_____joanne*

Thursday, November 29, 2007

4:59 PM

heh.. i'm seriously bored everyday! somebody entertain me!! haha

anw yesterday went out to bai4 my ah ma then go shopping with my mum. okay 76 broke down halfway and it JUST started to rain heavily! like wth. then got real wet while waiting to board the next 76 since everyone was rushing to get on it :( then after bai4bai4-ing, went shopping at amk hub with my mum, her friend, and her friend's nephew whose name is alex.. how come 'nephew' looks wrong to me.. did i spell it correctly??

oh nvm, then i bought a watch!! haha kind of lime green and yellow (: it's 29 bucks. now got offer cause xmas mah. at first 55 bucks one leh :D then alex and i ate pepper lunch while my mum and her friend went food court to eat. i felt like a older sister at that time looking after alex. yup then went home after buying magazines :D

then today.. my bro's birthday!!! 20 years old already, he. and i had to pon cca to celebrate his birthday. kind of sad leh, since it will be my FIRST and LAST dazu prac ever since EOYS. now that i didnt go, i guess my last dazu prac was like in september?

haha yea anw had piano just now and we finally did the details for the first piece and sight-read the third piece. my teacher photocopied "the puppet's dance", loads of big leaps. dunno whether i can play smoothly. gosh why is my hand so small that i have to strain myself even to play ONE octave! bleah. okay then later going out to celebrate my bro's birthday luh, i think it's either this jap restaurant at amk hub or swensens at thomson plaza (:

i want to go church outing soon!! i want to see my church friends!! :(

okay tomorrow going to school for indian workshop! yup then after that going shopping with my mum and her friends again (: maybe i'll be able to find a wallet this time! haha i think my 'SBABYKIN' wallet very lousy already :D

shall see 2faith tomorrow!! :D

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

11:55 AM

i'm bored!!

i feel like i have nothing to do after going to japan..

hm... today, thurs and fri will be the last time i'm wearing the st.nicks uniform i guess. aww so sad :( but anw fri we're having indian music workshop!! haha i want to play the sarangi! :D

i bet after this week for the whole of december i'll be slacking luh. no ccas no outings no nothing! okay there will be another church outing, plus time spent on doing the japan trip powerpoint, maybe go shopping with serene and friends to get angela's present, and maybe go celebrate my birthday!! hahaha (: oh and yesterday, i found out my senior jaesung have the same birthday as me!! haha so cool :D

haiz you know until now, i STILL miss japan :(

Saturday, November 24, 2007

11:41 AM

I'M BACK!! GAHHHH JAPAN SO FUN! I'M ALREADY MISSING TOKYO! ESP DISNEYLAND!! DAMN FUN (:

okay left singapore on 19 nov EXACTLY at midnight. then tried sleeping on the plane but it was SOOOO hard to sleep luh! so didnt really sleep and the next day was a very very VERY unlucky day for me..

okay on 20 nov, we waited VERY long at the airport to go out and maria was fascinated by the reporters at the airport! hahaha! then after that went to asakusa temple i think and walked down nakamise street. quite cold though the weather.. OH AND I HATE THE BUS! it made me want to puke everytime i got on it. the meals were kinda weird, i prefer singapore food so much more!

then we rushed back to hotel to put down our stuff to check-in. we didnt even go to our hotel room until AFTER the music workshop at the next building which is like already 5 plus. the music workshop kinda boring luh. about the kabuki and stuff. except towards the end the drums and instrus quite interesting. then back at the hotel, dunno why i'm SOOO unlucky, my luggage's number lock was spoilt! so i cant open my luggage and mr soh had to PRY it open :( oh and then at night, debbie and i left our room keys IN THE ROOM. hahah so we had to ask the person to open for us :D

anw then we had dinner at shinjuku (: but apparently while looking for liwen and crystal; me, debbie, clarice and maria got lost in shinjuku even with a map! BUT CANT BLAME US OKAY. there was so many TOBU buildings in actual fact when there's only ONE on the map. it took us almost an hour to get back to the hotel :D oh the meals were paid by fund-raising money! yep so didnt spend much of my own money on food. except those i bought home luh :D

