Saturday, 11 July 2009
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someday when I read this and look back, I'd still smile;
Youth service today was awesome! It was good to see that our LG finally had full attendance today! Worship was really good because I really connected with God and yeah I wasn't just singing, I was worshipping. Rayson went ahead to sing Power of Your Name which is a really touching and inspiring song because it speaks of the harsh realities of life and how we will live lives of compassion. All in all, I think Rayson did a really good job today(:
Lisa and I were talking online yesterday and we found out how much more we thought that no one understood us but realised we do understand each other! She suggested we be called the Six Soulmates; I say, I should go to Cara one day and say, "Cara, I am Lisa." Wuthering Heights much -.-"
Apparently the media in Singapore's really effective and influential; I went to Biscuit King at Casurina before going for youth to get some snacks and it was so crowded, with like twenty people in it. I was wondering why and I remembered that my mum was telling me it appeared on the TV yesterday. This is why we end up writing GP essays on the media's influence.
... this week's been tiring; as much as DWL makes school fun during lunch and less dreadful during lessons, the homework is vile. Everytime I tell myself I'll do my work, I end up procrastinating till 10 and thereafter touch on it a little and go to sleep because it'd be too late to continue. To top it off, the tehping doesn't work much anymore. We should breen sachets of Japanese tea to school Lisa; the one I have at home that's from Japan really keeps me awake. 's why I'm drinking it later while doing PW. Sheesh, Cara's influencing me with her slang. "'s", "kthx" and a few others I can't remember off-hand.
I read through my MSN conversation history with Yao and I realised that I wasn't very close to him at all last year. From the MSN conversations we had, I think we were rather distant even till Nationals last year, although I took a photo with him and made our way home together. I think it was only until the holidays when he called me up to see how I was feeling when I was sick, and much more after the sleepover at his house and our shopping trip to Peninsular. I talked to him on MSN last night after a month because he hasn't been online for that long. I need to stop relying on MSN as a source of entertainment. I'm using it far too much.
... I've never had a friend this close to me before. To call him over the phone to talk about life, to be able to be this open with him and for him to make me laugh till my tummy hurts at the same time; to just not be able to get him off my mind. The best part? I hardly even see him in person. I guess that's why I really treasure the times we get to meet up. Hopefully he feels the same way. He went "wth..." after he found out I really recorded the song and I was kinda dumbfounded at the response, but he claims it was "wth" as in "ARE YOU SERIOUS" and not one of disdain. Heh. Either way, after he heard it he tried to make up for it and said he was touched. HAHA. Aww.
Friday, 10 July 2009
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THIS IS TERRIBLE.
Teh ping doesn't seem to be keeping me awake anymore! I almost dozed off during Lit, and I did many times during PW Lecture. Lisa, we need to ask for expresso!
So I did train myself today morning. 6x bounding on the field and 6x30m speedwork, all in 40min, kthx. HAHA CARA I DIDN'T USE AN 'N'. Anything to make you happy huh. DWL said they liked the song! Although I think it kinda sucked, I guess if the brutally honest Ilyna Tan says it's not bad means it's not bad.(:
Thursday, 09 July 2009
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Shine On;
Cara Neo did two evil deeds today. One, she insinuated I'm comparable to A. She dismissed all charges of it but I know that she knows she's guilty! HAHA. Two, she kept insisting that I like Jana! No wonder she and Lisa click - both compulsive liars. Tsk tsk. Lisa lied that she won the PM war although I clearly won with the finally Differentiation notes statement.
Two of our teachers aren't teaches us anymore! I'll really miss Melvin Tan's PE where we get to befriend him and Ms. Tan imitating Ilyna during Econs. Sheesh. But life goes on.
Math passed real quick today because there was Lisa and Cara on either side to keep me awake and entertained. They rock (despite the fact that they are both compulsive liars, haha!). Basically I was real tired today and I took a nap in the afternoon.
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Note to self: I really need to start self-training. Tomorrow morning I shall get to training at 640 instead of stoning in the canteen. It'll help me keep awake 'cause I'm going to stay up to do (the really large amounts of) homework. Then it'll be back to the good ol' hardworking days last year, kthnx.
My mum's quite funny in that she makes a really big deal outtu'v the smallest things. After dinner we crossed the road to Beauty World and this is what happened:
Mum: *turns to dad* EHHH. They don't sell the African pears. Let's go.
