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I really feel liberated. It feels soooooooo good GREAT to have finally recovered from my illness! No more nausea, incessant coughing, and irritating phlegm! Oh yeah!

There's a lot to blog about, but the first part of the week I was sleeping as early as I could, and then I didn't feel like blogging. But I guess I have to blog, before I lose the motivation to do so altogether!

Alright... lemme gather my thoughts. Hm......

Aargh I can't remember most that's happened this week! Just the later part of this week then.

This part is gonna be in my class blog, so there maybe a lot of unknown names mentioned.

Friday. Really fun day. Not the lessons, but what happened after the lessons. There was choir as usual, but then I had some free time after lessons. So some of our class was just hanging out at the canteen with Clarence, Dexin, Calvin, Joe and Weilong. The girls were at some other table. We still sit separately sometimes. Why? I think it's the girls that don't want to sit with us, if you ask me. Hm...

Anyway, Joanne needed some people to help her move some things from the harmoc room to LT3. That's when it all started. Untill now I still don't know why all of us volunteered to help. I don't regret it though. One helluva fun time man!

So the whole lot of us, calvin joe weilong clarence, dexin, li-en wangye yiwen liting and I went all the way up to the fourth floor, near the library. Hm... I didn't realise that small little room was the harmoc room. So pathetic. Anyway most of us went into the small little room after joanne opened it for us. I remember feeling a little apprehensive. Claustrophobic? Not really. Maybe I just had a premonition of what was to come!

It was so fun in the harmoc room! We played with all sorts of things- the drum sets, the cymbals, the portable fan. Then Clarence started singing, as usual. "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA! (路边一个....榕树下!)" After while I decided to join him. "LU BIAN YI GE... RONG SHU XIA!" Then Dexin tried to join in, but he couldn't really sing in that kind of voice I guess. haha. Or maybe he just wasn't crazy enough. Yet.

I didn't really pay attention to what was happening around me. Too engrossed "singing" into the fan! Oh yeah. I didn't even hear the banging of the door. Then the next thing I knew, someone was saying the door was stuck! Woah. I wasn't worried at all though. "LU BIAN YI GE... RONG SHU XIA!" lol. It didn't really sink in until some people started panicking. Namely Joanne. Haha. Only then did I realise that we really were stuck! The door couldn't open. Apparently Calvin and Joe (on the outside) had tried to open it the wrong way or something, and deformed the latch and the frame of the door! But tried to open it. Couldn't. Oh well. "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA!"

Joe decided to go get a screwdriver, and then they started trying to unscrew something ( which I later found out was the latch of the door). I dunno... I still didn't feel that worried. Just continued- "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA!". I guess I didn't understand the gravity of what had happened. It took joanne's (almost) breaking down to make me stop singing. haha. Later we found out that she wasn't gonna cry, just 哭笑不得. So I stopped my singing. And tried to contribute to getting the door open. Tried is the key word man. The whole ordeal took only half and hour though. They got the latch unscrewed in quite a short while (Joe's a lousy, erm unscrew-er). I was getting impatient towards the end. But yeah I just ate, so I wasn't really afraid of dying of hunger. I just didn't wanna go for choir late!

I was the first to go out when they got the door open. Truth be told, the air didn't smell any fresher at all actually. And I wasn't all that glad to be out. No more "LU BIAN YI GE RONG SHU XIA!" Aww. I sang a bit in the stair well while carrying the equipment to LT3 though. haha. Anyway like I said- one helluva experience! And I'm sure we all came out for the better from it. Right? Stress management. Lol.

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I found the lyrics! Yay now I can sing almost the whole song (dunno the rest of the tune). And it's 路边一棵, not 路边一个. Whoops.
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So I went for choir as usual after that. Nothing very out of the ordinary for practice. Our choir president gave us her first scolding ever though. Yeah I admit we're quite noisy. And all the time too. It was I wake up call I guess. Only two more weeks to the full dress rehersal! Omg. So much to do, so little time! And then there's still that stupid SYF recording. Sigh...