went mount fuji the next day!! FREEZINGGGG.. but the scenery damn nice. oh before that we had a toilet stop at dunno where and the toilet was damn cool! i'll upload the pics soon luh.. AFTER I GET ALL OF THE GROUP PICS (: apparently mount fuji was only like 2-3 degrees when we went up and the wind was damn strong! lunch was at the foot of mount fuji at lake kawaguchi. quite cold still (:

then we took BULLET TRAIN back to tokyo! omg there was one that was very very fast luh. but the one we took quite normal.. oh debbie and i bought corn soup from the vending machine there and boiled it when we got back to the hotel at night. after bullet train we went to take subway to ginza i think to eat dinner and watch kabuki. dinner was kinda rush but at least we found a place to eat soba (:

kabuki was okay luh. i'm quite shocked i actually survived it! yep and at the hotel, debbie and i were watching this jap show that is teaching jap people how to speak english. then there was this ang moh guy on the show. SO GAY! haha and the whole show they were trying to explain "LET ME DO THAT FOR YOU". haha was laughing alot while drinking corn soup (:

next day was disneyland!! YAY MY FAVOURITE DAY! it was kinda cold at night. oh did i mention, 6 am in tokyo seems like 8 am in singapore and 4 pm in tokyo seems like 7 pm in singapore! so cool. yup anw we met loads of disney characters and we spend like almost 10000yen on lunch! hm.. the place we ate lunch was at "HUEY, DEWEY AND LOUIE'S GOOD TIME CAFE". hahaha very nice, we bought lunch boxes too! oh and DISNEYLAND STUFF DAMN NICE.

okay we sat like only 4 rides!! star tours, carousel, haunted mansion (damn nice) and this driving thing. and the rest of the time was spent on SHOPPING! disneyland was very crowded luh so the queues are very LONG. there was this band which was SUPER PRO playing the disneyland and it was so nice! I LOVE THE PARADES!! the songs damn nice! go search youtube! sure can find one (: 2007 CHRISTMAS ROCKS! MERRY *merry* XMAS *xmas*! haha very nice. and cinderella's castle at night so pretty!! i bought a glass cup with my name at cinderella's castle too!

OH AND I MET PETER PAN OUTSIDE CINDERELLA'S CASTLE. omg peter pan was like the event of the day! so shuai :D okay the 6 of us bought 6 containers of popcorn and we had a party at our hotel room that night! we ate finish all 6 containers and even ate cup noodles (: the popcorn was okay luh, honey was the NICEST! then salty, then chocolate.. LAST WAS SODA. tsk i cant believe i actually ate quite alot because i want that peter pan picture from liwen. OH GO LIWEN'S BLOG! haha very funny. okay then since it was like the last night in tokyo, we talked until 2 plus and slept only at 3am! haha (:

and the last day in tokyo was kinda saddening for me. it's like SO FAST LUH. 4 days just FLEW PAST. yep and debbie and i cant wake up in the morning. i just hung the morning call and went back to sleep (: haha and i remember clarice calling me saying very late already then i was telling her "aiya nevermind luh" haha that's cause i didnt wear my specs so i cant see the time okay! yup anw we visited tokyo tower, PASSED BY the imperial palace, went to odaiba to take pics, then had buffet lunch! haha and the last shopping place was at this mall near narita airport. AND I BOUGHT A BELT! so cheap luh! only 105 yen which is about 1.30 sing dollars ONLY!

then went to airport and said goodbye to PHING-SAN. haha i practically forgot to mention our tour guide PHING-SAN (: then it was BACK TO SINGAPORE. i felt to accomplished luh! i watched ratatouille, hairspray and no reservations on the plane! yup.

