the day I became bored

Guitar #6

2010-01-25T04:38:00.000-08:00

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TODAY WAS A GREAT DAYYYYY

i learned how to play enrique aglaises (or however u spell his name)'s song HERO. hahahhahah....its like a serenading song for those who don't know. using Gmaj chord with different bases.

basically all you do is keep the ends of the Gmaj chord, strum G alternating with the last 3 string. E with the last three. C with the last three. and D with the last three. I rmb on valentine's day I saw my friend play this and almost fell in love. NOW I CAN PLAY IT!!!! bwahahahha....

will someone fall in love with me? @.@ LOLLLL

Guitar #5

2010-01-25T03:23:00.000-08:00

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After basic learning of the chords i decide....i want to learn a SONG. a real song that is easy, can impress ppl, and is so good.

so he teaches me this bass chord normally used for a jazz piece.
if you can try it :) DO!
i took pictures of the strings needed to be plucked. its just a one string melody kind of thing. no 2 strings at one time so it should be easy.
AND THIS. IS MY WAY OF REMEMBERING IT :D :D :D :D enjoy

lol. does it work?

Guitar #4

2010-01-25T03:17:00.000-08:00

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so i practiced all week my one finger stopper chord and.....it seems to be working out :) now i just need to be fluid in my finger motions. After a while I suddenly realise.....I don't know what chord this is. I ask. :P I don't know is the reply. it just sounds so good. ah well....playing by ear has always been a dream of mine. why not start with the guitar?

Then i realised. you know....there would be seriously something wrong if i didn't know the NAME of the chords. so i demanded to know C, G, F, D, A and E chords. we worked on that the whole day. my fingers got seriously messed up that they're starting to harden now and but i do know how to play them! :D clap for me!!!!

now....just progression again. i can do the chords slowly. but not progressively. hehe
OOPS then what is the point of playing the guitar? XD

i decided after chords i would like to go for.....plucking

Guitar number i don't know what

2010-01-25T03:12:00.000-08:00

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I HAVE DECIDED TO LEARN CHORDS.

like really really really hard chords.
so I asked ronald to throw me a bunch of chords that I could try out, take them home, practice like mad, come back, be a pro at it. and tadaa.....i learnt he guitar.

sadly. I realise my chord progressions aren't that great.

Ronald has the great jazz piece that he figured out himself that i really really want to learn but HE HAS GOT SUCH A STRONG PINKY FINGER. he asks me: can i do it? I follow thru with an optimistic energy. the thing is.....its quite hard. what i have to do is.... put my whole finger on the entire bracket. doesn't sound so complicated right? HAHA. it is. my short puny finger won't push all the strings right.

maybe i need new strings.......

TO TRY AGAIN NEXT TIME

thank you boom :)

2009-11-26T05:55:00.000-08:00

Chinese beading - 2nd time since half term

2009-11-26T05:48:00.000-08:00

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its been my 2nd chinese beading since half term :P
so many assignments and due dates. i'm sorry!

hehe.

but anyway. today was really an unwasted day. wenlu and janice didn't come. TOK presentations after school. so its just me and iyune.

i finish off all my beautiful leaves which of course i rmb how to sew :)
and check this out

MY NEW TOY. hahahhah chinese beading gets prettier and prettier

Chinese beading - a leaf :)

2009-11-26T05:35:00.000-08:00

today i really really REALLY work on something new.

THE LEAF

yes. and I work on this one little thing for the WHOLE HOUR. frustrating but when I look back at it i smile for some odd reason. An exasperated gratifying moment i guess. well first, i did the leaf HORRIBLY. then the thread for entangled. THEN my thread was too short. can u guess why i took an hour to finish this?

anyway. thats not exactly my point. THE POINT IS I LEARNED THIS REALLY COOL NEW THING. teacher says i'm ready for my little project *beams*

Guitar - alone but with guidance

2009-11-10T04:46:00.000-08:00

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Today I was messing around with this song I really liked. Its called "through it all" I love the song so I worked it out on piano, thn realised.....hey! y can't I do it on guitar as well? since i'm learning it right? and i can figure out each note on the strings using my piano base. so i try to form a little something by myself.

I don't know how to use any chords yet so I pluck most. I record it and send it to ronald and he says wow: he's impressed! yayyyy.....! did I just learn something on my own? hehhe....i ask him, y is he so impressed? he says : well, cause when ppl learn the guitar, they usually go into just learning the preset chords and are not confident in trying to form something like what I did. was it acoustic or classical he said? i dunno but I rmb him saying that that kind of playing was getting less, especially among the ppl we both know who play guitar, and jazz as well. time to keep it alive? :D awesome

Guitar - dropping from space

2009-11-10T04:36:00.000-08:00

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I don't know where to start. hehe.
Told ronald. OK. i want to learn something. he says what? I say. I want to learn "what a friend I have in Jesus" He shows me how he does it and its really so so so so so so soooooooooooooo complicated. especially with the one style that you have to use your whole finger to stop all the strings. OUCH.

ronald says: you learn that. then you can play this song. Okkkkk.....so I go to practice. what a.......*speechless first day*

Chinese Beading - first time back

2009-11-01T20:20:00.001-08:00

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We're back and I'm actually quite excited to complete my five petaled flowers with a pearled middle :) I like it and I kind of practiced beading a little over the holidays.....

so we're back in school and already i see more people in chinese beading than before. Usual on the 1st week of school? yup. Janice joins as well! and there are NEW COLOURS. wheeee. I make a prettier version of my five petaled flowers. all white and red is boring. I make one with white, peach and green :) and they look like lotuses. very very nice...

while i'm happily doing my flower, everyone around me just seems to be unable to thread their needle. My forte! haha. itsn't it amazing that you discover your hidden talents to thread a needle at SCHOOL?! i know. of all places. but well, my mom made me practice it alot when i was younger.....she complains she's old so I do it for her. :P isn't that nice?

So anyway, the teacher was busy bustling around accomodating the new students that I thought I wouldn't want to bother her. So quietly I sat and did my beading. :) what a peaceful student. Class ended and we all went back. wonder what we'll learn next week?

Dance - Performance #2

2009-10-29T18:19:00.000-07:00

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My body wasn't feeling so good today. We did run of fast bit as warmup. decide to go further with the "prayer ritual" push the boundaries and interact with audience. Did the run, I actually felt more energized than thursday. but as I did my flip, I banged my arm in the wrong way and it hurtttttt. As I did the ocean bit, I was really in quite abit of pain but i continued to do it. no stopping now. the ending bit, I tried to drag out my ending more, tried to feel the pull, tried to feel the transcendence but my energy level stooped. NO STAMINA STILL?! yes. afhan was there and I explained the whole journey of my piece to him. said I looked ready.

feedback. VERY GOOD. today was an awesome day. broke into groups to discuss changes audience would make. more distorted beginning again. get REALLY deformed. and maybe side profile to be turned other way. use of not only hands. but fingers, parts of the face. maybe USE hand to initiate movement in other parts? we only got to that part.

but overall. it was awesome :)
let the pictures talk

Dance - Performance #1

2009-10-29T18:15:00.000-07:00

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Its satisfying to know that you only have to do the run once. arrived almost 6. warmed up, run through the ending bit. go in to work on lighting, positions with the light. realise that Kat is more organised than Kent who didn't book panggung sasaran before that to work in the space with his dancers haha. people come in. Aida explains the program. Kat talks about the piece. I do the run and I AM ENERGIZED.

I feel like...ok....it isn't such a good run that I did. And Kat says I could have dragged out the ending a little bit more. But. its done. I did the best I could, GRATIFYING.

Overall, it was ok. phew. tough work but, its nice to hear people reflect. One feedback I liked was this guy ken who thought that I could look more distorted in the beginning, like literally SPLAT on the floor. makes you wonder how much you could have ventured into a limp beginning eh? then that could change my initial movements as well. WELL, as i said, "work-in-progress" ;)

Another thing I liked was, how, this one lecturer asked me to explain the sounds that came out of my body. Like what was it for? I literally pointed out my whole journey of the dance and BAM the recognition displayed on her face was priceless! like itty bitty pieces coming together :)

Dance - do you feel the nerves?

2009-10-29T18:14:00.001-07:00

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Today we rush costume while doing a full run before the performance. We are joined by yoke pin, the producer of this whole workshop who....apparently hasn't done much producing work in this project at all. I find out that it isn't her fault. Musn't judge yes?

So anyway, today we try out the some shirts to replace the shirt that wouldn't do (mine) I bring a bunch of stuff that DOESN'T work while I try on Kat's stuff. She has this really cute white button down but it....buttons in a weird way. In the end we settle for a grey long sleeved top. :) simple yet nice. After yoke pin sees my first run, she comments that it looks like a high energy piece, something which I might not actually have....yet again, I get so tired after each run. but then, she gives some good feedback, how sound initiates movement and how in the end it seems more controlled, thats me taking control of my energy and spirit. parallel? I would say so :)

It was honestly, a really tiring day. School stresses out my brains and now contemporary dance stresses out my body? phew! but i still do it...only 1 more days left of this ;)

YES I FEEL THE NERVES.
the day after is performance day 1

Dance - Kat in KL

2009-10-29T18:09:00.000-07:00

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Today Kat is gone and I think I feel so lazyyyyy. Time to slacken? HEE HEE HEE. i admit. I did consider, but.........with all the effort Kat put into the project. I just couldn't. I meet up with Aida in USM and bring the suggested costume we discussed on tuesday. a white shirt and pleated skirt. I do a full run for Aida with the whole outfit. My legs shaking at the end btw, and she gives me feedback. Saying how she likes the ending bit :) i'm glad. Today, she picked out something AMAZING, transitions, when I don't realise, she sees it. And I'm so glad that I came for today. She pinpoints the part where I make a loud humongous bellowwww and go into my froggy bit. She says : what makes you want to stretch and keep your body close to the ground? I say the resonance of the sound I make. She suggests looking as if I had my ear to the ground to listen for that resonance. I try it. Wow, I feel it and she says it looks great. b^_^ thats what I call great collaboration. A real work-in-progress project. Next we take a few pictures with me in my costume as a "poster" for this workshop >_< gahhhhh I didn't know that she was going to do thattttt.... but i do it, for Kat's effort.....yes? ;)

Dance - at USM

2009-10-29T17:42:00.000-07:00

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Today is our first day at USM. Kat picked me up and we settle into panggung sasaran, where my REAL performance area is.

First we determined my performance space, put chairs to determine my boundary (will bring in duct tape next time) walked through a full run to determine where to place the audience. Last tuesday we experimented on positions and we decided the ending bit to be in the left top corner of my performance space. And another round of experimenting, we changed the ending completely. This time, yes i do the "ritual" the ear thing again and again, and then after a while go into the 7 points, that somehow progresses to become more aggitated as I realise my 'ritual' really does not cleanse me at all, and I'm fighting my way through trying to sanctify myself by the scrubbing and I breakout with a loud STOMP. something so heavy and grounded and impactful that people realise that my confidence in myself has grown, and I grow more to a point where i find peace. and its drawing me higher and higher, my hands lead me to this place, my body rises and I transcend. the lights dim. IT IS AWESOME.

We get so into it that we LITERALLY lose track of time. I get home around 11pm with an exhausted satisfied body. I feel the transcendence of my piece. and it is gratifying :)

Chinese beading - last for midterm

2009-10-18T03:19:00.000-07:00

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more flowers?

Today i continue with my flower beading skills. tedious abit, the same but in a slightly more advanced method. Today wenlu came. Doing a 5 petaled flower is easier than it looks. The spacing has to be even and the distance of the edge of the petal to the centre has to be just about right. I later tried doing the 5 petal with a pearl in the middle and....HMMM....didn't look too great. gotta refine it when term starts

MRC Heritage Walk

2009-10-18T02:53:00.000-07:00

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We were passing around this paper during TOK and I saw heritage walk and went "what is this?! is it a walk? I WANT IN!" So........I guess you could call it being proactive. I started rambling about it and now on 11 oct, sunday morning we have wenlu, janice, iyune, shaeny, gen, me, ryu, yitong, adam, jack, maiki and chihyao coming for it :) i started something big. heheh

Anyway, we get to the walk at 715am, register, get a purple band and go walking. Never done POWER WALKING before so its a first yea? ;) always a run, but never a walk. something new for me i suppose. it was hard.....kinda, to JUST walk. especially when so many ppl around you are just running and running to get it done under 1 hour to get the lucky draw. but OBVIOUSLY. its such a short walk, surely you can get it done. and we did! :) walked all the way, POWER WALKED, and still made it for the eligibility of the lucky draw. the form said walk. so i walk :)

it was for charity, for the redcresent society of Penang Branch so I guess the RM30 we paid for did not go to waste.

lucky draws were drawn and guess what?!
I WAS 2 NUMBERS AWAY FROM WINNING A BIKE.