I stayed back with a few others to practice the songs we were gonna perform at some home for the mentally disabled. Ye Lai Xiang and Can't Help Falling in Love (with you). CIP. I volunteered. At first there was only one bass, but then Jingzhi and Wang Ren volunteered later, so there were 3 basses. Or so I thought anyway. So, ok I stayed back for that extra practice. It was 8 when it ended. Whoops. Guitar started at 7.30. Whoops. I didn't feel like going. Whoops. I was tired and hungry. Whoops. All I kept thinking of was to go home and eat and sleep. Whoops. So I didn't go for the remainder of the guitar concert. Whoops. Wasted money. Whoops Aargh. I'd better go for harmoc concert next friday...

Saturday. I didn't do any work at all. Just waited till 12 before I set off for Bedok MRT station. It was almost 1, when I got an SMS from Jingzhi.
JINGZHI "Have you arrived?"
ME "Nooo! I'm gonna be quite late." "Ok actually I'm only 1 stop away"
JINGZHI "I still at city hall.."

Ok, fair enough. City hall. So he was gonna be quite a bit late. When I reached (5 mins late only!) there was only Sarah and Linxin. Some of the rest went for lunch somewhere else first. So we waited. And waited. Cheryl came at 1.30. She thought we were supposed to meet at 1.30 instead of 1pm! Hm... I told them Jingzhi was gonna arrive soon. They asked about Wang Ren. So I asked jingzhi.
"Is wang ren with you?"
"No he is there ald.having lunch now.."
Hm.. maybe he was having lunch with the others. He wasn't responding to my smses though.

So we waited. And waited some more. I got impatient.
"Where are you now?"
"Jurong east one stop away.."
What the heck. O. M. G. HE THOUGHT IT WAS bukit batok INSTEAD OF bedok! Aaaaarhhh! So he was at the entirely opposite end of the green line! And- ho ho ho!- Wang Ren was "already there"- at Bukit Batok! Omg. I can't believe it man. Bukit Batok sounds like Bedok?!? Hm... anyway they're PRC. Can't really blame them I guess.

We were already running late, so we told them not to come anymore. Aw. I still couldn't believe what happened. Just earlier that morning I told Jingzhi in a one-word SMS when he asked me- "bedok"! Wang Ren SMSed me while we were in the bus on the way to the home:
"We thought it was Bukit Batok..."
"Yeah I know. Oh well. But today jingzhi just asked me. I told him Bedok!"
"Then I told him Bukit Batok.."

ROTFL. I really wanted to ROTFL in the bus. Aaarh. So there was only one bass- me. With three tenors, three sops and three altos I think. Waaaahh. I guess it wasn't too bad. I had some help from two tenors- one for each song. They knew the bass parts. But tenors can't pull bass parts off la (whoops some anti-tenor feelings here haha.). Especially if they're really low. Oh well. Better than nothing.

It was quite a new experience. No no, not that kind of trapped in harmoc room experience. The really new kind of experience. I knew they were mentally disabled. They also looked, um mentally disabled. It wasn't each individual, but the whole crowd of them... seemed a little disturbing to me. I felt quite uncomfortable and, actually, a little afraid. And we were supposed to smile. Hm... The environment was quite noisy. So in the end we almost couldn't hear each other for most parts. Haha. Apparently I could be heard though! Woah. I was trying very hard to blast, but my ear was blocked. So my own voice sounded very loud in my head. Having a blocked ear isn't fun at all man. Especially when you sing loud. It's deafening!

So we stayed back for a while upstairs and the harmoc people did their stuff. This whole thing was organised by one of my choir senior's class, and they invited us choristers and also some harmoc people to perform. While we were upstairs, the seniors (and some juniors who knew the songs already) started carolling! Aargh. Almost every time they sing those songs when there's nothing to do. Makes me feel so left out. Sigh. I should really go get the scores and learn them myself first.

We ended by singing some "school songs". No, not the school song. Just some, erm school songs? What're they called anyway? I dunno. They expect us choristers to be able to lead the singing. Lol. I didn't know more than half of the lyrics. So I was just lala-ing away.

