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| filler post.I really don't have the time to update, or maybe I just can't be bothered to.
before I go on to the picture post, one thing I've to mention right now is that... dramafeste has been cancelled!
I wasn't exactly surprised when people told me, I kind of expected it! Especially when 7.40 in the morning, the whole of Raffles Institution's students are told to separate their tables for social distancing... I somehow guessed even dramafeste can't be held. Add inter house Track and Field to the list of Cancelled Events/Fail Events of 2009 because of H1N1.
It was pretty much supposed to be my last year of Dramafeste because I'm assuming I'm not staying next year.
So there! End of my drama business in RI.
back to my supposed picture post. the other day my sis and I discovered a huge stack of our childhood photos somewhere in the cupboards, 'cause mum was clearing the house for my french buddy Lucas (who's here already).
and we discovered this:
I look positively -.- and my sis just looks dead.
this was back in indonesia.
we decided to question her about the photo, and all she came up with was that we didn't really react to what she did to us so she was bored enough to doodle on us.
-dies-
and another note before I go off to do my work:
a few days late, and I've wished you already but...
wishing my raffles players chairman Zachary Teo HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY once again.
thanks for being there all this while, and for leading the club I feel mostly for. I've only known you well enough since last year when I finally became a core member and we were just talking so much nonsense during Army Daze. I can't forget how good a friend you are, because during this year's SYF and DI, you're the one who kept Mush and I going regardless of what we were facing.
I'll remember all the impersonations both of us have done.
(:
All right time for work!
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| a little too late.but I hope these two friends won't mind that I haven't updated my blog for them. haha. I'm on Leave of Absence, won't be back in school until wednesday. But that only means I've a little more time to do what I haven't finished.
... but that's almost everything. ):
so anyway the purpose of this blogpost: (from most recent and backwards)
 Yeah I know this photo is super old, from last year's dim sum dollies in february. But we haven't changed much anyway right? haha but I decided not to put the RS photo. haha anyway, Shayne Tan, wishing you a happy 16th birthday once again. I don't know how we started talking at the end of sec 2 (was it?) but anyway my first impression of you was pretty much the same as what you thought of me: why the hell is this guy so weird. (recall how you had the shuttlecock flung onto the astroturf in sec 1?) But anyway, you're super talented and you aim high so I'm sure you'll do great next time. and also great job as HR Boss #1 all this while, and bahaha be prepared for some Dramafeste work coming this month. (:
I almost put a photo we took in DI this year, but I figured it's too embarrassing. Speaking of which, the both of us share about an equal amount of embarrassing moments (but since some people are more equal than others, you win.) You have defined the art of tripping on flat ground, and well, that deserves some recognition. Too bad I am currently quarantined, otherwise I could have celebrated your birthday with you last Friday. So once again: happy 17th birthday to Mushfiqur Shariq Rahman. (ohman that's a mouthful.) It's been great working with you for DI and everything else for our academics. You're so funny, you can make people laugh their butts off out there (reference to sth here) Hoho enjoy dramafeste directing too. Time to up our game and work our way outta this tiny red dot of a freaking island. :D
so yeah. that's about it for now. I've to panic for other things.
socdoc
dramafeste
french immersion (NEXT WEEK :D)
everything else inbetween. ):
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| uh. macau.I am secretly running away from work as I wait for my dimsum lunch, and I decided yesterday's trip deserved a post. Hur.
So we (my mum and I) made a day trip to Macau yesterday, because I've never been there. I had to wake up at 7.30, 5 hours after I finished dramafeste shiz, and take a bus to the ferry terminal. Thank goodness we've a bus terminal just downstairs. Anyway we managed to catch the 9.30 ferry after mum's panic attacks and by 10.30 we arrived at Macau.
With the help of our hk identity cards, we sailed through the electronic barriers at the HK side without any delay. :D
Upon reaching Macau we immediately joined this one-day tour, which turned out more of just transport than anything educational, but it was worth the price 'cause it included the ticket up Macau Tower, which wouldn't be cheap going there alone. The first stop was some golden Lotus statue, where the security guard relentlessly blew his whistle at anyone stepping on his grass.