ARGH

all in all. a day of great bonding with the Uplands ppl, healthy, entertaining, FUN

Dance - Back at square one

2009-10-12T19:44:00.000-07:00

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Today Kat brings in the music that she first created with Yasu. :) and honestly, its nothing like what I expected! haha! The most thing that annoyed me was how loud the HINDI music was! hahaha yes. it was the ending and I felt like leaping to my feet, shaking my feet, hips, and neck like a Bollywood dancer. Kat said that what I taped for her was abit not like what she wanted and so she didn't bother listening to those beautiful random bits of conversation I caught in math class. oh well. she said she liked rosy's "I would like to have silence here please" haha. So, whilst she was waiting for the morning azan prayer, she caught this awesome game show thing, lame but so amusing! its like standing on a platform between two pools of water and trying to arrange their bodies to fit a "wall" which was coming at them with body positions that were really really awkward. haha. so lame but i laughed alot.

well anyway, after hearing it, we tried to arrange a last bit. and because the "prayer ritual" was supposed to be most prominent, we used Afhan's hand behind the ear motion as a guide. Today was a FULL DAY of EXPERIMENTATION. we had no clue where to start it. how the journey of the prayer would progress, where it would lead to and why it would end the way it is. But as we were doing the "ritual" it DID develop. Because somehow, rituals always end facing down towards the floor, and the 7 points of the prayer, we found it essential for me to drop to the floor. the 7points being the toes on 2. knees on 4. hands on 6 and forehead on 7. we spent so long just experimenting this. what happens, how does the body respond to this action and so forth. In the end, it evolved to a process of cleasing, and rituals always signifies. from splashing water onto face to literally scrubbing the "dirt" of the hands, legs and face. then somehow the hitting hand impulses would come and wow, Kat got this great inspiration! stomping. I like it. But I couldn't get the sound that she got with her feet. amazing. she did indian dance before! hah! not fault on my part :P So we ended up getting this feeling of release from the stomping, I fling my arms as if splashing in a pool of water, but it is a joyful event. something which I don't think i portray much in but, give it a try. NOPE. i do it wrong. but then I am determined to know how!!! i've come all this way to give up on a good ending? NO WAY. I ask kat how and what is her feeling? I forgot what exercise she gave me, but it was one that we had done previously. and I managed to understand her. I try it and she decides. ok....why don't you just continue in that movement, stomping around, looking happy. while i dim down the lights and the music and blackness on stage and its the end :D

i like it.
i'm so happy I managed to capture the stompy feeling she wanted :D

Chinese beading - NEW STUFF YES!

2009-10-11T05:59:00.000-07:00

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Today's chinese beading was the happiest so far!
I learned the exact patterns I wanted! I flower! and the scaled. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

it looks gorgeoussss and required the good taste of the seamstress to determine the colour of the beads and sequins used.EXACTLY WHAT I ENJOY AND AM GOOD AT :)

i know there's only 2 patterns a day. but slow and steady wins the race right?

take a look for urself

dance - after the changes

2009-10-11T05:44:00.000-07:00

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I was excited today to see what would happen to my piece since Kent suggested that she "tone down" my piece. too much of self hurting and pain. :) am I going to rest more? haha. turns out NO. *sigh*

we did a lot of stuff, since the feedback of last sunday. first was the idea of positioning, staging, or blocking, whatever you call it. Now here's the new plan.
Aida thought watching my first part from the side to be better, so now, we have a thing called the "fake audience" and the "real audience" the fake being the initial one and the real the position of the audience on the real day.

So we start from the same corner, but switch the audience. I start out at the same part, but as I do my froggy bit I travel diagonally to the end, encountering a "brick wall" and fighting against that, I push and push till it propels we to the same end as my beginning position, i flip flip flip and turn to face the real audience as I do the floaty bit. Now here's the confusing part. I have to face my real audience for my first sequence, but for the 2ns time, I have to face my fake audience. Hard to get my bearings when I'm exhausted and dizzy? I know. haha this is all structured so I can end at the same position I started and....... we didn't have time to complete the ending....will do that this sunday :)

TODAY I ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING.
the floaty bit. before that, kat told me her inspirations on legalism and stuff. and somehow, it touched me. and then as we did the floaty bit I felt comfortable. i felt it! and it connected. something in my soul and body connected and what I wanted was shown through my body. Here's something that we set though. I need to at one point get the hand up movement, go into backwards scurrey, use triceps to block face, remember interaction of hands with body, freeze and release. Next I need to pick up the pace, get the 2/3 rhythms, and from a fast beat move into 2nd backward scurrey, however, with shadows of the initial relaxed phase. Then everything just picks up from there, spins and flips and arms flying in the air BOOM. stutters of words pop out of my mouth. and this is hard to describe so I won't. that basically ended it. :)

change has come

Dance - seeing the other choreographer

2009-10-08T04:12:00.000-07:00

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We met at 1pm at Cleo's place. I come in and Kat tells me that Kent and his 2 dancers and 1 vocalist is going to come at slightly before 2pm. my heart drops. so fast? We just changed the sequence and i'm about to show it to someone already? Nvm, in my head I know I can do it, although it might be hard.

I tell Kat that i'm more comfortable doing the sudden gasps after my head roll and plus it looks better. She looks at me do it and fair enough :) she accepts. The wonderful cooperation between us both. healthy teacher student reputation. Then so we rearrange it all, the gasps after that and a sudden stretch to go into froggy bit and naturally, the struggle comes anyway. The rest stays the same.

Now for the ending, we desperate try to find an ending for me, and I tell her that I love the balancing bit before my flip and so we settle flipping once more after my sequence into a holler, another flip that goes into my balancing bit for that as an ending. As soon as I finish one full run, Kent appears and after him trail im 2 dancers and vocalist. I'm nervous, but the movements and how I am going to present it forces the evil emotion out of my mind, the 90 degrees angle on my heel and the ocean feeling.

I perform it O_O

Feedback - it was hurting! >_< too much hitting in the floaty bit. The song sounds religious. Could only hear one word in my line. High energy piece. Should tone down abit. Not convinced of the ocean bit.

looks like we have work to do.
After that I watched Kent's piece and......here's my view on it.

Its creepy. The dancers hair was waving down. ghastly. although the title was life and death i saw more death, drugs and tobacco. Apparently the part I thought was a happy part was when she was high on drugs. the blocking was good. Good timing as both dancers had to at some point be in sync. BUT they interpreted all the movements differently which gave it a non synchronised feel.

As me and Kat gave feedback, Aida was furiously writing down notes. AFTER THAT. she blasted with her interpretations and wow. insightful. I leave but before I go, Kat gives me a tape recorder to record "mindless chatter" haha. Careful classmates! U might go into my dance piece!

cheers

Dance - kat's back

2009-10-08T04:11:00.000-07:00

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Kat came back today and its a thursday so we're back at the swimming club. This is the first time I'm seeing her and I'm excited to see what England has done to her. hehe. TURNS OUT. ENGLAND HAS CHANGED HER THOROUGHLY. we changed the whole sequence.

wow.

Partly because Aida kept questioning the reason behind each move of mine that we decide to re-evaluate the whole structure of the dance. After much discussion, here's what it is like.

My starting is still the same, but after the starting I go into my froggy bit, transistion by falling during the light on my elbows and shoulder and struggle starts there. Midway froggy bit the sudden gasp for air is inserted and my pivot down to the ground, bellowing to the middle of the earth. This whole process illustrates my first discovery of ENERGY boilign within me, I try to get it to lift me off but fail and find this energy trapped between the ground and my midsection. After a while, frustration pushes me into a sudden burst of energy and I twirled up but it pulls me down and anger calls out my voice and I'm hollering to the centre of the earth to bring back that energy. It doesn't return and I retaliate by struggling. I push and pull, hop and twirl but again, energy pushes me off the floor and flings me back. I do the windmill flips countless times until I reach the middle of my performance space and I am suspended in a perfect balance of my ocean. My ocean bit begins and words of my lines are spurted out of me. This escalates to go into my sequence and it ends awkwardly by the side with me in my dead ballerina hang.

Time runs out.

we have to stop.

this time the dance seems so much more tiring. My stamina needs to be built MY STAMINA NEEDS TO BE BUILT. argh

Sunday we're showcasing what we have to the other choreographer :)
He and his dancers will get to see my work and I will see his.
*gulp* a bundle of nerves

Dance - with aida

2009-10-08T04:10:00.000-07:00

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Aida again :)
at the club again :)
BUT at this cozy yoga spot where its really great. the jungle sounds are there, and the sea and the wind. great for a performance. hehe

Aida's cutie son was a bit restless so we decided not to work on things that needed her full attention. So i chose to work on the floaty bit which actually required ME to feel in the moment and to internalise everything and translate that into movement.

Sometimes I feel like I WANT to do it right. feel it. but I still can't hear my body. Can't feel where to go. and how to do it. No creative juices. Then Aida catches a glimpse of me and suggests I make my hands a little wavy-er and left myself balance on one leg alone, increases the look of floating she says. I do it and nail it! somewhat. haha. technique is just to lift up. as my ballet used to do. lift and slowly draw a line from the bottom of ur toes to the top of ur head. and slowly tip over and let one leg fly off the ground. tadaa. floaty ocean feeling.

you can do it too ;)

dance - change of date, change of location

2009-10-08T04:09:00.000-07:00

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Today I worked with Aida since kat is away. We didn't want to go to Cleo's place because of the door that gets stuck so much so we had a change of location. FLEXIBILITY is what I call it. hehehe. we head to the swimming club.

Today was a hard day, just working on my weak sequence. I always get tired and my focus gets lost so we worked on that. The floor was not done properly so my skin got torn off. Luckily I had a bandage on :) thank you bugy. I really tried my best to focus, but what to do when the body is weak? anyhow, I pressed on and did it. Some parts felt better. I almost vomited at the end and got dizzy. :P

no pain no gain.

Dance - before kat leaves

2009-10-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

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Kat is going to england so today, her last day with me before she gets back she lets aida to see me and if possible have classes with aida during her leave.

So I warm up, get into my mode and I do it once through with aida watching. Its interesting, the feeling of dancing when you know someone is watching you, assessing you. its just different. I just felt like the pressure was on.

So after doing it once through i finally heard what others thought about this little piece of dance. and she actually interpreted it quite accurately, the use of sound, the release of the body, the force pushing and pulling. and even my unconvincing floaty part. hahhhahhaha. and one thing she didn't understand, she didn't get the "flip back" at the end. But honestly, I loved it. She felt like, after the struggle, I should TRANSCEND up into the air and end my piece there, but instead I only returned to my original position. Something even Kat never considered as well. Seems like, there is more to dance then just how good something looks. everything has to have meaning, and honestly, what I feel about kat's choreography is GENUINE and HONESTY. all she wants me to do is move the way my body is telling me to. according to the impulses, and to her, that is the most beautiful form of dance, when the body is feeling the movement through and through. As she showed me this, my floaty bit suddenly became genuine and i worked it! But isn't it sad? I cant get it right every time..... :P

sorry kat. hehe. i'm not a dancer. just a retired one ;)

Dance - sept

2009-10-08T03:46:00.000-07:00

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We start our dance again with sort of a really clear structure to the piece.
After bali I think she found inspiration and flipped my whole piece inside out. Not that its a bad thing :) it honestly keeps the dance so fresh for me and i have to be on my toes all the time.

so this time my structure is, I still start the way I do, only the fingers, get my surprised gasps of air, and go into my floating in ocean bit. that continues on with spasms of rhythmic changes which until now i still haven't mastered and am telling her! (the only part i am not so comfortable with) thn going into my lines of "from the abundance of my heart my mouth will speak" escalating into my sequence flip flip flip. the balancing flip spiraling upwards and bellowing downwards to go into my froggy bit. then flipping over I end.

:)

It takes quite abit of energy that I don't have to complete this piece and by the time i end it i'm panting and gasping for air. I NEED TO GO FOR A JOG SOMETIME. stamina so way way way down. especially at the part where I start my lines into my sequence. WOW. i can feel fatigue creeping in. but i tahan >_<

Chinese beading - after not coming for so long :P

2009-10-03T18:21:00.001-07:00

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I skipped chinese beading for 3 weeks! :O EE deadlines, IA's and drama. It was too much. But today I was really determined to go! and so i did. :)

Today it was quite odd, and I was just wondering how a CHINESE beading class would have nothing to do with global values (as everyone else debated) Ms. Fay, our beading teacher suddenly said that, O in the olden days, if girls didn't know how to sew then they would never get married. But now, sewing is nothing. the culture is changing! and hence! I found it! i'm trying to preserve culture, MY CHINESE CULTURE. and that just renews my energy to learn more and more beading :).

I know I skipped for 3 weeks and this got the teacher abit annoyed and she just didn't give me attention at all. Just showed me a pattern, gave instructions and left me. :( She wasn't like that to the other kids but oh well, I gotta learn independence yea? but in the end i learned this really cool pattern! and i loved it! gonna use it as soon as i graduate! YIPPE!

CHINESE BEADING - not what I expected

2009-10-03T17:47:00.000-07:00

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I seriously did not expect this. I thought beading would be like making structured ornaments with beads. not so much sewing. haha. but it was something new that I felt I would never try before. so that was it. I signed up for chinese beading.

First, we did these lame things on sewing a few beads staggered in one line. NOT COOL. but thn ok, I remembered, its always good to get down the basics first before learning something complicated. I WILL BEAR THIS.

