A Levels are OVER

It is almost unbelievable but yes, A levels are over. I doubt I would ace it but I am an optimistic person (usually) so I will work with whatever grades I have obtained and see where I can go and what I can do with that. Why cry over spilled milk right? Life's too short for that.

After the last paper, Chemistry mcq, the girls and I went to watch Catching Fire! It was AWESOME. It totally made the book come to life. It was super intense throughout and I loved the cast's acting. (even Liam's and I don't like him 'cus of the Miley thing) Sam Claflin is just SO cute and I LOVED the old woman who played Mag. She was so adorable and I wanted to cry when she walked into the fog. I didn't feel that upset at that part when I read the book but the actress playing Mag made me feel so bad for her D:

I love Peeta-Katniss, especially after realising that Jen and Josh are real life friends outside of the movies and are very affectionate towards each other (as can be seen during their interaction in interviews and they have been friends since young). Go PEETNISS. (I hope you didn't read that wrongly)

After the movie we gave Maal her birthday present, which is less fattening than a cake. We bought her The Book Thief. Hope she likes the book!! HAPPY BELATED 18TH MAAL. :)

Today, I went for my first job after A Levels. Can't reveal details 'cus it's a high-profile event, but I suppose I can reveal more details once it's over, which is tmr. :) All I can say for now is that it was an international symposium with high-fliers and even foreign delegates. Is that too much info alr? D: Hope not! Don't want to get into trouble xD HAHA. 

The job is not demanding except for the fact that we have to stand for long periods of time. The pay is pretty good and we get to hang around VIPs and even talk to them ("This way, sir.") and pass them water bottles and I get to oogle at the good looking ones and we are provided with three meals so LEG PAIN can be TOLERATED. 

I can't seem to write in proper English anymore :/ Will work on it, gimme some time. I am using short forms everywhere -.-

OK so I had to wake up at 4.45am this morning to go to work but luckily work starts at 8am tmr so I can afford to wake up at 6. PHEW. 

The person in charge at work, Daisy, is really nice and I also made friends with two awesome JC peeps called Danelle and Jia Xing. (not sure if I spelt that write). It's quite fun when u have awesome colleagues to chit chat with. I even played shoot-shag-marry with Jia Xing and we used the foreign delegates. Since we can't remember their names we called them Singapore, Macau, Nevada, and Australia based on the country they are from. HAHA. (you can't blame us, we were bored) Danelle seriously resembles my sec school classmate Janice. :O

The tea provided to us was awesome - donuts, chocolate cupcakes, wanton dumplings, fruit punch and tea. Huge thumbs up. (Y)

ANYWAYS. After the job ended, I went to look for my prom dress and I think I found THE ONE. I have decided not to buy a long flowy gown just because the theme is Hollywood. If you think practically, what are the chances of me wearing a long flowy gown again anytime soon? Very low. Maybe the next time would be my wedding. LOL. 

So I have decided to go for something simple and practical instead. :) Haven't bought it yet though. Will probably get it when I go shopping with Judy this coming Saturday. Super excited!! :D

Will use my own hard-earned money from this job to buy the dress, makes me even more happy :)

After checking out the dress I headed to JE library and borrowed a book called "How to make it to the Top" - 'cus I really need to know. Actually I could have gone to the library another day when my feet isn't aching so badly but I felt a strange pull. Maybe it was fated because while I was browsing the book sections, I heard an announcement saying that there would be a live musical performance at the 4th floor. 

Now, I'm a music-lover and really like to support musicians so I immediately headed up to watch the performance. Omg, it was stupendous. Basically they were a group that does improvised performances. Any one of them would start playing any random tune off of the top of their heads and the others would join in at random places to either contradict or complement each other. They did about 5 random pieces like that and all of them left my jaw on the ground. Luckily no one stepped on it. 

