Eat, Pray, Love

Haven't really been reading much. Until lately i utilised the remaining vouchers from my friends last year. Cos they are expiring by my bday this year. haha! And with the discount from Friends of SCO card at Kinokuniya, I'm able to purchase quite a no. of books from there! (Finally something useful from the FSCO card) lol.

So Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is one book I've been wanting to read anyway. And it's really a good one. The writer full of humor and her way of writing. Interesting stuff she experiences and I really admire her for her guts in the traveling. I wish I have the ability and the chance to do that kind of traveling in future.

It's basically abt her visit to Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali) to seek for pleasure, god and balance. And it was her trying to heal herself from the mess she'd just gotten out of back in New York. Talked abt the ppl she met on the way, how they have affected her life from then on.

The 2nd section is quite on the spiritual journey of hers. I'm not a religious nor spiritual person, but the experience she illustrated was so extensive. So focused yet funny at times. Not boring at all.

While i was looking a picture of the book online, i found a website on the book! By the author herself! Click here to go there. :) And sad to find out that one of the friends she met along the way has already passed away. One funny person.

If u wanna read the book, can find me. But probably after my sis has read it. haha.

My busy life

Sometimes I do still feel that life is really quite hard on me. Chances always slip by and only come by when I already go for something that is not as desirable. Which is quite a sad thing for me.

Just that day I met up with my jc mates, and they were talking abt the bonus and whatever they are going to get this year cos they are under the govt. The benefits, and the pay and the ladder that they are able to climb, blah blah. While kim and i were really just listening. Well, I can only say the 2 of us are really out of the discussion cos 1. she's not working now, 2. we are not working under the govt, 3. our pay are so low we can't even make a good point ourselves. And i really only can say we are really serving our jobs out of passion.

Now... I can only say... I'm really very busy, but i'm not earning big bucks at all. If u ask me, for july, I have only 3 free days now. Or rather, 2 of the days, i'm only half free. -.- So it's like, only 2 days free in total. sometimes i would ask myself, what am i doing all these for? But it's kinda difficult to let go of some of the things i'm doing. First, of cos i have to do my job and do what i'm required, plus i'm paid! haha. Then for teaching, I feel that it might not be my obligation to stay there forever to teach them, but i dun want to give up so quickly. It's very little money, can't really do much to my expense cos the travel expense i need to get to the school is already like what 40% of what i get. But i don't know, I do like to teach the little children although some are really like, I dunno if I can really handle them for long. And keep changing teacher is not good for the kid(s). I want to really let them like violin and not be like me.

Then for SYCO, it's one of my biggest dilemma. I don't get paid, I have to tire myself out by rushing down to prac after work for every prac and dun get to eat dinner, then get very worn out after the prac. But my motivations are the performances that we put up tgt, and the friends that i've been with for so many years. Although quite a no. are leaving and I'm really sad to know that, I still don't know if i'm able to let it go so easily. It's really not an easy decision. And then again, if i stop syco, i might not have the motivation to continue with erhu lesson too. And erhu lesson is something i so treasure now.

Life is hard to go by, especially when i know of a friend going to work at sco, i wished i had made a different decision once. Just that now, i have to go on with life and see what is installed for me. I hope to see the light soon anyhows. Almost the end of my 2nd month here. I hope i'm doing not bad for the others. :)

Bday for Gemini babies :D

Oh! June is ending soon and i haven't really update finish June happenings! Haha. Too busy to really sit down and blog properly. Paiseh.