Then the teacher passed around these examples of beading patterns and yay! I got excited. I really want to buck down and work on this chinese beading business. Learning some new skills is always better for ur future my mom says. :)

So ok, at first I really thought that sewing wasn't such a big thing for me, in high school and we did and I wasn't so bad at it BUT coming here, I realise I need to be neat! haha....another new thing for me. I'm sloppy here and there, especially with consistency so.....i guess that would be a skill for me to acquire through beading :)

pf - cooking thai food

2009-09-27T04:01:00.000-07:00

I forgot what date it was :P

Todayy we cooked thai food.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

it was a real happy day keeping the global Asian culture alive.
We did all these kind of sauces. But my fav was the sweet and sour one...

AND THE PAPAYA DISH WITH PEANUTS AND THE TANGY SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE. (called som tum)
amazinggggggggg

I can say that Aunty Maria handled it extremely well, making sure that everyone had a chance to do pai thai :) :) :) and those little ones. stirring the soup is a little tough. had to carrrrry them up.

it was cool but i felt that benjee was a little lost. haha. all i know he was pretty happy to see all that food and eat it ;P haha.

IT WAS A VERY VERY YUMMY FUN DAY
like it love it EAT IT

Pathfinder Day - Last

2009-09-27T04:00:00.001-07:00

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Last day for Pf's

Had an investiture. Got all our honours. :)

Dance - before i go Bali-ing

2009-08-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

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Today I feel energised! is it because i did those 13 sun salutations? or is it my mind playing tricks on me? HMMMMMM

anyway, I feel like i did well, we warmed up quickly and I did a full run on the whole thing. From the beginning, to the gasps, the twirl up and bellow, and the floating in the ocean bit, FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF MY HEART MY MOUTH WILL SPEAK, the sequence left and right, the flip, bounce over to katharine, bellow again, frenzy slowdown to end position and roll over.

honestly, you won't get what this is unless u're there. The point is, I did everything IN THE MOMENT, meaning I was focused and I did some flips quite well and was feeling it.

just a few things.
1. frenzy too emotional
2. close my mouth when in flotation mode
3. remember changed beginning position
4. still work on sequence

TONIGHT IS AND WAS A GOOD GOOD NIGHT.
;)

PF TIRING OH

2009-08-25T01:26:00.000-07:00

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We had a treasure hunt. and honestly, with the rain and all. IT WAS AWESOME. sorry to you all who missed it. but people who have fun in the sun, the rain is as equally awesome. ;)

met at 9am.
had devotion by andrea S, robert and jerome.
to cafeteria.
treasure hunt.
rain rain rain.
bathe.
to church for tying knots race.
lost to shauny T_T haha. but he's an awesome competitor.
slept.
lunch.

FINISH

Dance - Blister stickers

2009-08-25T01:09:00.001-07:00

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Had to use blister stickers to control the pain of the blister. thought they would work but who knew you can't do spins on them? haha. for walking they work though. TRY IT.

Anyway, I went early to warm up and to try to work on the things I couldn't do. Luckily, I had more energy today and worked it! I honestly did my best and produced my best. unfortunately, she also changed the route because it just wasn't working out. :P

Now we just don't grab my leg, we make it burst out and suddenly shrink in with knee on floor and that pushes out with the momentum that takes me into the dead ballerina twirl. Easier and do-able. thank you katharine :) I did it and PAIN. ouch. HEEL? oh no. my skin tore off from the previous blister i had. no pics, its gory. and after awhile I realise that there is blood. run for wallet to get plaster. I'm lucky i carry those around.

We did more, I found my center by doing more exercises she gave, and she said that the quality of those moves i have been showing her was definitely different form the ones before. good and better :) *BEAMING* so we incorporate it into the piece.

We sit down to determine the sequence of the piece because i'm going away soon and she is so.....whoa. its kinda hard.

I work on my mini somersault and oops. the time flies.

class is over. see you tomorow with my leg.

;)

Dance - getting another bubble

2009-08-25T00:56:00.000-07:00

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Today was a long day for me. I had THOSE problems, the pfs had an activity which tired me out and at 2:15 or roughly around that time I went over to dance.

Katharine came in saying she was blank because she left her notes at home. We started the day reading bible verses and praying. :) i thought the day would be good.

We tried out a little routine something with the theme of star jumping but with a twist and i did it with much energy. sad to say it didn't last.

I tried doing the whole routine as it was. The hit the hand, and we modified the 2nd one bent all the way to the left with my right arm all over the other side, and the 1st had a tiptoe. My coming up still wasn't satisfactory so i did it again and again.

Basically, my energy level was so low I spent most of it flinging my body aimlessly around. I didn't do well at all, AT ALL. and I made myself another blister which scrunches up my skin. UGH.

hope tomorrow will be better *sigh*

Dance - Afhan is a-missing

2009-08-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

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Afhan is busy setting up the sound system for the Prime Minister for the bi-elections goin on. good luck Afhan!

Today was an interesting day. We work on my little "prayer" bit.

We modify it and its getting to be actually really cool.

here it is in short. I use that impulse feeling to hit my left arm and let it fly up, hit again but this time my left leg comes up as my right arm is extended out. The leg pushes down for me to twirl with my right leg flung behind and at the end of the twirl I catch my leg and fall. After the fall, I pick myself up with what looks like a break-dance move and twirl around like a dead ballerina on a pole, arms drop limp and a fast flip to the back.

I do it. and i do it wrong. but then again, practice makes perfect.

1st thing, the twirl is wrong. I do it and suddenly out of nowhere, i seem to get it. my leg does a full turn before suddenly my body twists and grabs my leg. O. its just like ballet, it looks like one things, but doing it is another. I master! wheeeeeeeeeee. next, I gotta really GRAB my leg, my arms which are flung up need to be sudden. from up to grabbing leg. no slowly floating down to get my leg. SUDDEN. my landing. ha ha ha ha. I'd like to say that I listen to my body, and when gravity pulls it down. don't i follow? well, yes. I do. the problem is, my arms are still grabbing onto my legs. so what do i do? I fall flat on my face and now my lip is bleeding. *sigh* the blood shed for this dance. haha. next, the lift used to carry out the break-dance move i need to work on. definitely. and the ballerina twirl? all i need to do is pull up at the center. And after noticing how easy it is to do if i just work on it a little, it happens. again the flip needs to be sudden and the arms straight.

We do a total run thru from the beginning and we call it a day. :)

I tell you. practice makes perfect

ciao

Dance - Afhan making music for Prime minister

2009-08-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

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Back again to dancing :)

Katharine announces that she made alot of changes to our fixed routine.
my answer was : Thats ok :) keeps it fresh

AND TRUST ME. IT DOES :)

So today we do many sun salutations and according to Katharine, doing it 13 times every morning makes you focused and flexible. HAH! gotta try that and see aite?

So after that, she tried to get me to find myself in the way I move. Pretty easy to say and hard to do i tell you....

So here's what we did. She asked me to stand still and close my eyes. "Be very aware of ur feet" ok, so I move my feet and my feet alone, toes, ankle, heel, everything.
"Move the motion up to ur knees" I follow. "Now to ur hips" hips. got it. "Now ur pelvic area" I'm moving to her funky thai music and then she says "Try experimenting with dimensions and heights"

DIMENSIONS AND HEIGHTS. yup. ok. i try my best. honestly. but looks like i didn't get it.Her meaning of dimensions is literally flinging ur legs high into the air, letting it wander around, y can't my legs go here? or here? what if they go backwards? and there u go, out comes a somersault. It flipping and the way she does it is amazing. I just didn't get it. O WELL.

She said, ok. Lets play a game. You know that game where your partner puts a palm to ur face and you have to follow it? Yea we did that, and I rolled around in many ways possible, frantically following her hand. She did it again with my knee.

RESULTS:
I always get into positions that are within my comfort zone

IMPROVEMENTS:
don't be afraid to explore positions like resting on ur elbows, ur neck etc.

Ok. I get it. and I told her this before, I don't listen to my body well, you have to show me what I can do before I can do it. hehe

Next we lean on each other and she says : whenever I push you, follow the direction in which you feel the movement is leading you to.
To me, that means just relax and let me push you around. But instead it actually is the feeling of floating but receiving mini impulses here are there.

We lean on each other, an invisible force causing ur to be stuck together like magnets but each time in different parts and we push, I bounce off her and she does too. We get into the most awkward positions! but then again, that is contemporary dance.

Next and last activity. we stand diagonally opposite each other. She is one corner and me in the other. She asks we to do a movement that is sort of a "response" to hers. I think in the end i misinterpreted what she wanted but in the end it worked well. hehe. We jumped around in that line, maintaining that diagonal axis and moved to her funky beats again. It was fun because it was like taking her ideas and making it my own. She jumps up, I jump up in my way. she claps, i do it too. It was fun. But thn it was my turn. O_O alone? *gulp* She asked me : lets hear that CD i asked you to bring.

Oh right. she asked me to bring along with me the kind of music I listen to. All pop btw. hehe

In the end, i freestyled diagonally to Coldplay- viva la vida.

She said she saw something in me that made her think I would do the "breaths" again. I was getting it? yippee!!

We worked abit on the floating in the ocean bit and did some warm down exercises. :)

THE END

THE FOOD I GET

2009-08-17T03:04:00.001-07:00

sorry mom.

HAHAHAHHAA. this is just too funny

Dance - with Afhan

2009-08-17T02:23:00.000-07:00

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Today the dance came together with Afhan.

I showed Afhan abit of what me and Katharine had come up with, the starting, the breathing, the sitting and going mad with rage. and HE showed me abit of what he thought.

"Do you really believe in what you say you believe?"

"would you really die for what you believe in?"

Very strong views he has. WHAT A CHARACTER

So anyway, today wasn't as tiring as it was on sunday and monday. Partly because Katharine had Afhan to work on.

In the beginning Katharine had me and Afhan rolling on the floor. Our four limbs suspended by a force held still at our center, which is the pelvic area, the body moving initiated by the movement of the center. The back is relaxed and the arms are free. This I found to be very very very relaxing and comforting. I wanted to do that! But it was Afhan's. In the end, this exercise had alot to do with me. It helped me feel like how i was supposed to feel during my squatting position. Relaxed yet with my back up straight and limbs loose.

Next we had Afhan's entrance, walking on all fours, slowly, dragging the feet. why does he get to do everything that I like?! haha. Then he gets to do something we both do....THE FLIP. but his is more animal like.I practiced it at home at voila! I seem to be better at it :) during the flipping, i learn that Afhan has a heel problem and is scared to land squarely on his feet. reason? He jumped from a 2 storey building before. I KNOW. he is perfectly normal. and when he jerks his head, he gets a fizzle up in the brain and his tongue goes vertical. AHHHHH.....must take precaution when jumping.

So all night, we were working on putting it all together.

Did a total run through and I had to run. Musn't let parents worry :)

My tailbone hurts >_<

Dance - we did 12

2009-08-11T01:53:00.000-07:00

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Today I warm up at church, where robert and ronald are playing ball. they jump, i jump. they teach me how to fight and run around. robert is so cute, and ronald is just strong. OH WELL. i stretch and walk over to the yoga studio

I want to work on making my first part perfect! but katharine walks in 5 minutes after i arrive. SIGH. she comes in and she says she wants the beginning position to look more distorted. but in the end, my right leg really has no where else to go. so it stays. after awhile, she asks me the oddest question. "in that position there (squatting) what do u feel like doing?"

what do i feel like doing?
just staying there. i'm a little lazy.

"after awhile I feel like humming, and singing"

wow. why didn't i think of that?

that was pretty smart and so after lolling around with my hands heavy and resting on the floor moving around in figure 8's i start to hum and sing, a folk-ish fairy tale like song. She asks me to change my rhythm. I do a little twitch.we play with levels, turning around, wanting to go up but gravity pulling us down, body getting parallel to the ground in something that looks like a froggy position, and i realise, look, when i'm singing, with my face close to the ground, my voice is louder. I want to hear it louder it echoes and the feeling is good :)

soon, i will be like, my voice is going into the ground. can i go too?
i fly with only my hands supporting my body and the figure 8 on a loop. soon i get frustrated and tired. And it actually is pretty tiring so there's no need for fake emotion, and i start fighting my far, digging my feet into the ground, the ball of my foot peeling and rubbing against the floor. I still can't get into it. and then my hands can't take it, its arches and pushes me straight up and i'm stiff.

Then here comes the interesting part. my hands creep into a ballerina tiptoed pose and my full weight is supported by just that. my weight pushes on my fingers and my right hand is drawn away, i tiptoe, tipping over, my weight is going, its stretching, and BOOM, i flip 180 degrees bounce off my knees and fly to the other corner of the room.

and that ends it. 12 minutes into the dance and we're only half done. nice job

assessment again

NEED TO WORK ON
1. maybe we'll just go striaght from head pop to gasping. more DRAMA
2. the inhalations still need to be complete, let it settle.
3. vary the hands. they all look so dramatic.
4. get more into the circular motion.
5. get more tired and frustrated.
6. more sudden-ness during flip.

TADAA. the body will surely ache for tomorrow

pf - taking a break

2009-08-11T01:51:00.000-07:00

Ever since I started the contemporary dance, I had to take a break from pf. its only for 1 or 2 months :) they can live without me.

