Monday, November 26, 2007

i am just being random!

hello! i am sorry for not being able to update so often these days! i've been busy going out, watching shows and chatting to friends on msn and yahoo! messenger recently. i promise i will post something soon! now i just want to say one thing: one tree hill rocks! okay thats all. bye! i should go before my brother gets mad at me for stealing his comp for like more than twelve hours a day!

~phuONg~

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Home sweet home

It's such a long time anyone updated our blog

Ya, as what's written on the title of this entry, we are all at home now.

Okay, let's reflect a bit on the past year of J1. We were and are living happily in the ACS family, namely ACJC and ACS(IB). There have been good and bad memories, fun and sad times, yet we have all survived, all done our best, and all lived our J1 life to the fullest.

1. It was great the 3 of us came to ACJC together and lived in the same hostel for the first 3 months. Yup, first 3 months were GREAT, we all had a good time with Orientation, getting used to JC life, and having lots of new friends. Trang came along to NUS High after moving to ACS IB from VJ and we four stayed together like we used to in OH

2. Term 2 came with tests, like real tests, so different from our slack life during first 3 months. We came to know how it's like to get an A (which is not very common) and how it's like to fail as badly as with a U.
Some of us were busy with our CCAs, some were still jumping from CCAs to CCAs, trying out new sports, new clubs... Bonds were also formed within our classes, some liked their classes, some didn't... Still we enjoyed our life in various ways with various groups of people.

3. Term 3 with the horrible Term exam, the first serious exam we ever had in JC. Some didn't do well, some did pretty well, but all of us shared the determination to own Promos. There were still lots of tests, CCA trainings or practices, outings with classes, CCAs, friends, even OGs...
ASEAN dance was in August and we had a great time... dressing up, cam-whoring and meeting up with our old friends
Hostel life was still as crazy as it always is. School life was busy yet we enjoyed it..

4. Promos was a nightmare with a lot of stress. Ya, as usual, some scored well, some didn't and that's why we would try our best to put in more effort next year
Life was so damn fun and also busy after promos with OP (yucks), outings, trainings, shopping, blah blah blah... And then Trang and Ha left on the 5th, while PHuong and I left on the 16th of Nov, which officially marked an end to our J1 year.

One year is just so fast that whenever I look back, I see myself looking completely lost yet excited wearing my secondary school uniform sitting in a circle and listening to our OGLs on the 1st day in ACJC. We're going to be a J2 soon... So for whatever you wish to do but haven't done during your first year, hurry and do it, cos soon you would graduate.

Okay, let's talk a bit about our holiday at home. It's supposed to be WINTER now!!!! But what's going on??? The weather's so weird!!! Rarrr!!!! Maybe what annoys the most is that I can still actually wear my nice summer clothes but I bring only like 2 sets back. And I also cannot wear my winter clothes yet cos it's still.. pretty hot. Rarr....

We're having a gathering in Trang's house tomorrow for lunch, yay, then maybe we would go somewhere after that. We're staying over at my house, yay!!! It's gonna be fun man!!!!

-Quynh-

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

phuOng <3

i've been going out every single day since the holiday started! yay! im so happy! omg life's great! i have so many plans for the holiday that i dont seem to have time to finish all of them! argh! lets see what are some of the things that i must do before going home:


- class dinner/ sleep-over
- go escape with darlings
- go out with juniors
- sakae sushi with 3-year+++ friends
- meet up with sc dearies
- sentosa [maybe]
- go oldham to visit
- lifeguard chalet
- coffee bean with quynh
- ecp with batchmates [if we're all free]
- shop for mom's things
- go sc to visit and collect school mag
- etc


omg this is so exciting! i cant wait for tomorrow to come, so that i can go out again! but weirdly, i do miss school at certain times!
i miss sitting in the hall during morning assemblies with 1sb4.
i miss going for lectures and tutorials with 1sb4.
i miss having meals in the void deck with 1sb4.
i miss playing frisbee with 1sb4.
i miss camwhoring with 1sb4.


but its okay. im gonna meet my darlings soon soon soon! (:

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Insights and Reflections

PW is finally over. It is now time to reflect back on this memorable seven-month long journey.


23 March: we all gathered in the hall to listen to a boring talk given by mrs choong - the first pw talk of the year. the question paper was distributed to us, and that was the first A'Level paper that I received.


April came. and we met a new tutor named MR FORREST LIM. my first impression of him was A WEIRDO. he told us that we had to finish something called PI by the first week of April, while we actually still had no idea what PW was all about yet.


5 April: the first annoucement of PW groupings. there were 5 people in my group: Maureen, Shiyun, Veluri, Alvin and me. At that time, I only knew Maureen. I didnt even talk to the other three at all in class, if i remember correctly.


12 April: Shiyun left for PJ. The class was re-arranged [one group was broken up]. The new member of my group was Shiyi. I was overjoyed, 'cos she was from my first three month class, so at least i knew her a bit better than all the rest.


18 April: Maureen left. This time, the class was not re-arranged anymore. So the members of my group were Alvin, Hari [by this time, i already knew that Veluri was his sirname], Shiyi and me. AC117 was born! After three rounds of drawing lots in room A4.08, Alvin was chosen to be the group leader, and I was the secretary.


After several heated arguments, we decided to choose Laurie Baker as our groundbreaker. We somehow managed to rush through GPP drafts and submit the final copy on time.


...


EoM came next. We anyhow designed a survey which consisted of ten questions, and went to Somerset MRT station together to distribute those useless pieces of paper to random passers-by. However, the survey we carried out was an utter failure. As a consequence, we struggled to choose sources for our EoMs. In the end, all four of us ended up using articles we found from the Internet.


Then came WR. Having seen a sample of one of last year's WR in the library months before that, i seriously doubted if we could produce something which would be of the same standard. We went online to discuss how to do WR several times, as we were all too lazy to meet up. On realising that we didnt do anything for our project at all, we decided to construct a house model [which was a complete failure as well, just like the survey].


Continuous stress and pressure! emo day came after emo day. numerous evenings were spent in front of the computer screen. complained, whined and cried both in school and at home! but thanks to Alvin's and my classmates' encouragement, i overcame those emo moments. and yay! WR was submitted and re-submitted, and OP slides were finally done after several times of editting.


31 October: OP day! i wasnt nervous at all initially. Alvin made me nervous when he kept behaving weirdly while Sock's group was presenting. as usual, Hari told us "why are you so f---ing nervous? just anyhow whack la!". haha but what was actually more worrying was that i was damn high before our presentation! :D


i kind of screwed up q&a, as they all laughed at me when i answered the stupid question! but never mind!


...


i am happy that pw is finally over. but somehow im missing those days when we rushed through WR together, the OP practice sessions and everything else. AC117 has gradually become something very familiar to me. if given a choice, i dont know if i would mind doing pw again! haha :D


Alvin told me the other day after OP when we [Hari, Alvin and me] were eating lunch together that it would be the last time he talked to us. and he also said there would be nothing to talk about after pw, since pw was our most frequently discussed topic, and we seemingly only talked about pw everytime. Hari also told me that he enjoyed working in the same group as me, but he was more than happy that he didnt have to anymore! haha isnt it saddening? argh x(


anyways, i'd want to thank all three of you for the past months. although we really sucked, we made it through as a group! you all love AC117, dont you? and dont you all agree that Laurie Baker rocks? yes, he obviously does! haha hope we'll manage to get Cs for pw! haha :D


[AC117 secretary]

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

heyy:) so school's officially over and holidays just sort of started - except we're all still going back to school every single day for something or other. I'm most probably going back to vietnam on the 5th november, which is kind of sooner than i would like but then again it's probably good i go back than stay in singapore and waste my life (and money) away on stupid things. Heh.

Well this year just passed by really fast it's kind of scary. It's still hard to believe i've survived one entire year of IB. You know it feels like so many things happened this year but like at the same time when i look back i don't feel like i've learnt much at all. I haven't grown more mature, or smarter, or GOD i dont know more anything for that matter. In fact now that i think about it i'd really like nothing better than to go back to january and redo the whole damn year. But that's just me.

Haha ok hmm let's see there are SO many good shows i wanna watch. OC, gossip girls, grey's, heroes, prison break...and according to my friend south park is pretty hilarious too so i'll go check it out . AHHH so many shows so little time. I wished this holidays would just last forever. Super not looking forward to next year.

okies enough complaining. This is probably my last update before vietnam sooo. Bye.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

phuOng. in love.

i promised not to be in love again, but it seems like i've broken my own promise. haha anyways i like it when i am in love, because i am usually happy and high, unlike the last few days when i was always sad and down. hope that this time i can maintain my "in-love" mood for more than a week.





three of us stayed up to watch the korean show my classmate lent me. we intended to watch one dvd only. however, the show was so "die-die-must-watch" that we ended up watching 2.5 dvds, and by the time we finished, it was 5 am! haha :D

i thought i'd be able to sleep until like 12 pm, but to my surprise, i woke up at 9 am. i tried to force myself to fall asleep again, by continuing lying on my bed, but i was totally made awake by some phone calls. argh why did i receive three phone calls all of a sudden early in the morning? haiz i dont know why i cant really sleep well these days. Al told me that it was due to stress because of pw. is it true? hmm i dont know.

3 days till op. after that, everything will be over. but somehow, i dont want pw to be over. i know it is weird, extremely weird, but . . .

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Quynh (:

Seems like i've disappeared for quite a while



Life's been busy even when we've finished our exam and stuffs. There's still OP, OCIP, training, Bio stuffs for me...



We just went to Island Creamery tonight: me, Phuong, Ha, Szeching, Joahanna, Op, Bosith, Maxy, Lam and Neil. Omg, I ate until I felt like bursting, haha, all the stuffs there were so nice. We took damn lots of photos, haha, it was super fun!!!!! We even discussed about our plan for the Southeast Asia trip after A level



Ok, so here's the plan: We're gonna travel to 7 countries in Southeast Asia. Sounds cool? ya, I know it does. We'll all start from Singapore, all backpackers, heading for Malaysia. We'll stay in someone's house during our trip. Let's see, Malaysia we have Szeching, Phillippines has Joah and Neil, Cambodia has Maxy and Bosith, Vietnam has us, Thailand has Op and Nat, maybe we can go to Laos also... Yay, it sounds fun!!!!! Gosh, can't wait til we finish our As!!!! That's pretty far away, I know, but no harm keeping your dream alive, right? hahaha



Rarrr, it's late, and I still got OP, I&R, and ocip stuffs... And i'm still full

Saturday, October 20, 2007

phuOng xp

hello! im blogging in school. i've been alone in 07.07 for almost 2 hours, after OCIP meeting. luckily i brought my baby and i found out that there was wireless! PW meeting is postponed till 3 o'clock. so i'll have to stone here for another 1 hour.

just now when i didnt know that there was wireless, i spent time editting my group's OP slides and writing cards for my AC117. AC117 has gradually become such a familiar number, and i dont know why im very happy when i see or hear that number. i love AC117! yeah, 6 months ago, not knowing each other at all, we were FORCED to come together as a group. we've survived though PI, GPP, EoM, WR and almost I&R together as a group, and now only OP is left. so lets go through this last stage together as AC117 okay?

haha i cant believe that im actually hiding these texts. sorry for all the "should i just go and die?", "i feel bad for having done well for promos", "can i give up my marks for my friends?" and etc... but seriously, is it my fault that i did well for my exams?

Sunday, October 14, 2007

trang

yozZzZzzz :)

hi i'm updating too. And this is gonna be random too. Cos i'm boreddd. to the max): Yeah man.

okay so my dad came to singapore. I didn't even know till my cousin called and asked for his number in singapore, i was like, 'what?' Geez. I swear my family's just dysfunctional.

i don't know what i'm doing. I'm just screwed up. I swear.

Don't know why I'm still afraid
If you weren't real I would make you up now
I wish that I could follow through
I know that your love is true
And deep
As the sea
But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives.
Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet
In love's game
You would call; I'd call you back
And then I'd leave a message
On your answering machine
But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom,
Where no one lives
Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom, freedom
Run away
Run away tonight
We're made out of blood and rust
Looking for someone to trust
Without a fight
I think that you came too soon
You're the honey and the moon
That lights up my night
But right now
Everything you want is wrong,
And right now
All your dreams are waking up,
And right now
I wish that I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives
Freedom
Run away tonight
Freedom freedom
Run away
Run away tonight
We got too much time to kill
Like pigeons on my windowsill
We hang around
Ever since I've been with you
You hold me up
All the time I've falling down
But right now
Everything is turning blue,
And right now
The sun is trying to kill the moon,
And right now
I wish I could follow you
To the shores
Of freedom
Where no one lives


the OC has the nicest songs i swear:)

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

phuONg (:

its been a while since i last updated.
its been a l o o o o o o n g while since i last updated.
its been a long while since we last updated.
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promos unofficially ended last thursday.
i went out every single day since then.
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1sb4 farewell dinner to promos was fun.
1sb4 sun-tanning day was fun too.
a lot of nice pics!
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banana's surprise birthday party was, hopefully, surprising.
and it was fun i guess.
the mudpie was nice, although it melted.
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no more Mr. A.
this time its real.
and i wont be in love again any soon.
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i stayed up till 3am this morning to finish WHERE RAINBOWS END!
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i screwed up my chem spa today. very badly.
no, i just flunked skill C only.
hope skill D was okay.
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tmr is baccalaureate service.
hopefully i wont cry.
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i watched THE CLASSIC again this afternoon.
and it was still super nice.
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this post is totally random 'cos im emo.