I MISS TOKYO LOADS! i want to go back disneyland! i want to work as TINKLE BELL!! GAHHHH! haiz.. i'll miss liwen, clarice, debbie, crystal and maria. it's the last time i'm seeing them!! tsk so sad.. okay anw we have to do a powerpoint as what mr cher said so.. yep i'll be able to see people again (: haha oh and mr cher brought his wife and ZEBEDEE along! haha and debbie got very high at what crystal said.. haha okay i shall stop here. still very tired from the flight last night. i'll post the pics SOON!! BYEEEE :D

Thursday, November 15, 2007

4:16 PM

gosh! japan is just next mon!! GAHHH! then it's shopping time!

i'm already packing my luggage. hm.. it's my first time going overseas WITHOUT my parents! WOW i'm surprised i even agreed to go. i still remember at first i was like hesistating. BECAUSE OF DEBBIE, i decided to go in the end!! haha.

i shall blog my itinerary here (: oh DONT CALL OR SMS ME NEXT MON TO NEXT FRI (:

Day 1 (19/11)
report at changi airport at 9.15pm for MIDNIGHT FLIGHT :D

Day 2 (20/11)
after arriving, go hotel and then visit Asakusa Kannon Temple.. after that, go shopping at Nakamise Shopping Street!! then back to hotel to freshen up for Music Workshop from 3 to 5pm. and lastly, have dinner at Shunjuku Area! PLUS more shopping! (:

Day 3 (21/11)
early in the morning go climb mount fuji XD then take bullet train back to tokyo to watch a KABUKI performance which is like from 4.30 to 9pm.. o.O

Day 4 (22/11)
FULL DAY IN DISNEYLAND!! YAY! :D

Day 5 (23/11)
some last minute shopping then lunch and back to airport and BACK HOME!! heh if yall want to welcome me back like OLIVIA.. then you'll have to stay up till 1 plus in the morning :D

THAT'S JAPAN! (:

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

11:21 AM

omg,
i'm having a super bad sorethroat
since ytd morning.
must be cause of the camp
then scream too much..
HAIZ

Sunday, November 11, 2007

7:34 PM

CONFIRMATION CAMP WAS A SUCCESS!!

haha i shall talk bout it since day 1 (:

okay day 1, went to church in the morning like 7.30 then the cathechists checked all of our bags. hm.. actually i could have smuggled my phone in one since they didnt check the pockets! but oh well.. so we waited for the bus and me, pearlyn CHUA, pearlyn LAU and vivienne bonded among ourselves. then we were like so sad that we were in diff groups cause we thought we have to sleep in our groups. but turned out we get to sleep in our classes still!! haha :D

when we reached this ulu ulu place (it's really ULU PANDAN ROAD) yea we assembled and went to our dorms and this is where i'm most happy bout! our dorm has air con! how cool is that! but we have to sleep on the floor luh. but at least it's better than no air con and sleep in a crowded room of beds that smells and looks like a hospital ward (: our dorm is like on the 2nd floor right next to the service room so it's quite convenient for us.

hm.. i cant rmb what exactly happened on the 1st day.. OH the father fred and that guy that alw go to sn for reflection day came! and i thought it was like the most boring talks of all. oops (: yea day 1 mostly we had loads of talks. the meals were quite nice luh BUFFET (: very filling.

btw I HATE THE BATHROOMS! it's so unfair! i heard the guys have warm water while the girls are like practically bathing in FREEZING water! tsk that's like SOOO unfair. bleah. but on both days me and pearlyn were like the first few to bathe since we bunk on the 2nd floor only :D

1st night was okay luh.. oh vivienne didnt sleep cause i didnt hug her!! hahah. cause i was saying "i cant sleep without my bolster!" then before that vivienne said she can be my bolster so pearlyn was like "vivienne! joanne wants to hug you!" and guess what vivienne said! it was SOO funny! haha she said "I'M READY!" hahah! then the whole night we were laughing cause vivienne kept saying stuff like "i cant sleep without your hug!", "i'm waiting for your hug!", "come and hug me!" damn funny. hm.. besides that it was okay.. except it rained quite heavily halfway and i woke up like 3-4 times. the air con the 1st night was like damn cold luh! somemore my head directly face the air con. yup so 2nd night i made the temp lower (: i shall talk bout 2nd day first..