BUT

i heard i missed Thai cooking and enzyme making. ARGH

Dance - she's back

2009-08-11T01:04:00.000-07:00

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Missed one week of dancing with Katharine. she went holidaying with her hubby :)

Ok. so sunday comes and its awfully tiring again. I RUSH to class because ppl make it hard to be punctual to find her there already....ALL SWEATY. sorry I'm a little late, its 4.40pm thinking I was only 10 minutes late. turns out i was 40 minutes late. o_O but she wrote 4.30pm on the calendar thing. isn't my fault. My lucky she isn't the kind to throw tantrums. So I'm still feeling a little sick from my one week H1N1 scare but I dance. After warm ups the little movement we put together from the week before she left was still in my mind. me curling up in the corner, leg to the side, neck bent over to feel that stretch, arms sprawled in a lifeless tangle. elbows up, head roll, lift body, gasp for breath, slowly sink down, sudden alertness, scramble on all fours, bump into Afhan, flip, float & impulse, do it again.

It was clear.

Then we changed it. haha. its not something bad. :) change is always good. makes the dance new and exciting.

So now after the change I add new breaths. after my gasps, i breathe out, finding new life in my newly found excess to air and energy. *breath out* wow, this is nice, I want more. So I have a sequence of 4 or 5 inhalations that bring me to my position at backstage right where I have a sinkingly comfortable happy squat.

People would love to see this I know.

after about 2 hours of experimenting, she invites me to do the whole thing from the top. I still can't find my "breath" or my center that holds the body together or the connection between my body and the ground. OK. LETS DO THIS.

I actually love the front part. playing with my hands? its awesome, its like idle-childlikeness that you don't get to experience much. anyway, after that, my hand-playing shifts from one hand to the other and frantically both hands a searching the ground for answers. Then the realization hits. I can move my elbows, and it is this that props my body up. it pulls and my head pops up, ahhhhhhhh stretch. and my head does an awesome roll. all the way, pull every muscle, stretch every ligament, my head can't go anymore and now it leads me upwards. my body lifts and i feel my body quivering. whooboy. how to do the sudden gasps? well, lets go for it. its fails and i know, but that doesn't mean I stop, I sigh, body filled with all now collapses in a float. next breath, this one with the hand pulling downwards, the next with my leg up to make a variation in positions, a small teeny breath to experiment, a BIG whirlwind that plunges down into a guttural below into the center of the earth, a sudden pulling upwards, slowly sinking down, the anticlimax, where I finally stop playing around with getting my breath, but just letting it in my body, I float, up down, up down. and a happy sigh, I'm in my squatting position.

END.

we talk and assess it.

NEED TO IMPROVE ON
1.Tiptoe styles - I always go up, and its always the same position. try to bend, or do ballet like legs clamped together.
2. Head pop - Not so sudden, open eyes, expressionless, keep body low.
3. Breaths - 1st one be dramatic but not the rest. COMPLETE THE CYCLES.
4. no wobbling. get to a position and stay there.
5. keep the body low.

my body aches. OUCH

Dance - together again

2009-07-27T21:43:00.000-07:00

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We're meeting and dancing again.
After my little interview with katharine on monday, she decided to use my description of my feeling in the ocean and moving in that direction. I admit I felt that feeling, but couldn't describe it using my body. I felt stiff, I felt like my body was only controlled by my mind.

I learned today bent arms cut short that energy flowing through me. it did but i didn't realise it. Once again, showing me that my mind was still in control.

I tried to get that breath, FEEL the breath of my body leading but still, when I let go, there were still moments where I would mind myself pre-choreographing my movements beforehand.

I NEED TO LET GO and feel myself suspended by that ocean I constantly put myself in when I feel even scarely united with my God.

But one movement I really like was that floating. impulse. floating. movements. I mastered it at seconds! but then. It went away. Have to work on that!

Dance - GOSTAN FORWARD

2009-07-27T21:18:00.000-07:00

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I went for it.

IT WAS AMAZING.

she is natural confident and pompously awesome.

I find new light in dance.

Dance - for me alone

2009-07-27T21:13:00.000-07:00

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Today it was just me and katharine. As it will be just Katharine and Afhan tomorrow.
She wants to discover me and today we talked mostly and she uncracked the religious side to me. Partly because I am religious, partly because it intrigues her I think.

Again we did warm up. I learned that I need to go FURTHER with my movement. Stretch to the left REALLY go there. Back straight DO IT. I tend to do this half cooked.

Personally, I never asked myself about the role of God is my life. My today I think I discovered myself. A LOT.

i'm learning new things everyday.

dance - we dance

2009-07-27T21:08:00.000-07:00

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First time working with katharine is was intimidating, slightly. I was adventuring into the form of dance which I have never encountered before but still, I tried it out going on while my body was still fatigued.

We did warm ups and many stretching exercises. Than after awhile i realised the importance of the middle bit. The center of our body, our abdomen. The strength of dancers come from within there and I found that lacking inside me.

One thing intrigued me was the interaction that she had with me while we were just experimenting with body movements. She would nudge me and at first I was confused at what she was doing, and she said "just let your body follow that movement" she nudged me again and I rolled over.

"Listen to your body, where is it taking you?"

"Don't be scared of that feeling"

"Feel that breath in your body"

I don't feel like I'm particularly good at successfully executing the 3 statements above but, its all about the process right? After many a few times, I feel like I had a teeny taste of what she was feeling inside.

Dance - meeting

2009-07-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

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Today I met Katharine and Afhan, the two people I am going to work with on this dance choreography workshop and she explains everything to me. A long long time ago, I met Aida, and she specializes in dance. However, due to her senior status, people in the Ombak Ombak group (a group of dancers) constantly rely on her for the support of choreography. Feeling like the younger generation lacks in experience in this area to have the confidence to choreograph their own pieces, they hold this workshop to sustain the culture of dance in them so that this form of dance would not die out as Aida retires.

After the explanation of what contemporary dance is, meaning it is more of movement than actually constructed physical positions, this made the definition of dance more abstract-like. This was a chance for me to breakout of my ballet and structured dance that I have been learning all my life.

She also introduced me to the Gostan Forward performance conducted by Marion D'Cruz a well known contemporary dancer known for her works hidden with messages. This was to be held on 26 July.
We planned our schedule and proceeded to carry out rehearsals the following week.

pf - computer skills

2009-07-27T20:43:00.000-07:00

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Children these days are so lucky. I never learned about computers or knew about it at such a young age. THE TIMES ARE CHANGING. FAST.

But oh well, since they will be exposed to all this technology, why nt do it in the right way? We an invited speaker, Uncle Lex, who works in Dell to teach us a little about all of this.

First he named all of the parts of the computer, which I know I learned but, sigh, sometimes my memory fails me, so it was a good refreshing course, the CPU, the monitor, the keyboard and the mouse. He taught us the right way to type, which of course I am typing wrongly because I don't use all of my fingers, just mainly my middle index and ring finger. HMMMM. so that was new for me. And in the end, he ended with a game. It was exciting for competitive ppl (mainly me) who couldn't stand losing. haha. All in all, it was an enjoyable class. Thanks to uncle lex for helping out in teaching!

Pf - Making the right choices.

2009-07-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

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Today aunty Maria's husband, Dr. Thomas Tean was heading the honour of making the right decision or, making a plan.

Many things I learned, but one thing I realised I never do often.
When I plan on doing something I rarely ask for people's advice on it. Got to learn to do that. And actually, i learned that misunderstandings occur also among married couples too. Apparently what he was teaching wasn't exactly what was supposed to be taught. But, I saw that aunty Maria wasn't angry, in fact she helped him out to try to create a better learning environment. I wonder too, if i were in that situation would I be that giving?

UES - Environmental week 4

2009-07-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

TODAY IS A DAY OF GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT

jelly baby sale was MOBILE.

hahaha. after making those awesomely pretty colour combo's we take them out for showcase.

people BUY and teachers even bought them for RM5 i think i sold 3 or 4 of those that were actually worth just RM3. Oh well, generosity I don't mind at all.:D

Pics below, some are from the Palm on Wall activity which we contributed too! OH OH! we also found a winner for best dressed in green! :D

UES - Environmental week 3

2009-07-06T08:49:00.000-07:00

Today is a wednesday andddd....no jelly baby sale BUT i thought there was UES meetings so I stayed back after school.

Since it was the day after we sold many jelly babies, I thought we would have a day of discussion, HOWEVER, we find that yitong and ryu made some jelly babies, square ones this time with really really pretty colourssss.....

I thought they were AWESOME and started experimenting with the mixture of colours and layers. MAN they were a hit! we started doing so many cool combinations! some people even booked a "pot" from us :)

I think I have a pic of them.

Pf - Family

2009-07-06T08:30:00.000-07:00

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Today was a topic on FAMILY.
but mostly on fathers.

First Aunty Sherene (gues speaker) asked us how many of us had fathers as home. Kind of a sensitive topic because amazingly, alot of the families in our church have single parents or parents that are in an argument. Oh well, luckily, all had! and so things went on smoothly.

Then she talked on about the role of a father:
1. Head of the household
2. Money-earner (in simple terms)
3. Allocation of money
4. Decision maker

All the important jobs. But lucky she asked said that the mothers can INFLUENCE the decision making. haha. The father is the head but the wife is the neck that has the ability to control the head.

SO ANYWAY.
she then gave us a card. entitled "how to give my heart to my father"
isn't that sweet? Inside were instructions on how to show your father that you love them. anddddd.....here it is:

1. Ask for his advice
2. Listen to his counsel
3. Pray for him
4. Communicate with him
5. Stay under his protection
6. Express gratefulness
7. Help him with the things he is working on
8. Respect him
9. Please him
10. Love him

I really like number 5. haha. Anyway, after reading this I realise the importance of loving your father. He makes so many big selfless sacrifices for you and the family and yet sometimes we are unable to help him, show him respect and spend time with him for less of the time he spends working hard for us. :)
NOW I KNOW. and i will carry out.

Next, to put our thoughts into action, we each wrote a "love letter" to our father. including me! it was thoughtful.
My pap loved it when I gave it to him and I'm sure the kids dads

UES - Environmental week 2

2009-07-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

THE ACTUAL JELLY BABY SALE.

its tuesday and its break time and I thought that we were selling them. so i runnnnn down to the foyer to check things out when I see no one. so okay....I see Ivan doing the mud balls thing and I walk over to ask him when we were doing it.

Ivan : Oh. lunch time.

Nice.

so i join in on the mudballs and getting my hands dirty. The mixture stinks but smells relatively better when the enzyme is added to it. Smells like apple cider :)

During lunchy luncy we dump handfulls of jelly babies into a plastic container. The colours are soooo totally random so I look down and see if I can arrange them into some sort of colour scheme. I slowly pick out the blues and greens and start dumping them into a container or specifically a "gaterade" bottle and they look pretty good.
HA HA HA HA. we sold them for a higher price.

oh well~ its all for the environment. so why not? :D

After school I stayed awhile. Didn't want to be late for the bus!

UES - Environmental week 1

2009-07-04T06:57:00.000-07:00

Today is a monday and its the day before our jelly baby sale. Stayed back after school to make sure we had all the things we needed ready for the sale. INFACT, we did not. Not enough containers to make a good sale! and maybe not enough water plants but.......surely! we had enough jelly babies. :)

so today after school, we spent the time washing empty bottle from the recycling bin again and cutting it into usable containers in the DT room. The edges were abit rough after cutting it so we "sandpapered" it to smoothen it and make the top part of the bottles straight and presentable. The tops of the bottles that we cut off we threw into the recycling bin behind the sch refectory! don't worry Mr. Weatherly. heheh

Tomorrow we sell! EXCITED. finally ideas are manifested into concrete actions..
presenting. A JELLY BABY

Pf - Hygiene

2009-06-30T08:35:00.000-07:00

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Its the day after I got back from my sarawak trip and I go for pathfinders. I feel so committed. haha. (PS: self praise is no praise so I'm not actually praising myself :P) anyway, today we had yet another special guest of honour- Aunty Nelly! she's a nurse and she was invited today to speak on hygiene.

First we had to practice how to spell the word "HYGIENE" they're little kids ok, and its a good thing to widen their vocabulary :D

and then aunty nelly went on to explain what it meant.
basically HYGIENE=CLEANLINESS

and todays hygiene wasn't just about physical (but actually it was mostly about physical la) hygiene but clean in thoughts, words and in the heart as well.A wholesome program. I like it.

She went on to explain the reason why good personal hygiene is practiced.
1.We might spread the dirt and bacteria to others
2.It makes us and other people unhappy
3.It troubles others -ie. ppl need to take care of us when we get sick cause of dirt.

Next up, was the HOW.
1. Bathe from head to toe-washing hair properly. washing toes properly as well.
2. Wash hands properly
3. Cut your nails. be it fingers or toes (OKKKKK.....I don't cut them toe nails often :S)

Then we go into a little more detail in the HOW

HAIR - washing it properly.
Normally people just think the dirt is on the hair particles. LITTLE DO THEY KNOW! dirt and oil and sweat accumulates on the scalp where the roots of our hair is as well. So, when you shower, massage your scalp to remove all excess moisture then go on to clean your actual hair.

HOWEVER, there is one most frequent action we always take to maintain personal hygiene

WASHING THE HANDS
1. Wash before meals.
2. Wash after going to the toilet
3. Wash them when they're dirty =_=
4. Wash them for a duration of the time taken to sing the alphabet.
5. Wash them in accordance to THE SEVEN STEPS.