All in all, quite a memorable experience. Especially that stupid MRT station mix up! We're all gonna have a good laugh tomorrow during the extra J1 SYF recording practice. Bedok not Bukit Batok!!!

I've finally realised why I haven't gotten any better, why I've been sick for so long ( two weeks already). I don't take good care of myself. I ignore all the signs my body gives me. I still go out for whole days when I'm sick. I don't rest enough. I still sleep at 12 plus when I'm coughing like mad. And, worst of all, I took my Napfa test yesterday, when I was almost recovering. Now I'm all sick again. Plus my body is aching all over. Don't feel well at all. Last night I woke up a total of SIX times. It was cos of the cough I think. Or my really uncomfortable back-aches. Sigh...

Right now I'm just slacking at home. I felt really unwell in the morning. Probably due to my lack of sleep. Skipped LEAPS. Lol, my classmates are still probably listening to some talk on service learning right now in school. And the BBI- aarh, it's one big mess. I think we may really get disqualified... I just hope there weren't be any ramifications. The get-punished-by-teacher kind of ramification. haha.

Oh, and the Choir outing was cancelled/postphoned. The seniors are meeting up with the alumni today to discuss concert matters, and a lot of us J1s have got LEAPS today. That's good for me, I guess. I wouldn't have enjoyed myself much if it was held today. And I might've gotten more sick.

Anyway, I've had enough. From now on I'll make sure I get enough rest, and not go out until I recover. I will get better.

EDIT: Besides not taking care of myself when I'm sick, I've also realised that this nonchalant attitude also extends to how I exercise. Well, exercise in the general sense. I always over-exert myself. And I've never cared for warm-ups. Sigh... Why am I so 'heck-care'? My health is important. I should know my limits. If I did, I would never seldom get 'sports' injuries, like the multiple body aches that I'm having right now....

Note to reader(s): I published both in quick succession, so you probably haven't read yesterday's uber-long post! Scroll a little down!

Went back to school today. I felt a lot better. On hindsight, I should've stayed at home. Or rather, I shouldn't have taken my Napfa test. Staying at home would mean that I would've missed the Maths test.

My body's aching a lot right now. Aargh. Feeling really uncomfortable. And my cough has returned with a vengeance. Dammit. I thought I was all better already. It's all my own fault, actually. I really shouldn't have taken Napfa. Over-exerted myself. Now my body's feeling the repercussions. I can't say I totally regret my decision to take Napfa today though. Why? Well, lemme put it this way: Twenty-Three points. NOT COUNTING 2.4 yet. Oh, yeah.

Each class had to do the stations in the assigned order. We got pullups first. I was a little nervous. I knew I could probably get the 5 pullups I needed to get the minimum required for C, but cos I was sick and all, I got a bit worried. And then some of my classmates did six, seven, and even nine (!) when all along they only managed to do much less during the practice sessions for PE. When it got to my turn, I was determined to do my best. And I think I did. Seven. I was hanging midway for a long while trying to go for 8, but arms just didn't cooperate. Oh well. I got B for pullups! Wasn't expecting that.

Next was shuttle run. Had to go down from the hall to the basketball courts for that. I never really had a problem with shuttle run. Oh, besides my inconsistency. I can sometimes run 11.2s, and sometimes run 9.9. See the huge difference? Human reaction time aside, I think it all boils down to technique, and not so much speed. The crucial points are when you stop and change direction. People tend to lag at that part. Lol, I sound like a pro or something. Well, I did get 9.8s... I started coughing quite a bit after the running. But I just shrugged the 'minor distraction' off. Oh, and 9.8s is A, btw.

Next was situps. I was really looking forward to this one. I always get A for it. I thought maybe six months after quitting softball, my fitness would be compromised. I thought wrong after all. I actually managed to do 43 with 20 seconds to spare! It's still quite unbelievable, really. I did 43 ( the minimum for A), and then I heard the teacher saying, "20 seconds left". I was so excited I didn't just stop at 43. I did another 10 slowly. It was really funny- I still remember my friend who was holding my legs asking me to stop, and I gave him this maniacal grin (or at least I thought I did- how was I to know without a mirror?), and continued to do some more. So fun. 53! A, obviously.