The next on activity was prawning with my beloveds!!! :D It was both quite boring and interesting. Boring when there's no catch at all. Interesting and excited when u got something on the hook. We are quite noob so the no. of prawns we got is not equivalent to the amount we pay. HAHA! We got 22 prawns with 3 rods @ $90 for 3h. Oh and that's for 8 ppl. lol! We can't even have at least 3 for each person. =P

And here goes the say: 'it's the process that matters'. haha! Ya lah, at first i was really just waiting and waiting for the prawn to bite my bait. Waited here and there, i think for 1h i had nothing? While we were complaining and consoling ourselves that maybe the pond dun have a lot of prawns that's why we didn't get anything. Then the uncle from the next pond just stood over to prove us wrong by fishing a few with every bait he puts in. Probably a minute for each prawn? Unbelievable. And we were really looking at him unbelievably. Haha! In the end he gave us a few of the bait he's using. Damn cool. It really works (better). Haha! Cos eventually some baits got eaten and we didn't get the prawn. lol. Noob. =P BUT. I fished 3 prawns! So i did my part. Heh. :) After that I was going ard taking photos. haha. Jan is sad cos she had no luck until much much later. Hee. So she took photos too. haha!

The first prawn we got.

Happy with their catches!

Pose with their catch? or other ppl's catch? lol.

Really to be cooked. Heh heh. :D

Since we dun have enough catch to have them for dinner, we just oven grill and eat them up. Quite nice though~ :D And then proceed to have our dinner at Old Airport Rd instead. haha. Western food, carrot cake, claypot rice, hokkien hei mee, chicken wing and what else? I can't rmb. haahha. And sugar cane and tau huay. Tau huay was good. like really good. :)

Then after that we tried to find a place to get a grp photo and..... the only place we found was the old airport rd market sign outside. LOL. And we look like some tourist partly cos i was using dslr? And we were discussing abt that while trying to find a trustable passerby to help us take. And indeed! That person asked where are we from once he took the picture for us. Lol. We all laughed out loud. Should have told him then, Various places in the east of sg. haha.

We look like tourist?

After that home sweet home liao. cos monday work. haha.

Anyways, a Holga for me and a bright pink Adidas jacket for qinqin! :D

Exciting June Part 2

Then comes the annual SYCO concert. This year no outing was planned before the the concert. Which was a bit boring, and i feel this year is quite neglected by everyone. Including our umbrella. cos we weren't even given dinner. And so i didn't have dinner... cos of a lot of reason. But nvm. U still know there's fun once everyone is there. like instantly. :)

First we have this toilet party where so many were stuck in the toilet putting on make up, with rachel and zixin esp. long with their eyeliners. lol. It's quite funny lah. Until it was like time to go out to meet via to pass her the tix. Saw the cc ppl as well. mel haven't reach by the time i had to go in. Dad and mum too. tsk tsk. Anyway, 2 guys put jj's aeroplane so i didn't get to see them. hais.

Okay, to the concert. I thought it was really quite good. Given the kind of stuff we were producing on our last week's rehearsals. haha! And i admit i did play a few places wrongly. =X I think i was too focused in i dunno what. And i have to say that just talking abt the SYCO songs, this year's songs are one of the nicest we have performed so far, though there were many songs we loved as well. And as usual, the combine song for SY and the teachers is really good! I love that song since last year, the first few times i listen to its recording. Too happy to believe that we will be playing this piece when i saw it was still pending for approval from MD last year. I was secretly praying that he will approve it. Haha! And he did! Overjoyed! :D

Then was crazy photo taking session during the concert break. And after that actually cos we are free till the combine song. Haha. And dunno why some ppl are nowhere to be found. lol.

Cool. I like. :)

Then after concert. Finally got to see my parents and the 2 friends. My mum actually went to the autograph session, to tell mr quek that she's my mother again. HAHA! My mother that is. -.- So anyways we didn't had time to go up for the autograph cos the chats and photo-taking downstairs is taking up too much time seriously. By the time i want to go up, they were all down already. Chey! Still took a photo with jj in the end lah. Junior leh. haha!

RAH! but i think same as last year, no recordings for us!! as in no vcd or dvd given to us anymore. BOO! Because of someone we all know who. yucks. 

Then our usual routine to LPS. lol. The ny ppl came too. Had a great time lah. Them and their craps. like wth. We had so many ppl, there were so many grps. cc ppl were there with jj as well. Eat eat eat and laugh laugh laugh lah. and doing stupid stuff. Then drag drag drag to get off that place. Wanted to come home but in the end went to daryl's house with the rest. Didn't do much, just talk. Talked abt quite a lot of stuff, which are quite random sometimes. haha. But good time with the sy ppl lah.