THE SEVEN STEPS

1. The Normal method. washing the palm of your hands.

2. The Seen-but-not-done method. washing between your fingers.

3. The Retarded method. washing the top of your palm.

4. The Never-done-before method. washing your knuckles.

5. The Never-seen-before method. washing the arms of your thumb.

6. The Cutest-ever-seen-before method. washing your fingertips/nails.

7. The Only-really-clean-people-do-this method. washing your wrists.

Attention! Beware! Alert!
Because of H1N1 virus flying around the world. We have to take great care of our hands! they are possible carriers and places where we expose ourselves to the virus. Listen carefully! they are very common things that we are unaware of!!!!

1. DO NOT TOUCH THE T-AREA OF YOUR FACE.
what is the T area? It is the area that contains your eyes, nose and mouth. These are all openings for the virus to access your inner body so......don't touch them! just incase you might have the virus in the palm of ur hand! D:

2. DO NOT COUGH/SNEEZE ON YOUR BARE HANDS.
you see, we are all prone to touching the T Area that when we cough or sneeze, germs might enter our body through those areas! so stop it! before you pass it on. ;D

Football - 3rd Day

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I feel like we're getting more and more advanced. First we separate TOTALLY, then we merge halfway with the experienced, then now we go STRAIGHT into a joined game? CRAZY A?! lol. anyway. Playing with them freakily experienced younger ones teaches you stuff.

1st of all, I was made goalie. AGAIN. seems to be my destiny, so be it! well, today I met Shelby, Shaeny's sister and she is such a good defender that not many balls came through the defense line. But I did manage to block some goals from entering. :)

HOWEVER, I let a few of them in as well T_T This time I feel like, when the strikers get closer, I get more nervous and I feel like the goal posts are getting further apart! Man! its scary, and one thing I realised, I get drowsy on duty. LOL. not something that is good when you're a goalie! and my reflexes need some work so.....Gotta work on it more.

I think its about time I stop being a goalie, they promoted me to a defender and Shelby takes the goalie position. :) FINALLY. something new, and so everything in this area is just new for me. How to do it, when to run, where to run, what I aim to do. I learn that ok, first, you need to keep an eye on the rest of the defenders. Walk in one line, to that requires communication and make sure there are no extremely wide gaps between each defender. NEXT. goal is to kick ball away from enemy either out of the field or into an open space where our allies can get it. EASY? NOT REALLY. as I said before. My reflexes are slow! and so ok, at first I see the ball coming to me, I stop it and I literally stand on the ball and look for people to pass it to. WHAT AM I DOING?! this is a competitive game, not a luxurious game of passing the ball! so after a few more tries, I get the hang of looking while running, anticipating the ball coming and to whom i can pass it to.

Then, after getting over that one little bit, Mr Neild said that stopping the ball and then only kicking it would reduce the amount of force I could get on the ball, so he said, try jogging a little and kicking the ball or kicking it as soon it comes wobbling to you, no need to stop it. I tried it! and it worked! He said I improved :) :) :) what to do? Being a goalie may not be my only destiny after all :P

Charity Bike Ride/ Car Boot Sale

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To raise funds for our Habitat for Humanity trip to Sarawak, year 12 students and our 2 wonderfully supporting teachers Mr Skinner and Mrs Clarke organized these 2 events.
There were many involved in the participation and planning of these events and they are listed below.

Job segregation:
1. Bikers
2. Food & beverages
3. Entertainment
4. Car Boot Sale committee
5. Charity Bike Ride committee
6. Food area plan
7. T shirt and Logo designing

I was involved in food and beverages.
Many weeks before the actual event, we had several CAS meetings to determine the areas we were involved in. I initially planned on doing designing the Tshirts and the logo but seeing that there were few participating in the food section (and food is VERY important for events like these!) so I joined forces with Boom and Yitong to supply the main course of everyone's meal that afternoon, Burgers and Hotdogs.

After discussion with the 2, we wanted to make them really really GOOD burgers and sell them at a high price. With various sauces, good quality patty and nice buns. However, given the advice from Mr.Skinner, it would be better to sell cheap ones without them being so complicated. Before we received advice from him, we even went out for "burger surveys" to research what combination of ingredients would make our burgers the best since we had no experience whatsoever in burger making, but alas! our research was in vain, although not to our stomachs :P

And so, we were very lucky to have Mr.Skinner standing behind our whole operation. Although we initially took the job into our hands, it seemed that conducting a barbeque required more than just amateur skills. Mr Skinner even called in professional help! and....oh no, i forgot his name.....but i rmb his face :) Basically, everything we needed was supplied by the school because it would be easier to buy in bulk using the school's name, it would be cheaper as well, lowering costs and increasing profit! (ahha mr.whittlestone! economics in application!) Here's the supplies we got from school.

School:
1. Tons of burgers.
2. Tons of sausages
3. Gas
4. Stove/ Grill thingy
5. Tons of white bread
6. Tesco Tomato Sauce
7. Tesco Chili Sauce
8. Oil (or was this from skinner or bbq man?????)
9. Paper tissue

Mr. Skinner:
1. BARBEQUE EQUIPMENT! - 200 USD. however, saw sign on it saying =made in china= skeptical? YES

Boom:
1. Paper Plate
2. Mustard

Without Boom's mustard, i wouldn't have been able to see the beauty of its taste. It actually tastes good with tomato sauce. :) everyone else loved it too! SEE. mustard is quite good boom.

One vital ingredient though, was ONIONS.

everyone contributed to this by chopping up 6 onions at home and bringing it to school. I brought 1.5kg of chopped onion. (equivalent to the weight of the cake we are going to get for Ms. Yin on the last day of school) and i'm thinking....it helped ALOT. many didn't bring 6 onions. Phumi & Bindiya even brought onions without chopping them. WHAT?!

Anyway, in the beginning, we were lazing around. LITERALLY with too many cooked dogs and burgers and onions. Hmmm....stacks of bread sandwiched between tissue too. Our first buyers were actually ourselves so, we got off to a slow start. Lucky, ppl get hungry and desperate and slow, with the slow trickle of people, came a slightly faster trickle of sellings.

We got bored with the low business and so I suggested running around with the enticing sign i printed and get customers to us! it worked a little. Got deliveries for Mr & Mrs Walton (and he loved it btw!) and one little girl. And more of course. running around the whole place i bumped into wouter who was playing the guitar in a repeated arrangement of chords. I sang a few really cheesy lines about "you know what is good~ and that is our food~~" lame but, SOMEHOW! it got us customers!

Uh oh, thn i realised just how busy Boom was manning the stall. Rushing to his aid! asking ppl what they want, repeatedly asking "do you want onions with that?" and getting change. It was all in good fun. :) Then disaster struck! we got so busy, the onions ran out! I sacrificed my dry eyes to cut a few that ppl brought UNCUT. but they brought really small ones. They were puny! and the bbq man's wife even commented on how puny they were! tsk tsk tsk~ but i still went to cut em anyway. Got the chopping board and knife and some really big yellow onions from Shaeny,gen and iyune's stall. They borrowed some from us when they needed and now we borrow from them. cooperation at its best!

Hmmm...what else? All in all, it was a great day. I learned that barbeque-ing you have one stove for frying, one for keeping it warm, meaning one has good big fire, one small comforting fire. I learned that you have to look at for your team member at the stall when they need help because, standing alone manning a stall is tough! sorry boom cause i left him alone to do some advertising for a while, but he's so good and managed well. Being polite always helps you get more customers. Managing a stall you need to have a container for money. You have to be proactive in getting those customers! bring yourself to them! don't expect them to come to you! Overall, It was a great experience. haven't done stuff like this in a while. earned RM630

PS : It was so busy I even didn't have time to take more pictures!

pf = DENTISTRY? - a confirmed never

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Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhaha. outing with helping hands to the LOOI ORTHODONTIST CLINIC. Dr. Looi is a good man. :P

Firstly, we get a look of what braces are. tadaa. they are shown on a girl. I have had braces before AT Looi so this surrounding isn't unfamiliar to me.

Dr. Looi was a tad busy so he hands us over to his senior assistant and she runs us by all the things we need to know about being a dentist. THE CHAIR. THE EQUIPMENT.

We have:
1. The chair - come with 3 funky things. water sprayer, saliva sucker and one more which i forgot.
2. The equipment - too many. the pic shows it.
3. The types of brackets - metal, colourful, transparent, lingual (inner for SUPER vain-o ppl)
4. The SWAT team - Straight White Attractive Teeth Team.
5. The Wisdom tooth. - pic pic pic
6. The before and after - is always prettier after.

Ruth was so scared about this cause her teeth was pretty bad. haha. She's so cute and we tried to calm her down so many times. But I learnt today on giving. There was one patient who actually allowed us to check out her mouth. her lingual braces on the inside that u'll c in the pic i will post tmr.generous. hmmmmm

:D i got a nice little statue of perfect teeth. a goal to achieve?

NAH

I ANNOUNCE

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that I become prefect.

good or bad?

we're about to find out. :S

pic of the badge laterrrrrrrr

OH WHAT A DAY

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went out earllyyyyyy morning to see sunrise which happened in my park and me alone. *sighs*

canoe-ed my way to blackness in the morning. Vit D is good but still....melanin is there yo

swam to laughter.

tired my way to school.

and boom got me a pressie :D so sweet and cute. my fav part of the present is the bow XD. eh eh HE IS A CHEESE. iyune interested? *wiggles eyebrows* hahahhahahha

pics below:

UH OH

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EDDY, SKY and whoever is out there. WATCH OUT.

JUST GO AND

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WATCH THIS.

Want to cry your heart out and feel like melting?

EDDY WATCH THIS (ahha.....i mentioned u~)

SAVE THE TURTLES

2009-06-04T06:33:00.000-07:00

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I think i showed my dedication to the environment just good enough :) tomorrow there's an exam and I'm here on the beach helping support the "save the turtle'S" programme. :)

first we start off by building this humoungous sand castle of a turtle. haha. it was fun. 12 ppl working on a big thing like that? u'd think it would be crazy buttttt.....everyone seemed to know what to do. At first yea it was all over the place, and lucky I had that sand making experience with you church ppl, so I said, HEY lets do the outline of this thing first thn only dig around it. It was quite good in the end though, was a big papa turtle (no eyelashes!) with a baby turtle on its back and mini crocs surrounding it. haha! my childish-ness comes into play. and we won 3rd prize!!!! talk about teamwork! hahahaha....we did good b^_^

Attendee's
1.Me
2.I Yune
3.Wen Lu
4.Ryu
5.Boom
6.Douglas
7.Adam
8.Maiki
9.Joel
10.Ivan
11.Edo
12.Micheal

i know there were 12...WHO IS IT?!
lol. no pics of the sandcastle making cause....hey! i was busy making sandcastles:)
but i have pics of the releasing of the turtles. they're so cute and tiny
la la la~ i helped save some today.....~

POPPING - but nt that way

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I have tons of things to do. *ahhem* SHOULD do. Study - physics, economics. Do Drama TPPP, RI. Think World Lit. Mrs. Yin farewell surprise. physics experiment writeup that lies stored in my computer collecting dust. english aural. CG list of 7 doctrines - 3 verses. KEEP THE WORD. wash hair everyday. wash face when I come home. Don't wear pajama's more thn 3 times. stop biting nails. should think about CAS trip. Charity bike ride. POSTERS!shitttt......

thn

POP

goes facebook chat. edddddyyy.... (hahahha....aren't u proud that you made me write this post? ;P) TRYING TO DIG INFO OUT OF HIM WHEN HE IS BACK. but sadly. he is like a sealed sunken ship *note-alliteration, effect of looking at too many english literary devices* you wait eddy. I'll get that info! bwahahahha....

so anyway. more things I need to do! work on BADMINTON! i received a challenge and i say : bring it onnnn.....poor ronald. alot of work for him now. hehehhe. hmmmmmm which reminds me. I need to buy a badminton racket..... HAHAHAHHA

POP again. daniel messing with fb and commenting non-stop. we do loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong comments on my papaya pic that no one gets

tell me someone out there gets this!!!! THE PAPAYA WITH BABIES ON THE BOTTOM! haiyoooo...its so easy. lol

anyway. POP again. philip is going back to sabah.....FOR GOOD. *sighs*

facebook is on a popping mode today..... i like. :D

check out my masterpiece.

loving k770i. so there eugene!!! hahahahhaha.

OH OH. check this out.

up there.
- breakout play by korean peeps. AWESOMEEEEE....if it ever comes by again. watch it again!!!
- Wayang wong workshop with masks! WHEEEE. phumi on left. me on right.

ENOUGH d.
popping with philip now

should

go

study

*sighs*

Tutoring....not?

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Joshua canceled. I really wanted to scold him but.......he has exams and I respect that. Physics is tough.

I understand :)

Football - 2nd day

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was feeling so bad for missing last week. and so i came! and it didn't disappoint :)

First we started off with the "outsiders" and the "in the box" warm up.
basically, the two outsider's goal is to kick out the balls in the box. people in the box defend the balls. MUAHAHAHHAHA.....it was tricky and hard. ick. I realised i really don't know how to control the ball and maneuver it.

Next, two "goalies" were to stop pairs from getting the ball across "the line" my partner was gen AND, gen is good actually, I'm just scared! D8 should stop being that. but our passing was quite good. hehe. we worked together real well, and scored the first goal! fun.