The last two were the make-or-break stations for me. Standing broad jump and Sit and reach. I was always very inconsistent for SBJ, even more so than with shuttle run. I can jump from 190 to 24-plus! That's how inconsistent I can get, man. And, hohoho, sit and reach. My least favourite station. Let's just say my flexibility sucks. We went for SBJ first. Like shuttle run, SBJ is really about technique too. Of course, some kind of leg strength is needed. But it's really how you jump, not how powerful your legs are. That's just my two-cents' worth anyway. We were all given two tried each. I jumped 241 in the first try. Needed 245 for A. I was quite contented with a B for SBJ, but something was pushing me on. I needed to get A. I wanted to get A. I remember looking at the 245cm mark, and jumping as hard as I could. And when I landed, I realised my the back of my feet (or shoes, actually) were past the 245cm mark (the teacher recorded it as 245cm though)! Oh yeah! I got A for SBJ!

Then came the dreaded sit-and-reach. I was just hoping for at least a C. The requirements for C, B and A were 40, 44 and 47 respectively. I did some last minute stretching, but I guess it didn't really help much. Got 45cm. B. Oh well. Maybe I should do regular stretching at home.

I'm on my way to a personal best of 28/30 (I think, not sure about pri sch) for Napfa! Provided I get better by next Friday and run under 10.31 for 2.4, that is. Yup, I'm expecting to get A for 2.4. I should be able to do it. I'll almost definitely continue my gold-every-year streak! Yeah! Ok, I shouldn't "count my chickens before they're hatched". Still... it's almost certain. I hope. Howabout 30 for next year? LOL. It's not impossible... but that still quite some time away. haha.

It was probably the adrenaline rush from Napfa that kept me going. I was quite happy throughout the day. Maths lecture test dampened my spirits a little though. I didn't know how to do one entire part of a question. I knew my tutor had gone through that exact same kind of question before, but I didn't read through that tutorial. I was feeling very guilty for not studying enough during the test. I didn't really prepare for the test at all, actually. Just read through the notes. Serves me right.

Choir was fun, but tiring. Like I said, my cough returned with a vengeance. I was coughing a lot throughout sectionals. It didn't help that I was the one teaching the song either. (J1s by ourselves. We're learning these 4 songs for SYF recording). I guess the songs are quite hard and weird, especially when we're singing the harmonising parts of familiar songs, but I can't help wondering how we'll fare when the seniors leave us in June. Can we continue the rioHC standard? Aahhh...

Oh, just before practise we had a visit by the SAF choir. I was quite surprised to see only FIVE people. And all the while I was thinking they had like maybe forty-something people. But they're really good. One of them gave us an "intro" to beatboxing. He's damn pro! He pulled of all the weird sound effects really well. Like Usher's Yeah! And omg- singing and doing vocal percussion SIMULTANEOUSLY! The rest were really good too. All of them. Kinda inspires me to sing better, and louder. Their bass was really loud. And good. Apparently if you join the SAF choir, you don't have to go for army! The 3 month BMT is still compulsory though. But hm... it seemed quite tempting for a while. But I think I wanna go through the real NS. I could using the training. NS isn't that far away anymore. Just under two years left! Oh man. This sounds cliche, but I gotta say it- time does fly.

Whooo this is one long post.

I decided not to go to school today. When I woke up, my whole head was feeling very uncomfortable, cos my wisdom tooth was still hurting from yesterday. And my cough was still really bad. My nose too. I was just feeling sick. Well, not really very very sick, but lessons end at 5.30pm on Thursday. I don't think I would've been able to last through the whole day. So I decided to stay at home. I was actually already contemplating not going to school yesterday, but there was econs test yesterday, and make-ups are troublesome. Didn't feel too good at school yesterday.

