woo! the results are out!

Headlines: Raffles bands take unprecedented sweep of all 3... silvers.

yes. RIMB as well as RGSSB got silver for the SIBF, and amazingly, both bands got 82% /100%!

Quote from RGSSB BM," I want a rematch!" (lols)

anyway, all the hard work that we have put in practising our pieces have really paid off, and going by the results now, i'm even more confident that we will be able to get our gold /with honours next year. at least i hope we do...

goodness, i'm too happy to worry about work now, or anything else for that matter.

Till next post...

omg.

tomorrow is the SIBF (Singapore International Band Festival), and i'm playing in it to represent RI, along with the rest of the RIMB. this means that if we do not win a gold at the competition tmr, we will be breaking the ever lengthening chain of gold awards that has been the tradition of RIMB since i forgot when. we will be playing dance celebration and merry widow, FOR THE LAST TIME. (how ominous.)

and thinking of that just keeps giving me butterflies. it just got worse when i found out that other more larger and experienced bands will be competing against us for the cash prize of up to 19000 dollars.

eek.

will be leaving school tmr at 10 am to go for practise just before our performance at 1.50pm at some place i'm not exactly sure of. yen san, help me keep homework pls. hope i do well for titration test tmr.

and adding on to the previous post, here's an obviously editted picture (for joke purposes) of future mrt lines.

"WE don't need cars anymore in Singapore."

(ROFL at Causeway line.) (Some of these lines look as though they'll be in the ocean though. And since when will there be a Terminal 5?!?)


Till next post...and wish me luck.

whoo.

back from band practise today, which in case you people don't know what it is, it's a 4-5 hour affair conducted during the afternoons of school days and holidays. even though sometimes i feel it's a drag to go there,

it is my CCA, and i have a commitment to it. (OMG so cheesy >.<)

anyway, today's session has gone well, oura (our conductor) was actually smiling at some parts when we played (which is rare) anyway, some major overhauls for both pieces and random storytelling by him. anyway, went out for short dinner with batch mates later, and went home soon afterwards.

by the way, for those of you who don't live near MRT stations and find transport inconvenient, take a look at the future MRT map.

MRT: Coming to a neighbourhood near you

hmm, how should i start?

ok first, due to our stellar performance at the tennis finals earlier, the school has decided to let us have july 11th as a day off. also, the week after that was APCG, which means the entire week is free for us.

when teachers smell a break around the corner, it usually means bad news for us you see. homework aside, our CCA decided to give us training on the off day.

OFF day? what kind of OFF day is this?

urrgh.

aiya, can't blame them since competition for me is like 2 weeks away.

anyway, my American cousins and Japanese cousins have just arrived in sunny Singapore. which i think is pretty funny considering:

Singapore was taken over by the japanese in world war 2.
The americans bombed the japanese.

What an interesting relationship between the 3 countries.

fine, i'm being lame.

but, i must say, even though their all younger than me and they can get quite irritating sometimes, they are quite cute,especaially the youngest one from america. the 2 japanese ones are still umm.... the same, as in they look the same, and the younger one is actually as tall as the older one already! goodness... they still can't speak english though. pity... not suprisingly, as they have a grand total of 4 hours of english lessons a year! wow...

will post pictures of them if i can get a digital camera. till then, word descriptions will have to do.

Till next post...

i got this in the email from my sister, and i was laughing my ass off. it's a quick take on life in Singapore. Enjoy. =)

In Singapore, the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings
(HDB),
And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP).
Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB).
If that's not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and
get more from you.
So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment
(MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay
the
Sum Ahead (PSA),
Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB).
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.
When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating
Hospital (MOH),
You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund.
If you are out of luck, you may
meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH)
to treat you,
And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).
To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway
(COE).
If that doesn't help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP)
on the roads.
If you don't own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train
(MRT),
OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).
Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can
relax,
Not even the good old place we used to go because it has become
So Expensive and Nothing TO See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!

lols.

Till next post...

ok. school's been in session for about 2 weeks, and almost immediately once i went back, the teachers are out to get me again.
seriously.
come into class, teach for 1 hour, and cis boom bah, leave our class at the end with fond reminders that a project/compo/work/assignment/whatever is due in *insert ridiculously short time here* then, if that wasn't enough, the next teacher comes in with exactly the same thing on her mind.

here's an analogy. if teachers were hurricanes, then in one day we (3T) got hit by Hurricane Quah, Hurricane Chionh, Hurricane Tay, and Hurricane Wang. these hurricanes brought along strong gusts of homework, and there is a large chance of project surges as well. and even though their landfall was predicted weeks in advance, we were not allowed to evacuate the class just before their arrival.

and on the subject of hurricanes... it reminds me of the GEOG PROJECT on that STUPID HURRICANE which just had to HIT burma JUST before the holidays. and our oh so creative geog teachers took this as the perfect chance to invent a "project" for us based on it. so i guess it's true. a disaster can have large impact over a large radius. -_-

and i just remembered, it's due next wednesday.

DIE......

on a happier note, some things i have been worrying about for the last few weeks and month are finally cleared:
1. social advocacy project class presentation finished!
2. maths test over! (slightly screwed up though)
3. general work from the past few weeks
4. chinese book test finished! (it was really random)
5. Physics PT done!

hope to add more to list soon...

Oh, and the western stall at the canteen just suddenly closed down. which is abit the strange since it was the stall with one of the best business; with the fries and the $2.50 set meals and such. if this trend of suddenly closing down continues, the school canteen will be useless in about 1 year or so. which is not good news for the students; who will find themselves with a less connvinient place to eat (RJC canteen) and the school admin, who will suddenly find themselves with a new empty block (how convinient).

so now, our school canteen has only 5 stalls. which applied to the Demand-Supply hypothesis, means that the queues now are longer. and this is especially true on friday, where the WHOLE SCHOOL plus/minus teachers go for recess at the SAME TIME. which invariably leads to longer waiting time, which leads to getting to class late, which leads to getting a blasting from the teacher for being late (worse if that teacher is Mrs. Priscilla Lim)

which leads to the conclusion that it is best for the school population in general to open up AT LEAST 1 more store. (or extend recess =P)

what wishful thinking i have. eh?

Till next post...