WHOA. we went straight into a game with the "superiors" and whoaaaa...this is the first time I actually saw them play. they're good, the younger girls look as if they should be on tv and they look so comfortable with the ball. HEY. i wanna be like that. first half i was the goalie. but honestly, our defence was so good that the ball rarely got into my territory. Next up, I decided, NO! must play a little and volunteered to go up. stupid BUT, must have experience, how come I can't kick the ball to the side when people are infront of me?!!!! I don't get it but will try harder next time we play.

My team won thanks to that aggresive girl in fluorescent yellow shirt, the sporty one in normal attire and the one with the long platinum blonde hair. they'er awesome

UES - :O! it gonna be environmental day!

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More planning I guess to be done.

what now, is to prepare early so that we don't have to rush after exams.

Here's what I am involved in:
1. Jelly Babies
2. THE boards x4
3. Disaster pics

and thats what we have to work towards.

Here's what I planned in my mind :-
1. Jelly Babies
- decided packaging
- who will sell what
- when will we grow the babies
- do we sell it directly in the plastic things?
- when will we get the water plants?
- date to cut the plants
- how to transport plants

2. The Board x 4
- what info to put up
- deco
- teamwork

3. disaster pics
- oh this is easy. just search for them and compile

I GOT NEW ONES!

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what new ones did I get?
THIS!
SHOES!
my current ones are falling apart. Thank you Uplands Field.

WHAT A DISCOVERY!

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Guess what I found out?
As I was exploring the perimeters of the Chew's Residence, I stumbled upon a queer looking room. Lets take a look

So then I ventured as curiosity got the best of me.....

whats this I see? I lovely green plant supplying sufficient Oxygen to the users of the toilet if however they spend a long time in the toilet doing what is *ahhem* necessary. Haha. put it this way, with nature in the toilet, nature definitely 'calls" XD

D: D8!
A mushroom!
I thought they only grew in jungles. What a discovery!

PF - DECISIONS - whoa. deep

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Today I wasn't supposed to go to pf. It was performance day in gurney for IB drama Hepatitis production BUT I rushed and made it in time :D

Today was decision-making lesson by guest speaker.....*drumroll* Dr. Danny OH!
lol. he's good.

What we learned:
Step 1 - GATHER ALL INFO (pros and cons)
Step 2 - Ask others who have experience aka parents
Step 3 - Ask yourself if you can handle all those responsibilities
Step 4 - Consider the long-term results
Step 5 - MAKE the decision

Today I felt very teacher-ish. The kids asked me about the activity they were supposed to do - write 3 things they learned about decision making - and I actually answered and wow, they were like....oh ya....thanks teacher. awwwwwwwwww ^_^

Tuition-ing

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Em.....was abit disappointed in Joshua.
Was......feeling so un-excited for tutoring him. so much work, and had to cook for caregroup tomorrow.

yet. I still did it. SIGH

Joshua didn't do the homework I gave him. And he didn't study for the exam I was about to give him. AND, he spent the whole time asking me how to do the questions and his attention was on his phone and choir. I HAVE GOT TO MAKE HIM FOCUSED. but does that mean I have to be hyper all the time?

Sorry Joshua, I am helping u the best I can, but there is little I can do if you don't help yourself as well.

UES - planning ahoy!

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Yeap. today was the real official planning of environmental week. Jobs were assigned for each thing. Leaf Hunting, Jelly Babies, Wall.....and on and on....

I'm really looking forward to this :)

Sports Day

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FUN. TIRING. Why does the body ache so much after that? D:

i got 3 Gold 1 bronze! wheeeeeeeee

PF - Supposed telematch day

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today in the morning, Aunty Maria called me up. D8 noooooooooo....her 4 children as sick and she cannot come for pf. At first she was like, "ok hui ern, just go ahead with robert and randy to do the telematch thingy ok?" then she told me her son (also in that class) said :"What about me mom? *puppy dog eyes*" AW. so we canceled it and decided to continued with our usual show-and-tell and pledge and law expansion.

Today I did show-and-tell! and I baked brownies for the class. :D they loved it and i'm really happy they did. Sharon did show and tell by making a box for her mom. THAT IS SO SWEET, and its just mother's day....woo....

Ok, well, since today aunty maria wasn't here, I had to sort of take over the class. Poor aunty cathy....no one really listens to her and she is just too lenient on them. So, today, i was a "teacher" Something ya, I've never had much experience with but turned out, ok-ish :S we continued with the pledge and law.

I walked around, answering questions, making sure they all had 8 requirements completed. and WHOA, seems like wth me, they are all noisy. WHAT?! so I had to be stern-er. :S something I dreaded being, but for the sake of the class, AND aunty maria :) I actualy had to raise my voice. whoa. I don't like being a dictator. But oh well, gotta do what I gotta do yea?

Today I found out, the nicest student is Sharon
and Elisha THE BOY likes attention from me :D

Tutoring Number 2

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Today was a busy + tiring day. football. tutoring and later have a meeting with uncle johnny wong. BUT fun all the same.

I was proud of joshua :D

he did most of his homework! And I managed to teach him somemore new techniques of add-maths-ing. The thing about Joshua, he doesn't know how to apply those rules I gave him. FYI, I added more to the rules this week and maybe I have to research more on the whole of the topic before making rules. hehe. Makes me seem unprofessional......if I add it later on that is.....:S

Joshua didn't understand how to do the indices 5.1 problems i gave him so, we worked on that the WHOLE day. Honestly Josh, sometimes u're a bit slow, but *sigh* it IS my job to be patient so *GULPS* I shalllllll.......be patient. Sometimes yea, I really don't get why he doesn't understand the questions but then again, as a tuition teacher, I have to put myself in his shoes, not everyone can be as fast as Japheth or as crazzzzzzy as carol so, PATIENCE. the main value one has to have in tutoring.

NEXT WEEK. JOSHUA. YOU BETTER BE READY. NEXT WEEK IS A TEST.

Football - FIRST and very hot

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TODAY WAS A PERFECT DAY TO BE SHADY. BUT......it only did get shady after football.D8

First of all, I HAVE to say, I have never done football before and I suck EXTREMELY SUCK at it. I thought my feet coordination was pretty good but......you won't know until you find a sport u really suck at. and that is football.

But anyway, its fine, its fine. CAS is all about trying new things and taking time out to be healthy as well, so I might as well do it. Just with sunscreen next time hehe. Anway, we start off by standing in a circle and, basically its just like monkey in the middle, just that its a football we kick. Fun.

Then we go into the opposite passing to opposites. Fun. At first my kicking was way off, the ball kept going to the right side, then i learned that we have to twist our body slightly more because sometimes when we think something is straight, it actually isn't. Yea, whacked body position i have. I KNOW. lol. anyway, after a million or so kicks, I got better at it! and even learned to kick using the side of my foot. Awesome eh?

Next uppp, going around cones. OKKKK.....This looks pretty damn easy, but sadly isn't. the ball just flies around, and I end of kicking once the ball with my left foot and another with my right. RETARDED. I need to learn how to do that from Mr.Whittlestone. But the fact that he made it into a little competition made it exciting! hahaha....people in white vs. people in colours.

NEXT. THE GAME. hahahhaa....not fun at all. the sun is shining andddd my team is one person short. ARGH. meaning. NO GOALIE. but anyway, its just a game, I don't wanna sulk and lose out on learning the rules and stuff just cause we lack 1 person. So we play and, yea, this game taught me how to pass the ball to other people. Its tough but you have to use your team members when the "whiteS" are hording you and hovering over you. all in all. the main thing is. USE YOUR TEAMS MATES. thats the only way to win in football.

one sick thing was, EVERYTIME a ball came near me, it zoomed straight to my and. WHAT?! WHY?! I kept on getting 'hand balls' and the white team got free kicks. ISH. BUT, revealed! My skill as a goalie for the free kicks we had in the end. wheeeee~ i'm really destined to be one I CAN FEEL IT! muahahahha...lol.

oh oh. i learned. balls out on the side get throw ins. and to the back get banana kicks like beckham ;D

no pics. no phone. what if it smashes? :/ D: D8

UES - THE PLAN

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Today we did alot of planning for the very near future.

Ivan does alot of thinking PLUS the action, so I, think UES is going somewhere :)

So firstly Boom took attendance........and announced that following the list we gotta post something in UPENSO. oh well, its Ivan first and i've still got a long way to go. heheh.

Anyway, Ivan talked about ENVIRONMENTAL WEEK. long overdue, but still workable. There is THE WALL event. THE COCONUT event which i think isn't the coconut event after all? THE POWERPUFF GIRL'S which I have no clue is......and....one more thing. I forgot. So Ivan showed us those jelly things that grow in water that can help water plants grow easily. He bought 9 packets that were pretty and colourful for 'the coconut' event. I'm really looking forward to environmental week :)

The news this week is the broken library chair. :D There was a huge humonguos hole in it and Michael suggested we tear it apart and make good use of the parts. The fabric goes to DT and the wood as well. REUSE. the 3rd R. I feel environmental. B)but not many people are needed for the "tearing apart" so I head on to wash bottles. Its actually quite a disgusting job washing bottles, but somebodys gotta do it right?

Pics below:

PF - WEEK BEFORE TELEMATCH

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This week was supposedly the continuation of show and tell! and guess what! abigail brought BEANS that she grew! AWESOME! we have a gardener in our midst! hehehehe....OOPS. I was supposed to bring something. BUT, I forgot. :S me and my memory.....its really effected by how busyyyy schoool is right now, with all that french homework over the weekend. who blames me? HEE HEE. Anyway, today we caught up again on our "What it is to be......."

The list is:
1. Obedient
2. True
3. Kind
4. Pure
5. Respectful
6. Attentive

I helped beng jee alottttt.....he seems a little helpless without me. Maybe we gotta train him to answer stuff on his own ya?

NEXT WEEK IS TELEMATCH DAY! Helping hands are spending it in the youth park. SOOOOO..... attire is shirt. jeans. shoes. Bring extra shirt.

HEEE HEE HEEEE. Aunty Maria put me incharge of the water game. And I am going to plan it! Asking them to pour water into each others mouths using cups. messy i knowww, but they ahve their extrar tshirts yea? :D

besides, I want to incorporate cooperation into their games. and this is my chance :)

HER BEANS :D

Tutoring - first time

2009-05-04T06:18:00.000-07:00

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I have been arranging to tutor my neighbour, Joshua in Add Maths for some time now, well, partly because his dad wanted it so much as well :) hehe. So FINALLY, I got around to tutor him. On a bright sunday morning, 1030am - 1130am I FEEL LIKE I ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING! We worked on indices and logarithims.

At first I was unsure of how to conduct tuition as i have never done this before, but my quick mind trained through drama gave me a great idea! and I made a set of rules for him. 11 basic MAIN rules that were to be memorized and learned by heart and loads of past years.

I let him try a few easy ones as warm ups and went on to tougher ones that required more BRAIN POWER. Its a lucky thing i'm surprisingly patient with friends that i don't get annoyed at the pace josh-y boy was going. But he got it, i could tell :) The hard questions I let him do a few under my supervision while the rest I let him do on his own. I admit, at some point I was a little annoyed at how much joshua got distracted by the waterfall in my garden but after alot of breathing and counting to 200, I understood that it was quite early in the morning, and that he needed some interesting things to wake up his brain, and so me being me, I "hyper-ed" myself up to get him to concentrate.

After an hour of work, or while he was working, I think i become more systematic! haha! I made him a homework list :) short and sweet
I've never done a homework list beforeeee FOR MYSELF, and i'm doing one for him? WOW

so here joshua. Just incase you lose that precious list of homework....

HUI ERN'S HOMEWORK LIST FOR YOU
1. Memorize HuiErn's 11 Rules
2. Do all Ex 5.1
3. Finish Ex 5.2
4. Fihish Ex 5.3
5. PREPARE FOR HARD SPM QUESTIONS THIS THURS

HAHAHAHAHHA. I'm going to set hard questions for youuu....and get all the hard questions for you....just you wait!

THE ROAD LESS TAKEN

2009-05-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

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Decided to go hiking on our lovely labour day holiday! I actually didn't know where to go.....lucky we invited Dr. Danny Oh who has the greatest ideas of all on hiking venues.

Yes. Dr Danny Oh is the most unusual man ever met.
I learned that he:
1. Likes to hike.
2. Knows alot about nature
3. Has been drinking tap water all his life without distilling it OR boiling it
4. Doesn't care if the route we take is illegal "kawasan larangan"
5. Eats wild growing cucumbers without caring if they're poisonous.
5. Knows about fruits i've never heard of
6. IS DAMN HEALTHY
7. loves a no-trailed route and drains @.@
8. Knows a guy who has 26 dogs

I learned that:
1. I am fitter than yangson. that big dude.
2. I, a person who is afraid of heights, walked on steps that had HUMONGOUS holes in them hovering over more than 10m above ground level.
3. I can help push and pull avril up the hill :D :D
4. I can now hike up to brother's bungalow because i now know the way!
5. drains are slippery
6. You should always do something involving risk while you are still young.
7. When you look at fruit on a plant, check out if there are fertilisers or pesticides.

EVIDENCE BELOW :

UES - first time back from hols

2009-05-02T06:45:00.000-07:00

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WHEEEEEE. first time I'M back for UES. Was feeling reallly reallly sick today because of Aussie Rules. MAN, it was so hot out there today. anyway, went in and Mr. Weatherly did a little presentation that really hit a sensitive spot.I wish i taped it.

