09 February, 2005
Today was a quiet day. Visited my uncle first, and had brunch at his house. Didn't do much, just slept a bit, watched TV and played Diablo on my cousin's Playstation. After that we left for my paternal grandmother's house in Bedok. When we reached there quite a few people had already arrived. Shook hands and wished everyone 'Happy New Year'. Everyone decided we were bored, so we got out the mahjong table and played until dinner. I wasn't having much luck, although I did win twice overall. Must thank my uncle who played for me after I got sick of it, who helped me recoup my losses, so in the end I kind of broke even and didn't win or lose any money! After dinner, we went home. Yup. When I said 'quiet', I meant it.
Anyway, I shall talk about yesterday because it was more exciting. Actually, anything is more exciting than today. I have tomorrow free, mostly, except the bit when my cousins, uncle and auntie are coming over for a bit. I guess I'll have to resign myself to doing homework tomorrow. That's sad. I feel depressed just thinking about it, because I have so much due. Let's see. 1) partial fractions tutorial, 2) binomial theorem tutorial, 3) the rest of chemistry mole concept tutorial, 3) trigonometry tutorial, 4) physics vectors and scalars tutorial, 5) physics errors and uncertainties tutorial, 5) chinese comprehension... and a lot of these (#2 and 3) are very long and painstakingly difficult to do (for me). Okay, I shall not depress myself. It's the new year, after all!
Oh yeah, before I begin on my recount of yesterday, I counted all my hong1 bao1 money already. ^^ I have collected a total of $244, but $100 came from my parents, so I only have $144 from my relatives. I don't know if that's a lot or very little, because I usually don't coun the money myself, but it's quite a great sum nonetheless and I'm happy. ^^
Yesterday was a tiring day! Woke up at about 5.20am. My dad was chauffeur in the morning, so went to Lay Ning's house to help her the tang1 yuan2 stuff to school. Reached at 6.30am! So early. Was the earliest! After that people started coming, so we begin to chuo1 tang1 yuan2. After working our way through the dough and washing up, it was time to go for morning assembly at the Chinese High track. It was quite a lame/crappy assembly, because we get the usual CNY talk from the principal, etc. After that, went back to our class bench and slacked for quite a long time while waiting for the CNY performance to begin. When the performance began, our class actually tried going to the fourth floor of the left wing to catch it, but we were stopped by the councillors. We wanted to try the other floors, but visibility wasn't good as they were filled up already. So we eventually went down to the central plaza itself to watch. The wushu was damn good, and had some funny bits in their performance. We were happily watching, when we saw this guy in black who looked DAMN FAMILIAR. Then I heard someone say, 'Isn't that Timothy?' and when I looked closer, it WAS. Wow, he was SUPER pro with this long pointy thing I don't know the name of. Yay! We applauded as loud as we could.
After the CNY performance, we had our little street market thing. To tell the truth, I wasn't very happy with the whole thing, because I didn't like my own attitude. Well we had some problems with our electricity and couldn't get the cooker to work, so we couldn't sell the tang1 yuan2 properly. Ended up relying on the stuff that Da En brought. I feel very sorry for Lay Ning because she went through so much trouble to help the class make it a success, and I feel so guilty because I think I didn't do very much to contribute. All I did was stand at the stall and try to keep a low profile, because I hate selling things. I don't like going up to people and asking them to buy something, because I'm not pro-active like that. I know I should be, but at that time, I simply couldn't bring myself to walk forward and do something. So all I did was stand at the stall and pretend to look very busy. Yes, that's why I said earlier that I didn't like my attitude. My cowardice.
Was quite relieved when the street market thing was over, because all I wanted to do was to shove it to the back of my mind and not think about it again. Does that sound like a negative statement? Because I'm afraid it is. I was kind of down the whole of yesterday, although I'm proud to say that yes, I forced myself through the mass dances. I wanted to take part to give something of myself to the class, even if only about 8 of us did really take part in the dances at all. It was a hot day and the morning sun was burning everything up, but we still did it. I must say, Apollo's faculty dance just about rocked the house down because it was just so cool. I screwed up the couple part for the Artemis faculty dance, really sorry to say. Not that anyone cared, really. I think it was a good thing that there were even PEOPLE dancing the Artemis faculty dance because 1) Artemis is one of the smallest faculties and 2) Artemis is not known for it's enthusiasm *coughS3cough*.
After the dances I helped Lay Ning move the leftover tang yuan2 and associated stuff to the canteen so that her dad could pick them up. When I came back, most of the people in my class were gone. It was already almost 12 and I had to go back to St. Nick's, yet the thought that I had to go all alone made me even more weary than before. Wei Jie and Da En were left at the class bench, and I found out they were going to town, which meant that the would take a bus on the same side as me. So I tagged along like a little lost puppy. Not like they took any notice of me at all, of course. When we reached the overhead bridge I made a call to Dawn just to make sure that they were in school waiting for me and that I wasn't making a wasted trip to see nobody. When I did so, they just went ahead, leaving me behind. I hate being left behind. But to tell the truth, they weren't really talking to me when I was 'walking' with them either. I guess I have to stop with thie I-have-to-be-included-in-everything mentality and get used to having guy friends around. They probably just want some time together, you know? Not to have an annoying girl yapping at their heels every other second. I think it gets annoying when you have people hanging around you all the time. Okay, okay. I'm digressing. So while waiting at the bus stop (I lamely stopped in front of the two of them because I walked slower and they were already chatting away) I met Lay Ning and her RV friend who was with her. Shortly after that, my bus came, and I boarded it with a heavy heart.