In the end came back in the morning with junan and shenglong. Coincidentally, my er-jie just returned as well! It was like 5.30am at least? lol! And luckily i was only meeting the beloveds in the afternoon. which i was still late! lol. Okay, continue next entry. Got to sleep. i got outbreak these few days! damn irritating.

Exciting June Part 1

I realised i haven't blogged from start of the month till now! Everyday of june is like packed with all the things in my life. haha! Like seriously! How can my life be so filled with things one moment and so empty the other? lol!

First week of June is like that time we always look forward to. :) Although it's like intensive rehearsal for sy annual concert. Everyone is easily tired and could be the most stressful period for some. We nv missed out the fun we should have. :D For the Nth year, we have been going on with our colour week! It's love i tell u. So this year we had: 

red on monday

green for tuesday

blue for wednesday

orange/yellow for thursday

and black (sy shirt) for friday!! :)

PS: the new blogger format quite difficult to use though more convenient. TSK.  

Ok.. Blog until here first. More text and photos the next time. :)

Call in on air!! :D

Shall blog while memory is still fresh. Like WOW! I called in to jiafa's programme again! 2nd time! LOL! Somemore he was only covering for peifen this week. :D I rmb i called in once when he was the host for night programme. So i went to check and TADA! Click here to see the post. :) I rmb it was like the last 1 or 2 weeks before they change shift again.

And again! Ytd night i was just trying my luck... Lying on my bed, with specs off already. After a few 'Number Busy's and 'Network Busy', i suddenly saw 'Call 1'! I was so shocked! HOHOHO. So faster listen lah... he haven't pick up yet.. so i was praying that he would pick it up and YEAH! He did! lol. I super happy lah! hahah. He asked me to hang on a while cos it was still at the commercial period. I wanted to tell the rest.. but not enough time sia.. hahaha! And i was at a loss. i went to kitchen to on the radio first so i can speak louder. haha!

The call went on air and chatted for quite a while. Haha.. He asked if i'm still a student first. Haha! And if i always listen until so late. Actually before i started working, by the time i listen to the radio at night, it's always after the shifts. But also same as listen until very late right. haha. Then talked abt my work nature and workplace. Then he ask me '做得开心吗?' I said all right... 不错, then he say 也不能说不好对吗？等一下别人听到。Exactly. Haha!

Anyway i dedicated the song to asswai ppl, to let us all work towards concert this sat and it will go all well! :) Then he asked what instru i played. I wanted to say erhu but i playing gh in asswai leh. So i say gh lah. Then he dunno what is gh. lol. so funny lah.. I was trying to explain lor. 他和二胡长得差不多，声音比较高，但身高没有比较高。Haha! I feel like slapping myself. lol. So he asked abt asswai also... like how long we prepared and is it very tough. blah blah blah.

So it ended with him saying, '如果你也跟宛颖一样，这个星期六有表演，那祝你们演出成功。' Erm. Something like that. I think i was too happy i can't really rmb all. hahahahaha. U all try these few days lah. Let's own it.

PS: it took me 3 repeats of my name to get him say it right. But at least he said it right at the end. :)))

PSS: I was hoping that he will play the JJ song after the dedication but the song that was right after the dedication was 蔡淳佳's 等一个晴天, then after that was JJ's 会有那么一天. :)

Random feelings

Suddenly i rmb something. 

We were in my aunt cum godma's car and we were talking abt my sis' wedding. Then she asked me when i getting a boyfriend. like -.- Then i said, erm... '要找就会有的meh? 找工作都找这么久了，男朋友应该没有那么快啦.' Like the best ans i can give. Seriously not like i do not want, but is really don't have. So what can i do?

But seriously i dunno is i suay or what lah... Ok i think i suay. Have been suay lately, I mean still suay. I haven't won any money from mahjong since i dunno when. I haven't had something which i really want it to happen. Whichever thing i didn't want it to happen, it just will. 

