It just occured to me that on the 8th of March I vowed to myself that I would do well in Chinese this year.

It has just occured to me now that I am nowhere near that goal. My end year results were something like JUST BELOW B4.... heh... far from A1... or B3 for that matter.

It just occured to me that maybe nows the time to forget everything about being angry at missing all those free periods, having to wake up early for school in the next week, spending half my time over chinese hw and blah. And to just concentrate and not give up. I don't know how much willpower it'll take, but with God's help I'll get through it. And I might get a decent grade through it too...

Although admittedly, I don't know how, since there's no syllabus to study or something....

They say that its easier than HCL and all HCL-ers should find it no kick. I, Jiamin and PeiEn wish to differ in that aspect though.

Time will tell... I'm just sick of feeling bitter n frustrated... I think I have to just release all these negative feelings. How I dunno. I'll find a way.
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Anyway on to happier stuff. Today was open house! Wah very tiring, cos last night couldn't sleep, partially cos I was scared n excited, and cos I had the dance song ringing in my head. Slept at 1230 am, woke at 6 am, reached school at 0740. Had fun hanging banner and blah.


Evidently, Phoon owns a motorcycle company.

I've found a useful new addition to my pants-cil case... but to my classmates, not to worry, I still use the pen-cil case for the remainder.... heh...

Live demo... was ok lar, Daniel and I moved properly, but he won both bouts, cos usually its his length versus my speed. But fencing on the stage floor is like fencing on ice... The lacquer layer makes its so slippery and totally slows down any fast controlled movement so my speed was negated.

The first one was quite sad lar.... right after the dance performance about 3/4 of the audience left the hall... the bad thing is that while wushu and dance are both competitive through aesthetics, and thus follow a fixed format which is practised again and again (until you get the final result we saw), fencing is impromptu... like trying to choreograph a dance, making up the steps as you go along.

Victoria (right after the first demo): "We need music"
Me: "We don't have music and we wouldn't be able to use it if we could"

The other performances that I saw were quite great too:

Rock Climbing. Gerry went up like a homesick angel (one dressed in harness and powder bag anyway). She is like super pro.. even at the overhang! Mursjid, Christl, Charmaine and I were all like really impressed!

Dance. Stella, Phoon and Mursjid were dancing their rock n roll thingy again... Eileen was doing salsa... Quite nice lar... n the song is still ringing in my head... haha...


Phoon and Stella in the centre n Mursjid with his partner on the right


Phoon and Stella... The picture is way blur cos they were oscillating up and down and left to right very fast.. haha...


Either the air was of lower density, or the quality of flowers was better, cos no flowers broke at this point of the dance this time.

Wushu. Nice to watch too... Sharp movements and all... no wonder they won so much stuff at their comp.

There was the occasional fun thing also....

I beat Mr Seet 2-0 at a mock fencing bout... hehe... he said "come, you do with me" n i said ok, and at the "allez" I step-ped forward and hit his foot at once... then i was like "sorry sorry did i hit very hard".... waha.. When I mentioned to Tintin he said something like "good good" =D

Mr Chong came to try a duel... he offered Chee Hoe 10 marks for Bio if he could beat him, but of course Mr Chong won... Both were novices but Mr Chong had a wayyyy longer arm.





And of course, was all the mass dances! Although admittedly we were absorbing the sun rather than catching the breeze (who needs to warm up? Neutron will do) it was wayy fun... Although Phoon, Stella, Xunai n I forgot a lot of stuff (all the things i read in the mass dance website leaked out since JAE), n totally muddled our way through friendship dance it was still a fantastic atmosphere...

I remember when I came to open house last year my most vivid memory was what seemed like a whole carpark full of mad VJC-ers bellowing " ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh".

Yup went to Mos Burger with some classmates to eat Dinner Part I. Just came back n finished Dinner Part 2 (cos my mother's having a party, so I should still eat anyway).

Yeah feeling quite happy today, denial rammed to full throttle, and trying to be optimistic about PW =/

All the best to everyone for PW... endure for just anotehr 3 weeks and it'll all be over!
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