The next stop was some Filipino gift shop.
That was a toilet break. But after that we walked to the Ruins of St Paul, which i was quite looking forward to. It was smaller than I expected, as usual, but interesting nonetheless. here it is.
One point to note about that shirt (Aliff, Shawn and Zhi Yuan, are you very happy now?) was that there was this woman with her caucasian boyfriend who stopped in front of me to read it. And then she went, "That's the nicest shirt I've seen." and she continued reading it off for her boyfriend, who was towering over her. But anyway, I had this mango drink at the base of these steps, which somehow made me want to puke after finishing it (so don't buy it if you go there) and I didn't have any appetite for the nice street food. D:
There wasn't anything too eventful, 'cept that the heat was making everyone really grumpy. I checked the weather forecast on weather.com the previous night, and was expecting thunderstorms. -.-
Next few stops weren't much -- Ah Ma temple, where there were nice paintings/murals outside done by secondary school students to educate the public about what's gonna cause them fines. I tried sneezing-
 ...But it didn't really work out. Spread the flu yo.
On a side note Tower 5 and 6 of our apartment have swine flu cases already. I'm in Tower 2. Stupid flu bug had better not climb up 58 floors.
Back to Macau, I enjoyed the trip to Macau Tower, which I had seen in the Amazing Race Asia, where they had a Fast Forward to climb to the mast, and a roadblock to do the bungee jump. The bungee jump was very tempting but no one else was doing it and it wouldn't be good for my mum to panic if she saw me jumping off 338 metres. WASTED chance anyway. D:
 There were Chinese tourists who were really scared walking on these glass panels, it was quite funny. My mum was freaking out too when I tried pulling her onto these panels bahahaha. I saw people sitting down on 'em, so I tried to too.
 Just that now the bottom is blocked. Bleh.
 The rest of the trip wasn't much. I think it's insane how many casinos Macau has. And I really don't get the whole point of it. You see a casino and hotel at every corner and every turn you make. Apart from that, I really liked the old buildings and Portuguese influence, like streetsigns too. Having no English at all for once, unlike Hong Kong.
Oh oh oh but the tour group was a pretty interesting bunch. I felt like I could understand everyone bahaha 'cause there was an Indonesian family and my mum started rattling on with her Indonesian at one point, there were 2 elderly French couples, from whom I caught a few words here and there, there was another elderly couple from Shanghai, and so that was why the entire tour was in English and Mandarin.
We were dropped off at The Venetian, some casino/hotel, at the end. It was crazily grand. We ate our overpriced Japanese meal, and headed to the shops along the fake canal. The fake sky.
But the atmosphere was really there! Shops along the canal, singing gondoliers.. And then the casino. You've to be 18 to go in, but I caught a glimpse as I got on the escalator.
Haha not my cup of tea.
We took the free shuttle back to the Ferry Terminal, then walked to Fisherman's Wharf, which was a really odd place. It was very tourist-y, and strangely deserted. There was nothing much there, but a fake volcano, Tibetan houses and other nice old buildings/shops that had no business. Poor things.
Back at the ferry terminal, there was something quite funny that happened. I spotted these 2 siblings, a guy and a girl, pointing and staring at my shirt, but I didn't say anything. As I was talking to my mum, I saw them strangely walking over and then STOPPING to take a photo further up ahead of me. I was carrying my bag in front of my shirt at the time, and I think they were waiting for me to put down my bag, 'cause the guy waited pretty long.
But too bad I just walked away 'cause we wanted to catch the earliest ferry we could back to Hong Kong.
Bahahaha.
OKAY SORRY PARENTS JUST CALLED.
DIMSUM TIME.
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| O: 
This is my 3rd night in Hong Kong. Wohoho.
Hm. I just watched Coco Avant Chanel this afternoon, sadly alone once again, 'cause 1. it's in French and 2. IT'S AUDREY TAUTOU, who's an actress I really respect/adore (for Amélie and A la folie pas du tout, which are really brilliant, I must say.)