Life is a game. But even if i play it right, i will get to the end first? I'm not sure about that. But suayness haven't left me yet. Or so i think. 

And so, I really don't know what i have done to enable other ppl to treat me like how they do. I've never taken any person or any thing for granted. Eg. if i am the one asking a favor of another person, i expect myself to be accommodating to the other party's convenience. But i dunno why sometimes when i'm the person helping, i have to accommodate also. I'm not saying every time and everyone does that. But i'm just puzzled. I guess i've said this many times before also. It is because i'm too easy-going? TOO easy-going for my friends to take advantage of? I dunno, but perhaps i really have to learn to say 'No'.

Dreams. Ambitions. Reality

Yeap, it's been another week since. And i could say... it was quite a relaxing week. Relaxing in the sense, not so much work and enough time for play. :)

But actually, life for me isn't really exciting this way. So I'd rather i have more things to do? Well, maybe. And yet we complain about how tiring it is when we have too many things to do. Pure irony.

Anyway, i was watching 就想赖着你 today and 杨朵 said that she had always worked to survive and never was able to pursue what she really likes. She saw the lawyer's eyes flicker with excitement and light when he talks about law. It makes her want to pursue her dreams. And she will go all the way to do it. When i heard that, I was actually quite touched.

How many people can actually pursue their dreams and do something they like? Well, I can say that i didn't really realise my dream. My first ambition was a teacher. I mean i really like to teach, but I dunno where is my ability in teaching. Although i like it, i dun think i'm up to such a job. Then as the years go by, my dream is to be a DJ of my fav radio station. Becos i listen to the radio everyday since i was a kid. Probably ever since i have a memory of listening to a radio. I want to share the best music to my ears to everyone listening to the radio. I will allow no lousy music in my programme. My dream. But i dun think it will ever be a dream come true.

Anyway, it was never my dream to be a performer or musician, although i like to play the instrument and likes to perform with everybody else. It's the combine effort which i always adore and is proud of. So my next ambition is to lead a whole orchestra, to be proud of my members as i stay behind the scenes to take care of other stuff. Yet, I still didn't have the chance. I'm still waiting. The road is still long before me. I will still work for what I want. For now, i'm happy to be doing something related to my interest.

I have a friend who always complain about the job and the amount earned. I would say the complaints come from the dissatisfaction from the job. The pay is probably double of what i earn. But i nv complained abt my job. Becos i'm doing what i like and my friend is not. And if my friend is sensitive enough, things like 'i think the pay is really not very high and not enough'. I mean, look at what your friends are earning, they complained but they enjoyed it too. I guess you didn't. I look forward to the day your bond ends so you can go and do something else. (which might not pay as high as well).

I wouldn't say I want to see the light in front of my now, since I just started out. I couldn't be more ambitious than doing what I should and earning my experiences. I'm much more than happy even if i have to travel so far every day and not coming home for dinner cos of other commitments. I like what i'm doing now, including work, syco, teach and learn. Each and every thing i do, I find the satisfaction in it, and i think this is what everyone should look for. :)

asswai concert coming!

SYCO concert is coming again. There's no prac the next week, by the time we start prac again the week after, we gonna each other for the whole week! :D The totally <3 week. haha!

Still rmb last year i had this bad withdrawal syndrome cos i woke up the next morning after concert and still thought that it was the concert day. LOL! That was quite funny actually. But actually this year there was so much less activities... And less talk time too. :( Think mostly becos everyone is more busy with their life now.. well, including myself lah. So less outings, less supper (for me) = less trips home tgt, blah blah blah.

Although i know the last week before concert is going to be hectic, especially when i've already gone through the same process last year when i work temp here. But, i think it's going to be fulfilling and fun! Are we going to have our colour days this year again!? :) I'm looking forward to the concert anyhows! If u haven't grab ur ticket. Go get it NOW! hahaha.

And i'm happy about some friends going. look forward look forward! LOL! :)))

The kids...

