE TO THE FACT THAT I HAVE 2 LEFT FEET) BUT I'LL ADMIT, IT WAS WORTH IT =) J2 FAREWELL I REALLY DIDNT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE J2 BATCH WAS SOOO NICE! AND SOMEHOW I THINK ALL OF US JUST KNEW THAT IT WASNT GONNA BE THE SAME. FROM NOW ON, THEY WOULD HAVE TO STUDY STUDY STUDY, AND WE WERE ON OUR OWN. NO MORE J2S TO HIDE BEHIND. ITS SORT OF A LEAVING THE NEST KIND OF THING... MID YEARS. GOSH IT WAS HORRENDOUS. BUT I GUESS THE ONLY THING I LIKE ABOUT HAVING EXAMS IS THAT WE DONT HAVE TO STAY IN SCHOOL FOR LESSONS THE WHOLE DAY, SO IF YOU DONT HAVE A MORNING PAPER, YOU CAN WAKE UP LATE, GO TO SCHOOL, AND STUDY WHATEVER SUBJECT THAT YOU FEEL LIKE STUDYING WITH THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD. =) PW ACTUALLY, I THINK OUR PW GROUP WAS THE BEST GROUP IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE GROUP =) SO YAY! EXTRA THANKS TO SHAWN AND SHIRLEY FOR DOING MOST OF THE WORK. HEH CHINESE IT WASNT REALLY THAT BAD ACTUALLY THOSE PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT CHINESE IN JC IS WORSE THAN TAKING HMT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL LIED. SERIOUSLY, ITS LIKE SORT OF TAKING O LEVEL CHINESE, AGAIN. BUT THEN AGAIN, THE RESULTS ARENT OUT YET AND I SCREWED UP MY ORAL, SO WHO KNOWS? *CROSSES FINGERS* PROMOS MY CHEM MY CHEM MY CHEM AGAIN!!! I REALLY TRIED. SIGH CAROLLING IT WAS A PERFECT WAY TO TOP OFF THE YEAR. SEEING SOME OF THE J2S AGAIN WAS REALLY NICE. I REMEMBER I WAS SOOO HAPPY TO SEE MINDY AND ALICIA (I HOPE YOUR FOOT GETS BETTER SOON!) IT WAS JUST THIS WHOLE FUN STRETCH OF FESTIVE, JOY, FRIENDSHIP AND PURE UNADULTERATED HARMONY (WELL, MOST OF THE TIME LAH) THE TK TABLE IT MAKES ME HAPPY IN THE MORNINGS WHEN I COME TO SCHOOL LOOKING LIKE A ZOMBIE... AND I LOVE HOW IT STILL KEEPS ME CONNECTED TO THE TK PEOPLE (DUH) WITHOUT IT, I THINK I WOULD NOT HAVE TALKED AS MUCH TO SHAH, NAT AND TIFF (IN PARTICULAR) SO PLEASE STILL HAVE A TK TABLE NEXT YEAR!!! HAHA THE FAB 4 YES ONE YEAR ON AND WE ARE STILL AS FAB AS EVER! YEAH [AND I STILL HAVE NOT PASSED YOU THE STUFF I GOT FOR YALL FROM AUSSIELAND] MARE - MY EVIL TWIN, I AM SO GLAD YOU GOT (IN A WAY...) STUCK IN MJ WITH ME BECAUSE ITS BEEN GOOD TO HAVE SOMEONE TO TURN TO WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE ABSOLUTE CRAP (AND I HOPE I HAVE PROVIDED YOU WITH AS MUCH SOLACE TO YOUR REASONBLY CLEAN MJ LIFE AS YOU HAVE TO MINE^^ ) THE OTHER TWO OF YOU, YOU KNOW I STILL HEARTXZXZ YOU MANY MANY! YES AND WE WILL STILL CONTINUE TO MEET UP MONTHLY NEXT YEAR =) TO HALF OF 10S308 [YOU KNOW WHICH HALF YALL ARE RIGHT?] THANKS FOR BRINGING SO MUCH LAUGHTER AND UNGLAMNESS TO 2010. IT REALLY MADE WITHSTANDING LECTURES, TESTS, AND THE OCCASIONAL, ANNOYING PEOPLE THAT MUCH EASIER! HAHA WE GO SING K SOON =) TO YING TING, MINDY, JIA XUAN, SHERYL (LEE), JIA MIN, ALICIA THANK YOU FOR KEEPING ME REAL, FOR MAKING ME THINK ABOUT THINGS, BECAUSE EACH ONE OF YOU HAS GIVEN ME GOOD ADVICE, WHETHER ITS THROUGH YOUR BLOGS, HTHTS OR EVEN RANDOM CONVERSATIONS. =) THE GIRLS OF MJCHOIR (10-11) FOR MAKING GREAT MUSIC, MEMORIES AND FRIENDS =) |