So anyway about the movie, people might claim that it's an utter waste of time 'cause it' may strike off as plot-less, but hey, it's a biography of Gabrielle Chanel. If it were your biography instead, I wonder how much more interesting it'd get, but I'm guessing not much. Well Gabrielle's, or 'Coco' 's, life was really quite a rollercoaster, except there were more drops than going up. But don't watch the movie for only the love story and her struggles, watch the movie and try to feel what Coco felt. Audrey Tautou doesn't need to say much to show her emotions. It's all written in her facial expressions.
I shan't go on about the movie 'cause. Well it's not out yet in Singapore (is it?). Just watch it for Audrey Tautou! It's worth everything. (okay Richard just confirmed that it isn't out so HAH. :D )
It was my first time watching at the cinema at Times Square, and the first time watching something alone in Hong Kong, but it was really awkward 'cause these Hong Kong tai-tais with shawls and shades and everything were sitting around (even though it's so bloody hot and stuffy and cloudy here -.-) and there I was sitting alone, and well, okay just alone, so that's weird enough right. But they were there for the brand! I was there to train my listening ear for French AND watch Audrey Tautou! O: Hm but anyway. Everything went fine, until this elderly guy's phone started ringing really loudly. At first I didn't take much notice: somehow every show I watch, someone's phone would ring and the guilty person would silence it immediately. But not this guy. He spoke as if he was in the toilet with nice echoes, and kept on going increasingly louder. I couldn't help chuckling when people around him started going SSHSHHHHHHHHHH really loudly too (he was sitting in the middle block)
So I continued watching.
But it happened again, and this time he started talking during an Audrey Tautou Emo scene, so people started telling him off in Cantonese, and told him to leave the cinema to pick up the phone.
Weird.
Anyway. I'm hungry. -.- off I go.
oh ps the photo above was frm the night flight to HK the other day. buh.
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| Rant #1/#2/#3/#4So the Canadian letter finally arrived yesterday, much to my surprise. I'd almost given up holding on to hope already.
Now we've got to go for re-medical check ups, wait another 2 months and we'll know whether we're off. I was thinking through it again yesterday. Thank goodness I just took my SAT. But I was wondering if I really wanted to go. Right now everything's pending -- I could be staying here for all that I know. And I realized: I don't want to stay. Not because I'm running away, when I can't handle or cope things over here. I don't want to stay because I regret the past 3 and a half years' worth of decisions, and I really want to something new, fresh, and start all over again. I may not have been through a foreign system like what Gen had in Jakarta, which probably credited her when she decided to head to Canada for high school. I don't even want to stay here in the future, so what's the point of staying now?
Sure I'm still Singaporean and I've to serve the army. But I don't like where I'm schooling now, who I'm schooling with, and what I'm going through.
So there: I really want to go.
But I still need to finish up this year so that's one goal: to finish up Year 4 as perfectly as possible 'cause at the state it's in right now it's far from perfect.
French Immersion's still on! I wrote to my correspondent/buddy Lucas a few nights ago and he replied on Facebook. That's cool enough. But I was talking the Wesley's buddy Matthieu on MSN and apparently Lucas doesn't use his computer much. =/
Dramafeste is a wreck, and I'm only hoping I meet expectations.
But I really agree on Mush's point in his blogpost.
I was about to start on academics, until I realized that I've been bogged down so much by useless things, that I haven't touched them.
I passed by Hwa Chong the other day on the way to King Albert Park to meet Chia and Mush for our countless projects. Reminded of SLC. I've been through so many of these events in the past 3 and half years, and I realize that they're what I enjoyed most. Survivor Synapse at PLMGS in '08, ACS JuneAct '08, this year's SLC. Getting to know people at CAP '08.
Argh never mind am not making sense.
So I've been around Choa Chu Kang a hell lot these few days.
"I don't think I can ever live in the heartlands."
I'm actually thankful I've lived in this little, ulu part of the West in this tiny red dot of a frickin' island. 'Cause going to school here since young has left me exposed to all kinds of people. And in RI, it pisses me off sometimes when people make completely insensitive remarks. If you haven't been exposed to other people before, and you're not used to talking to them, well get used to it 'cause you won't continue living with only your kind for the rest of your life. Deal with it. But what really disturbs me is how people don't realize what they're saying.
Okay I'll shut up at this point.
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