Today my violin kid got a bad scolding. Poor her and not really very poor thing also. haha! I was very stern with her today cos I dunno why she has to keep laughing during lesson and doesn't want to listen to me. Apparently i think her mother heard everything outside the classroom. And when the lesson ended, she came in and gave her a lecture, and asked her to apologise to me, which, she finds it funny too. -.- And difficult to say it out. I think she's scared, but used the smile to hide it. 'Sorry' is really difficult to say. I wanted to say 'it's ok' when she couldn't say it out, but i decided that I shouldn't be so soft-hearted on her. Maybe it will teach her a small lesson and she will listen to me from then. I mean, hopefully. haha!

Ya, from first lesson till now, i think every week she will at least say once 'you don't know one lah'. Excuse me, if i don't know, how i teach you? -.- I'm so going to ban her from saying that.

While this one is too noisy, the other kid is too quiet. And he do work so slow! (for a primary 4 i.e.). And he doesn't want to ask even if he doesn't know. So he just stares at the page until i ask him. And he actually yawned during the lesson. -.- Hello, i've been working the whole day too ok. Hais.

Now i've got another new student anyway. Sat at west coast plaza. Yup. Still very far. And i'm taken away from my gym sessions totally. :( But anyway. Last week it was the 2nd lesson with this little girl. And she took some time to praise me from top to bottom, as in my necklace, clothes, shoes. LOL. I think cos she wants to talk and dun want to play violin. Smart kid. But a bit stressful cos her dad and elder sister can play violin too. haha. Then this one, ask her to play whole bow, dun want to listen. then tell me very hard. -.- If not hard, don't need to learn and practise alrdy right. haha. funny.

Ok. That's all for now. Look out for more of the kid's amusing acts.

Week 1 ends

Yeap, end of week 1. This is like so fast! lol.

But ok lah.. nothing much on first week. Just receive as much as i can. And it's like really A LOT! Very different. Yup. I understand, more responsibility, more duties, more of everything! haha. But so far so good... That is until my colleagues to go on leave. haha. Which is next week! One of them will not be coming in for the whole week. And then the next following week, the other will be off for her trip. So there are somedays i will be alone. Good luck to me! hahaha!

Yup, but next week should be the start of all my nightmares ba. HAHA! Like mon and wed SY, tues and fri teach violin (at yishun), and thurs is erhu lesson. Just the thought of it i want to faint liao. LOL! This week only had to teach.. no CO at all. Already a bit tiring. I need more energy! And this week is already quite upsetting cos i couldn't get to yishun on time on tues. I was terribly late. I felt so sorry lor. Was quite an awkward moment. But ya... hopefully next week will be better. Shifted back the time a bit. Fri is still ok.

And then monday too. Should be going to be late for sy ba. haha. Dun care lah. Bo bian. Got staff retreat. Yeap. That's all! TV also watch finish liao. Time to sleep! :)

Erhu . music . life

Haven't talk abt my erhu lesson for a long time now.

It's been slightly more than half a year since learning from zhulin laoshi. So far so good? Very fulfilling lessons. Practising yang guang and jiang nan and qin qiang now. Actually is quite xiong. lol! I think he has quite high expectations of me.. and of cos i have high expectations of myself lah. Just that, i'm a bit worried abt the future lessons cos i don't know if i really have the time to practise bit by bit. sighs. But i'll still try my best lah.

Learning jiang nan from him makes me realise that jiang nan is really not easy. No matter how hard i tried, couldn't get the feeling right. And i think it's kinda my own technical problem. and i'm not working hard enough ba.

Plus, now i've got to teach on 2 weekday nights and weekend aftn. Where do i find time? My weekday nights are ALL devoted to music-related stuff alr. Mon and Wed mostly SY, Tues and Fri teach violin, Thurs usually erhu lesson. !!! Oh actually is my everyday life that is devoted to music-related stuff. Including my job. Haha! Good thing to me though, it's like dream come true to have my life all revolving ard things i like. Just that maybe i do like more things than just music. haha.