And at the end they did something I would never have expected, they announced that they would invite an audience member up on stage with them to play the percussion instrument (something which doesn't require experience) and do an improv with them. AND THEY PICKED ME 'cus I was sitting right in front. Luckily after seeing my horrified face they invited another random audience member to do it with me. xD

At first I was very nervous of course but then slowly I got used to it. Unfortunately I was concentrating so hard on thinking of my own improv beats that I didn't get to enjoy the whole group's piece as a whole. Wish someone had recorded it and sent it to me :( never mind~ 

Today was quite a perfect day in my opinion, better than any of the last three weeks of mugging. Hopefully things continue to work out this way :)

That's all for now, toodles~ 

2nd surprise

Ok so I got surprised by Wendy and Brielle once already and then some more of my friends surprised me on  the 21st. I was studying at the study room at the Centris with Judy. Mabel was playing cards with Koko and Jiun Yeu and Wei Chin was reading an ebook on his phone. Then Judy and I realised that we had no more water and so went to the Fairprice at JP, which was quite convenient since the Centris is directly connected to JP, with Wei Chin. We got water and some food and was waiting for the lift doors to open so that we could go back to the Centris and guess what happened?

The lift doors opened and there stood Maalikka, Mazi, Jessica, Zhiqi and Shamira with Koko! I was like, WHAT?! I think my jaw literally hit the floor. I know they probably think that the surprise was ruined or something 'cause I wasn't supposed to run into them at the lift. HAHAHA. But I still think the surprise went well because I was very surprised! Like for the whole day, not a single person gave anything away. And the "worse" thing is, the girls had even contacted Koko and Judy and maybe Mabel to plan the surprise. I dunno how they did it seriously xD

They refuse to tell me how they planned everything :( Anyways, the girls got me a really nice chocolate cake. 

sorry abt the poor lighting!

Here are the group photos: 

The Fuhua Gang

The Whole Gang

Got presents from these peeps too! The one I got from the class gals really tocuhed my heart. I feel fuzzy every time I see it. ^^ Knowing that I love 17 magazine, they made me a NINETEEN magazine! How sweet is that? Not only that, inside it's filled with pictures of my favourite stars and role models. SO MANY OF THEM. I really wonder how long they took to find all their pics and make into a collage. Really touched for their effort. :')

Can you see them?? Beyonce, Demi, Leona Lewis, Adam Lambert, the Harry Potter trio, Jennifer Lawrence, they even FOUND TAUFIK BATISAH. And my eye candies Taylor and Zac are in too :D Would also like to thank Brielle and Wendy once again for their surprise, cake and presents! Love the both of you too :)
                                        
That's all for now folks! I'm grateful that God has given me 19 healthy and safe years in this world and awesome friends like this. :)

Nothing Like Family

Last month, my relatives came to Singapore for a holiday and my mom and I acted as tour guides. :) Haven't met this uncle of mine for 10 years and never seen his wife and kid. Crazy, right?

Brought them to various shopping malls, to Sentosa etc. My little cousin seems to be a bit over-pampered, being the only child. After interacting with her, I realised that I was the only one who wouldn't let her get away with whatever she wanted xD If I ever become a mom, I will probably be a strict one. Oh well, on the bright side, she's adorable. 

Meet Athena

My cool uncle

I like the above photo a lot! :) And of course, the awesome photographer is me! xD Sorry for the self-praise.

Mom and I :)

I didn't take any pics of my aunt with my phone. OOPS. Never mind xD

In other news, Wendy and Brielle gave me a surprise! I was just sitting at a table at the Foodplace in City Hall, waiting for Wendy and Brielle to come back from the rest room when they came back with a chocolate lava cake. I swear it had 2000 calories in it...not that I don't appreciate it lah xD

I am not big on celebrating my birthday though. Personal reasons. :) So if anyone is reading this don't bother celebrating kay! xD BUT I STILL APPRECIATE THAT B AND W DID THIS FOR ME. REALLY SWEET OF THEM. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO REACT. Although when Brielle and Wendy were trying to figure out what to give me as a present I totally guessed it man. xD haahha brush up your acting skills people xD joking, joking!

