The June Holidays have officially started!! :D And the Sports Meet today went relatively smoothly, apart from a few stumbles, and the "undesirable" weather. HAHA.
I am just glad Keith was my partner for the emceeing. Since we're already friends, it wasn't awkward at all. I'd like to thank Miss June for giving me the opportunity to host this year's Sports Meet despite the fact that I have so little prior experience. Thanks to Mr Sufian for mentoring us before the event, and Mr Chen for guiding us during the event itself.
To be honest, it is not really easy to host an event. It is easiest for those who do not care about what people think about them or are just very self-confident. Because then they would let their guard down and go all out with the hosting. So I guess doing things like this has helped me to become tougher, learn to be self-confident and not care that behind my back someone might be saying "Eh, that female emcee sucked today." I hope not though! So far I have only heard "well dones" from my friends, and that's really sweet of them. Thank you! :')
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Congratulations to the winners and participants!
As much as I am grateful that it's the holidays and I can wake up late, hang out with friends etc, I MUST MUST MUST utilize the next month well. I do not want to screw up CT2. I just hope that I can overcome my desire to just camp in front of the TV for 24hours. This is what happens when you have a lot of channels ><
That's all for now. Too tired to type anything else. Shall finish watching my Bollywood dramas then it's off to bed! Nights! :)
If anyone wants to just read about the concert, scroll down!
On Wednesday, I found out that I was selected to be one of the road marshals for JJC's annual road race, which would be held at Chinese and Japanese Garden this year! On the bright side, I wouldn't have to run the 4km race, on the negative side, being a road marshal isn't that fun either. But I guess it's easier than running such a long distance. So after school on Wednesday, the road marshals were taken to the location so that we can check out our stations. There will be two people at each station but I don't know who my buddy is yet. I hope it's Sapphy! :) I like my location, it's near the lake ^^ But I will be directly facing the sun as it rises too -.- Made some new friends while I was there. Ingzhe(sp?), Neha and Jun Jie. :) Nice people!
But my legs were hurting afterwards and I got this HUGE blister which hurt like crap.
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On Thursday, the day started off badly as we got back our math test results, and although I passed it, it wasn't well done. Made several stupid careless mistakes. Will try and do better for the next math test...which is actually the common test. *gulp*
Next we had our PE lesson, during which we were supposed to run 10 laps around the school track (4km). Unfortunately the PE lesson started a bit late and I only managed to run 9 laps before the bell rang and we were released. But 9 laps is already a major accomplishment for me. :) Mazi is my motivation!
The only problem is that for every step I took, I was stepping on my blister so it just got worse.
After school, Saph and I went downtown, Scape to be exact, to pick up the stuff I won from 987FM. I won the AOS Anthem package and the Grammy Nominees 2013 Album, which consisted of a total of 6 CDS altogether. I feel blessed :D
I didn't get seats on the MRT on the way there though, so my leg cramps and blister just kept getting worse!
NVM, onto happier things. When Saph and I were within walking distance of Scape, guess who we saw walking around outside Scape? DIVIAN and DEE KOSH, 987FM DJs!
But Saph and I didn't feel that it was right to disturb them so we just acted cool and walked past them. -.- We went up to the 987FM office on the 5th floor and while waiting there, guess who walked in behind us? DIVIAN :D Guess our meeting was fated. Hehehe! After I collected my prizes, Saph and I got to take a photo with Div! Here it is:
I know I look unglam. But I don't care :D
He's such a sweetheart :)
After Saph and I stopped being starstruck, we went out of scape, got some Gong Cha and sat down to chat. Then suddenly this girl came to us and said it's her birthday and asked us to say happy birthday to her while she takes a photo/video of us. Although I was quite shocked, we did it quite willingly. Why not right? :D
And then a student from SIM approached us for help with a project. He used two different cameras to take photos of us and asked us which photo do we prefer. Here are the photos, he sent them to our emails! :)
Saph and I both prefer the 2nd picture! :)
After that we met up with Saph's boyfriend Kenneth and went for dinner at Botak Jones. I found him really friendly and gentlemanly. They make a cute couple! After dinner we went to Cathay Cineleisure so that I could help Keith to buy his Aztec phone case.