My issue...

Today i suddenly thought of something which happened earlier this year.. and all along i didn't tell anyone. And i think no one else knew abt this cos i was the coordinator, and probably the person who said it. I'm not going to put any names down, i just want to rant it off.


We are arranging to meet a friend (A) for dinner/supper before she flies off. As there were quite a few of us, it was a bit difficult to arrange a time good for everyone. So there was a lot of smses to and fro. And i dunno, i might have confused some ppl along the way cos i sent different msges to A and the rest of the grp. Eventually, i managed to get most of the grp on a certain day which A said that she is fine with it alrdy.


So when i cfm the dinner meeting time with A, the reply i got was that A thought it would be supper. And goes on to say that she's having dinner at home with her family. I admit that it's my mistake to assume the time she is available to meet us. And becos A takes a very long time to reply each of my msg, and time is tight, so i didn't double check with her beforehand. Yup, my fault. So i tried to salvage it lah. I told the rest abt the situation i think. Then B told me that it's fine, but she can't stay too late cos of important school stuff next morning. And i told A abt it and ask her to come after her dinner, like as early as she can make it. My heart sank when i saw the next reply. 'my mum is cooking dinner specially for me. So i can only make it after dinner. You guys can eat first. It's ok if i don't see B. Meet her year end then.' I feel sad all of the sudden, sad for B, sad for myself, and sad for us all. She may have said the same abt me too.

Suddenly i felt like saying 'let's just forget abt the meet up', since A doesn't seem to see a need to. But i didn't say that out lah, just that i was quite emo for a while.

Ya.. my fault for the miscommunication... but she doesn't have to be so cold abt it. I felt that i have made a lot of effort for the close friends ard me and sometimes things like that just makes me feel a bit disappointed. And makes me think if all these while it's worthed me doing it.

A lot of thoughts still lingers within me, i don't know but sometimes when i think of such stuff, i will hold back for a while. But in the end, i still can't resist and try to do something i can to make things work.

If u know who and what i'm talking abt, you may want to talk to me abt it, but anything, i don't care. I don't know if u still read my blog, (and if u still rmb u said all these), you may want to think abt it. I don't know what's ur feeling when u told me those words. I really have no idea. I have no idea if we were still friends like we were.

Period.

Bubble-tea craze

Lately the BubbleTea craze is kinda back again. Same for me! KOI, Q-Essentials mostly. And it's like back to the >$2 age for a cup.

It reminds me of a bad experience with bubble tea back in the secondary school days. My friends and i were so into bbt that we go for different ones everyday after school. That was the sec 2 days... And i really mean everyday! For how long i can't rmb. But my favourite during that time was Chocolate ice-blended with Chocolate pearl. I love the chocolate pearl! HAHAH! But was damn ex for me last time lah.

But this incident i will nv forget. It was the day of Maths Paper 2 for final examination, in my opinion, one of the most important and confident paper. Just before the paper, my period came and i got cramp!!! Like damn jialat cramp. I took the normal Panadol pill, but no use lah. So still have to go for the exam right. But the pain is like making me tremble and lost focus. I can't rmb if i managed to finish the paper. But i was sweating and trembling the whole time during the paper.. Totally cmi. In the end i didn't do very well for the paper. Which was quite saddening. only 30/50 :( Luckily Paper 1 not bad and still make it to the first class. lol.

But ever since that time, i nv had bbt everyday anymore. At most like twice per week. Anyway there's one period whereby bbt faded out and there wasn't nice bbt ard. Until last year like that then we have good bbt in the market. So we are all back to the bbt craze! :D

Too bad nus doesn't have it... so i guess i'm going for healthy choices, i.e. juices! hahahaha! Good for myself. :)

NYCO Concert 2010 - 春回大地

The first NYCO Concert all these years. :) Really a happy occasion though there was a lot of unforeseen incidents.

A lot of mixed feelings for myself also. Think i'm the oldest on stage (excluding ding). And well, the only one from my batch. Looking at all my juniors, I'm rather proud of them actually. haha! I'm quite surprised that NYCO can produce this kind of sound and music. I like 大地回春. Nice song!