Fell asleep on the bus. When I woke up, I thought I had missed my stop, but luckily I realised that I hadn't. Deciding that it'd be quicker to alight at the stop before AMK MRT station, I did so, and found out that I had no more money in my ez-link card. So I had to walk all the way to AMK station and top-up my card there before I took a bus to school. Blah. How troublesome. While walking to school, saw quite a few choir people like Pong and Beatrice. They all said that they couldn't recognise me! Must have been the glasses. Anyway, while making my way down to the canteen, met Shu Hui, Cherie and Steffi who took pictures with me, before I actually got down to meet 5TORM.
Umm, I'm getting quite sick of writing, because truly, nothing happened. What do friends do when they meet? Chat a lot. So we talked and talked. Had orange bowl for lunch but it was so spicy and the auntie was chasing us away because she wanted to lock the gate, so I didn't get to finish it. Wanted to see if there was anyone left in the staff room, but it was locked. So went to Chinatown with Weiqi and Dawn. Slacked at the Chinatown stall with them, and my mood lifted considerably, except that we were supremely bored. Bought some stuff for my mortal and choir angel. Yay! I bought them very pretty bookmark things made like a giant paperclip.
At about 4.40pm I left and went to my grandma's at Bedok, and was the earliest to arive. How sian. Talked to my cousin about Hwa Chong and found out that she was in 03S63. Yay! However I don't remember much because I know I spent a lot of my time sleeping. In fact the moment I reached home, I went straight to sleep.
Okay! I think that was a long post that nobody will ever read. I might as well be talking to myself. There are no new posts on my class blog or Yahoo! group. I am bored. It's 11pm. I need to sleep. I HAVE HOMEWORK TO DO TOMORROW. Goddamnit, I can't wait for Friday because I'll see my friends and they'll lift my mood. Am I suffering from 05S34 withdrawal?? I don't dare to admit it to anyone because it's quite lame. But I really really want to see them. Ho hum. Friday... Sentosa... I will wait one more day! I think I am too pathetic. I've spent this whole week waiting for Friday to come. It'll really come as a disappointment if it sucks. Then again, it'll suck because I"ll be disappointed of my OWN attitude. I'll try, I swear, my best to be enthusiastic. If I act happy, I'll be happy, and everyone will be happy, and then it'll be fun. Yay.
Anyway, I shall talk about yesterday because it was more exciting. Actually, anything is more exciting than today. I have tomorrow free, mostly, except the bit when my cousins, uncle and auntie are coming over for a bit. I guess I'll have to resign myself to doing homework tomorrow. That's sad. I feel depressed just thinking about it, because I have so much due. Let's see. 1) partial fractions tutorial, 2) binomial theorem tutorial, 3) the rest of chemistry mole concept tutorial, 3) trigonometry tutorial, 4) physics vectors and scalars tutorial, 5) physics errors and uncertainties tutorial, 5) chinese comprehension... and a lot of these (#2 and 3) are very long and painstakingly difficult to do (for me). Okay, I shall not depress myself. It's the new year, after all!
Oh yeah, before I begin on my recount of yesterday, I counted all my hong1 bao1 money already. ^^ I have collected a total of $244, but $100 came from my parents, so I only have $144 from my relatives. I don't know if that's a lot or very little, because I usually don't coun the money myself, but it's quite a great sum nonetheless and I'm happy. ^^
Yesterday was a tiring day! Woke up at about 5.20am. My dad was chauffeur in the morning, so went to Lay Ning's house to help her the tang1 yuan2 stuff to school. Reached at 6.30am! So early. Was the earliest! After that people started coming, so we begin to chuo1 tang1 yuan2. After working our way through the dough and washing up, it was time to go for morning assembly at the Chinese High track. It was quite a lame/crappy assembly, because we get the usual CNY talk from the principal, etc. After that, went back to our class bench and slacked for quite a long time while waiting for the CNY performance to begin. When the performance began, our class actually tried going to the fourth floor of the left wing to catch it, but we were stopped by the councillors. We wanted to try the other floors, but visibility wasn't good as they were filled up already. So we eventually went down to the central plaza itself to watch. The wushu was damn good, and had some funny bits in their performance. We were happily watching, when we saw this guy in black who looked DAMN FAMILIAR. Then I heard someone say, 'Isn't that Timothy?' and when I looked closer, it WAS. Wow, he was SUPER pro with this long pointy thing I don't know the name of. Yay! We applauded as loud as we could.