I feel a little guilty for not going to school today. Of course, feeling- and more importantly being- sick was the main reason. But I had other motives. If I didn't skip school today to go see the doctor, I'd have to wait till saturday at the very earliest. Then I'd have to skip the choir outing. I didn't want that. Skipping school today gave me the time to see the doctor. I also didn't do any work yesterday- slept at around 9, hoping that I'd feel better today. So I didn't do any work. I guess I wanted to escape the consequences of not completing my second PI draft and not finishing up the bio essay question. Is this wrong? Was I really sick, or did I just want to feel sick? Am I just trying to rationalise my decision not to go to school today by telling myself that I'm sick? Sigh. It can't be undone anyway. I missed today's lessons. Only missed one lecture, fortunately. The rest aren't as important.

I can't say I regret missing school today though. It's given me time to rest. I feel much better now. Probably due to the medicine, but hopefully I have recovered. The week so far has been really hectic. And the rest of it is too. Three tests, not to mention the three days of choir, and to top it off I have three, um, activities that clash on saturday.

There's this compulsory service learning talk on saturday- part of some stupid "LEAPS" programme. I think I'll just pon this one. Or find a replacement date. Sigh. Most of my saturdays are already packed with other things. Our Best Business Idea mentor also wants to meet with us on saturday too. Sigh. I still regret joining this competition. I was really very tempted to just not do anything when the teacher-in-charge told us that we'd be automatically disqualified if we failed to submit the business proposal by next Monday. I'd be letting my team-mates down though. Gotta see it through I guess. Hopefully we don't get through to the next round. haha. Then finally there's the choir outing-cum-second orientation for second intakers. It's a whole day thing. I was quite looking forward to it.

Sigh. What a dilemma. Which to choose? I really wanna go for the choir outing, and just skip the rest. I've already decided to find a replacement date for the LEAPS thing on saturday, or just not go altogether. So it's just down to the BBI meeting or the choir outing. If I had my way, I'd just go for the choir outing, and give the BBI meeting a miss. But I guess I have to get my priorities right. Oh well. In the end there's actually no choice. I'll just have to go for the BBI meeting and then go down to sentosa later.

Hm... my wisdom tooth isn't hurting that much already. Maybe it's gotten better already. Or maybe it's just the painkiller doing its job. Either way I have to get that blasted tooth (and the other three, which aren't hurting yet) extracted. It's not coming out nicely. I was hoping I could wait till June to get it done. Need 5 days' MC for each tooth extraction. Hopefully I can still wait till June. Please. Just one more month. Or else it'd be really troublesome. I don't wanna keep missing school.

Spent most of today lying down, trying to nap, and reading a (SW!) novel. Gotta do a bit of Maths now though, before I sleep. Lecture test tomorrow. It shouldn't be that hard. Just Functions, Graphing techinques (aargh) and Inequalities & Equations. I just have to practise drawing graphs. and do a few questions, and hopefully I can do well. Not much time left- gonna sleep early again. Whoops. Spent too much time blogging. I would've been doing my maths now already, if not for the stupid loss of half of my post (blogger's "recover post" only recovered half of the post!), and the miraculous recovery of the old version after I retyped the other half (I realised that the whole older version had already been published after I published the new post. Turns out I somehow managed to publish the post before I accidentally closed the tab.) Sigh. I really should write in notepad and then transfer it over to blogger next time.

Should I go for Napfa tomorrow? I don't feel that sick now- should be ok tomorrow. It's not the 2.4km test anyway- just the 5 items. I hope I can still do my 5 ot 6 pullups. I suppose I could just go for the make-up test. If there is one. But the 5 items won't kill. Will it? LOL. I'll just see how I feel tomorrow first.

Sucked into a vicious cycle - of work
Thrust to the unwilling forefront - of work
Rest is nowhere in sight.
Emaciated though we look, now - from work
Such is the way things go that we are never far - from work
Still, it remains our only choice - work.

