back from China!

That was one super long trip omg. I got a little bored towards the end, but overall it was still quite fun and fruitful

I didn't get to see snow D: I visited Beijing Tianjin Chengde and Shanghai but it either snowed before or after I went to each location x_x how exasperating!

I bought a lot of stuff, but they were all done under the watchful eye of my parents. How I wish they could just give me some money and let me roam the place myself and not interfere with what I'm going to buy. Everything I buy need to have a reason, so I couldn't get a lot of things for my friends because, as I quote, 'it didn't have a point' T_T

Nevertheless, China is really a great place for buying stuffs. My parents bought a lot of food, but I'm still having reservations about things in China and so I always steer clear of things that I need to put into my mouth and body. Here are some of the things I got:

1. A suit (RMB 200 = ~$40)
I finally have my own suit! ^_^ (I borrowed my prom one eh in case you were wondering) The entire suit, both top and bottom costs only 40 bucks! What a steal! x)

2. Nike running shoes (RMB 70 = ~$14)
You know its an imitation when the Nike logo is embedded the wrong way. Haha but its still comfy and functional. Time to go running

3. Timberland outdoor shoes (RMB 80 = ~$16)
They're brown, nice, and really comfy. I remembered going on a school trip to Beijing in sec 2 and Nigel Fong bought the same shoes. He got it for RMB 300 if i'm not wrong. My mum's bargaining skills is (Y)

4. Black leather shoes (RMB 85 = ~$17)
My old pair was starting to tear so its time to get a new pair. There were a lot of cheap ones at RMB 20!! Hehe but I decided to get a better one that looks more stylish.

5. Books and scores
Amazing stuffs :DDD Shanghai book city is awesome. 7 storey building filled with books, books and more books. I bought 2 fiction books, 4 non-fiction, and 7 books of scores in total.

6. Painting (RMB 150 = ~$30)
Its on horses, and the original price is like RMB 800+ but I won a lucky draw and got to buy it for $150. Its as big as the flower one in Tingfang's house i think, if not bigger x)

7. Rubik's cubes x)))
I bought a tetrahedral shaped one for RMB 15 and a 3x3x3 cube with all the faces of the same colour for RMB 35. I got a feeling I got scammed for the latter, I saw the sales assistant sniggering at me.

Of course there are many more, but it will take forever to list everything. Anw life in China is quite different from Singapore. The same soap produces less foam there (something to do with hard water i think) and the traffic situation there is (Y). I hear a car horn about once every 3 seconds. 2 weeks in China has made me desensitized to haze, nicotine and jaywalking DDD:

I shall upload some pictures when I feel like sorting out the pics in my camera. I can't wait to see everyone again! Organise more outings! Badminton, tennis, soccer, basketball, lanning, mahjong, anything! :D I'll be there.

Happy New Year everyone! :D

off to china!

:D

first time i'm gonna see snow! whee!

will be back on the 30th, so there will probably be no updates unless i miraculously get internet ascess there.

anybody who wants anything from china sms me by 3pm tmrw :DD

seeya! :))

now i know why you blog in point form

it doesn't require much thinking at all ^^ just write whatever comes to your mind

1. kenneth, charlotte, michelle and I played badminton yesterday. kenneth and charlotte exchanged two thirds of the shots while michelle and i looked on

2. i sprained my right ankle during sometime during the first fifteen minutes of badminton while trying to retrieve a shot that went wide. i kicked my foot several times and shook the displaced ankle back into place. loose ankles ftw

3. the 4 of us went to nex mall for lunch after badminton. michelle bought a $5 plate of aglio olio which i think i can finish in 3 mouths x)

4. after lunch, kenneth and i saw a dvd shop screening "twilight". he commented, "best movie ever man."

5. i went home and started reading twilight. i finished it that night.

6. i think edward cullen is incredibly sexy. how do you get such a formidable boyfriend?! i'm jealous

7. mrs poh is going to shanghai next year D: we'll all miss her. "best teacher ever man!" (no sarcasm this time)

8. wenyun appeared in the news yesterday! So zai! Looks like bw musicfest 2011 is in safe hands :)

9. i just broke my 90sec Lumines high score again ^^ Its now 154 squares. Thats 8 squares more than the record of 146 yanwei set on my phone :D

10. i visited my dentist again today. apparently my teeth are already in place and the braces can be removed already, that is if i'm just undergoing normal teeth arrangement treatment. i probably need to keep the braces on until i'm 20 though ):

11. i was once again instructed not to land myself into OCS because my jaw operation will be somewhere around june to august next year.

12. you can create a max of 3 msn accounts a day. sorry charlotte! i tried my best. jiayou on winning that windows phone!

should i continue to study music?

haha okay i'm back again. looks like persuading my mum was an easier thing to do x)

anw i just watched the channel U movie 《等一等爱情》. I think its really quite sweet and touching (: One of the better singaporean scripts i've seen so far. And I still think laiweng looks like joanne peh.

i attended RISE's 10th anniversary concert on friday, and met trevor again today where we discussed the running of the Tanglin CC Orchestra along with many other like-minded music-lovers. After 4 years of playing with CC Chinese orchestras, i'm finally going to play in a western orchestra again under the baton of one of the people i respect the most in my life :) It feels good to be home again! My best days in RI were in RISE, no doubt about that.