But i think next time we could really have a solely CO concert. Too much of gz. And i dun really like gz. haha! Too few combine items. :( Thus the alumus were really very free and have too much time in between items. Bonding with the other alumus. :)

And coincidentally we had at least one alumni from each batch. Cool. Me from 04, Julian 05, Mingkwang 06, Dominic, weijian and huifang 07, zhiwen and pauline 08. Wow. not bad. hahaha! Too bad the rest can't come. Exams period. :( But nvm, i hope we are having some alumni outing soon! I miss my people seriously!

And now that the concert is over, dun even know when is the next time i will go back to nyjc and meet the nyco ppl. *shrugs*

五月天!

17 April:

1. Circle Line starts operation.
2. Stadium station is packed with ppl.
3. 2 Pop concerts going on at the same area. (S.H.E & Mayday)
4. Watching a pop rock concert which looks like NDP sometimes. haha! (Fireworks damn cool, but too sudden most of the time)
5. A very HIGH night. Thou nv jump ard and we seat very very far from the stage, still, enjoyed the show overall.
6. They nv sing some of my fav songs of theirs. :( Like 而我知道, 倔強, 時光機, 牙關, 武裝, etc.
   
7. But they sang 瘋狂世界, 天使, 知足, 你不是真正的快樂, 離開地球表面 and blah blah blah. Actually some i've nv heard before. Then i realised actually i know more of S.H.E's songs. haha!
8. Luckily I brought raincoats to the event. Rain has stopped. BUT the seats are all wet (and dirty). haha. Raincoat is not used to cover the body but the seat so we could sit on it. haha. Ppl at Cat 1 are pretty saddening as the whole field is filled with mud due to the really heavy downpour earlier in the afternoon. (my shoes are one of the victims.. not at the stadium but outside ny) Sad cos the shoes are barely a month old at that time.
   

However, Money spent and concert attended. Satisfaction achieved! :)
Will upload some photo here soon. Not much thou. too far and manual focus camera lens. lol!

Pre-concert

Tmr's gonna be NYCO's concert.

Thinking of nyco. It's the place which i had the most memories in my jc life. We went to the coffee shop which i always go with the grp almost after every sat prac. We sat there for 2-3h talking and laughing... discussing abt school stuff, co stuff, and other funny things. But i dunno... the feelings of going to that coffee shop totally changed. haha

Anyway... nyco was the most uneasy time i had in ny too. haha! Cos of some personal reason. lol!

And then, the co room is so different from what it used to be. Dun have the same old feeling sitting in there or even, stepping in there. It's SO messy now! Dunno what they doing. Rubbish all over the floor, dusty floor. Everything lying around. Instruments here and there. Scores here and there. It used to be so neat during our time. tsk tsk tsk.

But anyhows, i'm quite happy to be back. Except that quite sad that my batch ppl and my junior batch ppl can't come back cos of exams. :( They are not even watching. Oh-so-sad. Too bad lah. I miss them, really.

Still, hope the concert will be a success tmr. And that everything will go well! :)

Via's Bday Celebration

Aiya... too many backlogs already. =x

Last sunday had a great time with the Beloveds... Traveled far to the west for fun and then to the north for food. Lol! :)

First to Science Centre. Went there for the Pixar Exhibition. There's quite a few interesting stuff there. The animations so cute. They wanted to steal the drawings back sia. lol! But no lah. crazy meh. In the end, though they say photography not allowed, but guess what, we saw a lot of ppl snapping away sia. Then we were thinking why we so obedient. So... Yup. :D

Spent quite some time there looking all the different stuff. The carousel damn cute lah. the idea behind the whole thing is damn cool. And the disc is spinning SO FAST! like wow! It was great invention.

Watched other short clips which were made at the earlier period. So cute lah! but can see last time the skills really not so good. heh.

