today was honours day.. it was like.. boring. 840 pple getting awards.. it has lost its touch liao. hahah i still remember when i was sec 2 and got cert of distinction.. so cool. but now.. sian.
YES!! MY PIANO IS FINALLY FIXEDDDDDD!!!!
no more sudden outbursts of sound. hurray. hahah i never felt like this towards piano b4.. last time when i was still in sec 1, 2... piano was one of the most dreaded things. but after learning how to play the guitar better, i realise piano is quite useful too. hahah tts why jus after selling my acoustic piano i cudnt take it anymore and had to buy one until it was SPOILT. but now its repaired (at a cost of $180 no thanks to pianoman shop who told us that warranty was under their shop -.-) and i can go learn stuff now!!
yay i got 83/100 for my mep prelim!!! hahah i finally 'won back' the 'title' after one year!! thank you God. phew no more mep competition for this year.
but this is onli the beginning. final year exams are in less than 6 days time. full steam ahead!!
quotable quotes: Straits Times Life motoring section 24/9/05
Winston Lee on the new Lexus SC430:
"Front seat occupants are pampered with seats offering armchair comfort and a luxury ambience fit for royalty. The rear seats are best reserved for legless dwarves."
LOL.
hey.
after reaching home today and eating my lunch, i decided to go cut hair instead of going tml cos tml i want to study. i check my wallet and i had exactly $11.20. enuf for one hair cut and one bubble tea ^^
today i got my hair cut by the only male hairdresser at clementi EC house. he rox la. super pro. can cut my hair the way i want it and not freak out cos hes not doing it within the 10 minute limit.
after that i go to the bubble tea stall at clementi and order honey dew sago. while waiting for them to prepare the stuff, we notice a blind man tapping the floor with his cane, and saying 'hello, hello' in quite a loud voice. so means he needs help lah. i dint want to go help him yet.. cos still must collect my drink wad.
until he walked to the edge of the stairs (and was tapping precariously at air). so no choice i dont wait for my drink and went to help him. i ask him wad help he needs and he says he needs to go to the terminal for 173 so i bring him there. on the way there he asks if i have any money for him to take the bus. at first i say i had no money.. but in the end i gave him $1. i read a newspaper article on how u can help blind pple, and one of them is that if your bus comes first u can ask someone to take over your responsibility of helping him to the bus so i ask a lady in the queue if she cud help him. to my horror she mouthed in a veri soft voice, something along the lines of 'i have seen him quite often and am quite fed up of him'. i dint hear the whole thing but i did hear 'fed up'. she also told me that he cud see a bit in one eye. after that she moved to the back of the queue to avoid him.
i cudnt take it anymore so i left him when i decided that he cud make it to the bus on his own. i went to stand at the 165/7 terminal and im glad i saw him off on the bus, so in other words he got on the bus safely.
you may think that i would be happy cos i did the textbook thing of helping a blind person. but i felt super down. i jus sat on the bus playing handphone and thinking about this. its like.. helping him to the bus stop wasnt the most hip thing u can do in public already.. u leave your order to help somebody and end up somebody else at the bus stop cudnt care less. its realli sad. and a few times the thought crossed my mind that he cud have cheated me of my money. i was so sad i just pangsehed the bubble tea stall, even tho i noe they wud have given me the drink without asking me to pay.
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hahah if you look at this from an earthly perspective, wad i have done seemed like a foolish and stupid thing to do. well seemed to me like that for a while.
are u living the christian life every day?
wad if someone who knew you were a christian was watching you.. to see what you would do.
wad if the blind man was an angel sent from God?
doing good stuff may not always make you feel good. it may make you feel uncomfortable. you may think no one sees. but God does.
hey. wanted to blog ytd but blogger was down.
sunday was sermon and i think it was quite okay. hahah altho i wudnt have considered it my best presentation cos i was reading from a script and presenting at the same time. my opinion of a good sermon or presentation is one wif jus powerpoint and improvisation. :)
my mep exam is finally OVER!!! but i think whether i will get my position back depends on the luck of my music teacher's mood.. cos i played realll bad today for the duet lololol. its as if i forgot how to play the guitar.. came in on the wrong beat, messed up running notes and bah. my teacher also suggested i change one of my pieces for o lvl cos it was real draggy. ahh well. altho i wud be quite sad if the few marks i needed in the exam cud have been gained if i had practiced more last nite or smth.
as of today, its onli 14 more days to the exams. approximately 1/3 of chem is studied and about nothing else lolol. i realli need to go revise all my maths soon and chiong thru all that physics formula.
my piano is going to be repaired soon! yay!
ponned sch today. or rather i was sick. but in acs even if u have an mc we still call it ponning.