Mum: *turns to me* I'm disappointed. You wanted to buy a pen right?
Josh: HUH.
Mum: They don't have what I want, so I'm disappointed, no point staying here.... or something along those lines.
Y'know, I'm in the mood of writing a song now. I was deciding what notebook to use for my songs and then I realised I took too many free notebooks from yesterday's career fair. I only wanted two. It's kinda a waste 'cause I realised they aren't nice enough for me to want to write my personal thoughts and all in them, and neither are the filthy enough for Math. HAHA. Speaking of writing thoughts, Cara despises me; I'm such an ardent fan who reads her blog daily and apparently she only reads mine once every few days despite knowing that's she'll most probably be in the blogpost because the people who keep me going awake in school are normally DWLs, Carol and Leonard. Perhaps my blog is too juvenile and not high-powered enough for her, kthnx. Heh.
... time to write a songgg.
Wednesday, 08 July 2009
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That's what I go to school for;
I agree with Cara, DWL's madness' probably the thing that keeps me going in school these days. Today passed by real quick. Econs lecture with Amrit and I laughing at stuff and writing in Lisa's diary; Math with Neo and once again writing in her diary, coupled by the awesome fact that the lesson wasn't heavy and brain-draining - basically, not the typical dreadful Math lesson with a zillion problems to go through as though our lives aren't problematic enough; Lit lecture with Whitby making us laugh and we're done with lessons! Arts Kids rule!(:
So anyway, I drank my first ever glass of teh ping, kthnx. (Too much influence from Joel ending everything with tyvm and Cara saying kthnx when I do her favours). This is what you get when you give in to peer pressure while you sit at a table full of teh ping advocates. I still recall how Nadine asked me what "teh C" was, and if there was a "teh A" or "teh B". But I guess nothing beats Cara's question today:
Carol: Hey Josh, you know the meepok across your house isn't bad!
Josh: Yupp I know I love it!
Cara: What's meepok?
*We explain*
Cara: *trying to get this quote into her Blackberry* Carol could you help me key that in?... obviously the Queen doesn't have a clue on how to spell it either. And so, Amrit and I were browsing through both their diaries (which I figured were fun to doodle in) and we realised Neo writes so well because she writes so much. Add a little melodrama here and there and there you have it! But I guess I wouldn't keep a diary. I managed to read 7 pages of Wuthering Heights as well. I'd reckon it's a great achievement considering it takes me five minutes to figure out what Bronte is even trying to convey in one page of her zillion-page novel.
Tomorrow's going to be a long day with Math lecture and PW. So little of DWL time, how'd I surviveeeeeeeee.
So here's the thing yeah. I called Yao yesterday because I was bored and because he told me he picks up calls but doesn't reply smses. So I asked him about life and then I said "k bye, love you". It's really rare for me to say it in person so I kinda expected some nice response but he said "k, bye." and hung up the phone instantly. Best friend much? Ahh well, I still love him(:
... I used to think saying "love you" sounded singlish-like so I'd say "I love you!" but apparently Caryl Churchill used it as well, and it sounded pretty cool in Top Girls! So I've started using "love you". HAHA.
Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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Today my alleged friends from DWL ganged up against me and called me CHEENA.
THIS IS BLASPHEMY I TELL YOU. How can I be cheena! I don't even know how to speak a proper sentence in Chinese these days. I'm sure this is all Lisa's fault, calling me joe-suaaaaaaaa all the time must have made them think I'm cheena. Watch out Lisa, I am so gonna get back at you, by drawing on your face when you sleep during Geography, or do it NJ style: steal your notes. HAHHA.
Apparently my wish of some pretty girl turning into a robot and wrecking the school didn't come true; looks like Transformers will always remain on the silver screen. Speaking of Transformers, I'm still really in the holiday mood. To top it off, they cancelled Unfabulous, undoubtedly the most fabulous show there is at 1030 every night. WHY.
HOW WILL I EVER GET PASS THE NIGHTS WHEN IT'S 1030?!
And I'm having withdrawal symptoms: I need my best friendddddddd. <3
Monday, 06 July 2009
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Summer's Over ):
... apparently not, considering that Singapore is perpetually having Summer. I meant the vacation. Tomorrow, it's back to school with waking up at 5+ in the morning, dragging my feet to the breakfast table and insidiously trying to catch a three minute nap before bathing while my parents start shouting for me to not be late. We'll find out who's our (hopefully permanent this time) GP teacher and there's two periods of good'ol Whitby.
