Sunday, January 24, 2010
Yesterday was a busy day. In the late morning I went to tutor my P2 student for the last time (so sad right) at Toa Payoh. Then I was to meet Rachel to kind of help her with some maths, outside the Toa Payoh Library.
They were having this sort of fair/basar malam (though in the day) - the typical kind that has Ramly burgers, lower quality takoyaki and fried stuff, and other random clothes and stationery tools. So I got myself 5 pens for a dollar, as well as two pocket files to bring to Australia.
There was also one booth selling CDs, though it looked mostly chinese, like CNY songs or old chinese shows. But then as I was waiting, Super Junior's Sorry Sorry started playing! And following that was SJ-M's Super Girl, wahahaha!!
Anyway the library was too crowded (and I doubt the people there would appreciate us talking) so we went to Toa Payoh Hub's Macs to eat my lunch and study.
I'm glad she asked for permutations and combinations, because those are easier to remember, than say complex numbers or statistics. Differential equations required much checking of formulae for integration though!
But we got politely asked to leave (because you shouldn't really spend so much time studying at a fast-food joint) and moved over to KFC where now she ate and we had a good time talking! Mostly about university, studies, and relevant stuff. Many thanks for her encouraging words about being a doctor!
After that I made my way to the condo where the AGM was to be held, though it took me a while to realise that the aforementioned function room was the room labelled 'Multi-Purpose Hall'.
I helped Amanda with her mini-banner (that wasn't used in the end!) and blowing balloons and stuff! The food was good (though I didn't like the wasabi prawns), and the company was excellent! Clarissa, Eunice, Jocelyn, Yuting and I went walking and found this greenhouse place with aircon and pretty plants and water with fish inside! It was really picturesque!
Also, Eunice has recently gotten into K-Pop! And she likes Super Junior too! It's always good to know fellow fans!
We came back to find the rest playing Pictionary. They were separated into 2 groups - by whether your year of graduation was odd or even. The evens had less people than the odds, because Xuemin's year had a lot of people, and Xingqun's year as well!
Thank goodness I didn't have to draw (can't draw to save my life), but at least I managed to guess Linus' 'Mona Lisa' picture in time! It still baffles me how Cheryl guessed 'Lady Gaga' from Chee Jun's drawing!
They also played Queen of Sheba, and I think the funniest part was when Gabriel and Yong Jian had to try saying the alphabet in the shortest time! Xiang Ting was laughing like mad!! Another funny part was when they wanted someone from each group with 'the weirdest face', and Eugene (that terrible boy) told Shamini to just have her normal face!
After the games came the more serious part, like introducing the new committee members/understudies (Eunice, Sheena, Eugene) and SLs (Sheena, Clarissa+Eunice, Gabriel, Jiahao), and discussing things like communication avenues and the upcoming concert's musical direction.
Then when it was over I was going around taking photos with people, eating more honeydew sago dessert, talking to friends I hadn't seen in a long time, etc. We finally left the place at about 10:30, and I'm glad Sheena and I had 2 straight buses home.
Sheena has volunteered to come over and "watch me pack", rather than help me, but I think I'll still enlist her!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Yesterday my brother and I went to the much-advertised Body Worlds exhibition at the Science Centre, and it was pretty interesting and informative.
They showcased specimens that came from real people or animals, sometimes showing the muscles or the skeleton or particular organs. It took a long time to get through the whole thing because there was lots of information to read, in the glass cases or on the walls.
I liked the quotes they had on certain large posters on the walls, generally talking about life or age or the mind. They also had these blood pressure machines, but both my brother and I tried and the machine didn't put the final reading, but it worked for the lady after us!
I was really tired after it because there's no place to sit down at all! And after we left I bought a notebook which says I <3 My Body, only that the heart picture is like a real heart and not a valentine. So cute!