Mr. Weatherly actually admitted that adults do not take the initiative to save the environment and i think this was his way of repentance for nt doing it. Well, after watching that video, I realised, yes, our environment is deteriorating VERY rapidly. Even the movie "an inconveniet truth" made like AGES ago showed devastating results and we're already in the year 2009. think of how much worse it could be now. I am suddenly inspired to save the environment :)

The video was about this little girl that earned enough money with the help of her group of friends to speak on a platform where she would be noticed and her tiny voice would be heard. It was touching and I could actually feel the tears squeezing out of everyone's eyes. I was moved to be more environmental.

Another thing. Environmental week was canceled. why? cooperation. proactive. innovation. WE ARE LACKING. partly because I had not much interest in it i agree, but now its different. i want to contribute to the environment :D

Pathfinder - birthday pathfindering.

2009-05-02T06:17:00.000-07:00

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Today was such a sweet day for me AND it was also the day i started a little gardening and.....as you remember from last week. the kids were supposed to do show and tell. but sadlyyyy....only thaddeus, melissa and eivon did brought something....

thaddeus did a piece on combining drawing and puzzles.
melissa did one on craft.
eivon did on her drawing.

after that we did another piece on how to be kind. Once again.....much difficulty in explaining it to beng jee......ARGH. what IS "kind" in chinese? oh well. its overrrr....so I don't need to know anymore....hahahha....BUT. sigh....i still need to know just incase he asked again....man...its still new for me being a translator @.@

well. after those two assignments. it accidentally slipped that my birthday was tomorrow....>_< and aunty maria is so sweet. she asked them all to do birthday cards for me. and THEY were even sweeter! being so excited to do the cards for me. pics belowwwww.....

PF - Night on duty.

2009-04-30T07:28:00.000-07:00

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the night before Jayce's wedding night :D

we the pathfinders were somehow assigned to maintain the discipline of "a night of hope" concert in dewan sri pinang. It was certainly a happy, fun WONDERFUL experience.

Dress code-
Class A uniform

Backstage Crew-
Quee Nee
Avril
Priscilla
Me
Derick
Adrian
Railey
Yangson
Eva
Choy
Kah Po

So we leave at 7pm and the whole group of us pathfinders are divided into 2 groups. The backstage crew and the main entrance crew. I was backstage :D so I got to hear see and experience the wonderful musicians on stage. yippee!

FIRST OF ALL - let me tell you how awesome the violinist that day was. her first piece was just normal. But for her second piece, she donned a cowboy hat and started to play this really quick upbeat AWESOME piece. I was blown away.....literally...i was in awe. and the best thing was, when i told her I loved her playing, she just smiled at me and said "Praise God" :D :D :D A christian with talent. even better :D

but before all that performance, we had a task to do. move stage equipment ie. chairs, music stands, piano and choir stands. We were given a piece of paper with all the written requirements so it was easy. The positions of everything was labeled, so again, it was easy. Basically, we divided the job up depending on the number of items we were to carry out on stage.

It was funny really, because for the first half of the night, things that were required to be carried were light stuff like the chairs and music stands, so we got the girls to do that. While the other half we needed MUSCLE for the piano and the choir stands. so the guys did that.SOMEHOW, we forgot the fact that while the light things are being moved out, he curtains are still up, but for the heavier things, the curtains are down. SO, the guys got a little jealous that the audience gets to see the girls but not the guys. haha. PICKY. i knowwwww....and i argued that people don't actually see us anyway. BUT still,we sent some guys off to be seen by the audience too :) cooperation at its best!! (psssst. Ms. Davis said she saw me on stage when she went for the concert so we are actually seen!hahahha....sorry railey :P)

being backstag helpers, we hyper group of 9 had to also learn how to tone down the noise. it was tough, but because in pathfinders we learn respect and discipline, we did just that, and it was soooo cute to see everyone try to communicate without so much of a peep.

Pics below when there were breaks and we could make noise :P

Birthday wishes.

2009-04-28T04:55:00.000-07:00

thanks to allllll who wished me happy birthday :) :) :)
words brighten days.

It started on Fri 24 Apr 09. 3 days b4 the actual day.
ON FRI IN PERSON:
Robert
Railey
Ronald
Avril
Andrea
Derick
Chawin
Michelle
Bill

They surprised me :) so happy :)

Sun 26 Apr 09. STILL not yet my bday.
Adrian
Melissa
Jasmine
Beng Jee
Thaddeus
Aunty Maria
Sharon
Eivon
Gen
Iyune
Shaeny
Ah Hiah
Che Che

Congrats for those who wished me on the real dayyyy!!! *throws confetti*
GENEVIEVE - My Owner
I YUNE - The Awesome Threesome member
SHAENY - The Sleeping One in Pictures. HAHAHHAHHA
YOU THREE WERE THE BEST

MOBILE:
Priscilla
Mabelle
Bill
Nikki
Eddy
Pap + Mum
Bugy
Lydia
Andrea S
Charmaine
Juena
Yang Son
Shannen
Shanese
Aunty Maria

PRAYER:
Mom + Dad
Aunty Maria

PHONE CALL:
Shannen + Shanese
Darrel
Ming Li + Goh Gi

WITH CAKE:
CG - 8 ppl <3
Gen + Iyune + Shaeny
Aunty Fiona + Chareesa

WITH PRESENT:
Gen
I Yune
Shaeny
Carol
Shannen + Shanese

IN SCHOOL:
Carol
Yi Tong
Mitchell
Misato
Tilly
Miss Davis
Bindiya
Douglas
Chih Yao
Adam
Vince
Mark
Michelle
Naima
Wouter
Michelle
Wei Ling
Lidia
Rebecca
Darren
Wei Yun

FACEBOOK:
Juena
Shu Hua
Sze Yee
Ye-Huey
Che Che
Li Tinh
Vi Cher
Piyi
Bryant
Darren
Watchreen
Melissa koay
Kelly
Sky
Victor
Ernie
Shaun
kelly Teoh
Iise
Aaron
Seumas
Quee Nee
En Shuen
hai Sherng
Wei Zhe
Grace
Teri
Felicia
Juliana
Teng Wei
Andy
Vivian
Addison
Haruki
Claudine
Sherlyn Khor
Jin Yin
Mon Choon
Su Lin
Lara

BELATED:
Tjun Yee
Ivan
Wen Lu
Janice
Man Lin
Elsie
Boom
Vardaan
Mei Xian
Yi Sze
Jack
Trym
Egor?
Eugene Looi
Andrea K
Celine
Ryu
Denise

Badminton - THE LAST

2009-04-14T05:45:00.000-07:00

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WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. the last badminton for the month and i'm not continuing next month. Going off for hols and don't have time to attend 4 times a month.

So once again, we played and played till we dropped dead. Haha. At least i did, and i learned today that I was holding my racket wrong. You see, when u drop ur racket to ur side, the racket is supposed to be alligned such that all is in a straight line. The way i was holding mine.........it was bent inwards. And I was gripping the handle to high. @@ was I doing everything wrong????

Anyway, practice makes perfect, more practice and I think i'll nail all that. :D

ANOTHER THING. (wow. didn't expect to learn so much on the LAST day) I learned how to hit harder and slight smashing. Use body weight to hit (bingo! got it) which means lean back before you hit. use your body's momentum to follow through with the smash. And on smashing, I learned that before you hit, you have to keep your arm straight, pull back, and hit it down, ending with arm in straight position. and of course, with the flick of the wrist and downward movement of racket. TADAA. smashing made easy. YEA RIGHT. takes more than just theoretical help to get me smashing. I NEED MORE PRACTICE. and i will! :) with my church buddies.

so here's to last day of badminton! ^_^

Pathfinders - week before holiday

2009-04-14T05:37:00.000-07:00

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Even children have pre-vacation syndrome. Haha. next week is Jayce's wedding so the pathfinders and adventurer's have a weekend off. So today. attendance was 6! heh! used to be about 12 i think XP

so today, the poor kids were flooded with homework. They were to do journals and bring something special next week to show proof of what they did best (ie. wat mentioned last week) so basically, today we were just receiving homework and homework. the poor kids....it must be torture.......:(

but oh well. i had to leave early too. dinner with parents at 635.

NEXT WEEK IS JAYCE'S WEDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAITTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pathfinders - singing talent?

2009-04-14T05:29:00.000-07:00

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Today we sang. and sang and sang and sang. hehe. I know my voice is good and i love to sing, but this made me even more inspired to sing. just cause the little kids were so awed at how i sing. HEHE. anyway, i helped them sing some songs they weren't famailiar with that I knew by heart. and its so funny.....cause alot of them are tone deaf @@ and there's this one kid, thaddeus that actually takes voice lessons and he aced the singinggggg......woooo.

after that, Aunty Maria asked the kids to write down what they were good at. AGAIN thaddeus had all these awesome attributes. Basketball, piano, violin, singing. TOO MUCH FOR A LITTLE KID. ARGH. and the others were just stuck with things like - helping other people, cheering people up, taking care of my pet.......but lucky though. children don't have inferiority complex :S haha. I was actually wondering why on earth did aunty maria do this activity? BOOSTING SELF CONFIDENCE. thats my conclusion :D

tadaa.....as if THOSE children lacked confidence XD
oh well. there's next week to go!

Pathfinders - Permanent

2009-04-13T06:09:00.000-07:00

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Ok. Today aunty maria officially announced me as the assistant to the Helping Hands class. *beams with pride* and the children actually clapped. Aw.....i feel so welcome there.

Anyway, today we learned to love ourselves and each other.

The children were given these little tupperwares and they were to write "I love me" and "I love you" on them. The I love me was to be kept for themselves, and the other one was to be given to a loved one. how sweet. :) sometimes we just need to go back to the simple things in life to realise that life really isn't complicated at all. anyway, It all started when i decorated Gem's paper sheet. The kids all saw how nice it was and BOOM i became the official "interior designer" for them. HMMMMMMMMMMM.....they take advantage of me! but i don't mind. teaches me patience, how to handle countless hyperactive midgets at one time and love.

Here's how it is. I used pink red peach and clear nail polish to decorate the little tiny tupperwares. Some of my hearts were actually pretty nicely done! ahhahah....anyway, i ran out of ideas on deco, so i plucked a leaf off the garden in our church and pasted it down using the clear nail polish. and it looked good! wow! subconciously.....i am creative! LOL. anyway. this got all the little people running to find leaves. :D i am like a goddess to them nowww......hahahhaa

What touched me the most though.....was Ruth. :):):):) you know what she did? She actually looked at me and said "can i give this tupperware to you?" and she was referring to the "I love you" one. awwwwwww.......so sweet. so so sweet. :D but i told her. since i helped her make it. it would be better to share her love with other people who haven't seen it. ya? She agreed and gave it to her grandmother. HOW SWEEEEET. even little kids are so sweet. EMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM <3

UES - Election Day

2009-04-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

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As closing ceremony for the last meeting of the term, we had election day! Meaning, suzie is retiring and she needs brave fearless leaders to fill her shoes. none too big that is.

Candidates were:
Ivan
Douglas
Mark
Ryu
Michael
Carol

i think that was it.......hehe

WINNER!
President - Ivan
Vice President - Ryu

congrats to you both!

After which we made these really cute posters for Earth Hour advertising. At first we were pretty clueless about what to do. But we just went with the flow~~~~~ made a world with the world earth hour surrounding it. LAME i know. but it got the msg across didn't it?

So first, Mark started off by suggesting a 3D world. He used styrofoam. okkkkkk.....advantages of being a DT student. thn we painted green spots on it for the land in our globe. BUT to get the globe stuck onto the plastic boards we used as the posters we couldn't use the normal spray on adhesive OR the stinky smelling glue. BUT somehow, under my nagging and constant debating! (lol) the combination of both was attempted and succeeded in sticking it down.

Time was runnign short, so we quickly painted a few "earth hour" words in white on the board, drew a humonguos one across the whole board and did a bit of patterns here and there. It was all teamwork. :)

THE END PRODUCT.

Art Attack - Last one for term.

2009-03-26T07:26:00.001-07:00

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LAST ONE! and hamburgers were readdddY! some were really really pretty and yummy and scrumptious looking. WOW. I really didn't expect that. BUT. asheen was getting to be noisy AND she stained my shirt! Ah. but material goods. I decided not to get angry. hehe. I was feeling that she was getting on phumi's nerves too. hehehe. tsk tsk Asheen.

Most of the people were wayyyyyy finished before this week with their hamburgers. So besides that Mrs.Kerr gave them a teeny project to work on.

step 1 : colour a piece of drawing paper with LOTS of colour = crayon.
step 2 : use black pelaka to cover all that up
step 3 : scrape a nice design off using a compass. or something sharp.

this was pretty. why didn't we do that sooner?

I helped Naeil make a border :) so happy with that.
hahahahha

Netball - Last one for the term

2009-03-26T07:19:00.000-07:00

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what IS IT with people and skipping ECA's the week before sch ends?

anyway.....there were 4. a large number i know but FOUR people in netball.

1.Me
2.Carol
3.Michelle
4.Apple

BUT. surprisingly. we had tons of fun.

for warm up, me and carol ran half a round of the field. TIRING surprisingly. hahaha.

