i just saw one of the only two color printed Avoices in the world and WHYYYY!!??!?!?!?! WHY DID I HAVE TO LOOK AT IT???!?!?!??!?! now i'll never want to make a black and white version because i really really REALLY like it in color :(((( SPONSOR US SOMEBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edit] AARGH!! THERE CAN'T NOT BE A WAY TO CONVERT A NEWSLETTER TO GRAYSCALE WITHOUT MANUALLY CHANGING EVERY SINGLE PARAGRAPH AND FONT AND PICTURE AND BORDER!! STUPID BUDGET- I HATE YOU!


[edit edit] grrr...yucky gray avoice is so depressing to look at :(

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#1 I dreamed of the world ending which wasn't very pleasant.

#2 Due to some complications involving my incessant procrastination and the British Council's brilliant way of telling people the wrong things and then charging them late fees, I pulled out my Cambridge application. Jeng jeng jeng.. I hope Caroline never finds out about this.

#3 I finished the AVoice. Then I finished it again. And again. And again. And again. There's one fully colored version printed now, I met the doc centre guy and my thumbdrive is loose in the world somewhere. It's very hard to meet Andrew's deadlines

#4 I skipped math to study Physics. The nerd in me is taking over!! Nooooooo D:

#5 I finally ended up singing into a mike (after escaping it for 5 years). The night before Sat, Peeps: Hey I can't make it tomorrow, I've got a badminton tourney. Chris: Hey I'll be late for practice tomorrow. Paintball something something. Hmmm *suspects it is all God's dastardly plan to make me sing* It went alright in the end..I think. Pipi's mike died though and the whole time I only dared to look at Wins at the back, Yi Lin, Cheng Jin, King Yi and my chords. =.=

#6 I knocked over a chair. Songs says my density is super high. "Careful don't trip! You'll break the floor"

#7 "if i could FIND YOU NOW things would get better, we could LEAVE THIS TOWN and run foreverrrrr!!!"

Was thinking about CATS today on the way home from ballet, more specifically the bit with a billion pirouettes and how we faked every single one. Was also thinking of the last dance fiesta night and how in the ending pose I was going "YES! YES! YESSS!!" inside my head because we didnt screw up but then I fell over and thought "NOOO!!! NOOOOOO!!!! D:" and how we were so sad because we thought it would be our last time dancing it ever but oh how wrong we were because CATS was the dance that just refused to die, sort of like Cotton Eye Joe and the moves for Great Balls of Fire that were used in every single swing dance ever performed, but different because we were the only ones who ever had to do it. Then it sort of jumped to America, more specifically the flips which were the coolest bit of the whole dance which we were too terrified to attempt at first and me and Elsa had to keep experimenting and rolling over each other like idiots. Then Soonk nearly killed me with his killer flip but I landed on my feet (not my head) thank God and we used to practice synchronising them till our arms were all sore and our knees all green from falling over (when we did). There was one morning in college when Lynn sat down next to me in Math and my brain went insane "DING DING DING DING AMERICA AMERICA!! AMERICA!!" and so I went berserk asking her what it was she was wearing that smelled like America. She wasn't wearing any lotion or cream or new shampoo, no soap or body spray or lip balm but finally she said she was wearing Escada which was Kim's perfume that was the most ubiquitous of all smells during our practices. Then I just spent the rest of the morning happily letting my mind wander off to concert times. Sometimes when I hear Tonight I feel a bit like crying but what I really wish is that I could hear it one more time right after Maria, the way the choir used to sing it because that's how I really know it. Oh and Masquerade was the best and the worst. No one could stop singing it for months afterwards, someone somewhere would surely have it stuck in their head- it was EVERYWHERE. Doing the ballet thing alone in front of the whole school was probably the most embarrassing moment of my life, especially when I forgot all my steps and had to improvise by moving around a lot and laster someone asked me why I kept running across the stage.




I remember in Form 1 Yan used to go round singing weird songs that strangely, always seemed to fit the mood. And Elsa and I used to do the stupidest things in BM class and we always laughed at how Wei Jin and Jia Shyuan (who were tiny then) fought in Chinese. And Stef was the first person I bumped into in the door on the way to Math and when we found out we were in all the same sets, she asked if I wanted to sit with her but somehow we ended up sitting next to each other in none of them. I used to go for tuition at Kwongster's house and after that we'd lie on her bed and talk 20 gallons of nonsense. Sa used to call me Lynn all the time because apparently we looked so alike she couldn't tell us apart. I first encountered Bee Bee in Physics lab where she promptly fell asleep when Siva opened his mouth

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i just realized that with daniel, eugene, soon seng and myself, i'll have FOUR guitarists. which seems a tad intimidating o.O and am having second thoughts about running after you because it doesnt seem as easy as i remember it, jamming all the time in chapel n all.

MEH!

everything nowadays is just tiring and bothersome. i want to go to sleep and wake up fluless when the holidays are here

am definitely going through a dry spot now

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Talk about trials. Not only do I have to worship lead (dooooooom) alone for the first time ever in my whole entire life in front of the yf but now I have to do it with a killer sore throat and raging fever :( Boo..