New term, new battles. Term three in the last two years have been the most grueling against projects and homework as teachers rush to finish their syllabus. I blame the system for even having so much in the system. Then again, as Joan mentioned, Singapore will always be Singapore and there will always be people who think they'll lose out if they don't run full steam ahead, not realising that if everyone decides to chillax a lil like they do in the States, perhaps life really could be full of rainbows.
I'm currently in the party mood now since CTs just ended. In no way I am ready to get back to lessons and PW. What's more, they aren't going to return us our CT scripts because so many people haven't taken them yet and that means something less to anticipate this week. Thank God I have a bunch of awesome friends from a society we call DWL. HAHA. School's just not the same with them around ;D
I can't believe I'm still stuck with trying to finish my Math Revision Package after the Math paper. How pathetic. How vile. How dismal. How typical of Math to have so much homework. Face it, Math isn't the only thing that can get you far in life. Who cares if you can calculate weird numbers and not have any communicative ability; like you'd be able to find a job that way.
I MISS YAO YI ALREADY ): WE NEED ANOTHER SUPPER CHILLIN' SESSION.
Just gotta love my friends(: Yao Yi, Joe Wei and DWL!<3 Imagine how brooding life'd be without these lovely people who have so much love to give. Aww. I had a weird dream Joel was blantantly honest with me. HAHA.
... maybe tomorrow while we're at school some supposedly pretty-looking girl will turn out to be a transformer in search of a boy with secret knowledge of an energy source and she'll wreck the school, starting with the library. Oh boy, that'd be great. Transformers in real life. I call dips on Bumblebee!
Sunday, 05 July 2009
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Quoting from Cara's:
Whitby should've had a polaroid camera at the ready.
The moment when he said "...Begin" and everyone flipped open their question papers?
= classic Kodak moment.
I swear- a hundred faces; all bearing differing degrees of wtf?!-ness.... I did not bear any sort of wtf?!-ness! I was perfectly calm because I knew Lit was going to be hard anyway. Aw man I seriously love my arts kids! They make me laugh so hard and amrit just makes me lose my ass! It's the first time in my life I actually carry out all the weird stuff I hoped to do, like wearing coloured contacts and funky hats down orchard boulevard, literally marching hand in hand towards the gym, making so much noise in the canteen till everyone turns round to look. No, we aren't a bunch of delinquents, we're just glad to have found each other(:
I finally got to watch Transformers last night after the Youth Rally. So much for our plan to watch it together; Shaun and Alex both watched it before, but they said it was really good so they didn't mind watching it again. Thankfully, I had Shaun beside me to explain to me everything I needed to know from the first movie that was related to this one. The plot was really confusing but the action seriously covered up for it. Optimus Prime rocks!(: Like in all the great movies I've watched, I came out of the theatre feeling as though I was a character in the movie, thinking a random vehicle would transform into a four-storey high robot to protect me. The final battle was like watching a finale of a Power Rangers season where the zords and so efficient in fighting as compared to the thousands of minions, or like watching Return of the Condor Heroes where you have some pro tackling ten baddies at a go. Awesome show(: I need to finish my Math Revision Package, lol.
Saturday, 04 July 2009
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Post-CTs!
Here's a brief recap of what I've done the last two days.
Thursday: The waitress at the steamboat restaurant spoilt my initial post-CT mood but thank God I have a best friend who always makes me laugh(: For the first time, he was earlier than me! Apparently he decided to walk faster that night. So because he already deviced a scheme to make me the one spending money instead, we headed to Coffee Bean where he drank my ice blended vanilla. His first comment was: "Next time you want this, I'll make it for you. One dollar and Fifty cents only." Right. Thereafter we started talking about life and he was telling me he scored the highest in class for English Mid-years. So this is what transpired between the two of us:
Josh: Good for you! *shakes his hand* That's why you must talk to me more.
Yao: Why? *Caesura*
Yao: You want to improve arhh?-.-" Hahaa I love him for being so entertaining! Thereafter he said "I'm thirsty, let's head to Cold Storage!" when we were at Coffee Bean! We camwhored a little on the way and headed to 7-11 instead because Cold Storage was closed and this was the only reason why he offered to get me a drink...