After the CNY performance, we had our little street market thing. To tell the truth, I wasn't very happy with the whole thing, because I didn't like my own attitude. Well we had some problems with our electricity and couldn't get the cooker to work, so we couldn't sell the tang1 yuan2 properly. Ended up relying on the stuff that Da En brought. I feel very sorry for Lay Ning because she went through so much trouble to help the class make it a success, and I feel so guilty because I think I didn't do very much to contribute. All I did was stand at the stall and try to keep a low profile, because I hate selling things. I don't like going up to people and asking them to buy something, because I'm not pro-active like that. I know I should be, but at that time, I simply couldn't bring myself to walk forward and do something. So all I did was stand at the stall and pretend to look very busy. Yes, that's why I said earlier that I didn't like my attitude. My cowardice.
Was quite relieved when the street market thing was over, because all I wanted to do was to shove it to the back of my mind and not think about it again. Does that sound like a negative statement? Because I'm afraid it is. I was kind of down the whole of yesterday, although I'm proud to say that yes, I forced myself through the mass dances. I wanted to take part to give something of myself to the class, even if only about 8 of us did really take part in the dances at all. It was a hot day and the morning sun was burning everything up, but we still did it. I must say, Apollo's faculty dance just about rocked the house down because it was just so cool. I screwed up the couple part for the Artemis faculty dance, really sorry to say. Not that anyone cared, really. I think it was a good thing that there were even PEOPLE dancing the Artemis faculty dance because 1) Artemis is one of the smallest faculties and 2) Artemis is not known for it's enthusiasm *coughS3cough*.
After the dances I helped Lay Ning move the leftover tang yuan2 and associated stuff to the canteen so that her dad could pick them up. When I came back, most of the people in my class were gone. It was already almost 12 and I had to go back to St. Nick's, yet the thought that I had to go all alone made me even more weary than before. Wei Jie and Da En were left at the class bench, and I found out they were going to town, which meant that the would take a bus on the same side as me. So I tagged along like a little lost puppy. Not like they took any notice of me at all, of course. When we reached the overhead bridge I made a call to Dawn just to make sure that they were in school waiting for me and that I wasn't making a wasted trip to see nobody. When I did so, they just went ahead, leaving me behind. I hate being left behind. But to tell the truth, they weren't really talking to me when I was 'walking' with them either. I guess I have to stop with thie I-have-to-be-included-in-everything mentality and get used to having guy friends around. They probably just want some time together, you know? Not to have an annoying girl yapping at their heels every other second. I think it gets annoying when you have people hanging around you all the time. Okay, okay. I'm digressing. So while waiting at the bus stop (I lamely stopped in front of the two of them because I walked slower and they were already chatting away) I met Lay Ning and her RV friend who was with her. Shortly after that, my bus came, and I boarded it with a heavy heart.
Fell asleep on the bus. When I woke up, I thought I had missed my stop, but luckily I realised that I hadn't. Deciding that it'd be quicker to alight at the stop before AMK MRT station, I did so, and found out that I had no more money in my ez-link card. So I had to walk all the way to AMK station and top-up my card there before I took a bus to school. Blah. How troublesome. While walking to school, saw quite a few choir people like Pong and Beatrice. They all said that they couldn't recognise me! Must have been the glasses. Anyway, while making my way down to the canteen, met Shu Hui, Cherie and Steffi who took pictures with me, before I actually got down to meet 5TORM.
Umm, I'm getting quite sick of writing, because truly, nothing happened. What do friends do when they meet? Chat a lot. So we talked and talked. Had orange bowl for lunch but it was so spicy and the auntie was chasing us away because she wanted to lock the gate, so I didn't get to finish it. Wanted to see if there was anyone left in the staff room, but it was locked. So went to Chinatown with Weiqi and Dawn. Slacked at the Chinatown stall with them, and my mood lifted considerably, except that we were supremely bored. Bought some stuff for my mortal and choir angel. Yay! I bought them very pretty bookmark things made like a giant paperclip.
At about 4.40pm I left and went to my grandma's at Bedok, and was the earliest to arive. How sian. Talked to my cousin about Hwa Chong and found out that she was in 03S63. Yay! However I don't remember much because I know I spent a lot of my time sleeping. In fact the moment I reached home, I went straight to sleep.
Okay! I think that was a long post that nobody will ever read. I might as well be talking to myself. There are no new posts on my class blog or Yahoo! group. I am bored. It's 11pm. I need to sleep. I HAVE HOMEWORK TO DO TOMORROW. Goddamnit, I can't wait for Friday because I'll see my friends and they'll lift my mood. Am I suffering from 05S34 withdrawal?? I don't dare to admit it to anyone because it's quite lame. But I really really want to see them. Ho hum. Friday... Sentosa... I will wait one more day! I think I am too pathetic. I've spent this whole week waiting for Friday to come. It'll really come as a disappointment if it sucks. Then again, it'll suck because I"ll be disappointed of my OWN attitude. I'll try, I swear, my best to be enthusiastic. If I act happy, I'll be happy, and everyone will be happy, and then it'll be fun. Yay.
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