Natalie

After the long weekend, I feel it. Stress. Work suddenly appears from nowhere, and I start to panic about project datelines. Three tests next week. Chem Econs and Maths. Mon, Wed, Fri. Nicely spaced out. Yeah, right. The H2 bio students have bio test this week. Too bad for those taking BCME. 4 tests. I've got H1 bio test the following week though. Aargh.

I just want to sleep. But I've gotta study Chem. And do Econs.

Oh yeah! two days of fun (and work) have passed, and tomorrow's not Monday! There's still one day left to the weekend!

I've been spending a lot of time outside these two days. Met up with the choir people on Friday at 1pm at KAP to discuss and plan for the one-day sabbatical that we'll be conducting for some students over at the high school side. Then some people actually started DOING WORK! Maths. I didn't bring anything, but after a while of staring at the rest doing work and playing my friend's handphone, I decided to start too. Cos I realised- the exercises are all the same! I don't need my own question paper to start doing! So I borrowed a pen and some paper. Worked (and slacked in between) until almost 9pm! Time passed really quickly. But actually from 8 onwards we were having a mini combined haha, so we were just 'working' from around 4 to 8.

Then today I went down to school at 10am, again for choir. Painting of the choir concert banner! We started with the words first today. It's gonna look really good! I can't wait to paint the other parts. At first I was a bit unsure of myself, cos I never painted a banner before. I was slacking around when my class painted the class banner. After the painting a bunch of us went for lunch. KFC. Been eating a little too much fast food recently. And what's more, I'm sick. Oh well. My cough is getting better anyway. Some of us decided to go back to school after lunch to mug. I came prepared this time- brought all my work. Well, not all. The 'more important' ones.

We sat the class bench beside my own class bench. Open space. Exposed to the elements! Ok fine, there was a roof, but still... the wind was really strong. I almost started shivering at one point. Some rain splattered in too. But it was good fun. Not the work, of course. The chatting/ gossiping (!!!). Something that came up when we were talking really got me thinking- Is it really through that choristers are very detached from their class because they love choir more and prefer their friends in choir? Hm... I dunno... Though I realise that I've been distancing myself from my class. Aaahhh.... Can I have the best of both worlds? Can't I? I wanna love both 61 and choir!

Talking to the rest when we were doing work today, I realised I haven't been reading at all. Notes don't count. I used to read a lot. But back then it was my mum who bought the books. I've gotta get my own books now. I just somehow don't feel like starting on "adult fiction". Ok, SW novels are considered "adult fiction", but that's science fiction set in my comfort zone- Star Wars. I really should try other books. Too much Star Wars haha. Hm... Maybe I'll try to read LOTR. After all, I've already read The Hobbit. How about non-fiction? Maybe I'll continue with The Fabric of the Cosmos. Modern Physics is great fun. Really crappy, but that's the why I find it fun. lol.

Oh yeah! It's Sunday tomorrow! Gotta study for Chem test on Monday though... Chemical Bonding. Pure memorisation. Oh well.

Dunno what's wrong with me. Been getting sick a lot this year. Sigh... It was a only just a few weeks ago when I recovered from my cough, and now I'm coughing again. Started with my nose, then the sore throat, then the incessant dry cough. Aargh. Why am I falling ill so easily? Lack of sleep? Maybe. I have been sleeping much later compared to last year. Trying to sleep earlier now...

I wonder if my falling sick is some unconscious defense mechanism. I always happen to have a runny nose or a really bad cough on the day of a test or something. Physics test today. We had the tutorial just before the lecture test! haha. Now I don't find it all that weird that we have a Physics tutorial just before the Physics test anymore. It's there for a reason! Mr Thomas gave us a few "hints" during tutorial. Well, not really hints. He just went through one or two questions from the tutorial. And he actually analysed the lecturer's preference for questions! He told us that Mr whathisname liked to set ladder questions, so we went through the one in the tutorial. And surely enough, there was a whole structured question about a ladder! I managed to do that one. But I'm still gonna die. Physics is really quite abstract. For me, anyway. Please, lemme sub-pass. All I want is a sub-pass. Or maybe a pass? Or a C? Or B? Ok, I must know my limits. B is quite impossible, especially when I thought I could cancel out two "m"s in an equation, when one was for mass and another was for metres! Aargh.