especially if its the day b4 an exam ^^ muhahah i spent bulk of the day studying mep for tml. hope im ready.
hmm ive been having that throat infection for so long that i somehow forgot how it feels like to have a normal throat. but the antibiotics the doctor gave me is finally working! hahah
we got the living room for care team tml. yay.
so.
i jus looked at a calendar jus now.. its onli 3 weeks to the exams (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). hmm sometimes i wish that there wasnt so much competition among my classmates. 3 weeks before the exam we are already comparing how much work each other has done and how much revision and blah blah blah.. which i guess is a realli stupid thing to do but i still got involved in. i dunno but after a while it becomes depressing when every day u go on msn and u find out that someone has done more work that you have.. of cos most of us would just push it off and say that it doesnt matter cos onli the final exam does. but if it happens every day......
hahah i wonder if i would do better in a private sch or here in acs. there'd prob be much less stress in private sch.. but no competition. maybe pple improve through competition.
but i think enuf is enuf. i want my class position, i want my mep position, but its not realli going to help by comparing myself with others. this spasticness needs to stop.
anyways through the past exam periods i have always grown or felt veri far from God.. maybe its cos ur thinking of work so much that u dun think abt God so much. but maybe this round it will be different. i've got the opportunity to speak on God's Word next sunday so i do hope that will keep me focused on my spiritual life and not let it fall so quickly.
my resolution (which has a 90% chance i wun stick to but here it is):
i will (try to) stop asking pple wad work they have done
but
at the same time pace myself to finish studying the 100 chapters of maths and science i need to revise.
and i will stop panicking that i have not done enuf work cos panicking and worrying isnt going to help.
i will (try to) stop idling around and using com so much and spend my time on more important stuff like studying.
yay.
i cant believe it. ive been on the com for like.. forever and i still havent completed that philosophy essay yet. ARRGGHHH.
honestly, the answer to 'what is the meaning of life' cudnt be any simpler, rite? what is 1500 words, rite? hmm well but this essay isnt just abt churning out crap like my project work for why small print is used in adverts.. pple might read my essay, and this essay reflects who i am so must write properly. hai. got abt 200+ words left to go but i seriously got major mental block.
great now my mental block has spread to this blog entry.
anyways, these few days have been doing absolute nuts. or rather nothing that might interest you. i have been chionging thru physics mcqs.. done 8 out of the 10.. so tts pretty good progress i guess... and for once it OWNS most of my classmates. it may sound childish but it feels good to be ahead in work. ugh. i still recall what my fren said abt doing work jus so that u can get a sense of accomplishment out of it.
okay tml is still going to be a boring day. i realli hope to finish as much work as possible, including that assay (as the geog dean pronounces it.. lol).
heyy again.
i realli enjoyed uncle adrian's sermon today (or rather ytd morning) on joy. it realli picked me up from my melancholic mood these few weeks.
the holidays are here!! and its studying time. at least we get to wake up late. hahah my classmates also cant realli bring themselves to study. and im kinda influenced by the amount of work my frens do.. so if my frens slack i slack too.. which isnt veri gd. anyway my physics teacher is crazy.. he gave us this thick stack of 10+ physics prelim revision papers.. and expects us to finish it all?!? mann.
was reading the life section today, so heres something to think abt:
love and
attraction are 2 different things.
whatever chen yi.
byebye.
heyy.
today was teachers day holiday. i woke up at 9:30 and went for 'theory class' at holland village.. but i had forgotten wad time i arranged it so i reached arnd 10:15. and the music school was closed.. so i went shopping and left. then arnd 12 the piano teacher called me and she said she thot i arranged for 11:30 -.-
just now went to see chinese physician... its realli cool. his whole office onli got fans.. cos air con not healthy mah. he also used a combination of modern technology and dunno wad techniques.. but his flashlight to look down ur nose and throat all no battery.. he uses modern machinery to measure ur blood pressure but puts the stethoscope (how u spell it?) at ur upper arm when he is taking ur blood pressure (dunno for wad) and the way he takes height and weight.. mass parallex error. my weight almost became 51kg lor lol.. and he smashes the weighing scale arnd and measures ur height using measuring tape. lolol.
but he is seriously veri pro. hahah im supposedly stressed and dun drink enuf water. and my sis is so skinny cos she gets irritated before mealtimes and loses her appetite. lolol.
but the most expected thing.. just now i had to take the medicine. its so bitter u can CRY. even if u dilute it and add sugar its still bad. lol. well.. onli 6 more days... 0.0
kk tts abt it. tml is potluck and irvin's hse!! and im lugging 4kg of drinks there on public transport. lol.