I feel old but I am glad I am alive xD

Dang it, I am going to turn 19 and I am neither a responsible student nor daughter, and neither have I done anything with my life. :/ I feel the pressure to do something with my life already and I suppose I could start with A levels. I AM GOING TO BE HONEST. I PROBABLY FAILED ALL MY H2s FOR PRELIMS. :( I don't know HOW I am going to buck up in time for As...but I don't have a choice. I WILL buck up in time for As. The only problem now is, how am I going to face my parents and my teachers. Omg I can already imagine all their disappointed faces.

There is this motivational speaker that I always listen to. He is called Eric Thomas and he uploads new motivational videos every Monday(for America)/Tuesday(for Singapore). But even he can't motivate me sometimes :( Oh well, I have physics MCQ tomorrow. Hope I don't screw it up real bad. Sigh :(

No time to breathe

Haha & Skull concert:

Well let's just say that it was awesome! :D They were even better live than on their music videos. They hyped the crowd up really well and threw souvenirs in the form of t-shirts etc. out to us! I almost caught one of their souvenirs but someone snatched it away from me :(

Zhiqi and I, Zhiqi looking so sweet :D

(lazy to upload the other photos plus Blogger keeps screwing up :/ )

Hari Raya Celebration At Shamira's:

Went over to Shamira's house to celebrate Hari Raya with her and her family. Met cute baby Emma and adorable Olivia, Shami's nieces. :) Ate a LOT of delicious food courtesy of Shamira's mom!! We also met Stina, a German exchange student who resided in Shamira's house for about 2 weeks I believe! She didn't socialize with us much though. :/ One interesting thing I found out was that she takes 13 subjects. And to think I already had trouble keeping up with my 8 subjects in secondary school... 

Here are some photos:

Zhiqi and I with sweet Olivia! Look at that smile! :D

Them goodies tasted good!

group photo! German girl beside me!

That's all for now! Will post more after the prelims! :)

6 posts in a go

Haven't had the time nor the mood to post for very long so now I'm going to spam several posts in one go.

1) Last month, I went to one of my mom's friends house with my mom. While I was there, to my horror I discovered that to occupy the kids' minds so that they can do housework in peace, the aunties let them watch horror movies on TV. 'cause apparently that's the only genre that makes them sit still. I am not a parent so I don't have experience with kids but surely that is not something kids should grow up watching. They were watching Prometheus for Pete's sake. Soon they will become desensitized to violence and horror. Oh lord, good luck to these kids. 

2) Ok next, I realized I haven't complained about the haze yet. It's all past tense but I still feel the need to say something about it. This was the worst Singapore has ever been affected by the annual (deliberate) forest fires in Sumatra. Everyone was pissed, worried about their health, the masks were out of stock, I have never been to Guardian so many times in a week, we were breathing in carcinogenic air, people were getting coughs, PSI was hitting 300+ everyday, daily activities were interrupted (such as outings, canceling of consultations, and my dad was even allowed to come home from work at 3pm one day!). That basically sums up the terrible second week of June. Kudos to the 987FM DJs though, for making the situation lighter with their jokes and songs about the haze xD

This is called This is Haze by SgGag

This one's the best. Hazy by Mr Young and Jacqui

But luckily the wind directions over the ocean changed and the haze decreased. It's usually between 10 - 25 now. I never truly appreciated the clear air in Singapore till this incident. So THANK YOU Sumatra, for making me appreciate Singapore more. But no thanks for your contribution to Global Warming. *pissed*

3) We celebrated two more birthdays recently! Jessica's and Mazi's! For Jessica's birthday we went over to Mazi's house and baked cookies for Jess! We also made a batch each for ourselves and MAN...THEY WERE GOOD. Nothing like cookies fresh from the oven! *drools* Just hope that Jessica liked them too! :) It was the first time I tried my hand at baking after Home Economics in secondary school. I remember I made my first batch of chocolate chip cookies with Jermine. :D 

For Mazi's birthday we made her a mixed tape! We put all sorts of songs inside! Maal even put Bollywood songs inside!! xD HAHA. I put a song from Mumford & Sons, one from Ellie Goulding, one from Steve Grande, and one from David Gray. I hope Mazi liked our present too!! 