Then 3plus. We all hungry liao. So went to mac for some food first. Nuggets and more nuggets! lol

Went back to visit other exhibits. The sound section. Some of the stuff quite interesting. Tried almost all ba.. Got this station where we have to listen to the sound and determine which speaker the sound came from. Got so many speakers so close tgt lor. Difficult. But could have done better. lol

Then another one was this telephone booth. Have to talk while listening to the telephone 'talk'. So it's call listening-while-talking. It's supposed to tell a joke. But damn difficult. cos u have to talk then the phone will 'talk' also. Once you stop, the phone also stop. So in the end, I also dunno what the joke is. haha!

Then there's this showcase of iron dust dancing to music. Damn cool and cute. Magnets are placed and the whole plate filled with iron dust. As the music played. The magnets are programmed in order to attract the iron dust at different speed, amount, angle and so on to form a 'dance'. It says that it takes 40h to cheorograph just 1min of dance. Like WOW!

Then went to the virus section. Quite interesting too. Teach us how the virus looks like and how it is spread blah blah blah. Quite a small area but informative. Just that, i didn't read all of it lah. haha.

After that also almost time le wor. Like so fast! So many exhibits not visited yet. Why last time school nv bring us to science centre more often? Because i fell down during the trip in sec 1? lol!

Ok lah.. then we traveled to AMK for crab beehoon. Had KOI!!! Hohoho. Good to kill our waiting time at the crab queue. By the time we finished all the drinks, haven't even reach our turn to be seated. lol.

I like the beehoon crab. Cos the meat soaked in the soup. Got very sweet taste. :D Other dishes are nice too... Just that really have to wait very long. lol. But worth it i think. A great dinner to end the day with the girls.

Pictures up at FB already. :D Till the next outing with my Beloveds! :)))

New things to do

I've gotten a new task just on fri. I was a bit shocked to hear from them so quickly. In the first place, i was quite surprised that the female boss talked to me for so long and i already believed that i will be given the job.

Anyway, not to keep you in further suspense, I'm going to teach violin in a music school. I think it might sound cool to some ppl, sounds cool to me too! Not until u hear the rest. Though the place is far (either yishun or west coast plaza), i don't find really find it a problem actually.

And so, I'm going to start next fri, or earlier if a make-up class for a student is required. Just 2 days ago i went down to observe the lesson which i will be taking over. 2 altogether, but 1 student didn't come, so i only saw 1. But trust me, it is almost enough to make me think of how i should teach her. According to her mother, she has some illness when she was younger, but all right, that wasn't really the problem. She is a little over active, plus very talkative. haha! She argued with the teacher regarding fingering!

From what the previous teacher said, she learned violin in school, probably went through a few teachers who teaches differently. She can't recognise the physical notes although she can play. (she can only recognise ABCD). So we double up as a theory teacher as well. She has quite an opinion of her own. So, we always complain our music lessons in school to be so boring. Now they let the students play different instrument. Yet, what is the disadvantage? They didn't even teach the students properly. I saw that she didn't even hold the bow properly. Oh, we have too much to complain. haha.

Ok. That was problem 1.

Then again, the other kid is quite similar as well. Playful and can even bargain what he wants to do in the lesson. Hmm.. What's wrong with kids nowadays really. I think the hard time is to discipline them and make them learn what they do not like.

Yup. That was problem 2.

With these 2 problems, it's a challenge already. I've nv taught anyone violin before. I hope i don't freak out when the lesson really starts. Then i thought why i was given these 2 students from the previous teacher. Reason? haha! I don't want to know anymore. Anyway, I don't call this work, i call this testing myself! Good luck to me!

A short rant

I'm all ready to complain share.. but where is the listener?

I'm been thinking abt this so many times. Do you ever have friends whom u are really disappointed with but do not know how to tell them?

This is not a place to say it. I already said it in my heart for so many times and i didn't have a solution for it. I don't need you to know who is it, but maybe take a look at yourself and ask if u have really been a friend. Not just to me, but others as well.

But well, those who aren't really friends wouldn't see this as well. So what's the point.