THEN, we worked on gettting balls in the hoop. Shooting. non=stop. so yay! we worked on scoring goals and how to be goal shooter. We really got better........the fewer people....the more you learn! AND, what I learned was, for netball, since people are allowed to mark you.....the ball has to go higher over the head for shots to be made, that way...it is easier to make shots. estimation still needs work. BUT it is definitely better than before :D

NEXT. we played a game. Me & Michelle VS Carol & Apple.
3 passes before a goal using 2/3 court. FUN. AGGRESIVE. at moments VERY CORNY. we had carol rolling on the "grass" and Me getting my contacts knocked out of my eye. @@

BUT. lastly, Me and Michelle won! hahahaha... doesn't matter who won actually....I just like to know that now I am more confident to make shots knowing that 1 out of a few million MAY go in ;)

will miss netball actually.....wow.

Pathfinder - I was moved

2009-03-26T07:10:00.000-07:00

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Remember that day when I helped gem ENJOY helping hands and translated for this little who could only speak chinese?
oh well....it seems like i'm indispensable AND i am needed by the helping hands....to help out.

hahah....anyway, at first I was like, wasn't there kids there that SPEAK biblical chinese lingo? and that teacher? What am I needed for?! But oh well, for the sake of peace and happiness, I voluntarily head down to Helping Hands room.

It was quite......boring. But oh well, i learned that you have to make your own fun. Today they were learning on how to be pure, be it physically, mentally or emotionally. At first...I was like, confident about my linguistic skills. HOWEVER, given the word, "pure" I realised my chinese was worse than the B3 I got for SPM. WHAT?! ok. I need to polish up on...CHINESE. ugh ugh ugh ughhhhh......but oh well. to think on the bright side....china is on tis way to dominate the world market. I might as well have my options open by SPEAKING the chinese language, next up is....cantonese though? HEE HEE.

Anyway, the kids like me. And I enjoy feeling young again. So forever now, I am a helper in Helping Hands. Guess I have to resign as a scribe in Pathfinders. sorry alvin.......>_<

UES - so few!

2009-03-26T07:06:00.000-07:00

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ok. I don't know what is wrong with everyone today. They all decided NOT TO COME. ok. not ALL. just a majority. Anyway, since there were so few people. We did only so few things. Suzie read out this article Mr.Weatherly took from the newspaper to all of us regarding global warming. She also reminded us of th Earth Hour event on saturday that we were to support.

After that, we watched this little video on environment.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE.
there was meeting okkk???
just a pretty useless one.
although I was suddenly aware of earth hour and grew in knowledge about global warming......

Badminton - the week after R4L

2009-03-25T08:32:00.000-07:00

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woooo.....i forgot how tiring badminton could be.....ESPECIALLY at 8am in the morning....

so anyway, highlights of the morning......i was set to play with these 2 girls who were not from the uplands group. 1 cocky girl who was actually quite good, but since she was cocky......ok you get the idea. (note to self: NEVER be cocky in any games you play. it just comes of as so.....stuck up) 1 tiny girl who was always hit soft balls but was actually quite good. :) I respect her as an opponent, she worked hard. HOWEVER, there was absolutely NO teamwork between the two. so many times I hit balls that fell between the area of the two ppl and not one of them ran to hit it. WHAT?! its like they travel in 2 different circles of their own.....like come onnnn......this is a BADMINTON game.....and you're on the SAME TEAM. ugh. 2nd lesson learnt that day. play to win. cooperate even with partners you do not have a perfect liking to.

Next, while I was busying myself playing against "the-two-who-do-not-cooperate" I was lucky to see that my estimation skills weren't up to date~! NOOOO!!! Lucky though, because of them, I managed to fix that. The cocky girl, would ALWAYS hit balls that I thought would never ever go over the net. but, somehow, MAGICALLY, they would always fall over. WHAT?! So, everytime the ball flew over.....I was aware....AWARE i tell you! and I actually managed to get all the balls that DID fly over the net. :D thank you "two-who-do-not-cooperate"

Thats it.
Next week is my planned last week. wheeeeeeeeeee

Relay for life!

2009-03-22T08:53:00.000-07:00

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YES. it was over the course of two days. I actually didn't sleep. REALLY. ya. REALLY. i was awake. not walking but staring at the stars and eating roasted marshmallows. joining those stupid games they played at night and watching performances. PURE FUN tho.

i arrived late, since my sabbath ends at 7:30pm. so i reached after sabbath ended and started walking! woohoo! at first EVERYONE was excited. ppl screaming, cheering, shouting waving banners.....hmmm.....till it hit 8:30pm. energy was draining...... but stil. some were going strong. like those marathon runners. woo! till 5am, they r still RUNNING. its a walk-ing thing, yet they run. AMAZING. anyway, we stopped at 8:30pm if not mistaken, to light the candles in paper bags lining the inner ring of the circle we were walking along. it was such a pretty sight....too bad it didn't get caught on camera. :( BUT what DID get caught on camera were the glow-in-dark sticks we got for free! yay for mr.skinner!

after a while, it rained. and we weren't allowed to walk. aww....so ppl started to pile under those tents selling food. good business for them! FOOD was a definite hit. not to mention the fried chicken that i wanted to get but couldn't get :(

After it wasn't compulsory for everyone to walk on that tiny plot of land called a field. (yea, ppl complain that its a tad too small to hold an event as bi as a fund raiser but *shrugs* who cares? its for charity people!!! AND CANCER!!!) we decided to plan who was gonna walk first and everything. I think I got chosen to be walking first, but I didn't mind :) walking is healthy, its for charity and i hate arguing. so yea, i went walking first. Fighting would just make the day a bad one. and a longggg night it was going to be....

anyway, after that, walking walking walking....saw people running....saw couples coupling......saw people walking in the wrong direction....but oh well...either way...its for charity. So basically. I walked all night. i was awake for ryu's band performance and the game that my church friend won. hehe. she won packets of maggie mee! yay for them....at one point. when I was staring at the stars at 4am, i almost dozed off!! I know its allowed and all, but i wanted to keep a clean record of not sleeping throughout the whole event. ^_^ succeeded! due to the snoring of SOME PEOPLE.....*hmph*

ok....for awhile...i admit i ditched uplands for my church ppl :P
they were so cool! they were walking around singing songs that were so "spirit-lifting" and later....we found out that they won certificates for most spirited group! yay for them!

AND. i almost won adidas wirstbands!!!!! noooooooooooo!!!!!!!! but people beat me to itttt...T_T hahaha..oh well...only those who were awake for that race knew what was going on.....we had to find 3 different members from different groups....n we did! BUT. *sighs* once again.too little too late! noooooo

oh well....after marshmallows. it was time for breakfast. had those peanut pancakes and thn we all drudged home. got a lift with iyune :) thank you iyune

Art Attack - hopefully LAST hamburger day? NOT

2009-03-22T06:57:00.000-07:00

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this hamburger thing seems to be dragging on for loooonnnngggggg.....
but here are the pics to show what we did :D

Art attack - more hamburger box

2009-03-16T06:35:00.000-07:00

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More hamburger boxes are being done. and honestly? i'm starting to get sick of it.
Mrs Kerr announces that Art Attack is coming to an end. and we have to have one more activity that requires only 2 weeks of making. ahhhh....thank goodness I already did my activity. :D

So this time I go back to helping atheena. She is actually quite good at paper-macheing. She does the part which i hate the most. Actually getting the loose bits of toilet roll in place and i do the rest. Its fun painting all those stuff down. :)
But this time i get to know this girl who apparently has been to a local school before. She's really REALLY talkative and nice :) talks about literally EVERYTHING under the sun, yet is really commanding. Well she talks about slamdunk millionaire. Anyway, i thought she would have everything under control. Her work and all. But she asks me for help with it. I feel touched that people want my help. I honestly love to help. Because it makes ppl happy :D

So anyway, many still haven't finished this art work yet.

i wonderrr....will it last for the end of this term or will another one be needed? Haha. i'm reading too much Aunt Julia.

Badminton resumed

2009-03-16T06:30:00.000-07:00

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Did you notice that i skipped one month of badminton?
hehehehe....well yea i did. and this week was the first of the coming month that i do it again.....wake up early sunday morning to play that wonderful sport. BADMINTON.

Today.....we started out warm-ups again, hitting the ball. I really wanted to just sweat and feel myself losing those calories. So i hit the balls. and play doubles with everyone.

Soon, the boys want to play doubles. ok. we choose partners by doing this lame thing "la la li la tam pong" I get yitong and we go against Peter and Janice. HAHAHHAHAHHAH Janice was NOT in a good mood. She was bored. but playing with yitong is fun. I am learning how to smash from him! IT IS MY RESOLUTION.

unfortunately. next week is relay for life. no badminton. :)
good thing or bad thing?

hehe

Pathfinder - To helping hands.

2009-03-09T04:31:00.000-07:00

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Last week Aunty Monica asked me to help lead song service for the Adventurer Club, which is basically like the pathfinderrs, just a whole lot younger. I thought that was all I would be doing....turns out. The whole day I surrounded myself with little kids. Oh well, service for the children yes? :)

Anyway, I sang all those songs that required actions and dancing. haha. just to amuse little kids. Honestly. I was alot of fun. They don't care if you sing the lyrics wrong.....because they get it wrong too. They don't care if you look stupid.....because they like it that way. and They don't care if you mess up....cause they do too. And they're so...suporting. Energy, hyper. everything. Everything you do, they WILL follow. Its so awesome. I'd rather do song service for them than the pathfinders actually. Next, I was only planning to stay for the story given by Michael called "Freddie the Frog" all about patience that one is. BUT. gem comes running up to me and says "are you coming to class with me?" with those cute girly eyes. ARGH. i give in and be her "guardian" for the day.

Gem's class is called the Helping Hands. Its small and full of kids her age, like around 9 yrs. and you know what? LUCKY i went! there was this new kid that only spoke chinese. me being able to speak chinese...and Aunty Maria NOT being able to.....hhaha...was a bonus for me. I was a translator for the day. It was awesome! They learned how to be true. true to family, friends and anything in between.

SUMMARY : I feel older than i actually am. o_O? why? because gem treats me as if i am.....

UES - uh oh

2009-03-05T03:50:00.000-08:00

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Last week, apparently they had a meeting? ARGH. I go into the room, find out there is no meeting, go up the bus to be fetched home, Bindiya says there is UES, she runs down only to run up again saying there's none again AND YET THERE STILL IS UES?! how efficient of Uplands..........*sceptical*

but anyway, no matter, this week we HAVE UES and our supervisor teacher (is it Mr.Weatherly or Mr Pouwer I have no idea) gives this inspirational talk on motivating others to know more about the environment, us being proactive and increasing our knowledge in environmental issues. THEY ARE FOLLOWERS IN THE BIG GROUP OF PEOPLE. ._. it could be me....... oh but anyway, i have a feeling the talk didn't have any affect whatsoever and i can conclude that we are still a damn lazy bunch of kids trying to fulfill our CAS hours. :P

I get dragged off to wash bottles with Ivan, Boom, Jason and Mark. Its normal, nothing spectacular, nothing boring. You JUST WASH. however, it is a little icky, people stuff the most unusual stuff in that recycling bin o_O

washing takes time but I get to know more about the people in Uplands through this time. :) its nice. Next up. we deposit the washed bottles somewhere behind the Art room and Ivan says we need to make a sign. We head back to the DT classroom....to find....people hanging out. WOW. that talk REALLY did not have the slightest affect. amazed yet......kind of expected. hehe. Anyway, we eventually get chased out. Ivan does the sign and we go spray one of the bins red for the upcoming battle between houses. Upcoming as in next year or whenever we feel like it. hehe.

That pretty much sums it up. I like to help. I don't mind leading, but helping is much better for now. I still feel brand new to Uplands.

I AM PSYCHED FOR MY COCONUT IDEA THO. I LOVE IT! ahhahahahha. <-- i feel so....SINFUL. pride! D8

Art Attack - Hamburger box continuation

2009-03-05T03:39:00.000-08:00

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We continue again doing the hamburger box which was suggested by Midori. Alot of them haven't started paper mache-ing them and a few of them haven't even started the box! But Hui Ern to the rescue!! I help this one lost girl start from the very scratch. So I find her two plastic round boxes. Help her do the top part for the bun, the "meat" part for the hamburger, and the closing bun. Then we do cheese, she makes it a double cheeseburger with 2 slices of cheese and slices of juicy red tomato. THEN, we discover that the bun is a little flat and very INdelectable. So we tear it open! stuff more newspaper inside and now it is a complete JUICY looking hamburger with a fluffy bun.

Then.....vince starts talking to me and we get scolded slightly by Mrs.Kerr. >_< oops. have to concentrate on work! we aren't here just to slack! anyway, I then migrate to helping this Tina paper mache her tomatoes and cheese. Paper mache-ing is a little messy andddd....you have to do it right. Can't just simply glue the toilet paper on! it requires skill and technique. but basically, all you have to do is make sure the toilet paper really STICKS onto every bit of the model. No point in making shapes that can't be later shown yes?

Time FLIES. bells rings. we're out!
There were pics taken by phumi and vince! UNfortunately, they don't post it up anywhere and sooo.....no pics over here. sad sad. i need to get a camera. T_T
Tonight i'm heading for prayer meeting :D
Praying calms me.