4) Mabel and I won the contest to go watch Haha & Skull!! :D Thank you so much to everyone who voted!! Went to get the tickets today! Will be bringing Zhiqi along since she is a big RM fan! I am not a big RM fan but I do like Korean music and Korean reggae is something really special and unique and totally worth watching! Check out Haha & Skull: 

The mini concert will be held at Zouk tomorrow, which, in case you guys didn't know, is actually a club! So excited! My first trip to a club!! Albeit, not for clubbing~ 

I was always under the impression that Zouk must be at Orchard/clark quay along with all the other clubs, but turns out it's at Tiong Bahru! Which is fine by me, the nearer the better! :D

A picture I got of Zouk from Google but I will be uploading my own photos of Zouk tomorrow night, or maybe on Sunday. :)

5) There is actually literature class tomorrow morning...yes on a Saturday. However, I won't complain because we are going to watch the movie that has been adapted from our lit text The Remains of the Day and the play too! :) Really eager to watch ROTD but not so much The Duchess of Malfi as it is rather dark and dreary :/ and depressing. 

Wondering if I should go to Ngee Ann civic centre tomorrow after lit, 987FM is having an event there...

Anyways, I went to find Kazuo Ishiguro's other books! Already read A Pale View of Hills. The contrast between ROTD and APVOH is that while at the end of ROTD he neatly tied up the knots and everything, there are many questions left unanswered in APVOH :O I was quite stunned that he never bothered to explain certain events, thus leaving them to my imagination. It can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what type of reader you are :)

Borrowed two more Ishiguro books today: The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans. Gonna start on The Unconsoled first. Hope it won't disappoint! :)

6) Last but not least, I'd like to talk about a movie I recently watched. The main character (girl) was in love with a guy and broke up with him for some reason. Then along came another handsome and charming guy who wanted to be with her...she felt attracted to him too, but couldn't be with him because memories of the old guy would keep resurfacing. :/ 

I just hate this part of us girls...we somehow always think of the old guys even though it's been literally years. I sometimes still think of my primary school crush you know. -.- Maybe us girls REALLY ARE from Venus. Anyways, there is a song that describes this SO WELL. Broken Arrow by Pixie Lott. The song is self-explanatory. Do take a listen! 

" You could be my hero, if only I could let go

But his love is still in me, like a broken arrow" 

That's all for now! Toodles! :)

Post Exam Trauma

I know I kind of neglected Physics this holiday so if I fail or score poorly I understand. But I did put in effort for Math and especially for chem. I felt that the Math paper was ok but I don't think I will do that great...maybe just average. Chem was a real bummer. It feels like all my effort wasn't paying off. 

You know what that means? That I have to work 1000 times harder D: 

Whoever said in JC it's about studying smart and not studying hard, is clearly being delusional. We have to study hard AND smart. Really a hard thing to do for us teenagers with so many distractions. 

One hurdle down, 2 more to go (prelims and A Levels). Hope I can pull through. If anyone else is demoralised like me, take a look at this video :)

Common Test Preparation

Hey everybody! I hope your common test preparations have been going well! I think this was my most productive holiday so far and YET I haven't finished revision for any subject yet -.-

Been a bit distracted recently because Mabel and I joined this competition to win tickets to watch Haha (from Running Man) and Skull's first showcase here in Singapore. Thanks to everyone who voted though, I really appreciate it. Mabel and I are at the top 2 positions now :) So happy~

Ok not much time to blog already, just wanted to wish everybody all the best for common tests! FIGHT ON!