Sparkling clean.

Today, the afternoon was spent cleaning my room. Not really the room, but my side (part) of the room, mainly my desk, under the bed, and the shelves. It looks neat and tidy now. Throw some rubbish. The rubbish never ended. Every cleaning up, sure got new things to throw. The rest of the time, again, nothing to do...just slacking.

I'm hungry now though already had my dinner. Gonna go mac....
Till here.

Sianz.

Last night, watched vcd: Shall we dance. I like the movie. The dance was nice. It gave me inspiration to learn ballroom dancing...haha, especially waltz, rhumba. This reminds me of a korean movie "innocent steps" also bout dancing...From there, I wanna learn samba...haha. Salsa also not bad. Or tango.

Well, as for today...there is nothing special except boredom and more boredom. Oh my, I'm so bored. Anyone free to go out with me?...hahaha..even tv also cannot watch, hardly. The tv is taken by others!.
sian.

The New World.

This show is currently only screened at the Cathay (the newly renovated cathay cinema at Handy road). I went to watch it today. The mall part at the cathay is still under construction so can't talk much about it. But the cinema sections are done, and well it feels new but at the same time still so familiar. The ambience is almost the same as the one in orchard cineleisure, just that perhaps slightly classier. Inside the theater: the seats are the same as cineleisure, the screen is bigger and the distance from the first row to the screen is quite far apart, and the screen is lower too compared to other cinemas. And, the screen is slightly tilted, so if you are sitting in the first row, I guess your neck won't break after the show. I don't know whether really there is such service, but when I already settled down, there was someone delivering order to the people sitting behind me. Cool eh, food delivery. Hahaha. Unfortunately, I got a theater that is average size. The biggest theater is called "the Grand Cathay"...and it really looks big.

Well, moving on to the show. It was a pocahontas tale being told in human form. The movie is slow, serious, artsy, literaturish, slightly romantic, confusing, making your mind wonder. I did not understand the show, perhaps due to the changing of scene and big chunk of silence. There were several times when you thought the movie was going to be over, but well it continued. To me, it takes someone of great intelligence to decipher the movie properly. But, well the good things about the movie was at least it didn't put me to sleep. And, the sceneries. It was breathtaking, awesome. The pictures taken were beautiful. Perhaps, that worth two thumbs up. No wonder, it was nominated for Oscar under arts and sciences for best cinematography. I recommend this movie to those who love nature, sceneries, visual arts, and literature. The movie is like a mixture of documentary plus mime plus literary works.

But, at least, that kept me company for the evening.

the 4th Saturday of March 2006

There was nothing much happening. By the time I woke up, it was already nearing lunch hour. The early afternoon was spent watching this indonesian movie "4 sehat 5 sempurna". It was funny but too non-sensical. The acting too wasn't done well. Anyway, the casts were not those popular ones. After watching, I went to POSB branch at Centrepoint to deposit money to my friend's account. He needed to borrow some money urgently. After that, I was just slacking till around 5.30pm when I took a bath and ready to leave my house.Evening to night from 7 to 9pm, was spent in school (MJC, Pasir Ris). The choir alumni had its first practice. Well, it was the first move towards the plan of performing during the annual MJChoir concert, coming in May the 10th. The first song learnt was "Good Old Acapella". It's a simple song yet catchy, and easy-singing and listening. Though it wasn't the melody, but love the bass part :)After practice, most of us went to Changi Airport terminal 1 to have supper. We decided on Popeyes. It was entertaining and amusing, yet symphatising, to hear some of my choir mates bitching bout the toughness of NS life. I am considered lucky that I need not go through this compulsion. For my friends out there having to go through NS, jia you ok! We left the airport around 11.25pm. I took 36 home, and considering it was almost midnight when the bus came, the journey was very smooth and fast. It was like sitting on a shuttle bus home.Tomorrow (referring to Sunday, 26 March), I had nothing on, so perhaps gonna be bored at home, doing nothing, just pure slack. Hopefully, there is something to do.

P.S: Yay! my visa electron card has finally arrived. Have to go link it to my account on Monday.

SMU Admission Interview

SMU admission interview took place today at 9.15am in the School of Economics and Social Science.
ARGH! I think I screwed up the interview :(
Was nervous :(
My answer was superficial. Didn't expect the questions to be like that.
Damn.

Kuala Lumpur 3D/2N

Together with Audrey Ang, Audrey Ee and Yan Ting, I went to Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 20th March to Wednesday, 22nd March. The following was our "itinerary":

Monday 20th March:
AM
7.30 - Check-in at Golden Mile Complex
8.00 - Depart from Golden Mile
PM
2.00 - Reach Kuala Lumpur; Check-in at Federal Hotel
2.45 - Walking around the hotel - the stretch of Bukit Bintang road (plus lunch)
4.30 - I returned to hotel while others went to supermarket (I got stomachache, hehe)
6.30 - Went to Jalan Petaling - Chinatown
10.00 - Back at hotel; Clean up; Dinner was A&W take away
11.00 - Touring the hotel
(00.30 - Lights out)






Tuesday 21st March: (Happy Birthday Griselda)
AM
8.40 - Woke up
9.00 - Breakfast at the Verandah - Federal Hotel (Complimentary)
10.00 - Left for Kuala Lumpur City Centre (Suria KLCC and Petronas Tower) by trains
PM
3.00 - Back at hotel
3.30 - Lunch at opposite hotel at Fresh Noodle Yum Yum
4.30 - Back at hotel
4.50 - Left for Mid-Valley MegaMall (largest mall in Malaysia) by taxi
8.00 - Back at hotel
8.45 - Went to Jalan Petaling - Chinatown, again. Had tze char there and continue shopping
11.00 - Back at hotel
(00.30 - Lights out)

Wednesday 22nd March:
AM
8.50 - Woke up
9.20 - Breakfast at the Verandah - Federal Hotel (Complimentary)
10.00 - Went to Bukit Bintang Plaze for last minute shopping
11.00 - Accompany Audrey Ee back to Chinatown
PM
12.00 - Back to meet Audrey Ang and Yan Ting at BB plaza
12.30 - Back at hotel - Pack up
1.00 - Check-out
1.10 - Lunch at Secret Recipe
2.30 - Back at hotel lobby - waiting for the coach
3.10 - Depart from Kuala Lumpur
9.10 - Reach Golden Mile Complex, Singapore

This trip marked the first time I spent all my Ringgit away. Mostly on food though. Well, of the four of us, I shopped the least. But, I got shop nevertheless. I bought 2 sweaters, 1 bracelet, 1 swimming goggles and 4 DVDs for myself, and other orders. Overall, the trip was enjoyable and nice time spent. Good holiday!

Ratings: 3.5/5

On 22nd March Wednesday.

Around 10pm, I reached Novena Square to meet Alvin and Pei Wen, and later on Pei Pei and Sandy.

Let sadness pass. Difficult it may be but the sooner you refresh yourself and move on, the sooner you will find your life back, and the sooner you will reach a better fate. Sadness may or may not bring good things. Many said that time will slowly erase the sadness. But time is not enough. You need your own strength, will power and of course support. To my friends - brothers and sisters - I will always be here for you, to provide shoulders for you to cry on, to lend my listening ear, or to dance around in euphoria with you.

Balestier Hill Band Camp 2006

At last on Monday, 13 March, I went back to secondary school (after one year) for the band camp. With the rest of my band friends, as alumni, we helped out with the camp. Basically, we were in charge of the lectures/talks. I was part of the leadership and sectional teaching lectures :) It felt great coming back to band. Though we did not involve directly in the camp, we did have so much fun, mainly cos we too play our own game, non-sensical game...haha. We played the animal game, wh0-what-hah and titititititi--tiu. We also played our own instrument, our missed-so-much instrument. Tried to play the old songs, but well kinda of break down in the middle...Well can't blame us, we have not touched our instruments for so long. Overall, I enjoyed myself very very much, although have to wake up early in the morning, hehe. It is with much joy to see my seniors, friends, juniors, how I realise I miss them. And now when the camp was over, how I realise I really miss the secondary school life, the band especially. How we suffer with the foot drill, and yet the enjoyment when we play music and did the foot drill well..I so hope, we keep in contacts and have more gatherings...haha...I miss you band people :)

(Me and Alvin, my brotherly junior)



(Me, Audrey and Alvin = the trio trombonists)



(Me, Jian Rong, the ex-student conductor, and Alvin)

University Applications

I have managed to sort out the courses for each of the three Singapore's government-funded universities. The followings are courses I've applied: (the choices are listed in order of preference)

National University of Singapore:
1. Science
2. Arts and Social Sciences
3. Business Administration with Accounting
4. Business Administration
5. Architecture
6. Industrial Design
7. Computing

Nanyang Technological University:
1. Aerospace Engineering
2. Mathematical Sciences
3. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
4. Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
5. Psychology

Singapore Management University:
1. Social Sciences
2. Business Management
3. Accountancy
4. Science (Information Systems Management)
5. Science (Economics)

Review.

Yep...been back in Singapore for 13 days..On the 23rd, I got a job at synovate company at burlington square through my friend, but I worked for two days, but quit on Monday, partly cos results were coming out in the next few days.And, so yesterday, wednesday March the first, I got back my awaited A level result. Well, I am satisfied with my result cos I had sort of predicted that the results I had gotten would be the maximum grades possible. Anyway, I achieved As for Chemistry and Mathematics while a B for Further Mathematics and a C5 for General Paper. Well I was sort of disapoointed with the GP result but then again I am glad that at least I passed because before the result I kept dreaming of failing my GP. So now the next major thing I had to do is to decide which university to go, and most importantly what course I am interested in. Today I looked through the courses and their requirements and was so surprised to see many requires the grade of two sciences. So yeah, bit of regret of dropping physics last year. But, well perhaps there are other plans for me. Today, I went to the career fair at suntec with my secondary band friends. Then went for dinner at suntec foodcourt before going for dessert at tcc boat quay. The ambience at tcc was nice, loved the bean bag..hahha...it was a nice time spent. We chatted, laughed so alot. We had decided to go for a holiday in Malaysia in two weeks time. Hopefully the plan worked. And also we even decided once we graduate, have enough capitals, we gonna open a cafe :) Well, plan for tomorrow: meeting Krystelle in the afternoon for lunch, and then she gonna help me going through the uni courses and application, as well as overseas scholarship particularly germany, australia and switzerland...Hopefully by tomorrow I know what I want to do. In a mean time, I hope to enjoy as much as possible before university education start.