Also, Andrew's emailed me the final articles (some new ones too) and gave me till Wednesday to get everything in, take out some pages [noo..my Flashy met Sexy page :(] and get all the pictures in. This means, according to Andrew, that I have to put my life on hold till its done which, unfortunately, is quite impossible as I have to figure out this worship leading thing too.


Iron Chef yesterday was a success!! Our day was rather weird; cook cook cook cook, PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2, PANIC!, COOKCOOKCOOKCOOKCOOK!!! The pandan chicken turned out nicely (Roof did it too lol) and the tom yam was fantastic but the mango and sticky rice super megaly tak jadi because when I read the recipie in the morning, I discovered it said RIGHT at the top: Soak rice overnight. Panicked to the max and started looking for backup desserts but in the end we just ran out to buy the rice and soaked it for 7 hours. Strangely the soaking and steaming went alright (even though there was no steamer to speak of, just a kuali) but the coconut syrup (kononnya the easy bit) FAILED uberly because it was tasteless and therefore no one ate our dessert (can hardly blame them though :p) Marinating the chicken was just funny. Was hunting for salt and I vaguely remembered Li San's mom pointing at some shelf saying "salt is here ah!" so I found one blue tupperware with white stuff in it that looked sort of like crystals, not at all powdery. I sniffed it and it smelled salty and it was the right color so I sprinkled a generous tspfull into the chicken and left it. Later, while looking for cornflour, I opened a brown pot filled with what was undeniably salt.

me: omg. this is the salt!
chris: so?
me: that wasn't salt!
chris: oh no.
me: WHAT DID I PUT IN THE CHICKEN!?! don't tell me it was SUGAR!! D:
chris: crap crap crap!!!
li san's mom: that one ah? ajinomoto la!
me: O.O

We ended up third which was a success considering the dessert was disastrous. The best part was, no one was standing around being a kelefeh because there was so much to be done. Was awesome fun :D

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BEFORE IRON CHEF! (yay) :D

I'm pretty psyched about it this year because for the first time ever, I actually know how to cook instead of standing uselessly at one side breaking tauge or shredding chicken. My maid just taught me how to do chicken wrapped in pandan which is superly awesome :DD

Oh ya..on Wednesday the guy came to get our truck. So now we have no more truck. We are truckless. :(((( Drove it to ballet one last time and also around the neighbourhood while my brothers sat in the back and went wooaoaahaoaoaoaoahhhhh like jakuns. Wish I could've sat in the back too :(

Realised just in time today that the closing date for BMAT is THIS MONDAY omg.

My favourite picture in the whole wide world :) Never fails to make me smile when I see you looking soo happy. (and adorable, but yar i'll leave your manliness alone) :))

some pictures from the last couple of weeks:

had lunch with yanners and sael at marmalade :) we found yan some cambridge interview shoes (gorgeous blue flatty ones) and sa came for cg! :)

BV2's mph has a billion Achebe works (I never knew we wrote so many other things) but no TFA, and Peter Pan but no Frankie. I bought Peter Pan and it was really nice :) can't believe I'd never read it before.


heehee. direct translation of "squeeze pack" although pack should really be pek not botol. BM is so the lol.


we went for Steph Lee's dance graduation thing at the place where TDS has the ballet competition. Almost got lost trying to find it (we were almost gonna traipse off into this abandoned fairgrounds like place to look for it but we found it in the end. heh heh)

GUESS WHO TOOK THIS PICTURE!! GUESS ! GUESS!! (think really famous photographer)

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I suppose it might have been better if I hadn't had that lovely lovely dream last night- the one where I suddenly had cancer and then moved on to someplace where everyone was trying to kill everyone else and then moved on to other places which involved saying all the wrong things and a small child with deformed hands.

Yup, that started my day great.

I also discovered today that I'm supposed to be worship leading at YF the week after Iron Chef- DOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! D: ohmygawd. I never thought I'd actually have to and it would always be somewhat like chapel and cf where I'd worship lead for prayer meetings but it would be generally understood that I can never sing unless Elsa is there to sing Louder Than Me. Oh man oh man- how now?!?! :(

Oh and I still have to write the treasure hunt report and read Frankie (buy it too) and finish the Avoice and and oh man we had a test on Group 4 and Period 3 yesterday and apparently the stuff I was saying to myself (like how [Al(OH)6]3- is easier to remember than [Al(OH)4]-) helped Kah May but it didn't help ME because I couldn't BALANCE THE SILLY THING!!! :( GRRR. Oh aaand I spent 15 minutes trying to invent an equation whereby Silicon Oxide reacts with acid because duh right, an acidic oxide can so react with an acid brilliant genius sarah durr.


(I really want to sing this song but only the Vinyl people know it and I cannot bear to be singing all loud and alone-y into the mike yuck)

hey vinyl

dunno if anyone will read this actually but i really like being in a cg with you guys. :) very very very very very very very very much.