Today I went to NUS Co-op to get my textbooks, with Justin's help and member card for a discount! Then we saw Gloria, Melody, called Liu Xuan and Kai Xin to meet them (I thought KX might be going home too but she still had class) and Jessica as well! It must be so fun to go to uni and bump into your friends like that!
Brother and I made spaghetti for dinner, with our maid's help of course, we'd probably fail otherwise. It was quite nice!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
We had our first class gathering ever since we weren't an official class any more yesterday night, 9th Jan 2010, organised by Ben!
It was sad that many couldn't come or weren't even in the country, but at least those of us who came had a good time!
After tuition I went to near Xiaowen's house, to eat lunch. She also bought this takoyaki, but sadly her piece had no tako! So ridiculous! She'd made the jelly already, and we found that it could be jam-packed together so as to stack three layers of helly into my one tupperware box!
And we also watched stuff as she connected her laptop to the tv, making everything BIGGER :D Then we left her house at about 5pm or so to go to AMK Hub to the NTUC to get the utensils, plates, drinks and some fruit syrup because the jelly was slightly tasteless.
We met Rachel there, who helped to carry, and we chionged across the road the moment the green man lit up, because the 74 had already reached the bus stop! Finding the condo was easy enough, though finding the function room required more walking.
AND... we were the first ones there! I was surprised, because I expected Ben to be there already, but he was still at home making the food, with some other guys I guess.
So we just sat there waiting and talking until Kai Xin and Kai Qi came, followed by Xin Yuan, then Ben called Xiaowen to tell us to help take the things from HIS parents CAR. I'm so jealous! He got to drive!
Right, so his car had all the beehoon and ice and other stuff, and Gerard and Jiayi were with him. It took us so long to find the mysterious staircase leading to the car park! Many thanks to the friendly resident who showed us!
After we'd laid the tables and started pouring drinks, I think the people who came after us were Daniel, Wu Si, Rongrong, Daixi, Terence, Jessica, Justin and Jeremy. It was fun being able to talk to everyone after so long!
After a lot of phototaking, I was tempted to go home with Jess since her father was here to pick her up, but decided not to in the end. Then we began playing games prepared by Ben! I applaud his efforts!
So the first task was to write down the names of everyone in the class next to their register number, and their secondary school. I confess I don't know the names of the scholars' schools! Just put Vietnam and PRC! But anyway I finished first, followed by the joint Daniel & Xin Yuan, then Xiaowen. But everyone was copying from each other anyway!
The next thing was a 40 question quiz on events in our IP life, some easy, some ridiculously tough!
E.g. what did we do for Funtasia 2? Everyone remembers the Haunted House :)
E.g. who was our IH2103 teacher? I didn't even know what SUBJECT that was!
E.g. what was Jiayi's rank before entering university? GUY-BIASED QUESTION.
After which the girls received an education on army stuff :D stars, crabs, bars, chevrons, OCS, Specs, and Man!
It was really fun, and we all helped to clean up afterwards, and split up between those going to the bus stop towards the west and those going to the east in Ben's car. Kai Qi was taking a cab anyway, so I went with her, but didn't have enough change to pay for my trip! And she was so nice, saying it wasn't necessary!
I've been blessed to have all these friends from school, all really nice people, and to be able to meet up with them after a year shows how we've grown, and had new experiences, and that we're still good friends!
Friday, January 1, 2010
It's the first day of the new year, and we just came back from the watchnight service at our church. Labels: church
I was wondering how the youths (many from the CJ were there) were going to get home since I think most buses don't run past midnight, and apparently a lot of them are staying over. Since most of them just finished their church camp, it'll probably feel normal anyway!
I'm surprised that our church managed to get the Bishop himself to preach the sermon! Are we so important? Haha, kidding only. But there's at least one message I'm sure every one took away:
Life is short,
Death is sure;
Sin the cause,
Christ the cure.
Amen to that!
The service comprised singing of both older contemporary songs and hymns, a sermon, a symbolic lighting and placing of candles on the cross-shaped table, Holy Communion, and much prayer and reflection.
Oh God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home.
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