2nd day woke up and we learnt this DIP DIP song. it's so fun! i love praise and worship times (: the song is below luh.. and i made loads of new friends on 2nd day. like courtney, celestine etc. and we played games like "where's my 5-cent coin" etc.. yup anw we had confession on the 2nd day and i felt SOOO relaxed.. hm.. i havent went for confession since a long time ago.. and our whole cohort practically went CRAZY at night. the boys were like doing the can-can dance and the girls doing the conga-longa! hahah OH and we had this one to one talk with the facils and it's like very touching. i almost cried luh :(

anw 2nd night was kinda freaky. cause courtney didnt come on 1st day, so we stayed up to tell loads of ghost stories. we even had a night walk luh! damn scary. courtney was saying that she saw a shadow fly past which is freaky. but apparently the boys are having night walks too cause the boys are all outside! and another freaky part was like in the dorm, courtney was saying like "if you find a door locked right, and you know no one is inside, you must knock first" then just as she said finish, we heard knocking noises! and we tried out next morning that it didnt sound like it came from the boys' dorm upstairs but next door.. the scary part is NOBODY GOES IN THERE.. ohmy FREAKY. but one thing's very funny during the 2nd night. someone (i wont say who) SNORED SOOOO LOUDLY! oh my gosh it caused me to wake up once luh! haha.

3rd day! hm.. more praise and worship! YAY! yup then talks and blah blah until 2.30 when there's a family mass back at church. and when we got our warm fuzzies (little notes) pearlyn realised that vivienne played a trick on her! cause vivienne went to use someone's name and said some stuff.. dunno whether i should say. haha yea that only happened cause pearlyn said she liked that person's hairstyle. heh actually ME TOO :D yea and we did the DIP DIP song! haha damn fun!

here's the DIP DIP song (:

Ooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo (x2)

who lives the faith in the fa, fa, faith
who lives the grace in the graaaace
who lives the hope in the ho, ho, hope
who lives the love in the loooove

(stomp) who is that man
i want to shake His hand
for He lives in me
and He died for you and me
Ooo

dip dip (x4)

haha this is such a long post. well basically i felt that this camp turned out to be quite interesting luh and i felt very enriched and like grew in my faith. yea and i made new friends and stuff so.. I BET NEXT YEAR'S GONNA BE HIGH! :D

Thursday, November 08, 2007

9:15 PM

oh man i hate camps! must pack so much then so bulky! tmr got church camp.. hopefully it'll be fun?? it's like 3 days 2 nights. omg no phone somemore. no cards. nothing. just clothes, bible and rosary...

ytd went hougang mall. and i ate kfc and bought socks! haha one pair only luh. damn sian everyday stay at home.. it's either eat, bathe, play piano or go online. and i suddenly remembered i have to repair my erhu.. stupid erhu. the gong broke :( have to use super glue..

anw i bought my winter jacket that day at queenstown (: and some thinner jackets. I CANT WAIT FOR JAPAN! first time i'm gg overseas with my friends! kinda happy although it's very ex :( (: haha mao dun-ning. shopping time! :D

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

12:35 PM

currently bored-ing...

Saturday, November 03, 2007

6:42 PM

omg damn bored now! heh i'm happy and sad too. grade 7 theory today was hard! omg i didnt do a single paper like it paper. if i pass i'll be very happy (: then when i reached home, i realised i got 2 questions correct! so add 4 more marks (:

oh and i just counted the no. of subjects i have to take in NJ.. the so called "core subjects".. well it includes language arts (which is english and e.lit), higher chinese, maths, integrated science (phy, bio, chem, physical geog.. omg what a combination), then integrated humans (econs, human geog and history), still got these subjects - man and ideas, SPIRE, arts appreciation, governance and society, and this guidance programme. omg! the combination is weird o.O then if i intend to take mep again... so many subjects! somemore each subject got like alot of modules to be completed in 4 years.. woah.. but at least the people in my class are nice and the good thing is, NJ dont really need books (:

oh well.. i'll just relax now after theory. then practice grade 8 stuff.. prepare for church camp next week.. then prepare for japan! after that i think i'll be real free :D

Thursday, November 01, 2007

9:57 PM

WOOHOO!! NJCIP INDUCTION SO FUN :D

turns out i'm in 08IP02 after all.. okay i completely dont know anyone in the first place. but then i knew quite a few people in the end (:

not bad.. but we didnt win any prizes today. at least we know each other!! haha my class have 22 people! SO COOL! (: and i'm number 11 :D

aw.. i kinda like nj but i miss sn too. after all, sn is my 'second home'. guess i'm gonna have a 'third home' soon heh (: