What i don't like about talking to people on MSN: 1. Saying HI and not saying anything else. I mean, if you want to ask a question, ask it straight away, why do you have to wait for my HI to ask? If you want to chat, chat about anything, then apart from saying HI initiate the conversation, say something like, "Hi! Do you know that Piglet's a guy?" Or something stupid like that, whatever. 2. Signing off and not informing me. Okay, its basic courtesy to tell the person you're going off right? For disconnection, this doesnt count but you must still tell me that it was dc, or i'll be wondering where on earth you disappeared to, maybe an alien abucted you or something. 3. Giving short answers like "okayyyy", "....", "ya", "lol". It just makes me feel that you don't want to talk to me. If you're super busy, then say something like "I'm super busy please don't disturb me, i'll call you tomorrow mornign at 8am to wake you up. [hints at Nes!]"
What i don't like about Facebook: 1. There's absolutely not use in Facebook. I think the only use of it is just that it can link you up with your friends and you see their photos, likes, dislikes and contact numbers etc. 2. I hate being spammed with applications. After not logging in for i guess, 2 months (since end dec if i'm not wrong), i get spammed with like, how many, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE applications. If i ever take the effort to ignore every single one of them, gosh, its a waste of time. 3. It's a waste of time, just like i waste my time here blogging. But facebook is so addictive that it wastes more time than you ever knew it. So after a while you go, what, its five pm already? And you watch your tv show, and go to sleep, feeling the day is so wasted.
Me go practice piano. STOP. THOU SHALL NOT PRACTICE PIANO BECAUSE THOU STRESSES OVER NOT GETTING THE PIECE RIGHT. why do i have so little tags? :(
It's Good Friday today!! And for people like me who don't go church (AWWW:((( ) it means another day of rest and studying... i have finished studying for chem test, or at least read through the notes... so what's left is to clarify some questions on maths and chem (LYNN HELPPP) and finish up the research report thingy and to start studying physics and practicing piano. Poor me.
Well, i guess i was quite dissappointed with myself on wednesday during the bach marathon. I think i played badly. And the piano was so stiff :(((( Anyways, i quite enjoyed the 'crowd feeling' kenwei mentioned before haha. I shall practice songs for the next such event... and of course i'll play a song for Chopin's Day, which is on my birthday! *hints!*
Me and my silly habit of watching movies online... somehow, its one of the two ways i de-stress. One is to practice piano, which isn't good for de-stress because i end up stressing over my mistakes, however minor, on the piece and sometimes i can practice 4 bars ten times hands separately before i allow myself to do hands together...and i can go on for hours. Whereas on the computer, i'm restricted...mummy will chase me out of the room sooner or later, so i only have that much time to watch...
The next term
So, here's the next term of the semester, of the academic year 2008. Gosh, this term will be fast paced. Oh i hope i have the strength to carry through, to excel to enjoy. Now here's what's on my mind currently: music ambassadors awareness posters (which i have to get write-ups from fungi), voice lessons (I need to settle my first lesson, should i go lesson or MA rehersal?), physics project (this one's really hard!!), geog project (gosh, i don't understand it!!), tomorrow's bach marathon (i have to practice laterr)....
Any ideas on how to sort of de-stress or get things done faster? I am at a loss. One of the few times i'm at a loss. Should i just quit MA? Or PSL? Or should i just transfer to another school, where the life there is more relaxed?
I did not do anything productive this march holidays. I did not even touch my textbooks. I didn't even do a single question of maths. All i did was finish up all the holiday homework, chem and english, went to school for Ma meetings, watch movies online and went shopping at Vivo with Cherm, Nes and Kenwei on Thurs. I'm such a slacker, i hope i can still do well this semester...
Gosh, the holidays are ending. Don't we all wish for longer holidays? If there are longer holidays i'll drag Cherm to the arcade(because she owes me a trip there), drag Nes to some place (because she owes me a treat, i don't know why either) and drag Kenwei window shopping (because its fun to dress him up in weird weird tees and jackets). Finally, i shall drag Lynn to the movies (because she promises me a trip there). As for the rest of my friends, i'll probably be the one being dragged along for shopping and movies hahhas.
I like Laoshi's house. Its so beautiful. What a nice house to have voice lessons in. And, she was wearing this cute astrocat earrings!! Aww...i want them. But i guess the ones i have from HK Disneyland is nice as well!! I shall improve fastfastfast and be better than Kenwei((: Hee, watch out dear cousin(:
I think putting assignments up on MAstering Physics is a rather inefficient and lousy way of assessing the students. Because the questions are online, its very difficult to analyze the question and read them carefully. And there are lots of problems typing the answers in too. Then, the grading system is totally screwed. And also, there are lots of times where i clicked the correct answer at first, then they said its WRONG. And after clicking all the other wrong answers and clickign the correct answer again, its correct. And i got a ZERO for that question because of the dumb system.
Pictures
Lots of hair clips! See the colour? Like a pastel rainbow... Not mine though:( My new watch!!Doesn't it look beautiful? Gosh i do love it!! Fairytale like houses...how i wish this were reall... Renee, me and chermy! Heh during CNY celebs, that was so long ago.
There was a time when march holidays, or any holiday at all, was meant for taking a good, well-deserved break after a term of studying hard. That does not necessarily mean slacking off, because if one slacks after studying so hard, one would feel so bored and unmotivated. But it means doing what you want, like practising the piano, watching your favourite cartoon shows and going for lunch or dinner as a family.
Today, holidays seem to be more like a small short break, whereby time is given for you to complete all your projects and assignments. What an emormous pile of assignments we have! Then, we have to go back to school so many days to prepare for activities for the next term, the result of being in a leadership board under Dr Wong. Next, i have to follow Kenwei to his voice lesson, the consequence of wanting to learn how to sing well and be good and catch up to my dear cousin (I will be better than him one day!!)
There's no time for a family outing. On days i have nothing to do, supposedly to complete homework and do projects, my sister has chess tournaments and debate workshops. My dad has seminars. Where have our break gone to? But i think this is a nice break, because year 3 is so different from year 2, and i do wish for a break. Unfortunately, this might be the only break i have till June. Then in june, there will be other camps and stuff. Aww.
I wonder why many parents sign their children up for music lessons, for piano lessons especially. What is their purpose? They first have to consider if the child is truly intrested in the music or the instrument they are going for. Of course, at such a young age, one cannot decide properly due to the lack of experience. However, if the child begins to dislike the instrument, i think their parents should stop the lessons. To learn an instrument in today's age, costs a bomb--in terms of time and money: the lessons, instruments, books, exam fees. If the child dislike the instrument, aren't you wasting your time and money? And if the child is lazy to practice, that's worse, because there will never be improvements.
Marianne's mum inspired me to write this, well sort of. We were talking about piano lessons on the way home, after Marianne left the car for her lesson at woodlands. Why woodlands? Goshh. So far.
There are of course some people that start of not liking their instrument but end up loving them. Like me and my piano. Me and my voice, okay voice lessons haven't started properly, but i used to hate singing last time due to the lack of confidence. Yet, it was Renee in choir last year who brought up my confidence. We had no choice but to sing loudly, right, so i had no choice but to enjoy singing, and from there learn pitching. And Renee and her violing, see, she's so pro at it now!
We've ran out of ideas for the MA poster designs. All our ideas have to be rejected. Gosh. Copyright issues made us reject the first idea, which is of disney characters. I love that idea so much, because i thought of the captions and i think the captions fit very nicely with the characters and the roles they play in their individual fairytale. I think i really am in a fairytale, hoping that the ideas will come to me in a bout of inspiration. Talking about inspiration, it makes me think of the chinese comprehension passage on inspiration. It comes, but its not unprepared. It comes when your conscious mind slips letting your subconcious mind take over, where the inspiration comes. It comes when the ideas in your head, the things you are thinking about are mature, whereby it comes and strikes unexpectedly. When will my inspiration strike? We need to do a good and good and good poster.
I've resorted to reading art books and looking at art designs. I find the designs interesting. I've always been interested in art, just that i never did have the courage to perfect my drawing. I've always thought i draw horribly so i don't bother. But i do enjoy looking at art work. Maybe by looking at these designs i will gain some ideas, hopefully one of them will be the perfect idea Margy and I have been waiting for such a long time.
This is such a complicated world. I wonder why do we always have to hide our true feelings from the world, only letting them out to one or two close friends or my cousin, in my case and my parents. Why are some people seemingly so nice but are actually not so nice inside? Sometimes you think that person is the perfect friend at first, but after a while, you know that he/she is not a true friend. The friendship is not pure, it is of an evil intention of getting some good out of it. How come we just simply cannot be true to ourselves and act accordingly to what we want or what we think but we have to conform to the pressures of society and our friends? I'm tired of putting on this mask. I can only take it off when i am with certain good friends, of course that includes my dear cousin and all my other cousins(though in front of some of them i still have to put on that mask) and my family. Why can't we just be ourselves and why can't others accept us for who we are?
Please pray i can convince mummy to allow me to take voice lessons!!! Lord, i don't know how to convince mummy but i'm sure you will give me the right words and make her convinced. I am sure that you will let me go for voice lessons. I know that you will help me. Please pray that i can take voice lessons with Bernadine!! Please pray that i can be goodgoodgood and improve!!!
Esplanade Performance on Thursday was...okayy...I don't think i'm in the position to comment because i know the songs and so i can hear the mistakes. And dear Kenwei, the icecream didn't kill your throat,too bad, and stop killing your throat, you need to sing((: Oh and Renee Jie, you did well that night((:
What i don't like about talking to people on MSN: 1. Saying HI and not saying anything else. I mean, if you want to ask a question, ask it straight away, why do you have to wait for my HI to ask? If you want to chat, chat about anything, then apart from saying HI initiate the conversation, say something like, "Hi! Do you know that Piglet's a guy?" Or something stupid like that, whatever. 2. Signing off and not informing me. Okay, its basic courtesy to tell the person you're going off right? For disconnection, this doesnt count but you must still tell me that it was dc, or i'll be wondering where on earth you disappeared to, maybe an alien abucted you or something. 3. Giving short answers like "okayyyy", "....", "ya", "lol". It just makes me feel that you don't want to talk to me. If you're super busy, then say something like "I'm super busy please don't disturb me, i'll call you tomorrow mornign at 8am to wake you up. [hints at Nes!]"
What i don't like about Facebook: 1. There's absolutely not use in Facebook. I think the only use of it is just that it can link you up with your friends and you see their photos, likes, dislikes and contact numbers etc. 2. I hate being spammed with applications. After not logging in for i guess, 2 months (since end dec if i'm not wrong), i get spammed with like, how many, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE applications. If i ever take the effort to ignore every single one of them, gosh, its a waste of time. 3. It's a waste of time, just like i waste my time here blogging. But facebook is so addictive that it wastes more time than you ever knew it. So after a while you go, what, its five pm already? And you watch your tv show, and go to sleep, feeling the day is so wasted.
Me go practice piano. STOP. THOU SHALL NOT PRACTICE PIANO BECAUSE THOU STRESSES OVER NOT GETTING THE PIECE RIGHT. why do i have so little tags? :(
It's Good Friday today!! And for people like me who don't go church (AWWW:((( ) it means another day of rest and studying... i have finished studying for chem test, or at least read through the notes... so what's left is to clarify some questions on maths and chem (LYNN HELPPP) and finish up the research report thingy and to start studying physics and practicing piano. Poor me.
Well, i guess i was quite dissappointed with myself on wednesday during the bach marathon. I think i played badly. And the piano was so stiff :(((( Anyways, i quite enjoyed the 'crowd feeling' kenwei mentioned before haha. I shall practice songs for the next such event... and of course i'll play a song for Chopin's Day, which is on my birthday! *hints!*
Me and my silly habit of watching movies online... somehow, its one of the two ways i de-stress. One is to practice piano, which isn't good for de-stress because i end up stressing over my mistakes, however minor, on the piece and sometimes i can practice 4 bars ten times hands separately before i allow myself to do hands together...and i can go on for hours. Whereas on the computer, i'm restricted...mummy will chase me out of the room sooner or later, so i only have that much time to watch...
The next term
So, here's the next term of the semester, of the academic year 2008. Gosh, this term will be fast paced. Oh i hope i have the strength to carry through, to excel to enjoy. Now here's what's on my mind currently: music ambassadors awareness posters (which i have to get write-ups from fungi), voice lessons (I need to settle my first lesson, should i go lesson or MA rehersal?), physics project (this one's really hard!!), geog project (gosh, i don't understand it!!), tomorrow's bach marathon (i have to practice laterr)....
Any ideas on how to sort of de-stress or get things done faster? I am at a loss. One of the few times i'm at a loss. Should i just quit MA? Or PSL? Or should i just transfer to another school, where the life there is more relaxed?
I did not do anything productive this march holidays. I did not even touch my textbooks. I didn't even do a single question of maths. All i did was finish up all the holiday homework, chem and english, went to school for Ma meetings, watch movies online and went shopping at Vivo with Cherm, Nes and Kenwei on Thurs. I'm such a slacker, i hope i can still do well this semester...
Gosh, the holidays are ending. Don't we all wish for longer holidays? If there are longer holidays i'll drag Cherm to the arcade(because she owes me a trip there), drag Nes to some place (because she owes me a treat, i don't know why either) and drag Kenwei window shopping (because its fun to dress him up in weird weird tees and jackets). Finally, i shall drag Lynn to the movies (because she promises me a trip there). As for the rest of my friends, i'll probably be the one being dragged along for shopping and movies hahhas.
I like Laoshi's house. Its so beautiful. What a nice house to have voice lessons in. And, she was wearing this cute astrocat earrings!! Aww...i want them. But i guess the ones i have from HK Disneyland is nice as well!! I shall improve fastfastfast and be better than Kenwei((: Hee, watch out dear cousin(:
I think putting assignments up on MAstering Physics is a rather inefficient and lousy way of assessing the students. Because the questions are online, its very difficult to analyze the question and read them carefully. And there are lots of problems typing the answers in too. Then, the grading system is totally screwed. And also, there are lots of times where i clicked the correct answer at first, then they said its WRONG. And after clicking all the other wrong answers and clickign the correct answer again, its correct. And i got a ZERO for that question because of the dumb system.
Pictures
Lots of hair clips! See the colour? Like a pastel rainbow... Not mine though:( My new watch!!Doesn't it look beautiful? Gosh i do love it!! Fairytale like houses...how i wish this were reall... Renee, me and chermy! Heh during CNY celebs, that was so long ago.
There was a time when march holidays, or any holiday at all, was meant for taking a good, well-deserved break after a term of studying hard. That does not necessarily mean slacking off, because if one slacks after studying so hard, one would feel so bored and unmotivated. But it means doing what you want, like practising the piano, watching your favourite cartoon shows and going for lunch or dinner as a family.
Today, holidays seem to be more like a small short break, whereby time is given for you to complete all your projects and assignments. What an emormous pile of assignments we have! Then, we have to go back to school so many days to prepare for activities for the next term, the result of being in a leadership board under Dr Wong. Next, i have to follow Kenwei to his voice lesson, the consequence of wanting to learn how to sing well and be good and catch up to my dear cousin (I will be better than him one day!!)
There's no time for a family outing. On days i have nothing to do, supposedly to complete homework and do projects, my sister has chess tournaments and debate workshops. My dad has seminars. Where have our break gone to? But i think this is a nice break, because year 3 is so different from year 2, and i do wish for a break. Unfortunately, this might be the only break i have till June. Then in june, there will be other camps and stuff. Aww.
I wonder why many parents sign their children up for music lessons, for piano lessons especially. What is their purpose? They first have to consider if the child is truly intrested in the music or the instrument they are going for. Of course, at such a young age, one cannot decide properly due to the lack of experience. However, if the child begins to dislike the instrument, i think their parents should stop the lessons. To learn an instrument in today's age, costs a bomb--in terms of time and money: the lessons, instruments, books, exam fees. If the child dislike the instrument, aren't you wasting your time and money? And if the child is lazy to practice, that's worse, because there will never be improvements.
Marianne's mum inspired me to write this, well sort of. We were talking about piano lessons on the way home, after Marianne left the car for her lesson at woodlands. Why woodlands? Goshh. So far.
There are of course some people that start of not liking their instrument but end up loving them. Like me and my piano. Me and my voice, okay voice lessons haven't started properly, but i used to hate singing last time due to the lack of confidence. Yet, it was Renee in choir last year who brought up my confidence. We had no choice but to sing loudly, right, so i had no choice but to enjoy singing, and from there learn pitching. And Renee and her violing, see, she's so pro at it now!
We've ran out of ideas for the MA poster designs. All our ideas have to be rejected. Gosh. Copyright issues made us reject the first idea, which is of disney characters. I love that idea so much, because i thought of the captions and i think the captions fit very nicely with the characters and the roles they play in their individual fairytale. I think i really am in a fairytale, hoping that the ideas will come to me in a bout of inspiration. Talking about inspiration, it makes me think of the chinese comprehension passage on inspiration. It comes, but its not unprepared. It comes when your conscious mind slips letting your subconcious mind take over, where the inspiration comes. It comes when the ideas in your head, the things you are thinking about are mature, whereby it comes and strikes unexpectedly. When will my inspiration strike? We need to do a good and good and good poster.
I've resorted to reading art books and looking at art designs. I find the designs interesting. I've always been interested in art, just that i never did have the courage to perfect my drawing. I've always thought i draw horribly so i don't bother. But i do enjoy looking at art work. Maybe by looking at these designs i will gain some ideas, hopefully one of them will be the perfect idea Margy and I have been waiting for such a long time.
This is such a complicated world. I wonder why do we always have to hide our true feelings from the world, only letting them out to one or two close friends or my cousin, in my case and my parents. Why are some people seemingly so nice but are actually not so nice inside? Sometimes you think that person is the perfect friend at first, but after a while, you know that he/she is not a true friend. The friendship is not pure, it is of an evil intention of getting some good out of it. How come we just simply cannot be true to ourselves and act accordingly to what we want or what we think but we have to conform to the pressures of society and our friends? I'm tired of putting on this mask. I can only take it off when i am with certain good friends, of course that includes my dear cousin and all my other cousins(though in front of some of them i still have to put on that mask) and my family. Why can't we just be ourselves and why can't others accept us for who we are?
Please pray i can convince mummy to allow me to take voice lessons!!! Lord, i don't know how to convince mummy but i'm sure you will give me the right words and make her convinced. I am sure that you will let me go for voice lessons. I know that you will help me. Please pray that i can take voice lessons with Bernadine!! Please pray that i can be goodgoodgood and improve!!!
Esplanade Performance on Thursday was...okayy...I don't think i'm in the position to comment because i know the songs and so i can hear the mistakes. And dear Kenwei, the icecream didn't kill your throat,too bad, and stop killing your throat, you need to sing((: Oh and Renee Jie, you did well that night((:
Lynnette is a sweet little girl
Whose favourite day is 18th October
Where she is born into the House of God
And she loves playing music
From SNGS to NUSH, she loves them all
:P
Wonderful parents
Great sister
Great friends, who never hesitate to help me, yay 403!
Be able to cope with council, MA and school
A nice research mentor and a great team
A lovely hostel mate, just as i requested you and great toilet mates
Teachers' Day celebrations IC under MA
Good grades, and coping with physics
A new TV and stereo system!
Prayers
God has blessed me richly!
High School Never Ends :P
More 403 reunions
A great class next year
A great mentor next year
Great friends
Coping with hostel life
MA Exco
To be healed
To have the perfect family