The official Napfa testing starts next week. Like I said, what great timing for me to get sick. I hope I get better in time. My fitness level has really dropped by quite a bit since I quit softball. I still wanna get gold though. Shouldn't be too hard, I hope. It's the 5 items first next week. Need to make sure I can do my sit-ups. Surprisingly, I'm actually struggling to do the 43 required for A! And luckily for my they lowered the standard for pullups, if I'm not wrong. Only need 5 for C. Phew.

I wanna get better soon... It's very difficult for me to concentrate during lectures and tutorials, or even during choir when I'm busy blowing my nose or coughing. Sigh...

I just came back from RJ. Yes, RJ. And I know, I'm not from RJ. Whee so fun. I went there to support the Haunted House thing, which was held to raise funds for the BMDP (bone marrow donor project).

1110 hours. Entered via the back gate I think. Cos that's the direct bus from my house stops. Walking in, I felt really weird. I think the whole school was there, on a Saturday, cos it was the official opening of the JC. The place really is very green. And white. And almost everyone was wearing some form of RJ uniform. One HC student in a place full of Rafflesians. In my jeans and shirt, I felt really out of place. Had this "me against the world" feeling, haha. Actually, I spotted a senior from HC there. The orientation IC. I suppose she was with her RJ friends. If not... traitor! Lol. Anyway, I tried to make myself feel as inconspicuous as possible. Didn't wanna make myself stand out haha.

So I was following the directions to the haunted house, when I spotted someone familiar. Jonathan! It's been so long, but I still recognised him. He took just a short while to remember me. I'm quite surprised he remembers my surname haha. Maybe cos it's unique. Talked to him a bit, before walking around, trying to get hold of Natalie. She was really busy. Don't get so agitated! haha.

The haunted house tickets were sold out, and a sign said "come back at 12.15 pm", so I decided to walk around some more. Tried to find some more 6mers. I dunno... maybe I walked past some, but if I did, I didn't recognise any of them. Then I spotted Jonathan again. He offered to take me to see Mie. She's changed quite a bit. And yes! FINALLY someone who says I changed a lot. Yeah! So there. I have changed. I've grown, and my hairstyle (lol see previous post) HAS changed! Talked a bit, then I went back to the ticketing booth for the haunted house.
[EDIT @ 9Apr: Mie's changed her mind. Yesterday on MSN she said actually I didn't change much. Aargh. Back to square one. ]

The sign changed. A new message was put up, and it went something like "We have no guarantee that people who bought tickets after 12.15 will be able to enter the haunted house." I decided to give it a shot, but the ticket seller explained to me that I would probably have to wait a long while, and it was so long the queue would probably last till 4.30, when they had to stop. Oh well. The queue was indeed really long. Crazy. I thought for a while, before deciding to go home. I'll hear the screaming another time haha. Couldn't wait that long, cos I've got quite a bit of work to do this weekend (Physics test on Tuesday!), and registration for the sabbaticals starts at 4pm. Must log on exactly at 4 to make sure I get the sabbatical I want haha.

1230 hours. Went home. My sense of direction isn't that bad after all. Managed to find my way our of the right gate. RJ seems quite big at first, but it isn't really all that big. I come from a big school too anw.

Calling all (or rather, the few) 6mers who're reading this! Let's hold a gathering during the June hols! I've finally made contact with the RJ 6mers. I know we've had quite a few failed gatherings... But let's make this one work out!

After 6 years, my hairstyle has finally changed. A little bit. And I'm not talking about the length. Haircuts don't count. I've begun to use wax! Not really to spike my hair, just to, um 'style' it a bit. Otherwise it just looks like a bunch of standing hair. Am I getting more vain? Nah... No... Maybe... dunno...