I have a sudden urge to play the cello again now! :D But since its late alr, I'll go embrace my wife again tomorrow.

there's still that one question im unsure about though D:

on hiatus (i dunno for how long also)

my mum got pissed with me and my brother using the laptop excessively (2 hours a day is a lot i'm sure -.-) and bought a random lock that fits into the laptop charger hole. So now we cannot charge the laptop unless we crack the 4 digit code or we obtain her permission. The former seems way easier T_T

In conclusion, I have no more computer and internet access for the rest of my post A-levels life unless a miracle happens.

Eh the laptop still has one hour of battery left.. maybe i can use the com for 5 minutes every few days to update this blog. but then again, my brother might use the entire hour's worth of battery in one mapling session.

On a side note, i'm bored to the max. Organise more outing please! D: And sms me, since I can no longer use the com.

nice people :)

eh i think i've lost many things in these two years ):

first it was my camera, which I lost in Esplanade during the chamber ensem SYF presentation last year.

then it was my wallet, which I left behind in an MRT station a few months ago.

and then the afternoon before prom 3 days ago, I went swimming at Hougang Swimming Pool and I think my watch somehow dropped out from my bag. I went back today to swim again and tried my luck at the service counter, without harbouring much hope of recovering my watch. Lo and behold! When I looked through the glass panel, there my watch was, lying at one corner of the receptionist table :DDD

I'm really thankful that I have been able to recover my items each time I lost it. Great thanks once again to all the kind souls out there :) But I must really be more careful in the future

hehe on a more emo note, i hope i don't lose the friendships forged in these two years!

PS: jiayou evan, wenyu, jingxian, benlow and bryan! hang in there in NS! we'll join you shortly x)

prom + sleepover (without sleep)

Prom was not bad I guess. I took photos with a lot of people I wanted to, but my camera battery died twice during the event which stopped me from taking any more D: Anw, my class sat at the very last table (table 100) beside two giant amplifiers which produces sound that superimpose and deal considerable damage to your eardrums, leaving me with little choice than to leave the table and wander around taking photos x)

Everyone looked quite pretty and handsome. I couldn't recognise quite a lot of the girls at first glance because all their specs became contact lenses, and some had makeup which transformed them quite a lot. When I first saw michelle (chia) I thought she was miss ong oops x) And eliz has a tattooed necklace which I thought was quite cool

After prom we went to bon's house for a sleepover. Kudos to bon for being an awesome host, providing everything we needed. I didn't sleep the entire night, surviving on mahjong and hearts. I'm quite glad I won Hearts in the end x) I spent quite long thinking what I should throw for the first card cos I needed it to be sufficiently small so as to save the big cards and shoot the moon later, but I also needed the card to be sufficiently big to not raise suspicion. After the game I dozed off on the sofa for about half an hour while the rest played guitar hero. I'm quite sure dennis did as well x) Michelle didn't sleep at all, I can't remember who else didn't. *Salutes*

Okay anw Chinese books are getting abit boring i think D: I've been stuck at the same book for 3 days alr, and that is unprecedented. I feel like switching to english novels for a change. Any recommendations?

my mum rocks :D

Prom and sleepover at bon's house tomorrow! That makes 4 outings in one week:D In the past I had to bluff my mum whenever I'm going out for a gathering or lan session, but this time I just tell her the truth and she just let me go. My mum rocks :D

Class party at wenyu's house was quite fun. Wenyu has a really cool maid who pokes fun at him all the time. It would have been better if more people were there though, and if I hadn't 放炮 three times during mahjong D:

And yes Soy from "The Blood Pledge" looks like Seohyun from SNSD! I knew she looked familiar, I just didn't know who to relate her to until Bon pointed it out. I can memorise all the names of the SNSD girls x) Okay whatever, all the korean girls look somewhat the same :S

I finished 2 series of books (9 books in total) in 5 days and I'm starting on my 3rd series now. The first series was totally spellingbinding and I had a minor hangover after finishing it. The second series however, was completely 'huh?!' It had so many issues unaddressed and the ending was soo abrupt. I wonder if China actually censors its books

May tomorrow be an exciting day! :D And may the remaining 2 series of books be good. Nothing sucks more than a bad book.

Life is good :)

I'm back to former pastime: reading!

Nothing beats a good book, and thats a maxim that has stood by me my whole life. Gah its just so awesome to read again. I haven't touched a single novel in my two years in RJ!

I haven't been playing computer games like most of my friends. I tried to play a bit on Tuesday after I came back from Bon's sleepover but surprisingly I found it really boring and stopped after a while. Anw I've made a commitment to quit computer games in sec 4 and I haven't looked back since then.

^_^ I currently have 4 series of novels, adding up to a total of 16 books and I'm finishing 1.5 books a day. No prizes for guessing the language or the genre of books I'm reading! :D And yes when my family goes to visit my sister on the 18th I'm gonna bring an empty suitcase and fill it with books over there. The ones sold in Singapore range from 4 to 10 times as expensive!

On a side note, my right shoulder still feels sore. I guess I haven't recovered from the hardcore Wii tennis and baseball we played as Bon's sleepover and it was aggravated by badminton yesterday. Haha anw I just realised that I can play badminton with both arms!

Back to my book :D