Ps. I discovered the next day that I accidentally bought an iphone 5 case instead of iphone 4s case. dumb me
Didn't go to school as I wasn't feeling well. Judy came over after school to catch up with me and Alex came over soon after! We chatted and listened to music until 5 plus. I changed into my concert clothes and we went for dinner at Hong Kah market!
After dinner we went to Jurong Point and parted with Judy there! On the MRT ride to The Star Theatre at Buona Vista, Alex and I were already getting excited! While walking there I ran into my ex-colleague from ION, Eric! :D Said hi to him! I really never thought I'd have the privilege to meet him again!
From the outside
From the inside: it can house 5000 people :)
The stage decorated in black and yellow
I really pity the people on the third storey at the back. I think they can only see a tiny Adam dancing around. xD But never mind, they can hear his awesome voice anyway. When he came out the crowd went wild. By the way, MDA rated the show NC16 so his younger fans couldn't come. For once I am glad I am old. I almost cried when he came out. You know how fans are. It was emotionally overwhelming. And everytime he came near to my side of the audience I screamed my lungs out hoping he would notice me, which I doubt he did, but it was still worth it. If I remember correctly, he started the concert with If I had You. I didn't video anything down as I wanted to focus on him 100% So here's a live from Youtube. It was BETTER than this! Much hotter, I almost died.
His stripped down version of "Whataya want from Me" almost made me break down into tears. AND OUTLAWS OF LOVE WAS SO GOOD I CAN'T USE WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT. Check out the song:
"Everywhere we go, we're looking for the sun. Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run. They say we're riding hell...well I don't think we will. They've branded us enough, outlaws of love."
Adele may set fire to the rain, but Adam sets fire to the stage. IT WAS HOT LAST NIGHT. From his outfit changes, to his stroking of the mike stand, dancing provocatively with his dancers, the backup singers (he calls them the Bajayjays), the MALE AND FEMALE GUITARISTS WERE HOT. THE DRUMMER WAS AMAZING. It was all just mindblowing. I wanted to be his mike stand. If I was a fan before, I am a MEGA HUGE SUPER BIG HUMONGOUS fan now. And I swear I will go for his 2nd, 3rd...nth concert in Singapore. Now for some pics of Alex, Jiamin and I :)
Love this pic!
After the concert, Alex and I were standing at the shopping mall waiting for the crowd to subside and while doing that we met two familiar people! Firstly, I met my doctor! I always go to him when I am sick! (Ps. I think he's hot) I called out to him and was glad he recognised me! Turns out he had also gone to Adam's concert! So hot doc and I have similar taste in music! YAY! Next we met Kaili from sec school! Was nice to chit chat with her for a while :)
I don't think I can describe the concert anymore in words. SO I shall leave you guys with some hot pics of Adam Lambert to drool over. (I know he is gay.)
How intense is this?
There are many more but I will grow old if I put them all up! Better go now! Thanks for reading! :)
I have already done my New Year resolutions in the previous post. Time to really reflect on the past year.
At the beginning of the year, I was working at Sheng Siong as a cashier with my friend Judy. It was tough, really tough. I know people think being a cashier is only about counting money, but boy are they wrong. I got scolded by the older cashiers for being too slow and holding up the queue despite the fact that I was new, I had to promote the products on offer while zapping the barcodes of the customer's purchases, and if I accidentally zapped the same product twice, I needed the supervisor's card to undo it. Sometimes I had to stand there and wait for the supervisor to come and the customer would give me dirty looks. Once, my fellow young colleague, Darren, even got into a tiff with a customer when the customer accused him of giving off the "ah-lian" or gangster vibe when Darren was actually a very nice guy. Worse still, I was a cashier during the Christmas, New Year AND Chinese New Year period and as you all know, Singaporeans were buying off the whole shop. One counter made up to $30000 in sale in ONE day and we have 3 counters. So you can imagine the amount of work we cashiers had to do. Moreover, it was a standing job. Standing up for 10h a day is no joke. At then end of the day, we had to go up to the office and count the money and make sure everything tallied. I once lost $30 due to my carelessness and my supervisor paid it for me. I was touched and very scared too. I realised this job is not for me. However, I learnt a lot from this job and the pay was totally worth it too. My respect for cashiers in such big supermarkets has increased because now I know that it's not such an easy job after all. Also, I wouldn't have lasted a day without Judy. Thank goodness she was there to support me when I just wanted to quit the job!
After I quit the job, the O Level examinations results were released and I remember crying my eyes out in the hall when I received my certificate because it was below my usual standards. I had never been so disappointed in myself. But I dried my tears and promised myself that I won't let history repeat itself.
Then it was time to choose my next destination: either a junior college or a polytechnic. My first choice was actually Ngee Ann Poly's Mass Communications but unfortunately I didn't get in because I was one point away from the requirement. So I ended up in Jurong Junior College. Although I didn't go to my dream school, I no longer regret coming here. I think the pressure here is manageable, as compared to the pressure I am sure my friends from ACJC and TJC feel since they are better schools. I also think my class got really good teachers.
I joined the guitar club, and although I quit in June, I had already learned a lot! I am glad I got the chance to learn the guitar. :) I quit because I was having trouble managing my time and decided to prioritize my studies over extra-curricular activities.
I also joined Drama this year. Although I was not part of the cast, but rather I was the lighting crew, I learnt a lot from this experience about the importance of hard work, determination, and team work. JJC had never got a silver or gold for drama SYF but this year we got Gold with honours and that's something to be really proud of!
I also joined this Emceeing course with a few of my friends and it was a really cool experience. I got closer to many of the other emcee wannabes. And our coach, Mr Rishi Budharani is awesome!!
Thanks to this course, I will be emceeing for the upcoming Open House. I really appreciate this opportunity. :) Also, I came out of my shell more during this course.
Other fun things I did include going for Pink Dot 2012 with some of the drama peeps and Chin. Glad I brought Chin there, think he need to feel that gays aren't as discriminated in Singapore as he initially thought they were.
One thing I am not proud of is screwing up my common tests. I did really badly and my mom had to attend the Parent Teacher's meeting. Sigh. I did so badly that if I didn't pull up my grades by the End-Of-Year exams, I would have to retain. But I pulled up my socks and pulled my grades up in time! Still no As though :/
Also, I watched a lot of plays this year. Twelfth Night, Othello, Gods of Carnage, and 4sterhome. I absolutely love to watch plays! I don't think I'll be watching any in 2013 'casue I am supposed to be studying 24/7 but after the A Levels I definitely will!
Before Justin left for the UK, I went ice-skating with him and other friends. I am glad he invited me because I had never ice-skated in my before and it's always good to try new things! :) Albeit, I fell down and injured myself. -.- My leg was swollen for weeks (because I refused to see the doctor). No regrets though!
When the holidays started, the literature students and I had a literature retreat. I picked up lots of skills regarding acting and thoroughly enjoyed getting closer to the other lit students. A few days after that I went to watch PSY's first concert in Singapore with Chin! Oppa Gangnam Style! :D Had fun!
I also went on "Jalan Raya" at my class girls' houses and that was really fun! ^^ Ate a lot of festive delicacies >< That pretty much sums up my year. Overall it was pretty fun and eventful and I met great people like An in Drama! :)
But if there is something I learnt this year, it's the fact that not everybody is going to like you. Someone will have a problem with the way you are. If a lot of people share the same opinion about you, yes, maybe you should change. But if it's just this one person, who shouldn't change yourself for him or her. Once in a while, you gotta stand up for yourself. This is the way I home, you either accept it, or eff off from my life. Simple as that :)
Also, there is this ex school mate of mine that I haven't talked to in ages, Rabi. He recently talked to me on FB and showed me this video. Oh my gosh, it is so inspirational. You guys should really see it. Here it is:
I should probably watch this video every morning. To all my poly and JC friends, all the best with your studies in 2013. I am sure you will do well!
Ps. I am also glad that Yong Lay and I seemed to have gotten over our misunderstandings in sec 3/4 because he's the only one who watches the same shows I do and knows so much celebrity gossip. I'm glad I can talk to him abt that now. ^^ He's a nice guy :)
It's going to be a new year very soon! Lot's of hard work coming my way since I'm going to take my A Levels next year!
I usually can't stick to my resolutions but I managed to stick to one of my most important 2012 resolutions - which was to not retain. HAHA. Here are my hopes for 2013 in mostly pictures:
I stole this from Tumblr but this is exactly what I want!
Except maybe the "sketching and painting" one, I really suck at art.
Not gonna give up!
Mind over Matter - A Levels ain't that hard!
Holding on to my dreams <3 td="td">
I'll try!
Until 2013, bye! Need to go and complete my homework!
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