Anyway, I've been wanting to use something on my hair for some time now. I just didn't have any gel or wax or spray at home. Last Monday though, one of the council elections campaigning days, there was this group which was giving out small bottles of Gatsby wax. "If you're happy and you know it clap your hair" - that gatsby lol. So I took two bottles home. They're really small bottles, so apparently it's to last for 4 times- one bottle two times. I dunno... I only use a little bit each time. It's been 5 days since Tuesday, when I first started, and I think I barely scratched the surface of the first bottle. lol. Maybe my hair doesn't need much. Afterall, my fringe can stand up straight without anything in the first place.

Ok, my hairstyle hasn't really changed much. It's actually now just a permanent and dry form of my hair after showering. Sort of. But I kinda like it this way.

Edit @ 3.22pm: Speaking of my hair, just on the day when I first started using wax, my ever-so observant classmate noted that I had WHITE hair! I thought they were kidding. How could I have white hair? My hair grows so fast, you'd think it probably gets a lot of nutrients. Ok, don't go into bio here. I know it can be genetic or something. But when they kept insisting I had a few strands here and there, I gradually came to believe them.

I just checked. I do have a few strands of white hair. Spotted a few at the top of the head. Aargh. Dunno about the back- that's where my classmates found a few strands. Sigh... Why me.... It's probably not the kind that portends an imminent total greying, but my hair isn't all black anymore.

I did have one strand of white hair before. Only it was on my eyebrow! And it was really very very long compared to the other strands on my eyebrow. One long white strand of hair that stuck out on my right eyebrow. Haha. Really weird. And I remeber I plucked it out a total of two times. After the first time it actualyl grew back! I didn't notice it was back until it became very long again. Strange eh? I think it's gone now. *Checks*. Yup, gone.

Why, why do I have white hair... was it because of the wax? Maybe. Althought I only started using it the day those white strands appeared. Could it happen so fast? Dunno... Maybe it's stress. Lol. I don't feel all that stressed though. Maybe it's some kind of "dormant" stress that I dunno I have and will explode once it gets too much. LOL.

They say "pluck one strand out and another three will grow back". Do I dare to test this old adage? Hm... I'll just try my luck with one of the strands first. Hopefully it won't hurt that much. No pain no gain anyway.

I just hope I don't get anymore white hair... I'm too young to die!!! Ok, exaggeration haha.

I'm really very tired. Was kept occupied the whole day. After the day of lessons I actually went to play tennis with some of my classmates. It was good to see I could play quite well, after having stopped two years of lessons quite a few years ago. My backhand's really lousy though. Oh well. Just keep whacking forearm!

Almost two hours of tennis in the hot sun. I wonder what I was thinking. Then I rushed of to choir after having a really quick lunch (at 4pm!). Practice went quite slowly today. We were trying the solfege approach to learning this new song, Da Coconut Nut. It's not too hard, singing in solfege. Until we get to the key changes, which this song had (two in fact). Miss Lim came at 5.30, and had to wait a whole hour before we could combine. And even then, the tenors couldn't really make it (their parts are really very high! Even for tenors!). So we didn't really accomplish anything today. Sigh... We didn't perform up to expectations.

OH NO! Piano lesson tomorrow and I didn't practice at all for the whole week! Aargh. I'm so dead. Dammit. I've been practicing lesser and lesser recently. It's not really my fault. I can't really practise at night, cos 1, I won't be able to concentrate (sleepy), and 2, I'll disturb the neighbours. So that basically means I can only practise during the weekends. And last weekend. I forgot. Or rather, I kept putting it off until night came. Sigh. What happened to my increasing enthusiasm for piano? I must get it back...

Aarh. Feeling really tired. All the running during tennis today has finally taken its toll. Hm... I think I'll sleep early. Really very tired. I sort of finished my tutorials, I think. I hope so anyway haha. Can't be bothered to check. Even if I haven't I don't think I can muster the energy to do anything. So I guess I'll just hit the sack.

Zzz...

EDIT: Whoops 10.40 already and I haven't gone to bed. I really am tired. Just got held up on the com....

Ok really gonna sleep.

EDIT @ 11.32PM. OK OK. I know. I've ended up dragging and dragging until it's the time at which I normallly go to sleep. But I'm really especially tired today.

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