HAHHA. Cheapo to the max? But he's right, his way of showing love is different!(: So that night I finally got to meet my brother/best friend after three months (since Nationals) and I got a hug from him at the end!<3
Yesterday: We roamed Orchard in Funky Hats and Coloured Contacts.
As I headed to Starbucks with my phone ringing in my hands, I crept up behind Joan Pang who was desperately and literally peering to find me because I told her I was already in town. While waiting for Cara and Amrit we played with my itouch like some noobs who were exposed to technology for the first time. Then came the mysterious woman in the straw hat and weird dress. (Refer to diagram below)
... to what extent does Cara's runway style of dressing make her mysterious? (9m)
Go Geography! Haha. Later we found that Amrit ditched us to go shopping with her Mom because there was some miscommunication regarding the time we were supposed to meet. Surprisingly, Cara was the one to state that Starbucks was overpriced so Joan and I bought drinks while Cara attempted to persuade Amrit to come along. After which we found really good substitutes for the other lost members of DWL. A green tea frappe for Lisa, a starbucks-butted monkey for Amrit and a bear for Ilyna because she's just as small.
... meet the DWLs!(: Yeah so we headed to Far East to get our coloured contacts. Joan and I got brown which looked like we weren't even wearing coloured contacts at all while Neo got her violent ones and made her look more like a runway model. The photo's in the collage above. After Joan and I attempted for twenty minutes, Cara skilfully managed to help Joan pop in her contacts. We walked round Far East and Cara and I got funky hats, so all three of us roamed round the streets or town like weird tourists in even weirder hats! I love my arts kids, we do weird stuff together.
... so that's about it for my post-CT activities.
Speaking of the weird stuff we do, we made lots of noise in the canteen literally frantically panicking over what the themes in Top Girls and Wuthering Heights were and thereafter marched victoriously, hand in hand, towards our failure. We brought Literature to life: our first unseen prose this year was on the men who were in the procession to be hung. I think the other people thought we were weird. I can't believe it's been half a year already. Last I remember, term one was a struggle battling to not fall sick. Term two passed real quick because of ISSF and SISC weeks and more so, because of DWL.
I'm glad to have found company in them<3
Thursday, 02 July 2009
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Overrrrr.
CTs are over!(:
Literature didn't seem like it was three hours. In fact, the two and a half hour Math paper was the one that felt like forever. I really wanted to fall asleep during Math by the time I was halfway through. Literature seemed okay, but then again, Mr. W fails common tests; and after the last poetry assignment, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high! Geography seemed to pass rather quickly as well although it was three hours. I guess it's just Math and the fact that we were writing without stopping.
I was in a really good mood till dinner just now when the waitress spoilt my mood. Somehow in the car I messaged yaoyi asking if he's free and when I entered the lift he called and said he can make it for supper later!
I AM GOING TO SEE MY BESTFRIEND AGAIN IN TWO HOURS' TIME!(:
I am over the moon right now. You have no idea how boring life can be without your closest friend because he's always offline and hardly replies messages! Haha. Considering how much I use MSN and SMS, it's quite cool to have him as my closest friend! YAY! He had better be in the mood to camwhore later at coffee bean. I haven't camwhored in a long time! And I haven't hugged anyone since youth camp! Hsiu Yen's right, physical contact does make you feel calm.
Apparently Cara's going to be quite busy tomorrow so our already halved DWL outing might be a phail! How dismal when everyone else is going out. Then again, K with lisa and ilyna along would be worth it! Alright I'm off for my power rangers marathon. I realised I've watch two whole seasons in the last two years. Time to watch PR zeo! HAHAH.
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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As I was in the shower and brushing my teeth, I realised that life during CTs, in many ways, is like an old toothbrush. First, you use the toothbrush in the morning and night when you wake up and go to bed, reminding us of how we sleep late at night trying to cramp as many things as possible at the last minute and wake up real early because Singapore will always be Singapore with traffic jams and because school just refuses to start later. Why an old toothbrush? I found that CTs wear out life's bristels, like those on an old toothbrush.
... I just hope I'll be able to use transferred epithets like this for Lit tomorrow!
JOSHUA
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loves jumps and is going to do very well for his last year of nationals next year! He also loves music, especially powerpop and sings to them but often goes out of tune when plugged in to the iPod that drowns his voice. Currently, he loves CHRISTINA AGUILERA's voice and is trying to keep this a light-hearted space.
